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Demir, Ergül – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
In this study, it was aimed to model the school characteristics in multivariate structure, and according to this model, aimed to test the invariance of this model across five randomly selected countries and economies from PISA 2012 sample. It is thought that significant differences across group in the context of school characteristics have the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Institutional Characteristics, Measurement, Multivariate Analysis
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Liebfreund, Meghan D.; Conradi, Kristin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
This study was conducted to examine the factors that influence informational text comprehension and to determine how these vary for students with higher and lower component skills. The sample included 177 students in grades 3-5. Regression analyses were used to predict informational text comprehension with decoding efficiency, vocabulary…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Componential Analysis, Nonfiction, Grade 3
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Rowtho, Vikash – Higher Education Studies, 2017
Undergraduate student dropout is gradually becoming a global problem and the 39 Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) are no exception to this trend. The purpose of this research was to develop a method that can be used for early detection of students who are at-risk of performing poorly in their undergraduate studies. A sample of 279 students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Identification, At Risk Students