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Chiu, Ming Ming; Pong, Suet-ling; Mori, Izumi; Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2012
Central to student learning and academic success, the school engagement of immigrant children also reflects their adaptation to a primary institution in their new country. Analysis of questionnaire responses of 276,165 fifteen-year-olds (50% female) and their 10,789 school principals in 41 countries showed that school engagement has distinct,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Student Attitudes, Principals, Teacher Role
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Chiu, Ming Ming; Chow, Bonnie Wing Yin – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
This study examined how cultural values and family cultural capital were linked to adolescents' motivation and reading achievement using multilevel analyses on reading tests and questionnaire responses of 193,841 fifteen-year-olds in 41 countries. In countries that valued more rigid gender roles, girls had lower reading achievement than girls in…
Descriptors: Incentives, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests, Student Motivation