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Ding, Fangyuan; Xiao, Xingxue; Shi, Yijun; Wan, Yani; Cheng, Gang – School Psychology International, 2022
To explore the relationships between parents' attitudes toward school (PAS) and adolescents' family socioeconomic status (SES), psychological "suzhi," and academic performance, we investigated a total of 1319 Chinese middle school students from junior grade 1 to senior grade 3 and their parents. The psychological "suzhi" was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Early Adolescents, Middle School Students
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Brunner, Martin; Keller, Lena; Stallasch, Sophie E.; Kretschmann, Julia; Hasl, Andrea; Preckel, Franzis; Lüdtke, Oliver; Hedges, Larry V. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2023
Descriptive analyses of socially important or theoretically interesting phenomena and trends are a vital component of research in the behavioral, social, economic, and health sciences. Such analyses yield reliable results when using representative individual participant data (IPD) from studies with complex survey designs, including educational…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Surveys, Research Design, Educational Research
Gibson, Laura; Rodriguez, Carlos; Ferguson, Sarah Jane; Zhao, John; Hango, Darcy – Statistics Canada, 2019
Previous research has suggested that skills acquired at a young age, such as reading or math skills, may have an impact on the early labour market outcomes of individuals. In this study, tax data linked to the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) are used to examine the association between…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Adolescents, Wages, Young Adults
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Azzolini, D.; Campregher, S.; Madia, J. E. – Research Papers in Education, 2022
This paper provides a comparative analysis of the drivers of English Language Competence (ELC) in a representative sample of European adolescents. School factors -- such as English instruction time and English onset -- are found to play an important role, especially in countries whose official languages are more distant from English. However,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Skills, Adolescents, Second Language Instruction
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Han, Seong Won – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
This study examines the degree of association between students' STEM occupational expectations and between-country differences in public attitudes toward science and technology (S&T). This study focuses on public attitudes among two different populations: students and adults. Three-level Hierarchical Generalised Linear Models are employed to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Career Choice, High School Students, Public Opinion
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Hayashi, Yugo; Takeuchi, Yugo – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2018
This study investigated the factors underlying the estimation of learner self-confidence during explanations with a conversational agent in an online explanation task. Based on reviews of previous studies, we focused on how factors such as the learner's task activities and personal characteristics can be predictors. To examine these points, we…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Task Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Individual Characteristics
de Lange, Marloes; Dronkers, Jaap; Wolbers, Maarten H. J. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2014
Living in a single-parent family is negatively related with children's educational performance compared to living with 2 biological parents. In this article, we aim to find out to what extent the context of the school's share of single-parent families affects this negative relationship. We use pooled data from the Organisation for Economic…
Descriptors: One Parent Family, Academic Achievement, Family Structure, Fatherless Family