A Sense of Belonging: How Student Feelings Correlate with Learning about Race

Teacher-Student Relationship and Academic Engagment Adolescent: The Mediating Role of Sense of School Belonging

Academic engagement is one of the multifaceted constructs that affect students' academic performance. The aim of this study was to determine the mediating role of a sense of belonging in the relationship between teacher-student Relationship and academic engagement. The method of the present study was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of this study consisted of all the studen...

How heritability misleads about race.

The Bell Curve revives and elaborates an argument given by Jensen to the effect that facts about heritability of IQ in whites dictate that blacks are genetically inferior in IQ. But clarification of the concept of heritability shows that this reasoning is fallacious. Heritability is an uninteresting measure that only misleads us about race.

Learning about medicine and race.

the relationship between iranian efl learners beliefs about rote learning, their use of vocabulary learning strategies and their success in vocabulary learning: a think-aloud protocol study

the purpose of this study was to investigate iranian efl learners’ beliefs about the role of rote learning (rl) in vocabulary learning strategies; besides, the study examined if english proficiency would influence learners’ vocabulary learning strategy use. this study addresses the need for a clear understanding of the role of rl in efl vocabulary learning by looking at iranian efl learners’ ow...

Emotional Accounting: How Feelings About Money Influence Consumer Choice

Vol. XLVI (February 2009), 66–80 66 © 2009, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Jonathan Levav is Class of 1967 Associate Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, Columbia University (e-mail: jl2351@ columbia.edu). A. Peter McGraw is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado (e-mail: peter. mcgraw@color...