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Tuamsuk, Kulthida; Nguyen, Lan Thi; Kanjug, Issara; Lowatcharin, Grichawat; Manakul, Teeradej; Poonpon, Kornwipa; Sarakorn, Weerachai; Somabut, Anucha; Srisawasdi, Niwat; Traiyarach, Saksuriya – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2023
This study aimed to investigate the success factors for transforming classrooms into learning communities in digital learning ecosystem (DLE) of Thailand's secondary schools. Quantitative research was conducted by using a questionnaire as the research instrument to measure teachers' evaluation of factors. Purposive sampling was applied to obtain a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Educational Technology
Palm, Clara; Ganuza, Natalia; Hedman, Christina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
This article explores language use and investment among Somali-speaking children and adolescents in Sweden, through group interviews and survey data. Our findings indicate that there are incentives to invest in Somali language learning considering the reported language use patterns and the expressed positive attitudes towards Somali mother tongue…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Afro Asiatic Languages, Immigrants, Incentives
Laxer, Rachel E.; Dubin, Joel A.; Brownson, Ross C.; Cooke, Martin; Chaurasia, Ashok; Leatherdale, Scott T. – Journal of School Health, 2019
Background: The school environment has the potential to influence student body mass index (BMI) through programs and policies. Our objective was to examine the effect of modifying obesity-related school policies and programs on youths' BMI trajectories. Methods: Obesity-related school policies and programs related to physical activity and healthy…
Descriptors: Comprehensive School Health Education, Obesity, Evidence, Educational Environment
Låftman, Sara Brolin; Östberg, Viveca; Modin, Bitte – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2017
This study investigates associations between aspects of school climate, measured by students' assessments aggregated to the class level, and exposure to bullying, measured at the individual level. The data were derived from the Stockholm School Survey of 2006-2010 with information from 16,418 ninth-grade students (aged 15-16 years) distributed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Bullying, Grade 9
Zhou, Nan – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Researchers using VAM (Value-Added Models) methods have found that student achievement is substantially impacted by both schools and teachers. However, most of this work has been conducted within the context of the United States. Information is lacking about the educational system in China. This first study examines methodological concerns…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Academic Achievement, Teacher Influence, School Policy
Pombo, Lúcia; Marques, Margarida M. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
Mobile devices are being intensively used by the Portuguese youth in their daily life, but not in school activities. Despite this gap, research shows that technology can promote student learning in non-high education contexts. This paper comprises a survey study where mobile learning is analyzed through the eyes of 244 students attending the 2nd…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology
Bunar, Nihad; Ambrose, Anna – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2016
An exploration is presented of how urban spaces, polarized by class and ethnicity, structure the basic conditions of emerging local school markets. The authors investigate how the distribution of symbolic capital, or "hot knowledge" of the market, affects schools, the market, and the urban spaces themselves. The study is guided by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Compulsory Education, School Choice
Stone, Alison; Walter, Maggie; Peacock, Huw – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2017
A quality education is a basic societal right. Yet for many Aboriginal students that right is not yet a reality. This paper focuses on the situation of Aboriginal/palawa school students in Tasmania and employs a quantitative methodology to examine the comparative educational achievements of Aboriginal school students. State level Grade 3, 5, 7 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students, Grade 3
Saaristo, Vesa; Kulmala, Jenni; Raisamo, Susanna; Rimpelä, Arja; Ståhl, Timo – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2014
Finnish national data sets on schools (N = 496) and pupils (N = 74,143; 14-16 years) were used to study whether a systematic documenting policy for the violations of school smoking bans was associated with pupils' smoking and their perceptions on the enforcement of smoking bans. Attending a school with a systematic documenting policy was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Smoking, Documentation, School Policy
Owens, Laurence; Shute, Rosalyn; Slee, Phillip – International Education Journal, 2005
Because children and young teenagers usually associate in same-sex groups, psychological research concerned with adolescent aggression has often concentrated on within-sex relationships. However, during adolescence, boys and girls increasingly interact socially. This paper reports a study of boy-to-girl aggression as perceived by girls, boys and…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Sexual Harassment, Aggression, Psychological Studies