Some parents are at their children’s back daily pushing them to excel academically. Nothing less than As would please them. Parental pressures to pursue academic success have both positive and negative effects on their children. Some children need parental pressure to study. They have not realised the value of academic achievements. This is especially true for children who are late bloomers. Still carefree about life‚ they prefer to indulge in their favourite sports‚ television programmer and other
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Australian Council for Educational Research ACEReSearch LSAY Research Reports Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) 3-1-1999 The effects of part-time work on school students Lyn Robinson ACER Follow this and additional works at: http://research.acer.edu.au/lsay_research Part of the Educational Assessment‚ Evaluation‚ and Research Commons Recommended Citation Robinson‚ Lyn‚ "The effects of part-time work on school students" (1999). LSAY Research Reports. Longitudinal surveys
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Throughout many years technology has been through a very speedy improvement and innovation stage and internet is one of the mostly improved products of technology. Use of internet has been increased by an enormous amount and its use depends on the demand of the user. Commercial use of internet includes many different areas and by the use of internet several vital programmes have been developed to aid businesses and make tasks easier‚ files easily and quickly accessible. Peer to peer computing can easily
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Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this research is to explore the impact of internet usage on student’s academic performance so that universities will take effective measures and invest in IT and encouraged students to use internet. Design/methodology/approach – Exploratory studies method is adopted for the entire research. My research project is concerned with Field Study. Data were collected from six universities students from which five are top ranked specified university and one is general
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CHAPTER I Introduction The extent of student’s learning in academics may be determined by the grades a student earns for a period of learning has been done. It is believed that a grade is a primary indicator of such learning. If a learner earns high grades it is concluded that they may also have learned a lot while low grades indicate lesser learning. However‚ many experiences and studies found out that there are also several factors that would account for the grades. No single factor can be definitely
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Unfortunately‚ students’ performance in secondary school has not been very encouraging as consistently highlighted by the moderators and chief Examiners reports and WAEC and NECO business studies results for past decade. This problem of poor performance is apparently assuming a dimension that could affect the entire economy situation in the country. However‚ effort has been made in this paper to assess the influence of teachers and learners relationship on academic performance‚ also solutions has also
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Social Media’s Negative Effect on Academic Performance Researchers with the Miriam Hospital’s Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine say social media has a negative impact on academic performance of freshmen students‚ the Science Daily reported. Researchers show a link between social media and academic performance among the freshmen in a study‚ which is the first of its kind. The study looked at students engaged in any form of media use including texting‚ music‚ the Internet and social
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There were many social‚political and economical factors that came from the second industrial revolution. Many of these factors that became or helped shape the second industrial revolution include things such as inventions monopolies immigration and the formation of labor unions and politics of the gilded age. The second industrial revolution brought us many inventions that helped shape america and make it what it is today. Some of the inventions that came from the industrial revolution in fact turned
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as implications and recommendations for future research to add to the research already completed on the relationship between fitness and academic performance. There are a surplus of circumstances that influence academic performance‚ some which are indefinable. More research is needed on the relationship between aerobic fitness and academic achievement performance among other factors due to the increasing number of children suffering from being overweight or obese (Hall‚ 2007). The purpose of this
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The Second World War greatly impacted the lives and everyday roles of Australian women from 1939 onwards. Women’s roles changed greatly and this had an impact on how society saw women in the workforce. During the war‚ women were encouraged to get a job as this was considered joining in on the war effort. Women were able to fill positions they had not been allowed to apply for‚ as they were previously thought to be male jobs. During the war‚ there was a major increase the amount of women in the workforce
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