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Developing Metacognitive Skills through Class Activities: What Makes Students Use Metacognitive Skills?
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Bae, Haesol; Kwon, Kyungbin – Educational Studies, 2021
Metacognitive skills can improve with appropriate instruction, however, educators may not be familiar with these methods of teaching. This study explores what factors influenced students to implement metacognitive skills and how students perceived the purposefully designed metacognitive activity in a high school classroom in South Korea. 252…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Skill Development, High School Students, Teacher Student Relationship
Achievement Goals and Classroom Goal Structures: Do They Need to Match?
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Hofverberg, Anders; Winberg, Mikael – Journal of Educational Research, 2020
It is often assumed that students' personal achievement goals are most beneficial when they match the goal structures of the classroom, but interaction between achievement goals and goal structures is not well researched. In this study, we aim at providing a nuanced picture of the direct, interaction, and nonlinear effects of achievement goals and…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Educational Objectives, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation
Marital Problems, Maternal Gatekeeping Attitudes, and Father-Child Relationships in Adolescence
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Stevenson, Matthew M.; Fabricius, William V.; Cookston, Jeffrey T.; Parke, Ross D.; Coltrane, Scott; Braver, Sanford L.; Saenz, Delia S. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
We evaluated maternal gatekeeping attitudes as a mediator of the relation between marital problems and father-child relationships in 3 waves when children were in Grades 7-10. We assessed each parent's contribution to the marital problems experienced by the couple. Findings from mediational and cross-lagged structural equation models revealed that…
Descriptors: Mothers, Marital Instability, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship
Are Discussions about College between Parents and Their High School Children a College-Planning Activity? Making the Case and Testing the Predictors
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Myers, Scott M.; Myers, Carrie B. – American Journal of Education, 2012
Our research goals are to make the case that parent-student discussions about college planning should be seen as a distinct college-planning activity and to identify and test the relevant predictors of these discussions. Findings from over 4,000 parents and their high school children show that parent-student discussions are enhanced when both the…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Preparation, College Choice, Parent Child Relationship
The Challenges of the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test for Second Language Students
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Cheng, Liying; Klinger, Don A.; Zheng, Ying – Language Testing, 2007
Results from the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) indicate that English as a Second Language (ESL) and English Literacy Development (ELD) students have comparatively low success and high deferral rates. This study examined the 2002 and 2003 OSSLT test performances of ESL/ELD and non-ESL/ELD students in order to identify and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Literacy
Family and School Influences on Adolescent Smoking Behaviour
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Wiium, Nora; Wold, Bente – Health Education, 2006
Purpose: This paper aims to examine how influences at home and school interact to predict smoking among adolescents. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from 15-year-old pupils from Norway (n=1,404 in 73 Grade 10 school classes). Multilevel logistic regression analysis was used to determine how family and school influences interact to…
Descriptors: Smoking, Foreign Countries, Grade 10, Students