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Direct linkMarks, Gary N. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2019
The literature on the relationship between socioeconomic background (SES) and university education is inconsistent. Some studies conclude SES is important to university entry and course completion, others find trivial SES effects, net of students' prior performance, and a third group concludes that SES effects are important and policy relevant…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Background, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies
Reichert, Frank – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2016
The opinions about what characterises a good citizen are diverse, yet survey research usually employs variable-centred analytical strategies to examine people's concepts of good citizenship. The present study builds on a person-centred approach towards good citizenship and validates previously identified types of good citizenship among Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Citizenship
Yang, Yang; Bliss, Leonard B. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2014
This study attempted to better understand the study behaviours of undergraduate students by categorizing students into distinctive typologies based on their self-reported study behaviours through an exploratory approach--Q factor analysis. A sample of 152 undergraduate students completed a survey instrument, the Study Behavior Inventory. The Q…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Study Habits
Marks, Gary – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2014
This paper examines student and school influences on reaching Year 12, the final year of schooling in Victoria, Australia. It analyses data from the population of students who were in Year 9 in 2008. Male, English-speaking background, government school, and especially Indigenous students were less likely to reach Year 12 than comparison groups.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Predictor Variables, Standardized Tests
Nilsen, Trude; Gustafsson, Jan-Eric – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2014
We study whether changes in school emphasis on academic success (SEAS) and safe schools (SAFE) may explain the increased science performance in Norway between TIMSS 2007 and 2011. Two-level structural equation modelling (SEM) of merged TIMSS data was used to investigate whether changes in levels of SEAS and SAFE mediate the changes in science…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Success, Science Achievement, Performance Based Assessment
de Boer, Hester; van der Werf, Margaretha P. C. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2015
This article deals with the concept of misaligned parents' aspirations, its relationship with student background characteristics, and its effects on long-term student performance. It is defined as the difference between parents' educational ambitions for their child and the child's actual capacities. Multilevel regression analyses on a sample of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Parent Aspiration, Parent Influence, Student Characteristics
