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Yueyang Shao; Hongyun Liu; Pingping Zhao; Qimeng Liu; Jian Liu – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
Inspired by complex system theory, this study adopts a multilevel piecewise regression model to examine the relationship between homework time and the development of students in different grades using a large-scale testing database in China. The results indicate that the relationship between homework time and students' performance is positive when…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homework, Time on Task, Grade 4
Victoria Poulos; Jae Yup Jung – Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 2024
This study sought to determine the factors that motivate teachers to differentiate curriculum for gifted students in a case study school in Victoria, Australia. For this purpose, 10 teachers from Year 7-9 mixed ability classes at the school were engaged in interviews about their practice of differentiation specifically for gifted students and the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Individualized Instruction, Grade 7
Anson, Kelli – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2021
This article is a reflection on my learning journey through the literature to address mathematics anxiety in my year eight class. I wanted to engage all students in mathematics so that in the future they could participate as successful citizens in our ever-evolving digital society. The mathematics anxiety cycle results in classroom disengagement…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Grade 8, Middle School Students, Learner Engagement
Ma, Yue – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
Using TIMSS 2015 data, the present study aimed to explore the profiles of attitudes toward science among Hong Kong eighth-grade students (N = 4138), and further to investigate how these attitudinal profiles might relate with gender and science achievement. In TIMSS, attitudes toward science are specified in terms of four factors: intrinsic…
Descriptors: Profiles, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Gender Differences
Çetin, Abdullah; Gül, Mustafa; Doganay, Ahmet – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2021
The present study aims to investigate the emotions students experience in the school environment and the reasons for experiencing these emotions. This research was conducted using the case study method, one of the qualitative research designs. The study group of this study consisted of 24 eighth-grade students studying at a public school in the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response, Positive Attitudes, Negative Attitudes
Mehmet Oktay Kablan; Mehmet Imamoglu – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2024
The aim of this study was to examine the effects of gender, the number of siblings, and grade level on digital game playing motivation and addiction levels in secondary school students and to reveal the relationship between digital game motivation and addiction. A total of 394 students, 168 boys and 226 girls, participated in the study…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Eating Habits, Secondary School Students, Grade 5
Ouvrein, Gaëlle; Pabian, Sara; Machimbarrena, Juan Manuel; Erreygers, Sara; De Backer, Charlotte J. S.; Vandebosch, Heidi – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2019
The present study investigated the effect of descriptive and injunctive norms of peers, parents, and favorite celebrities on adolescents' negative online behavior toward celebrities. The sample consisted of 1,255 adolescents ([X-bar][subscript age] = 14.17, SD = 0.47). Adolescents indicated what their peers, parents, and favorite celebrities think…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Popular Culture, Negative Attitudes, Peer Influence
Prewett, Sara L.; Whitney, Stephen D. – Teacher Development, 2021
Teachers' teaching self-efficacy and teachers' feelings of negative affect may be associated with students' academic achievement; however, little is known about how these factors directly affect adolescent students' math and reading achievement. The eighth-grade wave of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study data was used to investigate teacher…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes, Affective Behavior, Academic Achievement
Brown, Katrina – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2018
Background: Many students carry negative beliefs about nuclear radiation and have concerns regarding the safety of nuclear power. However, most of these students have not had any personal or educational experiences with nuclear radiation or reactors on which to form these opinions. Purpose: To examine the influence that a visit to a nuclear…
Descriptors: Nuclear Energy, Outreach Programs, Student Attitudes, Facilities
Depressive Symptoms in Mexican-Origin Adolescents: Interrelations between School and Family Contexts
Arora, Prerna G.; Wheeler, Lorey A. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2018
This study, as guided by cultural-ecological frameworks, examined multiple contextual stressors, including subjective economic hardship, acculturation, discrimination, and negative perceptions of school safety, as simultaneously linked to adolescents' depressive symptoms, as well as the role of gender, familism values, family cohesion, and school…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Grade 8, Grade 9, Stress Variables
Moè, Angelica; Katz, Idit – Journal of Experimental Education, 2018
While homework is a frequent source of distress, positive attitudes of parents can help students develop positive emotions and self-efficacy regarding homework. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that parents' emotions, favored by autonomous motivation, directly and indirectly relate with students' emotions through their self-efficacy with…
Descriptors: Parents, Homework, Parent Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Olifant, Tilla; Cekiso, Madoda; Rautenbach, Eunice – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2019
Background: Owing to the dearth of reading practices within the South African literacy landscape, many learners neither engage in productive reading habits, nor exhibit a positive attitude towards English First Additional Language (EFAL) reading. Consequently, many learners experience reading challenges, which negatively impact on their academic…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, English Teachers, Grade 8, Grade 9
Hacieminoglu, Esme; Ali, Mohamed Moustafa; Oztas, Fulya; Yager, Robert E. – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
The purpose of this study is to compare changes in attitudes of students about their study of biology in the classes thought by five biology teachers who experienced an Iowa Chautauqua workshop with and two non-Chautauqua teachers who had no experience with any professional development program. The results indicated that there are significant…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, Grade 8, Grade 10
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Miech, Richard A.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – Institute for Social Research, 2017
Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a long-term study of American adolescents, college students, and adult high school graduates through age 55. It has been conducted annually by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research since its inception in 1975 and is supported under a series of investigator-initiated, competitive research grants…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Drug Use, Futures (of Society), Adolescents
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Miech, Richard A.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – Institute for Social Research, 2016
Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a long-term study of American adolescents, college students, and adult high school graduates through age 55. It has been conducted annually by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research since its inception in 1975 and is supported under a series of investigator-initiated, competitive research grants…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Drug Use, Futures (of Society), Adolescents