Student performance has dominated current discussions on educational matters and many believe that the new curriculum is not yet absorbed in schools and consequently student performance leaves much to be desired. This has resulted in finger pointing among stakeholders. However, the fact of the matter is that something should be done to improve the current status quo. Every one has a right to ba...

To review the state of research on the association between obesity among school-aged children and academic outcomes, the authors reviewed published studies investigating obesity, school performance, and rates of student absenteeism. A table with brief descriptions of each study's research methodology and outcomes is included. Research demonstrates that overweight and obesity are associated with...

Educational Data Mining (EDM) and Learning Analytics (LA) research have emerged as interesting areas of research, which are unfolding useful knowledge from educational databases for many purposes such as predicting students’ success. The ability to predict a student’s performance can be beneficial for actions in modern educational systems. Existing methods have used features which are mostly re...

Die keuring van studentverpleegsters skep spesifieke probleme vir verpleegadministrateurs en skoolprestasie skyn een van die min objektiewe keurmiddels te wees. Die resultate van hierdie studie toon dat daar wel beduidende verskille bestaan met betrekking tot prestasie in skoolvakke tussen studente wat hul opleiding voltooi het en die wat hul opieiding gestaak het. Kosteimplikasies van kortdien...

As technology use continues to rise, especially among young individuals, there are concerns that excessive use of technology may impact academic performance. Researchers have started to investigate the possible negative effects of technology use on college academic performance, but results have been mixed. The following study seeks to expand upon previous studies by exploring the relationship a...

Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the short-term effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational attainment of fourteen years old students in England. To identify the causal impact, this study exploits the t...

This article reviews research from published studies on the association between nutrition among school-aged children and their performance in school and on tests of cognitive functioning. Each reviewed article is accompanied by a brief description of its research methodology and outcomes. Articles are separated into 4 categories: food insufficiency, iron deficiency and supplementation, deficien...

Recommender systems are widely used in many areas, especially in e-commerce. Recently, they are also applied in e-learning tasks such as recommending resources (e.g. papers, books,..) to the learners (students). In this work, we propose a novel approach which uses recommender system techniques for educational data mining, especially for predicting student performance. To validate this approach,...

The goal of this study is to (i) understand the characteristics of high-, averageand low-level performing students in a first year computer programming course, and (ii) investigate whether their performance can be predicted accurately and early enough in the semester for timely intervention. We triangulate data from three sources: submission steps and outcomes in an automatic marking system tha...

This paper is the first to systematically document the relationship between individual teacher performance incentives and student achievement using the United States data. We combine data from the National Education Longitudinal Survey on schools, students, and their families with our own survey conducted in 2000 regarding the use of teacher incentives. This survey on teacher incentives has uni...