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Claire McKinley Yoder; Mary Ann Cantrell; Janice L. Hinkle – Journal of School Nursing, 2024
Multiple factors influence a student's success in high school graduation. Individual factors such as disability, racial or ethnic identity, and gender may result in inequity in the school environment, interfering with learning and possibly leading to poorer educational outcomes. This secondary analysis of student educational records (N = 3,782)…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Students with Disabilities, Racial Differences
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Stephen Sowa; Julie Smith; Andrew Manches – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2024
To explore the differential impact of job automation for different groups of primary and secondary school students, an analysis of variance was conducted using survey data on the occupational aspirations of British school students (aged 7-18) and probability statistics derived from a model of job automation. Results indicated that students aged…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Career Choice, Occupational Aspiration, Probability
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Stela-Marina Kostaki; Michalis Linardakis – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The current study explores the preferences of primary school teachers on the characteristics of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)-based teaching via Discrete Choice Models (DCM). These models analyze the preferences of teachers towards alternatives that are formed by different characteristics. In this study we examined the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Preferences, Teaching Methods
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Kim, Taehoon; Jang, Hayun; Kim, Jinho – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2022
This study examines the influence of peers who receive private tutoring on an individual student's engagement in private tutoring. Using data from the Gyeonggi Education Panel Study of 7th and 10th graders in Korea, we leverage quasi-experimental variation generated from the random allocation of students to classes in schools. To address the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 7, Grade 10
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Laura Santangelo White; Emily Maulucci; Melanie Kornides; Subhash Aryal; Catherine Alix; Diane Sneider; Jessica Gagnon; Elizabeth C. Winfield; Holly B. Fontenot – Journal of School Nursing, 2024
The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine can prevent 90% of cancers caused by HPV. Health care provider recommendations affect vaccine uptake, yet there are a lack of studies examining the impact of the school nurse (SN) in vaccine recommendations. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of adding a SN HPV recommendation to the standard…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Immunization Programs, Prevention, Cancer
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Marklund, Emil – History of Education, 2021
By exploring demographic data on teachers through a Bordieusian lens, this study aims to analyse the socio-economic background of primary school teachers in northern Sweden depending on gender and type. The rural area under study follows a national development where the number of primarily female teachers and junior school teachers increased…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Background, Socioeconomic Background
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Akkurt, Yasemin Yilmaz; Durmus, Soner – Journal of Research and Advances in Mathematics Education, 2022
The aim of this paper is to review some studies conducted with different learning areas in which the schemes of different participants emerge. Also it is about to show how mathematical proofs are handled in these studies by considering Harel and Sowder's classification of proof schemes with specific examples. As a result, it was seen that the…
Descriptors: Validity, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Instruction, Classification
Lindsay Ellis Lee; Anne N. Rinn; Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2024
The Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) is the most widely used norm-referenced creativity test used in gifted identification. Although commonly used for identifying talent, little is known about how creativity tests, like the TTCT-Figural, contribute to the probability of being identified as gifted especially with underrepresented…
Descriptors: Gifted, Identification, Creativity Tests, Creative Thinking
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Ozyildirim-Gumus, Feride; Ozyildirim, Gulnar – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2020
Reflective thinking, problem solving and probabilistic thinking are important processes in mathematics education and considered to what extent those processes can be carried out by elementary school students is essential. The study is conducted with 188 eighth grade students. As a result, no significant difference is observed in reflective…
Descriptors: Reflection, Probability, Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students
Figlio, David; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Özek, Umut – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade Repetition, Educational Policy, Siblings
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Amutabi, Cyprian; Agoot, Martha Nyantiop – Cogent Education, 2021
Despite the consensus on the vital role of human capital investment towards a country's socio-economic development, school enrolment levels in South Sudan remain dismal with no empirical study conducted to unravel the same. Using the 2016 South Sudan Frequency Survey data, this study sought to unravel the determinants of primary school enrolment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status
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Snipes, Jason; Jacobson, Alexander – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2021
Middle school is an important crossroad in a student's academic journey. As students enter middle school, their academic achievement and engagement frequently declines. This is true particularly for Black and Latinx students. Poor middle school grades are often a harbinger of poor performance in high school and beyond. In particular, having a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2021
The "Academic Mindsets and Behaviors, Prior Achievement, and the Transition to Middle School" study examined the relationship between 2016/17 grade 5 student responses to a Clark County School District (Nevada) survey on levels of academic mindsets and behaviors and the predicted probability of earning a low GPA (below 2.0) at the end of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2021
This Study Snapshot highlights key findings from a study on why students often experience a decline in academic achievement as they transition to middle school. Academic mindsets, such as a belief in the malleability of ability (growth mindset) or a reluctance to engage academically because of embarrassment or a fear of failure (performance…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Grindal, Todd; Nunn, Stephanie; D'Amelio, Erin; McCracken, Mary – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2021
Few elementary students on the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) are scoring at grade level or higher on the ACT Aspire reading assessment. To better understand factors associated with the reading proficiency of CNMI grade 3 students, stakeholders there asked the Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific to examine the demographic…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Achievement, Reading Skills, Grade 3
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