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Rodríguez, Fernanda; de Blume, Antonio Gutiérrez; Soto, Christian – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2022
Introduction: Reading comprehension is an essential skill to achieve autonomy and independence within our literate society. Unfortunately, several studies show that students with intellectual disabilities tend to achieve low reading levels. In normotypical students, the influence of reading motivation and metacomprehension habilities on reading…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Comprehension, Students with Disabilities, Metacognition
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Bañales, Gerardo; Ahumada, Silza; Graham, Steve; Puente, Anibal; Guajardo, Marcela; Muñoz, Ignacio – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
The purpose of this mainly descriptive study was to investigate teachers' perceptions about how they teach writing as well as their beliefs about preparation and efficacy to teach this skill. It also examined if preparation and efficacy beliefs along with teaching experience (years teaching the language arts) predicted teachers' reported writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
Catalina Morales Lema – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation, I use data from Chile to study the determinants of schooling trajectories. Chapters 1 and 2 focus on higher education, Chapter 3 on secondary education, and Chapter 4 on teachers. Chapter 1 explores the role of a socio-emotional ability, self-efficacy, in understanding why students with comparable qualifications transit…
Descriptors: Economics, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Secondary Education
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Benoliel, Pascale; Berkovich, Izhak – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
This article explores the link between the OECD TALIS 2013 survey's framework for defining the ideal teacher and national educational goals by focusing on the teacher self-efficacy items, using cross-country comparisons. Surprisingly, cross-country analysis of the TALIS 2013 data combined with World Value Survey data about Desired Child Qualities…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Professionalism, Correlation
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Saadati, Farzaneh; Cerda, Gamal; Giaconi, Valentina; Reyes, Cristian; Felmer, Patricio – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2019
This study was designed to examine predictors of instructional beliefs related to problem solving that influence mathematics in-service teachers' practices in the Chilean context. A total of 713 in-service mathematics teachers from various elementary schools participated in the survey study during 2015 and 2016. Results showed that teachers'…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers
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McWhirter, Ellen Hawley; McWhirter, Benedict T. – Youth & Society, 2008
The development and validation of a measure of adolescent future expectations associated with work, education, family, health, and church/community participation is presented. The 25-item measure was administered to a sample of 389 7th- to 12th-grade urban poor and working-class Chilean students. Results of an exploratory principal axis factor…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Validity, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis