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Predicting Academic Resilience with Reading Engagement and Demographic Variables: Comparing Shanghai, Hong Kong, Korea, and Singapore from the PISA Perspective
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Cheung, Kwok-cheung; Sit, Pou-seong; Soh, Kay-cheng; Ieong, Man-kai; Mak, Soi-kei – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
Reading literacy is the main focus of the international comparative study of PISA 2009 (OECD, "PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science," 2010a) based on the results of which 65 economies were arranged in a league table. PISA also gathers background information which…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Academic Persistence, Predictor Variables, Prediction
Universal Factors of Student Achievement in High-Performing Eastern and Western Countries
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Lee, Jihyun – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
This study investigates whether a common set of student attitudes and behavioral tendencies can account for academic achievement across different, especially high-performing, countries via analysis of the PISA 2009 international data set. The 13 countries examined are 5 of the top-performing Eastern countries/systems, namely Shanghai China, South…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High Achievement, Student Attitudes, Student Behavior