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Drug Abuse and Academic Performance on a Micro-level, 2008.
A micro-level study of the correlation between drug abuse and academic performance, based on a survey of a small sample of individuals.
2,730 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 81.95
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This paper researches the connection between drug abuse and/or drug addiction and poor academic performance on a micro-level. The primary purposes in conducting this research investigation is to establish a means through which to address these problems through accurate identification. A previous study, although successful, had one fundamental shortcoming in that the review method addressed the issue only on the broader scope. As a result, there was a visible macro-level resolution but an unclear establishment of micro-level trends. By pinpointing habits of drug abuse and academic performance in a randomly selected and relatively small sample of individuals, this research investigation seeks to make clearer the exact nature of the relationship between drug abuse and academic performance in select cases.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Research Problem
Methodology
Survey Questions
Findings
Discussion
Conclusion
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"This investigation will proceed with an established set of standards for the definition of poor academic performance. By utilizing a specific range of parameters for such a classification, the survey method will be more guided toward the resolution of the nature of the relationship between the variables. The journalistic investigation invoked a question as to whether or not the relationship between the two variables could be characterized as cause and effect and, if so, in what sequence. Though it ultimately determined the likelihood of a reciprocal relationship between poor academic performance and drug abuse, this survey will employ the following standards to deal with the question."
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Corporal Punishment and Academic Performance, 2006.
This paper examines the relationship between corporal punishment and academic performance of Taiwanese students grades one to nine.
9,528 words (approx. 38.1 pages), 47 sources, MLA, $ 195.95
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This study studies the relationship of corporal punishment and the academic performance of students in grades 1 - 9 in Taiwan. There are many research studies examining corporal punishments in the K-12 setting worldwide, but only a few studies have specifically examined the relationship between corporal punishment and academic performance. This study aims to better understand the relationships between the frequency of corporal punishment, the attribution by the students towards the reasons of the punishments, and the actual academic performance of the students.
Contents:
Abstract
Chapter 1:
Introduction
Corporal Punishment of Students in the United States
Corporal Punishment of Students in the Far East
Limitation, delimitations, assumptions
Chapter 2:
Literature Review
Chapter 3:
Methodology
Research Questions
Data Source
Sampling and Population Method
Strength and Limitation of Sampling Method
Data Analysis
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"These cases of corporal punishment (or CP) on children demonstrates the gravity of the issue. These studies raise questions concerning the relationship between corporal punishment of children and adverse outcomes, such as anti-social behavior, as well as other issues (Magrid 1990; Strauss, 2001; Gaffney, 1997; Hicnchey, 2003).
Western educational experts argue that the long-term costs of corporal punishment outweigh any short-term benefit that might be gained by its application. The effects of corporal punishment may last for years, and the family, the local community, and society at large pay the price for teachers' actions. Beatings and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatments potentially affect both the physical well-being and the psyche of those who are punished (Gaffney 1997, Andero 2002)."
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Academic Performance, 2007.
This paper discusses explanatory style and life satisfaction as predictors of academic performance.
6,276 words (approx. 25.1 pages), 18 sources, MLA, $ 146.95
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In this article the writer notes that explanatory style is a cognitive personality variable that reflects the habitual manner in which people explain the causes of bad events that befall them. The writer further points out that researchers believe that attributional style can help provide a better understanding of behaviors and consequences that affect one's performance and actions. This research aims to use this theory together with other variables and correlate this with students' GPAs, to see what factors interact or are able to predict academic performance. The writer highlights that before this takes place, however, it is important to understand the students and some of the problems and stresses that they face, so that their academic performance and how they react to certain issues can be better understood.
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"Stress is generally a good thing as all individuals must have some stress to survive. However, when students have too much stress in their lives or the stress is perceived as being a negative event then psychological and physical impairments can sometimes be seen. There are ways that students can reduce stress in school but they have to work at what they are doing and learn how to get enough social support, enough time for leisure and enjoyment, and manage their time correctly. If students are not able to meet any type of personal need through different leisure activities or hobbies they may feel as though the stress that they must deal with in classes and during exams is actually much stronger than what it really is."
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Drug Abuse and Academic Performance, 2008.
A study of the relationship between academic performance and drug abuse, and ways to prevent addiction.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 80.95
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This paper researches the connection between drug abuse and/or drug addiction and poor academic performance. The study is particularly concerned with the fact that increasingly younger age groups have become more susceptible to experimentation, abuse and addiction. The research is directed toward evaluating ways to resolve this problem by recognizing the visible negative indicators of drug abuse in children, adolescents and teens. The paper suggests that these particularly vulnerable demographics present a worthy starting point to preventing addiction rather than battling it. One of the key obstacles to preventing addiction is the lack of means by which to identify tell-tale signs early enough. The study concludes that there is sufficient reason to believe that academic indicators may be instructive in better identifying likely drug problems at a young age, both per individual and on a systemic level.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Research Problem
Methodology
Findings
Discussion
Conclusion
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"One such consideration is the effect that familial drug exposure has on academic performance. There are almost universally accepted standards on our medical understanding of the potentially devastating physiological hazards of prenatal drug exposure to neurological development. This is accompanied by seriously impaired academic capacity, and often even developmentally delayed learning patterns. But there are also in this research, established connections between drug exposure after birth and the pursuit of academic opportunity, with researchers finding "the relationship between parental substance abuse and adolescent academic achievement easier to prove. In one provocative study, Schandler et al. (26) established a relationship between having a substance abusing parent and spatial learning deficits in adolescents." (Jeynes, 32) This is a meaningful finding in that establishes another layer in the relationship between drug abuse and academic performance as a systemic problem. This is revealing of the nature of drug abuse as being correlated to a complex combination of factors, all of which tend to share a reciprocal relationship rather than a cause and effect one."
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School Size and Academic Performance, 2002.
A literature review of the effects of the student body size on school costs and academic performance in Mississippi high schools.
5,217 words (approx. 20.9 pages), 20 sources, APA, $ 129.95
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One of the most heated point of contention within school districts currently is the variable effects of school size, school funding and student performance. There are costs and benefits associated with school size and especially class size and those issues affect school funding, as it is largely accepted that less schools, therefore larger schools equals less cost overall. Yet, the concern in any district is the trade off associated with increasing the size of the student body and therefore almost assuredly increasing the class size and the student to teacher ratio. Mississippi schools are not alone in their quest to find an answer to this growing dilemma. A review of current literature assists educators in a greater understanding of the inherent problems and solutions offered for both increasing school size and decreasing or maintaining current status. This analysis assesses the current state of information on the interrelated issues of student body size, school costs and academic performance. A short summary of the conclusive evidence within the literature, shows that there is a growing trend to determine just what the best size is for secondary schools. The overwhelming evidence is in favor of smaller schools that incorporate the use of many interdisciplinary tools and use careful coordination to ensure that diversity remains within the school curriculum. Researchers from all over the spectrum are searching for ways to determine the best possible results for all students within the compulsory education system and the focal point could just be the very question this paper asks: How much does school size affect cost and student success?
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"Not only does Roellke suggest that smaller schools are just as effective as larger schools on the issue of curriculum and that there are possibilities that can be offered only by smaller schools, he also contends that smaller schools are the best trying ground for curricular improvement efforts. "Lower enrollments allow for such engaging and meaningful instructional practices, suggesting that small schools are ideal sites for curriculum reform efforts." (Roellke 1996) Roellke also stresses that some of the ways in which smaller high schools offer greater curricular diversity than they might have in the past, is through the implementation of greater collaborative efforts and also the use of technological advances. Roellke is one of many researchers making the connection between school size and curricular diversity a less important factor through further investigation."
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Predictors of Academic Performance, 2007.
An in-depth look at the various issues and variables that influence and impact on academic performance.
17,270 words (approx. 69.1 pages), 80 sources, MLA, $ 249.95
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This paper discusses how the explanatory style is a cognitive personality variable that reflects the habitual manner in which people explain the causes of bad events that befall them. According to the paper, researchers believe that attributional style can help provide a better understanding of behaviors and consequences that affect one's performance and actions. The paper further discusses how tests of this relationship have spanned a wide variety of achievement settings including academic, health, athletic, and work settings, and how some of the problems and stresses affect performance, focusing primarily on academics.
Contents:
Chapter One
Performance
Statement of the Problem
Purpose of the Study
Significance of the Study
Research Hypothesis
Scope and Limitation of the Study
Definition of Terms
Overview of the Study
Chapter Two
Review of Related Literature
Chapter Three
Methodology
Identification of Subjects
Implementing the Study
Gathering and Analyzing Data
Chapter Four
Data Analysis
Chapter Five
Summary, Recommendations, and Conclusions
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"For African Americans, ethnic identity and cultural racism significantly predict life satisfaction (Utsey et al, 2002). The study conducted by Utsey et al (2002) dealt with how African Americans felt about the culture and ethnicity that they belonged to, whether they felt they had been the victims of racism during their lifetimes, and also looked at how satisfied they were with their lives. Those that were less comfortable with their ethnicity and those that had been victimized by racism had lower quality of life scores than those that were comfortable and did not feel as though they had been victims. The higher the victimization score, the lower the quality of life score for these individuals.
Phinney, Cantu, and Kurtz (1997) state that having a poorly developed racial identity can lead to depression, a lack of comfort with oneself, and many other emotional problems that can be avoided when racial identity development theory is more clearly understood. On the other hand, having a racial identity that is well developed and that one is very comfortable with produces the opposite effects. While this is not an overly surprising insight, it is important that the correlation be noticed and recognized as something that should be studied and understood more clearly. This understanding of the link between racial identity and well-being has its roots in counseling psychology. By understanding the process of the development of racial identity, counselors felt they could begin to better understand pathology among black patients. Similarly, in investigating life satisfaction among African Americans, researchers (Utsey et al, 2002; Phinney et al, 1997) theorized that they must be attuned to cultural differences. There are significant potential dangers when researchers are unable to incorporate culture as a variable. Without a good understanding of cultural differences, it is possible for behavior to be misunderstood and even pathologized."
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Academic Performance in Public Education, 2003.
A critical assessment of how schools can achieve real improvements in academic performance pursuant to the No Child Left Behind Act.
3,173 words (approx. 12.7 pages), 17 sources, MLA, $ 91.95
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Government at all levels, as well as the American public, has a right to know how well children are performing in the public education systems. This paper provides a review of the peer-reviewed and scholarly literature to identify methods to achieve academic improvement in the nation's schools. A summary of the research and salient findings are presented in the conclusion.
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"Since the passing of the No Child Left Behind legislation in 2001, colleges of education in the U.S. have made it a requirement that candidates take and pass either a state-sanctioned standardized examination or a national standardized exam called the Praxis Series, which is comprised of three levels of assessment (Lucas & Robinson, 2002). Further, it is certainly a measurement responsibility to engage these issues with users in order to understand and evaluate such implications of test design on teaching candidates (Cole & Willingham, 1997). A careful examination of the fairness issues in the design of The Praxis Series: Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers, is a good example of this principle (Dwyer & Ramsey, 1995)."
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Academic Performance and Single-Parent Children, 2005.
A literature review of whether children of divorced parents perform worse in school than their peers from non-broken homes.
2,415 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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Although there is little doubt that divorce has a negative impact on the academic achievement of children, the underlying causes of diminished performance are not clearly understood. The following literature review examines a number of recent research studies to help understand potential underlying causes of poor academic performance in children of divorced parents.
Introduction
Literature Review
Conclusion
Bibliography
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"The divorce rate in the United States is rising at an alarming rate. Just after the Civil War, approximately 5% of marriages in the United States ended in divorce. The divorce rate increased to approximately 10% by the 1920s and approximately 35% by the mid 1960's. By 1990, the divorce rate in the United States had risen to 50%. In a span of 125 years, the divorce rate in the United States increased by 900%. These rising divorce rates have undoubtedly had a profound effect on children. In 1988, 15% of all children lived with a divorced or separated parent. Presently, more than one million children per year experience a parental divorce. In the 1960's, almost 90% of children lived in homes with two biological parents. By 1995, approximately 18.9 million children under the age of 18 lived with one."
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Academic Performance and Personality Types, 2001.
This paper examines why students do well academically in different subjects, and personality tests used to understand these differences.
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This paper examines personality types and their relation to academic performance. The author looks at Jung's theory of personality, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test research. The paper also discusses student assessment tests, how different personality types excel at different subjects, and methods used to improve student performance.
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"All academic achievements are related to the personality characteristic of the students. Yet, schools usually take into account only the academic achievement on basis of exam scores such as GRE, MCAT and SAT. Why do some students achieve success while others drop out? Some subjects are a piece of cake while others are difficult to tackle. All these questions are dependent upon the personality type and the motivation for the academic subject that the student has. There is a voluminous amount of research into how personality type affects learning and teaching styles in general. Most of the research in this area used the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, MBTI, to evaluate a person's personality preferences. In fact, the MBTI is used in the majority of studies that evaluate the effect of personality type on educational outcomes. It also has the advantage of being a measure that indicates personality type based on a person's preferences rather than on a clinical diagnosis and so is easy to administer."
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Academic Achievement and Arts Performance, 2004.
A look at the effects of exposing students to arts education and training.
4,416 words (approx. 17.7 pages), 32 sources, MLA, $ 115.95
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This paper examines the various aspects of music and arts participation and how exposure to and training in arts programs stimulates mental and intellectual abilities from the earliest years through high school. It also explores how arts education contributes to the overall enhancement of educational curriculum. Through a literature review, it examines three specific frameworks: physiological brain development; spatial and cognitive reasoning abilities; and improved academic performance based on participation in music and other arts programs. It also looks at scholastic performance enhancement through arts integration.
Outline
Literature Review
Physiological Brain Development
Cognitive and Spatial Reasoning Abilities
Improved Scholastic Performance
Scholastic Performance Enhancement
Methodology
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"In other studies, Nisbet (1991) has pointed out that there is a close relationship between the musical symbolism used in arranging the time signature of a musical piece and the mathematical concepts used in fractional concepts. Numerous studies have focused on the relationship between formal training in a musical instrument and youths' achievement level. According to Wenger and Wenger (1990), neuroscientists suspect that when children exercise cortical neurons by being actively involved in music, they are engaging in activity which enhances their intelligence, specifically their mathematics capability, spatial reasoning skills, and the ability to handle complex reasoning tasks. In fact, Rayl (1995) and Martin (1995) have reported that adolescents with formal training in music tend to have higher achievement in mathematics."
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Pre-adolescent Academic Development, 2007.
An analysis of the influence of parental educational attainment on pre-adolescent academic performance and development.
1,369 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses the influence of parents' educational attainment on pre-adolescent academic performance and development. It analyzes how a parent can be the primary factor that determines whether their child develops certain behaviors which are often a mix of both expected and desirable, and unexpected and undesirable. The paper also discusses the effects of parental demographic factors, occupation and financial status on a child's academic performance.
Table of Contents:
Review of Literature
Conclusion
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"Pre-adolescents are at a crossroads of biological and psychosocial change. One of the specific "barometers" of this change is academic performance as determined by parental educational attainment. Parental educational attainment, as a component of socioeconomic status, although independently demonstrated to have profound effects on a child's cognitive development and academic performance can be difficult to isolate from the effects of other components such as parental demographic factors, occupation and financial status. In spite of this, not only does a higher educational attainment of parents influence academic performance both directly and indirectly regardless of income, but is also directly influenced by learning opportunities available to the child from birth."
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Physical Fitness and Academic Success, 2007.
An analysis of the relationship between physical fitness and academic performance among children in elementary schools in the United States.
2,110 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper analyzes whether physical fitness improves academic success. The paper specifically focuses on the relationship between physical activity and physical fitness with academic performance among children in elementary schools in the United States. It analyzes previous research done in this area and attempts to reach conclusions based on their results. It also briefly looks at the issues of obesity in children in the United States.
Table of Contents:
Objective
Discussion of General Background Literature
Summary of Pertinent Research
Conclusions of the Literature Review
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"Obesity among school children has been noted as being a problem in many U.S. states in recent years with schools attempting to address these problems. One major factor that is only making obesity a further problem and is as well perpetuating diminishing grades for students is the stringent standards set out for testing by the "No Child Left Behind Act" which is referred to as 'every child left behind' by many teachers in the United States. The focus on testing has resulted in physical education classes being reduced in terms of the time and importance allotted to these classes and that time being instead diverted to core curriculum in the attempt to raise scores on the Standardized Achievement Tests (SAT) of students."
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Residence and College Performance, 1994.
A research proposal to determine the impact of residence (on campus vs. off campus) on academic performance. Questionnaire.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 15 sources, $ 47.95
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"College Academic Performance as a Function
of Residence: A Research Proposal
Introduction
Disagreement is present in the literature in relation to the impact of residence on the academic performance of college and university students. Almost all studies reported in the literature report on investigations of first.year collegiate experiences. Some of the reported studies investigated narrowly defined segments of student populations, and many failed to assess intervening variables such as academic ability.
Brody (1988, pp. 347.359) found that early.entry freshmen who commuted to classes performed at a higher academic level than did students who lived on campus. Early.entry students, however, are younger (at times substantially so) than the typical first.year college..."
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Primary Language and Academic Results, 2007.
A discussion on the correlation between primary language and academic results.
7,147 words (approx. 28.6 pages), 49 sources, MLA, $ 159.95
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The paper researches the correlation between primary language and academic results. The paper performs the research on groups of students, using interviews, as well as other methods. This study examines whether students perform better academically when involved in activities in the cultural setting of both the primary and the secondary language; and if the use of both languages on a consistent basis increases the academic performance of the students.
Outline:
Chapter I:
Objective
Hypothesis
Research Questions
Methodology
Importance of the Study
Organization of the Remaining Chapters
Chapter II:
Literature Review
Students Experience Loss Of L1 In The Learning Of L2
Overview Of Second Language Acquisition Theory - Five Stages Of Development
Chapter III:
Review Of Literature Reviewed In This Study
Chapter IV:
Findings
Recommendations
Bibliography
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"Hakuta, Ferman, and Diaz (1986) argued that the research on bilingualism that was conducted earlier had "failed to distinguish between the different levels of bilingualism." (Garcia-Vazquez, 1997) Current research has as its' focus the cognitive development of languages among all children." (Garcia-Vazquez, 1997) Recent research has found evidence for positive relation between bilingualism and reasoning abilities among children. Such reasoning abilities are inclusive of "nonverbal problem solving skills, divergent thinking skills, and field independence." (Cummings, 1976; as cited by Garcia-Vazquez, 1997) The research of Bialystock, 1986a and 1986b indicates that additive-bilingual children out-perform monolingual counterparts on tasks requiring high levels of cognitive control." (Garcia-Vazquez, 1997)"
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Research Proposal to Test the of the Family Structure on Student Achievement, 2002.
Proposes a study to determine whether family structure can explain poor academic performance.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 37 sources, $ 111.95
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Proposes a study to determine whether family structure can explain poor academic performance. Impact of traditional & non-traditional families on variations of academic performance. Discusses theoretical context & theories of human development (Piaget & Vygotsky); prior conflicting studies on the topic. Stanford 9 Achievement Test. Methodology, research design, data collection. Table of Contents.
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The Impact of Family Structure
on Student Achievement
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