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Elena C. Papanastasiou; Michalis P. Michaelides – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Test-taking behavior is a potential source of construct irrelevant variance for test scores in international large-scale assessments where test-taking effort, motivation, and behaviors in general tend to be confounded with test scores. In an attempt to disentangle this relationship and gain further insight into examinees' test-taking processes,…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Testing, Student Behavior, Test Wiseness
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Valdes, Olivia M.; Denner, Jill; Dickson, Daniel J.; Laursen, Brett – Educational Psychology, 2021
Strong evidence indicates that student expectations of success in mathematics decline in middle school. The goal of the present study was to examine whether the expectations of teachers and the quality of the student-teacher relationship play a role in these declines. A total of 201 (86 boys, 115 girls) Latino/a students (M = 11.0 years) and their…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Middle School Students, Teacher Expectations of Students, Mathematics Achievement
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Wachs, Sebastian; Bilz, Ludwig; Niproschke, Saskia; Schubarth, Wilfried – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2019
To date, little has been known about teachers' success in bullying interventions. Thus, the present study analyzes how successfully teachers intervene in real bullying situations, based on an analysis of 1,996 reports by German students aged between 12 and 15 (49.2% female) from 24 schools. Predictors of success included intervention strategy…
Descriptors: Bullying, Intervention, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Catherine M. Corbin; Pilar Alamos; Amy E. Lowenstein; Jason T. Downer; Joshua L. Brown – Grantee Submission, 2019
Teaching is a uniquely stressful profession. Though previous work has drawn attention to the high levels of burnout teachers report experiencing and its impact on students, comparatively less work has investigated what influences teachers' burnout itself. Guided by Lazarus' (1991) transactional model of stress and coping, the present study…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Predictor Variables, Teacher Burnout, Conflict
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Thomas, Julie A.; Strunk, Kamden K. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
This longitudinal study explored the ways parents' and teachers' expectancy for success influences 3rd-5th children's expectancy for success and achievement in science. Guided by an open-systems perspective and functional (Ballantine & Roberts, 2007) and expectancy-value (Eccles, 2005, 2007) theories, we focused on school related socialization…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Expectation
Childs, Kamshia – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Much time is spent instilling in young students the importance of reading, and the impact reading has on their being considered "smart." The activities presented to students in primary (Pre-Kindergarten/Kindergarten) classrooms through third grade are engaging and cooperative, and they provide a sense of accomplishment for students who…
Descriptors: Reading Interests, School Demography, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades
Pannell, Melissa – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to identify relationships that exist between reading ability in 3rd grade and phonological awareness in kindergarten. A second purpose was to identify specific prereading skills that best predict later reading success. This study used a quantitative research design to answer the research questions posed. The…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Kindergarten, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
Berkeley-Jones, Catherine Spotswood – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine teacher Levels of Technology Implementation (LoTi) self-ratings and student Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) scores. The study assessed the relationship between LoTi ratings and TAKS scores of 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students as reported in student records at Alamo Heights Independent School…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Scores
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Klapproth, Florian; Schaltz, Paule – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
If teachers knew in advance whether their students are at risk of school failure, they would have the opportunity to supply these students with additional or special instruction. In Luxembourg, the likelihood of failure in school is particularly high. Taking this result into account, this paper deals with the identification of variables of primary…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Academic Failure, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students