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Students' Academic Performance (student + academic_performance)
Selected AbstractsInvestigating Academic Success Factors for Undergraduate Business StudentsDECISION SCIENCES JOURNAL OF INNOVATIVE EDUCATION, Issue 2 2008Mehdi Kaighobadi ABSTRACT Student academic performance is of major interest to all stakeholders of higher education institutions. This study questions whether or not statistical analysis of information that is readily available in most universities' official records system can be used to predict overall academic success. In particular, this study is an attempt to understand factors that affect academic success for business students by examining gender, age, ethnicity, and performance in two required core knowledge courses as predictors of academic success for a large sample of undergraduate students at a Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business,accredited business school. The results suggest that student performance is significantly related to some basic demographic variables, but the strongest predictors of overall academic success are the grades the students receive in core knowledge courses that are typically taken in the earlier semesters of business students' plans of study. [source] School-Based Health Centers and Academic Performance: Research, Challenges, and RecommendationsJOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, Issue 9 2004Sara Peterson Geierstanger ABSTRACT: School-based health centers (SBHCs) provide physical and mental health services on school campuses to improve student health status, and thereby potentially facilitate student academic success. With a growing emphasis on school accountability and the simultaneous dwindling of resources at the federal, state, and local levels, SBHCs face increasing pressures from school administrators and funders to document their impact on student academic achievement. This article reviews the methods, findings, and limitations of studies that have examined the relationship between SBHCs and academic performance. It also describes methodological challenges of conducting and interpreting such research, and discusses factors and intermediate variables that influence student academic performance. Recommendations are offered for SBHC researchers, evaluators, and service providers in response to the pressure they are facing to document the effect of SBHC services on academic outcomes. (J Sch Health. 2004;74(9):347,352) [source] Tertiary Performance, Field of Study and Graduate Starting SalariesTHE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, Issue 1 2008Grace Chia This paper analyses data from the University of Western Australia (UWA) Graduate Destination Survey linked to information from the University's Student Records System to explore the determinants of graduates' starting salaries over the years 2002 to 2004. While the details examined also include age, gender, language spoken at home, country of birth, disability status and high school attended, most emphasis is placed on the impact on starting salaries of students' academic performance and their field of study. The analyses show that the main determinant of graduates' starting salaries is the weighted average mark they achieve at university. The salary differentials associated with higher marks in the Australian labour market appear greater than those reported in similar studies of the US and the UK labour markets. Science graduates are shown to have relatively low starting salaries, casting a shadow over recent suggestions that the supply of this group be increased through lower fee regimes. [source] The Employment Landscape for Accounting Graduates and Work Experience RelevanceAUSTRALIAN ACCOUNTING REVIEW, Issue 4 2009Mandy Cheng This study outlines the results of a survey undertaken at an Australian university in 2007 and examines the factors that are associated with an undergraduate accounting student obtaining a job offer. Undertaking relevant part-time work, academic performance and social (extra-curricular) activities are significant factors leading to job offers prior to graduation. Our study also identifies a high level of part-time work currently undertaken by full-time students, confirming the trend identified in other studies. Interestingly, this high level of part-time work was not found to negatively affect students' academic performance. [source] | ||||||||||