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Safrudiannur; Rott, Benjamin – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2021
Studies measuring teachers' beliefs quantitatively by using self-report Likert scale instruments often face methodological difficulties. Such difficulties might be due to the fact that those instruments often provide less or no contexts. Whereas, several studies have shown that contexts at school, particularly contexts related to students'…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Measurement Techniques, Statistical Analysis
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Purnomo, Dwi; Nusantara, Toto; Subanji; Rahardjo, Swasono – International Education Studies, 2017
This article is the result of research aims to describe the patterns and characteristics of the process of metacognition student of mathematics in solving calculus problems. Description was done by looking at changes in "awareness," "evaluation," and "regulation" as components of metacognition. The changes in…
Descriptors: Calculus, Metacognition, Problem Solving, Mathematics Activities
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Geršicová, Zuzana; Barnová, Silvia – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2018
Introduction: The presented paper deals with the issues of the work of class teachers and their further education in the field of personal and social training. The main goal of the research was to find out about changes in personal and social development after the realization of social-pedagogical training. Methods: On the level of personal…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Individual Development, Social Development, Values
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Muammar, Omar M. – Gifted Education International, 2015
The current study investigates differences in the leadership skills between intellectually gifted and average students and explores the relationship between intelligence and leadership potential. Participants in this study were 176 students (57 males and 120 females) from an Eastern Province University in Saudi Arabia. Students were selected on a…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cognitive Ability, Academic Ability, Leadership Qualities
Hsueh, JoAnn; Lowenstein, Amy E.; Morris, Pamela; Mattera, Shira K.; Bangser, Michael – Administration for Children & Families, 2014
In recent years, interest has increased in preschool programs that promote low-income children's early learning and development. Although research in this area has focused mostly on 4-year-olds, a growing number of 3-year-olds attend publicly funded preschool. In fact, in Head Start--a federally funded early childhood education program--the…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Preschool Education, Social Development, Emotional Development
Hsueh, JoAnn; Lowenstein, Amy E.; Morris, Pamela; Mattera, Shira K.; Bangser, Michael – Administration for Children & Families, 2014
This report presents exploratory impact findings for 3-year-olds from the Head Start CARES demonstration, a large-scale randomized controlled trial implemented in Head Start centers for one academic year across the country. The study was designed primarily to test the effects of the enhancements on 4-year-olds, but it also provides an opportunity…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Preschool Education, Social Development, Emotional Development
Hsueh, JoAnn; Lowenstein, Amy E.; Morris, Pamela; Mattera, Shira K.; Bangser, Michael – Administration for Children & Families, 2014
Preschool has long been viewed as a way to promote low-income children's early learning and development. Some promising classroom-based strategies have been found to enhance preschool children's social, emotional, and behavioral competencies. Most of this research has focused on 4-year-olds, even as a growing number of 3-year-olds attend Head…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Preschool Education, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Vukovic, Rose K.; Siegel, Linda S. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2010
This longitudinal study investigated the academic and cognitive characteristics of persistent mathematics difficulty (MD-p) from first to fourth grade. Ninety-nine children were retrospectively categorized into one of three groups: MD-p, transient mathematics difficulty (MD-t), or typically developing. MD-p was defined as persistently low…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Short Term Memory, Grade 4, Student Characteristics
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Steffe, Leslie P.; Johnson, David C. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1971
Examined were differential performances among categories of first graders when solving arithmetical workd problems of eight types under two distinct conditions. The categories were based on various types of quantitative comparisons which children are known to make. Several statistically significant results were obtained involving differences…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Arithmetic, Elementary School Mathematics, Learning
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Mercer, Annette – Education Research and Perspectives, 2009
Medicine is a profession with a long history of research and high standards of methodological rigour and evidence-based decision making. These standards are being transferred into medical education. Universities are starting to collect high-quality data on their admissions systems. This has not been a short-term proposition. Medical courses are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Admission Criteria, Case Studies
Schnur, James O. – Sch Sci Math, 1969
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Elementary School Science, Learning, Migrant Children
Sieber, Joan E.; And Others – J Educ Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Anxiety, Elementary School Students, Memory
Kilpatrick, Jeremy; Wirszup, Izaak – 1969
This volume contains four articles by A. A. Krutetskii. The first article is a report of a study of individual differences in ability to solve algebra problems. The second article reports on a two-year study of a young girl who showed exceptional mathematical giftedness. Article three presents a summary of the author's theoretical position on the…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Ability, Aptitude, Educational Psychology
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Webb, Noreen M.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1986
Planning and debugging strategies and group processes predicting learning of computer programming were studied in 30 students aged 11 to 14. Students showed little advance planning. Factors associated with learning included high-level planning of program chunks, debugging of single statements, explaining, and verbalizing aloud while typing.…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Elementary Education, Group Dynamics, Microcomputers
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Luchins, Abraham S.; Luchins, Edith H. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1979
Suggests that sex differences in spatial visualization and restructurization are confounded by differences in attitudes toward mathematics and mathematical abilities as well as by task and ego-oriented factors. Subjects were 86 male and female college students. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Students, Geometry, Mathematics
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