The document discusses how various individual factors can impact one's educational experience, including culture, family, gender, socioeconomic status, religion, language of origin, and age. It provides definitions for each factor and examples of how they can influence learning. Culture affects how people think and behave. Family support and expectations at home impact student motivation and performance. Gender differences exist in subjects like math and test-taking. Socioeconomic status influences home resources and stress levels. Religion provides values that can positively impact education if schools remain secular. Language barriers pose difficulties for non-native English speakers. Younger ages are generally better for new learning, while traditional intelligence peaks in the late teens to 20s.

1. Individual Diversity and its Impact on ones Educational Experience By: Giliane Forsyth

4. Culture affects who we are, how we think, how we behave, and how we respond to our environment (Dunn 2000).Different cultures entails learning in different ways. An example of this will be individualist culture, like the United States, versus collective cultures, like India. Motivating techniques that work well in individualist cultures, will make students from the collective culture feel alienated.

7. Your family has a great impact on who you are and how you feel about situations. Therefore family's impact on ones learning experience is vast. Your family dictates whats important for you, so if parents enforce that school is most important that will increase the students willingness to do good in school. An example of this is a mom who reviews spelling words with her child, increases the chance that her child will get a good grade on the test.

10. Females and males work in different ways. Females are better at timed tests. While males score higher in mathematics. They are also interested in different things, females tend to set importance to social relationships, while males set importance in competing with their classmates .

13. Socioeconomic status affects the parents time they have at home and also the amount of stress the child experiences. Schools in low socioeconomic areas, are poorly funded and suffer from low educational achievement(Aikens 2008).In 2007, the high school dropout rate among persons 16- 24 years old was highest in low-income families (16.7%) as compared to high-income families (3.2%)(Aikens 2008).

16. Religion instills in you a set of beliefs and standards that you hold your life to. This can have a good impact on ones educational experience, although schools are made to be secular and free from organized religion,regular attendance at religious services is linked to healthy, stable family life, strong marriages, and well-behaved children addition, religious practice leads to an increase in physical and mental health, longevity, and education attainment. (Fagan 2006).

19. Getting an education sets a variety of struggles, between standardized tests and many subject areas, any student can get frustrated. Imagine not knowing English, these students face; difficulties making friends, understanding content, and have lowered expectations from staff. An example of this is;At Hayes High (in California)... there is the one ESL teacher for 72 high school students, including the 60 Spanish speakers. At lower grades, there are eight other ESL teachers, giving the district a total of nine for 450 ESL students, a ratio of 1-to-50(Associated Press 2005).

22. Although your never to young to learn. Age definitely affects how our brains process and retain information. In cross-sectional studies, traditional intelligence peaks at 18, stays steady until the mid-20s, and declines until the end of life. Although these studies underestimate older subjects. We can not deny that it is easier to learn something new when your younger.

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