1. Background Academic performance is the priority to students as well as the teachers in any school system. Some of the socio-cultural factors which affect the students achievement are parents’ educational status (M. Khata‚et al. 2011). Parent educational status is used as an indicator of Socio Economic Status (SES) to reflect the potential for social and economic resources such as household incomes that are available to students because it tends to remain the same over time ( Sirin 2005). Moreover
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LEARNING STYLES AND STUDY HABITS: TEACHING STUDENTS TO TAKE CONTROL OF THEIR OWN LEARNING Learning Styles and Study Habits: Teaching Students to Take Control of their Own Learning Stacey M. Meyer LEARNING STYLES AND STUDY HABITS 2 Abstract In this study I examined the potential for using learning styles inventory data to help Advanced Placement Environmental Science students work to their strengths and study more effectively. Researchers in previous studies found that when students
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CHAPTER I I. Introduction A. A Background of the Study Students usually become aware of study skills when their learning habits are limiting their potential‚ don’t suit their personalities‚ or the causing significant levels of anxiety before exams. Skills or study strategies are approaches that are applied to learning. As human beings we are constantly in one learning process after the other. And it is therefore important that we understand that what might work for us doesn’t necessarily
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY It is a positive statement when one says that man of modern society is so advanced in education‚ both in the science and in technology‚ but won’t mind nor think about what steps he could make or trace what good he could do for his fellowmen. He does not live in terms of attitudes acceptable in the society where he lives. A man today is more conscious of his own personal upliftment‚ keeps innocent of knowing his worth which would be undeniably
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and a yardstick for measuring academic progress. It is also through reading that educational objectives can be accomplished. Above all‚ reading is related to other language skills. Bright and McGregor (1971:3) describe it as the “core of the English language syllabus” by explaining that the acquisition of the large vocabulary needed for clear and accurate oral and written expression depends to a large extent on reading. It is a gateway to academic success. That is the reason its
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction---------------------------------------------------------------------2 Gender Inequality--------------------------------------------------------------3 Types of Gender Inequality--------------------------------------------------4 Facts About Gender Inequlaity---------------------------------------------8 Gender Equality---------------------------------------------------------------10 Conclusion----------------------------------------------------------------------11
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HELPING STUDENTS DEVELOP GOOD STUDY HABITS Copyright 2005 williamgladdenfoundation.org ISBN # 1-56456-044-9 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be sold‚ by any process or technique‚ without the express consent of the publisher. INTRODUCTION America has come to realize that its national educational system is not reaching enough of its students. Basic skills at the primary levels of school have decreased‚ as have the standard test scores of high school graduates
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Academic Performance of a Working Student Factors Affecting Part Time University Students By Jagg Xaxx‚ eHow Contributor • • • • Print this article Related Searches: • Students at Risk • Gifted Math Students 1. o [pic]Part time students face special challenges. Students who attend university part time face challenges and benefits that are different than full-time students. According to Salme Harju Steinberg‚ president emeritus of Northeastern Illinois
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Effect of Nutrition on Academic Performance RGS6035.E2 - Chapter 1 Kurt Cornett Amberton University Effect of Nutrition on Academic Performance Every year millions of tax dollars are spent on school nutrition programs all over the United States. Legislators across the nation lobby for coordinated school health programs and place increasing emphasis on student nutrition. Television commercials remind kids to eat a balanced diet and food products aimed
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Manana Habit‚ A Curse? “Manana” habit‚ is a habit wherein people tend to delay certain tasks on a later date (Pepoa‚ 2010). Until now‚ “manana” habit is still common among us Filipinos and it affects us in both positive and negative ways. How did this manana habit get into the Philippines? This habit that is most common to us Filipinos came from the Spaniards who colonized our country many years ago (Maxxwell‚ 2009). It was a habit commonly seen in the Spaniards before and we Filipinos
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