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Direct linkJonathan A. Plucker; Leslie Rutkowski; David Rutkowski – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2025
Excellence gaps are differences in advanced education outcomes among student groups. This study replicates and extends an earlier study on the prevalence and magnitude of excellence gaps based on student sex and immigrant status using Grade 8 TIMSS data. Data were included for the 12 countries that have participated in each TIMSS administration…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Immigrants, Grade 8, Mathematics Achievement
Download full textEsra Merve Çaliskan; I?rem I?tegin – Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, 2024
With the development of technology, security, a core human concern throughout history, has changed and branched out into new areas. Novel security concepts, including environmental security, economic security, and cybersecurity, have emerged as a result of these expanding areas. The importance of cybersecurity has increased in the linked world of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Computer Security, Information Security, Sex Role
Fernando Senar; Nurullah Eryilmaz; Andrés Sandoval-Hernández; Cecilio Lapresta-Rey – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
This study aims to explore the effect of cultural capital on the perception of parental involvement policies offered by schools in various countries. Using PISA (2018) data, a multilevel model is implemented for each participant country to adopt a comparative perspective. While the results suggest a complex effect, moderated by idiosyncratic…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Parent Participation, School Policy, Cultural Differences
Kuvac Kraljevic, Jelena; Matic Škoric, Ana; Roch, Maja; Kogovšek, Damjana; Novšak Brce, Jerneja – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2022
Background: Previous research, although scarce, has indicated that the general public is still relatively unaware of developmental language disorder (DLD), one of the most common (neuro)developmental disorders. Raising awareness would increase timely involvement in intervention procedures. Aims: To examine public awareness of DLD in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments, Knowledge Level
Gabbatore, Ilaria; Dindar, Katja; Pirinen, Veera; Vähänikkilä, Hannu; Mämmelä, Laura; Kotila, Aija; Bosco, Francesca M.; Leinonen, Eeva; Loukusa, Soile – First Language, 2023
Effective communication is a fundamental aspect of children's daily living, enabling interaction with adults and peers. A rich literature suggests that communicative abilities develop with age, while little is known about cross-cultural differences and similarities. This study presents a comparison of the communicative performance of Finnish (n =…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Communication Skills
Bulgarelli, Daniela; Bianquin, Nicole; Barron, Carol; Emmett, Mary-Jane – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
Several factors might affect outdoor play (individual and family aspects, neighbourhood environment, policy and socio-cultural factors). The Covid-19 lockdowns became a barrier to outdoor play and had a greater impact on children with disabilities. This study describes the outdoor activities and play and the contextual factors that affected them…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, COVID-19, Pandemics
Sorgente, Angela; Tagliabue, Semira; Andrade, Claudia; Oliveira, José Egidio; Duan, Wenjie; Lanz, Margherita – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2021
This study tested factorial structure, reliability as well as gender, age, and cultural measurement invariance of the Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT). Data were collected from 981 Italian, Portuguese, and Chinese emerging adults. Results showed that BIT scores were reliable, mono-dimensional, and suitable to assess thriving across different…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Age Differences, Cultural Differences, Error of Measurement
Blijd-Hoogewys, Els M. A.; Bulgarelli, Daniela; Molina, Paola; van Geert, Paul L. C. – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
The extent to which Theory of Mind (ToM) performance is influenced by cultural and gender differences remains a subject of debate. A sample of 324 Dutch and 511 Italian children (52% boys; 2.8-11.7 years; 50% boys; 2.6-10.3 years; respectively) was administered the ToM Storybooks. Analysis focused on indicators of nonlinearity: moving standard…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Child Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Gender Differences
Sergio Di Sano; Jesslynn Rocha Neves; Gino Casale; Baiba Martinsone; Tamika P. La Salle-Finley – School Psychology, 2024
In recent decades, much international research has been carried out on school climate and its relationship with learning, socioemotional, and health outcomes (Berkowitz et al., 2017; La Salle, Rocha-Neves, et al., 2021; Pizmony-Levy et al., 2019). Limited research has been carried out to investigate the relationship between school climate and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Secondary Schools, Minority Group Students
Hanushek, Eric A.; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; Woessmann, Ludger – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -- Facebook interests -- to construct novel regional…
Descriptors: Time, Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Correlation
Nicole Messi – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
This study explores the establishment of communities of practice within teaching and learning centres (TLC) as strategies for advancing faculty development in higher education, examining their implementation in the US and Europe, with a specific focus on Italy. Utilising organisational benchmarking, we employed an explanatory, comparative, and…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Communities of Practice, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Nicolle Cai; Silvain S. Dang; Simone Cheli; Veronica Cavalletti; Gordon L. Flett; Paul L. Hewit – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
Perfectionism measures developed in English-speaking populations have become frequently used in many non-English contexts, including in Italy. Establishing structural and measurement equivalence of instruments between Canadian and Italian samples is therefore important in establishing the validity of these concepts and instruments in Italian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Measures, Personality Traits, Measurement
Lansford, Jennifer E.; Zietz, Susannah; Bornstein, Marc H.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Gurdal, Sevtap; Liu, Qin; Long, Qian; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Chang, Lei – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural similarities and differences in problem behavior during adolescence. Adolescents from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries…
Descriptors: Aggression, Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, Adolescent Development
Neidorf, Teresa; Arora, Alka; Erberber, Ebru; Tsokodayi, Yemurai; Mai, Thanh – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2020
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Research for Education series represents a further effort by IEA to capitalize on it's unique datasets, so as to provide powerful information for policymakers and researchers. Each report focuses on a specific topic and is produced by a dedicated team of leading…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Mathematical Concepts, Scientific Concepts, Mathematics Instruction
Nancy Teresi Truett; Frances A. Alimigbe; Victoria Suarez – Commission for International Adult Education, 2023
Adult learners globally face a multitude of challenges in learning and obtaining educational degrees. This can be due to a variety of reasons including academic stress, as well as additional responsibilities with managing families, childcare, household duties, careers, and jobs. Different cultures may face unique barriers in education; however,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Barriers, Cultural Differences
