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Mafalda Campos; Nurullah Eryilmaz; Rolf Strietholt – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2025
Background: Comparative educational research has studied inequality in educational outcomes through large-scale assessments like PISA and TIMSS, by identifying achievement gaps within social groups (e.g., gender, parental education, and immigrant gaps) to inform investment in intervention programs and educational policies. However, the focus of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Equal Education, Gender Differences, Parent Background
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Simmons, McKenna; Clark, Sarah K.; Feinauer, Erika; Richardson, Michael – Reading Psychology, 2022
The purpose of this explanatory mixed methods study was to understand how 9th grade honors and general education language arts students made course enrollment decisions through the lens of the Expectancy-Value (E-V) theory. A survey was administered to 9th grade students (N = 118) attending a public high school with the overall mean score…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Grade 9, Expectation, Value Judgment
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Rudolph, Karen D.; Dodson, Jillian F. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
Friendships can provide a critical buffer against stress for youth, but the extent to which they serve this role depends on whether they provide resources that youth value most. These valued provisions may differ for girls and boys and across stages of development. This study examined whether gender differences in friendship values intensify…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Friendship, Elementary School Students, Junior High School Students
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Ozcan, Hasan; Koca, Esra – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Purpose: This study aimed to develop an attitude scale to find out middle school students' (grades 5 through 8) attitudes towards science and to investigate the effects of grade level on students' attitudes towards science. Research Method: Cross-sectional survey method was used in this study. The attitude towards the science scale developed by…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Student Attitudes, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Ekatushabe, Margaret; Kwarikunda, Diana; Muwonge, Charles M.; Ssenyonga, Joseph; Schiefele, Ulrich – International Journal of STEM Education, 2021
Background: Boredom during learning activities has the potential of impeding attention, motivation, learning and eventually achievement. Yet, research focusing on its possible antecedents seems to have received less attention especially within the physics domain. Based on assumptions of the Control Value Theory of Achievement Emotions (CVTAE),…
Descriptors: Correlation, Personal Autonomy, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Behavior
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Celik, Aysegul – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
In this study, a mixed method was used. The sample consisted of 175 female and 155 male fifth-, sixth- and seventh-grade students studying in a public secondary school in the Central Anatolia Region in Turkey. The sample was used in accordance with a cluster sampling method, a type of probability sampling. In the quantitative dimension of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Balentyne, Phoebe; Varga, Mary Alice – Journal of Online Learning Research, 2017
Blended learning opportunities are expanding for K-12 students in public school settings. As these opportunities increase, researchers and educators seek to discover specific characteristics of the students who are most successful in blended learning environments. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between students'…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Mathematics Achievement, Student Attitudes, Technology Uses in Education
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Weeks, Murray; Ooi, Laura L.; Coplan, Robert J. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2016
Shy children display wariness in unfamiliar social situations and often experience feelings of social anxiety. This study explored the potential mediating role of cognitive biases in the link between shyness and social anxiety in early adolescence. In particular, we focused on judgments of the probability and cost of negative social situations…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Probability, Early Adolescents, Bias
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Kahraman, Nurcan; Sungur, Semra – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2013
This study aimed to investigate the antecedents and consequences of achievement goals by proposing a path model. While self-efficacy, task value, fear of failure, perceived parents', and teachers' achievement goals were investigated as antecedents of achievement goals in science, students' metacognition and coping strategies were examined as…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Goal Orientation, Foreign Countries, Achievement