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Meera Chandran; Shamin Padalkar; Ramachan A. Shimray – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2025
This article explores the question, 'what motivates the choice of teaching as a profession?' Availability of adequate teachers, professionally qualified in institutions of higher education to meet the curricular and structural challenges of school education, is a critical policy concern. This article is based on a study of 54 student-teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Preservice Teachers, Career Choice, Gender Differences
Kenneth A. Shores; Hojung Lee; Arielle Lentz – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Using administrative data from Delaware and aggregate occupational wage data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this paper examines expected wage inequality in Career and Technical Education (CTE) by analyzing how student demographics relate to selection into programs of study (POS) with different expected wages. Through multilevel mixed-effects…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Career and Technical Education, Student Characteristics, Career Pathways
Bhatt, Suman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study investigated the factors influencing students' performance in science subjects at different schools in a school district in the midland area of South Carolina. For the convenience of the study and to maintain confidentiality, the school district is named Midland School District 2022. The population of this study included students in…
Descriptors: Influences, Academic Achievement, Science Education, Comparative Analysis
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Wang, Xi; Dai, Minhao; Mathis, Robin – International Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Background: Given the relatively low graduation and retention rate in undergraduate engineering programs in the United States, the factors that influence student success outcomes need to be examined. However, limited research systematically studied both student- and school-level factors and how they influenced undergraduate engineering student…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics, Influences, Engineering Education
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Björn Högberg; Mattias Strandh – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
School stress is widespread among students' worldwide, impacting academic success and mental health. Most research focuses on average stress levels but lacks insights into temporal trends and inequalities. Using repeated longitudinal survey data on 33,000 students in Swedish compulsory school from the Evaluation Through Follow-up (ETF) study, we…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Stress Variables, Academic Achievement, Mental Health
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Paterson, Lindsay – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
The relationship between students' entry to higher education and the history or status of the secondary school which they attended is examined using school leavers' surveys in Scotland stretching from the early 1950s to the late 1990s. The surveys are unique in the length of this period, their details of the higher-education institutions and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational History, Institutional Characteristics, Foreign Countries
Jennifer Wallace; Jennifer Feldman – Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, 2022
This chapter provides a discussion on elite schools and their students from the current literature and research that has been conducted to date globally and within the South African context, with a particular focus on marginalized students in elite schools -- those who enter these environments from different racial, socioeconomic, cultural and/or…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Selective Admission, Disadvantaged, Social Differences
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Van Houtte, Mieke – European Education, 2021
Given the importance of relatedness for study motivation, motivation might be associated with faculty trust in students and, as such, with schools' student composition. Representative Flemish data of 5162 students and 1247 teachers in 57 Flemish secondary schools, gathered at the end of the 2013/2014 school year (April--May 2014), reveal that the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Trust (Psychology), Teacher Student Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Heriberto Godina – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2024
Hispanic literacy development in the Southwestern US is examined through standardized assessment data derived from recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and Texas Academic Performance Reports (TAPR). This longitudinal study focuses on significant variables across a spectrum of grade levels for Hispanics of Mexican descent.…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Student Development, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
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Jaoul-Grammare, Magali – European Journal of Education, 2022
One of the specificities of French higher education is that there is no single higher education system but two compartmentalised and hierarchical higher education systems comprising (1) universities and (2) "grande école" higher education institutions. Competing for a place in the latter requires that students have succeeded in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Equal Education, Geographic Regions, Social Differences
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Kadio, Kadio Eric – Education Economics, 2023
This paper provides empirical evidence on students' achievements determinants in Sub-Saharan Africa based on a sample of 26602 students from the ten countries that participated in the PASEC 2014 assessment. By using a two-level hierarchical linear model, I find that learning inequalities are primarily explained by differences in schools'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Institutional Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged
Lynn Emily Meissner – ProQuest LLC, 2021
From its inception in the early 1900s, vocational education in American high schools was designed to prepare students for jobs that did not require any formal postsecondary education. In the last decades of the 20th century, growing concern about how separating students into "college" and "non-college" tracks often perpetuated…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Career Choice, Socioeconomic Status, Social Differences
Patrick Tumwine – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Grade repetition is one of the bottlenecks to Uganda's vision of producing skilled human capital to transform the nation's status from peasant to middle class. This study explored how education stakeholders perceived the implication of students' grade repetition at a secondary school level. I employed a qualitative approach with an embedded…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Secondary School Students, Correlation, Public Schools
Montacute, Rebecca; Holt-White, Erica; Anders, Jake; Cullinane, Carl; De Gennaro, Alice; Early, Erin; Shao, Xin; Yarde, James – Sutton Trust, 2022
The COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities (COSMO) study is a new national cohort study generating high-quality evidence about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected socio-economic inequalities in life chances, both in terms of short- and long-term effects on education, wellbeing, and career outcomes. A representative sample of young people in…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Mobility, Access to Education
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Coetzee, Dané; Pienaar, Anita E.; van Wyk, Yolanda – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2019
Background: Visual motor integration plays an important role in academic skills of learners in the early school years and can have an impact on their overall academic performance. Aim: This study aimed to determine the influence of socio-economic status (SES) on changes in visual-motor integration, visual perception and motor coordination over a…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Psychomotor Skills, Socioeconomic Status, Grade 1
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