I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan

University of Adelaide · School of Education

This study examines multilevel factors shaping Indonesian student performances attending non-madrasah/sekolah and madrasah schools. Using multistratified sample design and grouped based on their school system, data from 30 schools, 64 teachers, and 1,319 students were analysed. Focusing on student, teacher, and school-level variables, hierarchical...

This study investigates the intricacies of single-sex education in Pesantren/ Indonesian Islamic boarding schools by examining student social interactions and their impacts on wellbeing and learning outcomes. Using a two-stage-stratified sample of 547 students in single-sex classrooms, notable disparities were revealed through Independent sample t-...

The paper describes a theoretical framework for the study of teachers’ promotion of self-regulated learning in the classroom. The Self-Regulated Learning Teacher Promotion Framework (SRL-TPF) utilizes the ICAP theory to assess the affordances of the learning environment for the indirect promotion of SRL, proposes new variables in the investigation...

The greater emphasis on the significance and difference in English performance between the school types has mainly been investigated across Asian countries. However, not much is known about what language skills differentiate their overall language achievement. Using a quantitative study with comparative analysis, this study measured the reading and...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the normality of daily life for many children, their families, and schools, resulting in heightened levels of anxiety, depression, social isolation, and loneliness among young people. An integrated public health model of interventions is needed to address the problem and to safeguard the mental health and...

Purpose-This study aims to investigate the direct and indirect relationships among principal instructional leadership, collective teacher efficacy, and teacher commitment using multilevel analysis. Design/methodology/approach-This study employed quantitative cross-sectional research design. Data were collected from 1,328 teachers selected from 71...

In the context of Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT), this study is conducted to investigate how learning from home impacts Vocational High School students and how their success in English is linked to their well-being, particularly their satisfaction with fundamental psychological needs. To ensure the robustness of the study, questionnaires assessing...

This study, conducted in selected schools in in Sydney, explores factors contributing to the education of Arabic Speaking refugee children. More specifically, This research seeks to identify how individual factors such as gender, country of birth, years absent from school, family factors such as parents’ education and involvement, and social factor...

This study seeks empirical evidence about factors such as scientific reasoning, epistemological beliefs, and demographic variables (i.e., gender and year level) that contribute to prospective teachers' physics conceptual understanding as analyzed using the structural equation modeling (SEM) method. Seven hundred physics teacher candidates from Indo...

The research investigated relationships amongst beliefs about the self-regulation of learning (SRL), study strategies and academic performance in 366 pre-service teachers. A Beliefs about Learning and Teaching (BALT) Questionnaire was used to examine beliefs that were both consistent and inconsistent with SRL. The final model emerging from the stru...

This study examined the effects of the factors on Physic achievement of 8-grade Indonesian students in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2011 using Hierarchical Linear Model (HLM). The participants of this study were 9,074 eighth-grade students from 153 schools within 31 provinces in Indonesia. This study employed HL...

Education has long been acknowledged as one of the key factors in enhancing both social and economic wellbeing and is receiving increasing amounts of attention and priority in many countries worldwide, particularly those in the Southeast Asian region. Nearly every country in this region has invested extensively in education since the 1990s. However...

This paper investigates changes in 15-year-old Australian students’ attitudes towards reading mathematics, and science, as well as their relationships with students’ performance in these respective domains over the period of 2000–2018. multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was used to examine the measurement invariance of the construct of attitud...

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of the factors on Physic achievement of 8-grade Indonesian students in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2011. 9,074 eighth-grade students from 153 schools within 31 provinces in Indonesia participated in TIMSS 2011 assessment. A Path Analysis using the AMOS program wa...

Background Students are more effective when they employ appropriate strategies to regulate their learning processes and outcomes. However, many teachers do not provide, or provide very little, explicit instructions to promote this self‐regulated learning (SRL). This suggests that teachers’ belief systems may include beliefs that may be inconsistent...

First-year student's satisfaction has considered an important factor in the quality education offered by the university program. The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship among gender, a reason to participate in STEM-related subjects, program, and the university support on first-year student's satisfaction of STEM learning. The...

Pre-service teachers’ belief systems regarding the self-regulation of learning were investigated from a conceptual change perspective. Four hundred and twenty nine pre-service teachers answered a 6-point Likert scale Beliefs about Learning and Teaching (BALT) questionnaire. The results confirmed that beliefs theoretically consistent with SRL were b...

Recently, several countries have attempted to encourage life-long learning and to widen university accessibility to include a wider mix of students. In Australia, numerous new pathways with the Vocational Education and Training sector have been established for these purposes. This study reports on the effects that two variables, gender and age, had...

This article aims to examine multigroup invariance of Mathematics Self-efficacy and Attitude Scales (MSAS) and examine gender differences of MSAS across gender. 1135 (630 female and 505 male) Year 9 students in Aceh, Indonesia were involved in the study. The analysis of invariance is conducted to examine whether the items in the MSAS are operating...

Background: There is a growing nursing literature that views missed care as an inevitable consequence of work intensification associated with the rationing of nursing and material resources available to deliver care. Global studies recognize that missed care is now ubiquitous, although studies tend to be conducted in one region, rather than nation...

The impact of globalisation along with the critical demands for economic and social development have given rise to competition in keeping up with both international and regional growth. This situation has accelerated the momentum to strengthen and improve the education system of many countries especially in the Asia Pacific Region.

This is the first book regarding the issues of PISA that has been published with respect to the Southeast Asian region. It is hoped that the content of this book can benefit and provide greater understanding for readers of several important aspects: (a) country performance in PISA 2012 for each participating Southeast Asian country, (b) the need fo...

It can be argued that education is a major existing global force that has the ability to prevent future destruction of life on planet Earth. While both national economic development and life expectancy are components of the Human Development Index, education is a key component of the index.

The previous chapter draws attention to the relationships between education and human development and considers Amartya Sen’s ‘Capability’ Approach’ and the ideas that are advanced in his bok Development as Freedom. The first ten chapters in this present volume do not directly link to Sen’s ideas except in so far as they discuss the processes assoc...

Background: The results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 showed that Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand underperformed and were positioned in the bottom third out of 65 participating countries for mathematics, science, and reading literacies. The wide gap between these three countries and the top performing countries...

This chapter begins by examining briefly several aspects of the nexus between globalisation and social change, particularly, the formal drive towards globalisation and the monitoring in the future of the changes in human development and in the initial learning of the skills of literacy and numeracy by people across the whole world. This chapter arg...

This chapter argues that education is an essential component of the development and the well-being of the human and nations globally. It examines the philosophical and pedagogical underpinnings of globalisation and the wholeness of education and considers the critical role of the educative process in the past, the present and the future. The proble...

This study examines the effects of key social group variables (e.g. socioeconomic status, class size, ability grouping and school type) on the science achievement of secondary school students in Canberra, Australia after controlling for student level effects (e.g. prior performance, attitudes toward school, liking of science and educational aspirat...

Understanding motor imagery of the hands and feet has led to promising new treatments for neurological and chronic pain disorders. We aimed to extend this line of research to the neck with a view to developing the definitive platform study upon which clinical and experimental studies can be based. In a cross-sectional experiment with a convenience...

This article reports on the survey results of a longitudinal study over the period of a year and a half into the perceptions of and use of academic register in spoken discourse by 52 Iraqi students at an Australian university in two English for academic purposes (EAP) programs. The results of this study indicate that the participants valued the pre...

Recent advances in information technology have aroused much interest among policy-makers, the business sector, the media and the academic world in developed countries. However, very little is known about the obstacles to accessing information technology (IT) and the diffusion and use of information technologies in developing countries, particularly...

Culture is believed to be an important factor that influences various aspects of human life, such as behaviour, thinking, perceptions and attitudes. This article examines the similarities and differences in the influence of culture on teacher commitment in three types of Malaysian primary schools. Since commitment to teaching has rarely been invest...

This article argues that education is an essential component of the development and the wellbeing of the human and nations globally. It examines the philosophical and pedagogical underpinnings of globalisation and the wholeness of education, and considers the critical role of the educative process in the past, the present and the future. The proble...

This paper seeks to compare the relationships between social capital and health for rural and urban residents of South Australia. Using data from a South Australian telephone survey of 2,013 respondents (1,402 urban and 611 rural), separate path analyses for the rural and urban samples were used to compare the relationships between six social capit...

The teaching of science in schools in most countries changed markedly during the last four decades of the twentieth century. The first 60 years of that century gave rise to many remarkable advances in science, not only with respect to basic scientific principles, but also in the applications of science to technology for military purposes and the gr...

Teachers play an important role in educating the future members of a society through their work in schools. Furthermore, teachers in institutions of higher education, in technical training colleges and in centres of lifelong learning and recurrent education play a critical part in advancing economic and technological development as well as sustaini...

There is perhaps no situation greater than that of teachers in classrooms where sizeable groups of people work together under the direct guidance of a single person for longer periods of a day on a regular basis and for sustained periods of time than that of teachers in primary school classrooms. In the home, the group is smaller, the guidance is s...

This article considers the current debate in Australia into the learning of literacy and foreign languages. It examines not only the literacy levels attained by Australian students in their national language (English) in comparison to these in other countries, as well as between Australian states, but also theories involved in school learning and t...

This paper presents the quantitative findings from a mixed methods study of students and faculty at a private medical university in Malaysia. In particular, the relationships among students’ individual characteristics, general self-efficacy, family context, university and classroom learning environments, curriculum, approaches to learning, and meas...

A hypothetical model was formulated to explore factors that influenced academic and clinical achievement for undergraduate nursing students. Sixteen latent variables were considered including the students' background, gender, type of first language, age, their previous successes with their undergraduate nursing studies and status given for previous...

This study is exploratory, examining to what extent the Thai ICT (information and communication technology) schools have classroom learning environments that are associated with certain teacher characteristics using questionnaires, interview surveys, and computer-based classroom observations in order to collect data from 13 Thai ICT model schools....

This study indicates that values are statistically significant precursors to approaches to learning in a cohort of predominantly Bulgarian, German and Romanian students studying at a German university where the language of instruction in all subject areas is English. Values have been measured with the Portrait Values Questionnaire (Schwartz etal. 2...

The purpose of this study was to investigate how effectively ICT was being used to support students' critical thinking skills in the ICT schools pilot project in Thailand. Data were collected from students and teachers who were in model ICT schools under the Thai ICT schools pilot project by means of interview surveys and computer-based classroom o...

In this article three emergent problems in the analysis of cross-national survey data are raised in a context of 40 years of research and development in a field where persistent problems have arisen and where scholars across the world have sought solutions. Anomalous results have been found from secondary data analyses that would appear to stem fro...

A major issue in educational research involves taking into consideration the multilevel nature of the data. Since the late 1980s, attempts have been made to model social science data that conform to a nested structure. Among other models, two-level structural equation modelling or two-level path modelling and hierarchical linear modelling are two o...

Currently, there has been substantial interest, in Australia and internationally, in policy activities related to outcomes-based educational performance indicators and their link with growing demands for accountability of teachers and schools. In order to achieve a fair comparison between schools, it is commonly agreed that a correction should be m...

User satisfaction is considered to be one of the most widely used measures of information and communication technology (ICT) implementation success. Therefore, it is interesting to examine the possibility of creating a general measure of user satisfaction to allow for diversity among users and diversity in the ICT-related tasks they perform. The en...

This article addresses an important problem that faces educators in assessing students' competence levels in learned tasks. Data from 165 students from Massachusetts and Minnesota in the United States are used to examine the validity of five assessment modes (multiple choice test, scenario, portfolio, self-assessment and supervisor rating) in measu...

A hypothetical model was formulated to explore factors that influenced academic and clinical achievement for graduate-entry medical students completing their third year of university studies. Nine latent variables were considered including the students' background, previous successes with their undergraduate and postgraduate studies and their asses...

This paper presents the quantitative findings from a mixed methods study of students and faculty at a private medical university in Malaysia. In particular, the relationships among students’ individual characteristics, general self-efficacy, family context, university and classroom learning environments, curriculum, approaches to learning, and meas...

Evaluation studies often lack sophistication in their statistical analyses, particularly where there are small data sets or missing data. Until recently, the methods used for analysing incomplete data focused on removing the missing values, either by deleting records with incomplete information or by substituting the missing values with estimated m...

Recent advance in information technology has aroused much interest among policy-makers, the business sector, the media and the academic world in developed countries. However, very little is known about the obstacles to adopting information technology in developing countries, particularly the low-income economies. This research stems from the issues...

Recent advances in information technology have aroused much interest among policy-makers, the business sector, the media and the academic world in developed countries. However, very little is known about the obstacles to accessing information technology (IT) and the diffusion and use of information technologies in developing countries, particularly...

This paper provides an empirical assessment of the impact of Information Technology (IT) implementation, as a learning process, on the people who use computers or the products of computers in the performance of their daily activities. In particular, this study examines the changes in those people's perception of structural dimensions (the level of...