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Pakeezah Rajab; Benny Motileng – Pythagoras, 2024
Mathematics achievement is core to South Africa's readiness for digital innovation, yet current pass rates in this subject are below the global average. Simply attributing mathematics performance to intelligence does not fully account for the multifaceted reality of achievement in the subject. The current study investigated the value of both…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 9, Foreign Countries
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Xu, Jianzhong; Corno, Lyn – Educational Psychology, 2022
The current investigation used latent profile analysis (LPA) to categorise students according to their strategies for managing mathematics homework. A sample of 918 Chinese students in grades 7-9 rated their use of seven homework management strategies; namely, arranging the environment, managing time, monitoring motivation, managing emotion,…
Descriptors: Homework, Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Mathematics Achievement
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Aruna Kumari, T.; Vijayavardhini, S. – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2019
Test anxiety is a typical experience in classrooms, changing the performance of students from school for college, as a whole being adults who must take job-related exams. Test anxiety can also move termed as anticipatory anxiety, examination anxiety that occurs in a situation like facing the exam. Indeed, there is a stirred upstate in…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
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Duong, Mylien T.; Badaly, Daryaneh; Ross, Alexandra C.; Schwartz, David – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
Previous research has shown that adolescent peer groups play a role in maintaining and exacerbating demographic differences in achievement. However, there is still limited knowledge about the malleable factors that contribute to these achievement disparities. This short-term longitudinal study examined one such malleable factor--namely, perceived…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Correlation, Peer Influence, Academic Achievement
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Gelbar, Nicholas W.; Bray, Melissa; Kehle, Thomas J.; Madaus, Joseph W.; Makel, Cheryl – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2018
Some individuals with developmental dyslexia are able to acquire age-appropriate reading comprehension abilities by the time they reach postsecondary education. This study explored the role that study strategies have with secondary students with dyslexia in achieving age-appropriate reading comprehension skills. The findings of this study…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Comprehension, Study Habits, Secondary School Students
MAYESKE, GEORGE W.; AND OTHERS – 1968
THIS STUDY ATTEMPTED TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF VARIABLES FROM THE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR NINTH GRADE STUDENTS IN AN EMPIRICALLY MEANINGFUL WAY IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE VOLUME OF DATA PROCESSING AND COMPLEXITY OF LATER ANALYSES. AN ACHIEVEMENT COMPOSITE WAS FORMED BY WEIGHTING AND SUMMING A STUDENT'S SCORE ON THE FOLLOWING…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aspiration, Correlation, Cultural Differences