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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Upper-secondary"”.
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The transition of Taiwan's upper secondary education
… for educational reform and change in Taiwan's upper secondary school system. Through an analysis of official documents and a set of focus group interviews, we sought to gain insight into Taiwan's current situation in order to anticipate the future development of the school system.
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Gender and performance anxiety in upper secondary dual-career sports programs in Iceland.
… to examine gender and performance anxiety in upper-secondary dual-career sports programs in Iceland. Previous studies showed that females tend to have more anxiety than men. Dual-career involves the challenge athletes have when they are trying to have a career in sports but have to do that …
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An in-depth, naturalistic study of the regulation of learning in collaborative groups in upper secondary school classrooms
… by the author’s position as a practitioner in secondary schools and so sought to investigate the phenomenon in ecologically valid secondary classroom settings, in contrast to the more common experimental or otherwise tightly controlled designs. The present study takes a mixed-methods …
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A Non-Conformist Choice: The Lifeworld of Young Women Pursuing STEM-Related TVET in Upper Secondary Technical Institutes in Ghana
Researchers have studied the structural and social constraints that affect the under-participation of females in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and technical, vocational, education, and training (TVET). However, removing these constraints alone has not improved young …
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Applying semantic web technologies in education : a digital mathematics problem archive for the mathematics student at the upper secondary level Malta
The World Wide Web can be described as a database of information about every topic of the real world. Due to semantic heterogeneity coupled with up to a certain extent - lack of machine understandability of web contents, we use search engines running keyword-based algorithms to retrieve the desired …
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Risk attitudes, competition and career choices : The willingness to take risk and the choice of further education among Finnish upper secondary school students
… the choice of further education among Finnish secondary school students. Data comes from a survey compiled in 2011 for 18 secondary schools in Finland. The data has 3418 respondents in total, 1984 (approximately 58 percent) of whom are female. There are three main questions in this study. …
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Teaching-learning processes through interaction: argumentation and formative assessment in fostering probabilistic thinking in upper secondary school Rispetto al titolo attuale è aggiunta la parola fostering
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Fee-Free Educational Policy for Social Development: Examining the Conditions and the Social Benefits of Cost Elimination at the Upper-Secondary Level in Sub-Saharan Africa
… known as fee-free educational policies, at the upper-secondary level, and the social benefits of these policies in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Some conclusions are reached subject to a review of the theoretical and empirical literature related to these subjects. 1) That there is no consensus about …
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The role of gender, aspirations, and family structure in Mexican education and migration
… 2002, to model transitions into primary, lower-secondary, upper-secondary, and tertiary education. Using a sibling fixed effect approach, I find an emergent female advantage patterned by specific state efforts at educational expansion. In contrast, the importance of educational background …
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Tracking mathematical giftedness in an egalitarian context
In three different studies upper secondary school head teachers’ characterization and identification of mathematical giftedness was investigated. A survey study (Paper II) explored the conceptions held by 36 randomly selected upper secondary school head teachers in mathematics. An interview study …
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Utbildningskontextens betydelse för lärandeprocesser
… is to develop knowledge about how students in an upper secondary class experience and act in a computer-supported flexible educational environment and how the experienced context affects the students' learning processes. An ethnographic application involving theories of learning, …
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Steg för steg. Naturvetenskapligt ämnesspråk som räknas
… and chemistry. The textbooks, which are used in secondary and upper secondary school, are examined with respect to traditional readability measures, e.g., LIX, OVIX and nominal ratio. I also extract typical linguistic features of the texts, typicality being determined using a proposed …
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Assessment of the factors associated with secondary school attendance and completion in South Africa: A demographic perspective
… are still gaps in the level of schooling for the upper secondary level. Consequently, a substantial proportion of the population does not complete secondary education, thereby inhibiting human capital formation. Optimising learners’ participation, progression, and the completion of educational …
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Student protest in France, 1986-1999 : an interpretation using theories of protest and social movements
… account of seven episodes of student protest in upper-secondary and higher education that is based on empirical research, newspaper sources and archival documents. The account of the student protests is then analysed in light of concepts and classifications of protest and social movements, with …
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Towards a tobacco-free generation. A study on the tobacco habits of adolescents: when, why and who?
… use was found between grade 7 (age 13) and upper secondary grade 1 (age 16), but it subsided during the last two upper secondary years. Snus were introduced later than smoking in the adolescents' lives. Girls smoked more than boys, and boys used far more snus than the girls did. From grade 8 …
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Finnish EFL Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Using Computer-assisted Language Learning Tools
… tools hold in the Finnish comprehensive and upper secondary schools. This study traces the roots and development of the field of CALL and its implications to the theory and practice of technology-enhanced language learning. Evidently, the benefits of using CALL are not limited to the teachers …
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A study of disruptive behaviour in secondary schools, with special reference to the effectiveness of behaviour modification and withdrawal units
… ways of dealing successfully with disruptive secondary school pupils.<br></br><br></br>A review of related literature, and some evidence adduced from previous research, provided the basis for a questionnaire. This was then used in six Essex comprehensive schools to ascertain teachers' opinions …
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Unaccompanied minors (un-)made in Sweden. Ungrievable lives and access to rights produced through policy
… to residence permits based on participation in upper secondary education. The main results indicate that the way in which unaccompanied minors are described as different from children in general and thus in need of other support and other rights, has existed long before the restriction laws from …
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