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Kitsantas, Anastasia; Cheema, Jehanzeb; Ware, Herbert W. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2011
The present study used the u.S. portion of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) to examine how homework resources, mathematics self-efficacy, and time spent on homework impacted mathematics achievement across gender and ethnicity. The findings showed that achievement gaps diminished with the increase in availability of homework…
Descriptors: Homework, Self Efficacy, Mathematics Achievement, Study Habits
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Kotsopoulou, Anastasia; Hallam, Susan – Educational Studies, 2010
Rating scale questionnaires were administered to 600 students in three age groups, 12-13, 15-16 and 20-21 from Japan, the UK, Greece and the USA. The questionnaires explored the extent of playing music while studying, the kinds of tasks when music was played, the perceived effects of music on studying, the characteristics and types of music played…
Descriptors: Music, Rating Scales, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
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Lee, Meery; Larson, Reed – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2000
Studied whether higher rates of clinical depression found among Korean adolescents than U.S. adolescents were related to Korea's highly competitive college entrance examinations. Results from 56 Korean and 62 U.S. high school students suggest that the effect of the college examination in generating depression in Korean adolescents may be partly…
Descriptors: Adolescents, College Entrance Examinations, Depression (Psychology), Foreign Countries
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers