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Pedro San Martin Soares – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
Brazil's education system lags behind international standards, with two-fifths of students scoring below the minimum level of proficiency in mathematics, science, and reading. Thus, this study combined machine learning with traditional statistics to identify the most important predictors and to interpret their effects on proficiency in the PISA…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
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Chung Hyewon; Kim, Jung-In; Jung, Eunjin; Park, Soyoung – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) aims to provide comparative data on 15-year-olds' academic performance and well-being. The purpose of the current study is to explore and compare the variables that predict the reading literacy and life satisfaction of U.S. and South Korean students. The random forest algorithm, which is a…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Predictor Variables, Literacy, Life Satisfaction
Bernard L. Dillard – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Upward Bound Math and Science (UBMS) program at Temple University (TU) seeks to guide first-generation, low-income high school students from Philadelphia in their quest to obtain postsecondary STEM degrees that lead to related careers. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of the program by analyzing its students' performance in light of…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Statistical Analysis, Program Effectiveness, College Preparation
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Mander, David J.; Lester, Leanne – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2023
Objective: To explore the symptomatic features of homesickness in Australian adolescent males during their first year at boarding school, as well as its dimensionality, coping strategies, and the relationship with academic, resilience, emotional and mental health factors. Method: Drawing on a larger, longitudinal study (n = 174 students), survey…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Student Adjustment, Psychological Patterns, Foreign Countries
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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
Robert Garlick; Joshua Hyman – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2018
We use a natural experiment to evaluate sample selection correction methods' performance. In 2007, Michigan began requiring that all students take a college entrance exam, increasing the exam-taking rate from 64 to 99%. We apply different selection correction methods, using different sets of predictors, to the pre-policy exam score data. We then…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Predictor Variables, College Entrance Examinations, Scores
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Dogan, Nuri; Hambleton, Ronald K.; Yurtcu, Meltem; Yavuz, Sinan – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
Validity is one of the psychometric properties of the achievement tests. To determine the validity, one of the examination is item bias studies, which are based on differential item functioning (DIF) analyses and field experts' opinion. In this study, field experts were asked to estimate the DIF levels of the items to compare the estimations…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Comparative Analysis, Predictor Variables, Statistical Analysis
Sahin, Mehmet; Çoymak, Hasan Gazi – Online Submission, 2018
The purpose of this research was to determine the moral behaviour in terms of some variables of the students who are participating in school sports or not. In this research participated in totally 191 students, all of them having education at different educational situation in Burdur city centre. ''Sportmanship Scale for Physical Education…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Predictor Variables, Physical Education, Student Participation
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Tösten, Rasim; Han, Bünyamin; Anik, Sabri – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Problem solving skill is one of the important skills which are expected to be gained during the educational programs. In the development of children's skills and shaping the behaviors, parental attitudes are believed to be effective. That means problem-solving skills and behavioral characteristics of individuals are closely related. From that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Problem Solving, High School Students
Heninger, Benjamin Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This quantitative study explained relationships among independent variables that included instrumental music participation and achievement on a standardized test by participants in the ninth grade at a western Wisconsin high school. The ACT "Aspire" (2017) test is a vertically articulated, standards-based system of assessments. Subtest…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Musical Instruments, Academic Achievement
Smith, Eric C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between veteran secondary school teacher perceptions of evaluation feedback and self-efficacy of instructional practice. This study recruited participants from two different school districts that have teacher evaluation systems differing on a number of factors. It was hypothesized that…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Self Efficacy
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Bagci, Sabahat Cigdem – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2018
This study investigated whether perceived goal support from family and friends may moderate the relationship between academic self-efficacy and motivational outcomes among early adolescent students recruited from a low-middle socio-economic status (SES) background school in Turkey (N = 319, [X-bar][subscript age] = 13.13, SD = 0.80). Self-report…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Social Support Groups
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Ninkovic, Stefan R.; Kneževic Floric, Olivera C. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
Although scholars have acknowledged the role of collaborative relationships of teachers in improving the quality of instruction, teacher collective efficacy continues to be a neglected construct in educational research. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relations between transformational school leadership, teacher self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Instructional Leadership, Self Efficacy, Predictor Variables
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Norqvist, Mathias – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2018
Studies in mathematics education often point to the necessity for students to engage in more cognitively demanding activities than just solving tasks by applying given solution methods. Previous studies have shown that students that engage in creative mathematically founded reasoning to construct a solution method, perform significantly better in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Mathematics
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Avidov-Ungar, Orit; Arviv-Elyashiv, Rinat – International Journal of Educational Management, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the relationship between teachers' professional role, their sense of empowerment, and their attitudes toward managerial promotion (career development) following the implementation of educational forms. Design/methodology/approach: The study was conducted in Israel in 2015 and included 663 teachers,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Empowerment, Educational Change, Career Development
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