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Burns, David. "Will I do as well on the final exam as I expect? An examination of students' expectations". Journal of the scholarship of teaching and learning. 8.3 (2008). Burns states that students' expectations play an important role when they anticipate results before a test. Throughout the article, we can find detailed information that indicates that many factors are related to test results. Thus, we find important aspects, such as that this behavior could probably have an impact on the amount of effort or that the absences during the semester. These students, when they begin a course, tend to bring previous expectations on how good they are going to do. But if they get bad grades, at the end, they will have low expectations on the final exams, due to the fact that they think it reflects on what they did from the beginning. On the other hand, we find that there are some Hindrances which are: self-handicapping, test anxiety, time spent studying and absences. These hindrances are not detected by students realize but they are going to be reflected on the preparation and results on final exams. As a consequence, the results and the information of this article, can be useful for the research objective because it helps us to be aware of that there are other factors - self-handicapping, test anxiety, time spent studying and absences- that directly affect the improvement of test scores, therefore it is a suitable article to be considered in our research. Finally, the author came up with privileged information that might help to think about the implication of the results, which showed that expectations and factors such as anxiety or self-steem can be an influence which is evident in results they get.

Good Online Sources For Research In Education

academic or professional journals

1. QUESTIA: this journal has information about where researchers studied or where they teach, which is an evidence that gives reliability. There is a free trial for a couple of weeks, then you have to pay for it.

http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=JycK1tvNbq1hqbGRGrbHqDG0mT8FGQpSDTg0zGK2xHQV89B1vMnd!569501316!-957050587?docId=5000422134

2. ELT OXFORD JOURNALS: as part of a well-known university, this journal has the support of an important school. It has advice for teaching English as a foreign or second language. Downloadable for free!

http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org/

3. TEACHING JOURNAL: Mr. Belzs, a literature teacher, publishes every week articles about poetry, it's a complete course on-line. Free!

http://www.belz.net/teaching/journal.html

4. THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY PSICHOLOGY NETWORK: an online psichology network with articles about psichology and teaching. There is a link for resource searching. Free!

http://www.psychology.heacademy.ac.uk/html/teaching_practice.asp

5. IDEAS.REPEC: this website has authors, institutions, chapters and bibliography. Free!

http://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/econom/v3y1975i2p123-150.html


database

1. WIKIPEDIA: This database has articles wich include links to let you know every meaning of what you don't know. Free!

http://www.wikipedia.com

2. RIPE: it has settings to accurate the research that even include organisations or persons. Free!

http://www.ripe.net/db/whois-free.html

Religion in the classroom

As it is known, lot of people have the sense of life alter life, therefore, they might believe in superior life or lives that rule/s the World and their lives. It helps to make life easier, due to that to be part of certain religions or believes, people have to live under directions .On the other hand we have education, which is a way of learning and getting use to life in society. Thus, these two important aspects in some people’s lives are defined by their relationship and how they live together in education. As Sacerdote and Glaeser state in their study "Education and Religion," "The positive effect of education on sociability explains the positive education-religion relationship"(8).

When teachers have to teach, they certainly express personal experiences to help students understand some concepts. It is almost impossible not to show personal ideas or ways of seeing life in general while teaching. Therefore, if a teacher believes in god, or belongs to a religion or believe, he will probably share what he thinks. But in this case, there should be done carefully, because in public education we find dissimilar religions that have different concepts about simple topics such as life or family.

However, in Education we have another discussion, which is about how good the Education is, and how much students learn. Cline, an atheist blogger, argues that "Teaching about religion has some value, but not nearly as much as a more comprehensive education that includes philosophy as well"(145). Some people can say that other subjects such as Philosophy or Language might be more important than religion. Others can say that Math is important. But the important point is that students learn, no matter what they or teachers believe in.

Subjects are free to believe or do what they want to do, but respecting others. In this aspect, teachers have to be neutral in what they truly believe, because, as important adults for students, they can make a deep impact on students’ thoughts unwillingly. Education will always be important in life, generating discussion on sensitive matters, and religion plays a relevant role when teachers, parents and students talk about how a good education has to be.

Sources:

Sacerdote, Bruce; Glaeser, Edward L. Education and Religion. NBER. January 2001.

< http://www.nber.org/papers/w8080>

Cline, Austin. Education and Religion. September 17^th, 2006.

< http://atheism.about.com/b/2006/09/17/education-and-religion.htm>