Andrejs Geske

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• PhD
• Professor at University of Latvia

Since the understanding of non-cognitive skills and their importance have grown, it becomes more and more significant to measure their impact on different areas of professional life. It has been researched that not only individual teacher’s professional self-efficacy, but also collective self-efficacy has a significant impact on both the teachers’...

This study focused on students’ self-confidence and analyzed the relationship between self-confidence and gender, age, subject, achievement, and other variables. The students from Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Poland, Germany, Sweden, and Denmark were compared. The authors of this research analyzed the data from three large scale studies and compared...

School socioeconomic segregation has an impact on students’ academic performance and affects equity in education. This study aims to evaluate socioeconomic segregation in schools and its changes in the previous decades, using data obtained from international large-scale assessments (ILSA). In this study, data from eight European Union (EU) countrie...

In 2021 a new Law on Administrative Territories and Populated Areas came into force in the Republic of Latvia. To reduce fragmentation, the number of municipalities and State cities was reduced from 119 to 43. There were no changes in 11 local governments, however, other new structures were formed by merging two to eight local governments. On the o...

The prolonged pandemic situation that left its damaging footprints not only in global economy but in many families, struggling with options to maintain their pre-pandemic income levels and social status, has raised the issue about the impact of family socioeconomic status (SES) on child’s personality, especially self-beliefs. It has been previously...

In recent years, studies have put emphasis on school not only as an institution for academic achievement but also as an environment for social-emotional development, learning and shaping students’ attitudes and beliefs. There are studies that show the correlation between the environment and development of a child’s self-concept, as well as the corr...

School violence and bullying highlighted as a global issue outside and in the school. In this research, IEA International Civic and Citizenship Study (ICCS) 2016 data from eight countries – Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia), the Russian Federation, Sweden and Denmark – was compared. The aim of the article is to o...

The self-confidence of a child and an adult is associated with performance and achievement results. It is well-studied, and the correlation has been proved that higher self-efficacy leads to higher achievements and performance, including better performance in reading literacy. It is also known that both a family and a home environment have a tremen...

Scientific studies have proved that a family has a high impact on the students’ academic achievement, including their reading literacy. This paper focuses on the parents’ undertaken activities for promoting the development of child’s reading literacy at the preschool age (reading together, singing, discussing the read text with a child, playing tog...

Risk management is gaining acknowledgement in organisational management due to the benefits it brings with it, such as ability of managers to forecast possible threats and plan the most appropriate prevention measures. Psychosocial risk group is one of the largest risk group types and is related to the aspects of staff overburning, lack of employee...

In the context of general education content reform initiated in Latvia, which also provides change of teaching approach, the issue of the role of headmaster has raised. The introduction and implementation of competence approach requires strengthening and development of cooperation between teachers in professional learning communities (PLCs) at scho...

The recent reforms in the Latvian general education curriculum along with a school network reorganization have brought new attention to the issues related to a teacher education and the level of professionalism in everyday teaching work. Soviet-era education and work experience in diverse political and education systems (under the Soviet rule and a...

The purpose of the research paper is to study a positive working environment importance for teachers work satisfaction and the role of principal in improving working conditions. Whereas teacher profession is subject to different changes and reforms it makes the whole profession and teacher well-being an important subject to discuss.The research pap...

The world is moving fast and European Union invests significantly into moving towards smart, sustainable and inclusive economy. One of the driving forces for Europe’s advancement is a strong commitment towards the development of knowledge and innovation based economy, supported by relevant European policy initiatives; in particular, research and in...

The world is moving fast and European Union invests significantly into moving towards smart, sustainable and inclusive economy. One of the driving forces for Europe’s advancement is a strong commitment towards the development of knowledge and innovation based economy, supported by relevant European policy initiatives; in particular, research and in...

Šiame straipsnyje pateikiama lyginamųjų edukologijos tyrimų, Latvijoje atliktų per pastaruosius dešimt metų, apžvalga. Aptariami pasaulyje plačiai žinomq IEA, TIMSS ir SITES, OECD PISA ir kitų tyrimų rezultatai, gauti Latvijoje ir kitose šalyse. Tai leidžia susidaryti vaizdą tiek apie Latvijos, tiek apie kai kurių kitų šalių edukologijos laimėjimus...

The purpose of the study is to analyze the IEA PIRLS 2006 set of items in order to check if a differential item functioning (DIF) can be noticed. The groups of comparison are based on gender since PIRLS 2006 study has showed that Latvia has the 6th largest gender gap in reading literacy scores. So the DIF analysis is expected to show if an instrume...

p> This paper examines teachers’ satisfaction with their profession and work environment in relation to other environmental factors in schools. Latvian data from the OECD TALIS 2013 study are used in the data analysis. The aim of the study was to find out whether there is any relationship between teacher satisfaction with their work environment and...

Competencies develop and changes throughout a person’s life, they can gain or lose, going through various age stages. Their development does not end in youth, but continue on through the adult life. The ability to thing and reflect those thoughts specifically come forward in the center of structure of competency, which grows at the same time as the...

Civic skills, knowledge and attitudes are the elements forming the citizenship concept. How do they suit multicultural societies? What are the mutual links among civic attitudes, knowledge and skills of different ethnic groups? The aim of the research is to establish the model of students’ civic competence and to find out factors which explain the...

The results of IEA (The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) PIRLS 2006 (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) has showed that Latvia has the 6th largest gender gap in reading literacy scores and that is an indication of a serious problem of education in this country. The purpose of the paper is to fi...