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María Pilar García-Rodríguez; Sara Conde-Velez; Manuel Delgado-García; José Carmona Márquez – Learning Environments Research, 2024
We present the validation of a questionnaire for compulsory secondary school students (seventh to tenth grade), designated "Educational learning environments for ESO pupils" (CEApA_ESO), for the purpose of evaluating learning environments. Although many instruments have been developed in this area, our work attempts to comprehensively…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Compulsory Education, Secondary Education, Grade 7
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Grassetti, Stevie N.; Williamson, Ariel A.; Herres, Joanna; Kobak, Roger; Layne, Christopher M.; Kaplow, Julie B.; Pynoos, Robert S. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2018
There is a need to delineate best practices for referring, assessing, and retaining students suspected of posttraumatic stress (PTS) and maladaptive grief (MG) in school-based treatment. Evidence-based risk-screening procedures should accurately include students who are appropriate for group treatment and exclude students who do not require…
Descriptors: Referral, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Kikas, Eve; Jõgi, Anna-Liisa – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2016
Two types of assessment instruments were developed to assess middle school students' learning strategies, and their effectiveness in predicting various learning outcomes was examined. The participants were 565 middle school students. Three subscales (rehearsal, organization, elaboration) from the "Motivated Strategies for Learning…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Questionnaires, Measurement Techniques, Middle School Students
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Cheung, Pui Pui Phoebe; Siu, Andrew M. H.; Brown, Ted; Yu, Mong-lin – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2018
This pilot study explored the efficacy of a social-cognitive intervention program for adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Seven adolescents with ASD (mean age = 12.57 years) attended a school-based 10-week program. Social Skills Improvement System Rating Scales, Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS), and Theory of Mind Inventory were…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Intervention, Interpersonal Competence, Autism
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Alkharusi, Hussain; Aldhafri, Said; Alnabhani, Hilal; Alkalbani, Muna – Journal of Education and Learning, 2012
Educational assessment can be a powerful tool in enhancing classroom instruction and student performance. Yet, its effectiveness relies on the beliefs and knowledge of those who apply it on a daily classroom basis. This study explored attitudes, competence, knowledge, and practices of teachers about educational assessment. Participants were 165…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes, Grade 5
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Schmitt, Maribeth Cassidy; Sha, Shuying – Journal of Research in Reading, 2009
This study explored the development of meta-cognitive knowledge and control, the relationship between the two constructs, the types of strategy knowledge Chinese students consider valuable and comparisons with US children's knowledge of strategies at the third-grade level. One hundred and twenty students were randomly sampled from third-, fifth-…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Chinese, Grade 3
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Hacieminoglu, Esme; Yilmaz-Tuzun, Ozgul; Ertepinar, Hamide – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2009
This study examined the relationships among students' learning approaches, motivational goals, previous science grades, and their science achievement for the concepts related to atomic theory and explored the effects of gender and sociodemographic variables on students' learning approaches, motivational goals, and their science achievement for the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Science Achievement, Academic Achievement, Rote Learning
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Lau, Kit-Ling – Educational Psychology, 2004
This paper describes the development and initial validation of a Chinese reading motivation questionnaire (CRMQ) which was designed to assess Chinese students' reading motivation in Hong Kong. The development of the CRMQ consisted of two steps. In the first study, groups of items were constructed based on achievement motivation theories and…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries, Grade 7
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Butt, Graham; Weeden, Paul; Wood, Phil – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2004
Considerable evidence now exists of the problem of boys' underachievement in a wide range of academic subjects, including geography. This paper offers examples of, and suggests tentative solutions to, problems of underachievement based on the findings generated by a research project conducted in an English secondary school. In so doing it raises…
Descriptors: Underachievement, Geography, Academic Achievement, Gender Differences
Small, Charles; And Others – 1975
The field test report on the "Construction Industry Related Math" instructional unit for grade 7 is one of a series of reports on the Arizona developed Career Education Curriculum Units. Presented is specific information as to the success of the units in terms of the learner's cognitive, affective, and psychomotor behavior according to…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Construction Industry, Curriculum Evaluation
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1985
The Planning, Monitoring and Implementing (PMI) Evaluation Model for Decision-Making was used by the District of Columbia Public Schools to monitor the efforts of their Office of Educational Technology in providing direction and coordination for computer related activities, and in planning and implementing educational television (ITV) projects in…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Educational Technology, Educational Television
Davila, Norma; Gomez, Manuel – 1994
The National Science Foundation is sponsoring 26 Statewide Systemic Initiative Projects to promote innovative curricula for teaching mathematics and science. A plan for evaluating and assessing systemic change has been designed and implemented at one of them in Puerto Rico. The perspective used to guide this paper is based on the principles that…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Innovation