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Carla Rowold; Emanuela Struffolino; Anette Eva Fasang – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
Processes that unfold over individuals' life courses are often associated with inequalities later in life. The literature lacks methodological approaches to analyze inequalities in outcomes between groups, for example, between women and men, in a life-course-sensitive manner. We propose a combination of methods--of sequence analysis, which enables…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Gender Differences, Social Science Research
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al-Swaidani, Aref M.; al-Hajeh, Tamer – Open Education Studies, 2023
The aim of the current study is to estimate the graduation grade point average (GPA) at the Arab International University (AIU). The importance of this study is that it is the first of its kind in Syria, particularly under the conditions of the bitter war, which has not yet come to its end. The sample of the study consists of data collected from…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, War, Gender Differences, Undergraduate Study
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Mazrekaj, Deni; Witte, Kristof De; Triebs, Thomas P. – Exceptional Children, 2022
We propose using Stochastic Frontier Analysis to estimate pupils' academic underachievement. We model underachievement as the gap between expected achievement and actual achievement, not due to a learning disability. Our data are a panel for 2,228 Belgian pupils observed over 6 years of primary education. We found that the average underachievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Underachievement, Academically Gifted, Class Size
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Ellis-Davies, Kate; Lew-Levy, Sheina; Fleming, Eleanor; Boyette, Adam H.; Baguley, Thom – Field Methods, 2021
Temporal aspects of child and adolescent time allocation in diverse cultural settings have been difficult to model using conventional statistical techniques. A new statistical approach, Egocentric Relational Event Modelling (EREM), allows for the simultaneous modelling of activity frequency, duration, and sequencing. Here, EREM is applied to a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Adolescents, Employment
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Sarfo, Jacob Owusu; García-Santillán, Arturo; Adusei, Henry; Molchanova, Violetta S.; Drushlyak, Marina; Semenikhina, Olena; Donyeh, Philip Soyiri; Zand, Somayeh; Najafi, Reza; Enea, Violeta; Malik, Sadia; Ashraf, Farzana; Malik, Najma Iqbal; Ansah, Edward Wilson; Wongcharee, Hattaphan; Egara, Felix O.; Tipandjan, Arun; Cudjoe, Josephine; Azam, Uzma; Hassan, Mohammed Salah; Helmy, Mai; Vally, Zahir – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2020
Mathematics anxiety (MA) has a debilitating impact on learning, achievement, mental health, and the future career life of students. Though MA is a popular research theme, there is little agreement among researchers regarding the cross-cultural effect of gender. The purpose of this paper was to explore the perceived MA differences among males and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Mathematics Anxiety, Cross Cultural Studies, Statistical Analysis
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Alalouch, Chaham – Education Sciences, 2021
Cognitive styles affect the learning process positively if tasks are matched to the cognitive style of learners. This effect becomes more pronounced in complex education, such as in engineering. We attempted to critically assess the effect of cognitive styles and gender on students' academic performance in eight engineering majors to understand…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Engineering Education
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Mehrazmay, Roghayeh; Ghonsooly, Behzad; de la Torre, Jimmy – Applied Measurement in Education, 2021
The present study aims to examine gender differential item functioning (DIF) in the reading comprehension section of a high stakes test using cognitive diagnosis models. Based on the multiple-group generalized deterministic, noisy "and" gate (MG G-DINA) model, the Wald test and likelihood ratio test are used to detect DIF. The flagged…
Descriptors: Test Bias, College Entrance Examinations, Gender Differences, Reading Tests
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Cherkasov, Aleksandr A.; Bratanovskii, Sergei N.; Ponomareva, Marina A.; Zimovets, Ludmila G. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2020
This paper examines the process of the making and development of parochial schools in Russia in the pre-revolutionary period. An insight is provided into the scale of work carried out in that area, the evolution of parochial schools in Russia, and the regulatory framework for them. The main sources for this paper are reports from the Chief…
Descriptors: Parochial Schools, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Development
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Mazouchová, Aneta; Jedlicková, Tereza; Hlavácová, Lucie – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2021
This paper aims to reveal the beliefs of students and fresh university graduates about teaching statistics during their university studies with focus on using statistical software. The objective is to detect the approach of faculties to statistics education and to find out which didactic materials and teaching methods are mainly used. Students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistics, College Students, College Graduates
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Zubaida Shraim; Assile AlAmili; Shaikha Al Shehhi; Zeina Hojeij – Cogent Education, 2024
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) aims to improve its education sector by recruiting qualified and diverse student teachers. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the factors affecting student motivation to enroll in colleges of education. Using simple random sampling, a total of 199 consenting students were recruited to participate in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education Majors, Schools of Education, Student Motivation
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Ralston, Kevin; Gorton, Victoria; MacInnes, John; Gayle, Vernon; Crow, Graham – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2021
One of the most commonly identified obstacles in the learning-teaching of quantitative material is statistics anxiety. Of the factors analysed in relation to statistics anxiety, age and gender have received a substantial proportion of the research focus. Yet there is limited work that systematically examines the possibility of an…
Descriptors: Statistics, Anxiety, Negative Attitudes, Mathematics Skills
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Ilgun Dibek, Munevver – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2021
Response times are one of the important sources that provide information about the performance of individuals during a test process. The main purpose of this study is to show that survival models can be used in educational data. Accordingly, data sets of items measuring literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills of the countries participating…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Test Items, Adults, Foreign Countries
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Muhammet, Bas; Sarigöz, Okan – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2018
Teaching profession is one of the hardest jobs of today. Teachers who raise the safeguards of our future, that is, our students should be aware of the principles, methods and techniques needed for teaching; should have taken the pedagogical formation training, should have enhanced communication skills and should closely follow science and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation), Foreign Countries
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Kemda, Lionel Establet; Murray, Michael – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Within students' attrition studies, it is necessary to assess the longitudinal evolution of students within a given course of study, from enrolment to exit from the university through degree completion and academic dropout. Here, the student's academic progress is monitored through the number of courses failed each semester enrolled. The students'…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Student Behavior, College Students, Student Attrition
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Tan, Seref; Pektas, Sami – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2020
The primary aim of the present study is to examine the measurement invariance of the structural equating model constructed on the numerical and verbal abilities test for sixth grade students across gender, amount of weekly pocket money and students' perceptions of the sufficiency of their pocket money. The secondary aim is to illustrate the use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Measurement, Mathematics Tests
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