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Becky Francis; Morag Henderson; Spela Godec; Emma Watson; Louise Archer; Julie Moote – Research Papers in Education, 2025
Supply of students to 'the science pipeline' remains an important imperative for economic policy, and for individual life chances. In England, Science courses from age 14-16 have been divided into 'Double' and (extended) 'Triple' Science. This article draws on data from 6,053 students to investigate the effects of science course designation on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Science Instruction, Secondary School Curriculum
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Farshad Ghasemi – Research Papers in Education, 2025
This systematic review uses a bioecological systems model to study occupational stressors and their effects on teachers' performance in schools. We discuss risk factors and coping styles influencing occupational stress at the levels of the biosystem (teacher characteristics), microsystem (class relations), mesosystem (school context), exosystem…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Teaching Conditions, Stress Management, Stress Variables
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Monique A. Dijks; Matthijs J. Warrens; Roel J. Bosker; Hanke Korpershoek – Research Papers in Education, 2025
Pupils' subject choices at the level of secondary education critically determine the tertiary fields of study that they can pursue. This study used multinomial logistic regression models to investigate the extent to which the final report card grades of ninth-grade students predicted their choices of subject combinations at the senior general…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 9, Grades (Scholastic)
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Victoria Crisp; Gill Elliott; Emma Walland; Lucy Chambers – Research Papers in Education, 2025
In England, examinations for general qualifications (GCSE, AS and A level) were cancelled in summer 2020 and summer 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and replaced with contingency measures involving teacher judgements. For summer 2020, the intention was to calculate grades using rankings provided by centres, prior attainment data for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Achievement Tests, Exit Examinations
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Julie Moote; Louise Archer; Morag Henderson; Emma Watson; Jennifer DeWitt; Becky Francis; Henriette Holmegaard – Research Papers in Education, 2025
Does school-based careers education, advice, information and guidance (CEAIG) have any influence on later life outcomes? This paper reports regression analyses using 7,635 survey responses from young people in England aged 21-22. Significant positive relationships were found between self-reported CEAIG activities experienced at age 14-16 and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Young Adults, Outcomes of Education
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Agnès Deprit; Virginie März; Catherine Van Nieuwenhoven – Research Papers in Education, 2025
Planning is an essential task in the work of a teacher. Very little research has been carried out on the way that student teachers understand this preparatory phase, nor on the way that professional competence for planning is developed. Our research aims to understand what student teachers do about planning at the point when their professors…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Teacher Behavior, Lesson Plans, Profiles
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Ilanit Pinto-Dror; Avihu Shoshana – Research Papers in Education, 2025
Based on 20 semi-structured interviews with high school students in elite schools in Israel, this article examines two key research questions: How do students in elite high schools define and experience their identity? Do these identities contribute to the production and maintenance of privilege, and if so, how? To examine these questions, we…
Descriptors: Reputation, High School Students, Foreign Countries, Self Concept
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Garth Stahl; Laura Scholes; Sarah McDonald; Reece Mills; Jo Lunn Brownlee; Barbara Comber – Research Papers in Education, 2024
Literacy skills are essential if students are to access knowledge and achieve academic success in middle school science. A key difficulty with interpreting literacy practices in any discipline is the problem of conceptualising what constitutes literacy. Our study contributes new understandings to the discipline of science where there are ongoing…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Self Concept
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Joanne Gleeson; Jess Harris; Blake Cutler; Brooke Rosser; Lucas Walsh; Mark Rickinson; Mandy Salisbury; Connie Cirkony – Research Papers in Education, 2024
Increasingly, there are expectations internationally that schools will use research to inform their improvement initiatives. Within this context, this paper brings together findings from two large-scale Australian studies - the Monash Q Project and the University of Newcastle's Quality Teaching Rounds Project - to explore educators' patterns of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Educational Research, Access to Information
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Lindsay Paterson – Research Papers in Education, 2024
Changes over time in social-class inequality of educational attainment have been shown by previous research to depend on whether attainment is measured absolutely or relatively. The pioneering work in this respect by Bukodi and Goldthorpe found that inequality has fallen when attainment is measured absolutely (for example, as the percentage…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Differences, Gender Differences, Longitudinal Studies
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Lennart Van Eycken; Ama Amitai; Mieke Van Houtte – Research Papers in Education, 2024
Teacher turnover negatively impacts educational quality. This study investigates whether schools' socioeconomic composition (SES), teachers' teachability perceptions, emotional exhaustion and teacher efficacy impact teachers' intention to quit and transfer schools. Through multilevel analysis on data of 1247 teachers in 59 Flemish schools, our…
Descriptors: Teachers, Foreign Countries, Faculty Mobility, Intention
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Anna Hawrot – Research Papers in Education, 2024
Private tutoring is part of the everyday life of hundreds of thousands of students all around the world, and its prevalence is growing. However, despite a proliferation of research on private tutoring, little is known about the role that school plays in shaping the phenomenon. This study investigates school-related factors that may affect private…
Descriptors: Private Education, Tutoring, Attendance, Mathematics Instruction
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Natalia Veles; P. A. Danaher – Research Papers in Education, 2024
Any research collaboration can potentially transform the participants' understandings and enhance their professional relationships with one another and with significant others. If this transformation is to eventuate, research collaborators need to exhibit mindfulness with regard to their multiple relationships, as well as to the intentions and…
Descriptors: Research, Cooperation, Doctoral Students, Supervisors
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Mikaël De Clercq; Michaël Parmentier; Florence Van Meenen – Research Papers in Education, 2024
The transition into higher education (HE) is a particularly challenging process for students due to a large variety of difficulties and requirements. Moreover, increasing student numbers and diversity in European HE have complexified the issue of the successful transition to university. Consequently, it is important to further develop our…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Adjustment, Student Diversity, Higher Education
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Tamar Groves; Wendy Robinson – Research Papers in Education, 2024
This paper seeks to examine a specific development in the history of teacher education to explore whether it might illuminate and inform contemporary debate. It offers a historical/comparative analysis of the contribution of teachers' centres to the professional development of teachers in England and Spain during the late 1960s to the early 1990s.…
Descriptors: Teacher Centers, Faculty Development, Educational History, European History
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