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Quaiser-Pohl, Claudia; Neuburger, Sarah; Heil, Martin; Jansen, Petra; Schmelter, Andrea – International Journal of Testing, 2014
This article presents a reanalysis of the data of 862 second and fourth graders collected in two previous studies, focusing on the influence of method (psychometric vs. chronometric) and stimulus type on the gender difference in mental-rotation accuracy. The children had to solve mental-rotation tasks with animal pictures, letters, or cube…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Accuracy, Age Differences
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Unlu, Ali; Schurig, Michael – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2015
Recently, performance profiles in reading, mathematics and science were created using the data collectively available in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2011. In addition, a classification of children to the end of their primary school years was…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Tests, Foreign Countries
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Bouchereau Bauer, Eurydice; Guerrero, Beatriz; Hornberg, Sabine; Bos, Wilfried – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2015
In this article we propose that teaching/learning is a process that involves world knowledge, identity, and future construction of oneself. The goal of this qualitative research paper is to document the experiences of 2 fourth-grade students with immigration backgrounds in Germany. Using a poststructuralist approach to language and identity, we…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Self Concept, German, Second Language Learning
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Zhou, Ji; Urhahne, Detlef – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2013
Based on Weiner's attributional theory of intrapersonal motivation, the mediating effect of attributions between teacher judgment and student motivation was examined. In two studies, 144 German and 272 Chinese fourth-grade elementary school students were tested on their mathematical achievement, causal ascriptions for success and failure,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Student Motivation, Mathematics Tests, Attribution Theory
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Hemmer, Ingrid; Hemmer, Michael; Kruschel, Katja; Neidhardt, Eva; Obermaier, Gabriele; Uphues, Rainer – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2013
This article relates about some results of an interdisciplinary research project analyzing influencing factors of children's spatial orientation competence in real space carried out by geography educators and psychologists. The focus is on the concept of representation as a theoretical foundation. The research design for collecting data of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Rindermann, Heiner; Ceci, Stephen J. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2018
In 19 (sub)samples from seven countries (United States, Austria, Germany, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Vietnam, Brazil), we analyzed the impact of parental education compared with wealth on the cognitive ability of children (aged 4-22 years, total N = 15,297). The background of their families ranged from poor indigenous remote villagers to academic…
Descriptors: Parent Background, Educational Attainment, Parent Child Relationship, Intelligence
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Pfost, Maximilian; Dorfler, Tobias; Artelt, Cordula – Journal of Research in Reading, 2012
According to the Matthew effect model, interindividual differences in reading competence between poor and normal readers should become wider as students grow older. The second part of the model assumes that these differential pathways are mainly attributable to differential reading activities. The purpose of this study is to examine whether both…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Gebauer, Sandra Kristina; Zaunbauer, Anna C. M.; Moller, Jens – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2013
Cross-language effects on reading skills are of particular interest in the context of foreign language immersion programs. Although there is an extensive literature on cross-language effects on reading in general, research focusing on immersion students and including different dimensions of reading acquisition such as reading fluency and reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Immersion Programs
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Baumert, Jurgen; Nagy, Gabriel; Lehmann, Rainer – Child Development, 2012
This article examines the development of social and ethnic disparities in academic achievement in elementary schooling. It investigated whether reading and mathematics development in 136 mixed-ability classes shows path-dependent processes of cumulative advantage (Matthew effects) from Grades 4 to 6 (Grade 4 mean age = 10.62, SD = 0.57) resulting…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Elementary School Students
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Lenhard, Wolfgang; Schröppel, Daniela – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2014
Diagnostic information is a centrepiece of educational decision making. Far-reaching decisions like placements within multi-tiered school systems may have a huge long-term impact on the achieved level of education. Therefore, such decisions should be substantiated or complemented by objective and prognostically valid information. To this end, we…
Descriptors: Prediction, Academic Achievement, Self Concept, Reading Comprehension
Hanushek, Eric A.; Peterson, Paul E.; Woessmann, Ludger – Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University, 2012
"The United States' failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy." Such was the dire warning recently issued by a task force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. Chaired by former New York City schools chancellor Joel I. Klein and former U.S.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Human Capital, Educational Trends
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Randler, Christoph; Osti, Janina; Hummel, Eberhard – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2012
A decline in biology interest has often been claimed but seldom with an empirically substantiation. This study was based on a sample of 3rd and 4th grade pupils within the same geographical area as Lowe's (1987, 1992) previous results from southwest Germany from the year 1983. We used a four-point Likert-type questionnaire to assess interest with…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Botany, Zoology, Biology
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Roth, Tobias – Irish Educational Studies, 2013
This article examines the role that social capital plays in school success and in the explanation of social and ethnic inequalities in the German educational system. Based on Coleman's well-known concept of social capital, different aspects of social capital are distinguished, including social network composition, parent-school interaction and…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Role, Academic Achievement, Equal Education
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Paulick, Isabell; Watermann, Rainer; Nuckles, Matthias – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2013
During the transition from elementary school to secondary school, in Germany, students are assigned to different school tracks, academic or non-academic, that differ markedly in compositional and institutional characteristics, e.g., the level of cognitive activation and performance standards are higher in academic tracks than in non-academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Institutional Characteristics, Grade 4
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Vanlaar, Gudrun; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Panayiotou, Anastasia; Vandecandelaere, Machteld; McMahon, Léan; De Fraine, Bieke; Van Damme, Jan – Research Papers in Education, 2016
Background: The dynamic model of educational effectiveness (DMEE) is a comprehensive theoretical framework including factors that are important for school learning, based on consistent findings within educational effectiveness research. Purpose: This study investigates the impact of teacher and school factors of DMEE on mathematics and science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, High Achievement, Low Achievement
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