Sökning: "high-performing students"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden high-performing students.

1. 1. Högpresterande gymnasieelevers läskompetenser

   Författare :Yvonne Hallesson; Mona Blåsjö; Kristina Danielsson; Åsa af Geijerstam; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :reading; literacy; high-performing students; upper secondary school; non-fiction texts; reading positioning; textual awareness; metacognitive awareness; genre awareness; systemic functional linguistics; new literacy studies; utbildningsvetenskap med inriktning mot språk och språkutveckling; Education in Languages and Language Development;

   Sammanfattning : Recent international surveys reveal a decline in reading performance among Swedish students during the past decade. In the light of these results, this thesis describes the reading literacy of a class of high-performing students in the Swedish upper secondary school, in order to discern characteristics of successful readers. LÄS MER

3. 2. Thinking Forwards and Backwards : Metamemory and Metacomprehension Abilities and Strategies in Text Processing

   Författare :Åsa Eriksson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of the present thesis was to investigate high-school students metamemory and metacomprehension of texts. In three studies the students read texts and then made prospective as well as retrospective ratings of their own immediate and delayed performance (i.e., measured via text recall and answering performance of comprehension questions). LÄS MER

4. 3. Essays on inputs, admissions and returns to education

   Författare :Linn Karlsson; David Granlund; Magnus Wikström; Sandra McNally; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics of education; computers; TIMSS; academic achievement; admissions; upper secondary grades; SweSAT; underprediction; gender differences; adult education; second-chance education; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Paper [I] analyses the associations between computer use in schools and at home and test scores by using TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) data for more than 900,000 fourth-graders in 2011 and 2015. Pupils who used computers at school, especially those who used them frequently, scored lower than students who never used computers. LÄS MER

5. 4. Statistical modeling in international large-scale assessments

   Författare :Inga Laukaityte; Marie Wiberg; Kenny Bränberg; Ewa Rolfsman; Bernard Veldkamp; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; multilevel model; plausible values; sampling weights; missing information; multiple imputation; non-monotone missing pattern; TIMSS; PISA; Statistics; statistik; pedagogik; Education;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis contributes to the area of research based on large-scale educational assessments, focusing on the application of multilevel models. The role of sampling weights, plausible values (response variable imputed multiple times) and imputation methods are demonstrated by simulations and applications to TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) and PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) data. LÄS MER

7. 5. Attityder till naturvetenskap : Förändringar av flickors och pojkars attityder till biologi, fysik och kemi 1995 till 2007

   Författare :Lena Adolfsson; Sylvia Benckert; Eva Silfver; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; attityder; genus; TIMSS; förändring över tid; Subject didactics; Ämnesdidaktik; didactics of natural science; naturvetenskapens didaktik;

   Sammanfattning : I den här avhandlingen beskrivs hur hög- och lågpresterande flickors och pojkars attityder till biologi, fysik och kemi har förändrats från 1995 till 2007. Data från den svenska delen av TIMSS-studierna för årskurs 8 i Sverige används. LÄS MER