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Nampila, Tutaleni – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
The Namibian College of Open Learning (NAMCOL) conducted a dropout survey in order to determine why distance students studying with the College, drop out of the subjects they enrolled for. Information was collected from learners who dropped out of subjects they enrolled for, tutors and Head of Centres. Online and telephonic interviews were used…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Decision Making, Open Education
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Naiker, Mani; Wakeling, Lara; Johnson, Joel; Brown, Stephen – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2021
Both attitude and previous experiences play a large role in shaping a student's approach to and achievement in a given subject. Similarly, students' enjoyment of their learning experiences is an important factor in determining their retention in their course of choice. Here, we explore the attitudes toward the study of chemistry amongst a cohort…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Chemistry, Student Attitudes
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Lederman, J. S.; Lederman, N. G.; Bartels, S.; Jimenez, J.; Acosta, K.; Akubo, M.; Aly, S.; de Andrade, M. A. B. S.; Atanasova, M.; Blanquet, E.; Blonder, R.; Brown, P.; Cardoso, R.; Castillo-Urueta, P.; Chaipidech, P.; Concannon, J.; Dogan, O. K.; El-Deghaidy, H.; Elzorkani, A.; Ferdous, T.; Fukuda, N.; Gaigher, E.; Galvis-Solano, L.; Gao, Q.; Guo, S.; Gwekwerere, Y.; Gyllenpalm, J.; Hamed Al-Lal, S.; Han-Tosunoglu, C.; Hattingh, A.; Holliday, G.; Huang, X.; Irez, S.; Jiménez, J.; Kay, G.; Koumara, A.; Kremer, K.; Kuo, P.-C.; Lavonen, J.; Leung, J. S. C.; Liao, Z.; Librea-Carden, M. R.; Lin, S. -F.; Liu, C.; Liu, E.; Liu, S. -Y.; Mamlok-Naaman, R.; Mcdonald, C. V.; Möller, A.; Morales, M.; Mulvey, B. K.; Neumann, I.; Neurohr, A.-L.; Pan, Y.; Panjaburee, P.; Penn, M.; Plakitsi, K.; Picholle, E.; Ramnarain, U.; Raykova, Z.; Rundgren, C.-J.; Salonen, S.; Santibáñez-Gómez, D.; Schwartz, R.; Sharma, R.; Srisawasdi, N.; Takiveikata, S.; Urueta-Ortiz, T.; Vitlarov, K.; Voitle, F.; Wishart, J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Understandings of the nature of scientific inquiry (NOSI), as opposed to engaging students in inquiry learning experiences, are included in science education reform documents around the world. However, little is known about what students have learned about NOSI during their pre-college school years. The purpose of this large-scale follow-up…
Descriptors: High School Students, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Grade 12
Brown, Patrick – NSTA Press, 2021
"Instructional Sequence Matters, Grades 9-12" is the one-stop resource that will inspire you to reimagine your approach to high school physical science. The book discusses the 5E (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate) as a specific pathway for teaching and learning. It also shows how simple shifts in the way you arrange and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Science Instruction, Physical Sciences, Grade 9
B. Heath Witzen – Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center, 2021
The College and Career Readiness and College Completion Act (CCR-CCA) of 2013 (Chapter 533, Senate Bill 740, 2013) passed the Maryland General Assembly in 2013 with the goal of improving college and career outcomes for Maryland students. One policy included in the legislation was a tuition cost reduction for select high school students who dually…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Tuition Grants, Lunch Programs, Low Income Students
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Gottfried, Michael; Kirksey, J. Jacob; Fletcher, Tina L. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
Teachers of color increase school success for students of color. Yet, little attention has been paid to whether school attendance behaviors also increase from same race and ethnicity matches. To address this, our study used administrative data provided by a California high school district for the school years 2014 to 2018. We explored student…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, Student Characteristics, Teacher Characteristics
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Liu, Jindong; Wu, Biying; Qu, Jiayu – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
To tackle the debate surrounding the tension between knowledge and power in online education for adolescents and between freedom and control at large, this study examines how disciplinary power was exercised and resisted in a Chinese setting of online compulsory education during the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. Overall, 60 participants, including…
Descriptors: Online Courses, COVID-19, Pandemics, Adolescents
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Giese, Martin; Greisbach, Michaela; Meier, Michelle; Neusser, Theresa; Wetekam, Nino – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2022
The study aims for identifying the driving forces that lead German children with VI to switch from mainstream schooling to special schooling. The results are intended to provide more understanding from the perspective of these students about how school settings for students with and without visual impairment can be designed with as few barriers as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Mainstreaming, Special Schools
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Litten, Jonathan – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2022
This article presents a case study on the use of expressivist writing pedagogy as a practice of identity construction for an adolescent Chinese-Speaking English Language Learner (ELL) in a 6-12, college preparatory, international boarding school context. The study implements a narrative inquiry/content analysis framework to analyze themes of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Identification (Psychology), Adolescents, Chinese
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Rote, Wendy M.; Smetana, Judith G.; Feliscar, Lovia – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Parent-adolescent relationships are related to adolescents' disclosure and concealment, but these associations may represent between-family differences (e.g., families with more negative interactions have adolescents who disclose less) or within-family processes (e.g., when a family has more negative interactions, their adolescent discloses less).…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents, Mothers, Family Environment
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Sebsibe, Ashebir Sidelil; Feza, Nosisi Nellie – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2020
Conceptual understanding of calculus is crucial in the fields of applied sciences, business, and engineering and technology subjects. However, the current status indicates that students possess only procedural knowledge developed from rote learning of procedures in calculus without insight of core ideas. Hence, this paper aims to assess students'…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Concept Formation, Mathematical Concepts, Calculus
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Rafi, Ibnu; Retnawati, Heri; Apino, Ezi; Hadiana, Deni; Lydiati, Ida; Rosyada, Munaya Nikma – Pedagogical Research, 2023
This study describes the characteristics of the test and its items used in the national-standardized school examination by applying classical test theory and focusing on the item difficulty, item discrimination, test reliability, and distractor analysis. We analyzed response data of 191 12th graders from one of public senior high schools in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Standardized Tests, Mathematics Tests
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Tayal, Namita; Sharma, NovRattan – Qualitative Research in Education, 2023
A student's academic performance is conditioned on factors within the pupil or outside, in the environment. The Western body of knowledge emphasizes the positive role of "Self" and related variables such as self-esteem, self-efficacy, self-confidence, and others on the academic performance of students. An Indian counterpart to the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Esteem, Self Efficacy, Self Concept
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Staples, Julie K.; Zapata, Stephanie; Fredrickson, Monica; Quinn, Hannah E.; Cyr, Lynda Richtsmeier; Gavian, Margaret E.; Rountree, Laura D.; Gordon, James S. – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
This qualitative study investigated high school student peer counselors' experience of a mind-body medicine curriculum incorporated into a peer counseling program following a school shooting. A series of focus groups were held with peer counselors in 10th-12th grade (n = 24, mean age = 16.5 [SD = 1.0]; 71% female) participating in the mind-body…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
Tanya Mae Lamar – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The divide between those who do and those who do not excel in mathematics is patterned in problematic ways. Women and people of color are typically underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) and other quantitative fields (ex. Finance) where mathematics plays gatekeeper. However, mathematics is not a subject these groups…
Descriptors: Data Science, STEM Education, High School Students, Student Attitudes
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