This large-scale longitudinal cohort study examines the extent to which mathematics self-concept and academic self-efficacy mediate the relation between mathematical performance at the end of primary school (Grade 6) and the end of lower secondary school (Grade 9) in an educational system with early tracking. The study involves 843 students in the Netherlands, where tracking is employed from th...

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...

The present study is aimed to explore the Home Environment and the Academic Achievement which correlates self-concept in a sample of 300 Students. The results of the study revealed self-concept to be considerably positive and correlated with Academic Achievement. It reveals a significant positive relationship of Home Environment components protectiveness, conformity, reward and nurturance with ...

thanks to the development of the concept of metadiscourse, it is now widely acknowledged that academic/scientific writing is not only concerned with communicating purely propositional meanings: what is communicated through academic/scientific communication is seen to be intertwined with the negotiation of social and interpersonal meanings. while a large number of so called metadiscoursal resour...

Parental separation is linked to multiple negative outcomes for children in all spheres of life. A field study was designed to estimate the epidemiology and to quantify the outcomes on the wellbeing of children from separated parents. Thus, data on socio-economic status, psychological adjustment, behavioral disorders, social relations, self-concept, and academic achievement were gathered from 3...