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International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2022
The Responses to Educational Disruption Survey (REDS), conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), studied how teaching and learning were affected by the disruptions caused by COVID-19 and aimed to paint a picture of national responses to the global pandemic. REDS was based on the premise that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Harnisch, Delwyn L.; Ryan, Katherine E. – 1983
A study was made of cross-cultural patterns of achievement motivation in relationship to the mathematics achievement of Japanese and American boys and girls approximately 16 years of age. Sample sizes were 9,582 for the United States subjects (specifically, from Illinois) and 1,700 for the participants from Japan. Data came from performance on the…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Attribution Theory, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
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McDonald, Janet L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Presents a cross-linguistic investigation of the development of adult language and cue comprehension strategies in native speakers of English and Dutch. Adult level performance was achieved much earlier by young English speakers, reflecting the different syntactic and semantic comprehension cues in these two languages. (Author/DR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Comprehension, Cross Cultural Studies
Lofgren, Horst – 1991
A study sought information about the success of the Swedish 9-year compulsory comprehensive school for students with home language other than Swedish. Immigrant adolescents and a sample of Swedish students answered a questionnaire discussing their lines of study after comprehensive school and the students' views on the home language instruction…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compulsory Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary School Students
Borries, Bodo von; Lehmann, Rainer H. – 1992
A study compared the historical awareness of 2,000 East and West German children in the sixth, ninth, and twelfth grades. Because of differing school systems and the general design of the study, researchers analyzed ninth grade data. The study was conducted during the disintegration and reunification of Germany. Students from the two regions…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary School Students
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Dabul, Amy J.; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1995
Posits a distinction between cultures motivated by individualistic value systems (idiocentric) and collectivistic value systems (allocentric). Study reveals that Mexican American adolescents describe themselves in more allocentric terms, while Anglo American adolescents choose idiocentric terms. Suggests a correlation between idiocentric values…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Anglo Americans, Beliefs