Enrolments in school arts subjects are falling in both England and Australia. There are various arguments made in an attempt to reverse the situation. The arts are said to be vital for the economy, linked to success in core school subjects, are educationally inclusive and important for their disciplinary knowledges. In this paper, based on my…

Limited literature has investigated the effects of state and institutional merit-based financial aid on student choice of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) major fields, an unintended consequence with important implications. By leveraging nationally representative longitudinal data from the Beginning Postsecondary Students,…

This memorandum provides information on Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) course enrollment, exam participation, and exam performance during the 2023-2024 school year. During the 2023-2024 school year, 136 AP or IB courses were offered across high schools. Among the 25 comprehensive high schools, all offered AP courses,…

The study discussed in this paper investigated how young women studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses in upper secondary technical institutes in Ghana made their education and career decisions. The study interviewed 26 young women to explore and understand the processes they navigated to choose STEM in TVET. The…

The research examines the effectiveness of channels for promoting educational services in the tasks of preparing personnel for the communication industry. The high level of professional requirements for graduates of relevant specialties dictates the need to enhance the attractiveness of these educational programs, enabling a more rigorous…

Most college graduates in the United States earn excess credit hours (ECH) that do not apply to their degree. In response, multiple U.S. states and college systems have shifted the costs of ECH away from taxpayers and toward students--a response which implies ECH is primarily driven by students who engage in frivolous course-taking. To better…

There are substantial and ongoing concerns in the international secondary and tertiary education sectors about the number of students choosing advanced or higher-level mathematics at upper secondary level. Declining enrolments in the last two years of secondary school in higher-level mathematics is seen as a major concern for the future of STEM…

The open online course (MOOC) platform has seen an increase in usage, and there are a growing number of courses accessible for people to select. An effective method is urgently needed to recommend personalized courses for users. Although the existing course recommendation models consider that users' interests change over time, they often model…

As one of the fundamental tasks in the online learning platform, interactive course recommendation (ICR) aims to maximize the long-term learning efficiency of each student, through actively exploring and exploiting the student's feedbacks, and accordingly conducting personalized course recommendation. Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL)…

In today's digital age, online courses have become a valuable tool for learners to acquire new skills and knowledge. The global outbreak of COVID-19 has further accelerated the adoption of online learning as education service providers are forced to move their courses online to ensure the continuity of education. However, with many online courses,…

This quantitative study examined the relationship between school leadership experience and African American students' completion of Texas Education Agency-approved college readiness courses. Using 2021-2022 data from the Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR) in Region 7, the study analyzed average years of experience for principals and…

Studying subjects in school had a relationship with students' future career choices. However, science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields (STEM) careers are often considered to be less accessible by many children. The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors influencing the STEM career-oriented subjects' choice of Vietnamese…

Inadequate consideration of course workload in undergraduate students' course selections has contributed to adverse academic outcomes. At the same time, credit hours, the default institutional metric to convey time-based course workload to students, has been shown to capture students' experienced workload insufficiently. Recent research documents…

Despite the increasing demand for professionals in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), only a small portion of young people in the USA pursue a postsecondary degree in STEM. To identify the major predictors of STEM participation, this study uses a machine learning approach, a Classification and Regression Tree (CART), to…

This study explored the math course taking patterns of Nebraska's secondary students from 2014-2020 using statewide data. Three course taking patterns were identified and examined. There are nuanced differences through these pathways based and race and gender. Student success through the pathways is dependent on course placement in the first year…