The current study investigated whether the grade point average (GPA) of high school courses and the score on the test for admission to a bachelor's degree in Psychology--assessing logical reasoning, reading comprehension, and general knowledge--can predict student academic success (AS) and to what extent. Archival data from 5147 candidates (82.4%…

Outbound student mobility has gained increased popularity over the past two decades. It involves an array of stakeholders including students, academics, mobility practitioners and home and host communities. Despite challenges, learning abroad creates a range of impacts on individuals, institutions, and society. Existing research on learning abroad…

Through research-backed strategies and practical applications, author Julia A. Simms explores self-regulated learning, instructional sequences, and brain-based learning. She examines the development of cognitive and metacognitive skills, working memory, and effective explicit instruction, offering step-by-step guidance for teachers to facilitate…

Accessible and practical, the sixth edition of "School-Community Relations" provides aspiring educational leaders with the skills to establish strong systems for communicating with their various school constituencies and to improve public relations at all levels. This textbook uses real-life examples to illustrate the ways in which…

Weis and Fine examine critical research designs with young people from elite, working class, and impoverished class fractions, as well as across racial and ethnic groups, including those experiencing structural dispossession and those enjoying privilege. Curated to be useful to today's students and future generations of scholars, the volume…

Theoretically framed by transnational funds of knowledge and grounded in scholarship on the recruitment and retention of teachers from historically minoritized communities, this study examines the educational and professional trajectory of Ms. LeiPeng (a pseudonym), a Chinese-Panamanian migrant in the United States. Drawing on a five-year…

Background: Having a child is strongly associated with teachers' decisions to leave the profession (Stinebrickner, 1998; Brummett et al., 2024). Nationally representative survey data show that teachers most commonly cite "personal reasons"--including pregnancy and childcare--as their reason for leaving (Podolsky et al., 2016; Taie &…

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) conversational agents in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) environments has received attention for its potential to enhance language learning outcomes. This study investigates the effects of AI conversational agents on EFL learners' self-regulated learning (SRL) and retention in CALL…

This article presents our findings concerning a MOOC named 'Introduction to R programming language', in which we applied design thinking combined with problem-based learning to enhance student engagement and improve the learning experience. The course was delivered to 575 students from Brazil between February 28 and March 18, 2022. Our goal was to…

Translanguaging and multimodality pedagogies are key instructional approaches to support and encourage the development of biliteracy skills. Translanguaging supports language development, validating emergent bilingual students (EBs) unique language qualities. Multimodality supports text representation and meaning making, especially in the early…

The moderating role of maternal depressive symptoms in the relationship between language skills and problem behaviours was examined in a sample of 240 preschool children (M age = 43.52 months) enrolled in Head Start programmes. This longitudinal study assessed children's language skills using the Preschool Language Scale-5. Mothers completed the…

Interpersonal competences in relationship building, collaboration and teamwork are essential both in F2F education and in distance or hybrid styles of education. In the face of the COVID-19 crisis, as well as previous trends, some or all of the higher education didactics were transferred to the online environment. In this context, the Online…

In this article, we examine whether cross-national studies disclose enough information for independent researchers to evaluate the validity and reliability of the findings (evaluation transparency) or to perform a direct replication (replicability transparency). The first contribution is theoretical. We develop a heuristic theoretical model…

Self-control (SC) plays a critical role in development across the life course; poor SC is a common antecedent of outcomes with high public health and societal burden including lower educational and occupational attainment, problem substance use, depression, obesity, and antisocial behavior. Further, SC is associated with academic self-efficacy and…

This study was conducted to prepare the Preschool History Geography Education Curriculum for 60-72 months pre-school children and examine whether this program has an effect on their emotional intelligence and respect for diversity. This study was conducted as a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group design, as one of the quantitative…