A comparison of the achievement of college students, advanced placement students, and first-year chemistry secondary school students

1980 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 494
Author(s):  
Sidney P. Harris ◽  
Anthony A. Galitisis
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Advanced Placement ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
School Students

Developmental Patterns of Free Recall and Frequency Judgement in Korean and American Students

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-252
Author(s):  
Melvin H. Marx ◽  
Yung Che Kim ◽  
Bruce B. Henderson
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Free Recall ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Korean Students ◽  
Complete Control ◽  
Developmental Trends ◽  
American Students ◽  
Animal Names

Four experiments were conducted to compare developmental changes in free recall and frequency judgement. In Experiment 1, 1012 Korean students were shown a series of animal names and then asked to recall them and to estimate the frequency with which they had occurred. The poorest performance on both tasks was by primary-school students and the best by secondary-school students; college students were intermediate in performance. Essentially similar results were obtained in Experiment 2, with an additional 288 Korean students, except that secondary-school students did not perform better than college students. In this experiment, there was complete control of item specificity over frequency and any possible clustering effect was eliminated by using unrelated words rather than animal names. In Experiment 3, the developmental trends in frequency judgement were replicated with 193 American students. Those developmental trends were obtained with another 186 American students in Experiment 4 using relative frequency judgements. Retrospective reports about how frequency judgements were made suggested a developmental shift from more literal counting strategies to more intuitive strength impression judgements. The results are interpreted as suggesting the need for some modification of the Hasher and Zacks (1979, 1984) age-invariance proposition for frequency judgement.

Brief Reports: A Comparison of Advanced Placement and College Students on a Calculus Achievement Test

1986 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-144
Author(s):  
Edwin M. Dickey
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Advanced Placement ◽  
Entrance Examination ◽  
National Council ◽  
College Mathematics ◽  
College Entrance Examination ◽  
School Students ◽  
Calculus Students ◽  
Ap Calculus

The articulation of secondary school and college mathematics is a critical problem facing educators today (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1980; Staff, 1984). The placement in college mathematics courses of students who have taken calculus in secondary school is an especially critical and difficult task. Calculus can be taught at various levels, and its subject matter components can receive varying degrees of emphasis. The Advanced Placement (AP) program attempts to provide a uniform and high-quality calculus course for secondary school students by publishing a detailed course syllabus, encouraging special training for AP instructors, and administering an examination that validates a student's AP Calculus experience (College Entrance Examination Board, 1984). Nonetheless, some evidence suggests that AP Calculus students have difficulty earning advanced placement and credit for the calculus they learned in secondary school (Lefkowitz, 1971; Neatrour & Mullenex, 1973; Pocock, 1974; Rash, 1977; Sklar, 1980; Sorge & Wheatley, 1977). One reason for this difficulty may be that AP Calculus students are not achieving at the same level as college students.

HEALTH-PROMOTING LIFESTYLES AND PERSONALITY AMONG BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENTS

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
University Students ◽  
South African ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Stepwise Regression ◽  
First Year ◽  
School Students ◽  
African Students ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Health Promoting

The aim of this study was to investigate health-promoting lifestyles (HPLP) and personality in black South African students. The sample included 606 students: 236 Grade 12, secondary school and 370 first year social science university students in South Africa. Results indicate a reasonable percentage of health-promoting lifestyles with a mean of 2.72. Secondary school students reported more overall health-promoting lifestyles than did university students. Multiple stepwise regression identified the Lie scale, Neuroticism, and Psychoticism as independent predictors for the total HPLP; Extraversion, gender and group (=secondary or university students) were excluded.

scholarly journals Interpretación de diagramas de comparación multiplicativa por estudiantes de secundaria

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 280-306
Author(s):  
Fany González ◽  
Elena Castro-Rodríguez ◽  
Enrique Castro
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Symbolic Representation ◽  
First Year ◽  
School Students

Este trabajo se centra en procesos de traducción de problemas gráficos de comparación multiplicativa a representación verbal y simbólica. Pedimos a 89 estudiantes del primer curso de educación secundaria que inventaran un problema que se ajustara a un diagrama y que escribieran una ecuación que integrara las relaciones del diagrama. Los dos procesos de traducción se han mostrado difíciles para los estudiantes, provocando diversidad de respuestas. El análisis conjunto de las respuestas reveló que la competencia de los estudiantes en el proceso de invención no es independiente de la traducción algebraica. Interpretation of multiplicative comparison diagrams by secondary school students This work focuses on translation processes of graphic multiplicative comparison problems to verbal and symbolic representation. We asked 89 students of the first year of secondary school to invent a problem that fits a diagram and to write an equation that integrates the relations of the diagram. The two translation processes have proved difficult for students, resulting diversity of responses. The analysis of the responses revealed that the competence of the students in the process of posing is not independent of the algebraic translation.Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10481/41629WOS-ESCI

scholarly journals The Effect of Using Inquiry Questions on the Achievement of First Year Secondary School Students

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Mohamed Al-Tarawna ◽  
Ali Abu-Saleem
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Control Group ◽  
First Year ◽  
School Students ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Experimental Group

This study aims at investigating the effect of Inquiry questions on the achievement of first year secondary school students looming History of Literature and Literary Texts. The study tried to investigate the following hypotheses: H1: There is no statistically significant difference between the achievement mean scores of male students who were taught through inquiry- questions and the achievement mean scores of those who were taught the same material through traditional techniques. H2 There is no statistically significant difference between the achievement mean scores of the female students who were taught this subject through inquiry questions and those who were taught the same subject through traditional techniques. H3: There is no statistically significant difference between the achievement mean scores of the male and female students who were taught this subject through inquiry questions and those who were taught the same subject through traditional techniques. To investigate these hypotheses, 144 male and female students were randomly assigned to two groups; an experimental group and a control group. Each group had 72 participants. The experimental group was exposed to teaching through inquiry-questions, while the control group was taught the same topics through traditional techniques. The study lasted for one semester. Then, using an achievement test, the researcher investigated the effect of inquiry questions on students' achievements. Results indicated statistically significant differences in favor of the experimental group at the .05 level.

scholarly journals Smoking among secondary-school boys in Bahrain: prevalence and risk factors

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 78-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Al Haddad ◽  
R. R. Hamadeh
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
School Students ◽  
Tobacco Advertising ◽  
Water Pipes ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Close Contacts

Todetermine the prevalence of smoking among male secondary school students in Bahrain and to identify their risk factors for smoking, we surveyed a random sample of students by questionnaire. The prevalence of smoking was 26.6%, 25.5% and 25.4% among first-year, second-year and third-year students respectively. Cigarettes [21.0%], water-pipes [13.0%] and cigars [1.6%] were popular. Smokers and non-smokers had similar socioeconomic profiles, but differed in degree of disapproval of smoking shown by close contacts and whether close contacts were smokers. The prevalence of smoking among male secondary-school students in Bahrain did not decline despite intense anti-smoking efforts in the last decade, perhaps indicating the effectiveness of tobacco advertising and promotions that target youth

Analysis of Errors Made by First Year Secondary School Students in Writing English Sentences: A Case Study of Libyan EFL Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
Mohamed Farhat Mehdi
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
First Language ◽  
First Year ◽  
School Students ◽  
Writing Difficulties ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Writing Errors ◽  
Verb Tense

The aim of this study is to identify, classify and explain the reasons behind the written errors and difficulties encountered by First Year Secondary School Students, Al-Jufra Region, Libya. A random sample of students and teachers is selected. The sample is thirty students and ten  teachers. The data is collected through three tools: written task by students and two questionnaires; one for the teachers and one for the students. The data is analyzed by using a descriptive method. The findings reveal that First Year Secondary School Students encounter difficulties in writing English sentences including verb tense and form, subject verb agreement, word order, prepositions, articles, plurality and auxiliaries. It is also revealed that students are not motivated enough to engage into written activities. These writing errors are mainly due to first language (L1) interference. The study concludes with some recommendations that will help First Year Secondary School Students to minimize their writing difficulties. 

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