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Problem-Based Learning in Secondary Education: Evaluation by an Experiment
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De Witte, Kristof; Rogge, Nicky – Education Economics, 2016
The effectiveness of problem-based learning (PBL) in terms of increasing students' educational attainments has been extensively studied for higher education students and in nonexperimental settings. This paper tests the effectiveness of PBL as an alternative instruction method in secondary education. In a controlled experiment at the class level,…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Secondary Education, Educational Attainment, Teaching Methods
School Effects on the Development of Motivation toward Learning Tasks and the Development of Academic Self-Concept in Secondary Education: A Multivariate Latent Growth Curve Approach
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Van de gaer, Eva; De Fraine, Bieke; Pustjens, Heidi; Van Damme, Jan; De Munter, Agnes; Onghena, Patrick – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2009
The main objective of the present study is to gain more insight into the school effects on the development of 2 noncognitive student outcomes, namely, the motivation toward learning tasks and the academic self-concept, and, more specifically, on the consistency of the school effects on these 2 outcomes. Data were drawn from the "Longitudinaal…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Grade 7
Academic Self-Concept and Academic Achievement: Cause and Effect.
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Van Damme, J.; Mertens, W. – 2000
The network of causal relations between academic self-concept and academic achievement was examined using five waves of the Flemish longitudinal research in secondary education project (J. Van Damme, et al, 1997). Participants were 6,411 students in 59 secondary schools in Flanders, followed for 7 years. Correlational and regression analyses were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Causal Models, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies
Effects of Schools, Teaching Staff and Classes on Achievement and Well-Being in Secondary Education: Similarities and Differences between School Outcomes.
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Opdenakker, Marie-Christine; Van Damme, Jan – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2000
Explores effects of schools, teachers, and classes on first-year secondary students at year's end in Belgium, using multilevel analysis. Classes' and schools' relative influence on achievement is much higher than on well-being. An academic climate can discourage nonmotivated students. A communitarian climate can motivate all pupils. (Contains 54…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Community, Foreign Countries
The Effect of Error Correction on L2 Grammar Knowledge and Oral Proficiency.
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Dekeyser, Robert M. – Modern Language Journal, 1993
The efficiency of oral error correction was investigated as a function of 35 Dutch-speaking high school seniors' individual characteristics of aptitude, motivation, anxiety, and previous achievement. Results were mixed but generally suggest that error correction does not lead to across-the-board improvement of achievement. (Contains 55…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Error Correction, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Motivation and De-Motivation in Secondary Education: Student Characteristics.
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Lens, Willy; Decruyenaere, Marleen – Learning and Instruction, 1991
Characteristics of motivated and demotivated students in humanities and high and low technical secondary education were studied for 1,824 Belgian students in the eighth, tenth, or twelfth grade. Subgroups based on motivation were formed using student self-ratings, teacher ratings, and scores on predictor measures. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Humanities, Learning Motivation