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Bodovski, Katerina; Chykina, Volha; Khavenson, Tatiana – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
Using newly available data from the Trajectories in Education and Careers Study, the first longitudinal study on a representative sample of high school students in Russia, we examined the importance of investments in human and cultural capital on students' mathematics and reading standardized examinations, as well as on the likelihood of…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Russian, Standardized Tests, Scores
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Brown, N. Anthony; Dewey, Dan P.; Cox, Troy L. – Foreign Language Annals, 2014
In this study, the authors evaluated the strengths and limitations of a self-assessment based on ACTFL Can-Do statements ("ACTFL," 2013]) as a tool for measuring linguistic gains over an internship abroad in Russia. They assessed its reliability, determined how its items mapped with the ACTFL scale, and measured the degree to which…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Pretests Posttests, Interviews, Language Proficiency
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Fahrutdinova, Rezida A.; Yarmakeev, Iskander E.; Fakhrutdinov, Rifat R. – English Language Teaching, 2014
The relevance of this study is determined by the needs of modern society for qualified specialists, which leads to the necessity of improving the system of higher education. This dictates the need for a high-quality preparation of the teacher of English who is able to act as an active subject of the professional activity and who has high levels of…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction