This brief is directed to researchers and adds to the research base about instructional practices that are related to student achievement. Additional evidence on these relationships can suggest specific hypotheses for the future study of such instructional practices, which, in turn, will provide research evidence that could inform professional development of teachers and the writing of instruct...

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...

Past research has shown that students use feedback such as exam scores to regulate achievement goal pursuit, and that achievement goals predict class performance. However, little is known about goal change in the time between exams. Using college classroom data, we examined changes in achievement goals across six time points and how they relate to exam scores. We found that achievement goals as...

Many studies have shown that academic achievement is highly correlated with social class. Few, however, have attempted to explain exactly how the school helps to reinforce the class structure of the society. In this article Dr. Rist reports the results of an observational study of one class of ghetto children during their kindergarten, firstand second-grade years. He shows how the kindergarten ...

according to interactions in multiple grade classes, the present study aims to compare different class compositions in three different groups of fourth-grade multiple grade students in implicit learning and academic achievement. statistical population consists of all fourth grade public elementary school students in piranshahr. 3 groups of students including 8 girls and 8 boys were randomly sel...

In the present investigation an attempt has been made to reveal the relationship of emotional intelligence and academic achievement. It also studies the emotional intelligence and academic achievement of high and low socio economic status children. Sample for the study includes 200 (100 high socio economic status and 100 low socio economic status) of class Xth of Ranchi. The data were analyzed ...

Since Vendler (1967), the event structure and the verbal aspect have been one of the controversial issues in verbal semantics. These issues result from the fact that all the verbs, which belong to each aspectual class, do not behave in the same way within each class. Among four aspectual classes suggested by Vendler (1967), achievement verbs show various behaviors and the subclasses of achievem...

Using data from the Tennessee Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio experiment and subsequent follow-up surveys, we estimate unconditional quantile treatment effects of being assigned to a small-size class and a regular-size class with an aide, compared to regular-size one. Results show that mid-achievers profit the most from being assigned to a small class. Students at the bottom or top of the ach...

This paper describes two studies of class size effects on achievement and dropout rates in (traditional) calculus at the university level. The first involved one teacher in both a large and a small section of calculus. The second included four teachers, each in both large and small sections of calculus. After accounting for other significant factors, we found that class size itself was not a st...