The Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) acknowledges the need for a deeper understanding of the implementation process in early childhood education and care (ECEC) -- that is, a better understanding of the missing link between evidence-based practices and improved teacher and educator practice, and outcomes for children. Effective…

The value of evidence-based teaching practices lies in how these practices are brought to life for all students -- i.e., in their implementation. The Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) has developed a deliberate and structured approach to support the effective implementation of evidence-based teaching practices in Australian…

We describe a statewide professional development program designed to expand early intervention providers' knowledge and skills to coach caregivers to support their children's development and learning. Early intervention providers are expected to implement family-centered, capacity-building practices with caregivers of infants and toddlers eligible…

Global challenges require the government to organize learning in schools that are more up-to-date following episodes in the times. The independent curriculum learning promises flexibility for teachers and students and replaces the relatively new curriculum-13. In implementing the independent curriculum, differentiated learning is a concept that…

Parents of children with autism experience higher levels of parenting stress than parents of neurotypical children or non-autistic children with other conditions such as intellectual developmental disabilities (Hayes & Watson, 2013). Although several factors might contribute to parenting stress, the presence of child externalizing behaviors…

Internationally, governments are increasingly concerned about children and adolescents being drawn towards violent extremism and terrorism. This review examines the effectiveness and implementation of interventions working to prevent cognitive and behavioural radicalisation of children and adolescents. It focuses on interventions that work with…

Concerns about the effects of social media use have led some states, districts, and schools to set policies limiting or banning student use of cellphones at school. Virginia implemented a bell-to-bell cellphone ban in January 2025, forbidding the use of cellphones during the school day. David T. Marshall and Tim Pressley surveyed teachers in a…

This national descriptive study examined the barriers to Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) implementation and the professional development needs of middle school School-Based Agricultural Education (SBAE) teachers. Using Dillman's Tailored Design Method, an online survey was distributed via the NAAE listserv and completed by 381 teachers…

Background: Overprescribing of off-licence psychotropic medications, particularly antipsychotics, for challenging behaviours in people with intellectual disabilities without a psychiatric disorder is a significant public health concern. In the United Kingdom, the National Health Service England launched an initiative in 2016, 'STopping…

Dialogic reading is a shared reading intervention which has been shown to increase children's oral language skills. Although dialogic reading has been heavily researched and replicated with a variety of populations, this study uniquely focused on outcomes when parents of children with a developmental delay from low socioeconomic status homes were…

Social-emotional learning has the power to change how educators deliver instruction across the country. For this article, social-emotional learning research and journal articles were reviewed for the purposes of identifying common themes among existing research. Multiple perspectives were considered in the review of literature and the findings…

Computer-based testing (CBT) is becoming an increasingly popular format of assessment in educational settings. If students face a digital divide in terms of access to computers at school and at home, CBT may exacerbate measured student achievement gaps. In this paper, we use the rollout of CBT in South Carolina starting in 2015 to investigate its…

With the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic, education systems at international level were called upon to immediately undertake the transition from face-to-face teaching to a new digital environment. The Greek Ministry of Education has activated the implementation of Online Education - Distance Teaching (OE - DT) for students of Primary and…

Schools are increasingly adopting universal social-emotional learning (SEL) programs to support students' prosocial development and academic success. When adopted across contexts and student populations, SEL interventions can be implemented in different ways, particularly under typical classroom conditions that are not part of research efficacy…

In this article, we describe a large-scale data collection effort about the environmental learning field in Maine. This approach utilized a stakeholder engagement process which included over 600 project managers, educators, and school administrators from both formal and informal education settings. Our focus on collecting data about specific…