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Simoës-Perlant, Aurélie; Barreau, Marion; Vezilier, Caroline – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2023
This study examined the symptoms of exhaustion, school stress and anxious school refusal from a comparative developmental perspective in French adolescents enrolled in public and private general, technological and vocational schools. It is particularly important to consider academic stress levels, anxiety and school burnout in middle and high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, High School Students, Grade 10
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Vyrnwy-Pierce, Jacqueline – Teaching History, 2022
Frustrated by the generic statements that her Year 12 students were making about sources, Jacqueline Vyrnwy-Pierce resolved to undertake a research project into how her students were approaching sources about the French Revolution. Fascinated by the research of American educational psychologist Sam Wineburg, Vyrnwy-Pierce decided to use Wineburg's…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Grade 12, High School Students, Information Sources
Shakeel, M. Danish; Peterson, Paul E. – Program on Education Policy and Governance, 2021
Principals (policy makers) have debated the progress in U.S. student performance for a half century or more. Informing these conversations, survey agents have administered seven million psychometrically linked tests in math and reading in 160 waves to national probability samples of selected cohorts born between 1954 and 2007. This study is the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Socioeconomic Status, Race, Ethnicity
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Derouet, Charlotte; Parzysz, Bernard – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2016
The teaching of probability has changed a great deal since the end of the last century. The development of technologies is indeed part of this evolution. In France, continuous probability distributions began to be studied in 2002 by scientific 12th graders, but this subject was marginal and appeared only as an application of integral calculus.…
Descriptors: Probability, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Class Activities
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Lagrange, Jean-Baptiste – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2014
From the early nineties, most reformed curricula at upper secondary level choose to give functions a major position and a priority over rational expressions and equations of traditional algebra. The goal of this paper is to introduce key challenges resulting from this choice and to discuss the contribution that software environments associating…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Algebra, Educational Technology, Secondary School Mathematics
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Blanchard, B.; Masserot, V.; Holbrook, J. – Science Education International, 2014
School subjects can provide a good context for learning a second language. This is especially true for science as it can involve a range of student centred activities, which involve students in collaborative communication related to a range of different competences. This paper reflects on one approach to learning in a second language, using the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts
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Cokelez, Aytekin – Journal of Chemical Education, 2010
The goal of this comparative study was to determine the knowledge that French and Turkish upper secondary-school students (grades 11 and 12) acquire on the concept of acid-base reactions. Following an examination of the relevant curricula and textbooks in the two countries, 528 students answered six written questions about the acid-base concept.…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, Grade 11
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Govaerts, Sophie; Gregoire, Jacques – International Journal of Testing, 2008
This article describes the development and two studies on the construct validity of the Academic Emotions Scale (AES). The AES is a French self-report questionnaire assessing six emotions in the context of school learning: enjoyment, hope, pride, anxiety, shame and frustration. Its construct validity was studied through exploratory and…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Test Validity, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals)
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Keoseian, Therese; Ladd, Richard; Moakley, Rosanna; Pierce, Constance – National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center, 1998
This unit was created as a result of a summer institute sponsored by the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. The Center's goal is to improve student learning of foreign languages in kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12). To this end, the Center provides professional support for foreign language…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Fairy Tales, Foreign Countries