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Mundia, Lawrence; Jawawi, Rosmawijah; Hamid, Malai Hayati Sheikh Abdul; Zakir, Nordiana – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2021
This field survey had two main objectives. First, to determine the differences in the participants' Motivated Strategies Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) scores by gender, age, educational level, and school attended. Second, to identify patterns of the differences emerging from the research outcomes. Using a simple random sample of 310 Brunei…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Student Motivation, Cognitive Style, Learning Strategies
Angela Johnson; Megan Kuhfeld; James Soland; Miles Davison – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2024
Previous literature reported that Black students receive out-of-school suspensions (OSSs) and expulsions at disproportionately higher rates and have lower test scores than White students. This study provides recent evidence on the relation between racial disparities in discipline and in achievement, with particular focus on achievement gains, in…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Race, African American Students, Grade 6
Pas, Elise T.; Kaiser, Lauren; Rabinowitz, Jill A.; Lochman, John E.; Bradshaw, Catherine P. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2020
The extent to which youth attend Tier 2 evidence-based intervention is an important dimension of implementation. This study examined attendance patterns of 369 middle schoolers involved in a randomized trial testing the impact of Coping Power, an evidence-based Tier 2 preventive intervention. We conducted latent profile analysis to examine student…
Descriptors: Prevention, Intervention, Middle School Students, Comparative Analysis
Pas, Elise T.; Kaiser, Lauren; Rabinowitz, Jill; Lochman, John E.; Bradshaw, Catherine P. – Grantee Submission, 2020
The extent to which youth attend Tier 2 evidence-based intervention is an important dimension of implementation. This study examined attendance patterns of 369 middle schoolers involved in a randomized trial testing the impact of Coping Power, an evidence-based Tier 2 preventive intervention. We conducted latent profile analysis to examine student…
Descriptors: Prevention, Intervention, Middle School Students, Comparative Analysis
Jingjing Ma; Qingtang Liu; Shufan Yu; Jindian Liu; Xiaojuan Li; Chunhua Wang – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
This research employs the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method to investigate the configurations of multiple factors influencing scientific concept learning, including augmented reality (AR) technology, the concept map (CM) strategy and individual differences (eg, prior knowledge, experience and attitudes). A quasi-experiment…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Comparative Analysis, Qualitative Research
The Moderating Role of Poverty on Parenting, Family Climate, and Early Adolescent Emotion Regulation
Wendy Hadley; AnnaCecilia McWhirter; Daschel Franz; Jaclyn Bogner; David H. Barker; Christie Rizzo; Christopher D. Houck – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
Among infants and children, family climate (e.g., warmth, cohesion, support) and parent emotion regulation (ER) modeling are found to shape ER development. Few studies have attended to this process during early adolescence, and most have neglected to examine the role of poverty, which creates additional challenges for parents and families. The…
Descriptors: Poverty, Parenting Skills, Parent Child Relationship, Self Control
Heck, Tanja; Meurers, Detmar; Nuxoll, Florian – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Foreign language teaching achieves best learning outcomes when individual differences of learners are taken into account. While it is difficult for teachers to support internal differentiation in the classroom, digital tools can adaptively propose individual learning paths through activities so that students can practice with appropriately…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Outcomes of Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
El-Freihat, Sara; Al-Shbeil, Abeer – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
The study aimed to investigate the effect of child literature based integrative instructional program on promoting 7th graders writing skills at Irbid governorate in Jordan. The sample of the study totaled (87) male and female students selected purposefully. These were randomly assigned into four groups, two experimental groups, the first was…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Childrens Literature, Writing Skills, Comparative Analysis
Àngels Llanes; Júlia Barón; Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
Second Language Pragmatics (L2 pragmatics) research focused on the study abroad (SA) context points out the benefits of this context for second language (L2) pragmatic development while also illustrating the non-linearity of this development, as it is shaped by different contextual factors and individual differences. Nevertheless, this research…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Study Abroad, Pragmatics
Villarreal, Victor – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2017
Extracurricular activity participation has been associated with a multitude of positive outcomes, including school completion, and research suggests that students at risk for school failure are particularly likely to benefit from participation. However, before extracurricular activity participation can be promoted to address such issues,…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Middle School Students, Hispanic American Students, Early Adolescents
Chen, Yan; Mayall, Hayley J.; Smith, Thomas J.; York, Cynthia S. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
This study reports the integrated findings of a mixed-methods sequential explanatory study that investigated the feasibility and effectiveness of mobile-based writing tools (MBWTs) as well as gender differences that emerged from these learning effects in the narrative writing skills of a group of sixth to seventh grade Latinx English Learners…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Gender Differences, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
Stratton, Erin; Chitiyo, George; Mathende, Allen M.; Davis, Krista M. – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2020
The purpose of this study was to compare how face-to-face instruction and flipped learning differed in terms of student achievement in seventh grade science classes, as well as to assess how students who were in the flipped classroom felt about their experiences. A total of 81 students received face-to-face instruction, and 73 received flipped…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Teaching Methods, Blended Learning, Science Achievement
Hassan, Abdulhameed Saeed; Mohamed, Ahmed Hassan Hemdan – International Journal of Special Education, 2019
The purpose of this study was to explore the performance of three groups of students, gifted hearing students (GH), average-ability hearing students (AH), and deaf students (DF) on mathematical ability. The sample consisted of a total of 167 students (91 males and 76 females). Deaf students came from the Al-Amal School (an inclusive school for…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Deafness, Hearing (Physiology)
Juang, Linda P.; Schachner, Maja K.; Pevec, Sharleen; Moffitt, Ursula – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
We examined whether German adolescents who participated in an adapted 8-week school-based intervention, the "Identity Project," reported greater changes in heritage and global identities and perceptions of classroom cultural climate. We used a longitudinal, wait-list control design pooling eight classrooms across the school years of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Adolescent Development, Intervention, Educational Environment
Park, Sunhee; Callahan, Carolyn M.; Ryoo, Ji Hoon – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2016
The psychometric qualities of the six- and eight-item implicit theories of intelligence scales that Dweck suggested were compared using a confirmatory factor analysis with data from 239 gifted students (100 students in Grades 5-7, 139 students in Grades 8-11). The results indicate that the six-item scale fits the data better than the eight-item…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Intelligence Tests, Factor Analysis, Comparative Analysis