That Affect Academic Performance Among Pharmacy Students Sujit S. Sansgiry, PhD, Monali Bhosle, MS, and Kavita Sail, MS College of Pharmacy, University of Houston Submitted February 3, 2006; accepted April 14, 2006; published October 15, 2006. Objective. The objective of this study was to examine factors such as academic competence, test competence, time management, strategic studying, and test anxiety, and identify whether these factors could distinguish differences among students, based on
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of Social Media use on Academic Performance among university students: A Pilot Study Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi1 Mohd Shahizan Othman2 e-mail: abumunir82@yahoo.com e-mail: shahizan@utm.my Author(s) Contact Details: 1,2 Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia Abstract — There is no doubt that Social media has gained wider acceptability and usability and is also becoming probably the most important communication tools among students especially at the higher
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people are blind to the fact that schools in today's society start way too early, and students are suffering the consequences. I feel school starting too early is a serious problem needing to be fixed. School should start later in the morning because it is more convenient, improves academic performance, and is better for students health. If school started later in the morning, it would be more convenient for students, teachers, and even parents. The extra time in morning would give you more time to
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Ashley Ingle Mrs. Armstrong English 1301 9, Dec 2013 Part-time students vs. Full-time The number of students attending college part-time seems to be rising more and more each year. Most students are more than likely to work while in college. Students attending college part-time has increased more than 10 percent within the last 30 years. Most students who are attending college have to get a job to support themselves along the way. Many of them believe that if they have a job while in college
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This study is to see the effect of the college understudy working low maintenance on the execution of learning. The purpose of this study was to examine the work while the impression towards academic achievements. Percentage shows between 55% to 80% of students will work while learning (Miller, 1997; King, 1998). This high percentage is also causing some researchers to believe that the students who will work towards the achievement of academic decline (Steinberg, Dornbusch, & Fegley 1993). At the
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hours for sleep. This means learning is also affected by sleep patterns. Proper amounts of sleep keep your mind and body alert and it preps them to receive and learn new information. Sleeping is therefore very important for children, especially students. So those pulling all nighters to study or to finish their homework will have more difficulty in absorbing information and will not be as focused and attentive the next day. Lack of sleep
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home, divorce and parental deprivation. Such abnormal conditions of the home are likely to have a detrimental effect on the student performance in the school. However, the child also faces more indirect conflict with high academic achievement from areas like; finance and family background. Families that are faced with financial challenges can have negative influence on the student intelligence and social life. (Children Defence Fund, 1994).
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enables the students to perform their best and to attain a high grades. But in many schools, students find difficulties and obstacles to their studies, the school building itself. Some facilities have inadequate ventilation, inefficient heating and cooling systems and other can create conditions that impairs their ability to learn. Students become uncomfortable of what they are doing, the learning environment is very important factor in attaining a good academic performance. Motivated students and teachers
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CHAPTER 2 Review of Related Literature and Studies The researchers are conducting a study on the academic performances of students whose parents are working abroad. But to conduct this study the researchers researched on the definitions of these terms. Academic Performance and its Definitions: Education is one of the fundamental needs that every person from this humanity must acquire and register into. As stated and defined in the Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge (2000), societies
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Factors in Student Motivation Authored by: Steven C. Howey Educators across the country are frustrated with the challenge of how to motivate the ever increasing number of freshmen students entering college who are psychologically, socially, and academically unprepared for the demands of college life. Such students often exhibit maladaptive behavior such as tardiness, hostility towards authority, and unrealistic aspirations. The standard approach is to address the problem as an academic issue through
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