The Sports Done Right initiative in Maine seeks to change the culture of competitiveness for student athletes.
In today's volatile higher-education marketplace, we have little choice but to offer comfort, convenience, and competitiveness for student security and success, and to provide a kind of educational experience that may seem foreign to anyone over 30.
A recent study of students in the Netherlands explores one possible aspect of that complexity: the influence of average differences in competitiveness on students' choices of curricula.
Stress factors identified by students in the focus group: lack of time, excessive class content, tests, demanding too much of themselves, overload of extracurricular activities, competitiveness among students and family problems.
Our proposed pedagogical model enhances students' professional competitiveness by providing students with valuable research skills as they work on a problem to which they can relate.
Participant 3: "One of the things that I think most stress students here is what I perceive as the tremendous competitiveness among medical students".
The researchers devised an academic game to test the students' competitiveness and found that the girls, on average, are significantly less competitive than the boys.
Amid growing alarm over the slipping international competitiveness of American students, a report comparing math and science test scores of eighth graders in individual states to those in other countries has found that a majority outperformed the international average.
Such populism ignores teacher's warnings that pay based on performance will damage the collaborative ethos many schools have in place and lead to a toxic competitiveness from which students will suffer most.
Bailey's (1983) study has evidenced that facilitative anxiety is closely associated with better language learning and competitiveness among the students.
