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Arslan, Yaser; Polat, Soner – International Journal of Educational Management, 2021
Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between teachers' perceptions on diversity perspectives in schools and their happiness at work (HAW) levels. Design/methodology/approach: A correlational survey model was used in the study, and the stratified sample consisted of 768 teachers in public high schools in a province in the west…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Conditions, Diversity
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Eather, Narelle; Fray, Leanne; Gore, Jennifer M. – Sport, Education and Society, 2020
Sports participation and elite sporting success are fundamental to Australian culture and a prominent source of national pride. As sport is a major part of day-to-day living in Australia, it is not surprising that many young people aspire to careers as sportspersons. While such aspirations are often dismissed as fanciful and unattainable, the…
Descriptors: Athletes, Occupational Aspiration, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
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Goos, Mieke; Schreier, Brigitte Maria; Knipprath, Heidi Maria Eduard; De Fraine, Bieke; Van Damme, Jan; Trautwein, Ulrich – Comparative Education Review, 2013
This study investigates the extent to which national educational policy factors can explain differences in the probability of students repeating a grade in primary and lower-secondary education across OECD member countries. Data from the PISA 2009 study, the OECD "Education at a Glance" brochures, and the TALIS 2007 study were analyzed…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Grade Repetition, Foreign Countries, Probability
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Xu, Jianzhong; Yuan, Ruiping; Xu, Brian; Xu, Melinda – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The authors examine the factors influencing mathematics homework interest for Chinese students and compare the findings with a recent study involving U.S. students. The findings from multilevel analyses revealed that some predictors for homework interest functioned similarly (e.g., affective attitude toward homework, learning-oriented reasons,…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Homework, Mathematics Instruction, Predictor Variables
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Tynan, Joshua J.; Somers, Cheryl L.; Gleason, Jamie H.; Markman, Barry S.; Yoon, Jina – School Psychology International, 2015
With Bronfenbrenner's (1977) ecological theory and other multifactor models (e.g. Pianta, 1999; Prinstein, Boergers, & Spirito, 2001) underlying this study design, the purpose was to examine, simultaneously, key variables in multiple life contexts (microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem levels) for their individual and combined roles in predicting…
Descriptors: Arabs, North Americans, Risk, Goal Orientation
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Liu, Junsheng; Li, Dan; Purwono, Urip; Chen, Xinyin; French, Doran C. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study explored the extent to which loneliness of Indonesian and Chinese adolescents was predicted by their intimacy and conflict with friends and parents. The total sample included 1,833 thirteen- and fifteen-year-old adolescents recruited from urban schools. Boys reported more loneliness than girls, and Chinese boys reported more loneliness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Adolescents, Predictor Variables
Morganfield, Maggie Garris – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine Latino/a student preferences for school counselor activities. The primary focus of research was to determine what school counseling activities Latino/a students perceived as important and which school counseling activities Latino/a high school students perceived as satisfying. The researcher pursued this…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, School Counseling, Student Needs, Needs Assessment
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Sternberg, Robert J.; Bonney, Christina R.; Gabora, Liane; Merrifield, Maegan – Educational Psychologist, 2012
This article outlines shortcomings of currently used university admissions tests and discusses ways in which they could potentially be improved, summarizing two projects designed to enhance college and university admissions. The projects were inspired by the augmented theory of successful intelligence, according to which successful intelligence…
Descriptors: Intelligence, College Students, Grade Point Average, Prediction
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Jiang, Ying Hong; Yau, Jenny; Bonner, Patricia; Chiang, Linda – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2011
Introduction: Driven by an overarching conceptual framework adapted from Self-Determination Theory, this study tested the direct and indirect effects of perceived parental academia autonomy support vs. academic planning control on the interrelated variables of adolescents' self-esteem, academic motivation, and academic achievement, using…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, Self Determination
Brabham, Karen Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigates the hypothesis that African American students succeed in difficult circumstances due to a type of coping that is unique to the African American experience. It was tested with a survey of 147 eleventh and twelfth grade students from different ethnic backgrounds who were enrolled in a New York City high school, The survey…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), African American Students, Ethnic Groups, Coping
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Yeh, Christine J.; Okubo, Yuki; Ma, Pei-Wen Winnie; Shea, Munyi; Ou, Dongshu; Pituc, Stephanie T. – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2008
When immigrant youth come to the United States, they must learn to interact with dominant and cultural groups as part of the adjustment process. The current study investigated whether the association between Chinese immigrant high school students' (N = 286) English fluency, academic and career/college help-seeking, multidimensional acculturation,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Acculturation, Immigrants, High School Students
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Eng, Sothy; Kanitkar, Kirti; Cleveland, Harrington H.; Herbert, Richard; Fischer, Judith; Wiersma, Jacquelyn D. – Educational Psychology, 2008
The general belief that Asian American adolescents are successful has led researchers to ignore variations in Asian adolescents' academic success. Using samples of Chinese and Filipino adolescents drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examined whether differences between these two groups in acculturation,…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Parent Child Relationship
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Morris, Gregory D.; Wood, Peter B.; Dunaway, R. Gregory – Crime & Delinquency, 2006
Using a sample of White and Native American high school students, the authors provide a test of (a) self-control theory's invariance thesis and (b) native traditionalism as an explanation of Native American substance use. Self-control significantly influenced all forms of substance use when controlling for race and in race-specific analyses.…
Descriptors: Race, Marijuana, Drug Use, Traditionalism
Salili, Farideh, Ed.; Hoosain, Rumjahn, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2007
The influence of culture on learning and motivation has been the topic of much research in recent years. Educational and psychological researchers are now aware that the findings of their studies may not apply to other cultures, and that in this age of globalization and multiculturalism it is very important to examine the applicability of…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, Learning, Motivation