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McKeown, Tui; Anderson, Mary – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: While educators and students alike are increasingly moving to use on-line technologies, there is still much to be learned about how these tools influence student learning. The purpose of this paper is to present a comparative investigation of the online use of one undergraduate (UG) and two postgraduate (PG) student cohorts undertaking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Educational Technology
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Boon, Helen J. – Australian Educational Researcher, 2008
Dropping out of school has been associated with a student's ethnicity, socioeconomic status, challenging behaviours and low academic achievement. This paper describes research conducted with 1050 students aged 12-15, in three North Queensland urban high schools to investigate issues related to Indigenous and non-Indigenous students at risk of…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Academic Achievement, High Risk Students, Family Structure
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School Science Review, 1987
Contains four articles about various aspects of science education. Addresses a graded assessment scheme in Great Britain, factors affecting school science achievement in Nigeria, the need to address differentiation in science curricula, and the encouragement of developing science hypothesis in elementary schools. (TW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Swatton, Peter – British Educational Research Journal, 1992
Examines children's ability to formulate testable hypotheses, both from a theoretical viewpoint and from results of a British study of responses to an assessment instrument. Addresses implications for science education and difficulties in judging whether a child has demonstrated the skill. Concludes that evidence presented by teachers about…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Hypothesis Testing