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Willemijn F. Rinnooy Kan; Anke Munniksma; Monique Volman; Anne Bert Dijkstra – Research Papers in Education, 2024
The abilities of citizens to make themselves heard and listen to each other are essential for the functioning of democratic societies. Schools are practice grounds for these citizenship competences. This study investigates whether students' experiences with voice in school are related to their attitudes towards voice (contributing and listening…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Participation, Democratic Values
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Gibbs, Norman Paul; Pivovarova, Margarita – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2021
In this study, we extend prior research in the role of school climate in civic education by exploring the relationship between immigrant students' experiences of bullying and their attitudes toward their countries of settlement. Using the 2016 IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study, we employ a multiple regression analysis with…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Educational Environment, Correlation, Bullying
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Okkinga, M.; van Gelderen, A. J. S.; van Schooten, E.; van Steensel, R.; Sleegers, P. J. C. – Reading Psychology, 2021
Low-achieving adolescents are known to have difficulties with reading comprehension. This article discusses whether principles of reciprocal teaching can improve low-achieving adolescents' reading comprehension in whole-classroom settings and to what extent treatment effects are dependent on implementation quality. Over the course of two years,…
Descriptors: Reciprocal Teaching, Low Achievement, Adolescents, Grade 7
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Lubbers, Miranda J.; Snijders, Tom A. B.; Van Der Werf, Margaretha P. C. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2011
This article examines the dynamics of peer relationships across the first 2 grades of Dutch junior high schools (average age 13-14). Specifically, we studied how gender and compositional changes in classrooms structured the changes in peer relationships between the 2 grades. Expectations were derived from past research, and we tested whether these…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Age, Peer Acceptance, Peer Relationship
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Kuijpers, M.; Meijers, F.; Gundy, C. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2011
This article focuses on which aspects of the learning environment, aimed at fostering career learning, correspond with the development of career competencies among students (aged 12-19 years) enrolled in prevocational and secondary vocational education in The Netherlands. Aspects of the learning environment that are taken into account here are the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Environment, Prevocational Education
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
These proceedings contain the papers of the 13th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2016), October 28-30, 2016, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by the University of Mannheim, Germany, and endorsed by the…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning), Technological Advancement
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Lubbers, Miranda J.; Van Der Werf, Margaretha P. C.; Snijders, Tom A. B.; Creemers, Bert P. M.; Kuyper, Hans – Journal of School Psychology, 2006
The purpose of this study is to examine whether peer relations within classrooms were related to students' academic progress, and if so, whether this can be explained by students' relatedness and engagement, in line with Connell and Wellborn's self-system model. We analyzed data of 18,735 students in 796 school classes in Dutch junior high…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Academic Achievement, Models, Junior High School Students