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Predicting Academic Performance

Proceedings. Frontiers in Education. 36th Annual Conference, 2006
The importance placed on matriculation increases at each level of academia, with the greatest significance placed at the tertiary level. The task of standardizing entry-level requirements at the tertiary level has lead to the implementation of assessments such as SAT GMAT and GRE. Prior research conducted at the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTECH)
Paul Golding, Opal Donaldson
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Hysteria and Academic Performance

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1998
To assess the possible relationship between hysteria, as defined by Miller and Keane in 1972, and academic performance, for 27 secondary school pupils comprising 25 girls and 2 boys (ages 12 to 23 years, in Grades 8 to 12 of six different schools) and with known histories of hysterical attacks (locally known as Lihabiya) diagnosed by hospital ...
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Academic Performance and Job Satisfaction

Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1981
This paper investigates the possible relationship between job satisfaction and academic performance of occupational therapists who have graduated from the University of Western Ontario in the years 1975 to 1978. Eifty-four percent of the graduates of this time period filled out questionnaires eliciting information on their satisfaction with their jobs
B W, Posthuma, A R, Willan
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University student food insecurity and academic performance

Journal of American College Health, 2020
Objective: Characterize the prevalence and dimensions of student food insecurity and the associations with academic performance. Participants: An online survey was distributed (November 2017) to 13,897 undergraduates at a midsized, New Jersey Public ...
R. Weaver, N. Vaughn, S. Hendricks, Penny E McPherson-Myers, Qian Jia, S. L. Willis, Kevin P Rescigno   +6 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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Educational data mining: Predictive analysis of academic performance of public school students in the capital of Brazil

Journal of business research, 2019
In this article, we present a predictive analysis of the academic performance of students in public schools of the Federal District of Brazil during the school terms of 2015 and 2016.
Eduardo Fernandes, M. Holanda, M. Victorino, Vinicius R. P. Borges, Rommel N. Carvalho, G. V. Erven   +5 more
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Personality, cognitive ability, and academic performance: Differential associations across school subjects and school tracks.

Journal of Personality, 2020
AIM Personality traits and cognitive ability are well-established predictors of academic performance. Yet, how consistent and generalizable are the associations between personality, cognitive ability, and performance?
N. D. Brandt, Clemens M. Lechner, Julia Tetzner, Beatrice Rammstedt   +3 more
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Academic Performance–Based Compensation Models

Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2019
Academic radiologists spend considerable amounts of time and effort providing nonclinical value-added services in the realms of teaching, research, and administration that are not reimbursable through traditional relative value units (RVUs) under the resource-based relative value scale.
William A, Mehan, Pamela W, Schaefer, Joshua A, Hirsch   +2 more
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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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Fieldwork Performance and Academic Grades

The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1985
Abstract 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.
W C, Mann, N, Banasiak
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