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Walter, Christel; Walter, Paul – Educational Research Quarterly, 2018
The study explores the influences of critical thinking and interests on students' performance at school. The tested students attended German grammar schools ("Gymnasien"). Separate regression analyses showed the expected moderate positive influences of critical thinking and interests on school performance. But analyzed simultaneously,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Structural Equation Models
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Mayer, Andreas; Motsch, Hans-Joachim – Journal of Education and Learning, 2015
This study analysed the effects of a classroom intervention focusing on phonological awareness and/or automatized word recognition in children with a deficit in the domains of phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming ("double deficit"). According to the double-deficit hypothesis (Wolf & Bowers, 1999), these children belong…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonological Awareness, Word Recognition, Naming
Woessmann, Ludger – Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University, 2007
Cross-country evidence on student achievement might be hampered by omitted country characteristics such as language or legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose sixteen states share the same language and legal system, but pursue different education policies. The same results found previously across countries hold…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, Educational Policy, Equal Education