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Are Disadvantaged Students Given Equal Opportunities to Learn Mathematics? PISA in Focus. No. 63
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OECD Publishing, 2016
Socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged students are not equally exposed to mathematics problems and concepts at school. Exposure to mathematics at school has an impact on performance, and disadvantaged students' relative lack of familiarity with mathematics partly explains their lower performance. Widening access to mathematics content…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Access to Education
Do Challenge, Task Experience or Computer Familiarity Influence the Learning of Historical Chronology from Virtual Environments in 8-9 Year Old Children?
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Korallo, Liliya; Foreman, Nigel; Boyd-Davis, Stephen; Moar, Magnus; Coulson, Mark – Computers & Education, 2012
Studies examined the potential use of VEs in teaching historical chronology to 127 children of primary school age (8-9 years). The use of passive fly-through VEs had been found, in an earlier study, to be disadvantageous with this age group when tested for their subsequent ability to place displayed sequential events in correct chronological…
Descriptors: Age, Familiarity, Short Term Memory, Foreign Countries
Student Complaints: An Accurate Measure of Student Dissatisfaction?
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Cooper-Hind, Heidi; Taylor, John – Higher Education Review, 2012
Recent interest in the number of complaints being raised by students in higher education may be attributed both to a general concern about quality and standards in universities and to the emerging role of the student as a "consumer". However, partly because of the highly sensitive nature of this topic, for students, staff and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Participant Satisfaction, Student Characteristics
"I Just Seem to Be a C Sort of Person": Self-Theory and Academic Achievement
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Taylor, Claire – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2012
This article explores the higher education learning experience of Kat, a mature female student. As part of a longitudinal case study spanning two years, data were collected through interviews and journal entries. The data were used to construct an account of Kat's higher education experience, focusing particularly upon her self-theory in relation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students, Adult Students
Cavell, Literacy and What It Means to Read
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Fulford, Amanda J. – Ethics and Education, 2009
This paper explores three current notions of literacy, which underpin the theorisation and practice of teaching and learning for both children and adults in England. In so doing, it raises certain problems inherent in these approaches to literacy and literacy education and shows how Stanley Cavell's notions of reading, and especially his reading…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Familiarity, Foreign Countries, Literacy
Home and Away: Risk, Familiarity and the Multiple Geographies of the Higher Education Experience
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Clayton, John; Crozier, Gill; Reay, Diane – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2009
With reference to an ESRC/TLRP project conducted across two academic years with working-class students in higher education (HE), this paper explores the relationship between geographies of home and those of university at two UK HE institutions. It addresses how social relations inflected by class influence the experience of students as they adapt…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Working Class, Familiarity, Geographic Location