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Chessman, Hollie M.; Lester, Jaime R.; Gillies, Amy – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Graduate student enrollment across the United States is declining in colleges and universities, which is a concern based on the number of jobs that will require graduate degrees in 20 years. Through a survey at a mid-Atlantic university, this study identifies how Masters and Doctoral students differ in college choice. By utilizing variables…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Characteristics, Doctoral Programs, Masters Programs
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Jones, Ashleigh; Merrin, Gabriel Joey; Charmaraman, Linda; Espelage, Dorothy L. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This longitudinal mixed method study of middle school students examines individual, peer, and school climate influences on sexual harassment (SH) victimization. Student interviews offered examples of what we would define as SH but did not themselves define it as such. Teacher-related and peer-related factors were an overarching theme in school…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Sexual Harassment, Victims, Peer Relationship
Kaya, Suat; Aksu, Meral – Online Submission, 2016
Recently, the Turkish educational system has gone through a transition from the 8+4 educational model to the new 4+4+4 system, which has mandated elective courses to be taken by the students increasing number of class hours taken in a week from 30 to 37 hours. This has caused some problems in scheduling of schools in Turkey where double shift…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Block Scheduling
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Hester, Candace; Lazarev, Valeriy; Zacamy, Jenna; Nardi, Chelsey; Feygin, Amy – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2022
Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest partnered with the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) to examine Arkansas's middle and high school indicators of postsecondary readiness and success, building on an earlier study of these indicators (Hester et al., 2021). Academic indicators include attaining proficiency on state achievement tests,…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Middle School Students, High School Students, Achievement Tests
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Luo, Dehong; Gong, Jing – SAGE Open, 2022
Home language (HL) effects on academic language literacy have been extensively discussed. However, previous research has mostly focused on Indo--European languages. This study extends the literature by using data (n = 17,600) collected in a diversified language area: Guangxi, China. We examined the effects of four HLs and four socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Native Language, Academic Language, Literacy, Socioeconomic Influences
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Seng Thah, Soon – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
This study was conducted to determine the level of ICT competencies among Malaysian language teachers at both primary and secondary schools. The focus of this study was on four specific domains: 1) technological concepts and operational skills; 2) pedagogical skills; 3) professional skills; and 4) social, ethics, and security skills. These skills…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Miech, Richard A.; Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E.; Patrick, Megan E. – Institute for Social Research, 2022
Monitoring the Future (MTF) is designed to give attention to substance use among the nation's youth and adults. It is an investigator-initiated study that originated with, and is conducted by, a team of research professors at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Since its onset in 1975, MTF has been funded continuously by…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Grade 8, Grade 10, Grade 12
EdChoice, 2022
This poll was conducted between July 14-July 15, 2022 among a sample of 2,200 adults. The interviews were conducted online and the data were weighted to approximate a target sample of adults based on gender, educational attainment, age, race, and region. Among the key findings are: (1) Parents most frequently reported their children participating…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Parent Attitudes, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
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Sarah Komisarow – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
StudentU is a comprehensive program that provides education, nutrition, and social support services to disadvantaged middle and high school students outside of the regular school day. In this paper I investigate the effects of this multiyear program on the early high school outcomes of participating students by exploiting data from oversubscribed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Nutrition Instruction, Social Support Groups, Disadvantaged
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Winke, Paula; Lee, Shinhye; Ahn, Jieun Irene; Choi, Ina; Cui, Yaqiong; Yoon, Hyung-Jo – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2018
This study investigated the cognitive validity of two child English language tests. Some teachers maintain that these types of tests may be cognitively invalid because native-English-speaking children would not do well on them (Winke, 2011). So the researchers had native speakers and learners of English aged 7 to 9 take sample versions of two…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Tillmann, J.; Ashwood, K.; Absoud, M.; Bölte, S.; Bonnet-Brilhault, F.; Buitelaar, J. K.; Calderoni, S.; Calvo, R.; Canal-Bedia, R.; Canitano, R.; De Bildt, A.; Gomot, M.; Hoekstra, P. J.; Kaale, A.; McConachie, H.; Murphy, D. G.; Narzisi, A.; Oosterling, I.; Pejovic-Milovancevic, M.; Persico, A. M.; Puig, O.; Roeyers, H.; Rommelse, N.; Sacco, R.; Scandurra, V.; Stanfield, A. C.; Zander, E.; Charman, T. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Research on sex-related differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been impeded by small samples. We pooled 28 datasets from 18 sites across nine European countries to examine sex differences in the ASD phenotype on the ADI-R (376 females, 1763 males) and ADOS (233 females, 1187 males). On the ADI-R, early childhood restricted and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Age Differences, Diagnostic Tests, Observation
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Sittichai, Ruthaychonnee; Smith, Peter K. – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2018
Both traditional (offline) and cyber (online) bullying amongst children and young people are serious problems internationally, including in Thailand. Most studies of these were conducted in western countries, with research in Asian countries much less common. We report on a survey of 1,049 students (42% boys, 58% girls) aged 12 to 18 years, in 12…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Victims
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Hsieh, Wen-Min; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Using the draw-a-picture technique, the authors explored the learning conceptions held by students across grade levels. A total of 1,067 Taiwanese students in Grades 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 participated in this study. Participants were asked to use drawing to illustrate how they conceptualize learning. A coding checklist was developed to analyze…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Learning, Freehand Drawing
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Cheema, Jehanzeb R. – Research in Education, 2018
Prior research has suggested a strong link between student-level psychological constructs such as self-efficacy and achievement in academics. In this study, we looked at the relationship between math self-efficacy and mathematics literacy using a large-scale survey from Greece. Our analytical results show that there is a strong association between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Mathematics Achievement, Self Efficacy
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Talosa, Arlene D.; Maguddayao, Ruth N. – TESOL International Journal, 2018
Writing is considered varied with context and cannot be distilled down to a set of abstract cognitive or technical abilities. It always involve a combination of talent and skill and that makes it complex yet writing becomes more complex for ESL learner when they write using the second language in the academic context. With the growing interest in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Syntax
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