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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Zietz, Susannah; Bornstein, Marc H.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Gurdal, Sevtap; Liu, Qin; Long, Qian; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Chang, Lei – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural similarities and differences in problem behavior during adolescence. Adolescents from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries…
Descriptors: Aggression, Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, Adolescent Development
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Stark, Tobias H.; Silber, Henning; Krosnick, Jon A.; Blom, Annelies G.; Aoyagi, Midori; Belchior, Ana; Bosnjak, Michael; Clement, Sanne Lund; John, Melvin; Jónsdóttir, Guðbjörg Andrea; Lawson, Karen; Lynn, Peter; Martinsson, Johan; Shamshiri-Petersen, Ditte; Tvinnereim, Endre; Yu, Ruoh-rong – Sociological Methods & Research, 2020
Questionnaire design is routinely guided by classic experiments on question form, wording, and context conducted decades ago. This article explores whether two question order effects (one due to the norm of evenhandedness and the other due to subtraction or perceptual contrast) appear in surveys of probability samples in the United States and 11…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Test Format, Generalization, Foreign Countries
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Purinton, Ted – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2020
The international education community has long recognized the unique and important contribution that American-style institutions, such as the American University in Beirut, play in the quality of education offered around the world (Bertelsen, 2012). Not as well recognized, however, are institutions across the globe that adopt American or Western…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
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Choy, Ban Heng; Lee, Mi Yeon; Mizzi, Angel – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2020
Textbooks, which form the staples of a teacher's set of resources, play a critical role in deciding what and how mathematics is taught in classrooms. However, textbooks do not always present concepts in ways that enhance understanding by students, nor are they always comprehensive in the treatment of a topic. In this exploratory study, we analyse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Mathematics Instruction
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Takriti, Rachel Allison – Education 3-13, 2020
A successful start to school correlates with positive later educational outcomes, both social and academic. Transitioning experience differs according to social context and this study was conducted in the UAE. Expatriate teachers, UAE national parents and expatriate parents were asked to complete a questionnaire of 20 child behaviours indicating…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Expectation, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
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Feng, Xin; Harkness, Sara; Super, Charles M.; Welles, Barbara; Bermudez, Moises Rios; Bonichini, Sabrina; Moscardino, Ughetta; Zylicz, Piotr O. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
Although children's school success is a parental goal in most cultures, there is wide cultural variation in the qualities that parents most wish their children to develop for that purpose. A questionnaire contained forty-one child qualities was administered to 757 parents in seven cultural communities in Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland,…
Descriptors: Success, Academic Achievement, Parent Attitudes, Cultural Differences
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Casinader, Niranjan; Manathunga, Catherine – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
Fluidity of cultural identity is an enduring inheritance of contemporary globalisation. One of the less-spoken consequences of this shift has been the increased pressures on young people as they navigate the transformation of their cultural identity between the new and the old. For this group, which comprises not only the children of migrants, but…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Citizenship, Cultural Background
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Coutinho, Mariana V. C.; Papanastasiou, Elena; Agni, Stylianou; Vasko, John M.; Couchman, Justin J. – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
In this study, we examined monitoring accuracy during in class-exams for Emirati, American and Cypriot college students. In experiment 1, 120 students made local, confidence-ratings for each multiple-choice question in a psychology exam and also estimated their performance at the end of the exam. In experiment 2, to investigate the effect of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Accuracy
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Brody, David L.; Scheiner, Esther Y.; Dimri Ben Ari, Mordechai; Tzadok, Yair; van der Aalsvoort, Geerdina Maria; Lepola, Janne – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This international study compared motivational tendencies among pre-school children from Israel, Finland and the Netherlands. Teachers were asked to rate students' behaviours during semi-structured tasks using the Child Behaviour Motivational Scale (CBeMo) which measures task orientation, task avoidance, and social dependence. Motivational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Student Motivation, Cultural Differences
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Yu, Jing; Putnick, Diane L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
In a cross-society comparison, we assessed the state of mothers' knowledge of child-rearing and child development. The study included 1,077 mothers from five countries on four continents: Argentina, Belgium, Italy, South Korea, and the United States (U.S.) A criteria-referenced instrument, the Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory, was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Knowledge Level, Parenting Styles
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Dagbaeva, Nina Zh.; Darmaeva, Sayana N.; Samoshkina, Janina S.; Tzybenova, Sayana G. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2020
The final results of the research which was held in the Republic of Buryatia, Mongolia and China are represented in the article. Russia is represented by the Republic of Buryatia, one of the multicultural regions of our country, where representatives of more than a hundred native people coexist peacefully with people of other nationalities, mostly…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
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Shatara, Hanadi; Sonu, Debbie – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2020
This article bridges scholarship in global education with elementary classroom teaching by presenting a series of lessons that challenge the idea of national culture as fixed and stable. When teaching about another country other than the United States, teachers tend to rely on misappropriated generalizations around food, holidays, and folktales…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Units of Study, Global Education, Critical Theory
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Sanney, Kenneth J.; Trautman, Lawrence J.; Yordy, Eric D.; Cowart, Tammy W.; Sewell, Destynie J. L. – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2020
Few principles influence success as fundamentally as truth. Truthfulness is the foundation upon which human relationships are built. Truth is the antecedent to trust, and trust is the antecedent to cooperation. Without truth, sustainable success is impossible in human dealings. This article presents a teaching perspective, that is motivated by the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Trust (Psychology), College Instruction, Case Method (Teaching Technique)
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Allen, Sue; Kastelein, Kate; Mokros, Jan; Atkinson, Jennifer; Byrd, Scott – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2020
We describe the research and development of an NSF-funded, five-year experimental program to strengthen informal (out-of-school) STEM learning by youth in five rural communities. The central component of the model was a cadre of community members known as 'STEM Guides' who were hired to work as brokers between youth and the STEM learning resources…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Rural Areas, Youth Programs, Community Programs
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Drechsler, Katherine; Hessenauer, Sarah; Jaber-Wilson, Leslie – Journal of Social Work Education, 2020
Engaging in diversity and difference in practice is an essential skill for all social workers. The Council on Social Work Education emphasizes the importance of the development of these skills in social work education. The aim of this research was to influence best practice teaching standards and outcome measures for this competency. Self-study…
Descriptors: Diversity, College Curriculum, Cultural Differences, Outcome Measures
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