EFFECTS OF ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE MATTHEW E. KOPFLER DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY LOYOLA UNIVERSITY Sponsored by: MUKUL BHALLA (bhalla@loyno.edu) [pic] ABSTRACT This study was conducted to discover whether or not there is an association between academic performance and involvement in a romantic relationship amongst undergraduate college students. The variables looked at were dating status (single or involved)‚ level of involvement in the relationship‚ and grade point average
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Tips for Your First Year as a Nurse First Year Nursing By RSS Takeaways Everyone was once in your shoes! It is normal to feel overwhelmed as a new nurse. Organization is the key to becoming a successful RN. When I first got out of nursing school and was hired as a Medical-Surgical RN in a local hospital I began searching to find tips that might help me make the transition from student nurse to RN. I wanted a list of specific things I could do to help me learn to care for a greater patient
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THE EFFECTS OF FAMILY BACKGROUND ON CHILDREN’S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study In African society‚ education is important and highly valued. Through education children learn specific skills‚ such as literacy and quantitative abilities‚ that aid in their development into functional adults. Furthermore‚ adequately acquiring these skills during childhood and adolescence can lead to a successful future as adults. Strong reading and mathematics skills are essential
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AND REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE INTRODUCTION When students earn a below average grade on examinations or a report card‚ it does not necessarily mean that they did not study hard enough. There are many intelligent children who do not perform well in school‚ not because they cannot comprehend classroom lessons‚ but because of external factors that affect their academic success. Many factors have been identified to influence academic performance whether positively or negatively. One of these factors
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social networking sites and the effect it has on the way students process and retain information‚ as well as how distracting it can be. However‚ social networking sites offer plenty of opportunities for learning and interactivity‚ and if you take a moment to think about it‚ it’s not too hard to see how students benefit from using social media. As younger generations use such technology in the classroom‚ they remake the educational landscape. Students are experiencing the world through more than just books
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Effects on Academic Performance Emily M. Gonsalves Butte College Abstract This experiment was conducted in order to determine the effects sleep deprivation has on academic performance among college students. I chose 1‚580 students from Chico State along with 1‚387 students from San Diego State aged 17-22 and GPAs ranging from 2.0-4.0. The students were tested on various information during 24 hours of wakefulness in order to determine how lack of sleep effected their performance. Self-reported
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their major clientele (students) for admission into their different programmes. It‚ therefore‚ presupposes that the provision of qualitative education is the sine qua non for the attainment of the goals of secondary education. Nevertheless‚ the main objectives of the secondary education in Nigeria as contained in the National Policy of Education are as follows: 1. To develop the personal capacity of individuals 2. To prepare pupils for the world of work and 3. To prepare students for the next stage of
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REFLECTIVE JOURNAL As a second year nursing student I felt mixed emotions of excitement and anxiety when I was thinking about my upcoming clinical placement because even though I have been working as a patient care assistant at Royal Darwin Hospital for a year and had already undergone clinical teaching block for one week . The responsibility of being a nurse is big and much complex than my current job [1.2 Fulfils the duty of care] especially when handling assigned patients. Thus‚ need to have
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happening everywhere‚ especially in university academic writing. Whether the student plagiarizes consciously or unconsciously‚ both are forms of academic dishonesty. While people after discuss whose fault it is‚ when a student plagiarized it becomes a controversial issue. In “The Shadow Scholar” Ed Dante argues that the cause of plagiarism is the college’s academic system. However‚ some people would argue that the problem should be focused on students. In my opinion‚ Dante’s argument has some good
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effect on learning Stress‚ particularly family related stress can have an impact on a student’s academic performance. College students have many obstacles to overcome in order to achieve their finest academic performance. Different stressors such as time management‚ financial problems‚ sleep deprivation; social activities can all pose their own threat to a student’s academic performance. The way that academic performance is measured is through the ordinal scale of general weighted average (GWA)
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