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Download full textSena Seçil Akpinarli; Salih Levent Turan – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Biology, a living science, is known as a balance and complement among other branches of science. Just like the science of biology, biology as a course also plays a very important role among other courses at all school types and grades. It is thought that the adults of the future should not be deprived of knowledge in the field of biology and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Biology, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Direct linkLederman, J. S.; Lederman, N. G.; Bartels, S.; Jimenez, J.; Acosta, K.; Akubo, M.; Aly, S.; de Andrade, M. A. B. S.; Atanasova, M.; Blanquet, E.; Blonder, R.; Brown, P.; Cardoso, R.; Castillo-Urueta, P.; Chaipidech, P.; Concannon, J.; Dogan, O. K.; El-Deghaidy, H.; Elzorkani, A.; Ferdous, T.; Fukuda, N.; Gaigher, E.; Galvis-Solano, L.; Gao, Q.; Guo, S.; Gwekwerere, Y.; Gyllenpalm, J.; Hamed Al-Lal, S.; Han-Tosunoglu, C.; Hattingh, A.; Holliday, G.; Huang, X.; Irez, S.; Jiménez, J.; Kay, G.; Koumara, A.; Kremer, K.; Kuo, P.-C.; Lavonen, J.; Leung, J. S. C.; Liao, Z.; Librea-Carden, M. R.; Lin, S. -F.; Liu, C.; Liu, E.; Liu, S. -Y.; Mamlok-Naaman, R.; Mcdonald, C. V.; Möller, A.; Morales, M.; Mulvey, B. K.; Neumann, I.; Neurohr, A.-L.; Pan, Y.; Panjaburee, P.; Penn, M.; Plakitsi, K.; Picholle, E.; Ramnarain, U.; Raykova, Z.; Rundgren, C.-J.; Salonen, S.; Santibáñez-Gómez, D.; Schwartz, R.; Sharma, R.; Srisawasdi, N.; Takiveikata, S.; Urueta-Ortiz, T.; Vitlarov, K.; Voitle, F.; Wishart, J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Understandings of the nature of scientific inquiry (NOSI), as opposed to engaging students in inquiry learning experiences, are included in science education reform documents around the world. However, little is known about what students have learned about NOSI during their pre-college school years. The purpose of this large-scale follow-up…
Descriptors: High School Students, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Grade 12
Awgichew, Sisay; Ademe, Enguday – Cogent Education, 2022
This study examined the role of history education for nation building in Ethiopia, Germany Rwanda, South Africa, Switzerland, and USA using a comparative research method. Student textbooks and syllabi were the main data sources. Document review was the principal data-gathering tool and the data was analysed qualitatively. Findings revealed that…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Nationalism, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Choi, Kilchan; Kao, Jenny C.; Rivera, Nichole M.; Cai, Li – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2018
This report is the third in a series considering career-readiness features within high school assessments. The goal of this study was to explore international comparisons by applying feature analysis to Korean assessment items. Twenty math test items from the Gyeonggi Province in South Korea along with performance data from roughly 4,000 Grade 12…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, High School Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Test Items
Eklöf, Hanna; Pavešic, Barbara Japelj; Grønmo, Liv Sissel – Applied Measurement in Education, 2014
The purpose of the study was to measure students' reported test-taking effort and the relationship between reported effort and performance on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) Advanced mathematics test. This was done in three countries participating in TIMSS Advanced 2008 (Sweden, Norway, and Slovenia), and the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Correlation
Delgado, Cesar – International Journal of Science Education, 2013
Following a sociocultural perspective, this study investigates how students who have grown up using the SI (Systeme International d'Unites) (metric) or US customary (USC) systems of units for everyday use differ in their knowledge of scale and measurement. Student groups were similar in terms of socioeconomic status, curriculum, native language…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Measurement, Metric System, Regression (Statistics)
Albe, Virginie; Gombert, Marie-Jose – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
An empirical study on 12th-grade students' engagement on a global warming debate as a citizens' conference is reported. Within the design-based research methodology, an interdisciplinary teaching sequence integrating an initiation to non-violent communication was developed. Students' debates were analyzed according to three dimensions:…
Descriptors: Grade 12, Global Approach, Scientific Concepts, Research Methodology
Page, Randy M.; Park, Sunhee; Suwanteerangkul, Jiraporn; Park, Hyunju; Kemeny, Maria; Philips, Lynn – Journal of School Health, 2012
Background: Understanding the cognitive attributions of smoking has the potential to advance youth smoking prevention efforts; however, research on this subject is limited in Asian countries. We attempted to determine the degree to which cognitive attributions of smoking differ among adolescents in 2 Asian countries, Thailand and South Korea.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Attribution Theory, Smoking, Prevention
Rahayu, Sri; Treagust, David F.; Chandrasegaran, A. L.; Kita, Masakazu; Ibnu, Suhadi – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2011
Background and purpose: This study investigated Indonesian and Japanese senior high-school students' understanding of electrochemistry concepts. Sample: The questionnaire was administered to 244 Indonesian and 189 Japanese public senior high-school students. Design and methods: An 18-item multiple-choice questionnaire relating to five conceptual…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
Fiebig, Jennifer Nepper; Beauregard, Erin – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2011
This study assessed 43 gifted adolescent females in the United States and Germany over a 4-year period (in 7th or 8th grade and again during the 11th or 12th grade). Factors that were examined included the daughter's career selection, the prestige level and the education required to pursue that career, and the impact of the mother's gender role…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Females, Sex Role, Occupational Aspiration
Drent, Marjolein; Meelissen, Martina R. M.; van der Kleij, Fabienne M. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2013
Worldwide, the interest of policy-makers in participating in studies from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), such as Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) has been growing rapidly over the past two decades. These studies offer the opportunity to relate the teaching and…
Descriptors: International Programs, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Data Analysis
Zhou, Xinyue; Xu, Qian; Ingles, Candido J.; Hidalgo, Maria D.; La Greca, Annette M. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2008
This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A) in a sample of 296 adolescents (49% boys) in Grades 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12 with a mean age of 15.52 years. Confirmatory factor analysis replicated the three-factor structure of the SAS-A in the Chinese sample: Fear of Negative…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Anxiety, Adolescents, Test Validity
Tang, Min; Neber, Heinz – High Ability Studies, 2008
A total of three hundred and fifteen (n = 315) gifted students from the 10th and 12th grade from the United States (n = 102), China (n = 125) and Germany (n = 88) were surveyed regarding their motivation and self-regulation in chemistry learning. A 3 x 2 x 2 MANOVA revealed "nation" as having the largest major effect on these variables.…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Grade 10, Grade 12, High School Students
Buckendahl, Chad W.; Davis, Susan L.; Plake, Barbara S.; Sireci, Stephen G.; Hambleton, Ronald K.; Zenisky, April L.; Wells, Craig S. – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2009
The "Evaluation of the National Assessment of Educational Progress: Study Reports" describes the special studies that comprised the design of the evaluation. In the Final Report, the authors presented a practical discussion of the evaluation studies to its primary, intended audience, namely policymakers. On this accompanying CD, readers…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Program Evaluation, Educational Research, Program Effectiveness
Casillas, Alex; Schulz, E. Matthew; Robbins, Steven B.; Santos, Paulo Jorge; Lee, Richard M. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2006
The present study uses item response theory (IRT) to establish comparability between the English and Portuguese versions of the Goal Instability Scale (GIS), a measure of generalized motivation. A total of 2,848 American and 679 Portuguese high school students were administered their respective language versions of the GIS. Results showed only…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Cross Cultural Studies, Item Response Theory, Rating Scales
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