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Ha Van Le – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2024
In the dynamic academic landscape of the 21st century, the imperative to equip engineering students with robust critical reading skills, in tandem with their technical expertise, has come to the forefront. Recognizing the intrinsic value of critical thinking and reading in cultivating an ethos of lifelong learning among future engineers, this…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Engineering Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Scores
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Niehues, Wenke; Kisbu-Sakarya, Yasemin; Selcuk, Bilge – Educational Psychology, 2020
Turkey is an interesting context to study the applicability of the Expectancy-Value-Theory (EVT), since it is a less well-studied research context with a highly selective, centralised, and competitive education system and a more collectivistic-orientated population. In such a context, well-established factors known to drive students' achievement,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Mathematics Achievement, Socioeconomic Status, Parent Attitudes
Min, Inah – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Every society invests enormous resources to ensure that children grow up with the skills, knowledge, and values that will enable them to be successful. Yet cultures vary in their beliefs about what effective parenting and teaching require. Nurturing children involves a collaboration among parents, teachers, and students and reflects cultural…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cultural Differences, Beliefs, Parent Participation
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Park, Hyunjoon; Byun, Soo-Yong – Comparative Education Review, 2015
Using data from 37,570 students in 23 OECD countries in PISA 2006, we examine how national contexts shape the expectation of being a teacher at age 30 among high achieving students in secondary schools. Our results show considerable between-country differences in the degree of students' expectation of a teaching job. To address sources of this…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, High Achievement, Social Status
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Ainley, Mary; Ainley, John – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
In this paper, we examine the nature of interest in science as represented in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2006 data. We discuss the interconnections between measures of knowledge, affect, and value as components of interest in science. Working from a perspective acknowledging that many of the models of motivation…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Student Attitudes, Student Interests, Science Interests
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Guzel, Cigdem Is; Berberoglu, Giray – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2005
A linear structural model was studied to investigate the factors affecting reading literacy and mathematical literacy skills of 15-year-old students in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2000 data across different cultural settings. Brazil, Japan, and Norway were selected for the purpose of comparison on the basis of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Classroom Environment, Reading Skills