This study aims to contribute to the understanding of the approaches students develop and use in solving probabilistic tasks and to examine which approach is more strongly correlated to their success in such tasks. Participants were pre-service teachers from the University of Western Macedonia in Greece. Implicative statistical analysis is applied to evaluate the relation between students’ appr...

This paper looks at the impact of “Talking Aloud Pair Problem Solving” (TAPPS) on student performance in a productivity application course. The argument is that success working with productivity applications involves success solving problems. By enhancing students’ problem solving skills, TAPPS enhances student performance. The empirical evidence presented indicates that those students who foll...

This study compared the relationship between learning style preferences and learner success of students in an online graduate level instructional design course with an equivalent face-to-face course. Comparisons included motivation maintenance, task engagement, and cognitive controls. Results revealed significant relationships between preferences and course success on five constructs for the fa...

Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and to manage the relationship between emotion, cognition and behavior. It was hypothesized that levels of emotional intelligence are associated with levels of income. Few studies have examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and academic success among low income college students. The purpose of this correlational and comparati...

AIM To identify factors relating to students' success in the study of medicine at the Medical University of Vienna. In view of Austria's tradition of open access to higher education, which results large number of students, high dropout rate, long duration of studies, factors predicting success could be helpful for student counseling. METHODS In a prospective study, 674 freshmen (50.8% of stud...