...vente2 haylie marie dumayag hjedThesis About Study Habits BSTRACT Study skills are fundamental to academic competence. Effective study skills are associated with positive out comes across multiple academic content areas and for diverse learners. The purpose of this article is to describe an information-processing perspective on the contribution of study skills to academic competence, and to identify evidence-based strategies that are effective in helping students to improve their study skills. Study habit, skill, and attitude inventories and constructs were found to rival standardized tests and previous grades as predictors of academic performance, yielding substantial incremental validity in predicting academic performance. We found that study skill inventories and constructs are largely independent of both high school grades and scores on standardized admissions tests but moderately related to various personality constructs; these results are inconsistent with previous theories. Study motivation and study skills exhibit the strongest relationships with both grade point average and grades in individual classes. Academic specific anxiety was found to be an important negative predictor of performance. In addition, significant variation in the validity of specific inventories is shown. Scores on traditional study habit and attitude inventories are the most predictive of performance, whereas scores on inventories based on the popular depth-of-processing...
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...GENDER ANALYSIS OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Thesis Submitted to the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the DEGREE OF MASTER OF HOME SCIENCE In HUMAN DEVELOPMENT By NUTHANAP.G. DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT COLLEGE OF RURAL HOME SCIENCE, DHARWAD UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, DHARWAD-580005 JULY,2007 ADVISORY COMMITTEE DHARWAD JULY,2007 (GANGA YENAGI) MAJOR ADVISOR Approved by: Chairman:_______________________ (GANGA YENAGI) Members:1.______________________ (PUSHPA KHADI) 2.______________________ (SHOBHA NAGNUR) 3.______________________ (ASHALATHA K.V.) CONTENTS Sl. No. 1 2 INTRODUCTION REVIEW OF LITERATURE 2.1. Academic achievement 2.2. Factors influencing Academic achievement 3 METHODOLOGY 3.1. Population and the sample 3.2. Research Design 3.3. Variables used for the study 3.4. Tools used for data collection 3.5. Data collection procedure 3.6. Operational definition and terminologies 3.7. Statistical analysis 4 RESULTS 4.1. Demographic characteristics of the students and parents 4.2. Study habit of boys and girls 4.3. Self-concept of boys and girls 4.4. Socio-economic status of boys and girls 4.5. Rural/urban comparison of study habits, self-concept and socio economic status 4.6. Gender, locale and academic achievement 5 DISCUSSION 5.1. Study habits of boys and girls 5.2. Self-concept of boys and girls 5.3. Socio economic status of boys and girls 5.4. Comparison...
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...ARTICLE IN PRESS Journal of Accounting and Economics 39 (2005) 509–533 www.elsevier.com/locate/jae To blame or not to blame: Analysts’ reactions to external explanations for poor financial performance$ Jan Barton, Molly Mercerà Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA Received 3 March 2003; received in revised form 17 March 2005; accepted 4 April 2005 Abstract Managers often provide self-serving disclosures that blame poor financial performance on temporary external factors. Results of an experiment conducted with 124 financial analysts suggest that when analysts perceive such disclosures as plausible, they provide higher earnings forecasts and stock valuations than if the explanation had not been provided. However, we also show that these disclosures can backfire if analysts find them implausible. Specifically, implausible explanations that blame poor performance on temporary external factors lead We appreciate the helpful comments of Holly Ashbaugh, Charlie Bailey, Sudipta Basu, Robert Bloomfield (the referee), Jennifer Joe, Jay Koehler, Mark Kohlbeck, Lisa Koonce, Bob Lipe, Stan Markov, Ella Mae Matsumura, Brian Mayhew, Jeff Miller, Pam Murphy, Lisa Sedor, Siew Hong Teoh, Kristy Towry, Terry Warfield, Greg Waymire, Jerry Zimmerman (the editor), and seminar participants at University of Georgia, Harvard University, University of Notre Dame, Ohio State University, Rice University, University of Wisconsin—Madison, the 2003 AAA Financial Accounting...
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...GRADE RETENTION IN HIGH STAKES AND LOW STAKES TESTING YEARS A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts In The Department of Psychology by Anna Elizabeth Ball B.S. Texas A&M University, 2002 August, 2007 Acknowledgments I would like to thank Dr. George H. Noell for all of assistance, support and guidance in the preparation of this document. I would also like to thank Dr. Frank Gresham and Dr. Kristin Gansle who served as my committee members and also helped with my study design and document preparation. Finally, I would like to thank all who assisted with the construction and management of the database used for this study. ii Table of Contents Acknowledgments……………………………………………………………… ii List of Tables...…………………………………………………………………....iv Abstract…………………………………………………………………………. v Introduction……………………………………………………………………... .1 Grade Retention Literature Review..............………………………….......1 High Stakes Testing Literature Review….………………………………5 Rationale and Purpose of Current Study……………………………........9 Methods...................…………………………………………………………… 10 Database Construction…………………………………………………. 10 Procedure.....................………………………………………………… .11 Results……....................………………………………………………………...13 Grade 4…………………………………………………………………..13 Grade 5…………………………………………………………………..18 Grade 6…………………………………………………………………..23 Grade 7…………………………………………………………………...
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...Virtually every drug that is abused by adults is also by adolescents. In addition to alcohol, common categories of drugs of abuse include the following: • Tobacco products (for example, cigarettes, cigars. Chewing tobacco) • Cannabinoids (for example, marijuana, hashish), sometimes called “pot, weed, Mary Jane, or herb” and is smoked in a “joint,” “blunt,” “bong,” “backwood,” or pipe. • Cold medications (for example, chlorpheniramina and pseudoephedrine) • Inhalant (for example, gasoline, ammonia), th use of which is often referred to as “huffing” • Depressants (for examples, barbiturate, benzodiazepines), sometimes called “reds, yellow, yellow jackets. Downers or rookies.” • Stimulants (for example, amphetamines, cocaine, methamphetamine) sometimes called “bennies, black beauties, speed, uppers, blow, crack, rock, tool, crank, crystal, or Skippy.” • Narcotics (for example, morphine, heroin, codeine,...
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...Problem…………………………… 20 Chapter IV: Recommendations and Conclusion……………………………………… 21 Recommendation…………………………………………………………………… 21 Areas for Further Research………………………………………………………….. 23 Summary and Conclusion…………………………………………………………… 24 References……………………………………………………………………………… 25 ELEMENTARY STRESS AND ANXIETY 3 Abstract Changes in our society have put new pressures and stresses on elementary children. Many children are now starting to feel the pressures of our society and are beginning to show higher signs of stress and anxiety. One way that we can begin to deal with these “over stressed” students is to try to reach out to them in our schools. Guidance counselors and teachers often have more contact with students each week than parents do, therefore a logical place to begin de-stressing these students is in school. Schools need to look...
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...African Journal of Business Management Vol.6 (44), pp. 10994-11002, 7 November 2012 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJBM DOI: 10.5897/AJBM12.342 ISSN 1993-8233 ©2012 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper Common causes of small businesses failure in the townships of West Rand district municipality in the Gauteng Province of South Africa Solly Matshonisa Seeletse Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Limpopo (Medunsa Campus), P.O. Box 107, Medunsa, 0207, Pretoria City, South Africa, solly. E-mail: seeletse@ul.ac.za. Tel: +27 12 521 4291. Accepted 17 October 2012 The study examined the high failure rate of the small business in the West Rand region of the Gauteng Province, South Africa. The purpose was to investigate reasons for lack of sustainability of the small businesses of this region. The study was qualitative, characterised by exploratory and descriptive modes. Fifteen small businesses were interviewed using an interview guide (at Appendix). The reasons for their failure showed that these businesses mostly lacked in business understanding. They showed shortfalls in business and management. Recommendations covered suggestions for these businesses to improve understanding and practice of the modern business mechanisms, to approach local business colleges for working relationships and training, as well as to involve management consultants to revive them to start generating the needed revenue and minimum profits...
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...sector or the private sector. The nongovernmental universities started their operation during the late 1990 in Bangladesh. Having the act passed of private university establishment in 1992 many Universities has started to boom. During 1990 the number of private universities was twenty however the number reached to fifty with in 2005. In addition the numbers of students are also accelerating day by day. There is a mushroom growth in university establishment in the private sector. However the number is not huge in terms of quality education and standard. Apart from a few non qualifying standard universities, nongovernmental universities are not any point less than the public universities. On the contrary the leading private universities are providing with quality North American standard with a highly educated and skilled faculty members and facilities (Campuses). Among all of the nongovernmental universities, the study focuses of some of the leading and major private universities which are playing a vital role to produce skilled work force for the economy of both home and abroad with their quality and standard academic offerings. Therefore North-South University, Independent University Bangladesh, East-west University, American International University Bangladesh and Brac University earns the best level of attention. Even though there are many Universities present at the industry at this moment most of them...
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...overview of the company including the author's role will be explicated. Essential issues, events, and actions to help frame the problem will be identified. The problem statement will be well defined and specific enough for each reader to gain a clear idea of the Organizational Behavior topic and the direction of the research. Each reader will be given an encapsulated review of what information the author found most relevant to the research. The problem will be explored, providing an identification and description of the root causes. Solutions to the problem will be provided, supported and defended, to logically flow with the analysis of the problem. The author will reflect upon the research conducted, to show how the author's personal, academic, and professional development was influenced. Introduction: Company Overview The organization that my research will be based on for my final project is North American Bancard. North American Bancard was founded in 1992. It started with one employee in a shared office. As of today, North American Bancard has over 600 employees in a 100,000 sq. ft corporate office. The company provides merchants with the ability to accept credits cards, debit cards, EBT cards, fleet cards, and gift and loyalty cards from their customers as a form of payment. North American Bancard’s growth into an industry leader in credit card processing is the outcome of a steadfast commitment to helping the American entrepreneur succeed...
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...GDN Working Paper Series Education, Training and Youth Unemployment in Kenya Joy Kiiru, Eldah Onsomu and Fredrick Wamalwa Working Paper No. 26 October 2009 About GDN The Global Development Network (GDN) is a leading International Organization of developing and transition country researchers and policy and research institutes promoting the generation, sharing, and application to policy of multidisciplinary knowledge for the purpose of development. Founded in 1999, GDN is now headquartered in New Delhi, with offices in Cairo and Washington DC. This Working Paper has been prepared within the GDN’s Global Research Project Institutional Capacity Strengthening of African Public Policy Institutes to Support Inclusive Growth and the MDGs. The project has been fully funded by the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Bureau for Development Policy (BDP) and Regional Bureau for Africa (RBA). The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) alone. © GDN, 2009 2 Education, Training and Youth Unemployment in Kenya Joy Kiiru, Eldah Onsomu and Fredrick Wamalwa 1 Abstract Young people in Kenya constitute 30% of total population while youth unemployment constitutes 78% of total unemployment. In nearly all developing countries the rate of urban unemployment in the 15-24 age group is at least double the rate of all other age groups. These high rates of urban unemployment in this age bracket are also seen in developed countries, although the rates are far lower than...
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...not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India nor can the Institute by any way be held responsible for them. The contents of this journal are the copyright of The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India, whose permission is necessary for reproduction in whole or in part. ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ the management accountant, May, 2010 Cost Management for Growth of SME in Textile Sector by R. Gopal 387 Performance Monitoring in SME Sector by I. Mohamed Ibrahim 388 Cost Management : Key to Survival in Current Global Meltdown by S. Jeyaraj 392 Cost Management : Key to Survival in Current Global Meltdown by Guruprasad D. 400 Salient Feature of MOU by ICWAI with CBEC 406 Request for Comments on Exposure Draft of CAS 408 Essay Competition Notice 411 WIRC Seminar 414 Examination Notification - ICWAI 418 Exam Programme - CAT 419 Continuing Education Programme 420 Notice 421 ○ Editorial 347 President’s Communique 348 Speech by Hon’ble...
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...Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION This study is divided into several chapters. The beginning chapter presents a detailed background of the study conducted among a group of secondary schools pupils in The Netherlands. The study focuses on new Media and whether its’ usage has any effect on academic performance. This is explored from the context of HAVO Dutch youths in Rotterdam aged 14-16 years in two schools; Calvijn and Comenius colleges particularly from their peer solidarity and socialization processes. HAVO is one of the four streams of secondary education in Holland referred to as Senior general secondary education (HAVO). The stream takes five years and qualifies students to enter higher vocational education (HBO). Some students can also choose to enter pre-university secondary education VWO or MBO education (Dutch Education Journal, 2007). The analysis is based on both qualitative and quantitative findings from Focus Group Discussions (FDGs), structured and semistructured interviews, drawings, observations and questionnaires. This study considers both the advantages and disadvantages of youth engagement in new media. The study also attempt to contribute to the wider development discourses in the field of children and youth. The conclusion for this book highlights how new media has played a role in the youth cultures in structuring their peer relationships. Throughout the study, pseudo names are used for ethical reasons. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Before delving deeper...
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...of human beings. It is also very important for the development of any country. Education is the responsibility of the state and government who should make every possible effort to provide it on an ever interesting and increasing scale in accordance with the national resources. In the rising seas of education’s changes, a group of people who have been increasingly affected is at the instance of a much serious array of problems regarding education. This group of people is composed of some 355 students of the Department of Economics of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. 2 For the past years, studies regarding the status and determining factors regarding the academic performance of the students of PUP - Department of Economics were seldom done and there were insufficient information about these matters. Citations were apparent but there were no individual studies conducted to discover the determinants affecting the level of academic performances of students in DE. Background of the Study As a state university, PUP has always defended its stand that education is an instrument for the development of the citizenry and for the enhancement of nation building (PUP Handbook, revised 2007). Section 1.2.4 of the same handbook indicates that in order to embody this philosophy, there is a need to broaden...
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...School Context, Student Attitudes and Behavior, and Academic Achievement: An Exploratory Analysis Theresa M. Akey, Ph.D. January 2006 This paper was funded by the William T. Grant Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Principal funding for First Things First comes from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Additional support to supplement the core project comes from the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. A grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts for MDRC’s research methodology initiatives was an important source of funding for the First Things First Classroom Observation Study. Dissemination of MDRC publications is supported by the following funders that help finance MDRC’s public policy outreach and expanding efforts to communicate the results and implications of our work to policymakers, practitioners, and others: Alcoa Foundation, The Ambrose Monell Foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Open Society Institute, and The Starr Foundation. In addition, earnings from the MDRC Endowment help sustain our dissemination efforts. Contributors to the MDRC Endowment include Alcoa Foundation, The Ambrose Monell Foundation, Anheuser-Busch Foundation, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Ford Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The Grable Foundation...
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...Counseling and Personnel Services University of Maryland, College Park The present study serves as an examination and documentation of referral and placement outcomes of English Language Learner (ELL) cases in Instructional Consultation (IC) Teams schools. Archival data from 838 cases (12% of which were ELL cases) within five mid-Atlantic public school districts implementing IC Teams were analyzed for outcomes using logistic regression. Results included statistically significant differences in ELL versus non-ELL student initial team referral (IC or other prereferral intervention team) and ultimate IEP Team referrals. Initial referral concerns also differed significantly between ELL and non-ELL students. IC Teams were found to be more effective than existing prereferral intervention teams in decreasing the special education referrals of ELL and non-ELL students. The results of the present study serve as a foundation for future research in the areas of at-risk ELL students and their referrals to prereferral intervention teams and special education. ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNER SPECIAL EDUCATION REFERRAL AND PLACEMENT OUTCOMES IN INSTRUCTIONAL CONSULTATION TEAMS SCHOOLS by Arlene E. Silva Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts 2005 Advisory Committee: Professor Sylvia Rosenfield, Chair Assistant Professor Millicent I. Kushner Associate Professor William...
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