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Interpretation and Presentation of Unified State Exam Results: Problems and Possible Solutions

Valdman, Igor; Bochenkov, Sergey - In: Educational Studies (2013) 3, pp. 5-24

Sergey Bochenkov, expert at Independent Education Quality Assessment Agency Leader, Cheboksary, Russian Federation. Email: s_bochenkov@mail.ru Address: room 11, 10A Shkolny Lane, 428003, Cheboksary, Russian Federation.Igor Valdman, Ped.D., Head of the Laboratory of Control and Monitoring in...

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Academic Performance of Texas Public Schools and Its Relationship with Students' Physical Fitness and Socioeconomic Status

Jin, He; Lu, Yongmei - In: International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) 8 (2017) 3, pp. 37-52

' physical fitness and socioeconomic status (SES) at school-district level. Spearman rank correlations showed that the … fitness was associated with higher level of academic performance for school girls than boys except for those in low SES level …

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Academic Procrastination and the Effect on Students' Results for ICT Students

Tani, Kawtar - In: International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and … 7 (2017) 2, pp. 31-35

Procrastination has been reported as a prevalent phenomenon in the general population, affecting a number of adults. Procrastination in academia may have particularly serious effects for students in tertiary education, whose academic lives are characterised by frequent deadlines. Indeed, it has...

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Use of Subspace Clustering Algorithm for Students' Competency and Subject Knowledge Assessment

Paul, Dimple V.; Nayagam, Chitra S. - In: International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 70-83

Student performance studies are the primary challenge for any course with continuous assessment. The challenge lies in performing validation tests of whether course objectives are being met and also in identifying areas of the course structure that needs improvement. This article identifies...

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Using Data Mining Techniques with Open Source Software to Evaluate the Various Factors Affecting Academic Performance: A Case Study of Students in the Faculty of Information Techno...

Hanandeh, Feras; Al-Shannag, Majdi Y.; Alkhaffaf, Maha Mahdi - In: International Journal of Open Source Software and … 7 (2016) 2, pp. 72-92

This research paper studies the different factors that could affect the Faculty of Information Technology students' accumulative averages at Jordanian Universities, by verifying the students' information, background and academic records. It also has the objective to reveal how this information...

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Predicting Student Satisfaction and Outcomes in Online Courses Using Learning Activity Indicators

Strang, Kenneth David - In: International Journal of Web-Based Learning and … 12 (2017) 1, pp. 32-50

The premise for this study was that learner interaction in an online web-based course could be assessed in relation to academic performance, or in other words, e-learning. Although some studies reveal that learner interaction with online content is related to student academic performance, it...

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School Performance Analysis from a Scholastic Learning Process

Masmiquel, Judit Lacomba; Ferrer, August Climent; … - In: Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR) 10 (2017) 1, pp. 1-14

analysis of high school students using a data model based on business intelligence techniques. Based on the system data …

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Peers' Composition Effects in the Short and in the Long Run: College Major, College Performance and Income

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market … and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their … academic performance and their labor market income. We leverage the fact that the composition of high school classmates (peers …

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Time Preferences, Study Effort, and Academic Performance

Non, Arjan; Tempelaar, Dirk - 2015

We analyze the relation between time preferences, study effort, and academic performance among first-year business and economics students. Time preferences are measured by stated preferences for an immediate payment over larger delayed payments. Data on study efforts are derived from an...

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The Educational Achievement of Pupils with Immigrant and Native Mothers: Evidence from Taiwan

Lin, Eric S.; Lu, Yu-Lung - 2015

This paper takes advantage of the Taiwan Assessment of Student Achievement data set to empirically evaluate whether the test score differentials between pupils with immigrant and native mothers are substantial across subjects, grades and years. Our results show that there exist test score...

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