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Rahmatika, Annisa – International Journal of Language Education, 2019
Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD) is one of the simplest of all cooperative learning methods, where team works in learning English provides students with the team opportunity to express and to communicate with each other. One of the ways to make them express and communicate with each other is by dividing the class into several team works…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
McGee, Carl Dean – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purposes of this mixed method study were to examine the relationship between student motivation and performance on large-scale, low- and high-stakes examinations and identify the types of incentive programs used by principals to promote test performance among high school students. The study took take place in California's Southern San Joaquin…
Descriptors: Incentives, Student Motivation, Mixed Methods Research, Measurement
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Castellano, Marisa; Sundell, Kirsten; Overman, Laura T.; Aliaga, Oscar A. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2012
This longitudinal study examines the impact of programs of study on high school academic and technical achievement. Two districts are participating in experimental and quasi-experimental strands of the study. This article describes the sample selection, baseline characteristics, study design, career and technical education and academic achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average, Vocational Education, Grade 10
Woods, Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quasi-experimental study was designed to research the effects of student attitudes and achievement levels when introduced to learning-style based interventions through the use of homework prescriptions. Success of these interventions was measured through the comparison of test scores for students who received instruction through…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Student Attitudes, Homework, Scores
Javed, Muhammad; Ahmad, Atezaz – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2013
The present study intends to assess the ESL students' performance in tenses at secondary school level. Grade 10 students were the target population of the study. A sample of 396 students (255 male and 141 female) was selected through convenience sampling technique from the District of Bahawalnagar, Pakistan. A test focusing on five different types…
Descriptors: Morphemes, English (Second Language), Grade 10, Secondary School Students
Fearn, Leif; Farnan, Nancy – Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2007
While evidence shows that grammar study focused on identification, description, and definition (IDD) fails to enhance writing performance, the grammar most students study remains focused on the IDD tradition. We taught a functional grammar that featured what words do in sentences, rather than what words are called and how they are defined, to two…
Descriptors: Sentences, Grammar, Identification, Writing Instruction
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Yeh, Ting-Kuang; Chang, Chun-Yen; Hu, Chung-Yi; Yeh, Ting-Chi; Lin, Ming-Yeh – Brain and Cognition, 2009
Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) is a methylation enzyme that catalyzes the degradation pathway and inactivation of dopamine. It is accepted widely as being involved in the modulation of dopaminergic physiology and prefrontal cortex (PFC) function. The COMT Val158Met polymorphism is associated with variation in COMT activity. COMT 158Met allele…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Social Sciences, Science Tests, Physiology
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Chionh, Yan Huay; Fraser, Barry J. – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2009
This comprehensive study involved the use of the what is happening in this class? (WIHIC) questionnaire among 2310 Singaporean Grade 10 students (aged 15 years) in 75 geography and mathematics classes in 38 schools. A seven-scale factor structure was strongly supported and the alpha reliability of each scale was high. An investigation of…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
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Bozick, Robert – RTI International, 2008
In this paper, I use a nationally representative sample of American high school seniors in 1992 to examine change and stability in the employment patterns of youth as they make the transition from high school to college. Students with weak attachments to the labor force in high school tend to remain unemployed during the first year of college.…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Student Employment, Employment Level, Employment Patterns
Manitoba Dept. of Education and Training, Winnipeg. Curriculum Development and Implementation Branch. – 1989
This preliminary report presents information about the first of four components of an assessment of social studies conducted in Manitoba (Canada) in June, 1989. The assessment was conducted at grades 4, 8, and 10. The four major components included: (1) a written or "pencil-and-paper" test for all three grade levels; (2) a survey of…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 10