Academic Success
I truly believe that my strong capacity for leadership capabilities is one of the things that will no doubt instill me with high amounts of academic success. One way that I feel I am able to exhibit strong amounts of leadership is via the fact that I don't panic under pressure. The longer that I've been alive, I've come to realize this is actually a very rare and important quality. The calm and steady demeanor that I am able to exhibit as a leader is something which can help keep others calm in high stress situations, and guide all of us to the most successful outcome of all.
One instance when this manifested was when I was traveling in a foreign country as a 17-year-old. Travel can be stressful enough: there are cultural and language barriers that one has to constantly overcome. It can be an intensive challenge and…...
Promoting the Success of Aboriginal Students in Today's Education
Aboriginal education has experienced significant developments throughout the first half of the 20th Century because of the establishment of several learning institutions and programs that primarily focus on providing Aboriginal students with a estern education. During this period, several federally-funded schools such as mission residential schools in remote regions have been established to help ensure these students obtain estern education. These efforts have been characterized by development of a framework for providing estern education to Aboriginal students in light of their language and culture. hile numerous attempts have been carried out to ensure these students obtain contemporary education, there have been many concerns on how to promote the academic success of Aboriginal students. This is primarily because existing conditions in modern education have seemingly hindered the success of these students, especially in public schools. Therefore, the creation of suitable conditions that promote…...
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Personality and Academic Success
Personality is very important to academic success. Everyone has a unique personality and he or she must identify it in order to know what is the best method for to study. Learning approaches are not the same for everyone, because of differences and personality is a major factor in that. As Kiss, Kotsis and Kun (2014) note, there is a relationship between intelligence, personality style and academic success: indeed, one's success in school is "significantly influenced by the sex, intellectual intelligence, introvert or extrovert orientation ...and personality preference of the student" (p. 23). This paper will show how personality, by serving as the foundation and framework of the learning process, impacts academic performance.
Everyone has a personality that consists of traits, different levels of intelligence, emotional intelligence, expressiveness, degrees of intro- and extraversion, and so on. While these personality characteristics do not necessarily define a person, they do…...
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Cacamis, M. E., Asmar, M. (2014). Improving project performance through partnering and emotional intelligence. Practice Periodical on Structural Design & Construction, 19(1), 50-56.
Kanfer, R., Wolf, M., Kantrowitz, T., Ackerman, P. (2010). Ability and trait complex predictors of academic and job performance: A person-situation approach. Applied Psychology, 59: 40-69.
Kiss, M., Kotsis, A., Kun, A. (2014). The relationship between intelligence, emotional intelligence, personality styles and academic success. Business Education & Accreditation, 6(2): 23-34.
Academic success is the foremost goal of all who enroll as students in educational institutions, particularly for tertiary-level education. This necessitates cultivation of many skills, including superior communication skills, and most vitally, the ability of synthesizing information and filtering it for key, relevant knowledge (Ellis, 2015). Thus, this paper assumes the view that academic success continuance involves the aspects of planning, learning style knowledge, effective written communication, academic integrity, and university resource utilization in all assignments.
Planning
Many individuals have their own notion of how they want their life to be. These are fuzzy, warm ideals about wanting to lead a virtuous life, attain financially security, or achieve happiness. But such vague ideas often do not generate required results. A better option would be: translating these ideas into distinct goals. For this, goals should be identified, examined, and made as realistic as possible. They must be stated as clear actions and quantifiable…...
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Ellis, D. (2015). Becoming a Master Student (15th ed). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.
Plagiarism. (2016). Retrieved from https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/secure/aapd/grammar/plagiarism.asp
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parental involvement and student academic success. The proposal examines previously published literature on the subject and then proposes a study to further examine the impact of parental involvement on the academic success of students. The writer explores several possible methods of study and chooses one most appropriate to the study being proposed and provides definitions and terms so that the reader has access to a full understanding of the study and its results. The proposal explains why this new study is important to the topic of student academic success and parental involvement for the future.
Flow of Information
For many years, parents and educators have worked to find the right combination of factors that will encourage and improve the academic success of students. Parents want the best for their students so that they can be successful in their adult life, and educators not only care about the students, but they know…...
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To what students attribute their academic success and unsuccess.
Education; 6/22/2004; Lebedina-Manzoni, Marija
Providing minority parents with relevant literacy activities for their children.
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Reflection on Peer Mentoring
Introduction
Stoloff, Good, Smith and Brewster (2015) determined measures of success in a number of ways: 1) whether students attended graduate school within 5 years of graduating, 2) the departmental score on the Major Field Test for Psychology (MFT), and 3) completion of the program by students. Other factors had been tested before, including student-teacher interaction, and used as measures of success. The study by Stoloff et al. (2015) aimed to build on prior works and to show what the relation between student success and test scores, graduate school attendance, and program completion was overall. This paper will provide a summary of the article by Stoloff et al. (2015), discuss the characteristics of psychology programs that lead to success, identify other ways that success can be measured; address ways in which successful peer mentoring programs could bridge the gap, or actively support, department efforts to address the shortcomings…...
growing recognition of the changing educational needs of college students, particularly those attending community colleges. In response to this awareness, reform efforts have been implemented in order to meet the needs of students. As reform efforts have been considered, increasing attention has been directed toward assessing the influence of learning styles on academic performance. The term 'learning styles' has been used to refer to the ways in which individuals display preferences in receiving, processing and presenting information and ideas when engaged in learning activities. In ongoing efforts to further establish the knowledge base on learning styles, evidence suggests that a number of factors have been identified as influencing learning styles. Some have suggested that the individual's personality, life experiences and the purposes associated with specific learning situations strongly determines one's learning style (e.g., Briggs-Myers, 1989; Kolb, 1984). Others have indicated that learning styles are primarily associated with the learning…...
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The School and Demographic Data Alonzo & Tracy Mourning Senior High, Biscayne Bay Campus is part of the Miami-Dade County Public School system and has a total of over 1500 students enrolled in grades 9 through 12. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (2018), the demographic breakdown of the Alonzo & Tracy Mourning Senior High School student body is 831 Hispanic, 415 White, 292 Black, 20 Asian, and 7 identifying as “two or more races.” The school serves a suburban region of Miami-Dade County. Of the 1565 students, 862 are eligible for free lunches and 105 for reduced-price lunches, indicating that more than half the students come from families requiring some financial assistance. Since it opened in 2009, Alonzo & Tracey Mourning Senior High has performed consistently well on national achievement measures, receiving an “A” school ranking from 2012-2016, an honor by The Washington Post for being “America’s Most…...
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Alonzo & Tracey Mourning Senior High Biscayne Bay Campus (2018). Benner, A.D., Boyle, A.E. & Sadler, S. (2016). Parental involvement and adolescents’ educational success. Journal of Youth and Adolescence 45(6): 1053-1064.Garcia, L.E. & Thornton, O. (2014). The enduring importance of parental involvement. NEA Today. Nov 18, 2014. http://neatoday.org/2014/11/18/the-enduring-importance-of-parental-involvement-2/National Center for Education Statistics (2018). Search for public schools. https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=1200390&ID=120039007635Neihaus, K., Adelson, J.L. Neihaus, K., et al. (2014). School support, parental involvement, and academic and social-emotional outcomes for English language learners. American Educational Research Journal 51(4): 810-844.http://atmourningsharks.org/
How Grit is a Positive Predictor of Academic Success among College StudentsIntroductionCollege can be a trying time for students due to the weight of new responsibilities and the increase in personal accountability. There are no parents looming over ones shoulder, the subjects and classes are more difficult and require more study, and the pressures can build. One quality of successful students that has been identified by researchers is grita toughness of character that helps a person to be resilient when facing obstacles so as to overcome them (Crede, 2018). This paper will conduct a literature review of the relevant material related to grit as a positive predictor of academic successful among the college student population. It will look at both qualitative and quantitative findings. It will also identify a need for an intervention at the macro level and explain why this population is in need of a targeted intervention based…...
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Boerma, M., & Neill, J. (2020). The Role of Grit and Self-Control in University Student Academic Achievement and Satisfaction. College Student Journal, 54(4), 431-442.
Buzzetto-Hollywood, N., Quinn, K., Wang, W., & Hill, A. (2019). Grit in online education. Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science, 1-11.
Crede, M. (2018). What shall we do about grit? A critical review of what we know and what we don’t know. Educational Researcher, 47(9), 606-611.
Fong, C. J., & Kim, Y. W. (2019). A clash of constructs? Re-examining grit in light of academic buoyancy and future time perspective. Current Psychology, 1-14.
EDUCATION Education: Outliers Response PaperSuccess requires hard work, focus, innovation, persistence, passion, etc., and those characteristics are not even deemed important by a person to become unbeaten. The book Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell talks about outliers who are the brightest people becoming successful, not only because of their skills and capabilities but also due to the opportunities, cultural legacies, social conditions, and detailed patterns, etc. that become conducive to their success. This paper aims to reflect my heritage, identity, strengths, weaknesses, etc., through the Gladwellian lens to highlight the extent to which Gladwells theory fits into the peoples definition of success.I belong to the Christian religion, and my cultural background is that of Black origin. When Gladwell narrated the story of Joe Flom, a Jewish, whose being Jewish became an opportunity for him to become a successful lawyer in New York City, the writer told his…...
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Austin, L.J.E., Edwards, B., Chavez, R. & Whitebook, M. (2019). Racial wage gaps in early education employment. CSCCE. https://cscce.berkeley.edu/racial-wage-gaps-in-early-education-employment/
Garcia, E. & Weiss, E. (2017, September 27). Reducing and averting achievement gaps. Economic Policy Institute. https://www.epi.org/publication/reducing-and-averting-achievement-gaps/#
Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers: The story of success. Back Bay Books.
Gabrieli asserts that schools use time in an outmoded way: schools used to take summers off because children would help at the farms to bring in the crops in the old days -- or because summers are hot and school houses need to be cool; but today these are not really factors (Koonce, 2016). Therefore, according to this side of the argument, time can be better managed and -- in fact -- expanded so as to close the achievement gap; in short, there should be more time spent in schools. On the other side of the argument is Larry Cuban, however, who shows that there is no evidence that more time spent in school actually leads to greater academic achievement (Koonce, 2016). So, there is the idealistic side, represented by Gabrieli, and the scientific side, represented by Cuban.
My belief about this issue is that success is largely dependent upon the…...
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21st Century Skills. (2015). The Glossary of Education Reform. Retrieved from http://edglossary.org/21st-century-skills/
Kim, C. (2008). Academic success begins at home: How children can succeed in school. Heritage. Retrieved from http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/09/academic-success-begins-at-home-how-children-can-succeed-in-school
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Teaching
Responsive Pedagogy, Dialogue and Leadership the Key to Academic Success
Public schools in the US comprise of students hailing from diverse racial, cultural and economic backgrounds (Pehmer et.al, 2015). While certain pupils belong to poor households, just as many come from affluent backgrounds. According to an ethnic/racial survey performed in 1995, the racial composition of Oak View School located in California’s Huntington Beach and having a 609-strong student population was: 529 Hispanics, 14 Whites, 1 Black, 1 Filipino, 1 Asian, and 1 Pacific Islander. Considering the rich cultural diversity of public schools in present-day urban America, it is vital that school districts and teachers come up with innovative means of working with students hailing from diverse cultural backgrounds, as it is critical to ensuring educational equality and quality for all (Sleeter $ Milner 2011).
Further, the need to improve teaching within a large number of urban schools may be evidenced by the…...
Academic Profile of Home Schooling - a Case Study
Home Schooling vs. Traditional Educational Methods
Home Schooling Methodology
Focus of the Practicum
Culture
Area of Inquiry
Subject/Topic Areas
Home Schooling as an Alternative
Curricula and Materials Used for Home Schooling
The Success of Home Schooling
Evaluation Design
Conditions for Change
Timeline
Chronology
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Maryland: A Legal Analysis
State Laws and Regulations - Maryland
Goulart and Travers vs. Calvert County
Home-schooled Kids Find Social Growth"
Home Schoolers in the Trenches"
Home School Academic Advantage Increases Over Time"
Home Schooling." ERIC Digest, Number 95.
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The Academic Profile of Home Schoolers
Case Study
The focus of this applied dissertation proposal is to examine and analyze home school families' academic environment, the institutional materials they use, and to gain an understanding of their academic success.
Prince George's County Public School System is the nineteenth largest school system in the nation with a diverse student population of over 137,000 students. Currently, there are 2,309 students that are being educated at home; 858 are being taught through correspondence courses that…...
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Buchanan, Jim (1984). Home Instruction: A Growing Alternative to Public Schools. Monticello, IL.
Lande, Nancy (2000). Home school Open House: Interviews with 55 Home schooling Families. Bozeman, MT
Waring, Bill and Diane (1999). Emerald Books: A look back on what they learned along the way by veteran home schooling parents of varying approaches.
move from a movie! my gymnastics coach told me, his eyes agape. "That was a mean tumbling pass!" I blushed. It had been a long time goal for me to become a police officer so that I would be able to apply my physical strength to a challenging career. While I always loved playing and watching sports like football and baseball, I didn't see professional athletics in my future. And while I enjoyed and excelled at the sciences in high school enough to make lab work my chosen major, I also didn't want to delve into hard science as a potential future career. I realized quite a long time ago that working for the police force would enable me to combine my talents and strengths while helping others and contributing something to my community. Furthermore, as a native New Yorker, my desire to be a cop is made all…...
Cultural Case Study: Maria
This cultural case study examines the language competencies, social and human capital assets of a Spanish immigrant to the U.S. named Maria. She is 16 and lives in a community where the Hispanic population is considerable. Her family is supportive and engaged in her life and she receives substantial assistance from them. She is motivated and does well in her studies. She is able to practice her L1 and her L2 all the time thanks to a school that is good at helping ELLs and a community that shares in her ethnic background where her L1 is still commonly used among the inhabitants. This paper also provides some simple suggestions for what the school could do to continue to help Maria to achieve her objectives.
Introduction
Maria is an ELL who has a strong personal and cultural identity. She is Hispanic -- an immigrant from Spain -- and is…...
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Anderson, V. & Garrison, J.M. (2014). Language and Culture Vignette, Week 1. EDUC
526 course content materials, Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska. [PDF]
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bilingual children help us to resolve bilingual issues and teach us about the brain's mechanisms underlying all language acquisition. Learning Languages, 8(3), 5-18. [PDF]
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