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Bahar, A. Kadir – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2021
Using the test scores of more than 2,250,000 students who participated in the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) from 2009 to 2019, this study examined the direction and magnitude of the trends in gender disparity in participation and high achievement in self-select mathematics exams. The results of this study indicated that the male to…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, High Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Student Participation
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Iren, Grandemo Liv; Arild, Lagestad Pål – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2018
The experience of well-being at school, both in the recesses and at school lessons, is of great importance for all students. The Norwegian school laws confirm that every student has the right to experience well-being at school, which will lead to healthiness and good learning. Literature search indicates that there is a lack of longitudinal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Well Being, Obesity, Longitudinal Studies
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Battle, Juan; Browne, Anthony P. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2018
Although many studies have examined the importance of parental configuration for Latinx students' educational attainment, few have considered the longitudinal impact of one versus two-parent households on Latinx children's educational attainment. This article employs intersectionality as a theoretical framework and utilizes a nationally…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Family Structure, Parents, Educational Attainment
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Ubuz, Behiye; Aydin, Utkun – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2018
In the present study we aimed to develop a multidimensional test assessing high school students' knowledge about triangles, and then to determine the validity evidence for it based on the internal structure and relations to another variable and its reliability. The test developed was administered to 557 tenth grade students. To assess the validity…
Descriptors: Geometry, Knowledge Level, Cognitive Tests, Evidence
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Koca, Nusret; Yildirim, Ramazan – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2018
This research was designed in the screening model to determine the opinions of high school students on tourism effects and geography-tourism relations. The data were gathered from 760 students who were educated in high schools in the central district of Kütahya, identified by cluster sampling method. The data were collected with the help of a…
Descriptors: Tourism, High School Students, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes
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Aziz, Fakhra; Quraishi, Uzma; Kazi, Asma Shahid – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
It is evidence based conclusion that students' classroom participation makes them more motivated, supports their learning, improves their communication and promotes higher order thinking skills. The current study was an intention to investigate the current level of secondary school students' classroom participation and to identify the underlying…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Classroom Communication, Thinking Skills, Questionnaires
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Harveson, Andrew; Hannon, James; Brusseau, Timothy; Podlog, Les; Chase, Ben; Kang, Kyoung-doo – Physical Educator, 2018
The purpose of this study was to compare the acute effects of Aerobic Exercise (AE), Resistance Exercise (RE), and a nonexercise (NE) control on measures of academic achievement (AA) and cognition in 10th grade males and females. This study utilized a randomized crossover design. Tenth grade males and females performed three exercise trials (AE,…
Descriptors: Exercise, Academic Achievement, High School Students, Grade 10
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Tetzner, Julia; Becker, Michael; Maaz, Kai – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
This study examined interrelations between three indicators of main challenges during adolescence: academic achievement, self-perceived peer acceptance, and self-esteem. An additional aim was to investigate whether the findings hold for girls and boys and across school types (academically oriented track vs. non-academically oriented track). We…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Academic Achievement, Peer Acceptance, Self Esteem
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Yildirim, Tahsin – International Education Studies, 2017
This aim of this research was to examine the levels of motivation among high school social science students towards learning geography. The study group consisted of 397 students from different classes at Aksaray Ahmet Cevdet Pasa High School in the College of Social Science. The research was carried out with a scanning model, with data obtained…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Motivation, Social Sciences, Statistical Analysis
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Alivernini, Fabio; Manganelli, Sara; Lucidi, Fabio – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
This study examines the factor structures of Personal and Classroom Achievement Goals and the relationships between them. Multilevel structural equation modeling was used to examine data from a sample of 3,544 Italian 10th-grade students (184 classrooms) who completed the Patterns of Adaptive Learning Scales (PALS). Findings about the factor…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Mastery Learning, Immigrants
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Ceylan, Özge; Topsakal, Ünsal Umdu – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
This research was carried out to reveal the bioethical values that special, talented students have about the socioscientific issues that they may encounter in everyday life. Scanning model was used in the research from quantitative research methods. The study's working group is composed of special talented fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Ethics, Biology, Student Attitudes
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Taskin, Cengiz – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The aim of this study was to examine in visual and auditory reaction time of adolescents with respect to their academic achievement level. Five hundred adolescent children from the Turkey, (age=15.24±0.78 years; height=168.80±4.89 cm; weight=65.24±4.30 kg) for two hundred fifty male and (age=15.28±0.74; height=160.40±5.77 cm; weight=55.32±4.13 kg)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Reaction Time, Visual Perception, Auditory Perception
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Isikgöz, Enes – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
In this study; the perceptions of the students studying at sport high schools about democratic school culture were analysed in accordance with different variables. Participants of the research consisted of 216 students studying at Sport High Schools in Sakarya and Batman Provinces of Turkey. The data were collected with the Democratic School…
Descriptors: High School Students, Athletics, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
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Doum, Hamed Mohammed – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The study aimed to identify the role of King Abdullah II fitness award in improving the physical level to the tenth grade from the point of view of teachers in the of Northern region governates. The researcher used the descriptive survey method for its suitability to the objectives of the study, the researcher built a questionnaire that consisted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Fitness, Grade 10, Teacher Attitudes
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King, Keith A.; Merianos, Ashley L.; Vidourek, Rebecca A.; Oluwoye, Oladunni A. – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2017
The study purpose was to examine the relationship between sports participation and recent alcohol and past-year alcohol use among students. A secondary data analysis of the PRIDE survey (N = 37,616) was performed. A series of chi-square analyses and odds ratios were conducted. Results indicated sports participation reduced the odds for past-year…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Athletics, Drinking, Middle School Students
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