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Putwain, Dave; Daly, Anthony L. – Educational Studies, 2014
The aim of this study was to estimate the proportion of students who report themselves as highly test anxious in a sample of English secondary schools and whether this proportion differed by gender. Self-report test anxiety data were collected from 2435 secondary school students in 11 schools. Results showed that 16.4% of the sample reported…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Incidence, Gender Differences, Secondary School Students
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Attwood, Gaynor; Croll, Paul; Fuller, Carol; Last, Kathryn – Educational Studies, 2013
The paper reports a study that investigated the relationship between students' self-predicted and actual General Certificate of Secondary Education results in order to establish the extent of over-and under-prediction and whether this varies by subject and across genders and socio-economic groupings. It also considered the relationship between…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Prediction, Predictive Validity, Exit Examinations
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Chouinard, Roch; Vezeau, Carole; Bouffard, Therese – Educational Studies, 2008
The aim of the present study was to further examine the impact over time of single-sex and coeducational school environments on girls' motivation in language arts and mathematics. Two cohorts comprising 340 girls (7th to 9th grade; 9th to 11th grade) from eight coeducational and two single-sex schools were followed during a period of three…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Females, Achievement Need, Student Motivation
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Yang, Fang-Ying – Educational Studies, 2005
This study investigated their views concerning evidence and expert opinion of 10th-grade students, accessed by an open-ended questionnaire in the context of a socio-scientific issue: the cause of flood disasters, and personal epistemology identified by the "Learning Environment Preference Questionnaire" (LEP). Students' responses to the open-ended…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Statistical Analysis, Epistemology, Student Attitudes