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Download full textMargaret Becker Patterson – Adult Literacy Education, 2025
Adults with low numeracy skills often start adult foundational education services or work with individual tutors. Using U.S. PIAAC 2012/2014/2017 data, this paper examines the characteristics, educational backgrounds, and numeracy proficiency of adult learners in adult foundational education, along with use of numeracy skills at home and how…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Numeracy, Adult Students, Student Characteristics
Direct linkSila Kaya-Capocci; Aybuke Pabuccu-Akis; Nil Orhan-Ozteber – Research in Science Education, 2025
The importance of enhancing entrepreneurial STEM education has become accentuated to foster sustainable, collegial, and innovative STEM practices. The study aimed to enhance high-school students' entrepreneurial skills, namely resourcefulness and problem-solving skills, and investigate their experiences and feelings of entrepreneurial STEM…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, STEM Education, Student Characteristics, Problem Solving
Rebecca Bier; Elizabeth Vaade; Culleen Witthuhn – Grantee Submission, 2025
Peer interaction offers critical learning opportunities for preschool students, yet exposure to peers of different skill levels varies within and across classrooms. We explore two ways peers may affect learning: differences in who children play with in a classroom and differences in student composition across classrooms. We find that playing with…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Preschool Education, Academic Ability, Skill Development
Susan Bickerstaff; Akilah H. Thompson; Keena P. Walters; Jenivee Gastelum – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2025
Online courses have become an increasingly common feature of the higher education landscape, expanding access and offering flexibility for students. Yet, they also pose unique challenges. Research has documented concerning performance gaps between students enrolled in face-to-face and online courses, while faculty have reported difficulties…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Independent Study, Skill Development, Student Experience
Sílvia Monteiro; Sandra Santos; José Nuno Teixeira; Leonor Torres; José Palhares – Education & Training, 2025
Purpose: Graduates' employability has been recognised as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon in the theoretical literature. However, some critics have emerged around the lack of relation between structural, contextual and individual dimensions that have been acknowledged as relevant for the understanding of graduates' employability. This…
Descriptors: College Students, Employment Potential, Career Readiness, Student Characteristics
Kevin Wenger; Jillian Kinzie – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2025
First-year seminars (FYS) are well-tested and trusted programs to facilitate students' transition to college. This study adds to the body of evidence about the value of seminars through analysis of a large multi-institution dataset and documentation of the positive association between participation in a first-year seminar and student engagement in…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Student Adjustment, College Freshmen, Program Effectiveness
