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Agnieszka Ewa Krautz – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Feeling like a different person when speaking different languages has been investigated before and attributed to several linguistic as well as psychological factors. Language proficiency, the context of language acquisition, personality traits, emotional intelligence, and the topic of conversation as well as the interlocutor have been found to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Second Language Learning, Personality Traits, Language Proficiency
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Urhahne, Detlef; Kremer, Kerstin – Educational Psychology, 2023
Based on the theory of integrated domains in epistemology, the question of domain specificity of epistemic beliefs was investigated from a comprehensive perspective. We examined intraindividual differences in epistemic beliefs about the natural, mathematical, social, and linguistic sciences that represented almost the entire spectrum of subjects…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Individual Differences, Natural Sciences
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Roetzel, Peter Gordon; Roetzel, Lina – Open Education Studies, 2023
In this article, we contribute to the longstanding debate among economists regarding the question of "nature or nurture" with respect to economics students' attitudes toward various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. While previous research starts the debate by beginning with first-year economics students, we aim to evaluate…
Descriptors: Nature Nurture Controversy, Economics Education, School Schedules, Student Attitudes
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Williams, Elizabeth Nutt; Grande, Steven; Nakamura, Yoshie Tomozumi; Pyle, Lori; Shaw, Gary – European Journal of Training and Development, 2022
Purpose: Despite increasing interest and scholarship on authentic leadership, definitions of the construct remain contested. In addition, limited research exists on its enactment in practice and its sustainability in a global context. The purpose of this study was to explore the practice of authentic leadership and understand more about how it is…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Leadership Training, Administrator Attitudes, Values
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Enchikova, Ekaterina; Neves, Tiago; Beilman, Mai; Banaji, Shakuntala; Pavpoulos, Vassilis; Ferreira, Pedro D. – Journal of Social Science Education, 2021
Purpose: Treating Active Citizenship as a sum of behavioral indicators requires certain prerequisites that can be difficult to meet in practice (e.g. structural validity and measurement invariance). We explore a different approach, in which we treat Active Citizenship as a categorical, rather than a linear, construct. Design: Based on longitudinal…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Foreign Countries, Youth, Citizenship
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Philipp Bitzenbauer; Sarah Navarrete; Fabian Hennig; Malte S. Ubben; Joaquin M. Veith – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Research in astronomy education has uncovered that many learners possess limited and fragmented understanding of stars. The corresponding misconceptions manifest in various areas such as star formation, size, the relationship between stars and planets, and their position in space and have been shown to persist across different age groups and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Astronomy, Student Attitudes, Age Differences
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Rüschenpöhler, Lilith; Markic, Silvija – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2020
While science self-concepts of secondary school students have received considerable attention, several important aspects of chemistry self-concepts have not yet been understood: gender relations, the impact of students' cultural backgrounds, and the impact of chemistry self-concept on learning processes. In the present study, (i) we could confirm…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Chemistry, Self Concept
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Wang, Chuang; Hancock, Dawson R.; Müller, Ulrich – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2021
Effective school leadership is crucial to a school's success. Yet throughout the world, attracting and retaining qualified school leaders is often a formidable challenge. To discern ways in which we may recruit and retain competent school leaders, this study compares the extent to which principals in three industrialized countries, China, Germany…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Administrator Characteristics
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Markus Kohlmeier – European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 2024
In this study I examine the academic self-concept (ASC) of students who changed from vocational to academic tracking at the transition to upper secondary education in Germany. I ask (1) how their ASC differs to the ASC of their established peers in academic tracking, and (2) how their ASC is affected by the change in the learning environment.…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Academic Education
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Dorothea Glaesser; Christopher Holl; Julia Malinka; Laura McCullagh; Lydia Meissner; Nicole Syringa Harth; Maya Machunsky; Kristin Mitte – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Disengagement is a concept that captures the gradual behavioral, affective, and cognitive distancing from school, and is thus an early indicator of students being at risk for dropout. Based on a social identity framework, we predicted that higher social identification with the class and a positive classroom climate would be associated with lower…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Social Environment, At Risk Students, Educational Environment
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Kissau, Scott; Davin, Kristin J.; Brunsmeier, Sonja; Herazo, José David – NECTFL Review, 2022
The unprecedented challenges posed by the global COVID-19 pandemic risked seriously disrupting the continuous supply and preparation of new teachers that are desperately needed to fill world language teacher vacancies. To better understand how world language teacher preparation programs around the globe supported aspiring teachers in the…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Henschel, Sofie – Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Based on the control-value theory of achievement emotions, the study examines elementary school students' science performance and control-value beliefs (self-concept, intrinsic and achievement value) as antecedents of their cognitive (worry) and affective (nervousness) science anxiety. Performance in the science topic "floating and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Anxiety, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
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Carmen Köhler; Johannes Hartig – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2024
Since ChatGPT-3.5 has been available to the public, the potentials and challenges regarding chatbot usage in education have been widely discussed. However, little evidence exists whether and for which purposes students even apply generative AI tools. The first main purpose of the present study was to develop and test scales that assess students'…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, College Students, Natural Language Processing, Technology Uses in Education
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Evers, Arne; McCormick, Carina M.; Hawley, Leslie R.; Muñiz, José; Balboni, Giulia; Bartram, Dave; Boben, Dusica; Egeland, Jens; El-Hassan, Karma; Fernández-Hermida, José R.; Fine, Saul; Frans, Örjan; Gintiliené, Grazina; Hagemeister, Carmen; Halama, Peter; Iliescu, Dragos; Jaworowska, Aleksandra; Jiménez, Paul; Manthouli, Marina; Matesic, Krunoslav; Michaelsen, Lars; Mogaji, Andrew; Morley-Kirk, James; Rózsa, Sándor; Rowlands, Lorraine; Schittekatte, Mark; Sümer, H. Canan; Suwartono, Tono; Urbánek, Tomáš; Wechsler, Solange; Zelenevska, Tamara; Zanev, Svetoslav; Zhang, Jianxin – International Journal of Testing, 2017
On behalf of the International Test Commission and the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations a world-wide survey on the opinions of professional psychologists on testing practices was carried out. The main objective of this study was to collect data for a better understanding of the state of psychological testing worldwide. These data…
Descriptors: Testing, Attitudes, Surveys, Psychologists
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Anna Tissot; Giuseppe Pietrantuono; Nina Rother; Andreea Baier; Johannes Croisier – Educational Linguistics, 2022
In this chapter, we address the process of German language acquisition of adult refugees within the formal setting of the integration course, in order to identify factors contributing to both the likelihood of attending a course and successfully completing it. We used a mixed-method approach, analysing the dataset of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP refugee…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Adults
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