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Kakumbi, Zonic; Samuel, Elizabeth B.; Mulendema, Peter J. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The purpose of this research was to investigate pupil background characteristics and academic performance in senior secondary schools in Kitwe district with a view of recommending on how to improve pupils' performance. The study was conducted in Kitwe district because in the past years pupils' performance in senior secondary schools has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Characteristics, Family Characteristics
Ahmed, Vaqar; Zeshan, Muhammad – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2014
The present study carries out an impact analysis of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program for secondary-school girls in seven districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, including Battagram, Bonair, Hangu, Kohistan, Shangla, Tank, and Upper Dir. In 2012 we collected household-level primary data and used a probit model for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Females, Statistical Analysis
Põder, Kaire; Lauri, Triin; Veski, Andre – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
We indicate the size of family background effects in Sweden, Finland, and Estonia--countries that differ in both the rhetoric and extensiveness of the system-level school choice policies. Family background effect is defined as the dependence of student achievement on family background characteristics, such as parental education, income, and social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Family Characteristics
Egilmez, Hatice Onuray; Engur, Doruk – Educational Research and Reviews, 2017
In this study, the self-efficacy and motivation of Zeki Muren Fine Arts High School piano students were examined based on different variables as well as the reasons for their failure. The data on their self-efficacy were obtained through self-efficacy scale of piano performance and the data on their motivation were obtained through motivation…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Music Education, Musical Instruments, Student Motivation
Bokhove, Christian; Downey, Christopher – Oxford Review of Education, 2018
In England teachers of secondary school mathematics and science are in short supply and it is important to understand how pre-service teachers develop and maintain networks of support during their training year and the impact these networks can have on their training outcomes. The purpose of this study is to examine how changes to the size and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Science
Rutkowski, David; Rutkowski, Leslie – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
As part of its flagship educational study--the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)--the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has undertaken extensive work to create an internationally relevant composite indicator aimed at measuring socioeconomic background. However, the degree to which a single measure of…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Background, Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Academic Achievement
Kai, Liu; Gaofu, Du – Chinese Education & Society, 2015
The imbalance in allocating high school educational resources within the county region has expanded the imbalances in local high school educational development. This has caused "diseconomies of scale" in high schools, aggravated the "expansion impulse" in building model high schools, limited the growth of effective demand by…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Resources, Foreign Countries, Educational Development
Zhang, Yu; Zhou, Xuehan – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of household education expenditure on National College Entrance Exam (NCEE) performance in China. Using a comprehensive dataset with a sample size of 5840 students collected in Jinan, China, this study found that the average effect of household education expenditure on NCEE performance is not…
Descriptors: Expenditures, College Entrance Examinations, Scores, Foreign Countries
Abu Bakar, Siti Hajar; Wahab, Haris Abd.; Rezaul Islam, M. – Child Care in Practice, 2016
The aim of this study was twofold: to explore the influential factors of parents' attachment for at-risk children's antisocial behaviour, and to know the types of children's antisocial behaviour caused by being a single-parent family. The sample comprised 1,434 secondary school children from the state of Johore, Malaysia. Results from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Child Care, At Risk Persons
Alseraty, Wafaa Hassan – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Parents' socioeconomic status is mainly impact their children health outcomes, cognitive, social and emotional development. It also had a great impact on children health-related knowledge, health-related attitudes, health-related communication, health-related behavior, and self-efficiency level. Enhancing health literacy domains are the keystone…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Income, Socioeconomic Status, Correlation
Grama?ki, Iulian – Education Economics, 2017
This paper investigates the gap in Financial Literacy (FL) between native and immigrant 15-year-old school students using data from the 2012 PISA Financial Literacy Assessment. The size of the gap is about 0.15 standard deviations, going up to 0.3 for first-generation immigrants. This is partly because immigrants have poorer economic background,…
Descriptors: Money Management, Knowledge Level, Secondary School Students, Unskilled Workers
Satici, Seydi Ahmet; Can, Gurhan – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
In this study whether academic self-efficacy of university students differ in terms of various socio-demographic features has been investigated. The study was conducted on 1679 students who were attending Anadolu University. In the study, the Academic Self-Efficacy Scale and Personal Information Form were used as data collection tools. In the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy, High School Students, College Students
Hein, Sascha; Tan, Mei; Aljughaiman, Abdullah; Grigorenko, Elena L. – High Ability Studies, 2014
This study investigates factors in the home environment and their influence on children's analytical, creative, and practical skills. A sample of 294 gifted children (195 male) was recruited from grades 4-7 in Saudi Arabia, where the family context is highly influenced by the principles of Islam. Results did not confirm the effect of birth order,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gifted, Children, Family Environment
Tas, Said – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Corporal punishment is defined as inflicting pain on body of someone who presents undesired behavior or does not present expected behavior. In the developed world, experiencing information society, corporal punishment is still in the agenda in educational system in Turkey. In this study, it was aimed to determine technical high school teachers'…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Technical Education, Punishment
Olusola, Olayiwola Idowu; Ajayi, Oluwagbemiga Samson – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Moral intelligence is the capacity to apply moral principles to one's own values, goals and actions (or the ability to see what is right and integrate it into one's life and actions) It is considered as the individual capacity to understand right from wrong, to have strong ethical convictions and to act on them to behave in the right and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Moral Development, Moral Values
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