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Klapp, Alli – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2018
The purpose of the study was to investigate if academic and social self-concept and motivation to improve in academic school subjects mediated the negative effect of summative assessment (grades) for low-ability students' achievement in compulsory school. In two previous studies, summative assessment (grading) was found to have a differentiating…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Self Concept, Longitudinal Studies, Quasiexperimental Design
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Johansson, Stefan; Myrberg, Eva; Rosén, Monica – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The main aim of this study was to investigate the impact of formal teacher competence on pupils' reading achievement. The data comes from the Swedish participation in PIRLS 2001 in grade 3. Information was obtained from pupils (n = 5271) and teachers (n = 351). The analyses were conducted using 2-level structural equation modeling. Teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests
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Rasmusson, Maria A. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2016
Background: Influence of external factors in general, and socioeconomic background factors in particular, on traditional reading performance has been extensively researched and debated. While traditional reading is well investigated in this respect, there is a lack of studies on equity aspects related to digital reading achievement, in spite of…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Reading Achievement, Technological Literacy, Telecommunications
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Johansson, Stefan – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2013
Background: This study explored the credibility of Swedish third-grade students' self-assessments of their reading achievement by relating those assessments to two different criteria--teachers' judgments and students' reading test scores. Student gender and socioeconomic status (SES) were introduced to determine to what extent, if any, these…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Grade 3, Elementary School Students
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Hansen, Kajsa Yang; Rosen, Monica; Gustafsson, Jan-Eric – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2011
This study examines the changes in educational inequality at the school- and individual-levels in 1991 and 2001. Comparisons are made between the IEA Reading Literacy Study 1991 and the so called 10-Year Trend Study in PIRLS 2001. The between-school differences in reading achievement variance and the size of the relationship between SES and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Socioeconomic Status, Structural Equation Models, Reading Achievement
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Tuvblad, Catherine; Grann, Martin; Lichtenstein, Paul – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006
Background: Socioeconomic status is often assumed to be of importance for the development of antisocial behavior, yet it explains only a fraction of the variance. One explanation for this paradox could be that socioeconomic status moderates the influence of genetic and environmental effects on antisocial behavior. Method: TCHAD is a Swedish…
Descriptors: Twins, Socioeconomic Status, Intervention, Employment Level