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Cognitive Skills Involved in Reading Comprehension of Adolescents with Low Educational Opportunities

Languages, 2020
Reading comprehension is a fundamental resource for educational and social development. It is a skill that brings into play a diverse and complex set of processes and cognitive functions based on building a mental representation of a given text.
Valeria Abusamra, Micaela Difalcis, Gisela Martínez, Daniel M. Low, Jesica Formoso   +4 more
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Justice in Achievement Matters: The Fairness of Educational Opportunities and Active Citizenship

Social Sciences
Unlike existing research which has focused mainly on the effects of educational attainment and curricula on active citizenship, the present article aims to study the relationship of subjective assessment regarding the fairness of people’s educational ...
Pepka Boyadjieva, Petya Ilieva-Trichkova, Valery Todorov   +2 more
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Chances of Early School Leaving—With Special Regard to the Impact of Roma Identity

Education Sciences, 2023
Early school leaving rates among Roma are higher than in the majority population, as confirmed by several studies, but the descriptions are often two-dimensional.
Veronika Bocsi, Aranka Varga, Anikó Fehérvári   +2 more
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Raising Primary School Boys’ and Girls’ Awareness and Interest in STEM-Related Activities, Subjects, and Careers: An Exploratory Case Study

Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2023
Internationally, there is an under-supply of intellectual capital to provide for STEM-related employment. One contributing factor is the low number of female students selecting STEM school subjects and careers.
Natalie McMaster, Michael David Carey, David Allen Martin, Janet Martin   +3 more
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Impact of extracurricular factors on the academic performance of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic

Frontiers in Education, 2022
This article aims to study the incidence of extracurricular factors relating to (a) personal work situation and place of residence; (b) family finances; and (c) access to the virtual environment on the academic results of university students during the ...
Maria T. Sanz, Emilia López-Iñesta
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Current Educational Opportunities in Cyberspace [PDF]

International Multidisciplinary Journal of Pure Life, 2017
Cyberspace is a repository of information in which all kinds of books, articles and researches are not only stored but this information is being added with each passing day.
Maemuna Sadaf Hashemi (Pakistan)
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Community Wellbeing Under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Role of Social, Economic, Cultural, and Educational Factors in Improving Residents’ Quality of Life

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
This present article explores the effects of cultural value, economic prosperity, and community mental wellbeing through multi-sectoral infrastructure growth projects under the Belt and Road Initiative.
Jaffar Aman, Jaffar Abbas, Jaffar Abbas, Guoqing Shi, Guoqing Shi, Noor Ul Ain, Likun Gu   +6 more
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What could the phenomenal identity be? Considerations on the basis of retrospective description of my own research and analyses of the concepts of philosophy

Podstawy Edukacji, 2022
The text is a re-examination of the reflections that result from theoretical analyses of my earlier research. They concerned metaphorical thinking, seeing and constructing visual analogies and the critical thinking of an allegorist using irony.
Małgorzata Muszyńska
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Family Socio-Economic Status and Chances of School Success

Przegląd Badań Edukacyjnych, 2020
The article answers the question of how the chances of pupils getting good and very good grades in Polish and maths lessons over two years in their fourth and fifth year of learning change depending on family socioeconomic status (SES).
Szymon Borsich , Maria Deptuła
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Modeling College Graduation GPA Considering Equity in Admissions: Evidence from the University of Puerto Rico

Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
Over concerns about private school students’ advantages in standardized tests, beginning in 1995–96 the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) implemented a new admissions formula that reduced the weight they previously had in the General Admissions Index (GAI),
Horacio Matos-Diaz, Dwight Garcia
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