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Hangyan Yu; Jie Hu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
In the digital era, traditional communication has undergone a drastic transformation into computer-mediated communication (CMC), which can be classified into synchronous CMC (SCMC) and asynchronous CMC (ASCMC). This study compared the effects of extracurricular CMC among students about schoolwork on students' digital reading achievement between…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Synchronous Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
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Çer, Erkan; Solak, Ekrem – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2018
The quality of a teacher plays one of the most important roles in the achievement of an education system. Teacher training is a multi-dimensional process which comprises the selection of teacher candidates, pre-service training, appointment, in-service training and teaching practices. Therefore, this study focuses on teacher training processes in…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Low Achievement, Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis
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Hu, Yiling; Wu, Bian; Gu, Xiaoqing – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
Test results from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) reveal that Shanghai students performed less well in solving interactive problems (those that require uncovering necessary information) than in solving analytical problems (those having all information disclosed at the outset). Accordingly, this study investigates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Eye Movements, High Achievement
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Vieluf, Svenja; Hochweber, Jan; Klieme, Eckhard; Kunter, Mareike – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
In the present study we compared comprehensive education systems and education systems using between-school tracking with regard to disparities in the quality of student-teacher relations between low and high achieving students, between students with different socioeconomic backgrounds, and between schools with different achievement and social…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Track System (Education), Comprehensive Programs, Comparative Analysis
Carter, Bruce J. – Online Submission, 2017
A problem recognized in the United States is that a K-12 public education in urban communities is more likely to support existing patterns of inequality than to serve as a pathway to opportunity. The specific focus of this research was on the poor academic performance in U.S. K-12 urban communities. Using Benet's polarities of democracy theory as…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Statistical Analysis, Benchmarking, Achievement Tests
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Ning, Bo; Van Damme, Jan; Van Den Noortgate, Wim; Gielen, Sarah; Bellens, Kim; Dupriez, Vincent; Dumay, Xavier – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2016
In the 2009 Programme for International Student Assessment, the Flemish community of Belgium outscored its French community in reading, with low achievers accounting for a large proportion of the score gaps. In this study, between-community comparisons based on the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method showed that the Flemish community benefits…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Reading Skills, Foreign Countries
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Fleckenstein, Johanna; Leucht, Michael; Pant, Hans Anand; Köller, Olaf – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2016
Background: English language proficiency is considered a basic skill that students from different language backgrounds are expected to master, independent of whether they are native or non-native speakers. Tests that measure language proficiency in non-native speakers are typically linked to the common European framework of reference for…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Castejón, Alba; Zancajo, Adrián – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
This article focuses on analysing the effect of educational differentiation policies of OECD educational systems on socioeconomically disadvantaged students, based on data from PISA 2009. The analysis is conducted on the basis of a definition of two subgroups of disadvantaged students: those that achieve high scores, and those obtaining scores…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Individualized Programs
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Sandström, Margareta; Nilsson, Lena; Lilja, Johnny – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2013
The aim of the study was to exemplify pupils' mastering of mathematical literacy. The study is a comparative multiple case study. In pupils' talk of mathematical activities aspects of mathematical literacy are discerned. A distinction is made between pupils: (1) pupils in mathematical difficulties, (2) pupils with another mother tongue than…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries
Petrilli, Michael J.; Scull, Janie – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2011
The release of the latest results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) garnered all the usual headlines about America's lackluster performance and the rise of competitor nations. To be sure, the findings--that America's fifteen-year-olds perform in the middle of the pack in both reading and math--are disconcerting for a…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests
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Lemke, Marlann; Sen, Anindlta; Johnston, Jamie S.; Pahlke, Erin; Williams, Trevor; Kastberg, David; Joceyln, Leslie – National Center for Education Statistics, 2005
This report has two objectives: first, to explore how the demographic and educational characteristics of low-performing students compare to other students within the United States; second, to analyze if the United States differs from the other PISA countries in terms of the characteristics of its low-performing students. The Program for…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Student Characteristics, Comparative Analysis, Student Evaluation