Search for dissertations about: "high-school"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 96 swedish dissertations containing the word high-school.

  2. 6. The importance of personality, IQ and learning approaches : Predicting academic performance

    Author : Pia Rosander; Institutionen för psykologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Personality traits; Intelligence; approaches to learning; longitudinal; SEM-analyses; adolescents; high school; gender differences;

    Abstract : The aim of the present doctoral thesis was to examine to what extent personality traits and approaches to learning contribute to academic performance in upper secondary school (high school), after controlling for the well-known fact that general intelligence accounts for a large part of the variance. The general proposition of the thesis is that personality traits are stable dispositons and therefore predispose an individual to behave or act in a specific manner (Costa & McCrae, 1976). READ MORE

  4. 7. What and How Students Perceive They Learn When Doing Mini-Companies in Upper Secondary School

    Author : Steven Hunter Lindqvist; Anders Arnqvist; Juvas Marianne Liljas; Michael Dal; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Junior Achievement Company Program; Junior Achievement Young Enterprise; Mini-company; Student Company; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship Education; Entrepreneurial Learning; Upper Secondary School; High School; Reflection; Skills; Competencies; Ung Företagsamhet; UF-företag; Entreprenörskap; Elevföretag; Entreprenörskaps Utbildning; Entreprenöriellt Lärande; Gymnasium; Reflektion; Förmågor; Kompetenser; Pedagogiskt arbete; Educational Work; Utbildning och lärande;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to gain more in-depth knowledge into what Swedish upper secondary school students perceive they learn, and the factors that students perceive affect learning, when they start and run mini-companies within the Junior Achievement Company Program.  The data is comprised of interviews with eleven students each of whom ran a mini-company with other students. READ MORE

  5. 8. Physical activity and self-related health in Swedish high school students

    Author : Yvonne Kahlin; Marie Alricsson; Suzanne Werner; Anders Raustorp; Ninni Sernert; Institutionen för idrottsvetenskap (ID) Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Idrottsvetenskap; Sport Science;

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  6. 9. Tolerating political dissent : the impact of high school social climates in the United states and West Germany

    Author : H. Dean Nielsen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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  7. 10. It will not happen to me : sexual behaviour among high school and university students and evaluation of STD-prevention programmes

    Author : Tanja Tydén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

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