Previous studies have observed inconsistent relations between the acuity of the Approximate Number System (ANS) and mathematical achievement. In this paper, we hypothesize that the relation between ANS acuity and mathematical achievement is influenced by fluency; that is, the mathematical achievement test covering a greater expanse of mathematical fluency may better reflect the relation between...

In this paper I analyze the various factors that drive educational achievement across various countries using regression analysis. The causal model includes the variables which describe family background, learning resources, school characteristics, learning approaches, and class features to fully account for all of the features that contribute to educational achievement. The Programme for Inter...

Teaching English for Specific Purposes (TESP) has been a controversial issue among EFL teachers and others. The question raised by many is whether the English language instructor or the subject-matter specialist should teach ESP courses. The main purpose of the present study was to re-address this issue. To this end, 60 second-year students majoring in Feqh and Islamic Law at Islamic Azad Unive...

background in modern education, physical space is considered as a dynamic factor in students' educational activities. this study was conducted to investigating the impact of lighting educational spaces on learning and academic achievement of elementary students. materials and methods at a cross-sectional study (2015-2016), a total of 210 students were selected randomly as sample of study. ...

Despite evidence from the USA that children in small classes of less than 20 do better academically there is still a vociferous debate about the effects of class size differences in schools, and considerable gaps in our understanding of the effects of class size differences. This article summarises results from the most complete UK analysis to date of the educational consequences of class size ...

In the summer of 2000, perfectly timed to shape the election debate over education reform, came a new RAND study that claimed to contradict the conventional research wisdom on the connection between school expenditures and class size on the one hand and student achievement on the other. “Our results certainly challenge the traditional view of public education as ‘unreformable,’” the study’s dir...

At the college level, the effectiveness of active-learning interventions is typically measured at the broadest scales: the achievement or retention of all students in a course. Coarse-grained measures like these cannot inform instructors about an intervention's relative effectiveness for the different student populations in their classrooms or about the proximate factors responsible for the obs...

dear editor i n medical education, setting goals for clinical clerkship is the responsibility of educational groups. taking the students' opinions into account, it is possible to study the efficacy of education in terms of learning and achieving educational goals. (1) in periodontics and restorative departments of shahed and tehran university of medical sciences, it is reported that, achieving ...