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Gul, Showkeen Bilal Ahmad – Online Submission, 2015
The study examined the impact of socio-emotional adjustment on academic achievement of adolescent girls of Jammu and Kashmir. The purpose of the investigation was to study the relationship and effect of socio-emotional adjustment on academic achievement among adolescent girls. The descriptive survey research method was used for the study and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Emotional Adjustment, Social Adjustment
Maadikhah, Elham; Erfani, Nasrollah – Online Submission, 2014
Learned helplessness as a negative motivational state can latently underlie repeated failures and create negative feelings toward the education as well as depression in students and other members of a society. The purpose of this paper is to predict learned helplessness based on students' personality traits. The research is a predictive…
Descriptors: Helplessness, Motivation, Personality Traits, Predictor Variables
Fazeli, Seyed Hossein – Online Submission, 2012
The present study aims to find out the relationship between use of the Metacognitive English Language Learning Strategies (MELLSs) for learners of English as a foreign language based on personality traits, and the role of personality traits in the prediction of use of such Strategies. Four instruments were used, which were Adapted Inventory for…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Personality Traits, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Fazeli, Seyed Hossein – Online Submission, 2012
The present study aims to find out the role of personality traits in the prediction use of the Social English Language Learning Strategies (SELLSs) for learners of English as a foreign language. Four instruments were used, which were Adapted Inventory for Social English Language Learning Strategies based on Social category of Strategy Inventory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Personality Traits, Learning Strategies
Seadatee-Shamir, Abootaleb; Soleimanian, AliAkbar; Zahmatkesh, Zeinab; Mahdian, Hossein – Online Submission, 2011
The relationship among WMC (working memory capacity), reading performance and academic achievement is both logically and theoretically undisputable. However, what may not be as obvious is that such capacity and performance, and as a result, achievement, could be higher among ECBL (early childhood bilingual) students. To reaffirm the obvious and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Short Term Memory, Reading Achievement, Bilingualism
Sabates, Ricardo; Westbrook, Jo; Hernandez-Fernandez, Jimena – Online Submission, 2011
This research focuses on the importance of increasing women's education as a result of Universal Primary Education and its further impact on improving children's health and educational access in Tanzania. The study uses data from the 2007 Demographic Health Survey for empirical analysis and it is informed by the historical accounts of the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Access to Education, Females, Educational Change
Simsek, Ali – Online Submission, 2011
This study examined the relationship between computer anxiety and computer self-efficacy of students and teachers in elementary and secondary schools. The sample included a total of 845 subjects from two private school systems in Turkey. The Oetting's Computer Anxiety Scale was used to measure computer anxiety whereas the Murphy's Computer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Attitudes, Correlation
Micceri, Theodore – Online Submission, 2010
This study sought to determine whether the use of standardized test scores contributes any useful information regarding First Time in College (FTIC) students' probable success at USF, using more detailed analysis of underrepresented minorities and women, who Micceri (2009) shows, experience substantial negative bias relative to males and whites on…
Descriptors: Class Rank, Grade Point Average, Females, Males
Howell-Carter, Marya, Ed.; Gonder, Jennifer, Ed.; Mushtaq, Zahra, Ed. – Online Submission, 2012
Included herein is the conference proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology: Ideas and Innovations, sponsored by the Psychology Department of the State University of New York at Farmingdale. The conference theme for 2012 was: The value of an undergraduate degree in psychology: Why psychology--Why now?. The Conference…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Psychology, Bachelors Degrees, Majors (Students)
Al-Yami, Salwa Ahmed – Online Submission, 2008
The present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of scaffolding interactive activities in developing the English listening comprehension skills of sixth grade elementary schoolgirls in Jeddah. The subjects in this study were 50 sixth grade pupils at an elementary school in Jeddah. They were assigned to two groups--control and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Experimental Groups, Control Groups
Bachman, Jerald G.; Freedman-Doan, Peter; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Schulenberg, John E.; Johnston, Lloyd D.; Messersmith, Emily E. – Online Submission, 2007
The Education-Drug Use Connection focused primarily on a nationwide sample of adolescents, first surveyed when they were nearing the end of 8th grade in the years 1991, 1992, and 1993, and followed biennially for eight years thereafter. (Full details on samples and methods are provided in Bachman et al., 2008, and are not repeated here.) The…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Race, Females, Drug Abuse
Goodman, Irene F. – Online Submission, 2002
The Women's Experiences in College Engineering (WECE) project is the first cross-institutional, longitudinal examination of undergraduate women's experiences and persistence in engineering majors. The study was funded by both the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and conducted by Goodman Research Group, Inc. (GRG), a…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Program Evaluation, Women Scientists, Engineering
Goodman, Irene F. – Online Submission, 2002
The Women's Experiences in College Engineering (WECE) project is the first cross-institutional, longitudinal examination of undergraduate women's experiences and persistence in engineering majors. The study was funded by both the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and conducted by Goodman Research Group, Inc. (GRG), a…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Program Evaluation, Women Scientists, Academic Persistence