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
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THE EFFECTS OF computer games on the academic performance Introduction The term computer game is in sharp competition with video games, console games, and arcade games. Video games and console games usually mean gamesconnected to a TV, whereas arcade games means games placed in public spaces.Computer games on the other hand, are occasionally used to mean games played on apersonal computer. However, since all of these areas have been developed inclose parallel and because all of these games are
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depression has been affecting the United States. Unfortunately, depression on college campuses is not uncommon, even during present times. This can mainly be attributed to a university being more focused on a saving a life, and not helping those who are struggling with mental illness. Several decades ago, depression was an epidemic that affected immeasurable amount of college students. Although, depression on college campuses has reduced, it still affects over half the student population. Even though
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about study habits was that more than thirty years ago still rings true today-students fail because they do not know how to study. The best advice he can give is to develop sound study skills. Education is not merely about studying, hence in fact that the study habits directly reflects one’s self-learning ability and the lecturer’s effectiveness therefore it is significant to comprehend or find out the habits of students in able to effectively adjust one thus improve to the furthest effective learning
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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
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Study Habits in the Academic Performance of First Year Bachelor of Elementary Education students at Western Visayas College of Science and Technology during first semester, Academic Year 2014-2015. Specifically, this study will seek answer to the following questions: 1. What is the profile of respondents when grouped according to sex, income of the parents, birth order, library use, and place of residence while in school? 2. What are the study habits of first year students as a whole or grouped
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Stress Affect Learning A student’s academic success in school is typically measured based on their individual progress in the classroom. Educators sometimes make the mistake of assuming a student’s achievements coincide with their effort, desire, and ability to learn the required material. These classifications seem simple to us, yet they are much more complex than that. The success or failure of students in school can be directly affected by various factors, which include but are not limited to
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INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING AND READING HABIT ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATES EKWERIKE ONYEDIKA 090651012 LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY, OJO (JULY, 2012) ABSTRACT This paper discusses in details the Research proposal on the influence of social networking and reading habits among university undergraduates. In particular the research will focus on the question “does social networking and reading habits affects the academic performance of university undergraduates? If it does is the
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The Effects of Employment on Academic Performance of Australian Accounting Students Dr Anura De Zoysa School of Accounting and Finance University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW 2500 Australia Tel: 61 2 42215382 Fax: 61 2 42214297 E-mail: anura@uow.edu.au And Dr Kathy Rudkin School of Accounting and Finance University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW 2500 Australia Tel: 61 2 42213148 Fax: 61 2 42214297 E-mail: krudkin@uow.edu.au The Effects
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Research Journal, VOLUME – V, ISSUE – 2, 2013, ISSN 2094 - 1749 FACTORS INFLUENCING THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN PHYSICS OF DMMMSU- MLUC LABORATORY HIGH SCHOOL FOURTH YEAR STUDENTS S.Y. 2011-2012 Noemi Mangaoang-Boado noemi2569@yahoo.com Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University Mid La Union Campus San Fernando City, 2500 La Union, Philippines ABSTRACT This study focused on the investigation on the predictors of the academic performance in Physics of Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University Mid
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