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Silvia Wen-Yu Lee; Jyh-Chong Liang; Chung-Yuan Hsu; Meng-Jung Tsai – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
While research has shown that students' epistemic beliefs can be a strong predictor of their academic performance, cognitive abilities, or self-efficacy, studies of this topic in computer education are rare. The purpose of this study was twofold. First, it aimed to validate a newly developed questionnaire for measuring students' epistemic beliefs…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Beliefs, Computer Science Education, Programming
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Dai, Shenghai; Hao, Tao; Ardasheva, Yuliya; Ramazan, Onur; Danielson, Robert William; Austin, Bruce – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Reading research in the United States has mainly focused on early or, less frequently, middle grades and on monolingual (MN or English-only) rather than on multilingual (ML) students. To address these gaps, we focused on factors contributing to high school ML students' reading achievement. In particular, we first used machine learning to identify…
Descriptors: High School Students, Multilingualism, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
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Novikova, Irina A.; Gridunova, Marina V.; Novikov, Alexey L.; Shlyakhta, Dmitriy A. – Journal of Intelligence, 2022
The development of intercultural competence (ICC) is important for the modern personality in an unstable and diverse world, but there is a lack of research on this phenomenon in the context of age, gender and intellectual differences. The purpose of the present exploratory study is to identify relations between ICC, cognitive abilities and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Academic Achievement, Cultural Awareness, Predictor Variables
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Jaylin Lowe; Charlotte Z. Mann; Jiaying Wang; Adam Sales; Johann A. Gagnon-Bartsch – Grantee Submission, 2024
Recent methods have sought to improve precision in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) by utilizing data from large observational datasets for covariate adjustment. For example, consider an RCT aimed at evaluating a new algebra curriculum, in which a few dozen schools are randomly assigned to treatment (new curriculum) or control (standard…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Middle School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
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Smith, Katie A.; Ayres, Kevin M.; Mechling, Linda C.; Alexander, Jennifer L.; Mataras, Theologia K.; Shepley, Sally B. – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2015
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a system of least prompts procedure with a video prompt serving as the model in teaching office tasks to three high school students with moderate intellectual disability. A multiple probe across behaviors design replicated across participants was used to evaluate the intervention. The…
Descriptors: Cues, Prompting, High School Students, Video Technology
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