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Gilbert, Shelby – Negro Educational Review, 2009
Ogbu and Simons' thesis, based on the Cultural-Ecological Theory of School Performance that Black immigrant students academically outperform their non-immigrant counterparts and that achievement differences are attributed to stronger educational commitment in Black immigrant families, was examined. Two hypotheses, based on data from the Progress…
Descriptors: African American Children, Immigrants, Program Validation, Theses
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Samuelstuen, Marit S.; Braten, Ivar; Valas, Harald – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2007
This study examined contextual effects in Norwegian 10th-grade students' reports on cognitive and metacognitive strategies when using the Cross-Curricular Competencies (CCC) instrument. The CCC was first administered as the final task in a long (three-hour) testing session in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Program for…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Student Evaluation, Cognitive Measurement