than ever before. Single parents face difficult challenges‚ and single parents who are also college students have additional stresses and demands to deal with. In fact‚ an international study conducted shows that juggling between study and raising a child has an enormous impact to the persistence of single mothers in attending college. The study revealed that single parent mothers‚ especially those who are currently in poverty‚ find it difficult to even enroll in college plus the psychological struggles
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DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS Submitted by: Cayleen C. Capco BSIT- 1IT4 CHAPTER I IN TRODUCTION A. NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY In educational institutions‚ success is measured by academic performance‚ or how well a student meets standards set out by local government and the institution itself. As career competition grows even fiercer in the working world‚ the importance of students doing well in school has caught
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Involvement affect Children’s Academic Performance? Rebecca Deutscher‚ Ph.D. and Mary Ibe‚ M.A. Lewis Center for Educational Research‚ Apple Valley‚ California Abstract This project examined the role that parent involvement has on children’s academic performance. Various types of parent involvement were assessed‚ including volunteering‚ home involvement‚ attending parent classes‚ school political involvement‚ talking to staff‚ talking to teachers‚ etc. Academic performance was measured by STAR test
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their groups‚ they are motivated to behave in accordance with the wishes of the group and in ways which would make them accepted‚ this motivation is attributes to peer group influence. In school the peer group maybe a dominant factor to consider in academic achievement. Acceptance by the group depends on conformity. Most education takes place in group situations the group’s impacts and influence on its members is so strong that it takes the group as a whole to support the learning process. A peer
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country where the nature of children’s work changed so dramatically that child labour became seen as a social problem and a political issue. Often families were very large and therefore the parents could not support all their children. Child labour is a harmful process. Underage children are forced to work for a very long hour and in terrible conditions. Source A is an extract from the Parliamentary Inquiry into the “State of Child Labor in Manufacturing in the United Kingdom”‚ 1816. In this source‚
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Effect of PowerPoint Presentation in the Academic Achievement of the Senior Students of Madapdap Rest. High School in Physics In partial fulfilment of the requirement for the subject Elective 2 Current Trends and Researches in Science Teaching Submitted by: Jeffrey R. Yumang MAEd-General Science Submitted to: Dr. Jacqueline V. Bagunu Acknowledgement Foremost‚ I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to our Professor Dr. Jacqueline V. Bagunu for her patience‚ motivation‚ enthusiasm
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Former President Charles Taylor of Liberia abducted countless child soldiers during his fight for the presidency in a tumultuous civil war that lasted fourteen years. Taylor was known to be one of the first warlords to recruit young children into a life of soldiering‚ often requiring them to perform horrific acts upon innocent people. Child soldiers are a major issue in Africa; over six of its countries regularly use child soldiers. Child soldiers go through many struggles most cannot even fathom.
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Statement of the Problem The study aimed to find out the influences of computer games to the academic performance of second year college students at Bataan Peninsula State University Dinalupihan Campus during the Academic Year 2012- 2013. Specifically‚ it sought to answer the following questions: 1. How may the profile of the students be described in terms of their: 2.1 age and 2.2 gender 2.3 economic status 2. What are the factors that encourage the
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Child abuse is a serious and widespread problem throughout the world. It can take the form of sexual abuse‚ physical or psychological mistreatment ‚ or child neglect. What are some of the main causes for child abuse or neglect? Can child abuse be prevented? What can be done within the community or the child welfare system to prevent or control child abuse? Once discovered‚ child abuse can be addressed‚ but who should be reporting child maltreatment‚ and what are the legal requirements for reporting
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Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND This chapter presents the problem and its background‚ the statement of the problem‚ the assumption‚ and the definition of terms that will be helpful to the readers. Those who have not taken the time to learn about computers often do not even know what to do once one has been turned on‚ and this problem should be corrected. That is why all high schools must make a computer literacy course a requirement for graduation. Although a computer course would take
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