scholarly journals A Large-Scale Examination of Elementary and Secondary School Students Metaphors Pertaining School Phenomenon

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Somayyeh RADMARD ◽  
Yılmaz SOYSAL ◽  
Şeyma DAĞ
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Students

scholarly journals Cloze testing for comprehension assessment: The HyTeC-cloze

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 553-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Kleijn ◽  
Henk Pander Maat ◽  
Ted Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Standardized Tests ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Text Comprehension ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cloze Procedure ◽  
Testing Center

Although there are many methods available for assessing text comprehension, the cloze test is not widely acknowledged as one of them. Critiques on cloze testing center on its supposedly limited ability to measure comprehension beyond the sentence. However, these critiques do not hold for all types of cloze tests; the particular configuration of a cloze determines its validity. We review various cloze configurations and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. We propose a new cloze procedure specifically designed to gauge text comprehension: the Hybrid Text Comprehension cloze (HyTeC-cloze). It employs a hybrid mechanical-rational deletion strategy and semantic scoring of answers. The procedure was tested in a large-scale study, involving 2926 Dutch secondary school students with 120 unique cloze tests. Our results show that, in terms of reliability and validity, the HyTeC-cloze matches and sometimes outperforms standardized tests of reading ability.

Dynamics of Change in Chile: Explaining the Emergence of the 2006 Pingüino Movement

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOFIA DONOSO
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Secondary School Student ◽  
Education Reforms ◽  
School Students ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Education Model ◽  
Action Frame

AbstractFocusing on the first large-scale protests in Chile after the reinstatement of democracy in 1990, this article examines the emergence of the 2006 Pingüino movement and shows how it succeeded in mobilising thousands of secondary school students against the neoliberal education model. It argues that several distinct but intertwined dimensions explain the movement's emergence. In 2006, secondary school student groups merged to form a single organisation and adopted a horizontal and participatory decision-making mechanism. At the same time, shortcomings in the education reforms of the 1980s and 1990s were revealed in terms of quality and equity, creating grievances that were fed into the movement's collective action frame. Finally, President Bachelet's rhetoric of a ‘government of citizens’ as an attempt to counteract the elitist nature of the Concertación's governance formula signified an opening of the structure of political opportunities that the students knew to take advantage of.

Information literacy skills of secondary school students in Singapore

2014 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Schubert Foo ◽  
Shaheen Majid ◽  
Intan Azura Mokhtar ◽  
Xue Zhang ◽  
Yun-Ke Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Family Background ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
School Students ◽  
Content Type

Purpose – This study aimed to acquire knowledge about Singapore secondary school (ages 13 to 16 years old) students' skills in searching, evaluating and using information. Design/methodology/approach – A comprehensive instrument encompassing the basic information literacy (IL) skills, as well as a new dimension of ethical usage of information and collaborative information seeking was used for data collection. From August to November 2010, a total of eight schools comprising 3,164 students participated in this study. Findings – It was a matter of concern that various kinds of libraries, including school libraries, were found to be under-utilized. From the test that was administered to assess the IL skills of students, the results were found to be generally unsatisfactory as each of the major categories of IL skills recorded a score that is below 50 (out of a maximum of 100) except for “task definition”. For skills related to “information seeking strategies”, “location & access” and “information use”, the types of schools, academic streams of study, and students' family background seemed to have significant influences. Originality/value – This study is the first large-scale survey conducted in Singapore that sought to test the IL skills of secondary school students. The findings are useful in assessing the current effectiveness of IL integration, and the need for a more planned approach towards IL competency training within the school curriculum in Singapore.

SEX DIFFERENCES IN THE EFFECT OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT ON SELF-ESTEEM: A HONG KONG CASE

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tak Sing Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
School Students ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Male Subjects

This paper reports a piece of research that is addressed to the controversial issue whether there are sex differences in the effect of academic achievement on self esteem. The study is a large scale survey based on a representative sample of all the secondary school students in Hong Kong. The results showed that male subjects generally had a higher score on self esteem than female ale subjects, and that while the self-esteem of male subjects were susceptible to the influence of academic achievement, the same was not true for their female counterparts. Similar findings were established in a recent study carried out in Norway. Explanations were given to account for the similarity.

scholarly journals Nonlinear Relations Between Achievement and Academic Self-Concepts in Elementary and Secondary School: An Integrative Data Analysis Across 13 Countries

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Keller ◽  
Franzis Preckel ◽  
Martin Brunner
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
School Students ◽  
Integrative Data Analysis ◽  
Academic Abilities ◽  
Nonlinear Trends

It is well-documented that academic achievement is associated with students’ self-perceptions of their academic abilities, that is, their academic self-concepts. However, low-achieving students may apply self-protective strategies to maintain a favorable academic self-concept when evaluating their academic abilities. Consequently, the relation between achievement and academic self-concept might not be linear across the entire achievement continuum. Capitalizing on representative data from three large-scale assessments (i.e., TIMSS, PIRLS, PISA; N = 470,804), we conducted an integrative data analysis to address nonlinear trends in the relations between achievement and the corresponding self-concepts in mathematics and the verbal domain across 13 countries and two age groups (i.e., elementary and secondary school students). Polynomial and interrupted regression analyses showed nonlinear relations in secondary school students, demonstrating that the relations between achievement and the corresponding self-concepts were weaker for lower achieving students than for higher achieving students. Nonlinear effects were also present in younger students, but the pattern of results was rather heterogeneous. We discuss implications for theory as well as for the assessment and interpretation of self-concept.

scholarly journals “Young Bosnia” and philosophy

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Ilija Maric
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Religious Denomination ◽  
School Students ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Philosophical Texts ◽  
Intellectual Leader ◽  
Foreign Control

?Young Bosnia? is the name of the youth movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the early XX century (1908-1914). Irrespective of their religious denomination, they had an awareness of belonging to the Serbian people. They fought for the liberation of all South-Slavic peoples from foreign control and for the unification within one common country. The intellectual leader of ?Young Bosnia? was Dimitrije Mitrinovic and the ideological leader was Vladimir Gacinovic. At the time, in Bosnia and Herzegovina there were only elementary and secondary schools, but there were no universities, which was very unfavourable for cultivating philosophy. Secondary school students and university students, some of which were philosophy students, contributed in many ways to its development among our people. Firstly, with their articles and translations of philosophical texts, they promoted philosophy on a large scale at the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Secondly, they were the first among the Serbs to widely propagate the irrationalist trend in philosophy. Thirdly, they contributed to the Serbian reception of the new philosophical trends that were current abroad.

Perceptions of the relationships between science and religion held by upper-secondary school students in Church of England schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-178
Author(s):  
Berry Billingsley ◽  
Mehdi Nassaji
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Upper Secondary School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Interview Studies ◽  
Epistemic Insight

We report on a large-scale survey of 1,772 upper-secondary school students in 16 Church of England schools to discover their perceptions of how science and religion relate. We found that students who attend Church schools are pedagogically, socially and cognitively confined to the view that science and religion conflict. The findings are discussed alongside interview studies with students which sought to discover the extent to which they have the epistemic insight they need to access a range of views about the relationships between science and religion.

scholarly journals Secondary School Students’ Reasoning About Science and Personhood

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berry Billingsley ◽  
Mehdi Nassaji
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Scientific Facts ◽  
Scientific Worldview

AbstractScientific advances, particularly in evolutionary biology, genetics, neuroscience and artificial intelligence, present many challenges to religious and popular notions of personhood. This paper reports the first large-scale study on students’ beliefs about the interactions between science and widely held beliefs about personhood. The paper presents findings from a questionnaire survey (n = 530) administered to English secondary school students (age 15–16) in which their beliefs and concepts regarding personhood and the position of science were investigated. The survey was motivated in part by an interview study and a previous, smaller survey which revealed that many students struggle to reconcile their beliefs with what they suppose science to say and also that some have reluctantly dismissed the soul as a ‘nice story’ which is incompatible with scientific facts. The results from this larger-scale survey indicate that a majority of the students believe in some form of soul. Even so, and regardless of whether or not they identified themselves as religious, most students expressed a belief that human persons cannot be fully explained scientifically, a position that some students perceived as a partial rejection of what it means to hold a scientific worldview.

CYBERBULLYING AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN HONG KONG

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 49-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
JI-KANG CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Intervention Programs ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Past ◽  
Large Scale Dataset

Using a large-scale dataset from Hong Kong, this study describes the prevalence of cyberbullying and examines how gender and grade level relate to cyberbullying among secondary school students in Hong Kong. Participants were 1,855 students from secondary schools (Forms 1 to 7). Students were given an anonymous questionnaire that included a scale for reporting their experiences of cyberbullying. Responses indicated that 17.8% of students reported cyberbullying and 30.9% experienced at least one type of cyberbullying in the past three months. Curses, insults, and humiliation were the most common types of cyberbullying. Males reported higher rates of bullying and victimization than did females. The overall rates of bullying and victimization peaked in Forms 2 or 3 and in Form 6. Cyberbullying among secondary students in Hong Kong is a serious problem that needs immediate attention. Potential intervention programs should target males and students in Forms 2, 3, and 6. Programs should mainly aim to reduce online curses, insults, and humiliation by students.

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