International Journal of Educational Research
2015 Volume 74, Number 1
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 13
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The role of resilience in assisting the educational connectedness of at-risk youth: A study of service users and non-users
Andrew J. Martin, School of Education, Australia; Dorothy Bottrell, College of Education, Australia; Derrick Armstrong, The University of the South Pacific; Marianne Mansour, School of Education, Australia; Michael Ungar & Linda Liebenberg, University, Canada; Rebecca J. Collie, School of Education, Australia
Many at-risk youth utilize support services, including educational, health, correctional, and community/family/youth services. This study investigated young service users and non-users, resilience,... More
pp. 1-12
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School choice in the Basque Country: Public, government-dependent and private schools with different languages of instruction
Ainhoa Vega-Bayo, Departament of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, Spain; Petr Mariel, Department of Applied Economics III (Econometrics and Statistics), Spain
This paper analyzes the determinants of parental decisions when choosing schools for their children in the Basque Country, Spain. This choice is studied both in terms of private versus public... More
pp. 13-25
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A framework for primary teachers’ perceptions of mathematical reasoning
Sandra Herbert, Colleen Vale, Leicha A. Bragg, Esther Loong & Wanty Widjaja, Deakin University, Australia
Mathematical reasoning has been emphasised as one of the key proficiencies for mathematics in the Australian curriculum since 2011 and in the Canadian curriculum since 2007. This study explores... More
pp. 26-37
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Call now or later? The waiting game in decision-making
Joseph Klein
Opinions in the literature are divided as to whether the quality of judgment in a decision-making situation improves with a delay involving no conscious contemplation of the subject. This question ... More
pp. 38-48
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A cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation of the early years DELTA parenting programme
Sarah Miller & Helen Harrison
This paper reports the results from a cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) and process evaluation of the early years DELTA parenting programme; a six-week, group based intervention. The... More
pp. 49-60
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Predictive validity of the learning conception questionnaire in primary education
Eric Robbers, Peter Van Petegem, Vincent Donche & Sven De Maeyer
The objective of this research is to determine whether there is a relationship between learning conceptions of twelve-year-old students in the last year of primary education and their learning... More
pp. 61-69
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Curriculum reform as contested: An analysis of curriculum policy enactment in Queensland, Australia
Ian Hardy
This paper explores how teachers and school-based administrators at a large, low socio-economic primary school responded to policy support for a highly detailed version of the new national... More
pp. 70-81
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Quality Teaching Rounds as a professional development intervention for enhancing the quality of teaching: Rationale and study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
Jennifer Gore, Max Smith, Julie Bowe, Hywel Ellis, Adam Lloyd & David Lubans
Professional development is widely considered important for enhancing the quality of teaching for enhanced student learning. Yet few studies have demonstrated such impacts. This protocol for a... More
pp. 82-95
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Teaching and learning in small, rural schools in four European countries: Introduction and synthesis of mixed-/multi-age approaches
Robbert Smit, University of Teacher Education St. Gallen, Switzerland; Eeva Kaisa Hyry-Beihammer, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria; Andrea Raggl, University of Teacher Education Vorarlberg, Austria
As part of teaching and learning in small, rural schools, we investigate teaching and learning approaches in multi-grade classes. This introduction to four papers of a special edition, each of... More
pp. 97-103
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Multi-grade teaching practices in Austrian and Finnish primary schools
Eeva Kaisa Hyry-Beihammer, Department of Educational Science, Austria; Tina Hascher, Institute of Educational Science, Switzerland
This article describes the teaching strategies used in multi-grade classes in five small rural primary schools in Austria and Finland on the basis of the content analysis of transcribed teacher... More
pp. 104-113
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What can be learned from Spanish rural schools? Conclusions from an international project
Laura Domingo Peñafiel, University of Vic—Central University of Catalonia, Spain; Roser Boix Tomàs, University of Barcelona, Spain
This article presents some of the processes and results of the Spanish part of an international research project focused on the analysis of teaching and learning components in rural schools. The... More
pp. 114-126
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Teaching and learning in small rural primary schools in Austria and Switzerland—Opportunities and challenges from teachers’ and students’ perspectives
Andrea Raggl
Rural areas in Austria and Switzerland abound with small schools organized into multi-grade classes due to low pupil numbers. In the Interreg research project ‘Small Schools in alpine Regions’ a... More
pp. 127-135
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An empirical model of mixed-age teaching
Robbert Smit & Eva Engeli
Many research studies analysing the effects of multi-graded classes have stated the need for a description of mixed-age teaching for pedagogical reasons. We tried to fill this gap by presenting a... More
pp. 136-145
