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An Evaluation of Factors Affecting Student Performance on Broad Measures of Student Learning
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Prager, Erika K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Universities are using standardized tests more and more as part of their accountability and assessment of student learning efforts. For the results of these tests to be useful in improving practices that lead to greater learning, they must be meaningful and specific to institutions. The researcher sought to determine how student characteristics,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Evaluation, Standardized Tests
Predicting Performance in a First Engineering Calculus Course: Implications for Interventions
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Hieb, Jeffrey L.; Lyle, Keith B.; Ralston, Patricia A. S.; Chariker, Julia – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2015
At the University of Louisville, a large, urban institution in the south-east United States, undergraduate engineering students take their mathematics courses from the school of engineering. In the fall of their freshman year, engineering students take "Engineering Analysis I," a calculus-based engineering analysis course. After the…
Descriptors: Calculus, College Mathematics, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students
Educational Counter Culture: Motivations, Instructional Approaches, Curriculum Choices, and Challenges of Home School Families
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Anthony, Kenneth Vance – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this study was to gain an in depth knowledge of the day to day activities of home school families in order to better understand the instructional approaches, curriculum decisions, and challenges. Four themes were addressed: motivations, operations, resources, and challenges. Findings about motivations to home school included: (a)…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Traditional Schools, Home Schooling, Motivation
The Performance Cycle: Motivation and Attention as Mediating Variables in School Performance. Home Environment and School Study Report 1974:5.
Keeves, J. P. – 1974
In this paper, personality characteristics of the students and their performance at school are linked together. The performance cycle model of 12 months duration used here contains causal relationships between initial achievement, the mediating variables of academic motivation and attentiveness, and final achievement. A random sample of 215…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention, Educational Research, Family Environment
Cultural Intelligence: What Is It and How Can It Effectively Be Measured?
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Sternberg, Robert J.; Siriner, Ilaria; Oh, Jaime; Wong, Chak Haang – Journal of Intelligence, 2022
We administered both maximum-performance and typical-performance assessments of cultural intelligence to 114 undergraduates in a selective university in the Northeast of the United States. We found that cultural intelligence could be measured by both maximum-performance and typical-performance tests of cultural intelligence. Cultural intelligence…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intelligence, Adjustment (to Environment), Knowledge Level
Multiply Your Child's Success: Math and Science Can Make Dreams Come True. A Parent's Guide
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National Math and Science Initiative, 2012
In today's high-tech world, math and science matter. Of the 10 fastest growing occupations, eight are science, math or technology-related. Whatever a child wants to do--join the military, join the workforce, or go on to college--math and science skills will be important. Become part of the equation to help one's child succeed now and in the…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Parent Materials, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Instruction