Drinking water manganese (WMn) is a potential threat to children's health due to its associations with a wide range of outcomes including cognitive, behavioral and neuropsychological effects. Although adverse effects of Mn on cognitive function of the children indicate possible impact on their academic achievement little evidence on this issue is available. Moreover, little is known regarding p...

The purpose of this study is to find out the influence learning motivation and hedonism lifestyle on student achievement. population a Ibn Sina Batam. in was 554 students. sample calculated using slovin formula, so used as many 92 respondents. results are has significant effect achievement, simultaneously have R square score 53.1% means that can affect achievement by while remaining 46.9% influ...

This paper examines the effects of armed conflicts between drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas on student achievement. We explore variation in violence that occurs across time and space when gangs battle over territories. Within-school estimates indicate that students from schools exposed to violence score less in math exams. Our findings suggest that the effect of violence increases with co...

We measure the extent of language assimilation among children of Hispanic immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits test language randomization (English or Spanish) of Woodcock Johnson achievement tests in the New Immigrant Survey and lets us attribute test score differences solely to test language. Students scoring poorly may be tracked into nonhonors classes and less competitive postse...

This study compared the reading subtests of the Wechsler Individual Achievement TestThird Edition and the Peabody Individual Achievement Test-Revised/Normative Update. Scores were compared on these two tests in a group of 28 students ages 7 through 12 who were referred or reevaluated for suspected learning problems. The data were collected through a deidentified data set provided by a school bu...

This was a descriptive study investigating the potential positive effect of metacognitive ability on learning achievement and skill performance. The participants’ average metacognitive ability score was 3.40, with 24 participants having high ability (29.6%), 25 moderate ability (30.9%), and 32 low ability (39.5%). At posttest, no significant differences in learning achievement by metacognitive ...

The present study is aimed at studying the relationship between Social Maturity, School Adjustment and levels of Academic achievement among residential school girl students. The study was conducted on a sample of 347 girls from class ix –xii at an all girls residential school of North India. Dr. Nalini Rao’s Social Maturity Scale (RSMS) was used to measure social maturity, Sinha & Singh’s Adjus...

Previous research has suggested that parents' aspirations for their children's academic attainment can have a positive influence on children's actual academic performance. Possible negative effects of parental overaspiration, however, have found little attention in the psychological literature. Employing a dual-change score model with longitudinal data from a representative sample of German sch...

The purpose of evaluating teaching effectiveness is to increase student learning. A common metric of student learning is achievement data (i.e., test scores). Thus, it is logical to use student achievement data to evaluate teaching effectiveness. The U.S. has had a short history of using achievement data to evaluate a school or district; the new movement is to use it to evaluate individual teac...