Essays on Academic Success

On most occasions, the society delegates high expectations upon individuals and tasks them to achieve these goals in spite of their limited capabilities. This phenomenon is explained by Robert K. Merton’s strain theory. Merton asserts that most people will engage in crimes and other socially deviant activities to be able to achieve certain goals (Wright, 2008). For example, Merton’s Strain Theory can be used to explain why a student will engage in cheating in exams. Academic success is an example of a socially acceptable goal. The society is of the opinion that education is the key to ...

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Introduction Consultation and collaboration are indirect services provided by school counselors which can foster the stakeholders in the educational system to render improved services for children. Multilayered school counseling approach developed for the school counselors today involves the provision of direct and indirect assistance in order to enhance the academic productivity of students. Modern school counseling framework includes multiple components, such as support of educators, guidance curriculum, and direct assistance for students and families. This strategy focuses on various services invented to support teachers, students, and parents. Consultation is considered to be a responsive service, which school counselors implement ...

I am a college student studying in the field of Occupational Safety and Health. The start of every semester is always a hectic time. I’m always juggling my career, classes, family, and friends. There are a few strategies that will help me achieve College success.

Career Goals

The most important strategy for attaining College Success is knowing your career goals and how you are planning to accomplish these goals. My first step when setting my career goals was creating a mission statement that reminded me every time why I want to be an Occupational Health and Safety Specialist. My Mission ...

English 1312.04

Carrera-Carrillo, Lore. "“Some of us are learning Spanish and some of us are learning English”: A comparison of second language programs in Texas." Thesis. 2003. Carrera-Carrillo observes how dual language programs are gaining popularity throughout the United States and targeting both the minority language students as well as the majority language students. Studies have revealed that there are many advantages which are associated with the learning of the English language. The native language enables students acquire content with better insight and can relate more to these concepts later in the English language. Not all facilities which have embraced ...

Personal Statement

My experience and education have certainly shaped who I am today, and will define what I can bring to the table as I join the ranks of students at Texas State University. Whether one is talking about my academic success or simply my goals in life, admission to this university is very important to me. Though my life has been full of trials and tribulation, I am still currently employed and highly motivated to succeed. If anything, I am more motivated to succeed because of the difficulties that I have faced. I graduated from Clear Springs High School in ...

I have developed a personal study plan because I must follow a well-planned strategy to reach my goal of graduation, which is my definition of academic success (York, Gibson, & Rankin, 2015). Setting personal goals is essential for meeting goals according to MindTools (n.d.). I have reviewed my earlier behavior because I understand I am in a critical situation concerning my personal academic success. I have made the mistake of many of my friends by taking on more than I could handle without thinking through the consequences (Williams, 2005, para. 7). I must concentrate on presenting my best work in ...

I. Introduction There is an ongoing debate about whether participating in athletic activities is beneficial to academic performance. This is an important issue in the field of education, as educational leaders must take into consideration those matters that have a direct impact on the performance of their students. Some educators argue that academics should not be mixed with athletics because college “should be a place for cultivating the mind, not the body” (White and Billings, 348), therefore, educational institutions should not be turned into a recruitment place for individuals interested in professional sports. This is based on the premise ...

Mental Health Issues Influencing Academic Performance amongst Students in Australia

It is in the nation’s best interest that youth complete as high a level of education as they are capable because dropping out of school can greatly diminish an individual’s chances in life and the ability to contribute to the community. Indeed, participation in tertiary education promotes national economy and innovation (Wierenga, Landstedt, & Wyn 2013, p. 3). The factors that compromise a young person’s ability to obtain a tertiary level education are socioeconomic disadvantage, rural location, and being an indigenous Australian (Wierenga, Landstedt & Wyn 2013, p. 4). Stafford, et al. (2007, Mental Health, para. 1) define ...

Scenario 1. In this situation, there are a number of key problems that have to be addressed. Websterton is a school that shows a number of features of a school that might potentially fail very soon in the future: the low staff morale combined with the fact that the staff members are largely new is not necessarily a negative feature for the institution, but it also certainly has the potential to be difficult for the school to really begin to heal in this particular scenario. Due to the structure of the American educational funding system, the fact that test ...

1.0 Introduction of a Developmental Issue Hong Kong primary and secondary school students are under constant academic pressure since they have no spare time to relax leading to psychological stress. In fact, it is difficult to change the education system. Since the beginning of the school year to the present day, the number of Hong Kong students who committed suicide rose to the highest levels. According to most of the students, school workload is just a fuse with “no joy, no hope, and no help.” There is a case that happened in a middle school in Hong Kong. The ...

Problem Statement

Understanding the impact of culture on student learning is very critical to the provision of good quality education to learners. The global population is made of people with different cultures. In learning institutions, it is common to find a class made up of students and instructors from different communities with different cultural perspectives. Culture defines people’s way of life and comprises beliefs, knowledge, symbols, values, and behaviors. In a learning environment, there is a student’s culture, instructor’s culture, and the culture of people in the surrounding environment. Culture in such a case can be homogenous (where ...

As independent variable of the current study, the experimenter used measures of self-esteem of students. A dependent variable was an academic success/failure of students. Students` success was measured by good grades while students` failure was measured by exclusion them out of the college. The experimenter suggested that low and high self-esteems influence the academic success and achievements of students in the college. However, she could be wrong with her final conclusions. Of course, it is possible that low self-esteem influences academic success negatively and high self-esteem influences academic success positively. However, it is also possible that low self-esteem is ...

Every student at each level of studying strives for academic success. Students use different strategies to arrive their goals in the course study although there are known methods proved to help to improve the level of education. One of the primary policy responsible for assisting students in achieving the success in education is proper planning. A good planning involves setting goals and objectives to meet at the end of the academic period. There should be well laid down action plans on how the goals set will be attained. It should be done at the same time focusing on the ...

Education

Participating in University Fitness Program Introduction Campus Fitness Program Overview Wellbeing is a growing trend in almost all demographics given the increasing awareness about the benefits of physical fitness. The university strongly promotes wellbeing among students by participating in campus recreations and part of the initiative was to establish a fitness gym inside the campus that the students can use for free. Apart from the usual sports and other recreation programs created as part of the physical fitness curriculum, the university also encourages the students to stay physically fit by establishing a fitness gym as a recreation facility. I ...

Introduction of Topic and How It Relates to Education

It is widely acknowledged that the educational process is very important for community improvement. A person develops under various circumstances, but there are basic factors which impact every person, no matter how different his/her life is – that is family (first of all, parents and also siblings and relatives) and educational institution (school, college, etc.). The family is the first environment the child is born and develops in. It is the place where a person establishes his psychological, social, physical, mental, and behavioral character. Parents’ influence lays the ground to the majority of future achievements and failures of a child ...

Abstract

In the last decade, the general issue affecting the learning environment is the alarming rate of failure in mathematics amongst African-Americans and low-income students. This issue is of concern to both educators and researchers who view the subject as an avenue of achieving a very high economic status. The rationale behind the project is that there have been continuous decline in the performances of AYP (Adequate Yearly Performance) tests.

It was found that African-American preferred a social learning environment to achieve academic success. The literature review on preferred learning style amongst the risk groups was guided by questions such as: Do ...

Development Reading Course is a study area at college level that is designed to improve the reading skills of students, to the standard required by the college, for course work (Valeri-Gold & Deming, 2008). It is designed to assist students achieve academic success by improving their skills in three high education level course work (Smittle, 1995). Students in colleges’ nation wide must demonstrate or show case, college readiness skills in three areas; Development Reading I, Development Reading II and composition and Basic Writing. The institution of higher learning measures the ability of a student, by their performance in the placement tests in ...