This study examines whether students’ final grades in an introductory college business computing class correlate with their self-reported computer skill levels provided at the beginning of the course. While significant research effort has been devoted to studying the effects of student selfefficacy on course outcomes and studying the moderating effects of various demographic variables (such as ...

It is believed that the performance of Construction Management (CM) students in their undergraduate study is dependent on their mathematics and physics performance. A Fundamental of Construction Science (FCS) course, offered for freshman, covers materials related to mathematics and physics. CM students must perform better in mathematics and physics to perform better in FCS course. This study ai...

Approximately 10% of children grow up with a parent who has been diagnosed with a chronic medical condition (CMC) and seem to be at risk for adjustment difficulties. We examined differences in behavioral, psychosocial and academic outcomes between 161 adolescents from 101 families with a chronically ill parent and 112 adolescents from 68 families with healthy parents, accounting for statistical...

Objectives. This study was designed to assess the extent to which 7 traditional and novel predictors contribute to overall pharmacy grade point average (pharmacy GPA), first through third year pharmacy GPA (1-3 year GPA), and clerkship GPA of pharmacy students. Methods. This investigation used a convenience sample and a blinded retrospective record review of the first 3 class years of Doctor of...

introduction: study skills and students’ satisfaction with their performance positively affect their academic achievement. the current research was carried out to investigate the correlation of study skills with academic achievement among the medical and pharmacy students in 2013. methods: this descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 148 students of basic medical sciences and pharmacy thr...

BACKGROUND Maternal educational attainment has been associated with birth outcomes among adult mothers. However, limited research explores whether academic performance and educational aspiration influence birth outcomes among adolescent mothers. METHODS Data from Waves I and IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) were used. Adolescent girls whose first pregnan...

BACKGROUND Studies are needed to examine predictors of success in medical school. The aim of this work is to explore factors that potentially influence excellence of medical students. METHODS The study was conducted in the Medical Faculty of King Abdulaziz University during October 2012. A self-administered questionnaire was used. Medical students with a grade point average (GPA) ≥4.5 (out of...

The prospective relations of temperamental effortful control and anger/frustration to Chinese children’s (N 425, age range 6.6 –9.1 years) academic achievement (grade point average, or GPA) and social adjustment (externalizing problems and social competence) were examined in a 2-wave (3.8 years apart) longitudinal study. Parents and teachers rated children’s temperament, and parents, teachers, ...