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Paz-Baruch, Nurit; Hazema, Hnade – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2023
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is an active process that assists students in managing their thoughts, behaviors, and emotions to navigate their learning experiences successfully. The study examined the differences in motivation and SRL between gifted and high achievers (GHAs) and typical achievers (TAs) in science, technology, engineering, and…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Student Motivation, Academically Gifted, High Achievement
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Yen, Alex Chien Po; Deng, Huixin; Jin, Liyin – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Frequent social comparisons can not only influence parents' well-being but also spill over to their children's development through intergenerational influences within the family. Using data from children and their parents, the current study shows that the higher parents' social comparison orientation is, the less their children are willing to…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Games, Parent Child Relationship, Comparative Analysis
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Steinkuehler, Constance; Anderson, Craig G.; Reitman, Jason G.; Lee, Je Seok; Wu, Minerva; Wells, Garrison; Gardner, Reginald T. – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2023
This paper describes the design and investigation of a high-school-affiliated esports program based on an enrichment learning model. In it, the authors detail the connections between esports and learning, self-reported impacts of the program and demographic differences among them, students' attitudes toward program features, and equity in results…
Descriptors: Video Games, Competition, Program Development, Program Evaluation
Albert Cheng; Michael B. Henderson; Paul E. Peterson; Martin R. West – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2019
To estimate whether information can close socioeconomic gaps in parents' aspirations for their child's postsecondary education, we administer a four-armed survey experiment to a nationally representative sample of U.S. parents. After respondents estimate costs of and returns to further education, we ask whether they prefer that their child pursue…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, College Attendance, College Preparation, Parent Aspiration
Zeiser, Kristina; Scholz, Carrie; Cirks, Victoria – American Institutes for Research, 2018
The study, "Maximizing Student Agency: Implementing and Measuring Student-Centered Learning Practices," aims to identify the instructional practices that may be useful for the development of different aspects of student agency (i.e., self-efficacy, self-regulated learning, and persistence) and determine whether these instructional…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Individual Power, High School Students, Secondary School Teachers
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Salloum, Sara; BouJaoude, Saouma – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Science teachers mediate social and academic language in science classrooms through teacher talk and classroom discourse. In multilingual classrooms, ways home and international languages are deployed can affect conceptual learning of science. This study investigates, through Bakhtin's dialogic perspective, multilingual language practices and…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Student Diversity, Academic Language
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Li, Jia; Snow, Catherine; Jiang, Jingjing; Edwards, Nicholas – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2015
Technology including social media and other technology applications enabled by different technology devices offer many possibilities for second language learners to improve their learning, if they are interested in doing so. We investigated purposes for using technology among urban adolescents, including both English language learners (ELLs) and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Low Income
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Chung, Kevin K. H.; Liu, Hongyun; McBride, Catherine; Wong, Anita M. -Y.; Lo, Jason C. M. – Educational Psychology, 2017
The present study investigated the relative importance of executive functioning, parent-child verbal interactions, phonological awareness and visual skills on reading and mathematics for Chinese children from low-versus middle-socio economic status (SES) backgrounds. A total of 199 kindergarten children were assessed on executive functioning,…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement, Executive Function, Path Analysis