We tested whether dreams can anticipate a stressful exam and how failure/success in dreams affect next-day performance. We collected information on students' dreams during the night preceding the medical school entrance exam. Demographic, academic, sleep and dream characteristics were compared to the students' grades on the exam. Of the 719 respondents to the questionnaire (of 2324 total studen...

Abstract The present paper appraises a standardized test, the entrance exam of Iranian universities, known as “Konkur” that is administered annually means gaining admission to higher education in Iran. This norm-referenced test for students majoring mathematics, experimental sciences, and humanities whose scores along their weighted GPAs last 3 years high school are used indicators students’ ra...

In the last decade, Chinese government issued several policy documents to guarantee provision of reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities sitting in national College Entrance Exam. This study explores how new policies impact students visual impairment. It begins by highlighting recent changes China that provide optimism about attention being paid equal education opportunities By g...

This study was an attempt to evaluate the undergraduate TEFL program at Farhangian University. The university specializes in educating prospective teachers and the program is important since it is expected to equip the student teachers with the knowledge and skills necessary for qualified teachers. Hence, in this study, measures were taken to investigate the...

AIM To determine attrition and predictors of academic success among medical students at University of Split, Croatia. METHODS We analysed academic records of 2054 students enrolled during 1979-2008 period. RESULTS We found that 26% (533/2054) of enrolled students did not graduate. The most common reasons for attrition were 'personal' (36.4%), transfer to another medical school (35.6%), and ...

This article presents the participation of Synapse Développement to the CLEF 2014 Entrance Exam campaign (QA track). Since fifteen years, our company works on Question Answering domain. Recently our work concentrated on Machine Reading and Natural Language understanding. Thus, the Entrance Exam evaluation was an excellent opportunity to measure the results of this work. The developed system is ...

This study examined the relationship between the changes of physical fitness across the 3-year spectrum of senior high school study and academic performance measured by standardized tests in Taiwan. A unique dataset of 149 240 university-bound senior high school students from 2009 to 2011 was constructed by merging two nationwide administrative datasets of physical fitness test performance and ...

Introduction: On account of the high student workload, expansive cognitive assignments, and being in a competitive space regarding their assignments and the university entrance exam, high school students might undergo stress, worry, anxiety, educational problems, and psychological damages. The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and ...