School discipline is an integral part of educational systems. Its relationship with students' test anxiety has attracted increasing interest among scholars. By fitting multilevel models on data from a sample of Grade 4 students from rural schools in central China, this study examined the association between teachers' disciplinary sanctions and…

In today's world, where the single-grade model is most prevalent, some schools are offering a more flexible organisational model based on respecting the learning pace of each child. This study examines a scarcely explored topic, with the objective of elucidating inclusive and flexible organisational practices and underscoring their educational…

This study explored differences in students' self-perceived professional development between remote and in-person work during hybrid placement-based work-integrated learning (WIL) experiences. Drawing from the graduate capital model, a content analysis of interviews with students (N = 8) revealed how professional development differed between work…

Purpose: Operating in both traditional schools and alternative learning systems (ALS) requires organizations to have a strong understanding of what drives the cultural acceptance of violence and the capacity of the local populace to find peaceful solutions. This paper explores the results from a formative social network analysis (SNA) study on…

Research on inner speech is still in a nascent stage. The present paper investigates consecutive multilinguals' self-reported language use for inner speech with a focus on the L1 (first language) and L2 (second language). Its aim is to identify influential variables in these processes and to investigate if findings from previous studies are…

College students at 14 Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in New Mexico and Texas were surveyed about their experiences in and perceptions of higher education. Three primary foci were students' employment status, work commitments, and means of financing college. Most of the informants reported working while in college and, similar to previously…

Rural communities are not a monolith; they have unique challenges that require unique policy solutions. One of the best ways to understand the diversity of those challenges -- and, in turn, identify the most effective solutions -- is to hear directly from rural communities. This Special Report analyzes data from a 2020 Strada Education…

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a number of shortcomings in the nation's social infrastructure, one of which is access to the internet. When school is exclusively online or medical appointments rely principally on telehealth, those without online access are not merely inconvenienced. They are socially excluded, given their limited means to get…

The Iowa Department of Education (Department) collects information on developmental education (dev. ed.) from Iowa's 15 community colleges on an annual basis. Dev. ed. courses are offered in mathematics, reading, writing, English as a Second Language (ESL), and in other subject areas, such as financial literacy and skill building. These credits do…

Purpose: This study investigated the trends of repetition and dropout rates in Myanmar's lower secondary education before and after the introduction of the "Continuous Assessment and Progression System (CAPS)" and probed the dependence of these tendencies on high-, middle- and low- socioeconomic status (SES). The obtained results were…

As writing pedagogy gains distinct footholds in university classrooms in India, it is worth retracing some of its steps to the shaping influence of composition pedagogies in the United States. In this article, the authors recount their experiences of using the concept of conversation to enable academic writing in their classrooms. Each narrative…

The study attempted to assess teachers' and administrators' perceptions about the concepts of ethical behavior and attitude. Mainly due to the study a multidimensional instrument for administrators' and teachers' Ethic Behaviour and Attitude Scale (EBA) was developed and validated. Through confirmatory factor analysis, EBA was validated in two…

The primary objective of this research article is to study the concept of ethical leadership by determining the perceptions of school teachers regarding ethical leadership behaviors of the school leaders and establishing its relation with teacher's commitment. In addition, this study tests the validity of ELQ survey instrument in educational…

In this study, it was aimed to examine the music teachers' COVID-19 anxiety and burnout levels in terms of some variables during the pandemic. The COVID19 anxiety and burnout of music teachers during the pandemic were compared according to the variables of gender, age, marital status and professional seniority based on the correlational and causal…

Maternal and paternal teaching sequences directed to their preschool children in a naturalistic home environment were investigated. The sample included 37 middle-class sibling dyads, aged four and six, and both their mothers and fathers during ongoing interactions in the home for six 90-minute sessions. Sequences of parent-child teaching were…