Syväoja, Heidi Physical activity and sedentary behaviour in association with academic performance and cognitive functions in school-aged children LIKES – Research Reports on Sport and Health 292 Jyväskylä: LIKES – Research Center for Sport and Health Sciences, 2014. In addition to physical health benefits, physical activity may enhance children’s cognitive and academic performance. Excessive se...

Objective: This research was conducted to study the effectiveness of self-regulation training among female students’ academic achievement motivation in Birjand City, Iran. Methods: In this interventional comparative study (pretest-posttest design with control group), 84 eighth grade students (from public intermediate schools) in Birjand were selected through multi-stage cluster sampling. The...

objective: this research was conducted to study the effectiveness of self-regulation training among female students’ academic achievement motivation in birjand city, iran. methods: in this interventional comparative study (pretest-posttest design with control group), 84 eighth grade students (from public intermediate schools) in birjand were selected through multi-stage cluster sampling. they w...

How do school resources affect students’ academic achievement? This chapter provides a survey of economists’ work on the effect of expenditure and class size on student achievement using different international student achievement tests, with a particular focus on the use of quasi-experimental research methods to address challenges of the identification of causal effects. Overall, the internati...

Singaporean elementary-school students (N 1⁄4 299) completed Child Implicit Association Tests (Child IAT) as well as explicit measures of gender identity, mathegender stereotypes, and math self-concepts. Students also completed a standardized math achievement test. Three new findings emerged. First, implicit, but not explicit, math self-concepts (math 1⁄4 me) were positively related to math ach...

The importance of large scale achievement tests, like national tests in school, eligibility for university, or international assessments evaluation students, is increasing. Pretesting questions the above mentioned done to determine characteristic properties by adding them an ordinary test. If computerized are used, it has been shown using optimal experimental design methods that efficient assig...