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Said, Mir Alam; Idris, Muhammad; Hussain, Sajjad – Pakistan Journal of Distance and Online Learning, 2018
The study explored views of teachers about relationship between social behaviour and academic performance. The objectives of the study were to examine the effects of social behaviour on academic performance; compare academic results of students with social behaviour; investigate the importance of social behaviour on academic performance; and,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Social Behavior, Academic Achievement
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Clem, Anna-Leena; Aunola, Kaisa; Hirvonen, Riika; Määttä, Sami; Nurmi, Jari-Erik; Kiuru, Noona – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2018
This study investigated longitudinal associations between mathematics- and literacy-related causal attributions and self-concepts of ability among Finnish adolescents (N = 237). Questionnaires were administered to adolescents in Grades 7 and 9 to obtain information on their causal attributions and self-concepts of ability. The results showed that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Self Concept, Attribution Theory, Longitudinal Studies
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Perlman, Dana; Forrest, Greg – Physical Educator, 2018
A developing line of Sport Education (SE) inquiry has been the motivational responses of students. While initial evidence supports that SE can positively influence the motivation of physical education students, there is a continued need for further research in this area. Specifically, there has been call for a deeper examination into the influence…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Athletics, Physical Education, Team Sports
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Dickman, Benjamin – Mathematics Teacher, 2018
What do nonroutine algebra problems look like for a second-year algebra course, and where can such problems be found? Starting from the belief that even challenging, nonroutine problems should be solvable with the resources that students possess, Benjamin Dickman proceeded to formulate a small collection of tasks to push students into integrating…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Algebra, Problem Solving, Mathematical Logic
Hill, Kathryn; Mirakhur, Zitsi – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2018
The document is the technical appendices for the report, "Persisting Students: Exploring the Pathways and Outcomes of Students Who Don't Graduate in Four Years, But Remain Enrolled in NYC High Schools." The appendices in this document include: (1) Additional Tables, Sample Information, Key Definitions; and (2) Sampling and Analysis for…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Outcomes of Education, Enrollment, High School Students
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Ryan Goble; Linette Chaloka; James Hultgren; Laura Payton; Ben Peterselli; Mike Roethler; Sara Schumacher; Nessa Slowinski; Joan Witkus – English Journal, 2018
English departments are roundly praised for their emphasis on skills rather than content. In the authors' classes, students read (skill), write (skill), think (skill), speak (skill), and listen (skill). Theoretically, the books being taught are interchangeable and simply a means to skill acquisition. But that's not always what happens in the…
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Learner Engagement
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Latina, Joelle – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2017
How established is the horizontal permeability between modes of vocational education and training (VET) in Switzerland? Formally encouraged by the Swiss law on VET, horizontal permeability refers to transitions across VET modes, i.e. between dual and school-based VET. This paper first discusses why horizontal permeability is indeed relevant and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Middle School Students
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Thakur, Vijay Singh – Arab World English Journal, 2020
Like many non-native learners, English is a Foreign Language to Omani learners; therefore, Spoken English turns out to be difficult and often problematic. Non-native learners of English face several phonological problems mainly because most languages follow specific, predictable rules of pronunciation, but English does not. There are native and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Barriers
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Cardino, Jose M., Jr.; Ortega-Dela Cruz, Ruth A. – LUMAT: International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education, 2020
This study was conducted to analyse the influence of learning styles and teaching strategies on academic performance in mathematics. Surveys were conducted to 277 randomly selected grade 9 students and five purposively sample mathematics teachers. Findings reveal that most of the student-respondents have a combination of dependent, collaborative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Strategies, Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
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Lorenz, Georg; Boda, Zsófia; Salikutluk, Zerrin; Jansen, Malte – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
Educational expectations are a key predictor of educational attainment. Throughout adolescence, friends increasingly function as 'significant others' and, thus, can affect the development of these expectations. Although scholars often interpret the clustering of students with similar expectations within friendship networks as the outcome of peer…
Descriptors: Expectation, Peer Influence, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement
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Hamdan, Mohammad Hussein; Al-Zahrani, Muteb Ahmad S. – Arab World English Journal, 2020
Spelling words accurately is not an easy process. Instead, it is a complex developmental skill. Due to this fact, several studies have recently investigated learners' spelling ability and how this skill develops in different stages. The main purpose of this study is to examine the developmental nature of Saudi intermediate school students'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Spelling, Foreign Countries
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Papadeli, Eleftheria; Tsakiridou, Eleni; Mavrikaki, Evangelia – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2020
The health education program entitled "Show me your genes and I will tell you who you are" was implemented in a Junior High School in Greece in order to help the participating students get acquainted with basic genetics concepts as well as the procedures and implications of genetic testing. This article presents the stories that were…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Learner Engagement, Health Education, Science and Society
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Foorman, Barbara R.; Wu, Yi-Chieh; Quinn, Jamie M.; Petscher, Yaacov – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
This investigation examined the structural relations among latent variables of language, decoding, and reading comprehension, invariance of the patterns of predictions, and unique and common variance over two years in grade cohorts 5 to 6, 7 to 8, and 9 to 10. Participants were 321 students in grade 5 in six elementary schools, 299 students in…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Language, Predictor Variables, Reading Comprehension
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Song, Wei; Qian, Xueqin – Journal of School Health, 2020
Background: There is limited evidence addressing the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on adolescent sexual risk behaviors and pregnancy. In this study, we examined whether individual and cumulative ACEs increased the risk of unhealthy sexual behaviors and adolescent pregnancy. To inform intervention efforts, potential mediating…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Health Behavior
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Tusmagambet, Botagoz – English Teaching, 2020
This study examined the effects of an intervention using audiobooks for the development of reading fluency, in terms of reading speed, reading comprehension, and motivation to read among Kazakhstani English as a foreign language (EFL) ninth-grade learners in the K-11 system. Silent reading with audiobooks (experimental group) and silent reading…
Descriptors: Audio Books, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Motivation
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