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Direct linkYou, Hye Sun; Park, Sunyoung; Delgado, Cesar – Science Education, 2021
The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics of US schools associated with two measures of scientific literacy (content knowledge and "procedural and epistemic" knowledge) using the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data. Because outcomes are nested within students, and students within schools, a…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Institutional Characteristics, Student Characteristics, Grades (Scholastic)
Download full textYalcin, Seher – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2017
The purpose of this study was to identify the multilevel latent classes for reading, mathematics, and science success of the students, who participated in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 from Turkey and to determine the predictive ability of: i) students' perseverance; ii) their openness to problem solving; iii)…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Depren, Serpil Kilic – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2018
Turkey is ranked at the 54th out of 72 countries in terms of science achievement in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey conducted in 2015, which is a very big disappointment for that country. The aim of this research was to determine factors affecting Turkish students' science achievements in order to identify the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prediction, Science Achievement, Multivariate Analysis
Kiray, S. Ahmet; Gok, Bilge; Bozkir, A. Selman – Online Submission, 2015
The purpose of this article is to identify the order of significance of the variables that affect science and mathematics achievement in middle school students. For this aim, the study deals with the relationship between science and math in terms of different angles using the perspectives of multiple causes-single effect and of multiple…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Information Retrieval, Data Analysis
Cheema, Jehanzeb R. – Research in Education, 2014
Recent data have suggested that despite massive outlays on educational reform Qatar consistently ranks as one of the least academically proficient countries in key areas of literacy. Of the seventy-four countries that participated in PISA 2009 Qatar ranked between sixty-seven and sixty-nine in mathematics, reading and science literacy. Although…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Immigrants
Kiray, S. Ahmet; Gok, Bilge; Bozkir, A. Selman – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2015
The purpose of this article is to identify the order of significance of the variables that affect science and mathematics achievement in middle school students. For this aim, the study deals with the relationship between science and math in terms of different angles using the perspectives of multiple causes-single effect and of multiple…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Information Retrieval, Data Analysis, Middle School Students
Lin, Tzung-Jin; Tan, Aik Ling; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2013
Due to the scarcity of cross-cultural comparative studies in exploring students' self-efficacy in science learning, this study attempted to develop a multi-dimensional science learning self-efficacy (SLSE) instrument to measure 316 Singaporean and 303 Taiwanese eighth graders' SLSE and further to examine the differences between the two student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Biagi, Federico; Loi, Massimo – European Journal of Education, 2013
Based on PISA 2009 data, this article studies the relationship between students' computer use and their achievement in reading, mathematics and science in 23 countries. After having categorised computer use into a set of different activities according to the skills they involve, we correlate students' PISA test-scores with an index capturing the…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Achievement Rating, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Linnakyla, Pirjo; Malin, Antero – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The aim of this study is to examine Finnish students' school engagement profiles in the light of the data collected in the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) in 2003. Even though Finnish students' cognitive achievement has proved excellent in various international assessments, their school engagement has not been flattering. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Profiles, Learner Engagement, Educational Assessment
Papanastasiou, Elena C. – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2003
The purpose of this study was to examine how variables related to computer availability, computer comfort and educational software are associated with higher or lower levels of science literacy in the USA, Finland and Mexico, after controlling for the socio-economic status of the students. The analyses for this study were based on a series of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computers, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education
