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Hinrichs, Anja-Christina – Online Submission, 2014
Against the background of demographic change and skill shortages continuing vocational training is of great significance in Germany. However, the training effectiveness is mostly assessed only at the end of a training program or several months after the training. Since in continuing vocational training the two contexts learning field (training)…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Continuing Education, Vocational Education, Transfer of Training
Gaeta Gonzalez, Martha Leticia – Online Submission, 2013
In order to self-regulate their learning, students need to use different strategies to plan, monitor, and evaluate their learning activities (meta-cognitive strategies), as well as to control their motivation and emotion (volitional strategies). Students' effectiveness in their self-regulated learning process also varies depending on the academic…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Goal Orientation, Secondary School Students, Late Adolescents
Geske, Andrejs; Ozola, Antra – Online Submission, 2009
The results of IEA (The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) PIRLS 2006 (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) has showed that Latvia has the 6th largest gender gap in reading literacy scores and that is an indication of a serious problem of education in this country. The purpose of the paper is to…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Gender Differences, Context Effect, Educational Environment