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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
Cyril Brom; Anna Drobná; Anna Yaghobová; Daniel Št’astný; Katerina Zábrodská; Marek Urban – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2025
Objectives: Limited research exists on how new computer science (CS) teachers understand fundamental Internet principles. This knowledge gap hinders the development of effective upskilling courses, especially as new CS curricula are being introduced worldwide. This study investigates new CS teachers' conceptions of fundamental Internet principles,…
Descriptors: Internet, Knowledge Level, Computer Science Education, Elementary School Teachers
Valarie McMillan – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented disruptions to teaching and learning. In March 2020, COVID-19 pandemic was recognized as a life-threatening virus, therefore, schools across the United States of America had an induced lockdown, which prevented the continuation of in-person learning. Adjustments, quickly, were made to the learning…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Language Arts, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 8
Meredith Coffey; Adam Tyner – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2023
"Excellence gaps" are the disparities in advanced academic performance that exist between student groups. These gaps have important implications for both academic equity and American economic competitiveness, as the most lucrative jobs often go to those who perform at the highest levels. Although considerable work has evaluated how and…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Socioeconomic Status, Ethnicity, National Competency Tests
Haavold, Per Øystein – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2020
In this exploratory study, I investigate the relationship between age, knowledge, and creativity in mathematics, by looking at to what extent does grade level, controlled for mathematical achievement, influence mathematical creativity and what characterizes the relationship between grade level, mathematical achievement and mathematical creativity.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Age Differences, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 11
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
Susilawati; Aznam, Nurfina; Paidi – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
It should be noted that learning outcomes are not students' only achievement; attitude is also the main output in learning. This research explores students' attitudes toward science learning based on gender and the grade level of schools in Aceh, Indonesia. The participants are 1,023 students from the sixth grade of primary schools and the eighth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
XIA, Qi; Chiu, Thomas K. F. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) education is still in the exploratory stage for K-12 schools. There is a serious lack of studies that informed schools teachers about AI curriculum design. Accordingly, this paper presented an AI curriculum and examined whether the curriculum improves students' perceived AI knowledge, attitudes, and motivation towards…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Learning Motivation, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement
Kritika Thapa – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Measurement invariance is crucial for making valid comparisons across different groups (Kline, 2016; Vandenberg, 2002). To address the challenges associated with invariance testing such as large sample size requirements, the complexity of the model, etc., applied researchers have incorporated parcels. Parcels have been shown to alleviate skewness,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment
Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Geiger, Tray; Winn, Kevin – Cogent Education, 2022
Researchers explored how 13 states in which policymakers have adopted an A-F school letter grade accountability system performed on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) post-policy implementation. Researchers found mixed results, with approximately half of these 13 states increasing achievement post-policy, and the other…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Mathematics Tests, Reading Tests, Mathematics Achievement
Bhat, Zahoor Ahmad; Khan, Mahmood Ahmad; Rashid, Rukaya – Online Submission, 2022
The study attempts to know the extent of enrolment, and retention rate of tribal students at upper primary stage and provide a comparative picture of tribal with respect to gender and educational zones of Ganderbal district. Descriptive survey has been used in present study. Using Information Blank, the primary information about student enrolment…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Tribes, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power
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)
Xiang, Ping; Liu, Jiling; Li, Weidong; Guan, Jianmin – European Physical Education Review, 2021
Students' ability beliefs about running activities in physical education/athletics classes were investigated longitudinally from the perspectives of Nicholls' conceptions of ability and Dweck's implicit theories of ability. The data for this study were provided by 44 students (20 boys; 24 girls) who participated in a larger longitudinal project on…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Physical Activities, Mastery Learning, Elementary School Students
Inceçam, Beyza; Demir, Ergül – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine the significance level of problems experienced in the transition from elementary to secondary education by using the rank-order scaling method. The study was conducted using a mixed-methods design. Forty-two eighth-and ninth-grade students from different types of public schools and 15 teachers were selected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Grade 8