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Jiseon Ryu; Byungmin Lee – English Teaching, 2024
The present study aimed to analyze the developmental trajectories of English achievement and exposure time through private education, utilizing univariate and multivariate latent growth curve analysis. This study used a subset of the Gyeonggi Education Panel Study data from 2012 to 2017. The results indicated consistent disparities in the growth…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Academic Achievement
Holzman, Brian; Salazar, Esmeralda Sánchez; Chukhray, Irina – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2020
This report examines the role of English learner (ELs) status in four-year college enrollment and bachelor's degree completion among Houston Independent School District (HISD) high school graduates. We divide students into four groups: students who are never classified as EL (hereafter referred to as "Never EL" students), ELs who are…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Course Selection (Students)
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Brimble, Mandy J. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
International trends for pre-registration nurse education at degree level alongside "widening access" initiatives mean that academic achievement of students entering via different educational routes is of interest to both higher and further education institutions. This article examines the academic achievement of students undertaking a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Nursing Education, Nursing Students, Bachelors Degrees
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Dobele, Angela R.; Kopanidis, Foula; Gangemi, Michael; Thomas, Stuart; Janssen, Rabea; Blasche, Rose E. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2012
The purpose of this study is to examine at-risk students and the reasons they give to explain their poor academic performance, with a view to developing a typology of at-risk students. A case study methodology was used to investigate the total population of at-risk students for Semester 2, 2008 studying at the Singapore campus of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, College Students, At Risk Students
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Isenberg, Eric; Teh, Bing-ru; Walsh, Elias – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Researchers often presume that it is better to use administrative data from grades 4 and 5 than data from grades 6 through 8 for conducting research on teacher effectiveness that uses value-added models because (1) elementary school teachers teach all subjects to their students in self-contained classrooms and (2) classrooms are more homogenous at…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Academic Achievement
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Kleinert, Jane O'Regan; Harrison, Elizabeth; Mills, Karen Rose; Dueppen, Brittney M.; Trailor, Ann Michelle – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
The purpose of this study was to analyze a large data base of self-selected/self-determined goals developed by students aged 7-21 that had developmental disabilities. Data included 288 goals developed by 205 students involved in the Kentucky Youth Advocacy Project. Students, teachers, Speech/Language pathologists and families utilized the Self…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Planning, Disabilities, Age Differences
Roth, Benjamin S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study explored whether university internal audit directors' views of culture and measuring achievement differences between their institutions and a business were related to how they viewed internal auditing priorities and uses. The Carnegie Classification system's 283 Doctorate-granting Universities were the target population.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Faculty, Classification, Audits (Verification)
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Gaotlhobogwe, Michael; Laugharne, Janet; Durance, Isabelle – Educational Research, 2011
Background: Understanding student attitudes to curriculum subjects is central to providing evidence-based options to policy makers in education. Purpose: We illustrate how quantitative approaches used in the social sciences and based on multivariate analysis (categorical Principal Components Analysis, Clustering Analysis and General Linear…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Social Sciences, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Hulleman, Chris S.; Schrager, Sheree M.; Bodmann, Shawn M.; Harackiewicz, Judith M. – Psychological Bulletin, 2010
This meta-analysis addresses whether achievement goal researchers are using different labels for the same constructs or putting the same labels on different constructs. We systematically examined whether conceptual and methodological differences in the measurement of achievement goals moderated achievement goal intercorrelations and relationships…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Academic Achievement, Meta Analysis, Goal Orientation
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Heckel, Leila; Clarke, Adam; Barry, Robert; McCarthy, Rory; Selikowitz, Mark – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2009
It is generally accepted that Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) results from a dysfunction of the central nervous system, which has led to a commonly held belief that environmental factors play little role in the behavioural problems of children identified as having ADHD. Therefore, the two studies reported in this article…
Descriptors: Divorce, Marital Status, Academic Achievement, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Geisler, Charles C. – Rural Sociology, 1977
A study of 1,423 respondents in northwest Wisconsin shows that age, education, and place of residence appear to account for the variation in environmental concern, with no significant remaining effect accounted for by any of the types of recreation considered by Dunlap and Heffernan in their 1975 study. (Author/JC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Classification, Conservation (Environment)
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Brdar, Ingrid; Rijavec, Majda; Loncaric, Darko – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2006
The present study examined the relationship between goal orientation, coping with school failure and school achievement. Two questionnaires. Goal Orientation (Niemivirta, 1996a) and The School Failure Coping Scale (Rijavec & Brdar, 1997), were administered to 1057 high school students (aged from 15 to 17 years). The first goal of this study…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Path Analysis, Coping, Goal Orientation
Teske, John A.; Laird, James D. – 1981
During socialization, individuals begin to understand increasingly broader and more abstract units of personal and social reality. Subjects (N=97) ranging in age from 13 to late middle age completed a linguistic task in which they could impose higher order conceptions on lower order descriptions by identifying different level similarities within…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Classification
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Payette, Karen A.; Clarizio, Harvey F. – Psychology in the Schools, 1994
Examined racial, gender, intellectual, achievement, and grade-level status of 344 students referred for learning disabilities diagnosis. Found that being white, older, and of higher intelligence and achievement were characteristics of those found ineligible despite severe discrepancy. Being female and less academically able were characteristics of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Classification, Educational Diagnosis
Thomas, John W. – 1985
Self-directed, or independent study activities were studied in adolescents, as well as their antecedents and consequences. The interrelationships, across age and grade, of several variables were described; i.e.: course requirements and conditions, student characteristics, study activities, and school achievement. First, autonomous learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Classification
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