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Wu, Huang; Shen, Jianping; Spybrook, Jessaca; Gao, Xingyuan – Education and Urban Society, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of school background and school process in closing achievement gaps between White and non-White students in science. To answer the research questions, a series of two-level hierarchical linear models (HLM) was performed on the fourth-grade U.S. portion of the 2015 Trends in International…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement, School Role, Racial Differences
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Bowd, Justin; Bowles, Terry; McKenzie, Vicki – Australian Journal of Education, 2021
Homework has been associated with a range of academic and cognitive benefits for secondary students. Research has also revealed that students' homework behaviours can vary with demographic traits. An important factor that may account for some of this variation is the role played by teachers and schools in homework allocation. It is hypothesised…
Descriptors: Homework, Educational Practices, Secondary School Teachers, Prediction
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Papanastasiou, Constantinos – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2002
Examined the influence of parental and school factors on the science attitudes of 1,923 eighth graders from Cyprus using data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Results suggest that the strongest direct influence on attitudes toward science is teaching, but exogenous factors (educational background of the family,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students