Currently, countries all over the world are deeply promoting the digital transformation of education. There is a lack of empirical research on the relationship between education digitization and education effectiveness. This study aims to explore the contribution of education digitization to education effectiveness through empirical research. This…

This study investigates the complex interplay of individual and household factors, class attendance, and academic performance within Ghana's Complementary Basic Education Program (CBEP). It aims to understand how these factors influence learner performance, particularly given persistent rural-urban learning disparities and limited empirical…

Purpose: This paper defines and assesses student learning patterns under the influence of problem-based learning (PBL) and their classification into a reasonable minimum number of classes. Study utilizes PBL implemented in an undergraduate Statistics and Operations Research course for techno-management students at a private university in India.…

This study aims to examine in detail the impact of smartphone use on university students' academic processes. As the role of technology in education continues to grow, smartphones have become an integral part of students' daily lives. Therefore, understanding the effects of these devices on academic performance, time management, and study habits…

The study proposes two new measures, time and location entropy, to depict students' physical spatio-temporal contexts when engaged in an online course. As "anytime, anywhere" access has been touted as one of the most attractive features of online learning, the question remains as to the success of students when engaging in online courses…

University students' epistemic beliefs may have practical consequences for studying and success in higher education. Such beliefs constitute epistemic theories that may empirically manifest themselves as epistemic profiles. This study examined university students' epistemic profiles and their relations to conceptions of learning, age, gender,…

Students' social identity is considered to have profound effects on their learning and academic performance, but there was a lack of research on whether students' social identity would also influence their aspirations to pursue STEM careers. This research studied the associations between the social identity of students and their aspirations to…

Self-regulated learning (SRL) is a fundamental skill to succeed in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), but many learners do not know how to self-regulate their learning. The need to support SRL in MOOCs led to the idea of social-psychological interventions that promise to improve course performance and decrease dropout rates. However, past…

This brief focuses on Colombia which, like most countries globally, closed its schools in March of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As throughout most of Latin America, Colombian schools remained closed for over a year, and they only began to gradually reopen in July 2021. The brief explores the pandemic's impact on student learning by analyzing…

Abundant research has tried to understand how games can be designed and used effectively to improve the learning process and to examine the correlations between digital learning games and student motivation, engagement, and knowledge retention. The current study examined the correlation between learning through digital game-based learning (DGBL)…

This study investigated the associations among school climate domains and how school climate interacts with academic performance. A sample of Kosovan public school students (N = 855) was assessed using the School Climate Survey. The results showed that students had positive perceptions in the school climate domains of teaching and learning and…

Current research on employability skills in higher education tends to focus on communication and critical thinking as being key to that success in the classroom and the workforce. The research on active listening, another employability skill, tends to focus on specific college majors. The goal of the present mixed-methods study is to look at how…

This study attempts to identify the pre-service secondary mathematics teachers' epistemological beliefs towards learning, their educational beliefs, and critical thinking dispositions as well as the relationship between them. A relational survey model was employed and the study group consisted of 152 pre-service teachers. The study used…

The importance of applying cooperative learning and aiming toward an increase in motivation to maximize the effectiveness of the learning process has not sparked an intense research interest in the Bosnian EFL context. Thus, the current study, conducted among 211 high-school participants, explores the impact of gender and grade level on students'…

Self-regulatory skill is one of the important factors affecting academic orientation and performance of learners at all levels in learning-teaching processes. The aim of this study is to compare the self-regulatory skills of preservice teachers studying in music education departments based on the variables of gender, class, overall achievement and…