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Parrisius, Cora; Gaspard, Hanna; Zitzmann, Steffen; Trautwein, Ulrich; Nagengast, Benjamin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
In their situated expectancy-value theory, Eccles and Wigfield (2020) assume students' competence and value beliefs to be situation-specific and thereby to be "situative" in nature. Even though motivation research has gradually been developing an understanding of this situative nature, for instance, by disentangling time-consistent and…
Descriptors: Competence, Grade 9, High School Students, Mathematics Instruction
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Klapp, Alli; Jönsson, Anders – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2021
National goals and performance standards were introduced in Sweden during the 1990s as part of a curriculum reform. The intention was to detect shortcomings among students and provide support to those students who did not reach the passing grade in one (or several) subject/s. Despite this reform, approximately one-fourth of the students do not…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Foreign Countries, Educational Objectives, Factor Analysis
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McCrory, Catherine – Teaching History, 2015
Focusing on students' attempts to explain the relative significance of different factors in Hitler's rise to power, Catherine McCrory explores the vexed question of why students who seem able to express necessary historical knowledge on one occasion cannot effectively reproduce it on another. Drawing on a detailed analysis of what it actually…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Recognition (Psychology), Knowledge Level, History Instruction
Livingstone, Anne-Marie; Celemencki, Jacqueline; Calixte, Melissa – Canadian Journal of Education, 2014
The article discusses the implementation and results of a youth participatory action research (YPAR) project carried out with black high school students in 2009 and 2010 in Montreal, QC. The aim of the project was to involve black youth in studying the factors that either enhance or impede their success in school and thereby have them identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, Action Research, High School Students
Fonger, Nicole L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Representational fluency (RF) includes an ability to interpret, create, move within and among, and connect tool-based representations of mathematical objects. Taken as an indicator of conceptual understanding, there is a need to better support school algebra students' RF in learning environments that utilize both computer algebra systems…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Algebra, Mathematical Concepts, Computer Uses in Education
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Stavrova, Olga; Urhahne, Detlef – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
The study examines the nature, conditions, and outcomes of student learning from an organised guided tour in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The instructional methods that best support students' cognitive and affective learning as well as how students' motivational and emotional states influence their achievement were investigated. A sample of 96…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Prior Learning, Museums, Teaching Methods
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Burris, Carol Corbet; Wiley, Ed; Welner, Kevin G.; Murphy, John – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background: This longitudinal study examines the long-term effects on the achievement of students at a diverse suburban high school after all students were given accelerated mathematics in a detracked middle school as well as ninth-grade "high-track" curriculum in all subjects in heterogeneously grouped classes. Despite considerable…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ability Grouping, Longitudinal Studies, Outcomes of Education