Cognitive and personality factors in relation to timely completion of a college degree.
The timely completion of a higher education degree and the enhancement of academic performance are concerns of students as well as parents and college administrators. The current study assesses the impact of cognitive and affective factors as related to students completing undergraduate degree requirements as well as their cumulative...

Evaluating knowledge and critical thinking in international marketing courses.
In view of the increasing business globalization trend, the development and implementation of teaching/learning strategies appropriate for the international marketing curriculum is a critical factor for the success of international business students. Bloom's taxonomy is a useful tool that can assist the teacher in testing and instructional evaluation. The...

Assessment of teacher dispositions.
In the recent years, teacher quality has become a top priority of our national education policy. There is empirical evidence that suggests that teacher inputs have impact on student outcomes. It is also believed that teacher dispositions are as crucial for student achievement as a teacher's pedagogical and content...

Giving NCLB an A-PLUS boost: the Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success Act would promote greater local control in education while maintaining accountability through state-level testing and information reporting to parents to ensure transparency.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FOR MORE THAN four decades, Congress has sought to improve public education by creating new Federal programs and increasing spending. In Fiscal Year 2007, the Federal government spent $23,500,000,000 on programs that fall under the original Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, now called...

Sharing stories at the library; Northboro mixes playing, learning for child, parent.
Byline: Susan Spencer NORTHBORO - How do children become readers? How do they learn how to learn? Child development specialists say the secret isn't in fancy flash cards or electronic gizmos. It's not in academic testing at younger and younger ages. It's in the simple practices of...

Peter J. Lustig; Twin City Christian School, Lunenburg.
AGE: 18 HOMETOWN: Townsend PARENTS: Curtis and Naomi Lustig HONORS AND AWARDS: Honor Roll, four years; highest class average, junior year; first place, MACS State Poetry and Essay Competition; first place, MACS Academic Testing for Advanced Math, two years; first place, MACS Academic...

The role of feedback during academic testing: the delay retention effect revisited.
The introduction of the teaching-testing machine by Pressey (1926) prompted the development of numerous techniques through which immediate feedback during multiple-choice and alternative-choice questions could be delivered. The teaching machine described by Skinner (1958) not only presented immediate feedback, but also transformed the role of the student from a...

Provision of feedback during preparation for academic testing: learning is enhanced by immediate but not delayed feedback.
During the past five years Epstein and his colleagues have been refining and validating an assessment procedure known as the Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique, or IF AT (Dihoff, Brosvic, & Epstein, 2003; Epstein, Brosvic, Dihoff, Lazarus, & Costner, 2003; Epstein, Epstein, & Brosvic, 2001; Epstein, Lazarus, Calvano, Matthews, Hendel,...

The relationship between academic achievement and physical fitness.
Abstract Over the past 50 years research has typically demonstrated either no, or a weak relationship between academic performance and physical performance. Nevertheless, the fact that any positive relationship has been found has lead to the "healthy children learn better" concept currently being promoted in schools, and...

Customized learning: a search engine that adapts to individual student abilities has proven to be an ideal addition to one district's effort to differentiate instruction.
ONE OF THE FASTEST-GROWING and most diverse K-12 school districts in South Carolina, Richland School District Two, is committed to integrating new teaching methods and modern technologies into its daily academic life. One area that Richland focuses on is the use of differentiated instruction (DI) in the classroom. ...