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Assessing the Instructional Quality of Private Tutoring and Its Effects on Student Outcomes: Analyses from the German National Educational Panel Study
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Guill, Karin; Lüdtke, Oliver; Köller, Olaf – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Background: A considerable proportion of secondary school students gets additional support from private tutoring lessons. Empirical findings on the effectiveness of private tutoring are inconclusive. The instructional quality of the tutoring lessons might influence their effectiveness. Aims: We analysed (1) whether students privately tutored in…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Private Education, Tutoring
'Well Let Me Put It Uhm the Other Way around Maybe': Managing Students' Trouble Displays in the CLIL Classroom
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Aldrup, Marit – Classroom Discourse, 2019
This study is concerned with repair practices that a teacher and students employ to restore intersubjectivity when faced with interactional problems in a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) classroom. Adopting a conversation analytic (CA) approach, it examines the interactional treatment of students' verbal and embodied trouble…
Descriptors: Course Content, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
Analysis of High School German Textbooks through Rasch Measurement Model
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Batdi, Veli; Elaldi, Senel – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The purpose of the present study is to analyze German teacher trainers' views on high school German textbooks through the Rasch measurement model. A survey research design was employed and study group consisted of a total of 21 teacher trainers, three from each region and selected randomly from provinces which are located in seven regions and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, High Schools, Teacher Attitudes
Adaptive Prompts for Learning Evolution with Worked Examples--Highlighting the Students between the "Novices" and the "Experts" in a Classroom
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Neubrand, Charlotte; Borzikowsky, Christoph; Harms, Ute – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Evolutionary theory constitutes the overarching concept in biology. There is hardly any other concept that is more complex, and causes more difficulties in learning and teaching. One instructional approach in optimizing the learning of complex topics is to use worked examples combined with self-explanation prompts that fit to the prior knowledge…
Descriptors: Expertise, Novices, Evolution, Secondary School Science
Attainment of Developmental Tasks in Emotionally and Behaviourally Disturbed Adolescents across Regular vs. Special Schools: A Four-Group Comparison
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Margraf, Hannah; Pinquart, Martin – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2015
In Germany, adolescents with emotional and behavioural disturbances (EBD) are either schooled in special schools for students with EBD or in regular schools. The present study is the first to compare the perceived attainment of a broad range of developmental tasks of adolescents with and without EBD attending regular vs. special schools. While…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances
How Does Integrating Alternative Conceptions into Lessons Influence Pupils' Situational Emotions and Learning Achievement?
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Franke, Gaitano; Bogner, Franz X. – Journal of Biological Education, 2013
We examined selected situational emotions (interest, well-being and anxiety) experienced by 291 secondary school tenth graders during a hands-on gene technology lesson. Two different instruction groups (I-1, I-2) participated in the same teaching unit, in which four basic gene technology experiments were performed. Using a modified…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Students, Anxiety