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Open AccessToo Much of a Good Thing Might Be Bad: the Double-Edged Sword of Parental Aspirations and the Adverse Effects of Aspiration-Expectation Gaps
Conventional wisdom suggests that parents’ educational expectations (how far they expect their children to go) and aspirations (how far they want their children to go) positively impact academic outcomes and b...
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Open Accessg versus c: comparing individual and collective intelligence across two meta-analyses
Collective intelligence (CI) is said to manifest in a group’s domain general mental ability. It can be measured across a battery of group IQ tests and statistically reduced to a latent factor called the “c-factor...
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Commentary: We Have to Get TPAs Right!
The commentary commences with the proposition that “We have to get TPAs right”. Hattie starts with the recognition that teacher education has already been the subject of extensive review and critique, with a s...
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Open AccessThe nature and nurture of education
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What Schools Need to Know About Fostering School Belonging: a Meta-analysis
Belonging is an essential aspect of psychological functioning. Schools offer unique opportunities to improve belonging for school-aged children. Research on school belonging, however, has been fragmented and d...
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Open AccessIntegrating neuroscience and learning: now’s the time...
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Prompting secondary students’ use of criteria, feedback specificity and feedback levels during an investigative task
This study investigates the effects of prompting on secondary students’ written peer feedback in chemistry investigation reports. In particular, we examined students’ feedback features in relation to the use ...
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Conceptualising Loneliness in Adolescents: Development and Validation of a Self-report Instrument
This paper reports the development and psychometric evaluations of a multidimensional model of loneliness in Australian adolescents. In the first study a new instrument was designed and administered to 1,074 a...
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Proposing a comprehensive model for identifying teaching candidates
Teacher education in universities continues to diversify in the twenty-first century. Just as course offerings, course delivery, staffing and the teaching/research mix varies extensively from university to uni...
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The Role of Meta-analysis in Educational Research
Meta-analysis is now a well-established form of synthesizing literature, and syntheses of meta-analyses are now being produced in educational research. The chapter provides an overview of the method, discusses...
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Open AccessEffects of a free school breakfast programme on school attendance, achievement, psychosocial function, and nutrition: a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial
Approximately 55,000 children in New Zealand do not eat breakfast on any given day. Regular breakfast skip** has been associated with poor diets, higher body mass index, and adverse effects on children's beh...
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Individual and school factors affecting students’ participation and success in higher education
The purpose of this study is to identify school factors that affect students’ achievements at the secondary and tertiary levels of education. The analysis included data of 9,894 students who studied in Aucklan...
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Factors affecting responses to Likert type questionnaires: introduction of the ImpExp, a new comprehensive model
The major purpose of this paper is to propose a comprehensive model describing the effects of response sets within the theory framework of the stages of responding to questionnaires, and taking into account th...
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How Satisfied Are Women and Men with Their Academic Work?
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Classroom climate and motivated behaviour in secondary schools
For some children, school failure is attributed to a lack in motivation. This article reports a study of motivation from an ecological perspective, considering the individual in interaction with the meaningful...
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Develo** Assessment Procedures and Assessing Two Models of Escalation Behavior among Community College Administrators
Escalation behavior occurs when individual decision-makers repeatedly invest time, money, and other resources into a failing project. A conceptual model of escalation behavior based on project, organizational,...
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Development of Industruct: A Scale for the Measurement of Perceptions of Industry Structure
The development of INDUSTRUCT, an instrument designed to measure perceptions of industry structure based on Porter's five competitive forces formulation, is described. A seven-step procedure based on psychomet...