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Camilla Svens-Liavåg; Johan Korhonen; Sol-Britt Arnolds-Granlund – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
The aim of this study was to examine what kind of school performance and behaviour profiles could be identified among students in the final grade of basic education in the Swedish speaking parts of Finland (N = 1149, grade 9), how these differed in temperament and how temperament could explain profile differences in first language (L1, Swedish)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Grade 9, Academic Achievement
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Chi-Tung Chen; Chih-Ming Chen; Hsiao-Ting Tsai – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
This study utilised the instant semantic analysis and feedback system (ISAFS) to assist learners in the online discussion learning activities of socio-scientific issues (SSIs) and to document their learning process behaviours for behavioural analyses. The aim was to understand the learners' discussion behaviours during the ISAFS assisted learning…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Electronic Learning, Discussion, Instructional Effectiveness
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Trenova, Arailym; Seitzhanov, Azimkhan; Kosobaeva, Bakdolot; Imangaliyeva, Bazarkhan – Higher Education for the Future, 2023
The relevance of the research in this article is conditioned upon the problems of introducing environment-oriented education in the field of chemical discipline for the development of an important component of the information part of this science among students, based on its application in the framework of restoration and conservation of ecology.…
Descriptors: Ecology, Environmental Education, Science Instruction, Decision Making
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Frizzarin, Anna; Demo, Heidrun; de Boer, Anke A. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
Former literature found that various 'different' students experience exclusion and rejection by their peers in schools. This may be linked with the attitudes that their school and classmates hold towards them. Identifying someone as 'Other' may indeed result in prejudicial attitudes which, in turn, can lead to his/her marginalisation and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Diversity, Peer Acceptance, Power Structure
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Rose, Philip S.; Teo, Stephen T. T.; Nguyen, Diep; Nguyen, Nguyen Phong – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: Internships are utilized globally to recruit graduate employees. However, there is a limited understanding of the process by which interns convert into regular employees, particularly in non-Western research contexts. Integrating attraction-selection-attrition (ASA) theory and proactive career behaviors, this study identifies the…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Employees, Personality Theories, Intention
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Alodat, Ali M.; Abu Ghazal, Moawyah M.; Al-Hamouri, Firas A. – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
This study aimed to examine the relationship between perfectionism and academic self-handicapping strategies among gifted students in Jordan. This study used a mixed-method approach to explore the relationship as well as exploring any other factors associated with using such strategies. The Revised Almost Perfect Scale (APSR) and the Academic…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Tarnopolsky, Oleg; Kozhushko, Svitlana; Kliuchnyk, Ruslan; Storozhuk, Svitlana – Cogent Education, 2021
The article deals with the issue of developing the secondary (English-speaking) language personality of English-major Ukrainian university students who have chosen the professions of teachers of English, translators, and interpreters. Only the development of such a personality, consisting of the language, communicative, and cultural constituents,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Majors (Students)
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Cutrone, Pino – TESOL International Journal, 2019
This paper describes a study designed to profile performances of L2 listenership. The writer examines the listenership behavior of 23 Japanese EFL learners, who were all freshmen students at a national university in Japan (16 females and 5 males) at the time the study was conducted, in an attempt to identify some of the features associated with…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Schwartz, Mila; Deeb, Inas; Hijazy, Sujoud – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
The aim of this study was to explore patterns of children's agency enactment in second-language learning as reflected in their language learning and social interactions in a bilingual Arabic-Hebrew-speaking classroom. We examined the connection between these behaviour patterns and the children's L2 progress in the bilingual classroom. The study…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingual Education
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Svartdal, Frode – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Procrastination has been defined in different ways. Two instruments--the Irrational Procrastination Scale (IPS) and the Pure Procrastination Scale (PPS)--focus on a core problem in procrastination--the irrational delay of intended behavior. The present paper examined the psychometric properties of the Norwegian translations of these scales. In…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Correlation, Factor Structure, Translation
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Asbury, Kathryn; Moran, Nicola; Plomin, Robert – AERA Open, 2016
Twin studies find ~20% of the variance in achievement in public examinations taken at age 16 in the United Kingdom can be explained by experiences not shared within families. Nonshared environmental (NSE) influences, including measurement error, explain why monozygotic (MZ) twins differ from each other. Such influences work independently of…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Twins
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Davidovitch, Nitza; Khyhniak, Kateryna – International Education Studies, 2018
The article is devoted to the problem of identification of a language personality's traits under conditions of cross-cultural communication. It is shown that effective cross-cultural communication is revised under globalization and increasingly intensive social interactions. The results of the authors' research prove that it is possible to develop…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Intercultural Communication, Personality Traits, Heuristics
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Zhou, Mingming; Kam, Chester Chun Seng – Educational Psychology, 2017
Limited research has examined the mediational role of coping strategy in students' motivation and procrastination. In this study, we examined the relationships among self-efficacy, achievement goals, boredom coping strategies and procrastination with 506 Chinese college students. Data were collected via questionnaires. Structural equation…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Coping, Role, Goal Orientation
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Tartaglia, Stefano – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2014
The consumption of alcohol among young adults is determined by different individual and environmental factors. The present study aims at comparing the effects of different predictors on the alcohol consumption of Italian young adults. Data were collected by means of a self-report questionnaire on a sample of 311 university students. Four different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Drinking, Young Adults, Incidence
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Eilam, Efrat; Trop, Tamar – Education and Urban Society, 2014
The present study revisits a subfield of environmental education: significant life experiences, which studies the influences that shape the development of environmental stewardship. In the present study, we examine the effect of various formative experiences on a group of adults and analyze the role of school, as a formative influence on the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, School Role, Factor Analysis, Attitude Measures
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