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Jiang, Ronghuan; Star, Jon R.; Hästö, Peter; Li, Lijia; Liu, Ru-de; Tuomela, Dimitri; Prieto, Nuria Joglar; Palkki, Riikka; Abánades, Miguel Á.; Pejlare, Johanna – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
This cross-national study examined students' evaluation of strategies for solving linear equations, as well as the extent to which their evaluation criteria were related to their use of strategies and/or aligned with experts' views about which strategy is the best. A total of 792 middle school and high school students from Sweden, Finland, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Middle School Students, High School Students
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Silvia Sierra-Martínez; María-Esther Martínez-Figueira; María Dolores Castro Pais; Teresa Pessoa – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
Academic integrity is part of the process that explains the communication of information in an ethical manner. Although the prevalence of dishonest acts at university has been noted, it is an aim of the educational system to analyse what motivates them from an age prior to their incorporation into university studies. The aim of this work is to…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Photography, Participatory Research, High School Students
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Lluis Oviedo; Lorenzo Magarelli; Piotr Roszak; Josefa Torralba Albaladej; Berenika Seryczynska; Valentina Baldas; Jan Wólkowski – British Journal of Religious Education, 2024
Many questions arise regarding the compatibility between scientific and religious education. While some voices have pointed to issues that stem from a traditional model in which science becomes a factor or religious crisis and doubt, other views reveal surprising forms of collaboration and complementarity between both dimensions in the educational…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Science Education
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D'Agostini, Adriana; Titton, Mauro – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2020
The article argues that chronic unemployment has become the main context of youth policies in Spain and Brazil. Our point is that the current structural crisis of the capitalist system eventually provokes chronic unemployment. To be precise, both business and international organisations have endorsed structural adjustments and austerity policies…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Cross Cultural Studies, Public Policy, Youth
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Oh, Hyerim; Sutherland, Margaret; Stack, Niamh; Badia Martín, Maria del Mar; Blumen, Sheyla; Nguyen, Quoc Anh-Thu; Wormald, Catherine; Maakrun, Julie; Ziegler, Albert – High Ability Studies, 2015
Previous empirical studies have yielded inconclusive results about peer perceptions of academically high performing students. The purpose of this study was to investigate students' perceptions of the intellectual ability, positive social qualities, and popularity of a hypothetical new high performing classmate. Participants were 1060 Vietnamese,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Gifted, Special Education
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Abubakar, Amina; van de Vijver, Fons; Alonso-Arbiol, Itziar; He, Jia; Adams, Byron; Aldhafri, Said; Aydinli-Karakulak, Arzu; Arasa, Josephine; Boer, Diana; Celenk, Ozgur; Dimitrova, Radosveta; Ferreira, Maria Cristina; Fischer, Ronald; Mbebeb, Fomba Emmanuel; Frías, María Teresa; Fresno, Andrés; Gillath, Omri; Harb, Charles; Handani, Penny; Hapunda, Given; Kamble, Shanmukh; Kosic, Marianna; Looh, Joseph Lah; Mazrui, Lubna; Mendia, Rafael Emilio; Murugami, Margaret; Mason-Li, Mei; Pandia, Weny Savitry; Perdomo, Cristina; Schachner, Maja; Sim, Samantha; Spencer, Rosario; Suryani, Angela; Tair, Ergyul – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
There is hardly any cross-cultural research on the measurement invariance of the Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scales (BMSLSS). The current article evaluates the measurement invariance of the BMSLSS across cultural contexts. This cross-sectional study sampled 7,739 adolescents and emerging adults in 23 countries. A multi-group…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Attitude Measures, Adolescents, Young Adults
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Tsai, Jennifer; Huh, Jimi; Idrisov, Bulat; Galimov, Artur; Espada, Jose P.; Gonzálvez, María T.; Sussman, Steve – Journal of Drug Education, 2016
Recently, an addiction matrix measure was assessed among U.S. former alternative high school youth. This presentation seeks to examine the generalizability of findings using this measure among Russian and Spanish high school adolescents. Latent class analysis was used to explore addiction subgroups among adolescents in Russia (average age = 16.27;…
Descriptors: Incidence, Addictive Behavior, High School Students, Generalization
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Álvarez, Isabel; Gómez-Chacón, Inés Mª – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
Students' difficulty in learning and suitably understanding the concept of the algebraic variable has been studied with a number of tools and documented for several populations. Little research has been conducted, however, using the same tool to explore understanding of the notion among populations from different countries in an attempt to…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Cross Cultural Studies
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D'Elia, Luis Alberto; Wishart, Diane – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2014
The purpose of this work was to elicit the perceptions of science educators regarding enhancing opportunities to retain disenfranchised students in secondary schools. The article shows selective international perspectives on how teachers, university professors, and researchers in teacher education programs strive to support school completion for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Academic Persistence
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Diez-Martinez, Evelyn – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2013
Environmental education has been included in the school curricula of many countries in the last 15 years. Implementation has been not as successful as expected due to various constraints reported in several research projects. Its achievement remains uncertain and more research is required in all areas of education. In order to propose a curriculum…
Descriptors: High School Students, Comprehension, Sustainable Development, Citizenship
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Tan, Kim Chwee Daniel; Taber, Keith S.; Liu, Xiufeng; Coll, Richard K.; Lorenzo, Mercedes; Li, Jia; Goh, Ngoh Khang; Chia, Lian Sai – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
Previous studies have indicated that A-level students in the UK and Singapore have difficulty learning the topic of ionisation energy. A two-tier multiple-choice instrument developed in Singapore in an earlier study, the Ionisation Energy Diagnostic Instrument, was administered to A-level students in the UK, advanced placement high school students…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Difficulty Level, Advanced Placement, Foreign Countries