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Bozgeyikli, Hasan; Görgülü, Zeynep; Bogazliyan, Emre Emrullah – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
Socioeconomic and gender-bound barriers may be considered risk factors for the youth, barring them from a hopeful future. This study aims to investigate how university students' motivation for higher education and perceived employability are related to the interaction with these barriers. Therefore, this study examined the interaction between…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status, Employment Potential
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Su, Jiahong; Yang, Weipeng; Zhong, Yuchun – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: This review focuses on the use of robotics in early childhood education (ECE), addressing gender and socioeconomic status (SES) differences in young children's robotics learning. This review systematically evaluates, synthesizes, and displays the research designs, robotic toys, data collection instruments, research methods, and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status, Robotics, Early Childhood Education
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Paterson, Lindsay – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
A unique series of surveys of school leavers in Scotland (1952-98) is used to investigate long-term developments in the transition of young people from school. Transitions changed greatly in the half century, and varied by sex and socio-economic status. School attainment became increasingly important in giving school leavers access to post-school…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational History
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Harrington, Rachel E.; Thijssen, Job H. J.; Hardy, Judy – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
The academic performance of undergraduate physics students at a research-intensive UK university were studied to identify whether there were any significant differences between underrepresented and overrepresented groups. Exit qualification, degree classification, average yearly marks, and course marks were analyzed to determine statistically…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, Undergraduate Students
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Yoon, So Yoon; Aldridge, Julie L.; Cox, Monica F.; Main, Joyce B.; McGee, Ebony Omotola; Hailu, Meseret F. – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Gender disparities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) faculty composition remain a major issue in U.S. higher education. Specifically, the underrepresentation of women of color has been described as a crisis. We developed the Workplace Climate and Persistence Scale (WCPS) for STEM faculty to assess departmental-level…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Work Environment, Teacher Persistence
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Kim, Meereem; Kim, Hyesook – Computers in the Schools, 2023
This study aims to identify the profiles regarding students' familiarity with information and communication technology (ICT) and their relationships to reading literacy and background variables for high-performing countries in PISA 2018. We distinguished four classes in each of the six countries (Estonia, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, Poland,…
Descriptors: Profiles, Use Studies, High Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Seyrek, Ozgur Demirci; Ersanli, Ercümend – Journal of Educational Issues, 2021
In this study, the aim was to examine the relationship between the psychological resilience and remembered parental care of college students in young adulthood and whether this relationship varies according to gender and perceived socio-economic level. A correlational model was used as a research model. For data collection purposes, ''a personal…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship, Caring, Gender Differences
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Björn Högberg; Mattias Strandh – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
School stress is widespread among students' worldwide, impacting academic success and mental health. Most research focuses on average stress levels but lacks insights into temporal trends and inequalities. Using repeated longitudinal survey data on 33,000 students in Swedish compulsory school from the Evaluation Through Follow-up (ETF) study, we…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Stress Variables, Academic Achievement, Mental Health
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Thorjussen, Ingfrid Mattingsdal – Sport, Education and Society, 2023
In recent years, the complexity of post-modern societies has gained increasing attention. In terms of education, the attention involves focusing on how students experience inclusion and meaningful learning, regardless of their ethnic and/or socioeconomic background. These matters are particularly relevant in health and physical education (PE),…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Social Class, Social Differences, Socioeconomic Status
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Finch, Jenna E.; Wolf, Sharon; Lichand, Guilherme – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The role of executive function skills and motivation in supporting children's academic achievement is well-documented, but the vast majority of evidence is from high-income countries. Classrooms in sub-Saharan Africa tend to be large, teacher-driven, and lecture-focused, which may provide extra challenges for children to stay engaged in the…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Paterson, Lindsay – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
The relationship between students' entry to higher education and the history or status of the secondary school which they attended is examined using school leavers' surveys in Scotland stretching from the early 1950s to the late 1990s. The surveys are unique in the length of this period, their details of the higher-education institutions and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational History, Institutional Characteristics, Foreign Countries
Jennifer Wallace; Jennifer Feldman – Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, 2022
This chapter provides a discussion on elite schools and their students from the current literature and research that has been conducted to date globally and within the South African context, with a particular focus on marginalized students in elite schools -- those who enter these environments from different racial, socioeconomic, cultural and/or…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Selective Admission, Disadvantaged, Social Differences
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Van Houtte, Mieke – European Education, 2021
Given the importance of relatedness for study motivation, motivation might be associated with faculty trust in students and, as such, with schools' student composition. Representative Flemish data of 5162 students and 1247 teachers in 57 Flemish secondary schools, gathered at the end of the 2013/2014 school year (April--May 2014), reveal that the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Trust (Psychology), Teacher Student Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Heriberto Godina – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2024
Hispanic literacy development in the Southwestern US is examined through standardized assessment data derived from recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and Texas Academic Performance Reports (TAPR). This longitudinal study focuses on significant variables across a spectrum of grade levels for Hispanics of Mexican descent.…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Student Development, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
Christopher Bwalya Yaluma – ProQuest LLC, 2024
How government delivers public services can have broad societal effects, beyond the impact on programmatic outcomes. Such societal effects are particularly likely in the delivery of public education, as educational concerns drive residential and school choices, and public schools are the second largest public employer in the United States. My…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Education, School Administration, Social Differences
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