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Association of Sleep and Academic Performance

Sleep and Breathing, 2002
Poor school performance by adolescent students has been attributed in part to insufficient sleep. It is recognized that a number of factors lead to diminished total sleep time and chief among these are early school start times and sleep phase delay in adolescence.
Arne, Eliasson, Anders, Eliasson, Joseph, King, Ben, Gould, Arn, Eliasson   +4 more
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Hope as a Predictor of Academic Performance

Psychological Reports, 2008
This study was designed to assess whether the two subscales of the Hope Scale significantly predict semester grade point average (GPA), over and above American College Test (ACT) scores and Trait Anxiety (Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory.) The Hope Scale includes two subscales, goal-directed determinism (Agency) and the ability to plan ways to
Susan P, Buckelew, R Scott, Crittendon, Jessica D, Butkovic, Katie B, Price, Michelle, Hurst   +4 more
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Causal analysis of academic performance

Behavior Genetics, 1977
Maximum likelihood methods are presented to test for the relations between causes and effects in linear path diagrams, without assuming that estimates of causes are free of error. Causal analysis is illustrated by published data of the Equal Educational Opportunity Survey, which show that American schools do not significantly modify socioeconomic ...
D C, Rao, N E, Morton, R C, Elston, S, Yee   +3 more
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Academic Performance vs. Academic Reputation

2017
Global ranking systems have mesmerized both the academia and the general public because they have quickly become an essential part of decision-making processes for various stakeholders. Today, many methodologies exist and each is fighting hard to become widely recognized by different stakeholders.
Aleksandra Radojicic, Marina Jovanovic-Milenkovic, Veljko Jeremic   +2 more
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The academic performance of older academics: A review

Journal of Tertiary Education Administration, 1993
About 40 per cent of academic staff in Australian universities are over 45 years of age and predictions are that, by the turn of the century, there will be an ‘abundance’ of tenured, older academics in these universities. The situation elsewhere is even more stark. In the United States, for instance, 35 per cent of all academic staff in institutions of
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Visual Function and Academic Performance

American Journal of Ophthalmology, 1985
Evaluation of 1,910 first-, second-, and third-grade students indicated that visual function and academic performance as measured by reading were not positively related. Visual function tests included visual acuity, muscle balance, preferred eye and hand, color vision, refraction, sensory and motor function, and a writing and drawing task.
E M, Helveston, J C, Weber, K, Miller, K, Robertson, G, Hohberger, R, Estes, F D, Ellis, N, Pick, B H, Helveston   +8 more
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Predicting Student Academic Performance

2013 Seventh International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems, 2013
Engineering schools worldwide have a relatively high attrition rate. Typically, about 35% of the first-year students in various engineering programs do not make it to the second year. Of the remaining students, quite often they drop out or fail in their second or third year of studies.
Kin Fun Li, David Rusk, Fred Song
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An assessment of academic performance and personality

Medical Education, 1991
Summary. This study examines whether personality profiles, using personality factors, or clusters of personality factors, are associated with academic success. One hundred and forty medical students of the University of Wales College of Medicine were invited to complete a personality questionnaire (Cattell 16 PF)
A, Green, T J, Peters, D J, Webster
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Fieldwork Performance and Academic Grades

American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1985
The literature examining the relationship between occupational therapy academic course work and fieldwork performance was reviewed. Responding to a recent suggestion calling for a reexamination of this relationship with a sample of significantly larger size, we initiated the present study. The results are similar to earlier studies,
W C, Mann, N, Banasiak
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Course Scheduling and Academic Performance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
Abstract This paper examines the relationship between course scheduling and student achievement, controlling for student and course characteristics. The literature in psychology recognizes that performance varies by time of day and that spacing learning out over time may foster greater long-term memory of items.
Angela K. Dills, Rey Hernández-Julián
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