TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING STUDENT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SOUTH AFRICA: A PILOT STUDY OF GRADE 6 MATHEMATICS LESSONS IN GAUTENG PROVINCE A REPORT PREPARED BY THE HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL (HSRC) WITH STANFORD UNIVERSITY (IN PARTNERSHIP WITH A CONSORTIUM OF SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES AND JET Education Services) 24 APRIL 2008 Table of Contents Research Team, ii List of Tables, iii List of Boxes, iii List of Figures, iv List of Abbreviations, v Note on Terminology, vi INTRODUCTION, 1
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LEARNING STYLES AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE GRADE 10 STUDENTS IN THE TLE SUBJECTS ENROLLED IN TAMPILISAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SY: 2015-2016 JESTONIE C. GABOTERO JUNCER M. HAMOY ROXY MAE j. LENDIO A Thesis Proposal Presented to the Faculty of the College of Agriculture & Tech Jose Rizal Memorial State University – Tampilisan Campus Znac, Tampilisan, Zamboanga del Norte In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
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including cyber environment that maximizes staff and student safety * supporting staff wellbeing. Good facilities appear to be an important precondition for student learning, provided that other conditions are present that support a strong academic program in the school. A growing body of research has linked student achievement and behavior to the physical building conditions and overcrowding. Physical Building Conditions Decaying environmental conditions such as peeling paint, crumbling
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devastating student‟s academic performance. Family is the primary socializing agent which moulds the child in society. Therefore, the study was conducted to know the effects of family structure on academic performance of the students at elementary level in district Karak. The main Journal of Sociological Research ISSN 1948-5468 2012, Vol. 3, No.2 www.macrothink.org/jsr 235 objectives of the study were: (a) to explore the effects of family structure on the academic performance of the students at elementary
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to the Academic Performance of Students in the Statistics Course in Psychology ` ´ JOAN GUARDIA∗ , MONTSERRAT FREIXA, MARIBEL PERO, JAUME TURBANY, ANTONIO COSCULLUELA, MAITE BARRIOS ` and XAVIER RIFA Dept. de Metodologia de les Ci` ncies del Comportament, Facultat de Psicologia, Divisi´ de e o Ci` ncies de la Salut (IV), Universitat de Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d’Hebron, 171, 08035 e Barcelona, Spain Abstract. Many studies have examined the factors that influence academic performance in primary
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“Factors Affecting the Academic Performance of Students” Paulo Angelo Dela Rosa Mary Joy Cantilla James Cañete Ansarie Datua Bonnie Fe Bangero Beverly Acana Introduction Education in its broadest meaning is any process by which an individual gains knowledge or insight or develops attitudes or skills. It is an experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberately transmits
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2.3 Ways of Improving the Performance of English and Literature among Students in Secondary Schools For a long time, motivation is generally involved with English as foreign language teachers and researchers have been attempting to sustain students’ motivation in learning English by knowing their English learning motivation types and factors which influence their supporting motivation in the long process of English and literature learning is still in requirement of investigation (Lei, 2012). If
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classification or evaluations have been made in a previous class exercise some students may easily remember the answers and, in such a case, a thought question for one student becomes a memory question for another. (Monroe, 1923) Hence, the academic performance of a student mostly depend on his/her evaluation in exam. Students excel on either one of the two types or both. But oftentimes, examinees encounter problems in answering either one of the said types. Competitive/ Objectives exams are very
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students who tries their best to study well but their time are not spent wisely. According to Maxwell Scientific Organization (2012), it has been realized that the students who possess adequate mental abilities sometimes do not perform well in their academic work either because they do not use the most effective method of studying. Students do not read their books. Many of the students complained lack of time and conducive environments, some of them are trying their best to study hard but the sad
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students do not learn what they are supposed to in schools. One, Filipino eighth-graders performed dismally on international tests given in 1999, ranking 36th of 38 countries in math and science tests (Table 1). Table 1. Nearly last in student performance on mathematics and science tests: Ranking among 38 countries Mathematics score & Science score & rank rank Singapore 604 (1) 568 (2) Korea 587 (2) 549 (5) Taiwan 585 (3) 569 (1) Hong Kong 582 (4) 530 (15) Japan 579 (5) 550 (4) Malaysia 519 (16)
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