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Yu Hu – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Students in Confucian culture are typically high-achieving on international assessments such as PISA and TIMSS. To explore factors that may explain the high performance of Confucian students, the present study compared the latent subpopulations of school resources and disciplinary climate in two Confucian countries and two Anglo countries. Using…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Confucianism, High Achievement, Anglo Americans
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Cheng Yong Tan – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
The present study provides insights on the influence of family socioeconomic and school resources on principal leadership and, in turn, the influence of principal leadership on the science learning of students. The study uses data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2015 (248,620 students and 9370 principals) from 35…
Descriptors: Principals, Socioeconomic Status, Educational Resources, Leadership Role
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Julien Bakchich; Nele Claes; Arnaud Carré; Annique Smeding – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
In school settings, students' mindset about intelligence (i.e., fixed versus growth mindset) and their sense of belonging to school (SBS) have both been shown to predict academic attainment. However, these constructs have rarely been examined together although both were found to be impacted by students' socioeconomic status (SES). Across the…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Student Attitudes, Sense of Community, Intelligence
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Kajsa Yang Hansen; Cecilia Thorsen; Stefan Johansson – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
The study investigates the academic resilience of Swedish students, focusing on how school-level factors contribute to achievement differences between resilient and non-resilient students. Using data from PISA cycles from 2000 to 2015, the study employs propensity score matching and hierarchical linear modeling to examine the impact of individual,…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Academic Persistence, Resilience (Psychology), Foreign Countries
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Jose Marquez; Louise Lambert; Devi Khanna – Journal of Research in International Education, 2024
Interest in how to promote student wellbeing in schools is growing. Research shows that some drivers of wellbeing are universal, but others are country-specific. No prior study has investigated this question in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where geographic, socio-demographic and school type differences in student wellbeing are substantial. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Well Being, Life Satisfaction
Lisa De Bortoli; Catherine Underwood; Tim Friedman; Eveline Gebhardt – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2024
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international comparative study of student performance directed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). PISA measures the cumulative outcomes of education by assessing how well 15-year-olds, who have nearly completed compulsory schooling in most…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students