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Lamas, Héctor A. – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2015
The school performance study of students is, due to its relevance and complexity, one of the issues of major controversy in the educational research, and it has been given special attention in the last decades. This study is intended to show a conceptual approach to the school performance construct, contextualizing the reality in the regular basic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
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Cai, Yuyang; Zhu, Xinhua – Educational Psychology, 2017
Many arguments have been advanced in the context of the predictive correlation between learning strategies and reading achievement. There is insufficient understanding, however, of the subtle ways in which different types of learning strategies (i.e. memorisation, elaboration and control strategies) function in facilitating students' reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
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Chen, Huilin; Chen, Jinsong – Educational Psychology, 2016
By analysing the test data of 1029 British secondary school students' performance on 20 Programme for International Student Assessment English reading items through the generalised deterministic input, noisy "and" gate (G-DINA) model, the study conducted two investigations on exploring the relationships among the five reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Models, Foreign Countries
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Lim, Hyo Jin; Bong, Mimi; Woo, Yeon-Kyung – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background: Among the factors known to influence reading development and performance, attitude toward reading is shown to be particularly critical for developing learners. Reading attitude (McKenna, 1994; McKenna et al., 1995) enhances independent reading, levels of engagement in classroom reading activities, and the amount and variety of topics…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Context Effect, Student Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
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Magen-Nagar, Noga – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2016
The purpose of the current study is to explore the effects of learning strategies on Mathematical Literacy (ML) of students in higher and lower achieving countries. To address this issue, the study utilizes PISA2002 data to conduct a multi-level analysis (HLM) of Hong Kong and Israel students. In PISA2002, Israel was rated 31st in Mathematics,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Learning Strategies, Mathematics Achievement, Cross Cultural Studies
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Yildirim, Selda – Journal of Experimental Education, 2012
The aim of this study was to examine the role of motivational beliefs in mediating the relationship among perceived teacher support, learning strategy use, and student achievement. The author analyzed the Programme for International Student Assessment mathematics scores and questionnaire responses of 4,855 15-year-old students in Turkey via…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Mathematics Achievement, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries