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Prediction of Students' Science Achievement: An Application of Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines and Regression Trees
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Depren, Serpil Kilic – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2018
Turkey is ranked at the 54th out of 72 countries in terms of science achievement in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey conducted in 2015, which is a very big disappointment for that country. The aim of this research was to determine factors affecting Turkish students' science achievements in order to identify the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prediction, Science Achievement, Multivariate Analysis
Beating the Odds: Trees to Success in Different Countries
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Finch, W. Holmes; Marchant, Gregory J. – Online Submission, 2017
A recursive partitioning model approach in the form of classification and regression trees (CART) was used with 2012 PISA data for five countries (Canada, Finland, Germany, Singapore-China, and the Unites States). The objective of the study was to determine demographic and educational variables that differentiated between low SES student that were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Beating the Odds: Trees to Success in Different Countries
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Marchant, Gregory J.; Finch, William Holmes – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
A recursive partitioning model approach in the form of classification and regression trees (CART) was used with 2012 PISA data for five countries (Canada, Finland, Germany, Singapore-China, and the Unites States). The objective of the study was to determine demographic and educational variables that differentiated between low SES student that were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Low Income Groups, Socioeconomic Status
Putting the Cart before the Horse: Interrogating Media Literacy Education in School English Lessons
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Tan Lee Wee, Lynde – New Horizons in Education, 2010
Background: In response to the changing demands of new times, media literacy has been incorporated into the current English Language Syllabus 2010 in Singapore. Although media literacy is mentioned in the syllabus, what this term means needs more clarification. What is clear from the current English Language Syllabus 2010 in Singapore is the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Media Literacy, Literacy Education, Secondary School Students