The Relationship between Brain Dominance and Academic Performance: A Cross-sectional Study

Objective: In different parts of the world, Indonesia included, overweight and obese people are seen to have worse performance compared to their healthy counterparts. Although there were research that had been done to observe the relationship between overweight, obesity, and academic performance, the results obtained were still divided into significantly and non-significantly related.Methods: A cross-sectional study was done to 373 students from two different schools in South Jakarta on December 2017–January 2018. Data was obtained by measuring height and weight of the participant to get his/her nutritional status and the average of participant’s odd semester Continual Assessment and Semestral Assessment of Academic Year 2017/2018 to see if the result was higher or equal to the passing grade.Results: Data analysis with chi square test shows that there was no significant relationship between overweight, obesity, and academic performance (p = 0.452 for Indonesian Language and p = 0.476 for Mathematics) although overweight and obese students tend to have better performance in some exam.Conclusion: The events that lead to overweight, obesity, and one’s academic performance are all multifactorial that the relationship between the two is difficult to be determined.

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The relationship between sleep and wake habits and academic performance in medical students: a cross-sectional study

BMC Medical Education ◽

10.1186/1472-6920-12-61 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 43

Author(s):

Ahmed S BaHammam ◽

Abdulrahman M Alaseem ◽

Abdulmajeed A Alzakri ◽

Aljohara S Almeneessier ◽

Munir M Sharif

Keyword(s):

Academic Performance ◽

Medical Students ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

The Relationship

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Relationship between Learning Styles and Academic Performance among Virtual Nursing Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

Education Research International ◽

10.1155/2021/8543052 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Noushin Kouhan ◽

Maryam Janatolmakan ◽

Mansour Rezaei ◽

Alireza Khatony

Keyword(s):

Academic Performance ◽

Nursing Students ◽

Learning Styles ◽

Learning Style ◽

Academic Failure ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Grade Point ◽

The Relationship

Background. The lack of attention of nursing professors to students’ learning styles can cause academic failure. The results of studies on the relationship between students’ learning style and academic achievement are contradictory. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the relationship between VARK learning styles and academic performance among virtual nursing students. Methods. In this cross-sectional study, 237 virtual nursing students were enrolled by the convenience sampling method. The VARK learning styles questionnaire was used for data collection. The basis for determining academic performance was the grade point average(s) (GPA) of the previous semester(s). Students were divided into two groups based on their GPA, including strong (GPA ≥15) and weak (GPA ≤14.99) groups. Results. In both strong and weak groups, most of the subjects were unimodal (with a frequency of 92.9% and 78.5%, respectively), and the rest were multimodal. The most common learning styles in strong and weak students were kinesthetic (57.1%) and auditory (37.2%), respectively. The results of chi-square test did not show statistically significant differences between learning styles and academic performance of strong and weak students. Conclusion. There was no significant relationship between the dominant learning styles and academic performance of strong and weak students. However, nursing professors need to adapt their teaching methods to the students’ learning styles. More studies are recommended to shed more light on this area of research.

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