Methods: First, we constructed a questionnaire based on the descriptors collected from various sources in order to elicit university teachers’ views on the importance of these descriptors. A revised version was produced based on the feedback from the initial questionnaire survey. In order to further investigate what level or levels these remaining descriptors would fall into, 35 university teac...

This research investigated the significance of poetry in the acquisition of English as a second language for social work students at the undergraduate level. The study highlights the fact that poetry can expand the teaching options of the teacher of EFL, as reflected in the overall satisfaction of the students with this mode of language acquisition and the quantitative and qualitative effects r...

Internal profile analysis methods that employ multidimensional scaling or cluster analysis continue to receive application in educational and psychological research. One critique of these methods is that there is no guarantee that the identified profiles will exhibit criterion or diagnostic validity. Recently, an external profile analysis technique was developed using multiple regression. The e...

Two randomized field experiments tested a social-psychological intervention designed to improve minority student performance and increase our understanding of how psychological threat mediates performance in chronically evaluative real-world environments. We expected that the risk of confirming a negative stereotype aimed at one's group could undermine academic performance in minority students ...

BACKGROUND This is a predictive validity study examining the extent to which developmental vulnerability at kindergarten entry (as measured by the Early Development Instrument, EDI) is associated with children's basic skills in 4th grade (as measured by the Foundation Skills Assessment, FSA). METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Relative risk analysis was performed on a large database linking indiv...

OBJECTIVE Maternal alcohol use disorder is a risk factor for a range of developmental outcomes in children. This study examines school achievement in children of Indigenous and non-Indigenous mothers with an alcohol-related diagnosis. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS This is a Western Australian population cohort study of mothers with a record of an alcohol-related diagnosis classified by the...

Abstract: Writing this article intends to be used as a determinant of the hypothesis that influences each variable so it is useful for writing subsequent articles. The results researchers get from scientific paper are teacher certification has positive and quite important influence on competence; student learning motivation significant impact competency; achievement; gives competence simultaneo...

This study investigated the correlation between noncognitive variables and academic success in a freshman composition course. A sample of 257 freshmen taking an introductory English course completed a survey assessinE their attitudes and achievement expectancies. The questionnaire measured self-ratings of overall academic ability, drive to achieve, writing ability, creativity, and self-confiden...

This present study aimed to find out 1) whether there is a significant difference in students’ noun phrase achievement their descriptive writing, 2) what aspect of phrases improves the most. The population and sample this research first year SMAN 15 Bandar Lampung academic 2021/2022. data were analyzed using SPSS 16.0. results showed was statistically between pretest posttest writing tests with...