Download or read book Out of School Factors Affecting Academic Achievement Information Capsule written by Dale Romanik and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Information Capsule is the third in a series of papers addressing factors contributing to low academic achievement. The two previous papers addressed issues relevant to class size reduction and teacher quality/preparation. The premise of this Information Capsule is that there is no single smoking gun relative to improving school performance. Solving the challenges confronting education cannot be solved by one, two or even three reform strategies. Neither "fad" nor popular flavor of the month reform strategy will do the job. Rather, the case can be made that a comprehensive approach comparable to the War on Poverty of the 1960s or the present War on Terror is what is needed to make substantial headway in solving the economic, social, and familial problems reflected in today's public schools. The popular assumption is that bad schools are the most important reason for low achievement. To remedy the situation one need only address school outcomes by developing high standards, testing, and school accountability measures without addressing the underlying problematic "inputs." This paper will address what these inputs are and the dramatic impact they have on educating students. It goes without saying that improvements should be made in public schools; however, it is also clear that schools are not the sole problem. Public schools are mirrors reflecting the sociocultural, economic, and political problems existing in the neighborhoods and communities in which they are located. Schools do not cause the achievement gap. The gap between high and low income children exists far before formal education begins. Schools are forced to play catchup and generally diminish the inequalities produced by the out-of-school factors discussed in this Information Capsule. Unfortunately, long standing generational inequalities are not easily remedied or eliminated.
Download or read book The Effect of Poverty on Student Achievement Information Capsule written by Christie Blazer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a strong relationship between students' socioeconomic status and their levels of academic achievement. Although educators should be held accountable for improving the performance of all students, including those living in poverty, schools alone can't eliminate the negative factors associated with poverty that lead to a large achievement gap between low income students and their more affluent peers. Factors that have a negative effect on poor students' achievement but are beyond schools' control include a higher incidence of prenatal adversity, illness and injury, exposure to pollutants, nutritional problems, residential mobility, and a lack of educational activities and materials in the home. This Information Capsule reviews studies conducted on the relationship between poverty and student achievement, including the effects of both individual poverty and school poverty concentration on academic performance. Research indicates that low income students tend to have significantly lower levels of academic achievement than their more affluent peers. The number of disadvantaged students attending a school also affects student performance: students at all income levels have been found to have lower levels of achievement when they attend schools with high poverty concentrations. Data collected within Miami-Dade County Public Schools confirmed that as poverty concentrations in the District's schools increase, academic performance declines. Finally, strategies to help schools raise low income students' achievement levels are summarized.
Download or read book Factors Affecting Academic Performance written by Julio Antonio González-Pienda and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays, society is constantly changing, and new ways of life are being developed by due to nonstop technological advancements. This generates changes in family, schools, the media, etc. New technologies are creating virtual environments to manage learning and academic achievement, and this is a new challenge to approach formal and informal education. In the last few decades, teachers, families, and educational administrators had very well-defined fields of action and roles to play. Now, these roles are disfigured, and influences from all agents are arguable and more difficult to face. At this current stage, problems sometimes appear that require different forms of intervention. Some of the problems are violence towards people; child abuse; drug abuse at increasingly early ages; integration problems due to immigration; dropping out of school; and typical problems related to student development, personality, disabilities, social and psychical maladjustment, teenagers socioaffective relationships, etc. Research on school success and failure has a long history, but there is still no agreement concerning the prevalence of these variables to explain academic achievement, the relationship between those variables, and which other variables modulate their level of impact. For many years, cognitive psychology has emphasized cognitive function as the most relevant for learning in school. However, recent studies highlight the importance of motivational and affective functions in building consistent models to explain learning and academic achievement. This change of perspective, from the classical cognitive model to a self-regulated learning model, has implied a new orientation in the research of the factors involved in school success and failure. Self-regulated learning models try to integrate students cognitive, socioaffective, and behavioral aspects. These models describe the different components involved in successful learning at all school stages, explaining reciprocal relationships between those components and directly relating learning to personal achievement, motivation, volition, and emotions. With this new paradigm, students not only contribute to strengthening their intelligence, but also their motivational and emotional qualities, all related to achieving personal balance. This book presents studies, ideas, and recommendations to shed light on the complex educational world. Education has limits and difficulties, but it is also the only instrument that can develop students potential into personal success.
Download or read book Academic Performance written by Carly H. Gallagher and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic performance is determined by several factors. The aim of the first paper in this book is to describe the relationship between the goals of adolescents, their everyday life and the influence these factors have on academic achievement. Chapter two focuses on a longitudinal investigation of students' well-being experiences within the framework of motivational beliefs. Chapter three aims to analyse differences in academic self-attributions and learning strategies between aggressive and nonaggressive Spanish adolescents, and to identify the predictive role of self-attributions and learning strategies in academic promotion of aggressive Spanish adolescents. Chapter four analyses a simulation software and sensitivity analysis for future student academic performance. Chapter five establishes how personal self-regulation and different contexts of stress produce differences in the coping strategies used by students, whether university students or graduates who are preparing for competitive exams. Chapter six provides a model with the main variables that can predict, with a certain degree of accuracy, school achievement and success, in order to put forward interventions and counseling to prevent students from dropping-out of health professions degree courses. Chapter seven critically reviews the different assessments and processes used within medical training and considers the affective implications for students, educators and eventually patients. Chapter eight addresses the teaching of physiology in different continents, and particularly, that of laboratories, and discusses a historical review of medicine in Mexico as well as the birth of Physiology in our country. Chapter nine analyses student performance on the Grade 8 Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) Mathematics exam for students in two Texas school districts to determine the extent to which differences were present as a function of Saxon Math instruction. The final chapter examines school district size and its impact on black student performance.
Download or read book Factors Affecting Students Academic Achievement and Experiences written by Sarah Iman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Factors Affecting Academic Achievement written by Dhanabati Devi Ningombam and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book, Factors Affecting Academic Achievement provides review of literature of the various factors influencing academic achievement. This is supplemented by a study on academic achievement's relation with physical and mental health in twelve standard students. The book will be useful for parents, counselors, students and scholars in Education and Educational Psychology. Besides, policy makers will also find it useful.
Download or read book Factors Influencing the Academic Achievement of Nontraditional College Students written by Christopher Eustace Fernando and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Non academic Factors Influencing Academic Achievement a Study of Twenty eight Graduate Students at Columbia University written by George T. Harper and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Socioeconomic Status Out of school Time and Schools written by Francis Howard L. Huang and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Affects of In school and Out of school Factors in the Motivation Achievement and Behavior of Urban Students written by Deborah M. Clarke-Daniels and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By surveying high school teenagers in an urban charter school about their motivations, distractions, life experiences, family life and attitudes about school, we can begin to see how much "out of school" factors, as well as "in school" factors affect the success of a student. This study shows that a combination of in school and out of school factors contribute to motivation, behavior and attendance,"--Abstract.
Download or read book Improving Academic Achievement written by Joshua Aronson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Examination of the Factors Affecting Academic Achievement and Motivation of Culturally Disadvantaged Youth written by Frank V. Bonsignore and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Students Beliefs about Their Intelligence Influence Their Academic Performance Information Capsule written by Christie Blazer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students' academic success may be influenced not only by their actual ability, but also by their beliefs about their intelligence. Studies have found that students enter a classroom with one of two distinct conceptions of their intellectual ability: some students believe their intelligence is expandable (growth mindset), while others believe their intelligence is a fixed trait (fixed mindset). A review of the research suggests that students with growth mindsets outperform their classmates who hold fixed mindsets. In addition, the adoption of a growth mindset may decrease or even close achievement gaps. This Information Capsule also summarizes strategies that teachers can use to foster growth mindsets. For example, studies indicate that teachers should emphasize effort and progress over final outcomes; encourage in-depth learning; and praise students for their effort, not for their intellect.
Download or read book A Study of Factors Related to Academic Achievement in the Public Schools written by Connecticut Citizens for the Public Schools and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health and Academic Achievement written by Blandina Bernal-Morales and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional, physical and social well-being describe human health from birth. Good health goes hand in hand with the ability to handle stress for the future. However, biological factors such as diet, life experiences such as drug abuse, bullying, burnout and social factors such as family and community support at the school stage tend to mold health problems, affecting academic achievements. This book is a compilation of current scientific information about the challenges that students, families and teachers face regarding health and academic achievements. Contributions also relate to how physical activity, psychosocial support and other interventions can be made to understand resilience and vulnerability to school desertion. This book will be of interest to readers from broad professional fields, non-specialist readers, and those involved in education policy.
Download or read book THE IN SCHOOL FACTORS AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENT written by TOMMY LEE JONES and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
