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Cooke, Audrey; Jenßen, Lars; Norén, Eva Norén – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019
International comparisons of student achievement in mathematics and their attitudes towards, confidence with and anxiety to mathematics have a long history. Likewise, detailed international comparisons of teacher education programs have also been conducted. However, the relationship between the teacher education programs and teacher anxiety for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Education Programs, Cultural Differences
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Guo, Jiesi; Parker, Philip D.; Marsh, Herbert W.; Morin, Alexandre J. S. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Drawing on the expectancy-value model, the present study explored individual and gender differences in university entry and selection of educational pathway (e.g., science, technology, engineering, and mathematics [STEM] course selection). In particular, we examined the multiplicative effects of expectancy and task values on educational outcomes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Expectation, Academic Achievement
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Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
In present-day knowledge societies, readers cannot understand complex issues without constructing meaning across multiple information sources. To what extent they are able to do so may depend on both characteristics of reading tasks and characteristics of readers themselves. In this study, 184 undergraduates read multiple texts about the complex…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Climate, Epistemology, Undergraduate Students
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection