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Direct linkAwgichew, Sisay; Ademe, Enguday – Cogent Education, 2022
This study examined the role of history education for nation building in Ethiopia, Germany Rwanda, South Africa, Switzerland, and USA using a comparative research method. Student textbooks and syllabi were the main data sources. Document review was the principal data-gathering tool and the data was analysed qualitatively. Findings revealed that…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Nationalism, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Aysegül Derman; Figen Gunes; Ozcan Gulacar; Ingo Eilks – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
This study aims to determine the cognitive structures of students at different educational levels (8th grade and 12th grade) related to acid-base chemistry. The research was designed as a case study and structured in two stages. The first stage analyzed concepts related to acid-base chemistry and their direction and strength in students' knowledge…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Cognitive Structures, Grade 8
Lijun Wei; Bilin Gao; Jingying Wang; Chunming Jiang; Xufan Zhang; Xiaomei Ping – Science & Education, 2024
In this study, high school physics textbooks published by People's Education Press (PEP) and Educational Science Publishing House (ESP) (a total of 6 books) in China were analyzed via a self-developed scale measuring nature of science (NOS) including three first-level indicators of scientific knowledge, scientific process, and scientific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Bulon, Amélie; Meunier, Fanny – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This paper explores the longitudinal development of the phrasicon (i.e. phraseological lexicon) of French-speaking learners of Dutch in two different educational settings: Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and traditional foreign language learning contexts (non-CLIL). We followed 195 pupils and analyzed a corpus of 390 written texts…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages, Phrase Structure
Download full textSena Seçil Akpinarli; Salih Levent Turan – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Biology, a living science, is known as a balance and complement among other branches of science. Just like the science of biology, biology as a course also plays a very important role among other courses at all school types and grades. It is thought that the adults of the future should not be deprived of knowledge in the field of biology and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Biology, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Lederman, J. S.; Lederman, N. G.; Bartels, S.; Jimenez, J.; Acosta, K.; Akubo, M.; Aly, S.; de Andrade, M. A. B. S.; Atanasova, M.; Blanquet, E.; Blonder, R.; Brown, P.; Cardoso, R.; Castillo-Urueta, P.; Chaipidech, P.; Concannon, J.; Dogan, O. K.; El-Deghaidy, H.; Elzorkani, A.; Ferdous, T.; Fukuda, N.; Gaigher, E.; Galvis-Solano, L.; Gao, Q.; Guo, S.; Gwekwerere, Y.; Gyllenpalm, J.; Hamed Al-Lal, S.; Han-Tosunoglu, C.; Hattingh, A.; Holliday, G.; Huang, X.; Irez, S.; Jiménez, J.; Kay, G.; Koumara, A.; Kremer, K.; Kuo, P.-C.; Lavonen, J.; Leung, J. S. C.; Liao, Z.; Librea-Carden, M. R.; Lin, S. -F.; Liu, C.; Liu, E.; Liu, S. -Y.; Mamlok-Naaman, R.; Mcdonald, C. V.; Möller, A.; Morales, M.; Mulvey, B. K.; Neumann, I.; Neurohr, A.-L.; Pan, Y.; Panjaburee, P.; Penn, M.; Plakitsi, K.; Picholle, E.; Ramnarain, U.; Raykova, Z.; Rundgren, C.-J.; Salonen, S.; Santibáñez-Gómez, D.; Schwartz, R.; Sharma, R.; Srisawasdi, N.; Takiveikata, S.; Urueta-Ortiz, T.; Vitlarov, K.; Voitle, F.; Wishart, J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Understandings of the nature of scientific inquiry (NOSI), as opposed to engaging students in inquiry learning experiences, are included in science education reform documents around the world. However, little is known about what students have learned about NOSI during their pre-college school years. The purpose of this large-scale follow-up…
Descriptors: High School Students, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Grade 12
Metli, Akin; Martin, Robin Ann; Lane, Jennie Farber – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2019
This paper uses mixed methods to explore perceptions of international-mindedness within two case study schools in Istanbul, Turkey: a national school with mostly Turkish students and an international school with students from many nationalities. Using a conceptual framework developed by an international education programme, the authors critically…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, International Schools, Foreign Countries
Olsson, Daniel; Gericke, Niklas – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
This study revisits the seminal question of the effectiveness of education for sustainable development (ESD) by adopting a novel approach. Little is known about the effects of ESD as a teaching approach to develop students' action competence for sustainability. This study therefore adopts a three-wave longitudinal design, tapping into the…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Change, Secondary School Students
Dulun, Öykü; Lane, Jennie F.; Ateskan, Armagan – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2019
This study used comparative case study methodology to investigate student perceptions of different programmes that prepare them for a challenging high school education programme: the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP). Given the benefits and challenges of the programme, educators and stakeholders want to ensure students feel…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, International Schools, High Schools
Smith, Blaine E. – Learning, Media and Technology, 2017
Although the shift from page to screen has dramatically redefined conceptions of writing, very little is known about how youth compose with multiple modes in digital environments. Integrating multimodality and multiliteracies theoretical frameworks, this comparative case study examined how urban twelfth-grade students collaboratively composed…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Adolescents, Grade 12, Case Studies
Choi, Kilchan; Kao, Jenny C.; Rivera, Nichole M.; Cai, Li – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2018
This report is the third in a series considering career-readiness features within high school assessments. The goal of this study was to explore international comparisons by applying feature analysis to Korean assessment items. Twenty math test items from the Gyeonggi Province in South Korea along with performance data from roughly 4,000 Grade 12…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, High School Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Test Items
Becker, Michael; Baumert, Jürgen; Tetzner, Julia; Maaz, Kai; Köller, Olaf – Developmental Psychology, 2019
What drives socioeconomic success within a society? This study analyzes how late childhood intelligence, parental socioeconomic background, and gender relate to multiple dimensions of adult socioeconomic success (i.e., education, occupational status, and income). A particular focus is placed on education, which is considered as both an indicator…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Family Characteristics, Gender Differences, Income
Reed, Deborah K.; Kershaw-Herrera, Sarah – Journal of Experimental Education, 2016
To better understand dimensions of text complexity and their effect on the comprehension of adolescents, 103 high school seniors were randomly assigned to 4 groups. Each group read versions of the same 2 informational passages and answered comprehension test items targeting factual recall and inferences of causal content. Group A passages had a…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Reading Materials, Difficulty Level, Readability
Wilcox, Kristen Campbell; Yagelski, Robert; Yu, Fang – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
This study examined the nature and frequency of error in high school native English speaker (L1) and English learner (L2) writing. Four main research questions were addressed: Are there significant differences in students' error rates in English language arts (ELA) and social studies? Do the most common errors made by students differ in ELA…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, High School Students, English Language Learners, Language Arts
Schudde, Lauren – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2016
Students from low-income families consistently trail behind their peers in retention and degree attainment. Research on college student experiences suggests that low-income students experience "cultural mismatch" at college--they feel that their backgrounds are at odds with the middle-class values dominant on campus (Armstrong &…
Descriptors: Family Income, School Holding Power, On Campus Students, College Housing
