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Guohao He; Songshan Chen; Hongyi Lin; Aoxue Su – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
In the present meta-analysis, we systematically examined the association between students' initial level of metacognition and their academic achievement at least three months later. Using multilevel meta-analysis as well as meta-analytic structural equation modelling, we analysed data from 71,171 students provided by 28 independent studies. The…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Metacognition, Correlation, Academic Achievement
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Duxbury, Scott W. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
This study shows that residual variation can cause problems related to scaling in exponential random graph models (ERGM). Residual variation is likely to exist when there are unmeasured variables in a model--even those uncorrelated with other predictors--or when the logistic form of the model is inappropriate. As a consequence, coefficients cannot…
Descriptors: Graphs, Scaling, Research Problems, Models
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Toste, Jessica R.; Didion, Lisa; Peng, Peng; Filderman, Marissa J.; McClelland, Amanda M. – Review of Educational Research, 2020
The purpose of this meta-analytic review was to investigate the relation between motivation and reading achievement among students in kindergarten through 12th grade. A comprehensive search of peer-reviewed published research resulted in 132 articles with 185 independent samples and 1,154 reported effect sizes (Pearson's r). Results of our…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Reading Achievement, Reading Motivation, Kindergarten
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Gore, Jennifer; Holmes, Kathryn; Smith, Max; Fray, Leanne; McElduff, Patrick; Weaver, Natasha; Wallington, Claire – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Demand for higher education in Australia has doubled since 1989, increasing the number of students from diverse social, economic and academic backgrounds. Equity targets have seen a proliferation of programs and interventions aimed at encouraging school students, particularly those from low socio-economic status backgrounds, to participate in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Occupational Aspiration
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Hong, Jun Sung; Merrin, Gabriel J.; Peguero, Anthony A.; Gonzalez-Prendes, A. Antonio; Lee, Na Youn – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2016
Background: Despite the growing presence of immigrant families in the US, little is known about physical fighting in school among youth from those families. Objective: The present study examines the social-ecological determinants of school physical fighting among youth in immigrant families. Implications for practice are also discussed. Method:…
Descriptors: Violence, Aggression, Social Influences, Ecological Factors
Sibley, Erin – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Family educational involvement is consistently and positively associated with child achievement, but little work has closely examined the involvement practices of families of color, particularly immigrant families. Utilizing data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort 1998-99 (ECLS-K), this study used Hierarchical Linear…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Immigrants, Minority Groups, Longitudinal Studies
Videen, Cheryl Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined relations between students' psychological engagement and academic achievement, as well as between students' psychological engagement and growth in academic achievement. The study also examined if relations between students' psychological engagement and academic growth varied by grade level (elementary school compared to middle…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement, Student Surveys, Grade 7