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Allal, Linda – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2013
This paper presents a study of teachers' professional judgement in the area of summative assessment. It adopts a situated perspective on assessment practices in classroom and school settings. The study is based on interviews with 10 sixth-grade teachers and on the assessment documents they used when determining end-of-term grades in students'…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Educational Practices, Interviews, Grade 6
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Buschor, Christine Bieri; Kappler, Christa; Keck Frei, Andrea; Berweger, Simone – Gender and Education, 2014
The study examines the career decision-making of Swiss academic high school students opting for a career in a non-traditional, gender-typed area of work during the transition to higher education. Based on a longitudinal study, a qualitative study with 11 female students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and 13 male student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Career Choice, Decision Making
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Valach, Ladislav; Michel, Konrad; Young, R. A.; Dey, P. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2006
In the present study we examined to what extent persons who attempt suicide describe their attempt in terms of social, joint processes. Psychotherapists interviewed 40 patients hospitalized in a general hospital for a few days after an attempted suicide. The content of the interviews was analyzed for the level of systemic processes the patients…
Descriptors: Interviews, Suicide, Patients, Conflict