In particular, girls with absent fathers will be more likely to begin sexual activity earlier and have more sexual partners. They also suggested that there would be cognitive effects in boys, such as increased verbal and decreased math ability. Although few studies have examined effects in boys,...
3. Refresh your math skills The realization that you need to take math (ugh, calculus) in college to graduate may make you want to drop out altogether. However, just taking a few minutes each day to relearn how to multiply functions together, take the derivative of exponential functio...
In order to understand the missing or low relationship between strategy knowledge and strategy usage, it is helpful to consider Hasselhorn’s (1996) conceptualization of strategy maturity. Hasselhorn described different deficiencies that can result in not using a strategy although knowledge about it ex...
Other programs/fields of study included occupational/technical programs, business, math or science or technology, humanities or social science or communication, education or arts; and "none of the above" designation. Students were allowed to skip any other questions or discontinue participation at any...
The under-representation of women among extremely high-achieving students has also been documented for the United States among high school students in math (Ellison and Swanson, 2010). It is also well-known that males’ aptitude test scores exhibit larger variance than females’, and that males ...
documented the process of code development according to the interview sequence. Second, we classified and analyzed the coding. Last, when we interviewed the 21st participant, we found that the same code reappeared and we did not obtain a new theme. In order to confirm the data saturation, ...
that both undergraduate and graduate students can easily accumulate $100,000 in student loan debt, and another finds that “undergraduate students majoring in theology, architecture and history are much more likely to graduate with excessive debt,” compared to those pursuing math and the sciences. ...
Colleges in the United States typically use a combination of high school GPA, SAT Verbal, and SAT Math (or similar assessments) as primary determinants of college admissions because they predict academic success (Sawyer,2013). Unfortunately, such procedures tend to produce inequities in admissions be...
Math Private companies and governments have massive amounts of data at their disposal, which means they’re in need of professionals who can make sense of it all. It’s one of the reasons why a degree in math is the gateway to a broad array of rewarding jobs. For example, anactuaryasse...
Birth Order, Achievement, and Blood Chemistry Levels Among College Nursing StudentsInterest is reviving in the dielectric properties of liquids. The present paper is concerned with a specific group of polar liquids having electrical conductivities which lie in the intermediate range between those ...