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Baker, Sally – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
The lament that "students can't write" remains loud and defiant, even after years of research pointing to the myriad factors that make students' writing challenging, particularly when they move into university. This paper reports on a longitudinal, ethnographic study which explored students' writing "in transition," from…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Ethnography, Literacy, Writing Achievement
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Puccioni, Jaime – Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The author empirically tests the conceptual model of academic socialization, which suggests that parental cognitions about schooling influence parenting practices and child outcomes during the transition to school (Taylor, Clayton, & Rowley, 2004). More specifically, the author examines associations among parents' conceptions of school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Parent Attitudes, Parents, Socialization
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Anderson, Vivienne; McGrath, Terry; Butcher, Andrew – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2014
In 2008 the Asia New Zealand Foundation commissioned a three-year project examining Asia-born New Zealand-educated business graduates' study to work transitions. Data were collected through annual online surveys and in-depth interviews. Graduates were asked to discuss their post-study experiences, reflections on studying in New Zealand, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, College Graduates, Business Administration Education
Compton-Lilly, Catherine – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ3), 2008
A case study of one child, Alicia, is used to explore how children's identities as readers are constructed across time as they move thorough school. Attention to time helps us attend to how students draw on ongoing, familial, and historical resources in ways that are both recursive and future-oriented as they construct themselves as readers across…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Instruction, Case Studies, Longitudinal Studies
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Goodwin, John; O'Connor, Henrietta – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2007
Using previously unanalysed data from Norbert Elias's lost study of young workers in Leicester--the "Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles" (1962-1964), and data from a subsequent restudy of the same respondents in 2003-2005, this paper focuses on three main themes. First, we critically examine the concept of…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Young Adults, Social Change, Education Work Relationship
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Fisher, Ros – Teaching & Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2006
This paper reports the findings of a longitudinal study of the literacy teaching of two teachers who were involved in a large-scale government initiative to change the way literacy is taught. These two teachers were identified at the outset of the study as being very different in ways in which they thought about the teaching of reading and…
Descriptors: Developmental Continuity, Literacy Education, Longitudinal Studies, Reading Instruction