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Download full textAghazadeh, Zahra; Ajideh, Parviz – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Textbooks play a very crucial role in the process of language teaching and learning. They affect the whole language learning/teaching process. The purpose of this study was to carry out an evaluation of English textbooks currently in use at high schools in Iran from teachers' and learners' points of view in a comparative way. To this end, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Mixed Methods Research, English (Second Language)
Direct linkDomina, Thurston; Conley, AnneMarie; Farkas, George – Sociology of Education, 2011
From the Wisconsin status attainment model to rational choice, classical sociological, social-psychological, and economic theories of student educational transitions have assumed that students' expectations are positively related to their ultimate attainment. However, the growth of the college-for-all ethos raises questions about that assumption.…
Descriptors: High Schools, Student Attitudes, High School Students, Student Educational Objectives
Stone, David C. – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2010
In this paper I summarize some key findings from a three-year study of the high school-university transition for students attending a large arts and science faculty, within the context of their first university chemistry course. I then discuss these results within the broader context of research on success in higher education. Final conclusions…
Descriptors: High Schools, Transitional Programs, Chemistry, College Students
Peer reviewedClough, Elizabeth; And Others – Research Papers in Education, 1988
A study of educational choices made by students in England and Wales during their first post-compulsory year of school identified differences between students who stayed in school and and those who joined the Youth Training Scheme (YTS). These differences indicate that YTS does not encourage students to leave school. (CB)
Descriptors: Career Planning, Cohort Analysis, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Polite, Vernon C. – 1993
The research reported in this paper is a follow-up study of a cohort (N=115) of African American males who attended a predominantly African American suburban school, Metropolitan High School (as it is called here) between 1986 and 1989. Cohort members have reached an average age of 21 years. Their former school district is located in a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Career Planning, Cohort Analysis
Hilton, Thomas L.; And Others – 1985
Since the mean score for a sample composed of several subgroups can be viewed as the sum of the mean of each subgroup weighted by the proportional size of the subgroup, then the mean change in a time period--in this case, from 1972 to 1980--is the sum of the differences between the means for each subgroup, with each mean weighted by its…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Cohort Analysis, Cross Sectional Studies, Educational Trends
Jennings, M. Kent – 1973
The "High School Senior Cohort Study for 1965 and 1973" is a two-part machine-readable data file (MRDF) containing background information about the social and political climate of the peer groups and the entire senior classes of the high school students interviewed for the "Student-Parent Socialization Study, 1965" (ICPSR-7286). The schools in…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Responsibility, Cohort Analysis, Current Events
