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This term concerns those factors that differ across cultures which appear to have a significant influence upon students’ orientation to learning and their subsequent educational achievement.
Theoretical Background
While there has long been interest in learning from other nations’ educational practices, it was the advent of increasingly sophisticated test procedures and programs that could compare educational standards across countries, together with greater opportunity to observe and report upon overseas practices, that sparked huge political and mass media interest in cross-cultural factors underpinning educational achievement. Highly influential testing series include the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), examining mathematics and science achievements of children at approximately the 4th and 8th grade in many countries around the world; the Progress in...
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Elliott, J.G., Resing, W.C.M. (2012). Cross-Cultural Factors in Learning and Motivation. In: Seel, N.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_99
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