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Jimena Cosso; Gala Campos Oaxaca; David J. Purpura – Infant and Child Development, 2024
The home numeracy environment is an essential construct that helps explain children's numeracy skills. However, this field has been developed mostly focusing on monolingual English-speaking families, and cultural differences that contextualize the home environment have not been considered. This study describes the home numeracy environment of…
Descriptors: Home Study, Educational Environment, Family Environment, Numeracy
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Minna O. Nygren; Sara Price; Rhiannon Thomas Jha – Science Education, 2024
Although adults are known to play an important role in young children's development, little work has focused on the enactive features of scaffolding in informal learning settings, and the embodied dynamics of intergenerational interaction. To address this gap, this paper undertakes a microinteractional analysis to examine intergenerational…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Generational Differences, Informal Education, Museums
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Karakus, Mehmet; Courtney, Matthew; Aydin, Hasan – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2023
The present study explores the antecedents of first- and second-generation (1G and 2G) immigrant students' academic performance using PISA 2018 data. The study draws on an international sample of 11,582 students from 534 schools in 20 countries and focuses on PISA schools that catered to a mix of 1G and 2G students. The study explores the role…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Generational Differences, Student Characteristics, Student Attitudes
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Pivovarova, Margarita; Powers, Jeanne M. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2019
Background: Immigrants and their children are the fastest-growing demographic group in the United States, and schools are often the first social institution young immigrants engage with on a sustained basis. As such, the academic achievement of immigrant students can be viewed as an indicator of their incorporation and a predictor of educational…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Generational Differences, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
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Duzenli, Hülya – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2021
Gen Z stands out as a new age learner group in the context of open and distance learning. Research shows that Gen Z has different needs and expectations form their predecessors; therefore, new educational interventions are required. The purpose of this study is to examine the suggestions of the scientific articles on Gen Z to draw educational…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Generational Differences, Distance Education, Open Education
Church, Bret; Simmering, Luke – Kansas Association of School Boards, 2022
A growing educator shortage is having significant impacts in schools and communities throughout the United States. In response to this growing concern, the Kansas Teacher Retention Initiative was launched in the summer of 2021, with a focus on measuring, understanding, interpreting, and disseminating data-driven insights regarding the driving…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Persistence, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Attitudes
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Dalim, Siti Fairuz; Azliza, Nurul Zakiah Muhamad; Ibrahim, Norezan; Zulkipli, Zulinda Ayu; Yusof, Mohammad Mubarrak Mohd – Asian Journal of University Education, 2019
Digital Storytelling is one of the new pedagogical tools that calls upon students' creativity and helps them to "learn by doing". It is one of the important steps towards creating the 21st century learning environment as it promotes the integration of student-centered and technology-enriched learning environment for learners. Despite the…
Descriptors: Story Telling, 21st Century Skills, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Peguero, Anthony A.; Hong, Jun Sung – Journal of School Violence, 2019
Violence and disorder occurring within schools have received increased attention and scrutiny over the years; however, few have explored how violence and school disorder are influencing the children of immigrants' likelihood of dropping out. The current study draws from a segmented assimilation framework to explore if and how the associations…
Descriptors: Violence, Educational Environment, Dropouts, Immigrants
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Lo, Marc A.; Ittner, Timothy; Wright, Mary C. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
While dropping classes is an almost ubiquitous practice on campuses, it is far less studied than course selection or overall retention. This lack of research is striking given that the practice has implications for the evaluation of teaching, efficient use of institutional resources, time to degree, and educational inclusion. The authors present…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Persistence, Withdrawal (Education), Private Colleges
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Herrera, Nancy; Gloria, Alberta M.; Castellanos, Jeanett – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2018
Using a psychosociocultural approach, the study examined the mediating role of the perceptions of the community college environment and moderating influence of being first to graduate high school, on the relationships between coping and self-esteem with emic well-being, respectively. A total of 160 Mexican American female students were included in…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Females, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges
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Kleinhans, Kelly A.; Chakradhar, Kala; Muller, Susan; Waddill, Paula – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2015
The current workforce composition of the academy is comprised of multiple generational cohorts, Traditionalists, Leading Edge Boomers, Trailing Edge Boomers, Generation Xers and Millennials. Despite the plethora of research identifying a myriad of differences in the way these generational cohorts approach work and social activities little…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Attitudes, Educational Environment, Work Environment
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Yahr, Michael A.; Schimmel, Kurt – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2013
The Millennial generation, also known as Generation Y, has garnered much attention in the print and broadcast media and at academic conferences because of the challenges that they pose to universities and corporations. Aggregate characteristics and preferences of the Millennial generation and of Generation X, their immediate predecessors, have…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Experiential Learning, Educational Environment, Simulation
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Kennedy, David M.; Fox, Bob – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2013
Students entering universities in the 21st century have been described variously as digital natives, the millennial generation or the net generation. Considerable study has occurred around the world to determine the knowledge, skills, understanding and the purposes to which this group of individuals makes technology work for them. A number of…
Descriptors: Asians, Mass Media Use, Generational Differences, College Freshmen
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, Comp. – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2015
The contributions in this volume represent a decade of OCLC's user behavior research findings that articulate the need for the design of future library services to be all about the user. Highlights include: (1) People associate the library with books and do not consider the library in relation to online resources or reference services; (2) People…
Descriptors: Library Services, User Needs (Information), User Satisfaction (Information), Library Research
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Gronn, Donna; Scott, Anne; Edwards, Susan; Henderson, Michael – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2014
Research into children's learning with digital technologies is represented by a growing body of literature examining the relationship between home-school technological practices. A focus of this work is on the notion of a "digital-disconnect" between home and school. This argument suggests that children are such native users of…
Descriptors: Young Children, Siblings, Family Environment, Educational Environment
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