In teacher research, causal attributions of lowachievement have beenproven to be predictive of teachers’ efforts to provide optimal learning contexts for all students. In most studies, however, attributions have been studied as a between-teacher variable rather than a within-teacher variable assuming that teachers’ responses to low achievement are stable for different students in one classroom....

Nature of science is defined as one of the directions of scientific literacy. The main aim of this study was to investigate both secondary school social and science branch post-graduate (non-thesis master) teacher candidates attitudes about the Nature of Science (NOS) and compare their attitudes towards NOS. A 12-item Likert type scale for teacher candidates was used, based on responses of 207 ...

BACKGROUND Although interventions on child development target supporting mothers' relationships with their children, little is known about maternal knowledge of child development in developing countries. The purpose of this study was to determine maternal knowledge about child development in Turkey. METHODS The Caregiver Knowledge of Child Development Inventory (CKCDI) developed for this stud...

This present study was designed to study the self-efficacy and social maturity of secondary school students in relation to their gender and types of school. The study was conducted over a sample of 200 randomly selected secondary school students studying in class 11th of Samba District (J&K). For data collection the investigator has used Self-efficacy scale constructed and standardized by Dr. G...

AIM To develop a questionnaire on harassment in the workplace among teachers at primary and secondary schools. METHODS We analyzed the existing questionnaires on harassment in the workplace and developed a new one was to specifically address harassment of teachers in the public education sector. The questionnaire was then experimentally applied to a sample of 764 primary and secondary school ...

The Effect of Immigration on the School Performance of Natives: Cross Country Evidence Using PISA Test Scores We study whether a higher share of immigrant pupils affects the school performance of natives using aggregate multi-country data from PISA. We find evidence of a negative and statistically significant relationship. The size of the estimated effect is small: doubling the share of immigra...

and relational thinking and mathematical performance at the end of lower secondary school Helen C. Reed, Paul A. Kirschner and Jelle Jolles

The Effectiveness of English Secondary Schools for Pupils of Different Ability Levels ‘League table’ information on school effectiveness in England generally relies on either a comparison of the average outcomes of pupils by school, e.g. mean exam scores, or on estimates of the average value added by each school. These approaches assume that the information parents and policy-makers need most t...

What do high levels of learner achievement at school signify, if not access to and successful participation in, specialised knowledge? A battery of predominantly Portuguese studies has shown the association of specific pedagogic features with high learner achievement in primaryand intermediate-level school science, and that these pedagogic features differ slightly for learners in different soci...

To address the needs of young people in Lagos State, Nigeria, for information about family life and HIV, the Lagos State Ministry of Education, in collaboration with Action Health Incorporated, began to offer the Family Life and HIV Education Curriculum in government junior secondary schools in 2003. Knowledge and attitudes were measured in a sample of 1,366 students in Lagos State, Nigeria, in...