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Savage, Corey; Becker, Michael; Baumert, Jürgen – AERA Open, 2021
Vocational education and training (VET) is a common form of upper secondary school tracking in countries around the world. There are ongoing debates regarding the effects of this differentiation on academic and labor market outcomes; however, evidence on civic outcomes is lacking. Using a unique cohort study in Germany (N = 2461) and a doubly…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), Vocational Education, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
Lindsay Brown; Kalina Gjicali; Ha Yeon Kim; Carly Tubbs Dolan; Paul Frisoli; Mahmoud Bwary; J. Lawrence Aber – AERA Open, 2023
Despite widespread enthusiasm for remedial education programming with refugee populations, there is little rigorous evidence on how to design and implement such programs. We employ a cluster-randomized design of non-equivalent treatment groups to test the impact of access to two types of program enhancement: longer program duration and the…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Refugees, Foreign Countries, Social Emotional Learning
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Domingue, Benjamin W.; Lang, David; Cuevas, Martha; Castellanos, Melisa; Lopera, Carolina; Mariño, Julián P.; Molina, Adriana; Shavelson, Richard J. – AERA Open, 2017
Technical schools are an integral part of the education system, and yet, little is known about student learning at such institutions. We consider whether assessments of student learning can be jointly administered to both university and technical school students. We examine whether differential test functioning may bias inferences regarding the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Vocational Schools, Test Bias
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Helm, Friederike; Mueller-Kalthoff, Hanno; Nagy, Nicole; Möller, Jens – AERA Open, 2016
Dimensional comparison theory (DCT) defines dimensional comparisons as intraindividual comparisons that a person draws between his or her own achievements in two domains or subjects. DCT assumes that dimensional comparisons influence students' academic self-concepts, causing stronger self-concept differences between subjects perceived as…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Comparative Analysis, Academic Achievement, Individual Differences
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Nielen, Thijs M. J.; Bus, Adriana G. – AERA Open, 2015
We compared students from schools with an enriched school library--that is, one with a larger and more up-to-date book collection--with students from schools with a typical school library. We tested effects of an enriched school library on reading motivation, reading frequency, and academic skills. Fourth- and fifth-grade students of 14 schools…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Enrichment