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Download full textAtas, Dogu; Karadag, Özge – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
In the field of education, most of the data collected are multi-level structured. Cities, city based schools, school based classes and finally students in the classrooms constitute a hierarchical structure. Hierarchical linear models give more accurate results compared to standard models when the data set has a structure going far as individuals,…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Direct linkSmith, Patriann; Cheema, Jehanzeb R.; Kumi-Yeboah, Alex; Warrican, S. Joel; Alleyne, Melissa L. – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: Standard English functions as a dominant language in the English-speaking Caribbean context despite the bidialectal, bilingual, and multilingual nature of countries. Notwithstanding, Caribbean non-Standard English-speaking students continue to be administered literacy assessments that do not take into account their…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Dialects, Language Dominance, Foreign Countries
Tan, Cheng Yong – British Educational Research Journal, 2017
The traditional discourse in the scholarship on cultural capital theory has focused on how exclusive participation in elite status culture by students from higher socioeconomic status families benefits their learning in schools, the effects of which are most evident in linguistic subject areas such as reading achievement. However, some scholars…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Attitudes, Expectation, Cultural Capital
Täht, Karin; Must, Olev; Peets, Kätlin; Kattel, Rainer – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2014
This paper investigates the relationship between educational achievement and the motivation to learn. We used the 2006 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that contains representative samples from 55 nations. A strong negative correlation between educational achievement and motivation toward science learning emerged at the…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Academic Achievement, Cross Cultural Studies, Developed Nations
Özdemir, Caner – European Educational Research Journal, 2016
This paper aims to discover the level of equity in the Turkish education system using maths outcomes of 15-year-old students in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) exam. In order to do that, associations between various social background variables and student performance are analysed via multilevel models. Female pupils,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Adolescents, Student Characteristics, Gender Differences
Marteleto, Leticia; Andrade, Fernando – Sociology of Education, 2014
Most studies find a positive correlation between family cultural capital and educational achievement. As compelling as the evidence on the advantages of family cultural capital for educational achievement is, most studies have focused on countries characterized by having a large middle class and high levels of income, not addressing societies with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Cultural Capital, Family School Relationship
Bass, Gwen – Ronald H. Fredrickson Center for School Counseling Outcome Research & Evaluation, 2015
The Ronald H. Fredrickson Center for School Counseling Outcome Research & Evaluation provides quarterly research briefs that summarize the exemplary outcome research completed in the field of school counseling. This research brief summarizes "Do School Bullying and Student-Teacher Relationships Matter for Academic Achievement? A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Bullying
Kaur, Berinderjeet; Areepattamannil, Shaljan – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2013
This study, drawing on date from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009, examined the relationships of out-of-school-time mathematics lessons to mathematical literacy in Singapore and Australia. Results of two-level hierarchical linear modelling (HLM) analyses revealed that out-of-school-time enrichment lessons in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
