Sankaran and Bui (2001) indicated that less motivated learners performed poorly in knowledge tests while those with high learning motivation demonstrate high performance in academics (Green, Nelson, Martin, & Marsh, 2006).
Meanwhile, sitting here on the other side of the world, I got a rather self-congratulatory email from the local education bureau saying "it was glad to learn that Hong Kong students had maintained their outstanding performance" in academics.
The warrant is that the theoretical construct of academic language abilities accounts for the quality of language performance in academic settings.
Past performance in academic study has been reported as being a good indicator of ongoing and future performance (Ayán & García, 2008; House, Hurst, & Keely, 1996).
The program is designed to enhance Kindergarten through Grade 5 (K-5) students' English language proficiency, as well as their English performance in academic subject areas.
Similarly, individual differences in domains of cognitive ability are well established (Carroll & Maxwell, 1979; Cattell, 1963; Horn & Cattell, 1966) and correlate with performance in academic domains (Deary, Strand, Smith, & Fernandes, 2007; Shah & Miyake, 1996; Wai, Lubinski, & Benbow, 2005, 2009).
"Contrary to claims that increased video-gaming can impair academic performance, differences in academic performance were negligible across the relative frequencies of videogame use.
19 A large academic ICU was used as the pilot site for the behaviour-change strategies, but performance in the academic ICU was not used to evaluate the effectiveness of the network.
This is no different from assessing performance in traditional academic areas, for which the district also seeks better measures.
But is it right to equate performance in an academic exam with mental or physical health and fitness to return to studying?
At the same time, performance in other academic disciplines like math and science is dipping for students whose access to books is limited, and employers are rating workers deficient in basic writing skills.
