...Conceptual Framework To have an effect that will give positive change in our lives, we need to reorganize our lifestyle according to the way we spend our time. It should be based on the concept of importance - not urgency. The problem for most people, is that they usually prioritize urgent matters more than the important ones. But what they need to realize first, is that there are three basic steps which we must consider to get what we want out of life: first, understand that you can achieve success, second, define what success represents for you and third, organize your life around your achievement. Covey (2004) illustrated a highly effective system of time management that can benefit anybody. This system is primarily based on the theory that most of us are driven by a consuming sense of urgency. But through this system, Covey is instructing us to divide all our priorities into the following four quadrants: Figure 1. Stephen Covey's Time Management Quadrant 1: Important and Urgent – Items in this category are integral to your life and require your immediate attention. Quadrant 2: Important but Not Urgent – Items in this category are integral to your life but do not require your immediate attention right now. Quadrant 3: Not Important but Urgent – Items in this category are not integral to your life, but they do require your immediate attention. Quadrant 4: Not Important and Not Urgent – Items in this category are not integral to your life and do not need to...
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...FACTORS AFFECTING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF FRESHMEN STUDENTS OF BSOA INTRODUCTION Unlike elementary and high school days, college takes a lot of effort when it comes to studying. Students must have their own strategies to adapt in the new environment that will soon be their daily habit and lifestyle. In this study, STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM This study was undertaken to find out the factors that affects the academic performance of freshmen students from the College of Business, Polytechnic University of the Philippines of SY 2012-2013 Specifically, this study sought answers to the following research questions: 1. What are the personal backgrounds of the respondents? 1.1 Class of their family and the capacity to provide financial assistance to their study. 1.2 Class performance/standing during elementary & high school. 1.3 Personal allowance and their daily expenses. 1.4 Distance of the respondents’ house from Polytechnic University of the Philippines. 2. What is the respondents’ school environment? 2.1 Learning facilities of the school 3. How do people at school affect the academic performance and status of the respondents? 3.1 Professors. 3.2 Classmates. 3.3 School Administrators. SCOPE AND LIMITATION PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH The purpose of study intends to assess difference in the performance of BSOA...
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...ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF HOSPITALITY STUDENTS OF CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY- SILANG CAMPUS Mark Anthony S. Gato Janna Gold D. Lagura An undergraduate research proposal submitted to the Faculty of Cavite State University- Silang Campus in Partial fulfilment of the requirements for graduation for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management. To be prepared under the supervision of Mr. Rizalito B. Javier. INTRODUCTION Hospitality industry is a broad category of fields within the service industry that includes lodging, restaurant, event planning, theme parks, transportation, cruise line, and additional fields within the tourism industry (Bieber et al, 2011) The fact that some students with apparently high scholastics aptitude do very poorly in tertiary school while others with only mediocre ability do very well has presented a challenge to many educators. It has been observed that hard working students with high IQs sometimes do not perform as well as their classmates with lower IQs (Harvey, 2003) Academic performance is generally refers to how will a student can accomplishing his or her task or studies, but there quite a number of factors that determine the level and quality of students’ academic performance (Bell, 2008). According to Swagman (2011), she stated that the U.S education system stacks up against other countries on the PISA international...
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...Working while attempting to obtain a degree has become a pervasive lifestyle for today’s University students among the reasons contributing to an ever increasing trend of working during education could be the increasing financial pressures from higher college tuition and fees, the necessity of gaining social experiences, and academic requirements for practical internships. The likelihood of working while in school for college students has been increasing particularly as the cost of education has also been rising. Noni’s and Hudson (2006) Academic performance is measured by the standing of rates of grades of student in every subject. Having a high level of performance on the academic area of a student suggest its competency and high level of confidence on its certain field. Students have their own attitude towards learning and achieving a high level of academic performance. The development of their enthusiasm towards succeeding in their own field varies. In order for a student to succeed he needs to be armed with strategies and techniques that will supplement his desire to reach his goals. Crede and Kuncel (2008) One way is to have an efficient and adaptive study habit. This phenomenon can be linked to multi factors that affect their study habit. Such factors can be found in their environment, these includes the type of house they live in; the people around them and the level of support they give; the student and his family’s daily routines; the availability of resources for...
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...RESEARCH 1.0 Introduction To Research Performance and achievement can be gain by having a productive and organize work environment. To have a productive environment, student must able to separate time for work and time for personal matters equally. They also must be able to do assignments professionally. The performance will be increase as long as the students give commitment to do whatever they can to be productive. So, this research will study if there is relationship between student’s health status and their academic performance. It is being identify the factors affecting health status are Body Mass Index (BMI), blood pressure and glucose. The body mass index (BMI) is the metric currently in use for defining...
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...Immigrant College Student Stress Immigrant College Student Stress Mario Velasquez Teacher: Gorge Castillo Miami Dade College 04/01/2010 Abstract The primary purpose of this exploratory investigation was to determine disadvantages related to stress which are some of the characteristics of immigrant female college students in the Miami Dade County area. Some questions related to the theme were answered through direct interviews with immigrants and American female college students. These questions were the instrument used to find out the truth about immigrant experiences and their disadvantages related to stress, such as acculturative stress and coping style as well as psychological functioning adjustment in comparison with American female college students. According to the interview results, psychological dysfunction and high stress level is affecting the academic efficacy. Keywords: Acculturative stress, coping styles, immigrant female college students Psychological functioning adjustment. To become a successful immigrant female college student in Miami Dade Florida individuals have to learn how to master stress, however, it is not enough the desire to become a successful student. Research studies have demonstrated that immigrant female college students in Dade County experience disadvantages related to stress like acculturative...
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...on Daytime Functioning 5 Sleep deprivation impairs learning and memory. 5 Sleep deprivation impairs academic success and neurobehavioral functioning. 5 Sleep deprivation impairs emotional regulation. 5 Sleep deprivation impairs health. 5 Sleep deprivation impairs adolescents’ driving ability. 6 Sleep Behaviour Across Development 6 New-borns and Infants (0 to 12 months) 7 Developmental changes in sleep. 7 Behavioural and psychological factors affecting sleep behaviour. 7 Early Childhood (12 Months to 6 Years of Age) 7 Developmental changes in sleep. 7 Behavioural and psychological factors affecting sleep behaviour. 7 School-Age Years 8 Developmental changes in sleep. 8 Behavioural and psychological factors affecting sleep behaviour. 8 Adolescence 8 Behavioural and psychological factors affecting sleep behaviour. 9 Further studies regarding the effect of sleep on the development and psychology of children and adolescents. 9 Sleep and the Body Mass Index and Overweight Status of Children and Adolescents 9 Sleepless in Chicago: Tracking the Effects of Adolescent Sleep Loss During the Middle School Years 10 Sleep, Learning, and the Developing Brain: Early-to-Bed as a Healthy and Wise Choice for School Aged Children (EDITORIAL [41]) 11 Key Features of Preventative Sleep Education Programs 13 Sleep deprivation may result from lifestyle choices. 13 Sleep deprivation may be caused by poor sleep habits or changes in developmental needs. 13 ...
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... | Contents INTRODUCTION 3 Why Is Sleep Relevant to Psychology? 4 What Is Sleep and Why Is It Important 4 Sleep Regulation 4 The Impact of Sleep on Daytime Functioning 5 Sleep deprivation impairs learning and memory. 5 Sleep deprivation impairs academic success and neurobehavioral functioning. 5 Sleep deprivation impairs emotional regulation. 5 Sleep deprivation impairs health. 5 Sleep deprivation impairs adolescents’ driving ability. 6 Sleep Behaviour Across Development 6 New-borns and Infants (0 to 12 months) 7 Developmental changes in sleep. 7 Behavioural and psychological factors affecting sleep behaviour. 7 Early Childhood (12 Months to 6 Years of Age) 7 Developmental changes in sleep. 7 Behavioural and psychological factors affecting sleep behaviour. 7 School-Age Years 8 Developmental changes in sleep. 8 Behavioural and psychological factors affecting sleep behaviour. 8 Adolescence 8 Behavioural and psychological factors affecting sleep behaviour. 9 Further studies...
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... A Study on the Factors Affecting the Failing Grades of 2nd year and 3rd year Tourism Students in the University of the East-Manila For S.Y 2011-2012 In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Tourism Research Method Tour 112 By: Honey Grace R. Gatasi July 2012 Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Being in school is one of the best opportunity that everyone could ever have, Studying in school serve as our training ground that develop and would mold students to become the person that students need to be but, the question is, How does the students today differs from the students of prior generations? Through the evolution of the technologies today, the students also evolve. And students are very lucky to have the technologies, at the age of information today there’s a lot of sources to use when there is homework and projects. And the technologies before is not yet empowered the students are really focus on the study. The students always spent time in studying. But today, because everything is in the power of students finger tips, The students can do everything in just one click, students can search everything in just one click and of course students can share everything in just one click. That’s why the students are very lucky because everything is just there, The students don’t need to go through in some difficulties to do school works, but the problem in some students today, Students abuses the opportunities they have...
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...Irregular College Students Background of the Study Academic performance really means three things: this means the ability to study and remember facts, it also means being able to think in relation to facts and thirdly, it further means being able to communicate one’s knowledge verbally or practically (www.google.com). A marching band is a company of instrumental musicians performing outdoors for the purpose of entertainment and sometimes in competition. Instrumentations typically include brass, woodwinds and percussion instruments (en.wikipedia.com). The marching band at Partido State University was one of the competing units among the marching bands. They joined military parades, concerts, street parades and many more. It means that joining in marching bands had a lot of trainings and practices to be done. In this regards the academic performance of the band members maybe sacrifice because of double priorities. In addition, the society may have different expectations of the performance of the band members according to their own perspectives. It was observed that there are band members who had incomplete or failing grades. It all depends on how they personally addressed problems as a student and as a band members who got failing grades and incomplete grades faced a consequence of termination as a band scholar. http://www.termpaperwarehouse.com/essay-on/Problems-Encountered-By-Irregular-College-Students/134394 Factors Affecting the Academic Performance of the Third Year...
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...FACTORS AFFECTING THE HOURS SPENT BY CBAA STUDENTS ON STUDYING REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE Success in school is not so much determined by sheer intelligence as knowing how to study. Studying is a skill. Being successful in school requires a high level of study skills. Students must first learn these skills, practice them and develop effective study habits in order to be successful. Very often the study habits and practices developed and used in high school do not work for students in college. Good study habits include many different skills: time management, self-discipline, concentration, memorization, organization, and effort. Desire to succeed is important, too( TermpaperWarehouse.com). College students have many obstacles to overcome in order to achieve their optimal academic performance. It takes a lot more than just studying to achieve a successful college career. Different stressors such as time management, financial problems, sleep deprivation, social activities, and for some students even having children, can all pose their own threat to a student’s academic performance as well as the hours they spend on studying (Womble, 2004). Study habits are the ways that students study- the habits that they have formed during their school years. Study habits can be good ones, or bad ones. Good study habits include being organized, keeping good notes, reading the textbook, listening in class, and working every day. Being organized means the student can easily access his or...
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...have no worth without students. Wenger (1999) stated that academic differences are the social changes that students encounter at higher education institutions. The author further mentioned that students live on their own for the first time, away from friends, family or other familiar support networks, it is during this time that as students a result, when students begin tertiary study, they they enter not just one but oftenon several new, and potentially contrasting communities within the higher education institutions. Students are the most essential assets for any educational institute (Mushtag & Khan, 2012). They enrol at a higher education institution with the objective of obtaining registered qualifications and successfully complete this qualification. Academic success is the objective at which all hHigher education institutions need to address should address (Samaniego-sanchez, Gonzales, Aparicio, Nebot, Aranda, Lopez-jurado and Llopis, 2011). Every Higher education institution envisage to should deliver good educationquality education for every student who enrols with the institution in order to in both under-graduates and post-graduates qualification to meet academic success. Bourne (2005) stated that mentioned that Hhigher education institutions offer educational systems with a variety of qualifications that students believe have provided students them with the training, skills and competencies e for a particular occupations. Students are expected to master...
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...nationality, or socio-economic class. For this reason, it is called “the equal opportunity destroyer,” for when left unresolved, stress can undermine all aspects of your life. (Seaward, 2006) Although it may seem that stress becomes a critical mass in your life once you leave home and get to college, the truth is that manifestations associated with stress started much earlier than college years. It is just that, the peak of the most stressful events in your life happens in college. College students, especially freshmen, are a group particularly prone to stress due to the transitional nature of college life. (Ross, 1999) As one shifts from the known towards the unknown, stressors of all sorts may be experienced by a typical college student. Pressures in college, as evidenced by academic deadlines, professional pursuits, financial matters, peer pressure, and relationships, never fail to make a student’s way to the real battlefield seem insurmountable. Stress is ubiquitous, and many students may require...
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...nationality, or socio-economic class. For this reason, it is called “the equal opportunity destroyer,” for when left unresolved, stress can undermine all aspects of your life. (Seaward, 2006) Although it may seem that stress becomes a critical mass in your life once you leave home and get to college, the truth is that manifestations associated with stress started much earlier than college years. It is just that, the peak of the most stressful events in your life happens in college. College students, especially freshmen, are a group particularly prone to stress due to the transitional nature of college life. (Ross, 1999) As one shifts from the known towards the unknown, stressors of all sorts may be experienced by a typical college student. Pressures in college, as evidenced by academic deadlines, professional pursuits, financial matters, peer pressure, and relationships, never fail to make a student’s way to the real battlefield seem insurmountable. Stress is ubiquitous, and many students may require support in developing...
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...Marital status and gender as predictors of undergraduate academic performance: a United Arab Emirates context Justin Thomas, Monique Raynor, Amal Al-Marzooqi Zayed University, UAE Introduction There is a considerable international body of literature exploring the predictors and determinants of undergraduate academic performance (Barrow et al., 2009; Betts & Morell, 1999; Cohn et al., 2004; Smith & Naylor, 2001). The predictor variables explored encompass a full biopsychosocial spectrum, from familial socio-economic status, to institutional class sizes. Two of the most immediately accessible factors for exploration are gender and marital status. While these proposed predictors of academic performance have been widely explored across many nations, relatively little work has been undertaken within the Gulf region (Harb & El-Shaarawi, 2007). It is likely that region-specific socio-cultural factors will affect how, and to what extent, gender and marital status influence academic performance. Given that many of the Gulf nations are presently attempting to develop knowledge based economies, such research may inform the development of undergraduate educational strategy and policy. The small body of research within the Gulf region focusing on gender and marital status is fairly unequivocal. Using either cumulative grade point averages (CGPA), or specific course grades as indicators of performance, virtually all of the published studies report females as outperforming males. Hedjazi and...
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