scholarly journals Parental Competence Beliefs and Attributions for Achievement in Kindergarten: Effects on Parent Expectations

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Georgia Stephanou ◽  
Maria Doulkeridou
Keyword(s):  
School Performance ◽  
Academic Ability ◽  
Parent Expectations ◽  
Kindergarten Children ◽  
Parental Attributions ◽  
Parental Competence ◽  
Past Performance ◽  
General School ◽  
Grade One ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this study was to examine (a) parental attributions for children’s performance in language, mathematics and globally school in kindergarten, (b) whether parents’ perceptions concerning their children’s academic ability predict the children’s school performance in kindergarten, the subsequent parental attributions, and the impact of school performance and parental attributions on parental expectations concerning their children’s later school performance in the first primary school year, and (c) the role of the three sets of concepts (perceived academic ability, performance in kindergarten, and subsequent parent attributions) in the formulation of parent expectations. The participants were parents of 150 kindergarten children (80 girls, 70 boys), who were randomly recruited from 45 state kindergartens of various towns of Greece. The results revealed: (a) parents attributed their children’s good performance to stable and, mainly, internal and personal controllable to the children’s factors, (b) the higher parents estimated their children’s ability, the better the children performed in the respective school subject, and the higher the parental attributions to internal, stable, personal controllable and external uncontrollable to the children’s factors were, (c) variability in the effect of parents’ perceptions of their children’s ability on attributions and performance between and within school subjects, in favoring language, and least favoring general school performance and (d) although parental perceived children’s academic ability was the most powerful predictor of parents’ expectations regarding their children’s performance in grade one, both the children’s past performance and the subsequent parental attributions accounted for a positive significant portion of the variance of it.

Preliminary Study of the Impact of Critical Success Factors on Project Success in Pakistan

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aqeel Ahmed ◽  
Muhammad Sehail Younis
Keyword(s):  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Workforce Planning ◽  
Survey Instrument ◽  
Past Performance ◽  
Cronbach Alpha ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
The Impact

This preliminary study attempts to link among the critical success factors on overall project success in public sector organizations in Pakistan.  In this study it’s reflected that major critical success factors (soundness of Business & workforce, planning & control, quality performance and past performance) can enhance the success of the project in Pakistan.  The purpose of this preliminary study was to verify the reliability of the survey instrument which has been used in European countries. It was found that the planning & control was the highest Cronbach Alpha value, while the ranged for each constructs in the present study from 0.68 to 0.88.  Therefore, based on the Cronbach alpha value score, the proposed survey instrument has fulfilled the basic requirement of a valid instrument.

Pupil with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-25
Author(s):  
Karolina Diallo
Keyword(s):  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
School Performance ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
The Past ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

Pupil with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Over the past twenty years childhood OCD has received more attention than any other anxiety disorder that occurs in the childhood. The increasing interest and research in this area have led to increasing number of diagnoses of OCD in children and adolescents, which affects both specialists and teachers. Depending on the severity of symptoms OCD has a detrimental effect upon child's school performance, which can lead almost to the impossibility to concentrate on school and associated duties. This article is devoted to the obsessive-compulsive disorder and its specifics in children, focusing on the impact of this disorder on behaviour, experience and performance of the child in the school environment. It mentions how important is the role of the teacher in whose class the pupil with this diagnosis is and it points out that it is necessary to increase teachers' competence to identify children with OCD symptoms, to take the disease into the account, to adapt the course of teaching and to introduce such measures that could help children reduce the anxiety and maintain (or increase) the school performance within and in accordance with the school regulations and curriculum.

Quality of life in allergic rhinitis

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tunis Ozdoganoglu ◽  
Murat Songu ◽  
Hasan Mete Inancli
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Allergic Rhinitis ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Upper Respiratory Tract ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Impact

Allergic rhinitis is a global health problem that causes major illness and disability worldwide. Although nasal and nonnasal symptoms are directly attributable to inflammation in the upper respiratory tract, individuals also experience generalized symptoms that include fatigue, mood changes, depression, anxiety and impairments of work and school performance, and cognitive function. Health-related quality of life focuses on patients’ perceptions of their disease and measures impairments that have a significant impact on the patient. The burden of disease, as the patient perceives it, forms the basic motivation to seek medical aid or to undergo therapy. Adherence to therapy requires changes in health, perceived by patients as relevant and outweighing eventual disadvantages of intervention. Because so many factors are involved in health-related quality of life, there are multiple ways in which it can be measured. A variety of validated and standardized questionnaires have been developed including assessments of school performance, work performance, productivity, and other parameters that quantify the impact of allergic rhinitis and its treatment on quality of life. The aim of this review is to highlight the impact of allergic rhinitis on the quality of life and to analyze the most commonly used health-related quality of life instruments.

scholarly journals The impact of accountability reforms on the Key Stage 4 curriculum: How have changes to school and college Performance Tables affected pupil access to qualifications and subjects in secondary schools in England?

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meenakshi Parameshwaran ◽  
Dave J. Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
College Performance ◽  
Stage 4 ◽  
The Impact

The Conservative–Liberal Democrat Coalition Government's reforms to secondary school Performance Tables have changed how schools make decisions about the subjects and qualifications entered by their pupils. The National Pupil Database is used to explore these changes between 2005 and 2014. We find that schools are responding to accountability reforms by changing access to subjects and qualifications for pupils: entry rates for English Baccalaureate qualifications have increased, while those for qualifications no longer counted as a result of the Coalition's response to the Wolf Review have decreased. However, reforms have not yet led to equal access to subjects and qualifications for all pupils.

scholarly journals CEO Monitoring and Board Effectiveness: Resolving the CEO Compensation Issue

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
Chiraz Ben Ali ◽  
Frédéric Teulon
Keyword(s):  
Chief Executive Officers ◽  
Ceo Compensation ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Board Governance ◽  
Board Effectiveness ◽  
Past Performance ◽  
Compensation Committee ◽  
Ceo Pay ◽  
Executive Officers ◽  
The Impact

This study examines the impact of board governance mechanisms on the pay of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) using a sample of major French listed companies for the 2009–2011 period. The results show that CEO pay is negatively associated with the presence of a family CEO and positively associated with board size, busy directors, board meetings, and compensation committee independence. We provide further evidence that CEO compensation increases with firm size, and both present and past performance. Our study casts doubt on the effectiveness of formal board attributes in constraining CEO compensation.

scholarly journals Social origin and the ability to self-evaluate school performance accurately

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Rosche
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Academic Ability ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Social Origin ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
School Grades ◽  
Important Research Question

As for students many consequential life decisions still lie ahead it is vitally important that their choices suit their abilities. Concerning education a misperception of academic ability can lead to educational misinvestment with potentially severe consequences. That is why this paper investigates if there are disparities in the ability to accurately self-evaluate school performance by social origin. To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first paper considering this important research question. In doing so, the paper has two emphases: firstly, a theoretical model, arguing why disparities in the ability to accurately self-evaluate school performance by social origin are likely, is proposed and secondly an empirical study is conducted in order to examine if disparities by social origin are findable. The key results indicate that both students with less and students with highly educated parents underestimate their school performance if they have school grades higher than the average, and overestimate their school performance if they have school grades lower than the average. However, this relationship is intensified for students with less educated parents and therefore they self-evaluate their school performancecompared to students with highly educated parents less accurately.

scholarly journals Impactos do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA) no Rendimento Escolar dos Municípios do Paraná

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-451
Author(s):  
Renata Cattelan ◽  
Lirane Elize Defante Ferreto
Keyword(s):  
School Performance ◽  
Dropout Rate ◽  
Food Shortage ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Pass Rate ◽  
Food Quantity ◽  
Politica Publica ◽  
Keywords Education ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Distortion Rate

No Brasil, ao longo das últimas décadas, algumas políticas públicas procuraram sanar os problemas da carência alimentar. Contudo, a insegurança alimentar tem fatores multidimensionais e impacta de maneiras variadas na vida da população, especialmente de crianças e adolescentes. O impacto da quantidade e qualidade insuficiente dos alimentos pode ser um fator de redução do rendimento escolar. O Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA) é uma política pública que visa a distribuição de alimentos de qualidade nas escolas, bem como em outros órgãos, e que objetiva gerar renda no campo ao mesmo tempo em que oferece qualidade nutricional. Partindo do problema da carência alimentar para crianças e adolescentes e como isso afeta a produtividade escolar, o objetivo desta pesquisa é avaliar o impacto do PAA no rendimento escolar de crianças e adolescentes que estudam em escolas que são beneficiárias do programa. A metodologia utilizada foi o teste de Mann-Whitney e as variáveis utilizadas foram o IDEB, a taxa de aprovação, a taxa de abandono escolar e a taxa de distorção idade/série para o ensino fundamental séries iniciais e finais. O recorte geográfico é o estado do Paraná, e temporal, os anos de 2013 e 2015. O principal resultado do estudo mostrou que a variável taxa de distorção idade/série dos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental, para o grupo formado pelos municípios afetados pelo PAA, obteve melhora estatisticamente significativa em relação a municípios que não participaram do programa. Palavras-chave: Educação. Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional. Teste de Mann-Whitney. AbstractIn Brazil, over the last decades, some public policies have tried to remedy the problems of food shortage. However, food insecurity has multidimensional factors and impacts in various ways on the lives of the population, especially children and teenagers. The impact of insufficient food quantity and quality may be a factor in reducing school performance. The Food Acquisition Program (FAP) is a public policy aimed at the distribution of quality food in schools as well as other agencies, and which aims to generate income in the countryside while providing nutritional quality. Starting from the problem of food shortage for children and teenagers, and how it affects school productivity, the objective of this research is to evaluate the impact of FAP on the school performance of children and adolescents who study in schools that benefit from the program. The methodology used was the Mann-Whitney test and the variables used were the IDEB, the pass rate, the dropout rate and the age / grade distortion rate for elementary and early grades. The geographical cut is the state of Paraná, and temporal, the years 2013 and 2015. The main result of the study showed that the variable age / grade distortion rate of the early years of elementary school, for the group formed by the municipalities affected by the FAP, obtained statistically significant improvement compared to counties that did not participate in the program. Keywords: Education. Food Safety and Nutrition. Test of Mann-Whitney. 

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