This article follows the early-stage planning, implementation, and evaluation of a university--school-based partnership (USBP) between a large Carnegie-designated doctoral research institution (R2) and local high schools in Georgia. The purpose of the partnership was to implement suicide and substance use prevention efforts over 3 years. USBPs are…

Peer beliefs and attitudes play a prominent role in adolescent behaviors. Various curricula have been developed to teach students about sexual health from a skills-based perspective with successful, lasting effects. This study examined how adolescents' expectancies for success in and values held for a sexual health curriculum are related to their…

Background/purpose: Having a child with an intellectual disability creates significant challenges for parents, including psychological and social burdens. These challenges directly impact the home-school partnership and the child's educational experience. This study investigates the parental stress experienced by caregivers of children with…

This case study applies a raciomultilingual perspective to pre-adolescent language socialization in a majority-African American social and educational context. I examine naturalistic recordings of elementary-school Latinx children during a formative period of migration to Washington, DC, comparing these to contemporary Latinx linguistic…

Background/purpose: The prevalence of personal mobile phones in educational settings has significantly transformed the classroom environment, presenting a unique combination of opportunities and challenges for students' learning experiences. This study employs a survey design to effectively describe university students' perspectives on the…

Background/purpose: Over the past few decades, there has been a growing scholarly interest in mathematical self-efficacy, given its significant impact on students' motivation, persistence, and achievement. However, there is still a limited understanding of how these beliefs develop in culturally specific, non-Western settings, particularly in Arab…

This study examined the phenomenon of peer support for personal problems among adolescents and why adolescents might prefer to disclose their personal problems to peers, and their perceptions of school-based peer support interventions (PSIs). An exploratory qualitative research approach included six focus groups with Year 9 students (N = 32) at…

This study looks at the relevance of Holland's Hexagonal Model of vocational interests within a collectivistic cultural context by examining the alignment between RIASEC personality types and occupational daydreams among Indonesian high school students. Informed by a mixed-methods approach, 649 students completed the Self-Directed Search (SDS),…

Using a genetically informed design based on twins, this study tested the association between chronic peer victimization from ages 12 to 17 and later cortisol secretion at age 19 and the moderating effect of social support in this regard. These associations were examined while also considering the effects of genetic factors and concurrent…

Background: In efforts to address chronic absenteeism, educational stakeholders have begun to focus on which school factors might link to how and if students miss school. One underexplored area within school is the context of the classroom and, namely, the spillover effects of peers. This study examined whether students were more likely to be…

The educational attainment of siblings is highly correlated. We test for a specific type of peer effect between siblings in educational attainment: genetic nurture. Specifically, we test whether a person's educational attainment is correlated with their sibling's polygenic score (PGS) for educational attainment, controlling for their own PGS for…

Work avoidance goals, which refer to wanting to do as little as possible in school, are detrimental to school success. Given its maladaptive nature, studies have investigated the antecedents of work avoidance, such as the role of personal characteristics and social-contextual factors. The influence of one's classmates, however, remains…

Purpose: The degree to which inequalities in citizenship outcomes of students develop, may depend on the composition of the classroom. We investigate to what degree language competences of the students' class mates are associated with youth citizenship knowledge. Design/methodology/approach: A Dutch nationally representative data was used. Given…

While there has been much research focused on beginning teachers; and mathematical problem solving in the classroom, little is known about beginning primary teachers' learning to teach mathematics through problem solving. This longitudinal study examined what supported beginning teachers to start and sustain teaching mathematics through problem…

Women of color higher education administrators face various challenges within their respective institutional culture while in pursuit of career success and advancement. This study focused on understanding the experiences of women of color higher education administrators: the challenges that hinder and facilitators of their career success and…