The diagnosis of the a-priori weaknesses of students based on their features and past experience (e.g. age, sex, type of diploma) together with the features of the social context represents one of the preliminary assessment activities that can be taken into consideration so as to define different typologies of students and then develop a tailored learning programme for each student group. This...
In recent years, exploring the determinants that may influence students’ achievement has received much attention. Empirical studies have found that the most important factors which affect student performance are students’ characteristics, family background, school attended, and regional residence.
This paper aims at investigating the differences in students' performances among Science,...
The importance of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects has been growing in different economic sectors and in general for society as a whole (Murphy et al., 2019). Nevertheless, there are significant concerns in STEM education (Höhne et al., 2019) mainly related to the students' difficulties in achieving successful academic performances, the high dropout rates, and...
