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Reichert, Frank; Print, Murray – Educational Review, 2018
Building active and informed citizens is a major part of civics and citizenship education in order to enhance and sustain democracies. Civic learning and civic action opportunities within school contexts are commonly claimed to promote an active and informed citizenry. In the present research, we examine the meaning of formal civics education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Citizen Participation, Student Participation
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Meng, Lingqi; Muñoz, Marco; King Hess, Kristin; Liu, Shujie – Educational Review, 2017
This study investigated effective teaching factors and student reading strategies as predictors of student reading achievement in the United States and China. Participants were 10,348 students in the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study, 5115 from China and 5233 from the United States. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA)…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
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Parsons, Carl; Thompson, Trevor – Educational Review, 2017
Explaining and responding to inequalities in attainment are significant educational policy challenges in England as elsewhere. Data on four cohorts of Birmingham Local Education Authority (LEA) pupils, each approximately 13,000, were analysed by ethnicity, deprivation, gender and other relevant individual pupil variables. For the four successive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Disadvantaged Youth, Socioeconomic Status