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Wolgast, Anett – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2018
Background: Beliefs about one's own abilities and perspective-taking are essential for appropriate behavior in professional and social life, cooperative learning, and situations were conflict is occurring. The social comparison theory and previous research suggested positive relations between school students' beliefs about one's own abilities and…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Student Attitudes, Perspective Taking, Grade 5
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Schillinger, Trace – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
In 2006, a secondary English and feminist studies teacher created a course and designed a study around a reading exchange for eighth-grade girls from two vastly different communities. Girls from a school in a northeastern state read young adult novels and wrote about their reading and related topics with girls from Washington, DC on a wikispace…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Females, Background, Differences