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Dai, Qiao – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2023
While there is growing research identifying the academic and nonacademic challenges to the wellbeing of Chinese international students, there is little discussion about the differences in and challenges of the assessment they experience. This gap appears to come from a tacit assumption that assessment is universal worldwide, or that students will…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Well Being, Student Experience
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Coutinho, Mariana V. C.; Papanastasiou, Elena; Agni, Stylianou; Vasko, John M.; Couchman, Justin J. – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
In this study, we examined monitoring accuracy during in class-exams for Emirati, American and Cypriot college students. In experiment 1, 120 students made local, confidence-ratings for each multiple-choice question in a psychology exam and also estimated their performance at the end of the exam. In experiment 2, to investigate the effect of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Accuracy
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Na Liu; Jeferd Saong – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2025
The study examined the use of the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) in assessing Chinese as a second language and the challenges faced by teachers in the Chinese Language Scholarship (CLS) program. The Concurrent Triangulation Mixed Method Research was used in the study in which qualitative and quantitative data are collected simultaneously,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Proficiency
Arslan, Umut; Sommers-Flanagan, John – Online Submission, 2018
The main purpose of this study was to examine the ethical beliefs of Turkish senior counseling students who are eligible to be counselors, and to compare these beliefs with those of Turkish freshmen counseling students based on Turkish counseling ethical codes. Gibson and Pope's (1993) ethical beliefs and practice survey was used to collect data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Counselor Training, College Seniors, College Freshmen
Fraillon, Julian, Ed.; Schulz, Wolfram, Ed.; Friedman, Tim, Ed.; Ainley, John, Ed.; Gebhardt, Eveline, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2015
The International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) studied the extent to which young people have developed computer and information literacy (CIL) to support their capacity to participate in the digital age. Many countries recognize the importance that education in information and communication technologies (ICT) has for enabling…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Achievement
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Kuntoro, Ike Anggraika; Saraswati, Liliek; Peterson, Candida; Slaughter, Virginia – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
We investigated cultural influences on young children's acquisition of social-cognitive concepts. A theory of mind (ToM) scale (Wellman & Liu, 2004) was given to 129 children (71 boys, 58 girls) ranging in age from 3 years 0 months to 7 years 10 months. The children were from three distinct cultural groups: (a) trash pickers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theory of Mind, Middle Class, Native Language
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Kelly, David J.; Liu, Shaoying; Rodger, Helen; Miellet, Sebastien; Ge, Liezhong; Caldara, Roberto – Developmental Science, 2011
Perception and eye movements are affected by culture. Adults from Eastern societies (e.g. China) display a disposition to process information "holistically," whereas individuals from Western societies (e.g. Britain) process information "analytically." Recently, this pattern of cultural differences has been extended to face…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Eye Movements, Children, Cultural Differences
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Wong, Pui Ling – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2012
Families and schools need to gain a mutual understanding in order to provide a favourable learning environment for the school child, especially in a culturally diverse society. This paper explores the interrelationships between the family and school practices of two Hong Kong-Australian families from the parents' perspectives. The data presented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Parent School Relationship, Parent Attitudes
Pekrun, Reinhard – UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 2014
The classroom is an emotional place. Students can be excited during studying, hope for success, feel pride in their accomplishments, be surprised at discovering a new solution, experience anxiety about failing examinations, feel ashamed over poor grades, or be bored during lessons. In addition, social emotions play a role and students also bring…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Social Influences, Student Attitudes, Student Behavior
Lockheed, Marlaine E. – OECD Publishing, 2015
This report provides a systematic review and empirical evidence related to the experiences of middle-income countries and economies participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2000 to 2015. PISA is a triennial survey that aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations
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Salter, Claire – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2013
Speech pathology assessment within cross-cultural contexts, where the assessor and client differ in their cultural backgrounds, can create many challenges for assessment usage and implementation. With Australia being home to people from many cultures, this is a particular challenge for speech pathologists working in this country. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Geographic Regions, Speech Language Pathology
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Berta-Avila, Margarita Ines; William-White, Lisa – Teacher Education and Practice, 2010
This qualitative study illuminates the challenge of preparing teacher candidates to engage critically about social justice issues in their planning and instruction in a yearlong teacher education credential program in a northern California university. Using co-narrative to describe the study in tandem with thematic analyses of candidates'…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Critical Theory
Kirkpatrick, Andy – Open Letter, 1995
Focuses on how people from different cultures organize and sequence texts in different ways and how students write essays in a second language that follow the rhetorical patterns of their native language. The article describes the types of essays Chinese students must write for the university entrance exam in their home country. (10 references)…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
Vontress, Clemmont E. – 1973
There are numerous problems involved in counseling minority group members. Rapport is difficult to establish because of the racial and/or cultural attitudes client and counselor have toward one another; consequently the client often finds his own goals in opposition to those of counseling. The existing cultural gap also leads to different patterns…
Descriptors: Counseling, Cultural Differences, Disadvantaged, Ethnic Groups
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Hedricks, Cynthia A.; Robie, Chet; Harnisher, John V. – International Journal of Testing, 2008
Personality scores were used to construct three databases of global norms. The composition of the three databases varied according to percentage of cases by global region, occupational group, applicant status, and gender of the job candidate. Comparison of personality scores across the three norms databases revealed that the magnitude of the…
Descriptors: Norms, Databases, Case Studies, Cultural Differences
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