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Gabriel, Florence; Buckley, Sarah; Barthakur, Abhinava – Australian Journal of Education, 2020
Self-regulated learning has been shown to have a positive and long-lasting impact on students' academic development, employability and career progression. Emotions, motivation and metacognition play an important role in students' ability to monitor and regulate their learning, particularly when studying and engaging with Science, Technology,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Self Management, Student Motivation, Emotional Response
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Cutumisu, Maria; Bulut, Okan – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2017
This study aims to understand the predictive role of attitudes towards problem solving, such as perseverance and openness for problem solving, as well as of gender and country for Canadian and Finnish students' academic achievement in mathematics and science. We examined the data of students from Canada (n = 21,544) and Finland (n = 8,829) who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Problem Solving, Gender Differences
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Huang, Haigen – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
Despite decades of educational reforms, the achievement gap based on socioeconomic status (SES) persists in the United States. Not only does the SES-based achievement gap persist, it has also been widening. This study focused on the role of students, hypothesizing that students might reduce the SES-based achievement gap by increasing their…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Achievement Gap, Academic Persistence, Acceleration (Education)
OECD Publishing, 2019
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines what students know in reading, mathematics and science, and what they can do with what they know. It provides the most comprehensive and rigorous international assessment of student learning outcomes to date. Results from PISA indicate the quality and equity of learning…
Descriptors: Test Results, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment
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Thien, Lei Mee; Darmawan, I. Gusti Ngurah; Ong, Mei Yean – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2015
Background: The results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 showed that Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand underperformed and were positioned in the bottom third out of 65 participating countries for mathematics, science, and reading literacies. The wide gap between these three countries and the top performing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students