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Gülsah Yalçin; Serdar Yavuz – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2025
Individuals or groups are forcibly displaced due to economic problems, wars, terrorism, political conflicts, and discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, or religion. War-induced migration often leads to movement towards neighboring countries, creating challenges for host nations like housing, healthcare, basic needs, and education. Similarly,…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Phenomenology, Turkish, Second Language Learning
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Hamad, Wahid Bakar – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2023
The study evaluated students' experience of learning with virtual classrooms facilitated by Google Classroom at the Institute of social work, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The study employed the Activity Theory (AT) as a theoretical framework using the first triangle of the activity system, which includes three components - Subject-Tool-Object (STO).…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Teaching Methods, Virtual Classrooms, Undergraduate Students
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Albayrak, Hüsna; Sener, Tülin – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2021
The aim of this study is to identify the link between foreign language learning motivation and English preparatory class students' participation in the extracurricular activities programmes. The differences between the motivation levels of the students based on their participation in the extracurricular activities are defined and students'…
Descriptors: Correlation, Extracurricular Activities, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sonnenschein, Susan; Stites, Michele; Dowling, Rebecca – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2021
This study investigated the beliefs parents of preschoolers (N = 126) have for facilitating their children's reading and mathematics development. The study used an online survey distributed via social media to examine parents' views of their children's home-based reading and mathematics engagement, parents' confidence to support their children's…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship, Parents as Teachers
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Hagger, Martin S.; Hamilton, Kyra – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Background: Beyond ability, traits related to perseverance, such as grit and self-discipline, are associated with adaptive educational outcomes. Few studies have examined the independent effects of these traits on outcomes and the mechanisms involved. Aims: This study estimated parameters of a process model in which grit-perseverance of effort…
Descriptors: Science Education, Grades (Scholastic), Personality Traits, Predictor Variables
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Pilz, Matthias; Wilmshöfer, Simon – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
The vast majority--70%--of the Indian population lives in rural areas. They are far removed from India's image as a society with an emerging middle class and well-regarded schools. This research focuses on education and opportunities for skill development for this rural population. The researchers investigated the area around the Chilika Lagoon, a…
Descriptors: Indians, Interviews, Student Attitudes, Industrial Education
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Koh, Denise; Zawi, Mohd Khairi – International Education Studies, 2014
Most postgraduate programmes, that have research components, require students to take at least one course of research statistics. Not all postgraduate programmes are science based, there are a significant number of postgraduate students who are from the social sciences that will be taking statistics courses, as they try to complete their…
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematics Anxiety, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
Sizmur, Juliet; Ager, Rob; Classick, Rachel; Lynn, Laura – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2017
This report summarises Year 6 pupils' attainment in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) survey of 2016 in Northern Ireland and explores the context of that attainment. PIRLS is an international comparison study of reading at ages 9-10. PIRLS has a five-yearly cycle. Northern Ireland took part in PIRLS for the second time…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Grade 4
National Foundation for Educational Research, 2017
This summary accompanies the national report for Northern Ireland (Sizmur et al., 2017). It outlines the attainment of Year 6 pupils in Northern Ireland in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2016 survey and explores the context of that attainment. PIRLS is a study of reading at ages 9-10 and has a five-yearly cycle.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Grade 4
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Cheng, Liying; Andrews, Stephen; Yu, Ying – Language Testing, 2011
School-based assessment (SBA) has recently been introduced into the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examinations (HKCEE) in English. The present study was conducted within the context of this assessment change to investigate students' and parents' perceptions of the impact of SBA. Two surveys were employed to explore students' and parents'…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Activities, Student Surveys, Foreign Countries
Wright, Melissa Sue – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigated the readiness for self-directed learning of adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), as well as their overall educational experiences. Using Guglielmino's Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale for Adults (SDLRS-A), the researcher investigated whether the following factors were significantly related to…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Learning Readiness, Independent Study, Adult Learning
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers