Early on, I didn't have much confidence in my scholastic abilities, particularly reading.
Early-life risk factors, such as family disruption, maltreatment, and poverty, can negatively impact children's scholastic abilities; however, most previous studies have relied on cross-sectional designs and retrospective measurement.
It's a lot like that, except more so; the Ethiopian schools are very much about memorization and basic scholastic functions, while the OLPC is all about exploration and individual learning.
Relative strengths and weaknesses in cognitive functioning can become visible when children have to acquire specific scholastic abilities in school.
Abnormalities of attention, memory and language skills can have a profound impact on a child's scholastic abilities and their educational attainment.
However most of the work reported was conducted on high school students in the US who are younger than the students in our medical schools and who have a wider range of scholastic abilities.
Mothers were administered the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) (Dunn and Dunn 1981) to assess scholastic abilities at the 6-month visit, and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) (Radloff 1977) at the 12-month visit.
Awarded to first-year graduate students on the basis of scholastic ability and promise of achievement.
The authors found no association between scholastic ability as measured by SAT scores and changes in level of interest.
For example, the time someone stays in school is probably influenced by his innate scholastic ability, but this is very hard to measure.
Beginning with the G.I. Bill, college has depended increasingly more on measurable scholastic ability than on the status of wealth or birth.
