Achievement

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Effects of a cognitive acceleration programme on Year 1 pupils.

BACKGROUND: Cognitive Acceleration has shown evidence of long-term far transfer with young adolescents. This paper reports a new application of the principle to 5- and 6-year-olds in a disadvantaged inner city area. AIMS: To investigate the effect of a ...
Philip Adey, Anne Robertson, Grady Venville (Br J Educ Psychol, 200203)
effects-cognitive-acceleration-programme-year-pupils.asp

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Creating a scale to measure motivation to achieve academically: linking attitudes and behaviours using Rasch measurement.

BACKGROUND: Motivation to Achieve Academically has been used in many educational and other studies in many countries and the large majority has not used an interval level scale based on a good theoretical model in which the items are linked to behaviour. ...
Russell F Waugh (Br J Educ Psychol, 200203)
creating-scale-measure-motivation-achieve-academically-linking.asp

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Correlation of admission criteria with dental school performance and attrition.

This study was conducted to provide current information on the relationship between admission criteria and dental school performance, including the association of admission criteria and dental school outcomes such as remediation and attrition. Standard ...
Pamela L Sandow, Anne C Jones, Chuck W Peek, Frank J Courts, Ronald E Watson (J Dent Educ, 200203)
correlation-admission-criteria-dental-school-performance-attrition.asp

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Achievement goals, perceived motivational climate, and students self-reported mastery behaviors.

Achievement goals and perceived motivational climate are two important constructs in achievement goal theory, and they play critical roles in student motivation and behavior Traditionally, these two constructs have been examined separately. The present ...
Ping Xiang, Amelia Lee (Res Q Exerc Sport, 200203)
achievement-goals-perceived-motivational-climate-students-self.asp

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Self-esteem of adolescents who were born prematurely.

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether there are any differences between the self-esteem of a cohort of adolescents who were extremely low birth weight (ELBW) in comparison with term controls (Cs); and to test the associations between self-esteem and several ...
Saroj Saigal, Michael Lambert, Chad Russ, Lorraine Hoult (Pediatrics, 200203)
self-esteem-adolescents-who-born-prematurely.asp

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Relationship among achievement goal orientations and multidimensional situational motivation in physical education.

BACKGROUND: Contemporary research suggests that task and ego achievement goal orientations affect students intrinsic motivation in physical education. This research has assessed intrinsic motivation as a unidimensional contruct, however, which is ...
Martyn Standage, Darren C Treasure (Br J Educ Psychol, 200203)
relationship-achievement-goal-orientations-multidimensional.asp

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Association of sleep and academic performance.

Poor school performance by adolescent students has been attributed in part to insufficient sleep. It is recognized that a number of factors lead to diminished total sleep time and chief among these are early school start times and sleep phase delay in ...
Arne Eliasson, Anders Eliasson, Joseph King, Ben Gould, Arn Eliasson (Sleep Breath, 200203)
association-sleep-academic-performance.asp

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Factor and subtest discrepancies on the differential ability scales: examining prevalence and validity in predicting academic achievement.

Past literature has largely ignored the population frequency of multivariate factor and subtest score discrepancies. Another limitation has been that statistical models imperfectly model the clinical assessment process, whereby significant discrepancies ...
Shoshana Y Kahana, Eric A Youngstrom, Joseph J Glutting (Assessment, 200203)
factor-subtest-discrepancies-differential-ability-scales-examining.asp

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Occupational dreams, choices and aspirations: adolescents entrepreneurial prospects and orientations.

The present study examined possible early antecedents of entrepreneurship of 14-17-year-old 10th grade students (n=320). We hypothesized that Entrepreneurial Orientation (interest and self-efficacy), together with Willingness to Expend Effort, would be ...
Eva Schmitt-Rodermund, Fred W Vondracek (J Adolesc, 200202)
occupational-dreams-choices-aspirations-adolescents-entrepreneurial.asp

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Is past academic productivity predictive of radiology resident academic productivity?

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: The authors performed this study to determine whether academic productivity in college and medical school is predictive of the number of publications produced during radiology residency. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The authors ...
Stephanie K Patterson, James T Fitzgerald, Tedric D Boyse, Richard H Cohan (Acad Radiol, 200202)
past-academic-productivity-predictive-radiology-resident-academic.asp