Objectives This study applied self-determination theory (SDT) to investigate the relationship between students' autonomous motivation and tutors' autonomy support in medical students' academic achievement. Methods This was a cross-sectional study. Out of 204 students in a fundamental medical science course, 199 participated in the study. Data was collected using two questionnaires: the Learni...

Pre-service and practicing teachers feel responsible for a range of educational activities. Four domains of personal responsibility emerging in the literature are: student achievement, student motivation, relationships with students, and responsibility for ones own teaching. To date, most research has used variable-centered approaches to examining responsibilities even though the domains appear...

This study was aimed at investigating the family background factors that can influence students’ academic achievement in Senior Secondary School in Umuahia Education Zone in Abia State. Four research purpose and four research questions were formulated. The design adopted for this study was Ex-post Facto design. The population of the study consists of all senior Secondary students in the three l...

Three workshops have been organised previously nder the auspices of the International Workshops on enotoxicity Testing (IWGT). Recognising the success f these earlier workshops, the International Associaion of Environmental Mutagen Societies (IAEMS) foralised these workshops in 2002 under the IAEMS mbrella and agreed that they would be held on a contining basis in conjunction with the Internati...

Outcome-based education is a topic of growing interest in educational circles today. More performance-oriented than traditional learning approaches, outcome-based education requires students to demonstrate what they know and what they can do. Because of this emphasis, outcome-based curricula will require new methods to assess student achievement. One approach is the portfolio, a repository that...

May I fi rst thank you, Master and Council, for inviting me to this Induction Comitia 2010. I feel truly honored and humbled to be present as the Guest of Honour. However, let me address you as a fellow Academician – albeit one who has occasional lapses of memory especially of recent events and defi cit of hearing et vision. Today is a great day of celebration for our Academy for we meet to wit...

The transition to college enhances feelings of loneliness, and lonely students typically underperform academically due to the depletion of cognitive resources. Mindfulness practice has been demonstrated to improve certain cognitive abilities. The current study examined whether mindfulness practice may moderate the relations between perceived loneliness and academic performance. In this study we...

Many studies show that one of the most important factors related to delivering equity in education is the design of education system, its differentiation, and the age at the time of the first selection. In a system in which early self-selection is constrained by the choice structure there is less educational inequality than in a system where consequential decisions about the educational career ...

Large-scale educational assessment has been established as source of descriptive, evaluative and interpretative information that influence educational policies worldwide throughout the last third of the twentieth century. In the 1990s the Brazilian Ministry of Education developed the National Basic Education Assessment System (SAEB) that regularly measures management, resource and contextual sc...