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Özkan, Yesim Özer; Güvendir, Meltem Acar – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2021
Large scale assessment is conducted at different class levels for various purposes such as identifying student success in education, observing the impacts of educational reforms on student achievement, assessment, selection, and placement. It is expected that these tests and their items are used in education do not display different traits with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Bias, Student Evaluation, Test Items
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Laubach, Timothy A.; Crofford, Geary Don; Marek, Edmund A. – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
The purpose of this descriptive study was to explore Native American (NA) students' perceptions of scientists by using the Draw-A-Scientist Test and to determine if differences in these perceptions exist between grade level, gender, and level of cultural tradition. Data were collected for students in Grades 9-12 within a NA grant off-reservation…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, American Indians, Content Analysis, Boarding Schools
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Kahveci, Murat – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2010
The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) to provide the evidence for the reliability of the modified Fennema-Sherman Mathematics Attitude Scales (FSMAS), as translated to Turkish language and transformed to the educational technology context, and (2) to investigate high school students' motivation to use technology for learning by a comparative…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Social Sciences, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Mucherah, Winnie – Learning Environments Research, 2008
This study examined classroom climate and student goal structures in high-school biology classrooms in Kenya. Participants included 891 students and their teachers in Grades 10 and 11 from two same-sex boarding schools--one for boys and the other for girls. School differences were found on all classroom climate aspects except teacher support and…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Goal Orientation, Competition, Biology
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Mutonyi, Harriet; Nashon, Samson; Nielsen, Wendy S. – Research in Science Education, 2010
In Uganda, curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS has largely depended on public and private media messages about the disease. Media campaigns based on Uganda's cultural norms of communication are metaphorical, analogical and simile-like. The topic of HIV/AIDS has been introduced into the Senior Three (Grade 11) biology curriculum in Uganda. To what…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Student Attitudes, Communicable Diseases, Prior Learning