Objective: This study investigated the effects of motor affordances in the home environment on fine- and gross motor skills of young children aged of 18-42 months. Methodology: Homes were assessed using the Persian translation of the "Affordances in the Home Environment for Motor Development-Self-Report," while motor skill behaviour was…

The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between 21st century learning skills and educational technology competencies of secondary school students. The population of this correlational research consists of 37.904 secondary school students in central districts (Ipekyolu, Tusba, and Edremit) of Van province. This study was carried out…

A study involving 916 students spanning grades 5-8 was conducted to investigate indicators that may contribute to enjoyment and confidence in mathematics. For this group of middle school students, mathematics enjoyment, mathematics confidence, and attitudes toward school were found to generally decline across grade levels. Mathematics enjoyment…

While significant research has been done on the assessment of reading and dyslexia with native English speakers, little has been done with English language learners (ELLs). This lack of research creates challenges for practitioners who are working with ELLs in schools. These professionals must make decisions about placements, interventions, and…

We assessed a range of theoretically critical predictors (numerosity discrimination, number knowledge, counting, language, executive function and finger gnosis) of early arithmetic development in a large unselected sample of 569 children at school entry. Assessments were repeated 12 months later. Although all predictors (except finger gnosis) were…

Background: Work surrounding the relationship between visuospatial working memory (WM) and mathematics performance is gaining significant traction as a result of a focus on improving academic attainment. Aims: This study examined the relative contributions of verbal and visuospatial simple and complex WM measures to mathematics in primary school…

This study investigated women's perceptions of caring and control in their fathers versus their mothers in relation to specific ways in which they interacted with their infants during freeplay. Participants were 73 mothers and their 6 month-old infants. Results revealed that women's perceptions about their mothers compared to their fathers in the…

This study investigated the relationship between teachers' educational beliefs and their perceptions about school climate. The study was designed as a correlational survey model. The sample included 357 teachers working in the central districts of Van province in 2019-2020 academic year. "Educational Beliefs Scale" and "School…

Lecture is one of the oldest means of instruction and most extensively used teaching method on campuses of Higher Education Institutions (HEI). There have been many studies about students' motivation, engagement and satisfaction in HEI but none of these have focused on these three variables in relation to lecture despite the prominence and history…

This study explores reading and spelling development of Turkish-speaking children in Grade 1 and 2. We examined predictors of word spelling and reading skills as well as the developmental relationship between spelling and reading abilities. Our major focus was on the role of phonological encoding skills and rapid automatized naming (RAN) in…

A considerable body of literature has shown the benefits of lesson study, but little attention has been paid to the determinants of lesson study involvement. This study examines how teachers' participation in lesson study is affected by their attitudes towards lesson study as well as their perceived competence. A multilevel logistic regression…

Student dropout is a major concern in studies investigating higher education retention strategies. However, studies investigating the optimal time to identify students who are at risk of withdrawal and the type of data to be used are scarce. Our study consists of a withdrawal prediction analysis based on classification trees using both…

Parents' elaboration plays an important role in autobiographical memory and socioemotional development. Two types of coding approaches have been used to assess parents' elaboration: a frequency-based coding (absolute frequencies of different types of elaborative utterances) and a scale-based coding (a 5-point scale based on relative frequencies of…

Literacy success lays the foundation for children's later educational, health, and well-being outcomes. Thus, early identification of literacy need is vital. Using data from New Zealand's national preschool health screening program for fiscal years 2010/2011-2014/2015, demographic and health variables from 255,090 children aged 4 years were…

Aggression observed in early childhood is considered to be an important problem. Multiple factors may play a decisive role in children's aggressive behaviors. The aim of this study was to examine whether the receptive and expressive language skills of preschool children (39-75 months-old) had predictive role on the levels of physical and…