期刊名称:Near and Middle Eastern Journal of Research in Education
印刷版ISSN:1703-1958
出版年度:2015
卷号:2015
期号:1
页码:2
DOI:10.5339/nmejre.2015.2
出版社:Hamad bin Khalifa University Press
摘要:While numerous studies have been conducted on the impact of nicknames on students, these studies have focused on the effects of nicknames students have received in their lives. This study adopted a very unique and different design and asked female Kuwaiti university students to self-select a nickname of their own choice to be used in the classroom instead of their proper name. The students who volunteered to self-select nicknames and the students who did not were administered a structured questionnaire that was designed to gather data regarding the perceptions of the effects the self-selected nicknames had upon classroom performance. The analysis of the surveys revealed that the female students who selected nicknames reported that it improved their classroom performance. In addition, the females who did not select a nickname reported that it appeared to improve the classroom performance of those who choose a nickname.