Background/purpose: The study addresses the challenge of integrating technology into Pancasila Education in Indonesian primary schools. Despite schools having technological facilities, teachers still rely on conventional teaching materials. The research aims to develop and validate digital game-based learning materials using the Lumio by Smart…

Background: Teaching programming and computational thinking is becoming a major issue in many education systems. Numerous approaches are possible, but very few studies compare these different ways of implementing programming and computational thinking learning. Objectives: We compared three ways of teaching programming and computational thinking…

Phonemic awareness (PA) refers to the ability to reflect on and manipulate phonemes. The development of the ability to become aware of and conduct mental operations on phonemes might involve higher-order cognitive processes, such as executive functions (EFs), which help modulate attention to goal-relevant information and support behavioral…

This study focuses on a pivotal discursive interaction with a university instructor and "Roseanna," an undergraduate situated as a writing mentor in a service-learning course centered around an after-school writing club with Black fifth graders. Course instructors sought to humanize pedagogical practices by establishing an asset-based…

This paper examines how African Diaspora Literacy (ADL) can be meaningfully integrated into elementary classrooms to center Black histories, cultures, and identities. Grounded in Black educational traditions and critical inquiry, the study explores how two teachers--one teaching African Studies to grades K-5 and another teaching fifth…

The participants in this study are newcomer students in Grades 4 to 6 who arrived in elementary schools with emerging print literacy not having had the right to learn to read and write before migrating to North America. The purpose of this research is to understand who these students are. Employing a humanizing methodological design, I utilized…

As technology continues to shape how students read and write, digital literacy practices have become increasingly multimodal and complex--posing new challenges for researchers seeking to understand these processes in authentic educational settings. This paper presents three qualitative studies that use multimodal analyses and visual modeling to…

The present investigation assessed the effects of an extensive viewing treatment (11 captioned episodes of an animated cartoon) on the learning of 36 target words by means of a pretest and an immediate posttest in a group of 120 primary school learners (years 4 and 5; aged 9-11; L1 Spanish-L2 English). More specifically, students' vocabulary gains…

This study explored the relationships between parent goals, child goal orientations, and academic procrastination, with a focus on gender differences. Participants included 568 boys and 622 girls and their parents from three Chinese primary schools. In both boy and girl models, parents' goals positively predicted children's corresponding goal…

Students with Emotional Behavioral Disorders (EBD) exhibit behaviors that interfere with their ability to access instruction and identifying feasible and effective school-based interventions is critical for promoting their academic success. Previous research has shown the positive effects of a self-management package that involved gradually and…

Fostering youth voice means supporting young people in expressing their ideas, taking ownership of their learning, and engaging with their communities in meaningful and impactful ways. Out-of-school-time (OST) science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs have long provided these opportunities, empowering youth to drive their learning…

Children's socioemotional and cognitive traits may hinder or support reading comprehension based on models of risk and resilience. Effortful control, attention, and positive affect were examined as promotive factors, and general and test anxiety as risk factors. Participants included 197 twin children (115 girls; M[subscript age] = 13.6 years)…

Research shows that children's reading proficiency levels in the early grades positively correlate with students' future academic achievement. This study provides the first-ever analysis of reading achievement trajectories for a cohort of students in grades 3 to 5 in 2014-17 in Hawaii schools. Hawaii serves a diverse student population whose…

The research aims to examine the effect of educational game activities on academic achievement in secondary school 5th -grade science lessons. The study group of the research consists of 71 5th-grade students studying at a public school in Turkiye in the 2017-2018 academic year. In the research, the pretest and post-test comparative design group,…

The concern with conflict in our schools has increased in recent years. For this reason, initiatives aimed at dealing with conflicts like educational mediation have emerged. The goal of this study is to evaluate the usefulness of the M-Educa programme in its student training phase via an evaluative study of the pre- and post-measures of the…