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Science Teacher Beliefs, Knowledge, and Skill in Accommodating and Modifying Curriculum for Students with Disabilities
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Charlotte Waters – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative research study was conducted to investigate the beliefs, knowledge, and skills of science teachers as they accommodated and modified curriculum for students with disabilities. Four high school science teachers participated in interviews, classroom observations, and artifact collection to provide information about how their…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Students with Disabilities, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
The Changing Nature of Graduate Roles and the Value of the Degree
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Jackson, Denise – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2021
This study explores industry perspectives on the changing nature of graduate roles and the importance of the undergraduate degree, and any impact these have on traditional non-graduate roles in different sectors and industries. Amid declining labour markets, it is critical to consider graduate pathways to employment and the implications of…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship
Beating the Odds: Trees to Success in Different Countries
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Finch, W. Holmes; Marchant, Gregory J. – Online Submission, 2017
A recursive partitioning model approach in the form of classification and regression trees (CART) was used with 2012 PISA data for five countries (Canada, Finland, Germany, Singapore-China, and the Unites States). The objective of the study was to determine demographic and educational variables that differentiated between low SES student that were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Beating the Odds: Trees to Success in Different Countries
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Marchant, Gregory J.; Finch, William Holmes – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
A recursive partitioning model approach in the form of classification and regression trees (CART) was used with 2012 PISA data for five countries (Canada, Finland, Germany, Singapore-China, and the Unites States). The objective of the study was to determine demographic and educational variables that differentiated between low SES student that were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Low Income Groups, Socioeconomic Status
Considering the Experiences of "Underachieving" and "Overachieving" Students
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Smith, Emma – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2007
"Underachievement" has been one of the dominant discourses in education in recent times, but it is unclear what is meant by the term "underachievement", and there is no widely accepted way of defining or measuring it. This paper describes the final stage of a large study which used contextualised models to identify students who…
Descriptors: Underachievement, Overachievement, National Curriculum, Gender Differences
Girls' Overachievement in the Mathematics National Examination: Can Type of Items Be the Cause?
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Hamzah, Hanizah; Ariffin, Siti Rahayah; Yassin, Ruhizan Mohd – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2006
This study explored the differential performances of mathematics test items used to test secondary school girls and boys in the national examination. The main purpose was to find out whether type of items is the reason for girls' overachievement in the Malaysian mathematics national examination. To investigate seven types of items, Differential…
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Format, Females, Overachievement