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Boman, Björn – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
It is well established that socioeconomic status, cognitive ability, and non-cognitive abilities such as self-efficacy are substantially associated with academic achievement. However, the specific relationships of these variables remain a relatively unexplored topic in regard to more recent and representative samples. The current study examined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Grade 8
Thornberg, Robert; Bjereld, Ylva; Caravita, Simona C. – Cogent Education, 2023
Despite the fact that bullying has been consistently linked to moral disengagement among schoolchildren, research that distinguishes among the four loci of moral disengagement (cognitive restructuring, minimizing one's agentive role, distorting consequences, and victim attribution) to better understand bullying is scarce. The aim of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Moral Values, Bullying, Gender Differences
Bohm, Ingela; Bengs, Carita – Health Education Journal, 2023
Background: In health education, there is a risk of giving overly prescriptive recommendations, potentially activating conflicting in-group norms that reduce message receptiveness. For example, the notion of 'unhealthy youth' is a stereotype which suggests that young people are expected to make unhealthy choices. If such in-group norms are…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Self Efficacy, Health Education, Preadolescents
Sofkova Hashemi, Sylvana – Designs for Learning, 2022
Drawing on experiences from a large-scale Nordic co-design research project, this paper explores the development of cross-border blended education with the aim to strengthen students' Nordic identity and knowledge of neighboring Nordic languages illuminating the flow of didactical designs students were offered to engage in, i.e. the knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Blended Learning, Educational Development
Johansson, Baran – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
Previous studies have found that phonological processing and vocabulary predict word reading. However, their predictive powers may vary according to reading experience and across scripts with different levels of transparency. In this study, the relationship between phonological processing, decoding, vocabulary and word reading was explored in two…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Swedish, Language Skills, Reading Skills
Hofverberg, Anders; Winberg, Mikael – Journal of Educational Research, 2020
It is often assumed that students' personal achievement goals are most beneficial when they match the goal structures of the classroom, but interaction between achievement goals and goal structures is not well researched. In this study, we aim at providing a nuanced picture of the direct, interaction, and nonlinear effects of achievement goals and…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Educational Objectives, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation
Richmond, Ashley D.; Laursen, Brett; Stattin, Håkan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
This study examined age-related changes in friend similarity on delinquency to determine whether deviant behavior homophily peaks during mid-adolescence. A community sample of 1,663 male and 1,826 female Swedish youth from Grade 5 (M = 11.21 years) to Grade 10 (M = 16.25 years) provided self-reports of delinquency. Friendships were identified from…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Adolescents, Grade 5, Grade 6
Forsberg, Camilla; Chiriac, Eva Hammar; Thornberg, Robert – Educational Research, 2021
Background: School climate is crucial: its character can affect pupils' academic achievement, teachers' working conditions and the wellbeing of everyone at school. A major concern for teachers is how to prevent and manage disruptive behaviours. Against this backdrop, there is a need for thorough investigation of pupils' perspectives to better…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 1
Colby, Jolie Chrisanne – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation explored the roles schools can play in the successful outcomes of large carnivore or keystone reintroduction projects. Schools are more than centers for knowledge acquisition--they connect their community and disseminate information quickly to a wide audience. This study took place in California's Eastern Sierra Nevada, a…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Wildlife, Units of Study, Grade 6
Petersen, Ann-Louise – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2014
This article focuses on the leadership used by the principal in a collaborative ICT project. The case study chosen was a school project conducted within the NCCE project (Nordic Cross Country Education). The EU funded project ran for three years in grades 5-9 in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The goal of the project was to develop cross-border…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Styles, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Gren-Landell, Malin; Ekerfelt Allvin, Cornelia; Bradley, Maria; Andersson, Maria; Andersson, Gerhard – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2015
In the present online survey, 158 teachers in regular and special education teaching in grades six to nine were asked to rate the importance of probable reasons for problematic school absenteeism. On average, the teachers estimated that among their students, 19 students had presented with problematic school absenteeism over the last five years.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Attendance Patterns, Online Surveys
Cliffordson, Christina – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2010
The primary purpose of the study was to examine methodological issues in investigations of the relative effects of schooling and age on school performance. One means of separating these 2 effects involves the use of a between-grade regression discontinuity approach. However, amongst other things, this approach is based on assumptions concerning…
Descriptors: Investigations, Grades (Scholastic), Academic Achievement, Grade 6
Martin, Michael O., Ed.; Mullis, Ina V. S., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) is an international assessment of mathematics and science at the fourth and eighth grades that has been conducted every four years since 1995, with the most recent assessment in 2011. PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) is an international assessment of reading…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Grade 4
Giota, Joanna – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2006
The purpose of the present article is to study the interrelations between goal orientations, achievements and well-being in school. For this purpose adolescents' academic self-perceived competence, personal interest in school subjects, and affect in regard to different evaluative situations that take place in school were related to eight different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement