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Eva Feldbacher; Manuela Waberer; Lena Campostrini; Gabriele Weigelhofer – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2024
In a case study among Austrian school students, we checked the school students' knowledge and awareness of climate change on different levels of complexity. We aimed to find out whether school students are able to understand more complex, reciprocal relations between human activities and consequences for the climate. Furthermore, we tested whether…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Climate, Knowledge Level
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Bardach, Lisa; Daumiller, Martin; Lüftenegger, Marko – Journal of Experimental Education, 2023
Students' engagement in class stems from academic and social motivations, which can be expressed through their academic and social achievement goals. Using a person-centered approach, we investigated the configurations of academic and social achievement goals and their relevance for aspects of students' academic (achievement, self-concept, goal…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Goal Orientation, Interpersonal Relationship, Self Concept
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Dávid Smid; Sarah Mercer; Carlos Murillo-Miranda; Miri Tashma Baum – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
Well-being has been recognized as a basic human right, a core determinant of success in education, and a skill that can be developed. In language education, the literature suggests that higher well-being is likely to lead to more classroom engagement and ultimately greater success for learners. For English language teachers, there is a need to…
Descriptors: Well Being, English (Second Language), Multiple Literacies, Skill Development
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Robert Weinhandl; Martin Mayerhofer; Branko Andic; Cornelia S. Große – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2024
Our research aimed to identify factors of motivation and affect to best characterize upper secondary mathematics students and correlations between these factors. This work is based on personas, a tool from user experience research for representing the needs and characteristics of users of a system, developed in prior research. In the present…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Anxiety, Educational Practices
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Riffert, Franz; Hagenauer, Gerda; Kriegseisen, Josef; Strahl, Alexander – Research in Science Education, 2021
Over the past several decades, empirical support for inquiry-based forms of science teaching has accumulated. Critical voices, however, also exist, claiming that minimally guided teaching approaches might be less effective than guided forms; they might even be harmful, particularly for novice students, due to the production of cognitive overload.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, High School Students, Psychological Patterns
Julian Fraillon, Editor – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2024
This book presents the first results from the third cycle of the IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS 2023). This study investigated how young people are prepared for life in a world where the capacity to use computers and digital information responsibly, safely, and effectively is essential. The study reports on data…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Communications
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Gloria Mittmann; Adam Barnard; Sonja Zehetmayer; Simon Wimmer; Vanessa Zehetner; Sylvia Doerfler; Kate Woodcock; Beate Schrank – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2024
Early adolescence is a major time for friendship development, and interpersonal emotion regulation (iER) is a vital skill for social interactions. Serious games are an exciting way to engage young people with psychoeducational content. The authors developed a serious game teaching iER strategies to early adolescents in an interdisciplinary and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Educational Games, Computer Games
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Kostoulas, Achilleas; Babic, Sonja; Glettler, Christiana; Karner, Andrea; Mercer, Sarah; Seidl, Eva – Teacher Development, 2019
The authors report on a study that examined how educators in Austria conceptualise research, how they engage with academic literature and what attitudes they have towards academic development. Growth mindsets, regular engagement with research in a variety of formats and inclusive understandings of research were defined as pre-conditions for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Holzer, Julia; Bürger, Sarah; Samek-Krenkel, Sara; Spiel, Christiane; Schober, Barbara – Educational Research, 2021
Background: Converging evidence points to the relevance of adolescent wellbeing as a resource for positive development and successful learning. As schools represent one of the most significant environments for adolescent development, there is increasing interest in students' wellbeing in schools. However, the growing body of research reveals great…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Carroll, Matthew; Constantinou, Filio – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented disruption to education around the world. There is much to learn from this period, to better understand what happened, to provide support to those affected, and to inform future responses to disruption. This research aimed to contribute to this field by recording teachers' experiences of teaching in the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teaching Experience, Elementary School Teachers
Keslair, François – OECD Publishing, 2018
This paper explores the impact of test-taking conditions on the quality of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) assessment. Interviewers record information about the room of assessment and interruptions that occurred during each interview. These observations, along with information on interviewer assignment…
Descriptors: Interviews, Testing, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries
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Messiou, Kyriaki – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2019
Despite the progress that has been made over the 25 years since the Salamanca Statement, there is still room for improvements in order that schools can be developed that include all students. Drawing on a programme of research carried out over a period of 20 years in various European countries, this paper argues that children and young people…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Inclusion, Children, Childrens Rights
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Nairz-Wirth, Erna; Feldmann, Klaus – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2017
Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's relational theory this paper shows that many teachers misrecognize the impact of teacher-student relationships on school dropout. The study is based on a series of 60 semi-structured interviews with teachers from Austrian secondary schools. The analysis of the empirical data reveals that many teachers attribute school…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Semi Structured Interviews, Secondary School Teachers
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Lam, Shui-fong; Jimerson, Shane; Shin, Hyeonsook; Cefai, Carmel; Veiga, Feliciano H.; Hatzichristou, Chryse; Polychroni, Fotini; Kikas, Eve; Wong, Bernard P. H.; Stanculescu, Elena; Basnett, Julie; Duck, Robert; Farrell, Peter; Liu, Yi; Negovan, Valeria; Nelson, Brett; Yang, Hongfei; Zollneritsch, Josef – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Background: A comprehensive understanding of the contextual factors that are linked to student engagement requires research that includes cross-cultural perspectives. Aims: This study investigated how student engagement in school is associated with grade, gender, and contextual factors across 12 countries. It also investigated whether these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Learner Engagement, Cross Cultural Studies
Dinis da Costa, Patrícia; Araújo, Luísa – European Commission, 2016
The analyses presented in this report indicate that in several Member States (MS) 15-year-old students in vocational-oriented programmes (VET) perform better in digital reading than in print reading in PISA 2012. When differentiated by programme of study--VET versus general education programmes--VET students perform better in digital than in print…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Vocational Education
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