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LEARNING SKILLS AND MOTIVATION: CORRELATES TO SUPERIOR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

Griffin, Richard; MacKewn, Angie; Moser, Ernest; … - In: Business Education and Accreditation 5 (2013) 1, pp. 53-65

This paper describes a study that was conducted at a mid-sized public state-university in the mid-south, USA, to examine various factors affecting student academic performance. In this study, the 10-scale Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) assessment device was administered. This...

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Student Status and Academic Performance: Accounting for the Symptom of Long Duration of Studies in Greece

Katsikas, Elias; Panagiotidis, Theodore - 2011

This study employs administrative and survey data to assess the relationship between students’ socioeconomic background and educational outcomes, using regression and quantile regression methods. We take into account the existing institutional framework which allows differentiation in the...

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Guàrdia, Joan; Freixa, Montserrat; Peró, Maribel; … - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 40 (2006) 4, pp. 661-674

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Class absenteeism: reasons for non-attendance and the effect on academic performance

Schmulian, Astrid; Coetzee, Stephen - In: Accounting Research Journal 24 (2011) September, pp. 178-194

Purpose – Other business education literature, particularly in the field of economics, has developed theories in respect of the reasons for non-attendance of lectures and the positive correlation between class attendance and academic performance. The aim of this paper is to determine the...

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Positive Affect and College Success

Nickerson, Carol; Diener, Ed; Schwarz, Norbert - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 12 (2011) 4, pp. 717-746

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Student perceptions of service quality in the school of accounting: a case analysis of a private university in Malaysia

Lam, Chee-Hoong; Ng, Felix Chee-Yew; Tan, Peter Sin-Howe; … - In: International Journal of Services, Economics and Management 3 (2011) 1, pp. 122-133

circulated to 300 students from the school of accounting which resulted in a 75% response rate. The findings from this research … assessing the overall academic performance service quality within the school of accounting. Research implications and …

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Measuring the impact of educational interventions on the academic performance of academic development students in second-year microeconomics

Smith, Leonard C.; Ranchhod, Vimal - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2010

This paper analyses the impact of educational interventions made in the first-and second-year microeconomics courses on academic development students' final mark in the second-year course. It also addresses issues of methodology, specification, and statistical analysis with respect to other...

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School inputs and student performance in public elementary schools in Palawan : a quantile regression analysis

Punongbayan, Jan Carlo B. - In: Philippine Review of Economics 46 (2009) 1, pp. 189-219

This study investigates the role of school resources in different measures of student performance in public elementary … schools in the province of Palawan. We contend that it is not enough to identify which school resources matter the most, but … provision of a given school resource. This way, we may be able to target our allocations toward more productive educational …

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Rendimiento de estudiantes universitarios y sus determinantes

Porto, Alberto; Gresia, Luciano Di - In: Revista de Economía y Estadística XLII (2004) 1, pp. 93-113

La Plata. Subjects were 4676 regular students of the school who participated on a voluntay basis. We have estimated the … type of secondary school, and the regulations of the school about the condition of regular student. The performance is …

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LACK OF OPTIMISM AMONG MARKETING STUDENTS VS. OTHER STUDENTS

BLACK, Gregory S.; BAHL, Angelica - In: Management & Marketing 5 (2010) 4

For the first time in American history, the current generation of college-age students may be destined for diminished financial opportunities than their parents. However, they may not realize that and may continue to have expectations higher than reality. Marketing students appear to be the...

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