background: the number of failed courses and semesters in students are indicatorsof their performance. these amounts have zero inflated (zi) distributions. using zi poisson and negative binomial distributions we can model these count data to find the associated factors and estimate the parameters. this study aims at to investigate the important factors related to the educational performance of ...

conclusions the individual characteristics, educational background and admission criteria had showed relation with academic failure. vulnerable students should be identified and educational supports should be provided for these students. results the frequency of course repetition, probation, and delayed graduation was reported to be 19.25%, 3.9% and 19.85%, respectively. gaining low grade in hi...

Most of us can appreciate that it feels worse to fail when people around you are successful than when others are also failing. Indeed, comparison with other individuals is of central importance within social groups. Despite the importance of relative success or failure for human decision making and even well-being, the underlying neurobiological substrate of this social comparison process is no...

Students’ failure in an academic course is usually considered as a common phenomenon in theeyes of instructors. Luckily, in recent years some scholars have attempted to reconsider the issuetrying to investigate students experience and perceptions on their academic success and failure.Taking attribution theory as their theoretical framework, these scholars have tried to shed li...