NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lili Toh; Helen M. G. Watt – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
An explanation for the underrepresentation of women in mathematical fields is the communal goal congruity perspective; that women tend to value communal over agentic goals, perceived to not be afforded by mathematical careers. Less is known about how agentic and communal goals may interact to influence mathematical career trajectories. Analysing a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Secondary School Students, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Degroote, Emma; Van Houtte, Mieke – Behavioral Disorders, 2022
School discipline research has demonstrated that the labeling of student behaviors as requiring disciplinary action is a selective process in which school staff take into account other factors than the characteristics of the behaviors. We argue that school staff react in a disciplinary way to students with negative attitudes toward the educational…
Descriptors: Discipline, Student Behavior, Negative Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Koç, Yakup; Yeniçeri, Samed – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The aim of this study is to examine relationship between the physical education course sportspersonship behaviors and respect levels for high school students. The sample of study consists of randomly selected 505 high school students (215 female and 290 male) attending state schools in the province of Istanbul in 2016-2017 academic year.…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Sportsmanship, Student Behavior, High School Students
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 2010
The Monitoring the Future (MTF) study is an ongoing series of national surveys of American adolescents and adults that has provided the nation with a vital window into the important, but largely hidden, problem behaviors of illegal drug use, alcohol use, tobacco use, anabolic steroid use, and psychotherapeutic drug use. For more than a third of a…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Incidence, Dropouts, Drug Abuse
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ding, Cody; Hall, Alice – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2007
Data from the "Health Behavior in School-Aged Children Study" (Currie, Samdal, Boyce, & Smith, 2001) were used to analyze the differences in perceptions of educational experiences among over 10,000 sixth to tenth graders of different grades, genders, races and ethnicities. The relationships between students' evaluations of their school experiences…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Negative Attitudes, Educational Environment, Health Behavior
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Benenson, Joyce F.; Schinazi, Joy – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2004
The current studies were designed to examine whether female adolescents have more negative reactions than male adolescents to achieving more than their same-sex friends. In Study 1, 51 females and 48 males from grades 8 and 10 were administered questions assessing their reactions to performing better than their closest same-sex friends in four…
Descriptors: Friendship, Adolescents, Grade 8, Grade 10