This study aims to investigate preservice computer teachers‘ self-efficacy beliefs and achievement motivation levels for educational software development before and after the ―Educational Software Design, Development and Evaluation (ESDDE)‖ course. A pretest and post test design without a control group was employed. In 2008, 46 senior students (25 male and 21 female) who were enrolled at Comput...

background: continuous evaluation is required in order to ensure the university system’s efficiency. one of the important aspects of evaluating the educational system’s effectiveness is judging the system’s ability in meeting environmental needs. the present research’s goal has been to investigate nursing education’s efficiency through investigating the graduate’s condition and their views on e...

This 5-year prospective longitudinal study of 70,000+ English children examined the association between psychometric intelligence at age 11 years and educational achievement in national examinations in 25 academic subjects at age 16. The correlation between a latent intelligence trait (Spearman's g from CAT2E) and a latent trait of educational achievement (GCSE scores) was 0.81. General intelli...

We argue that the lack of academic proficiency in K-12 education is due to information asymmetry between the policy-maker, households and schools. The policy-maker is thus unable to write down contracts that ensure proficiency, and must incur agency costs which, in turn, generate other distortions. We develop a theoretical equilibrium model where schools and households choose their efforts in r...

Since the first international comparative study on students’ achievement in the beginning of 1960’s, the interest of countries from all over the world to participate in studies initiated by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), has been growing rapidly. In the First International Mathematics Study (FIMS, 1964) just 12 countries participated. In TIMSS...

Introduction During the last two decades, there has been an increased focus on educational quality and learning outcomes in the world. International educational surveys like TIMSS, PIRLS and PISA have provided a basis for assessing educational quality on different levels and corresponding influential factors. Using information provided by such large scale assessment, participating countries can...

factors, revealed an association between ADHD symptoms and educational achievement independent of genetic and environmental pleiotropy. These findings were confirmed in MZ twin intra-pair differences models, twins with more ADHD symptoms scored lower on educational achievement than their co-twins. Furthermore, children with ADHD medication, scored significantly higher on the educational achieve...