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Attitude towards the Discipline of Physics-Chemistry and School Achievement: Revisiting Factor Structure to Assess Gender Differences in Portuguese High-School Students
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Vilia, Paulo; Candeias, Adelinda A. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
The importance of attitudes and other variables of the affective domain in education is acknowledged for a long time. In this study, we used an attitude questionnaire to survey 498 Portuguese 9th-grade students to determine the predictive ability of the attitudes towards the discipline of Physics-chemistry on school achievement. Possible gender…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Student Attitudes, Factor Structure, High School Students
Validation and Utility of the Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary for Japanese Students
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Ito, Ayako; Smith, Douglas C.; You, Sukkyung; Shimoda, Yoshiyuki; Furlong, Michael J. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2015
The article explores the use of the Social and Emotional Health Survey-Secondary version (SEHS-S) with a sample of 975 Japanese students in Grades 7-9 attending schools located northwest of Tokyo. A confirmatory factor analysis using half the sample confirmed the four-factor structure of the SEHS-S, and further analyses verified its second-order…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Social Development, Surveys, Test Construction
Students' Perceptions of Emotional and Instrumental Teacher Support: Relations with Motivational and Emotional Responses
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Federici, Roger A.; Skaalvik, Einar M. – International Education Studies, 2014
We explored whether students' perceptions of emotional and instrumental support provided by their mathematics teacher constitute separate dimensions of teacher support and how they are related. We also analyzed how students' perceptions of emotional and instrumental support in math lessons relate to math anxiety, intrinsic motivation, help-seeking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Teachers
Cultural Identity and Peer Influence as Predictors of Substance Use among Culturally Diverse Australian Adolescents
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Gazis, Nicki; Connor, Jason P.; Ho, Robert – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2010
This study investigated cultural identity and peer influence on tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis use in a culturally diverse sample of Northern Australian adolescents. Middle school students (n = 274) completed the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM) and measures of their own and perceived friends' substance use. Higher scores on the full…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Ethnicity, Marijuana, Factor Structure
Learning Motivation and Performance Excellence in Adolescents with High Intellectual Potential: What Really Matters?
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Schick, Hella; Phillipson, Shane N. – High Ability Studies, 2009
In the development of performance excellence, the relative roles played by intellectual ability and motivation remain speculative. This study investigates the role played by general intelligence, school environment, self-efficacy, and aspects of personal identity in the formation of learning motivation in German students attending the Gymnasium…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Self Efficacy, Factor Structure, Learning Motivation
Adolescent Future Expectations of Work, Education, Family, and Community: Development of a New Measure
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McWhirter, Ellen Hawley; McWhirter, Benedict T. – Youth & Society, 2008
The development and validation of a measure of adolescent future expectations associated with work, education, family, health, and church/community participation is presented. The 25-item measure was administered to a sample of 389 7th- to 12th-grade urban poor and working-class Chilean students. Results of an exploratory principal axis factor…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Validity, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis