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Huang, Ju-Chieh – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2023
To perform well in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and respond to rapid social changes, many countries have implemented curriculum reforms. The success of curriculum reform relies on teachers' rational, cognitive and emotional feelings for the challenge of implementation. Teachers' receptivity, growth mindset and grit has…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Persistence, Individual Characteristics, Teacher Attitudes
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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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Ding, Weili; Tang, Yipeng; Hu, Yongmei – Education Economics, 2023
In this paper, we analyze recently collected data that conducts a unique assessment of high school student performance for over two thousand students from five Chinese provinces. Across three domains of scientific intelligence tested, we document heterogeneous gender gaps in academic performance. These differences generally arise due to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Areas, Science Education, STEM Education
Yamashita, Takashi; Zhang, Jing; Sun, Na; Cummins, Phyllis A. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2022
Despite increasing demand in distance education, relatively little is known about the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics as well as basic skill levels of adult distance education participants at the national level in the US. This study analyzed the US data from the 2012/2014 and 2017 Program for International Assessment of Adult…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Socioeconomic Status, Basic Skills, Nonformal Education
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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
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Clavel, Jose G.; Flannery, Darragh – Journal of School Choice, 2023
A common decision parents face is the choice of school for their children. In Ireland, somewhat uniquely in an international context, this choice includes a large number of state-funded single-sex schools, to the point that this can be considered a realistic option for many parents. Focusing on secondary-level education and using the PISA 2018…
Descriptors: School Choice, Single Sex Schools, Secondary Education, Parent Attitudes
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Avci, Süleyman – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2022
The percentage of students with lower academic achievement than their peers due to their socio-economical disadvantages is globally accepted as an indicator of inequality. Some students, despite their disadvantages, are as successful as their advantaged peers. The family and individual characteristics and academic experiences of these students,…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Socioeconomic Status
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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