Academic achievement - Research
Combining data mining and econometric techniques : a case study on academic achievement
... I profoundly thank Miguel Nussbaum, my advisor. Thank you for believing in me and in this unconventional project, also for connecting me with people who nurtured my thesis. Thank you for the conversations and advice, ...
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Improving the low academic achievement in toefl preparation of 10th grade students at unidad educativa particular bilingüe liceo panamericano during the school period 2013 2014
... Significant changes in Ecuadorian education have contributed to the development of this research project. The implementation of higher standards for students graduating high school, and new admission processes for ...
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The Impact of Michigan School Librarians on Academic Achievement: Kids Who Have Libraries Succeed
... We wrote our first grant proposal and were awarded $141,000 for our district. This included $89,000 worth of library books, an online database with several encyclopedias including a Spanish one, a new library web page, ...
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Learning styles and academic achievement in students of the first cycle of the Master’s Program in Educational Sciences majoring in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the National University of Education Enrique Guzman y Valle, La Molina, Lima, 2016
... styles research in university students proposing some challenges for future developments in this research ...and academic performance in the field of Anatomy although it should be noted, it was ...
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Obesidad, actividad física y rendimiento académico en escolares (obesity, physical activity and academic achievement in schoolchildren)
... Further research is needed to eluci- date the specific cognition functions more negatively af- fected by this relationship and to determine the effects of some variables that could act as moderators or mediators ...
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An explanatory model of the intention to continue studying among non-traditional university students
... this research was to understand the extent to which academic achievement at the end of the fi rst year (a) predicts students’ intention to continue studying (direct effect) and (b) mediates the ...
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Algorithm to optimize a fuzzy model of students academic achievement in higher education Silvia
... This paper addressed the optimization procedure to AA model that is traditionally described using linear regression. We proposed FSOGA algorithm that is a genetic algorithm that find FSs that minimize the objetive ...
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Neighborhoods attributes as determinants of children's academic achievement
... our research contributes to the vast amount of research has examined the association between socio-demographic characteristics of contexts on children’s behavior, there is still need to explore alternative ...
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Cognitive abilities, sociocultural background and academic achievement
... this research imposes limitations in model extrapolation and, moreover, in model generalization: the study of various non-probabilistic samples or, better, of a representative sample, is ...of academic ...
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Effects of cognitive restructuring and study skills training on anxiety and academic achievement
... 2008). Research has indicated that as the level of anxiety builds up, the students’ memory quality decreases, and so do his reasoning and concentration (Aronen, Vuontella, Steenari, Salmi, & Carlson, ...
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The Effects of Vouchers on Academic Achievement: Evidence from Chile’s Conditional Voucher Program Juan A Correa David Inostroza Francisco Parro Loreto Reyes Gabriel Ugarte Universidad Andrés Bello Marzo
... Our results are line with those in Hoxby (2003) and Neal (2002). Hoxby (2003) analyzes the impact that different programs had on school productivity: specifically, the effect of vouchers on achievement in ...
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Performance of Two Hydrological Models in Predicting Daily Flow under a Climate Change Scenario for Mountainous Catchments in Northwestern Costa Rica
... a research project funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF DEB 05-16516) for support of Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB): Dynamics of Stream Ecosystem Responses across Gradients ...
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Peer tutoring in language learning in higher education: The impact at a bis University
... this research, Borjian invited 76 teachers of English from a public university in central Mexico to discuss how they became interested in learning English and how the language had affected their ...
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Determinants of the performance of the Schools in Medellín in the High-School Graduation-Year Test (ICFES)
... of research on the economics of education and, in general, in phenomena with nesting, when observa- tions are not completely independent, that is to say, they are grouped in hierarchies deno- ting different levels ...
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La Investigación: acción como una estrategia pedagógica de relación entre lo académico y social
... Action research refers to a series of methodological strategies used to improve the educational and social system, from the mere social to educational ...action research as a pedagogical strategy of ...
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Gross Inequality and Inequality of Opportunities in Basic Education: Were they affected by Latin America’s Economic Boom?
... main achievement was probably the growth in school attendance at the secondary level, which greatly reduced socio-economic gaps in access and increased the proportion of the population holding a high-school ...
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Relationships among multiple intelligences, motor performance and academic achievement in secondary school children
... intelligences, academic achievement and motor performance in a group of secondary school ...the academic year they had made were ...with academic performance and it was the intelligence that ...
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Digital reading strategies in computer English
... and linguistic-communicative competence analysis. The observation of the three reading strategies with corpus-based items serves to present empirical evidence, via their evaluation, towards reading comprehension ...
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Predictores del ajuste de los estudiantes durante la transición a la Universidad en España
... to academic adjustment and institutional attachment ...previous academic achievement in university adjustment invalidates the importance of family ...Prior academic achievement is not a ...
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Being metric-wise: Heterogeneity in bibliometric knowledge
... performing research in the Social Sciences and in the Arts and ...for research output to be included in the set of publications which leads to research ...one’s research into ...of ...
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