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Direct linkCheng, Yin Cheong; Cheung, Wing Ming – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2004
How school-based management in the form of multilevel self-management is related to educational quality is a crucial issue in current educational reforms. An empirical study was conducted to explore this issue in a sample of 68 primary schools in Hong Kong. It was found that the school environment of sampled schools could be classified into 4…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Governance, Educational Quality
Veenstra, Rene; Kuyper, Hans – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2004
The school careers in secondary education are influenced by individual and environmental characteristics. Using longitudinal data on 7,000 students from 450 classes in 150 schools in The Netherlands, we present results on the importance of student and family characteristics for achievement (text comprehension and mathematics combined in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Characteristics, Student Characteristics, Family Characteristics
The Meaning and Rationale of Greece-Cyprus Unified Education: A Teachers' and Parents' Beliefs Study
Koutselini, Mary; Michaelidou, Athena – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2004
The purpose of the present study was to investigate Cypriot teachers' and parents' attitudes towards, and understanding of, the educational policy of Greece-Cyprus Unified Education. The data of the study were collected through a 3-part questionnaire and an open question asking for attitudes towards, meaning and justification of the Unified…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Educational Policy, Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Ghaith, Ghazi; El-Malak, Mirna Abd – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2004
The present study examines the effect of the cooperative Jigsaw II method on improving literal and higher order reading comprehension in English as a foreign language (EFL). Forty-eight ( n = 48) students of EFL participated in the study and a pretest-posttest control group experimental design was employed. The results indicated no statistically…
Descriptors: Research Design, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Reading Comprehension
Uerz, D.; Dekkers, H.; Bguin, A.A. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2004
A growing shortage of technical and science graduates means that the question of determinants of differences in performance and choices in that field based, among other things, on social background characteristics (gender, socioeconomic status, ethnic origin, family composition) remains a topical one. In this study, a rational choice model is…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Background, Language Skills, Secondary Education, Ethnicity
Sperling, Rayne A.; Howard, Bruce C.; Staley, Richard; DuBois, Nelson – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2004
Demographic variables, findings from the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (Schraw & Dennison, 1994), the Learning Strategies Survey (Kardash & Amlund, 1991), and the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (Pintrich, Smith, Garcia, & McKeachie, 1991), as well as accuracy ratings of test performance, were examined in 2 studies. Findings…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Questionnaires, Measures (Individuals)
Yang, Yang; Gustafsson, Jan-Eric – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2004
This study investigated the multilevel dimensionality of socioeconomic status and its relationship to reading achievement in 23 countries. Different factor structures of SES were found at different levels observations and in different countries. The study showed that the cultural dimension strongly related to student reading performance, while the…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Social Characteristics, Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries
Papanastasiou, Constantinos; Papanastasiou, Elena C. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2004
This research study investigated the attitudes toward science of 8th-grade students in Australia, Canada, Cyprus, and Korea, based on recent TIMSS data, and suggests a model of family and school influences on their attitudes. The structural equation model contained 3 exogenous constructs--familys educational background, aspiration, school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science, Student Attitudes, Grade 8
