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Valeria Damiani; Elisa Caponera; Bruno Losito; Laura Palmerio; Gabriella Agrusti – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Civic engagement represents a key aspect of a democratic society and is itself a multidimensional construct. Research has shown that the promotion of civic engagement is an important component of civic and citizenship education intended in a broad sense, pertaining to formal, non-formal and informal learning situations. Within a national scenario…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Citizenship Education, Grade 8
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Clara Beyer; Falk Brese – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Continued migration flows are inevitable, and research into favorable conditions for educating students in pluralistic societies is timely. This study attempts to address the operationalization of favorable conditions when educating children in diverse societies. Previous research into the contact hypothesis and acculturation theory has suggested…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Minority Groups, Immigrants
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John Ainley; Wolfram Schulz – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Religious attachment has been identified as an important correlate of civic participation, civic engagement, and civil participation among adults. This study investigates two aspects of relationships between religiosity and intended political engagement among lower secondary school students in 2009 and 2016. One aspect is the extent to which…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Citizenship Education, Data Analysis, Citizen Participation
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Nora Heyne; Timo Gnambs; Marie-Ann Sengewald – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Because large-scale studies repeatedly indicated low reading literacy for many students, a need for interventions fostering reading literacy, such as extracurricular tutoring, has often been emphasized. Several reading promoting programs, suitable for extracurricular tutoring, were developed and shown to be effective in recent years. Moreover,…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Student Characteristics, Literacy, Extracurricular Activities
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Mehmet Karakus; Alisher Tlessov; Anas Hajar; Matthew Courtney – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Recent decades have witnessed a global expansion of private supplementary tutoring, known as shadow education--additional support in academic subjects that takes place outside of regular school hours. Using the data of 55 countries from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2022, this study examines the association between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Private Education, Tutoring
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Silinskas, Gintautas; Ahonen, Arto K.; Wilska, Terhi-Anna – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2021
The aim or the present study was to examine the relative importance of financial education in school and families and dispositional factors (competitiveness, work mastery, meta-cognition) in predicting financial literacy among Finnish adolescents. The data on the 4328 Finnish 15-year-olds was drawn from the PISA 2018 assessment. Financial literacy…
Descriptors: Money Management, Literacy, Knowledge Level, Adolescents