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Yazilitas, D.; Saharso, S.; de Vries, G. C.; Svensson, J. S. – Gender and Education, 2017
This study focuses on high school students' profile choices and the choice for or against the Nature and Technology (NT) profile in the Netherlands. A mixed-methods approach is used to study cultural values that affect this choice. The quantitative part of the study shows that being female is negatively correlated with the choice for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Gender Differences, Mixed Methods Research
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van Velzen, Joke H. – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2018
There were two purposes for this mixed methods study: to investigate (a) the realistic meaning of awareness and understanding as the underlying constructs of general knowledge of the learning process and (b) a procedure for data consolidation. The participants were 11th-grade high school and first-year university students. Integrated data…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Mixed Methods Research, Data Collection, High School Students
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Claessens, Luce C. A.; van Tartwijk, Jan; van der Want, Anna C.; Pennings, Helena J. M.; Verloop, Nico; den Brok, Perry J.; Wubbels, Theo – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The authors voice teachers' perceptions of their interpersonal experiences with students in both positive and problematic relationships. Interview data from 28 teachers were examined by coding utterances on teacher and student interactions. Results indicate that teachers defined the quality of the relationship mostly by the level of communion…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Attitudes, Interviews, Coding
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van Velzen, Joke H. – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The solving of reasoning problems in first language (L1) education can produce an understanding of language, and student autonomy in language problem solving, both of which are contemporary goals in senior high school education. The purpose of this study was to obtain a better understanding of senior high school students' knowledge of the language…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, High School Students, Native Language, Grade 11
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Prins, Renate; Avraamidou, Lucy; Goedhart, Martin – Educational Media International, 2017
Grounded within literature pointing to the value of narrative in communicating scientific information, the purpose of this study was to examine the use of stories as a tool for teaching about natural selection in the context of school science. The study utilizes a mixed method, case study approach which focuses on the design, implementation, and…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Evolution, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Van Velzen, Joke H. – American Educational Research Journal, 2013
In this article, an attempt to identify further directions in research designs that researchers can use to contribute to the relevance of educational research findings, by including teachers' practicality issues, is presented. Sixty experienced teachers in secondary education read the reporting of modified experimental research findings about an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Correlation