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Acosta, Sandra; Hsu, Hsien-Yuan – Educational Studies, 2014
This study investigated parent general value of science operationalized in the 2006 questionnaire of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), as a determinant of adolescents' scientific literacy performance. The transmission of academic values literature is small. To the best of our knowledge, no previous studies to date have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Scientific Literacy, Educational Assessment
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McDaniel, Anne – Comparative Education Review, 2010
In recent decades, a dramatic shift has occurred in higher education throughout much of the industrialized world. For the first time in history, women are completing more education than men. Through the 1970s, women lagged behind men in the number of tertiary degrees completed in most nations. Since the 1980s, women have begun to reach parity with…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Gender Differences, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies