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Amml Hussein – College and University, 2024
This study explores the sophomore year, a critical juncture during the undergraduate experience with notable attrition rates. By dissecting environmental, academic, and situational determinants, this study provides insightful perspective by delving into the student narrative, enriching the existing literature. Employing semi-structured interviews,…
Descriptors: College Students, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Structures
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Snipes, Jason; Jacobson, Alexander – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2021
Middle school is an important crossroad in a student's academic journey. As students enter middle school, their academic achievement and engagement frequently declines. This is true particularly for Black and Latinx students. Poor middle school grades are often a harbinger of poor performance in high school and beyond. In particular, having a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2021
The "Academic Mindsets and Behaviors, Prior Achievement, and the Transition to Middle School" study examined the relationship between 2016/17 grade 5 student responses to a Clark County School District (Nevada) survey on levels of academic mindsets and behaviors and the predicted probability of earning a low GPA (below 2.0) at the end of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Martínez-Sierra, Gustavo; García González, María del Socorro – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
The aim of this qualitative research is to identify Mexican high school students' emotional experiences in mathematics classes. In order to obtain the data, focus group interviews were carried out with 22 students. The data analysis is based on the theory of the cognitive structure of emotions (Ortony, Clore & Collins, 1988) that specifies the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Emotional Experience, Mathematics Education, Problem Solving
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Martínez-Sierra, Gustavo; González, María del Socorro García – Research in Mathematics Education, 2014
The aim of this qualitative research is to identify Mexican high school students' emotional experiences in mathematics classes. In order to obtain the data, focus group interviews were carried out with 22 students. The data analysis is based on the theory of the cognitive structure of emotions, which specifies the eliciting conditions for each…
Descriptors: High School Students, Emotional Experience, Mathematics Education, Qualitative Research
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Bugental, Daphne Blunt; And Others – New Directions for Child Development, 1992
Examined developmental changes and individual variations in the ways children use expressive information from others. Concluded that processing deficits are more probable for younger children or for children with low perceived control than for other children. (BB)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Structures
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Burnham, Joy J. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2005
Twenty contemporary fears (e.g., terrorist attacks, drive-by shootings, having to fight in a war) were added to E. Gullone and N. J. King's (1992) Australian Fear Survey Schedule for Children-II for use in the United States. The revised survey, the American Fear Survey Schedule for Children (J. J. Burnham, 1995), was investigated. The component…
Descriptors: Fear, Security (Psychology), Student Surveys, Research Methodology