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Kleespies, Matthias Winfried; Montes, Natalia Álvarez; Bambach, Alina Miriam; Gricar, Eva; Wenzel, Volker; Dierkes, Paul Wilhelm – Environmental Education Research, 2021
In the past decades, zoos have increasingly developed into conservation and education centers and today make an important contribution to environmental education. In this context, this study investigated which factors influence attitudes towards species conservation. The variables examined were gender, age, the number of visits to zoos in the last…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Animals, Recreational Facilities, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Caponera, Elisa; Losito, Bruno – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2016
Background: The present study investigates what factors related to the school context influence student achievement on TIMSS mathematics tests across countries. A systematic review of the literature on PIRLS, TIMSS, and ICCS was conducted upstream to identify those school, teacher, and classroom factors shown to be useful predictors of student…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Academic Achievement, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
Saparniene, Diana; Merkys, Gediminas; Saparnis, Gintaras – Online Submission, 2006
Purpose: The paper deals with the study of students' computer literacy one of the purposes being demonstration the impact of the cognitive and non-cognitive personality traits (attention, verbal and non-verbal intelligence, emotional-motivational relationship with computer, learning strategies, etc.) on the quality of computer literacy.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Computer Literacy, Psychometrics, Personality Traits