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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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Salchegger, Silvia; Wallner-Paschon, Christina; Bertsch, Christian – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2021
Background: Evidence so far shows that Waldorf students are characterized by average science achievement but at the same time high socioeconomic status and high science motivation. Moreover, Waldorf education is characterized by high emphasis on inquiry-based science education (IBSE). The present study investigates if the specific…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Education, Science Achievement, Socioeconomic Status
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Heiss, Raffael; Schmuck, Desirée; Matthes, Jörg; Eicher, Carolin – SAGE Open, 2021
Citizen science research has been rapidly expanding in the past years and has become a popular approach in youth education. We investigated key drivers of youth participation in a citizen social science school project and the effects of participation on scientific and topic-related (i.e., political) interest and efficacy. Findings suggest that…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Scientific Research, Predictor Variables, Social Sciences
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Schleicher, Andreas – Intercultural Education, 2006
This report examines how immigrant students performed, mainly in mathematics and reading, but also in science and problem-solving skills in the PISA 2003 assessment, both in comparison with native students in their adopted country and relative to other students across all countries covered in the report (the "case countries"). In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, First Generation College Students, Immigrants