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Alicia Danielle Joseph Rollins – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The American College Test (ACT) serves as the most utilized college admissions test in the United States. With disparities existing in the scores of Black males on the ACT exam compared to their peers, it is imperative to explore how these students are perceiving and experiencing the ACT. This study explored how Black male students experience the…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Standardized Tests, College Entrance Examinations
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Mensure Alkis Küçükaydin; Hakan Çite – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study sought to explain the differences in the computational thinking skills of primary school students. The survey model was adopted for the research. In the study, in which 780 primary school students participated, the relationship between computational thinking skills and factors at the student (gender, parent education status, internet…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Correlation
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Zhan, Zehui; Yao, Xiao; Li, Tingting – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
One of the primary goals of STEAM education is to equip students with the capability of creativity to solve problems. Creativity is believed to be closely related to the ability of making remote associations and combining unrelated concepts. This article explored the effects of three kinds of association interventions (i.e., remote association,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Empathy, STEM Education, Art Education
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Heidi Kesanto-Jokipolvi; Piia Seppänen; Satu Koivuhovi; Mari Siipola; Reija Autio; Arja Rimpelä – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: The origin of inequalities in health outcomes has been explained by health selection and social causation models. Health selection processes operate particularly at school age. We study, if student allocation to teaching groups with aptitude tests (selective vs general class) differentiates adolescents by health behaviors and mental…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Mental Health, Aptitude Tests, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
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Özparlak, Çagla Serin – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2022
This study was carried out with the aim of determining the opinions and digital literacy status of the students who are preparing for the music talent exams of the universities during the COVID-19 process. The research is in the survey model, which is one of the quantitative research methods and is limited to 300 students who took the music…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Technological Literacy, Music Education, High Schools
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Shang, Xiaoqi; Xie, Guixia – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Sight translation has been widely used in aptitude testing to screen prospective trainee interpreters at leading interpreter training schools, including ESIT, ISIT, and EMCI. However, it has also been criticised for its lack of validity and reliability. No empirical study has thus far been conducted to explore its power to predict interpreting…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Szu S. Ling; Fabrice Saffre; Deborah L. Gater; Lilia Halim; Abdel F. Isakovic – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Computer quiz games are introduced to improve teaching and learning in a freshman engineering chemistry course in an English-as-a-second-language (ESL) environment. These quiz games are developed and implemented as supplemental and augmentative tools to enhance traditionally delivered lectures. The paper shows an increase in students' motivation…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Tests, Chemistry, Engineering Education