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Scales, Peter C.; Pekel, Kent; Sethi, Jenna; Chamberlain, Rachel; Van Boekel, Martin – Grantee Submission, 2019
Student-teacher relationships that improve over time may help slow or prevent declines in student motivation. In a diverse sample of 1,274 middle and high school students from three schools, this mixed-methods study found that those who improved in developmental relationships with teachers reported greater academic motivation, and more positive…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Middle School Students, High School Students, Student Motivation
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Lim, Siew Yee; Chapman, Elaine – Educational Psychology, 2015
Past studies have shown that distinct yet highly correlated sub-constructs of three broad mathematics affective variables: (a) motivation, (b) attitudes and (c) anxiety, have varying degree of correlation with mathematics achievement. The sub-constructs of these three affective constructs are as follows: (a) (i) amotivation, (ii) external…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement, Motivation, Mathematics Anxiety
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Knight, George P.; Mazza, Gina L.; Carlo, Gustavo – Developmental Psychology, 2018
We examined how the development of familism values from 5th to 10th grade relates to 12th-grade prosocial tendencies (after controlling for 10th-grade prosocial tendencies) using a stratified random sample of 749 Mexican American adolescents (M = 10.42 years of age at 5th grade; 48.9% girls) from 35 culturally and economically diverse…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Mexican Americans, Adolescents, Prosocial Behavior
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Mustafa, Semsia Al-Ali; Sellami, Abdel Latif; Elmaghraby, Engi Assaad Ahmed; Al-Qassass, Haneen Basheer – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
This paper investigates various predictors of high school students' college and university choice decisions in Qatar. Based on a 2015 survey of 1,427 participants, this study utilized exploratory factor analysis to identify variables that affect student choice of higher educational institutions (HEI). Three factors were extracted from the…
Descriptors: College Choice, Colleges, Universities, High School Students
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Bartley-Buntz, Julie; Kronborg, Leonie – Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine mathematically able female adolescents' perceptions of their accelerated mathematics programs. To this end, eight female adolescents were asked to reflect retrospectively in response to a self-administered questionnaire on their perceptions and experiences of a secondary accelerated mathematics program and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Females, Acceleration (Education), Questionnaires
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Gilbert, Francis – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2018
This article examines the author's interactions with the teaching strategy known as Reciprocal Teaching, sometimes also called Reciprocal Reading, which involves students learning to read collaboratively in small groups. Reciprocal Teaching typically involves students teaching each other by following a rubric of activities that are aimed at…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reciprocal Teaching, Reading Instruction, Cooperative Learning
Thomas, Miriam – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Purpose: Responding to a deficit in research on information literacy skills proficiency at the secondary level, and specifically in a low-socioeconomic urban school district, the purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore and to compare the information literacy skills knowledge and proficiency of 12th-grade students to their academic…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Academic Achievement, Grade 12, High School Students
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Faqe, Chiayee Khorshid; Moheddin, Kurdistan Rafiq; Kakamad, Karwan Kakabra – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study aims at reducing test anxiety among twelfth grade students at Soran city high schools. Throughout the study both quantitative and qualitative methods used to collect data. The participants were 450 twelfth grade students in five schools at Soran City-Kurdistan region of Iraq. Non-random purposive sampling because the students needed…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Foreign Countries, Grade 12, Gender Differences
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Derouet, Charlotte; Parzysz, Bernard – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2016
The teaching of probability has changed a great deal since the end of the last century. The development of technologies is indeed part of this evolution. In France, continuous probability distributions began to be studied in 2002 by scientific 12th graders, but this subject was marginal and appeared only as an application of integral calculus.…
Descriptors: Probability, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Class Activities
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Shernoff, David J.; Ruzek, Erik A.; Sinha, Suparna – School Psychology International, 2017
Classroom learning environments are frequently assumed to exert their influence on learning indirectly, via student engagement. The present study examined the influence of environmental challenge and support on learning in high school classrooms, and the potential for student engagement to act as a mediator in this relationship. Data were…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, High School Students, Classroom Environment, Sampling
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Aurah, Catherine – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The aim of this study was to explore the relationships between science self-efficacy, gender, and academic achievement in genetics among form four (12th grade) students in Kenya and to investiPSTe gender differences in science self-efficacy and academic achievement in genetics. A total of 2,139 students responded to a science self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Self Efficacy, Grade 12
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Irvin, Matthew; Byun, Soo-yong; Smiley, Whitney S.; Hutchins, Bryan C. – American Journal of Education, 2017
Our study examined the relation of advanced math course taking to the educational attainment of rural youth. We used data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002. Regression analyses demonstrated that when previous math achievement is accounted for, rural students take advanced math at a significantly lower rate than urban students.…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Mathematics Achievement, Rural Youth, Mathematics Instruction
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Alborch, Alejandra; Pandiella, Susana; Benegas, Julio – Physics Education, 2017
A group comparison experiment of two high school classes with pre and post instruction testing has been carried out to study the suitability and advantages of using the active learning of optics and photonics (ALOP) curricula in high schools of developing countries. Two parallel, mixed gender, 12th grade classes of a high school run by the local…
Descriptors: Optics, Active Learning, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science
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Gower, Amy L.; Cousin, Molly; Borowsky, Iris W. – Journal of School Health, 2017
Background: Although nearly all states in the United States require school districts to adopt anti-bullying policies, little research examines the effect of these policies on student bullying and health. Using a statewide sample, we investigated associations between the quality of school district anti-bullying policies and student bullying…
Descriptors: Bullying, Board of Education Policy, School Districts, Student Behavior
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Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Arens, A. Katrin; Tracey, Danielle; Parker, Philip D.; Ciarrochi, Joseph; Craven, Rhonda G.; Maïano, Christophe – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2017
This study examines the development of self-esteem in a sample of 138 Australian adolescents (90 males; 48 females) with cognitive abilities in the lowest 15% (L-CA) and a matched sample of 556 Australian adolescents (312 males; 244 females) with average to high levels of cognitive abilities (A/H-CA). These participants were measured annually…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Adolescents, Cognitive Ability, Gender Differences
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