John Dewey was a pragmatist, progressivist, educator, philosopher, and social reformer
(Gutek, 2014). Dewey's various roles greatly impacted education and he was perhaps one of …

The rapid growth of online education at the K-12 level in recent years presents the need to
explore issues that influence the academic experiences of students choosing this method of …

This chapter lays the foundation for an understanding of what reading comprehension is and
how it is conceptualised in the literature. It develops the notion that reading comprehension …

This study tests theoretical and developmental models of the causal ordering between
academic self-concept and academic achievement in a multicohort-multioccasion design (ie …

Written in an accessible and engaging style, this second edition of The Psychology of
Education addresses key concepts from psychology which relate to education. Throughout …

Cette ambiguïté se retrouve d'ailleurs souvent dans les items utilisés pour mesurer le
sentiment d'efficacité. Les mesures combinent souvent des items portant sur les …

Gender differences associated with the development of adolescents' sense of general self-
concept (confidence and self-worth) and emotional stability (calmness, freedom from …

The purpose of this study was to test children's academic self-concept, family socioeconomic
status, family structure (single parent vs. two parent family) and academic achievement in …

Aims: First, to introduce and compare three statistical methods for investigating development
as a cumulative process: a simplex model, latent growth curve analysis, and clustering by …

Longitudinal data from large cohorts of seventh grade (n= 2,778) East and West German
students were collected at the start of the reunification of the school systems to evaluate how …