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Demelash, Minale; Chinasho, Giorgis – Online Submission, 2022
The basic purpose of the present study was to assess the root causes and provoking factors of cheating during an examination and to propose possible solutions to take corrective actions in public secondary schools in Gedeo zone, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region, Ethiopia. Because of the homogeneity of schools, five schools were…
Descriptors: Cheating, Student Behavior, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers
Kartika, Rika – Online Submission, 2020
This study aims to analyze how poor students learning problems are within the limitations of capital. And then, to explore how the decision making of poor students to continue higher education. The study was conducted at a private high school, East Jakarta, using a qualitative approach and case study method. Data collection techniques with…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Higher Education, Academic Achievement
Huerta, Adrian H. – Online Submission, 2018
Latino boys and young men often carry the debt of violence into different spaces. This invisible trauma manifests into disruptive behaviors in schools. It is well documented that violence in urban communities and schools has received significant attention from researchers, but little attention has been paid to Latino male youth as individuals and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Violence, Resilience (Psychology), Hispanic American Students
Norman, Obed; Pinder, Patrice J.; Shelley, Mack Clayton, II; Harven, Aletha; Nkusi, Maurice – Online Submission, 2021
This paper contains historical views and will demonstrate how issues related to identity impact the stigmatization and marginalizing that underlie the underrepresentation of Black people in the STEM fields. In this paper, identity is defined within the educational context and a framework is provided for exploring how STEM students and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, African Americans, Racial Bias, Self Concept
Dawadi, Saraswati – Online Submission, 2020
The author, having drawn examples from her doctoral study, describes how a thematic analysis approach was employed to interpret raw data in her doctoral study which explored the impacts of a high-stakes test on students and parents in Nepal. As the main purpose of this paper is to provide some guidelines for English language teaching (ELT)…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Mohammed, Adel Abdulla; Sherit, Asharaf Mohammed A.; Eissa, Mourad Ali; Mostafa, Amaal Ahmed – Online Submission, 2013
The purpose of this study was three folds: to explore whether there were relationship between academic procrastination and positive and negative self-oriented perfectionism of college students with learning disabilities, the extent to which positive and negative self-oriented perfectionism of college students with learning disabilities predicts…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Positive Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, Gender Differences
Onochie, Okeke Chinedu Ifedi – Online Submission, 2010
The females' relatively low participation in higher education is discussed within the Nigerian society in a way that such issues are discursively placed in often contradictory, as well as extremely complicated contexts. Dominant discussions draw on the interplay between gender and students' performance across subjects, as well as on the influences…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Females, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
White, Porchanee' A.; Kritsonis, William Allan – Online Submission, 2006
American history has been an essential component of every school's curriculum. Students of all ethnic backgrounds must know and understand that their culture and history are as significant as any other. The purpose of this article is to analyze the effects of the influence of ancestral history on student aspirations.
Descriptors: United States History, Student Attitudes, African American History, African Americans
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Paskell, Anthony – Online Submission, 1969
"The Northian", a Canadian magazine for teachers in Indian, Eskimo and northern schools, was located in the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. The article "Education: The Mixture as Before" was an examination of the educational trends across Canada in the wake of the Hall-Denis Report. The article sought to confront the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational Trends, Academic Aspiration
Parson, Gail C.; Kritsonis, William Allan – Online Submission, 2006
The purpose of this article is to assess six habits of academic achievement by African American male students from households of poverty whom been successful in completing a 5-A high school program of study. Despite the wealth of research that indicates a great disparity among racial and gender groups with regard to standardized assessment,…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Advanced Placement, Academic Achievement, African American Students