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Student Motivation And The Inconvenience Of Snow

Jejak Panda Menambah Ilmu Dengan Membaca Di Situs Kesayangan Anda judi ceme online I’ve been reading Amanda Ripley’s The Smartest Kids in the World , in which she follows three US students who spend a year studying abroad in countries that have routinely scored high on recent PISA tests.   One student studies in Finland, a second in South Korea, and a third in Poland.   I’ll write more once I am finished, but one of Ripley’s chapters struck a chord with me the other day.   Among the many issues Ripley explores is student drive.   One set of measurements on the PISA exams was a series of post-test questions.   The questions were a set-up because the researchers were not actually interested in the answers to the questions but in the question of whether or not students completed the post-exam questions.   This was their way of assessing drive.   Students from high performing countries like Finland and South Korea completed the post-e...