AIM To investigate whether and to what extent various parameters, such as individual characteristics, computer habits, situational factors, and pseudoscientific variables, influence Medical Informatics examination grade, and how inadequate statistical analysis can lead to wrong conclusions. METHODS The study included a total of 382 second-year undergraduate students at the Rijeka University S...

Predicting students’ academic performance and the factors that significantly influence it can improve completion graduation rates, as well reduce attrition rates. In this study, we examine influencing student achievement. A fuzzy-neural approach is adopted to build a model predicts explains variations in course grades among students, based on category, attendance rate, gender, high-school grade...

We test the hypothesis that the Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices has the same construct validity in African university students as it does in non-African students by examining data from 306 highly select 17to 23-year olds in the Faculties of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of the Witwatersrand (177 Africans, 57 East Indians, 72 Whites; 54 women, 252 men). Analyses w...

Although outcomes for alternative schools may be mixed, it is generally agreed that counseling, therapy, group work, case management, and familycommunity involvement have been credited in some effective programs. is study examined program evaluations from 1994-1999 for an alternative school for chronically disruptive students (599 students, ages 9-22) that was funded by a state grant to assure...

The purpose of this study was to examine the interplay between parenting, adolescent academic capability beliefs and school grades. First, we examined how aspects of parenting and adolescent's cognitive ability predicted adolescent academic capability beliefs and school grades at 6th grade, which, in turn, predicted adolescent school outcomes at 9th grade. Second, we examined how configurations...

Many children today, particularly in economically-disadvantaged areas, are struggling in a variety of domains: academically, psychologically and cognitively. For example, 75% of 12 grade public school students in the United States are not doing math at grade level and 60% are not reading at grade level (Children’s Defense Fund, 2008). On average in the United States, a public school student is ...