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Ferguson, Leila E.; Braten, Ivar – Learning and Instruction, 2013
Using cluster-analysis in a sample of 65 Norwegian 10th graders, we identified subgroups characterized by relatively high levels of knowledge combined with relatively low beliefs in personal justification of knowledge claims, as well as subgroups characterized by the opposite pattern of knowledge and personal justification. Moreover, the high…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Profiles, Reading Comprehension, Grade 10
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Desimoni, Marta; Scalisi, Teresa Gloria; Orsolini, Margherita – Learning and Instruction, 2012
A sample of 170 Italian children was assessed for reading accuracy, reading speed, text comprehension and spelling in Grades 1 and 3 in order to investigate the concurrent and longitudinal relationships among literacy skills. Main results from multivariate analyses (regression, discriminant and path analyses) indicated that reading speed was the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Predictor Variables, Correlation
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Kieschke, Ulf; Schaarschmidt, Uwe – Learning and Instruction, 2008
The interplay of occupational engagement and individual coping capacity is very important. A methodological tool that provides the means for such an analysis which includes psychological aspects of the health is the "Arbeitsbezogenes Verhaltens- und Erlebensmuster" questionnaire (AVEM: Pattern of Work-related Coping Behavior). This…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Coping, Multivariate Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Watt, Helen M. G.; Richardson, Paul W. – Learning and Instruction, 2008
The professional plans, satisfaction levels, demographic characteristics, perceptions and motivations of different teacher types distinguished by cluster analysis were investigated among graduate-entry primary and secondary teacher education candidates (N=510) from three Australian universities in an ongoing longitudinal study. Participants…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching (Occupation), Multivariate Analysis, Beginning Teachers
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Van Driel, Jan H.; Bulte, Aastrid M. W.; Verloop, Nico – Learning and Instruction, 2007
In this exploratory study the relationships between teachers' general educational beliefs about teaching and learning and their domain specific beliefs about a particular curriculum, that is, the chemistry curriculum for upper secondary education in The Netherlands were investigated. For this purpose, a questionnaire survey was conducted among the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multivariate Analysis, Chemistry, Beliefs
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Gravani, M. N.; Hadjileontiadou, S. J.; Nikolaidou, G. N.; Hadjileontiadis, L. J. – Learning and Instruction, 2007
Studies have suggested that professional learning is influenced by two key parameters, i.e., climate and planning, and their associated variables (mutual respect, collaboration, mutual trust, supportiveness, openness). In this paper, we applied analysis of the relationships between the proposed quantitative, fuzzy logic-based model and a series of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Logical Thinking, Models