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The aim of this empirical research was to examine the possibility of predicting the attitudes of Croatian adolescents toward cultural diversity in the Croatian society based on selected socio demographic variables and contacts with members of other nations. The survey covered 1471 secondary school pupils from all over the Republic of Croatia. By means of …

Extracurricular activities encourage a child’s integral development, creative abilities and interests. In school, all students opt for an extracurricular activity according to their abilities, needs and interests. A determinant of freedom of choice regarding students’ choice of an extracurricular activity respects the educational needs of every child, student and adult; the need to respect each …

The goal of this research is learning to what extent do social skills, as dimensions of desirable and socially competent behavior, contain, explain and predict intercultural competence of elementary school students who attend 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade. (N = 593). Multidimensional criterion of children’s social competence was operationalized through 17 variables whose quality …

In this paper we wanted to compare the writing skills of fourteen- and fi fteenyear-old pupils and fi rst year students of an engineering college. We based our research on the essays with assigned topics. On the syntactico-semantic level we monitored the use of grammar structures and vocabulary whereas on the discourse level we were …

This paper deals with some of the results of a survey done in 2004 and 2005 among the students of secondary schools of the Split Dalmatian County on the position of sport within their leisure time. The results of the analysis uncover that sport is one of the very significant student activities, but not the …

The goal of this study was to determine whether teachers and students use art textbooks in the lower grades of elementary school (which textbooks are used, why, who decides on the choice of the textbook, and in which part of the class the textbook is used). We also researched teachers’ opinion about the importance of …

The media-effect research has developed many models of research which express different relations between the media, the message, and the recipients. After defi ning some basic terms (e.g. media, mass media, media-effect), the work analyses particular types of models (such as the traditional model, the gratifi cation model, the interactive model, the consequential model, the …