scholarly journals Gender differences in mathematics outcomes at different levels of locality to inform policy and practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 147490412199721
Author(s):  
Clelia Cascella ◽  
Julian Scott Williams ◽  
Maria Pampaka
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Multilevel Analysis ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
International Level ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Local Levels

This paper reports research into the relationship between personal and contextual variables and gendered differences in students’ attainment in mathematics that take account of ‘place’ at different levels of intra-national locality (i.e. regional and macro-geographical levels, within the same country). A multilevel analysis performed on secondary data collected in Italy, where on average boys outperform girls in mathematics, showed that gender differences at local levels are complex and nuanced and not always consistent with the national picture. Moreover, gender differences in mathematics are associated with socio-cultural and economic factors that vary by region. We argue that educational research focusing on national and international level findings (such as for example PISA) should explore the association between gender differences in mathematics and sub-national socio-cultural and economic contexts in order to adequately inform policy and practice. Finally, we suggest that European researchers of inequality may need to attend to regionality and localities of place, and that the principle of subsidiarity could imply that policy and practice be devolved to the levels that research proves to be relevant.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF ENABLER FACTORS ON SUCCESS OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN STATE CORPORATIONS: A CASE OF KENYA WILDLIFE SERVICES

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Christine Jeptoo Cherutich ◽  
Dr. Charles Nyiro
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Leadership Culture ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose: The objectives of the study which were to determine the effects of leadership, technology, culture, people and knowledge management success as enabler factors in ensuring success of knowledge management in Kenya Wildlife Service. The research also draws on existing studies, frameworks and models that have already identified the factors that potentially affect the success of KM. Meeting the challenges of sustainable development in the 21st century necessitates utilization of vital disciplines like KM in the management of state corporations. The use of KM for sustainable development has shown that effectiveness depends on strategic planning and use of tested models.Methodology: A review of the literature shows that most models point to enablers that are necessary. Questionnaires were administered through both e- mails and hand delivery. Secondary data was obtained from both published and unpublished records. Questionnaires were tested for both reliability and validity. Qualitative and quantitative techniques were used to analyze data with the assistance of SPSS software program version 21.Results: A good response rate of 94% was realized. It was established that most of the enabler’s factors indicators have positive impact on success of knowledge management. The study further adopted a regression analysis to determine the relationship between the variables at 5% confidence level of significance. The study findings showed that the four variables had a significant influence on performance of the firm.Contribution to policy and practice: The study recommended that a similar research should be conducted in a different fields. The findings showed that 74.7 % of the knowledge management success is explained by the four variables that are leadership, culture, technology and people and the remaining 25.3 % can be accounted by the standard error.

DINAMIKA KELOMPOK TANI DI DESA NUNKURUS KECAMATAN KUPANG TIMUR KABUPATEN KUPANG

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-49
Author(s):  
Erni Dida ◽  
Made Tusan Surayasa ◽  
Serman Nikolaus
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Socioeconomic Factor ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Farmer Groups ◽  
Nonparametric Statistical ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

ABSTRACT This research was conducted in Nunkurus Village, East Kupang District, Kupang Regency. Data collection was carried out in April-June 2019. The purpose of this study was to: determine the level of dynamics of farmer groups in Nunkurus Village, East Kupang Subdistrict, Kupang Regency, and to analyze the relationship between socio-economic factors and the level of dynamism of farmer groups in Nunkurus Village, East Kupang Subdistrict, Kupang Regency in trying to farm. The location of the study was determined intentionally (purposive sampling), while the respondents were determined by means of professional random sampling of members of farmer groups, and intentionally towards the chairmen and secretaries of each farmer group. The number of respondents was 48 people. The type of data collected is primary data and secondary data. Data collected was analyzed using a Likert Scale, and Sperman Rank nonparametric statistical tests. The results showed that: (1) the dynamics of farmer groups in Nunkurus Village, East Kupang District, Kupang Regency was classified as "quite dynamic" (65%). The atmosphere of the group contributes the most, namely 70% while the element of developing and fostering the group contributes only 60%, and (2) the socioeconomic factor of the level of education has a significant relationship with the dynamics of the farmer group in Nunkurus Village. While socio-economic factors of age, experience of farming, land area and number of family dependents have insignificant relationship with the dynamics of farmer groups in Nunkurus Village, East Kupang District, Kupang Regency.

The Role of Self-Efficacy in Explaining Gender Differences in Physical Activity Among Adolescents: A Multilevel Analysis

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Spence ◽  
Chris M. Blanchard ◽  
Marianne Clark ◽  
Ronald C. Plotnikoff ◽  
Kate E. Storey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Multilevel Analysis ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Multilevel Analyses ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Relationship

Background:The purposes of this study were to determine if a) gender moderated the relationship between self-efficacy and physical activity (PA) among youth in Alberta, Canada, and, alternatively b) if self-efficacy mediated the relationship between gender and PA.Methods:A novel web-based tool was used to survey a regionally diverse sample of 4779 students (boys = 2222, girls = 2557) from 117 schools in grades 7 to 10 (mean age = 13.64 yrs.). Among other variables, students were asked about their PA and self-efficacy for participating in PA.Results:Based upon a series of multilevel analyses, self-efficacy was found to be a significantly stronger correlate of PA for girls. But, boys had significantly higher self-efficacy compared with girls, which resulted in significantly more PA.Conclusions:Findings suggest self-efficacy is an important correlate of PA among adolescent girls but that boys are more physically active because they have more self-efficacy for PA.

Drugs, Violence, and Development in Colombia: A Department-Level Analysis

2006 ◽  
Vol 48 (03) ◽  
pp. 157-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer S. Holmes ◽  
Sheila Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres ◽  
Kevin M. Curtin
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Effects ◽  
National Level ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Fixed Effects Model ◽  
Explanatory Factors ◽  
Level Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Level Analysis

Abstract Observers say that drug production fuels violence in Colombia, but does coca production explain different levels of violence? This article examines the relationship between coca production and guerrilla violence by reviewing national-level data over time and studying Colombia by department, exploring the interactions among guerrilla violence, exports, development, and displacement. It uses historical analysis, cartographic visualization, and analysis of the trends in four high coca-producing and four violent Colombian departments, along with a department-level fixed effects model. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the department-level analysis suggests that coca production is not the driving force of contemporary Colombian guerrilla violence. Instead, economic factors and coca eradication emerge as prominent explanatory factors.

scholarly journals Translating research findings into educational policy and practice: the virtues and vices of a metaphor

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-228
Author(s):  
Martyn Hammersley
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Educational Policy And Practice ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

A variety of metaphors have been used in seeking to conceptualise the relationship between social and educational research, on the one hand, and policymaking and practice, on the other. One influential analogy is the idea that research findings can and should be translatable into policy, and thereby into practice. This article will provide a conceptual analysis of the source meaning of «translation», and what is involved in this metaphorical use of it. It will be argued that many of the issues that arise in relation to translating text from one language into another have parallels in the task of communicating research findings to policymakers or practitioners. However, the idea that research findings can then be «translated» into policy and practice is much more problematic.

Gender differences in a bilingual Tamil-English community

1990 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-113
Author(s):  
Vanithamani Saravan
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Linguistic Variables ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

Abstract In this paper the relationship between socio-cultural, socio-economic factors and linguistic variables in a bilingual community in Singapore is examined. The results show that education and socio-economic status correlate significantly with linguistic variables. Socio-economic status and socio-psychological factors best help to explain gender differences in linguistic variation.

Education for Sustainable Development

2016 ◽  
pp. 41-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
International Level ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Relationship

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is an important educational agenda at the international level, with significant implications for both formal and nonformal education. Though a relatively new topic in modern education, ESD frameworks have evolved and grown in number over the last few decades, from an early concern with education for development and environmental education, to more critical orientations that focus on the relationship between individual and social factors and between environmental and political factors contributing to challenges today for ecological sustainability and global development and flourishing. In this dynamic field, priorities may vary with social context, as a critical interrogation of the importance of place in education is considered fundamental to modern ESD frameworks. This chapter explores and assesses the development of ESD over the past few decades as a formal and nonformal educational policy and practice across world regions, before considering future directions for research and practice.

11. Collecting Quantitative Data

2019 ◽  
pp. 183-208
Author(s):  
Tom Clark ◽  
Liam Foster ◽  
Alan Bryman
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Student Projects ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels

This chapter discusses the basics of collecting quantitative material. It outlines the nature of quantitative data in the context of the research process, before exploring the differences between primary and secondary data. In doing so, it highlights some of the benefits of using secondary data sets for the purposes of dissertation-based research. The chapter then examines the relationship between research questions, concepts, and variables, before exploring how quantitative data can be measured at different levels. Finally, it offers some useful tips and advice concerning one technique that is particularly common in student projects — the questionnaire — and demonstrates the different ways in which questionnaires can be developed and administered.

Education for Sustainable Development

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Liz Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
International Level ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Relationship

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is an important educational agenda at the international level, with significant implications for both formal and nonformal education. Though a relatively new topic in modern education, ESD frameworks have evolved and grown in number over the last few decades, from an early concern with education for development and environmental education, to more critical orientations that focus on the relationship between individual and social factors and between environmental and political factors contributing to challenges today for ecological sustainability and global development and flourishing. In this dynamic field, priorities may vary with social context, as a critical interrogation of the importance of place in education is considered fundamental to modern ESD frameworks. This chapter explores and assesses the development of ESD over the past few decades as a formal and nonformal educational policy and practice across world regions, before considering future directions for research and practice.

Monsoon, Market and Middlemen as Key Ingredients to Agrarian Distress in Contemporary India: Prioritizing for Policy and Practice Based Interventions

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 6333-6340
Author(s):  
Ravi Ranjan Kumar , V.K. Yadav, Kirti Arya
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Farm Crisis ◽  
Agrarian Society ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Government Sector ◽  
Institutional Researchers ◽  
Farmer Suicides ◽  
The Rich

India has been an agrarian society since ages but fails to be an agriculture economy especially post globalization. Farmers who have rightly been termed as ‘Anna-data’ i.e. ‘giver of food’ have been facing an existential crisis unprecedented in India post-independence. One just needs to look at the rich literature on farmer suicides to understand the shades of distress that a farmer household has been going through off late. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has been publishing the statistics for suicide in India since the 1950s. The same body has also been collecting and publishing the statistics for farmer suicides since 1995. More than three lakh farmers have committed suicides in country as per government’s own records only in past two decades. There has been varied responses by both government as well as non-government sector to the issue. However, there has been no substantial change to the existing situation. This paper dwells into the reasons of failing interventions to the issue. Results The paper revisits major factorswhich have resulted in an unprecedented farm crisis in the countryover recent decades. Analyzing secondary data by individual and institutional researchers, it draws conclusions towards farm crisis being an inherently environmental issue surrounding climate change, unsustainable practices of water management and genetically modified seeds -needs attention foremost from an environmental view point, whereas not to discount economic factors like market and middlemen being given due attention for a rights based approach and not just with politically sellable loan-waivers or ritualistic jargons of Minimum Support Prices (MSPs). Counseling and other support services too deserve their due but largely as complementary to environmental and economic factors and never at their cost.

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