scholarly journals BIOELECTRIC ACTIVITY OF THE BRAIN IN PUPILS WITH DIFFERENT ACADEMIC SUCCESS. REPORT 2. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND PATTERNS OF BIOELECTRIC ACTIVITY OF THE CORTEX

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 80-92
Author(s):  
Olga Borisovna Gileva
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Academic Failure ◽  
Academically Successful ◽  
Bioelectric Activity ◽  
Simple Arithmetic ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Figure Rotation

Background. The paper presents the study of the factors of academic success and failure in students, which is a relevant and socially significant problem. Academic failure often results in behavior deviations, drug abuse and other types of dangerous behavior. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to establish the reasons of academic failure, as well as the ways to improve academic performance. Aim. The paper aims to establish the features of responses of academically successful and unsuccessful 12-year-old children to cognitive load based on EEG data. Materials and methods. Twelve-year-old schoolchildren (n = 51) from Ekaterinburg participated in the study. Participants were divided into two groups depending on their academic performance. EEG recording was performed using the CONAN-m equipment (Informatics and Computers, Russia). Monopolar EEG recordings were obtained from 10 symmetrical leads in different conditions: during resting wakefulness (for eyes open and closed) and when solving experimental tasks of three types (simple arithmetic task, verbal and logical task, spatial thinking task). The differences between the samples of academically successful and unsuccessful children were assessed using the Wilcoxon nonparametric test. Results. Differences were revealed in a number of EEG indicators both at rest and when solving experimental tasks between academically successful and unsuccessful schoolchildren. The responses of academically successful children to cognitive load were characterized by predominant ctivation of the anterior cortical areas with a focus of activity in the left frontal area. Academically unsuccessful children were characterized by a more generalized type of EEG response with a focus of activity in the caudal areas of the cortex, especially when solving a figure rotation task. It was also found that successful children made mistakes when solving a figure rotation task and unsuccessful ones-when solving verbal and logical tasks. Conclusion. Children with low academic success were found to have characteristic features of the functioning of the cerebral cortex, which hampered the perception of educational material presented in the form of a logically structured message. However, these children were able to brilliantly operate with visual-spatial information. This must be taken into account when working with such children to improve their academic performance. 

scholarly journals BIOELECTRIC ACTIVITY OF THE BRAIN IN PUPILS WITH DIFFERENT ACADEMIC SUCCESS. REPORT 1. CHILDREN WITH DIFFERENT ACADEMIC SUCCESS AS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE AGE NORM

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
Olga Borisovna Gileva
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Spectral Characteristics ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Bioelectric Activity ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Brain Functioning ◽  
Eeg Data ◽  
Recording Conditions ◽  
The Brain

Background. Studying the bioelectric activity of the brain allows scientists to get a picture of brain functioning, including cognitive activity. The sensitivity of this method allows identifying and explaining subtle differences between children with different academic success, representatives of the age norm. However, additional research is needed to develop and substantiate measures of psychological and pedagogical support for schoolchildren for increasing their academic success. Aim. The paper aims to study rest and cognitive load EEG data in 12-year-old children and assess the compliance of these data with the age norm. Materials and methods. Twelve-year-old children participated in the study, both males (n = 25) and females (n = 26). The EEG was recorded using the CONAN-m equipment, and the electrodes were mounted according to a 10–20 system. The study was carried out under four experimental conditions: at rest and under cognitive load, which consisted of solving three types of tasks (verbal-logical, arithmetic, and spatial rotation of a figure). EEG spectral characteristics were evaluated depending on the recording conditions. Results. It was found that predominant alpha-range frequency in females was from 9.6 to 9.8 Hz, in boys it was slightly higher (about 9.9–10.1 Hz). Response to cognitive load was slightly different depending on the type of task. In general, it consisted of a slight increase in theta and beta ranges and a decrease in bioelectric activity in the alpha range. In males, an asymmetric, cross-type activation was found with a more pronounced alpha rhythm depression in the left frontal, temporal and right occipital regions. Conclusion: In general, the examined sample corresponded to the age norm according to rest and cognitive load EEG.

The imagination effect when using textual or diagrammatic material to learn a second language

2020 ◽  
pp. 136216882097178
Author(s):  
Olga Ignatova ◽  
Slava Kalyuga ◽  
John Sweller
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Cognitive Load Theory ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Intrinsic Cognitive Load ◽  
Load Theory ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Textual Material ◽  
Memory Resources

The imagination effect occurs when students learn better from imagining concepts and procedures rather than from studying them. Cognitive load theory explains the effect by better use of available working memory resources and increased productive, intrinsic cognitive load. The effect has been found in numerous empirical studies. However, in the majority of studies demonstrating the effect, visual/spatial information has been used: the type of information that is believed to be easy for imagining. The reported two experiments investigated if an imagination effect could be obtained using verbal information in the area of learning a second language. The results indicated that while textual material was expectedly more difficult for learning than diagrammatic material, asking learners to imagine textual material did improve performance. Cognitive load theory has been used as a theoretical framework to interpret the results.

Academic Stress and Emotion Regulation in the Iranian Female Students with High and Low Academic Performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. s787-s788
Author(s):  
S. Piryaei ◽  
M. Mohebbi ◽  
M. Khademi Ashkzari ◽  
E. Khademi Ashkezari
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Academic Failure ◽  
Academic Stress ◽  
Female Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Competing Interest

IntroductionThis paper examines the similarities and differences between academic stress and emotion regulation and investigates that the association between emotion regulation and academic stress may be explained the level of academic success among female students.ObjectivesThis research suggests that students vary in their ability to regulate emotions and cope with academic stress, and these abilities may differ across the level of student's academic success. Identifying the academic stress and quality of emotion regulation strategies will lead to practical implications for promoting student's with low or high academic success.AimsThe present study aims to compare academic stress and emotion regulation in the female students with high and low academic performance.MethodsA total of 162 high school students (mean age = 15.26) were selected by cluster random sampling method. They were categorized as students with high (87 students) and low (75 students) academic performance by average of their academic performance. Emotion regulation questionnaire, educational stress scale for adolescents and academic performance were administered. One-way MANOVA was conducted on academic stress and emotion regulation.ResultsThe results of analysis were significant only for emotion regulation, F (5, 156) = 5.34, P = .001. Mean score of students with low academic performance in the emotion regulation was significantly lower than students with high academic performance.ConclusionsThe extent to which variation in emotion regulation and coping with stress can be considered as a key factor of academic failure/success in educational settings.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Some Personality Correlates of Self-Rated Academic Success

1975 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 1007-1010 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Mehryar ◽  
H. Hekmat ◽  
F. Khajavi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
University Students ◽  
Academically Successful ◽  
Psychological Screening ◽  
American University ◽  
Personality Variables ◽  
Personality Correlates

Using subjects' own ratings of their academic performance, a group of American university students were divided into academically successful ( n = 312) and unsuccessful ( n = 170) subgroups. A comparison of mean scores of the two groups on nine personality variables covered by Eysenck's PEN Inventory and Lanyon's Psychological Screening Inventory showed that academic success, as rated by subjects themselves, is associated with low psychoticism, neuroticism, and discomfort but high extraversion and defensiveness.

Extraversion-Introversion and Self-Rated Academic Success

1978 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 508-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suroosh Irfani
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Test Item ◽  
Academically Successful ◽  
Successful Student ◽  
Three Samples ◽  
Student Subjects

It was hypothesized that students' view of themselves as academically successful or unsuccessful is influenced by their personalities and also their actual academic performance. Three groups of 209 and 101 Iranian and 128 Turkish students ( n = 438) were given Eysenck's Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Psychoticism Inventory, appended with the test item, “Do you regard yourself as an academically successful student?.” Subjects scoring high and low on extraversion were, respectively, classified as extraverts and introverts, separately for each of the three samples. Comparison of extraverts' and introverts' self-ratings of academic success showed that the number of extraverts rating themselves ‘successful’ was consistently higher in each of the groups compared, lending some support to the above hypothesis.

Learning Style Preferences of Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Systematic Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tonderai Washington Shumba ◽  
Scholastika Ndatinda Iipinge
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Style Preferences ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Style Preferences

This study sought to synthesise evidence from published literature on the various learning style preferences of undergraduate nursing students and to determine the extent they can play in promoting academic success in nursing education of Namibia. A comprehensive literature search was conducted on electronic databases as a part of the systematic review. Although, kinaesthetic, visual and auditory learning styles were found to be the most dominant learning style preferences, most studies (nine) indicated that undergraduate nursing students have varied learning styles. Studies investigating associations of certain demographic variables with the learning preferences indicated no significant association. On the other hand, three studies investigating association between learning styles and academic performance found a significant association. Three studies concluded that indeed learning styles change over time and with academic levels. The more nurse educators in Namibia are aware of their learning styles and those of their students, the greater the potential for increased academic performance.

scholarly journals Arithmetic Word Problems Revisited: Cognitive Processes and Academic Performance in Secondary School

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Duque de Blas ◽  
Isabel Gómez-Veiga ◽  
Juan A. García-Madruga
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Word Problems ◽  
Spatial Reasoning ◽  
Deductive Reasoning ◽  
Executive Processes ◽  
Mathematical Operation ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The One ◽  
Memory Resources

Solving arithmetic word problems is a complex task that requires individuals to activate their working memory resources, as well as the correct performance of the underlying executive processes involved in order to inhibit semantic biases or superficial responses caused by the problem’s statement. This paper describes a study carried out with 135 students of Secondary Obligatory Education, each of whom solved 5 verbal arithmetic problems: 2 consistent problems, whose mathematical operation (add/subtract) and the verbal statement of the problem coincide, and 3 inconsistent problems, whose required operation is the inverse of the one suggested by the verbal term(s). Measures of reading comprehension, visual–spatial reasoning and deductive reasoning were also obtained. The results show the relationship between arithmetic problems and cognitive measures, as well as the ability of these problems to predict academic performance. Regression analyses confirmed that arithmetic word problems were the only measure with significant power of association with academic achievement in both History/Geography (β = 0.25) and Mathematics (β = 0.23).

scholarly journals Performance on the ROCF at 8 Years Predicts Academic Achievement at 16 Years in Individuals with Dextro-Transposition of the Great Arteries

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Matthew E. Fasano-McCarron ◽  
Jane Holmes Bernstein ◽  
Deborah P. Waber ◽  
Jane W. Newburger ◽  
David R. DeMaso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Academic Outcomes ◽  
Academic Skills ◽  
Spatial Problem ◽  
Complex Figure ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Individual Achievement ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Problem Solving Task

Abstract Objective: This study examined longitudinal associations between performance on the Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure–Developmental Scoring System (ROCF-DSS) at 8 years of age and academic outcomes at 16 years of age in 133 children with dextro-transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA). Method: The ROCF-DSS was administered at the age of 8 and the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, First and Second Edition (WIAT/WIAT-II) at the ages of 8 and 16, respectively. ROCF-DSS protocols were classified by Organization (Organized/Disorganized) and Style (Part-oriented/Holistic). Two-way univariate (ROCF-DSS Organization × Style) ANCOVAs were computed with 16-year academic outcomes as the dependent variables and socioeconomic status (SES) as the covariate. Results: The Organization × Style interaction was not statistically significant. However, ROCF-DSS Organization at 8 years was significantly associated with Reading, Math, Associative, and Assembled academic skills at 16 years, with better organization predicting better academic performance. Conclusions: Performance on the ROCF-DSS, a complex visual-spatial problem-solving task, in children with d-TGA can forecast academic performance in both reading and mathematics nearly a decade later. These findings may have implications for identifying risk in children with other medical and neurodevelopmental disorders affecting brain development.

scholarly journals Comprehensive Investigation of Factors Influencing University Students’ Academic Performance in Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 375
Author(s):  
Abdullah Alabdulkarem ◽  
Mohammad Alhojailan ◽  
Saad Alabdulkarim
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Education Outcomes ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Undergraduate Programs ◽  
Relationship Of

Academic success in undergraduate programs is indicative of potential achievements for graduates in their professional careers. The reasons for an outstanding performance are complex and influenced by several principles and factors. An example of this complexity is that success factors might change depending on the culture of students. The relationship of 32 factors with the reported academic performance (RAP) was investigated by using a survey distributed over four key universities in Saudi Arabia. A total of 3565 Saudi undergraduate students completed the survey. The examined factors included those related to upbringing, K-12 education, and structured and unstructured activities. Statistical results validate that many factors had a significant relationship with the RAP. Among those factors, paternal’s education level and work field, type of intermediate and high schools, and the attendance of prayers in mosques were significantly associated with the reported performance. This study provides important insights into the potential root causes of success so that they can be targeted by educators and policy makers in the effort to enhance education outcomes.

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