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Silvia Galano; Lucio Palazzo; Italo Testa – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Astronomy is seen as a "gateway" science, inspiring students to pursue Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM) related careers. However, there is little evidence that students' attitudes towards astronomy remain stable over time. By integrating Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), we identified…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Astronomy
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Alivernini, Fabio; Cavicchiolo, Elisa; Manganelli, Sara; Chirico, Andrea; Lucidi, Fabio – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2020
School situations trigger affective states that influence students' achievement and well-being. In the present study, we investigated, on the basis of a sample of 26,470 high-school students and 1,472 classrooms, the relationship of individual characteristics (immigrant background, gender, socioeconomic status, and achievement) as well as…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Well Being, High School Students, Student Characteristics
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Di Paola, Benedetto; Battaglia, Onofrio Rosario; Fazio, Claudio – South African Journal of Education, 2016
The problem of taking a data set and separating it into subgroups, where the members of each subgroup are more similar to each other than they are to members outside the subgroup, has been extensively studied in science and mathematics education research. Student responses to written questions and multiple-choice tests have been characterised and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 10, Questionnaires, Algebra