Influences of developmental contexts and gender differences on school performance of children and adolescents     

Eva Diniz  Luciane da Rosa Piccolo  Maria Clara Pinheiro de Paula Couto  Jerusa Fumagalli Salles  Silvia Helena Koller 《教育心理学》2014,34(7):787-798

This study investigated children and adolescents’ school performance over time focusing on two variables that may influence it: developmental context and gender. The sample comprised 627 participants (M_age?=?11.13, SD?=?1.8), 51% of them female, from grade one to eight, living either with family (n?=?474) or in care institutions (n?=?153). Participants answered individually the Teste de Desempenho Escolar (School Performance Test) and the Structured PRONEX Interview. Findings indicated a main effect of time on school performance (i.e., writing, reading and arithmetic). Furthermore this main effect was further qualified by a time and developmental context interaction and by a time and gender interaction. Interactions revealed that the participants from care institutions attained more significant increases in writing and reading than participants living within a family context; and that girls attained more significant increases in writing than boys. Therefore, school performance progress appears as affected by developmental contexts and gender. The findings reveal how school performance needs to be observed as a multidimensional variable, affected by individual characteristics but also by external ones.  相似文献   

The COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil: how statistics education may contribute to unravel the reality behind the charts     

da Silva  Alexandre Sousa  Barbosa  Maria Tereza Serrano  de Souza Velasque  Luciane  da Silveira Barroso Alves  Davi  Magalhães  Marcos Nascimento 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2021,108(1-2):269-289

Educational Studies in Mathematics - The world is now facing the most severe health, social, and economic event of the last hundred years, which has made the need to acquire statistical thinking to...  相似文献   

Homeschooling in Brazil: A Matter of Rights or a Political Debate?     

Luciane Muniz Ribeiro Barbosa 《Journal of School Choice》2016,10(3):355-363

ABSTRACT

This article presents an analysis of the right to education in Brazil in light of the growing number of Brazilian families practicing homeschooling. The debate is recent in Brazil. Here we present an analysis of international literature on homeschooling, Brazilian literature on the right to education, and an appraisal of lawsuits against Brazilian families for teaching their children at home. In light of truancy regulations and the evolution of a right to education in Brazil, homeschooling creates legal and political challenges.  相似文献   

Reading Anxiety in L1: Reviewing the Concept     

Luciane R. Piccolo  Claudia Hofheinz Giacomoni  Annelise Julio-Costa  Susani Oliveira  John Zbornik  Vitor G. Haase  Jerusa F. Salles 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2017,45(4):537-543

Elevated levels of anxiety have been associated with students’ poor academic performance. Research on domain-specific anxiety patterns in reading has demonstrated that reading anxiety is associated with, yet distinctive from, general anxiety. Reading anxiety is an unpleasant emotional reaction experienced by students when reading; it is a specific phobia, situational type. Although reading anxiety has been largely studied in the context of second language acquisition (L2), there is a lack of new research on reading anxiety related to first language learning (L1). In this article we investigate the concept of reading anxiety, as well as the instruments that have been used to evaluate it. Finally, we present the repercussions of reading anxiety upon students’ reading performance and discuss the importance of evaluating reading anxiety as a route to better understandings of reading disabilities.  相似文献