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Demir, Ergül – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2017
In this study, the aim was to construct a significant structural measurement model comparing students' affective characteristics with their mathematic achievement. According to this model, the aim was to test the measurement invariances between gender sub-groups hierarchically. This study was conducted as basic and descriptive research. Secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measurement, Student Characteristics, Comparative Analysis
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Uysal, Sengul; Banoglu, Koksal – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
This study aims to analyse the relationship between students' mathematics achievement in Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 and the instructional climate-related factors in the index of principals' perceptions (learning hindrance, teacher morale and teacher intention). As preliminary analysis procedure, the chi-squared…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement, Educational Environment, Administrator Attitudes
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Álvarez, Isabel; Gómez-Chacón, Inés Mª – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
Students' difficulty in learning and suitably understanding the concept of the algebraic variable has been studied with a number of tools and documented for several populations. Little research has been conducted, however, using the same tool to explore understanding of the notion among populations from different countries in an attempt to…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Cross Cultural Studies
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Demir, Ergül – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
In this study, it was aimed to model the school characteristics in multivariate structure, and according to this model, aimed to test the invariance of this model across five randomly selected countries and economies from PISA 2012 sample. It is thought that significant differences across group in the context of school characteristics have the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Institutional Characteristics, Measurement, Multivariate Analysis
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Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
In present-day knowledge societies, readers cannot understand complex issues without constructing meaning across multiple information sources. To what extent they are able to do so may depend on both characteristics of reading tasks and characteristics of readers themselves. In this study, 184 undergraduates read multiple texts about the complex…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Climate, Epistemology, Undergraduate Students