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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"upper secondary school"”.
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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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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
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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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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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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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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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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Assessment of the factors associated with secondary school attendance and completion in South Africa: A demographic perspective
… key to driving socioeconomic development. While school participation at the basic education level (Grades 1-9) has been almost universal in South Africa, there are still gaps in the level of schooling for the upper secondary level. Consequently, a substantial proportion of the population does not …
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Mathematical warrants, objects and actions in higher school mathematics
'Higher school mathematics' connotes typical upper secondary school and early college mathematics. The mathematics at this level is characterised by moves to (1) rigour in justification,(2) abstraction in content and (3) fluency in symbolic manipulation. This thesis investigates these three …
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Associations Between Screen Time, Cognitive Function, and Academic Performance Among Icelandic High School Students : The Mediating Role of Sleep
… Participants were 184 first year students at an upper secondary school in Reykjavík who completed a questionnaire assessing screen time (Questionnaire for Screen Time of Adolescents), sleep (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index), and cognitive function (Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information …
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Futurising science education : Technology, agency and scientific literacy
… by employing qualitative thematic analysis of 58 upper secondary school students’ essays describing “a typical day” in the future, two studies found students’ images of the future to feature technological changes ranging from improved everyday devices to large-scale technologisation, with …
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More Qualifications and Less Dropout? From Compulsory Schooling to Vocational Education in Italy
… in this regard is dropping out (also named early school-leaving)—i.e. young people who leave the education system before completing upper secondary school. Many interventions have attempted to prevent or discourage students from dropping out of school. Among them there are two straightforward …
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The Effectiveness of Information and Communication Technology in Schools on Generic Skills Development: Teachers, Pupils and Employers Perceptions
… on the role and contribution of ICT in Scottish secondary schools towards generic skills development among pupils for post school transitions. The timing of this study coincided with a period characterised by contextual pressures globally, marked with technology changes, youth unemployment and …
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Towards a tobacco-free generation. A study on the tobacco habits of adolescents: when, why and who?
… the analysis was done as a comparison between schools that the pupil said he/she had attended, and whether these schools had been visited or not, no significant difference was found. In the second study, a grade of pupils in an open cohort was followed with regard to development of smoking …
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Student persistence in STEM fields: school structures and student choices in Finland, Sweden and the United States
… the United States. Drawing on interviews with upper-secondary school students and teachers (Finland: 26 students, 8 teachers; Sweden: 29 students and 10 teachers; United States: 19 students, 2 mentors) and surveys (Finland: 255 students, Sweden: 130 students, United States: 288 students), this …
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The importance of personality, IQ and learning approaches : Predicting academic performance
… learning contribute to academic performance in upper secondary school (high school), after controlling for the well-known fact that general intelligence accounts for a large part of the variance. The general proposition of the thesis is that personality traits are stable dispositons and …
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Differential Perceptions of Teachers and Students About the Teaching and Learning of History in Secondary Schools of Trinidad and Tobago
<p><em>Problem</em>. Students at the upper secondary-school level sometimes experience difficulties understanding basic historical concepts as well as appreciating the relevance of history as a subject in the school's curriculum. While these students are capable of formulating perspectives of their …
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Evidens och existens. Evidensbaserad undervisning i ljuset av lärares erfarenheter.
… there is an inherent risk that professionals in schools will not be given enough resources to cope with the new demands made on their work. In the present thesis, the suggested way forward in this matter is to study evidence-based practice in practice. The aim of this thesis is to study the …
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