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McLure, Felicity I.; Fraser, Barry J.; Koul, Rekha B. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2022
Recently, integrated STEM projects have been introduced into school curricula in an attempt to increase students' understanding and interest in pursuing STEM subjects in senior high school and university. However, little is known about the classroom emotional climate in STEM classrooms and its effect, along with teacher-student interpersonal…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Classroom Environment, Teacher Student Relationship, Structural Equation Models
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Bardach, Lisa; Yanagida, Takuya; Lüftenegger, Marko – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2020
The present article focuses on classroom climate effects in the context of multi-level structural equation modelling. We first discuss the need to appropriately model classroom climate as a classroom-level construct. We then analyse the effects of classroom climate (academic goal structures and social goal structures) on students' motivation in…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Structural Equation Models, Goal Orientation, Mastery Learning
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Alivernini, Fabio; Manganelli, Sara; Lucidi, Fabio – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
This study examines the factor structures of Personal and Classroom Achievement Goals and the relationships between them. Multilevel structural equation modeling was used to examine data from a sample of 3,544 Italian 10th-grade students (184 classrooms) who completed the Patterns of Adaptive Learning Scales (PALS). Findings about the factor…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Mastery Learning, Immigrants
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Georgiou, George K.; Hirvonen, Riikka; Manolitsis, George; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
Background: Task avoidance is a significant predictor of literacy skills. However, it remains unclear whether the relation between the two is reciprocal and whether it is affected by the type of literacy outcome, who is rating children's task avoidance, and the children's gender. Aim: The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine the…
Descriptors: Literacy, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Spelling
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Lazarides, Rebecca; Rohowski, Susanne; Ohlemann, Svenja; Ittel, Angela – Educational Psychology, 2016
This study focused on students enrolled in obligatory vocational education courses in German secondary schools that aim to support students' career exploration. The study examined the relations between student-perceived classroom characteristics (support for autonomy, competence and relatedness), students' intrinsic motivation and their career…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Student Motivation, Career Exploration
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Curby, Timothy W.; Brown, Chavaughn A.; Bassett, Hideko Hamada; Denham, Susanne A. – Infant and Child Development, 2015
Identifying and understanding the predictors of preliteracy skills can set the stage for success in a child's academic career. Recent literature has implicated social-emotional competence as a potential component in helping children learn preliteracy skills. To further understand the role of social-emotional competence in preliteracy, the…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Competence, Predictor Variables
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Roczen, Nina; Abs, Hermann J.; Filsecker, Michael – Journal of Peace Education, 2017
The willingness to solve conflicts without violence and to strive for a reconciliation of interests is of central significance for the continued existence of democracies. In this paper, we aim to analyze school-related determinants of adolescents' conflict behaviour. Models predicting the conflict styles of "integrating",…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Adolescents, Student Behavior, School Culture
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Eckstein, Katharina; Noack, Peter – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2014
Despite the importance of a democratic school context, little is known about its underling processes. The present research examined in how far a positive social-emotional classroom climate, namely perceptions of community in class and fairness of teachers, furthers students' democratic experiences in school (i.e., open classroom climate for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Student Experience, Regression (Statistics)
Yang, Yang – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Investigating students' perceptions of their classroom environment is one of the ways researchers and educators can effectively determine what factors may benefit students' learning. Student Perceptions of Classroom Quality (SPOCQ; Gentry & Owen, 2004) was used with a group of Chinese gifted and general secondary students in the study. SPOCQ…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Secondary School Students, Self Efficacy
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Brown, Sherri L.; Ronau, Robert R. – School Science and Mathematics, 2012
While participating in single- and mixed-gender science and mathematics classes, ninth-grade urban high school students' (n = 118) academic self-concept, self-efficacy, and school climate perceptions were examined. Their perceptions were measured quantitatively from the Fennema-Sherman Mathematics (modified for Science) Attitude and the Patterns…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy, Measures (Individuals)
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Cheung, Derek; Lai, Edith – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2013
The personal development of students is an essential component of school guidance and counselling programmes, but no published research on guidance and counselling has investigated the effects of regular classroom teaching on students' self-efficacy for personal development. In this study, questionnaire items were constructed to measure classroom…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Classroom Environment, Student Development, Instructional Effectiveness
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Dorman, Jeffrey P. – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2009
This research investigated some determinants of classroom environment in Australian Catholic high schools. The Catholic School Classroom Environment Questionnaire (CSCEQ) was used to assess 7 dimensions of the classroom psychosocial environment: student affiliation, interactions, cooperation, task orientation, order and organization,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Catholic Schools, Classroom Environment
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Owen, Steven V.; Toepperwein, Mary Anne; Marshall, Carolyn E.; Lichtenstein, Michael J.; Blalock, Cheryl L.; Liu, Yan; Pruski, Linda A.; Grimes, Kandi – Science Education, 2008
The Simpson-Troost Attitude Questionnaire (STAQ) was developed as part of a study to assess adolescent commitment to and achievement in science. For this psychometric reappraisal of the 57-item STAQ, data were analyzed from a convenience sample of 1,754 secondary students. Confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses were applied, and results…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Questionnaires, Adolescents, Motivation