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Predictors of Changes in Students' Motivational Resilience over the School Year: The Roles of Teacher Support, Self-Appraisals, and Emotional Reactivity
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Pitzer, Jennifer; Skinner, Ellen – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Students perform better in school to the extent they are able to engage fully, cope adaptively, and bounce back from obstacles and setbacks in their academic work. These three processes, which studies suggest are positively inter-connected, may comprise a self-sustaining system that enables "motivational resilience." Using…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Change, Student Motivation, Resilience (Psychology)
National Culture, Creativity, and Productivity: What's the Relationship with Student Achievement?
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Fang, Zheng; Xu, Xianxuan; Grant, Leslie W.; Stronge, James H.; Ward, Thomas J. – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
Using Hofstede's culture dimensions and World Values Survey (WVS) dimensions, the study uses a series of multiple regressions to explore the relationship among national culture, creativity as measured by patents, economic productivity as measured by gross domestic product per capita, and student achievement as measured by Trends in International…
Descriptors: Creativity, Productivity, Surveys, Multiple Regression Analysis
How Simple is the Simple View of Reading?
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Gustafson, Stefan; Samuelsson, Christina; Johansson, Ellinor; Wallmann, Julia – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
According to the Simple View of Reading, reading ability can be divided into decoding and language comprehension. In the present study, decoding and comprehension's contribution to reading ability was studied both in children with reading difficulties and in children with typical reading ability. Decoding and comprehension was further divided into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading)
A Model of Reading Comprehension in Chinese Elementary School Children
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Yeung, Pui-sze; Ho, Connie Suk-han; Chan, David Wai-ock; Chung, Kevin Kien-hoa; Wong, Yau-kai – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
The relationships of reading-related skills (rapid naming, morphological awareness, syntactic skills, discourse skills, and verbal working memory) and word reading to reading comprehension were examined among 248 Chinese fourth graders in Hong Kong. Multiple regression analysis results showed that syntactic skills (word order knowledge,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Learning Experience, Path Analysis
Aggression in Primary Schools: The Predictive Power of the School and Home Environment
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Kozina, Ana – Educational Studies, 2015
In this study, we analyse the predictive power of home and school environment-related factors for determining pupils' aggression. The multiple regression analyses are performed for fourth- and eighth-grade pupils based on the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2007 (N = 8394) and TIMSS 2011 (N = 9415) databases for Slovenia. At the…
Descriptors: Aggression, Elementary Schools, Predictive Validity, Educational Environment
The Relationship of School Inputs to Public School Performance in New York State.
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Kiesling, Herbert J. – 1969
This report analyzes the results of research into the relationships between such inputs as expenditure per pupil and school district size and the average achievement of pupils in basic subjects. The analysis focuses on production function relationships of education. The results of the analysis illustrate the problems involved in constructing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Expenditure per Student, Grade 4