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Jones, Brett D.; Khajavy, Gholam Hassan; Li, Ming; Mohamed, Hanaa Ezzat; Reilly, Peter – SAGE Open, 2023
This study examined whether the five scales of the MUSIC Model of Academic Motivation Inventory produced valid scores when used in university English language courses across four different countries. We surveyed 1,147 students in English language courses in Iran, Mexico, China, and Egypt and analyzed their responses by performing measurement…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Alsahafi, Morad – SAGE Open, 2023
This study investigates the relationship between depth of academic vocabulary knowledge and academic success among Saudi English-as-a-foreign-language university students. Fifty fourth-year university students majoring in English completed a vocabulary depth test, the Word Associates Test (WAT), based on the Academic Word List (AWL). Then,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Jonathan A. Tillinghast; James W. Mjelde; Anna Yeritsyan – SAGE Open, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic required adaptation to a new learning environment creating challenges for students and instructors. A reduction in student-teacher contact and the lack of supervision should have led to a decline in students' academic performance. Nonetheless, studies report increases in grades during the pandemic. Yet, limited information is…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Grade Inflation, Undergraduate Students
Seok, Chua Bee; Cosmas, Getrude; Hashmi, Shazia Iqbal; Ading, Carmella – SAGE Open, 2022
The Flourishing Scale is a new scale designed to measure psychological well-being. FS has been translated into more than 10 languages (e.g., Portuguese, Russian, Turki, Spanish, Egyptian, French, Chinses, Japanese, Malay, Urdu, and Persian). The psychometric analysis of the Flourishing Scale has not been explored in the Malaysian context. The aims…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics, Well Being
Huang, Jiaqin; Xie, Xin; Pan, Yuxi; Li, Guangming; Zhang, Fadi; Cui, Ningjing – SAGE Open, 2022
Self-esteem has always been a hot research object in the field of adolescent mental health. But in longitudinal research, using a single slope to describe the trajectory of adolescent self-esteem is unrealistic. The piecewise growth mixture model (PGMM) was used to fit the data in this study. Selecting from China Family Panel Studies database, a…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Developmental Stages, Longitudinal Studies, Mental Health
Ajayi, Tijani Ahmed; Ugwoke, Obioma Vivian; Onyeanu, Edith Ogomegbunam; Ugwoke, Robinson Onuora; Onuorah, Adaorah R. – SAGE Open, 2022
As soon as they are admitted to a university, most students become responsible for their own finances, but because of a lack of parental supervision, they are more inclined to spend than to manage their money. A study of first-year undergraduate accounting students was conducted to examine the effects of rational emotive behavior therapy-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Money Management
Mustafina, Aigul; Amitov, Sultankozha; Ma, Joyce Lai-Chong – SAGE Open, 2022
This study investigated both the risk factors and the protective factors against peer rejection at multiple levels in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and their typically developing peers. Using standard sociometric procedure, we studied the peer rejection of 108 children with ADHD (aged 7 to 12) and their classmates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Control Groups
Toyama, Michiko; Yamazaki, Yoshitaka – SAGE Open, 2022
This study explored how foreign language anxiety in class relates to individualism-collectivism culture. Additionally, to serve as a guideline for foreign language anxiety assessment, the study determined a normative score of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS), which is well known and frequently applied for foreign language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety, Cultural Differences
Yunjiu, Luo; Wei, Wei; Zheng, Ying – SAGE Open, 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have the potential to reduce the workload for the second language (L2) teachers and test developers. We propose two AI distractor-generating methods for creating Chinese vocabulary items: semantic similarity and visual similarity. Semantic similarity refers to antonyms and synonyms, while visual similarity…
Descriptors: Chinese, Vocabulary Development, Artificial Intelligence, Undergraduate Students
Al-Mutawa, Farah; Al-Rasheedi, Ghazi; Al-Maie, Dalal – SAGE Open, 2021
Kuwait, has participated in international TIMSS test for many years, however, there has been little systematic effort to compile and assess changes between genders. This study attempts to look at the results of Kuwaiti students on the TIMSS mathematics assessments in general and according to gender in particular and the views of supervisors on the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Achievement
Lê, Qu?nh Tiên Nguyên; Polikoff, Morgan S. – SAGE Open, 2021
"Castañeda v. Pickard" mandated that educational programs for emergent bilinguals be tested for program efficacy. As English language development (ELD) curricular materials are one part of an instructional program, we assess this mandate by examining the effectiveness of ELD materials in Texas, a large, diverse U.S. state with large…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
van der Lans, Rikkert M.; Maulana, Ridwan; Helms-Lorenz, Michelle; Fernández-García, Carmen-María; Chun, Seyeoung; de Jager, Thelma; Irnidayanti, Yulia; Inda-Caro, Mercedes; Lee, Okhwa; Coetzee, Thys; Fadhilah, Nurul; Jeon, Meae; Moorer, Peter – SAGE Open, 2021
This study examines measurement invariance of student perceptions of teaching quality collected in five countries: Indonesia (n students = 6,331), the Netherlands (n students = 6,738), South Africa (n students = 3,422), South Korea (n students = 6,997) and Spain (n students = 4,676). The administered questionnaire was the My Teacher Questionnaire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Teacher Effectiveness
Özcan, Bahadir; Kültür, Yusuf Ziya – SAGE Open, 2021
In school settings, sources of self-efficacy have the potential to directly and indirectly influence performance. The problem of this study is the direct relationship between sources of self-efficacy and achievement. In connection with this problem, the impact of sources of mathematics self-efficacy on high school senior students' mathematics test…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, Self Efficacy, Predictor Variables
Barrios Aguirre, Fernando; Forero, Diego A.; Castellanos Saavedra, Martha Patricia; Mora Malagón, Sandra Yaneth – SAGE Open, 2021
The use of a computer and internet connection allows high school and university students to access more relevant information. However, there is no consensus on the effects of the use of these tools on academic results. This work evaluates the impact of computers and the internet at home on the results of the Saber 11 test, a national exam taken by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Computers, Internet, Academic Achievement
Slepkov, A. D.; Van Bussel, M. L.; Fitze, K. M.; Burr, W. S. – SAGE Open, 2021
There is a broad literature in multiple-choice test development, both in terms of item-writing guidelines, and psychometric functionality as a measurement tool. However, most of the published literature concerns multiple-choice testing in the context of expert-designed high-stakes standardized assessments, with little attention being paid to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Evaluation, Multiple Choice Tests