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Gao, Lei; Li, Xiaoran; Li, Yanyan; Hu, Wanqing – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
Socio-emotional interaction is considered a crucial factor that may affect the effectiveness and efficiency of collaborative argumentation and deserves further exploration. This study explored what temporal and sequential patterns of socio-emotional interaction could promote or hinder productive collaborative argumentation by comparing the…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Persuasive Discourse, Low Achievement, High Achievement
Buchholz, Janine – OECD Publishing, 2022
Many students view PISA as a low-stakes assessment. Their lack of willingness to give the assessment "their all" is reflected in students' performance. Boys are often disengaged, resulting in low test performance. Disengagement should be measured in various different ways to better understand it and improve assessment design.
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Forbes, Cory T.; Neumann, Knut; Schiepe-Tiska, Anja – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Scientific literacy is a central aim of science education. The "Programme for International Student Assessment" (PISA) provides a measure of secondary students' scientific literacy and reported science instruction in 72 countries. Researchers have analyzed PISA data to identify important relationships between science instruction and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Science Instruction, Science Achievement
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Chu, Hui-Chun; Wang, Chun-Chieh; Wang, Lin – Educational Technology & Society, 2019
EFL (English as a foreign language) students usually learn by rote when they study English grammar. They usually memorize all the grammar rules mechanically instead of learning grammar in a structured way. Researchers have suggested that students can internalize knowledge via using knowledge construction tools and collaborated learning activities.…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Concept Mapping, Cooperative Learning, Game Based Learning
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Liu, Zhi; Zhang, Wenjing; Cheng, Hercy N. H.; Sun, Jianwen; Liu, Sannyuya – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2018
As an overt expression of internal mental processes, discourses have become one main data source for the research of interactive learning. To deeply explore behavioral regularities among interactions, this article firstly adopts the content analysis method to summarize students' engagement patterns within a course forum in a small private online…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Correlation, Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement
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Schiaratura, Loris; Askevis-Leherpeux, Francoise – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2007
This study analysed the effects of the nonverbal behaviour of an examiner on low and high achievers' psychometric performances. The examiner, who was blind to children's achievement level, varied the nonverbal style she adopted when giving instructions. As expected, a warm style led children to score higher than a neutral one. Moreover, warmth…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Examiners, Psychometrics, Educational Counseling
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Blote, Anke W. – Learning and Instruction, 1995
Student and teacher perceptions of differential teacher behavior toward good and not-so-good students were studied for 529 Dutch elementary school students. Students and teachers agreed that low-achieving students got more teacher support, but they differed in their views of amounts of praise and criticism. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Foreign Countries, High Achievement, Low Achievement
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Nurmi, Jari-Erik; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1995
Two studies with a total of 153 junior and senior high-school students and vocational students in Finland investigated whether underachievers applied a self-handicapping or learned-helplessness strategy in achievement contexts. Underachievers seemed to apply a self-handicapping strategy rather than a learned-helplessness approach. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries