Although the research literature has established that Conscientiousness predicts task performance across a variety of achievement contexts (e.g., ; ), comparatively less is known about the processes that underlie these relations. To the latter end, the current research examines effortful strategies and achievement goals as mediating factors that might explain why people with higher levels of Co...

One in five adults in the United States is functionally innumerate; they do not possess the mathematical competencies needed for many modern jobs. We administered functional numeracy measures used in studies of young adults' employability and wages to 180 thirteen-year-olds. The adolescents began the study in kindergarten and participated in multiple assessments of intelligence, working memory,...

Accepted: 25.01.2013 The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of computer animation technique on academic achievement of students in the 'Solar System and Beyond' unit lectured as part of the Science and Technology course of the seventh grade in primary education. The sample of the study consists of 60 students attending to the 7th grade of primary school under two different classes...

The study was conducted to explore comparative effect of cooperative learning and lecture demonstration method on the academic achievement and academic self-concept of elementary school students across the gender. All 5 class students of a private school comprised the population of the study. A sample of 40 students was selected randomly from Nayab English medium School Dera Ismail Khan. Two in...

Keywords: Achievement emotion Pride Anger Boredom Test anxiety Self-regulated learning Control-value theory Aside from test anxiety sca les, measurement instruments assessing studen ts' achievement emotions are largely lacking. This article reports on the construction, reliability, internal validity, and external validity of the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire (AEQ) which is designed to asse...

Motivation research has shown significant relations of students’ mastery goal orientation and perceived competence to educational outcomes, but has not simultaneously scrutinized their relative influences on various educational outcomes. In the present investigation, a sample of Australian students from 6 secondary schools in Western Sydney (N = 1519) responded to survey items that measured mas...

BACKGROUND Research has shown how academic emotions are related to achievement and to cognitive/motivational variables that promote achievement. Mediated models have been proposed to account for the relationships among academic emotions, cognitive/motivational variables, and achievement, and research has supported such mediated models, particularly with negative emotions. AIMS The study teste...

Education researchers and policymakers agree that teachers differ in terms of quality and that quality matters for student achievement. Despite prodigious amounts of research, however, debate still persists about the causal relationship between specific teacher credentials and student achievement. In this paper, we use a rich administrative data set from North Carolina to explore a range of que...

Ef®cient indexing on a class hierarchy is essential for the achievement of high performance in query evaluation for object databases. In this paper, we present a practical indexing scheme, Partition Index Con®guration Scheme (PINS), which provides good index con®gurations for any real database environment. PINS considers the distribution of key values, as well as query patterns such as query fr...

We exploit Italian law DPR 81/2009, which determines class composition, as an instrument to identify the causal effect of grouping students of different grades into a single class (multigrading) on children cognitive achievement. This article focuses on 7-yearold students—those at the beginning of their formal education. Results suggest that attendance in multigrade classes versus single-grade ...