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Download full textNicole Gruber; Tomoko Kurahashi-Friedman – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2024
Learning strategies are important factors for students' academic success. Motivation and self-efficacy influence the choice and the use of specific learning strategies (Entwistle & Ramsden, 1983). In this study, we want to assess how these three factors and their interaction are determined by the cultural setting (eastern vs. western culture).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Motivation, Learning Strategies, Cross Cultural Studies
Direct linkKaradag, Engin – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2020
In this meta-analysis study, different leadership approaches were combined, and the relationship between educational leadership and student achievement was analyzed. In the literature review, 151 research articles/dissertations, independent from one another, were brought together, and 131,498 study subjects were included in the sample group. The…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Academic Achievement, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Education
Yao Wu; Katie Gilligan-Lee; Terry Ng-Knight; Harriet R. Tenenbaum – Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Homework is a multifaceted process that involves a complex interplay of factors. However, the processes underlying homework behavior are not yet fully understood. In Study 1, we tested a model of homework processes by examining the influences and consequences of homework behavior based on 473 Chinese students. In Study 2 with 159 British students,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Expectation
Tze, Virginia M. C.; Li, Johnson C.-H.; Daniels, Lia M. – Research Papers in Education, 2022
Although previous research showed that discrete social-emotional skills such as empathy, motivation, and social relationships in school significantly predict achievement, students tend to use various social-emotional skills in combination. As such previous investigations cannot comment on how different combinations or profiles of students'…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Empathy, Prediction, Academic Achievement
Harkness, Sara; Super, Charles M. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
The seven papers in this issue address a variety of challenges that parents in several different cultural places encounter as they do their best to ensure their children's safe, happy, and successful development from infancy through middle childhood: infant sleep, developmental agendas, temperament, preschools, academic success, and learning to be…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Barriers, Cultural Differences, Child Development
Mendzheritskaya, Julia; Hansen, Miriam – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
University lecturers tend to show emotions in congruence with the cultural-educational practices with which they are familiar. As lecturers' display of emotion can affect students' learning, it is important to understand how culture influences students' perception and interpretation of their lecturers' display of emotion. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Personality Traits, Cross Cultural Studies
Pinder, Patrice Juliet – Online Submission, 2020
Across the globe, from the very wealthy continents of North America to Europe to Australia, the phenomenon of migrant and immigrant students outperforming native students are observed and documented. Some migrants and immigrants from China, the Philippines, India, Russia, Africa, and the Caribbean are reportedly achieving higher test scores than…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Immigrants, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
Jeynes, William, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2022
Offering contributions from international leaders in the field, this volume builds on empirically informed meta-analyses to foreground relationship-based aspects of parental involvement in children's education and learning. Chapters explore how factors including parent-child communication, cultural and parental expectations, as well as…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Educational Psychology, Meta Analysis
Hennessey, Beth A. – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background: Extrinsic incentives and constraints to learning, such as the promise of a reward or the expectation of an evaluation, have long been used by educators to motivate students. Previous research has consistently found that expected reward consistently undermines intrinsic task motivation and creativity of products and performance in…
Descriptors: Incentives, Student Motivation, Rewards, Creativity
Lansford, Jennifer E.; Godwin, Jennifer; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Chen, Bin-Bin; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Alampay, Liane Peña; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo – Developmental Psychology, 2018
To examine whether the cultural normativeness of parents' beliefs and behaviors moderates the links between those beliefs and behaviors and youths' adjustment, mothers, fathers, and children (N = 1,298 families) from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Adjustment (to Environment), Cross Cultural Studies
Fang, Zheng; Xu, Xianxuan; Grant, Leslie W.; Stronge, James H.; Ward, Thomas J. – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
Using Hofstede's culture dimensions and World Values Survey (WVS) dimensions, the study uses a series of multiple regressions to explore the relationship among national culture, creativity as measured by patents, economic productivity as measured by gross domestic product per capita, and student achievement as measured by Trends in International…
Descriptors: Creativity, Productivity, Surveys, Multiple Regression Analysis
Byun, Soo-yong; Schofer, Evan; Kim, Kyung-keun – Sociology of Education, 2012
The concept of cultural capital has proved invaluable in understanding educational systems in Western countries, and recent work seeks to extend those insights to the diverse educational systems of other geographic regions. Using data from the 2000 Programme for International Student Assessment, the authors explored cultural capital in South Korea…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Cultural Capital, Cultural Influences
Sellar, Sam; Lingard, Bob – Comparative Education, 2013
This paper examines the outstanding performance of Shanghai, China on PISA 2009 and its effects on other national systems and within the global education policy field. The OECD's PISA is helping to create this field by constituting the globe as a commensurate space of school system performance. The effects of Shanghai's success are considered in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Interviews, Cross Cultural Studies
Gestsdottir, Steinunn; von Suchodoletz, Antje; Wanless, Shannon B.; Hubert, Blandine; Guimard, Philippe; Birgisdottir, Freyja; Gunzenhauser, Catherine; McClelland, Megan – Applied Developmental Science, 2014
Research suggests that behavioral self-regulation skills are critical for early school success, but few studies have explored such links among young children in Europe. This study examined the contribution of early self-regulation to academic achievement gains among children in France, Germany, and Iceland. Gender differences in behavioral…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Self Control, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies
Zhou, Ji; Shen, Jiliang; Wang, Xinghua; Neber, Heinz; Johji, Ikuma – Creativity Research Journal, 2013
The purpose of this study was to understand teachers' conceptualizations of creativity and its difference among 3 countries. The conceptualization of creativity denotes the concept and exhibition of creativity, the traits of creative students, and the fostering and hindering factors for creativity in school settings. A questionnaire was…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Creativity, Questionnaires
