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Art Tsang; Beatrice Yan-Yan Dang; Benjamin Luke Moorhouse – Educational Studies, 2025
Completing homework is a highly common task shared by nearly all primary- and secondary-level learners throughout their compulsory education globally. This mixed-methods study examined whether the estimated amount of homework completed (HW) in primary and secondary education is related to learners' academic achievement (AA), and what learners'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement, Homework, Student Attitudes
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Pawel Strawinski; Paulina Broniatowska – Educational Studies, 2024
This study investigates the impact of the extension of the duration of general education on educational opportunities and labour market performance. Taking the example of the Polish education reform of 1999, which we treated as a natural experiment, we used a regression discontinuity design and estimated the effects of an additional year of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary Schools, Compulsory Education
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Wilfried Admiraal; Lysanne Post; Liesbeth Kester; Monika Louws; Ditte Lockhorst – Educational Studies, 2024
Autonomy-supportive activities are understood to promote students' autonomous forms of learning motivation, educational outcomes and well-being. In the current study, two learning labs in one Dutch secondary school have been studied. In these learning labs--each lasting one entire school year--students' autonomy during their learning process have…
Descriptors: Learning Laboratories, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Personal Autonomy
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Pic, Miguel; Lavega-Burgués, Pere; March-Llanes, Jaume – Educational Studies, 2019
This work studied if decision-making differences between girls and boys existed in different versions of the traditional game called la pelota sentada according to their roles, sub-roles (decisions), valence (cooperation or opposition) and level of adjustment (effectiveness) of motor behaviours. One hundred and twelve compulsory secondary…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Decision Making, Gender Differences, Sex Role
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Reichenberg, Olof – Educational Studies, 2018
Student behavioural disengagement is a problem in many schools. This paper aims to explain why students' behavioural disengagement occurs and reoccurs in Swedish classrooms in terms of two mechanisms. Mechanisms that explain student disengagement are tested quantitatively and illustrated qualitatively with primary data consisting of 74…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Behavior, Peer Influence, Case Studies
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Veas, Alejandro; Gilar, Raquel; Miñano, Pablo; Castejón, Juan Luis – Educational Studies, 2017
The present study, based on the construct comparability approach, performs a comparative analysis of general points average for seven courses, using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and the Partial Credit model (PCM) with a sample of 1398 student subjects (M = 12.5, SD = 0.67) from 8 schools in the province of Alicante (Spain). EFA confirmed a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grades (Scholastic), Compulsory Education, Secondary Education