Adding illustrations to texts might improve students' science achievement. This meta-analysis of 121 effect sizes from 63 studies of 7,621 students across five decades determines both the overall effect and moderators that account for differences across studies. Our random-effects model shows a positive effect of adding illustrations to texts on…

Higher education governing boards are important bodies with far-reaching powers over the institutions they oversee. Yet little is known about individual board members, how the composition of boards varies across institutions, or whether boards are at all representative of their institutional populations. In this paper, I introduce a novel dataset…

There are individual differences in how people respond to emotionally ambiguous cues (i.e., valence bias), which have important consequences for mental health, development, and social functioning, yet how these differences develop in childhood and adolescence is unknown. Extensive literature shows that children's cognitive biases, including…

Background/purpose: This study explores how animals associated with rivers and water are represented in Southern Vietnamese folk verses. It addresses the broader question of how language encodes cultural and ecological knowledge, focusing on cultural categorization as conceptualized in Cultural Linguistics. The research aims to uncover how the…

The internationalization of higher education (IoHE) is a crucial component of China's double first-class initiatives, driving universities to adopt effective leadership and cultural strategies. This research investigates the relationship between deans' transformational leadership (TFL) and IoHE in 22 Chinese universities, focusing on the mediating…

This chapter argues that parenting choices are a central force in the joint evolution of culture and economic outcomes. We present a framework in which parents--motivated by both their children's future success and their own normative beliefs--choose parenting styles and transmit cultural traits responding to economic incentives. Values such as…

This preregistered meta-analysis investigated whether cultural values moderate the relations between students' achievement orientations and their tendency to cheat. We identified 80 studies on the associations between performance/learning orientations and academic cheating in 27 countries with 40,867 participants. Performance orientation…

Purpose: The primary objective of this study was to aggregate and synthesize existing research findings in the realm of educational financing considering the adoption of educational technology (EdTech). Design/methodology/approach: The study involves the application of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis Model,…

Background: Despite being a mandated, foundational value in healthcare, research on compassion remains limited. Studying the individual, patient, clinical, and contextual factors that interfere with compassion--the "barriers"--may clarify our understanding of the origins of compassion and identify potential targets for improving…

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…

Social debate in Poland revolve around the legitimacy of the current model of religious education. Statistical research shows a dramatic decline in the number of youth attending religious lessons, and the decreasing interest in religious education. A transgressive approach might overcome the crisis. The purpose of this research is to look for the…

This study reports on in-service mathematics teachers' views of geometry in the context of ethnomathematics. A convergent parallel mixed method design which includes both quantitative and qualitative methods was used to provide a deeper understanding of how the participants view geometry from an ethnomathematics perspective. Questionnaires and…

College is the first time students have the opportunity to make independent financial decisions and employ financial practices. Research suggests that students pick up financial knowledge, habits, and practices from family, friends, and their broader community and that these practices can have long-term implications. Migrant farmworking college…

This study investigates COVID-19 jokes created and circulated on Jordanian social media during the period between March to October 2020. The jokes used in this study were collected from several Facebook accounts. The study presents a content analysis and a linguistic analysis of 197 COVID-19 jokes in terms of the General Theory of Verbal Humor…

This study aims to determine the current problems related to social studies education from the perspective of social studies teachers. The research was designed with content analysis technique, one of the qualitative research methods. The study group of the research consisted of 50 social studies teachers working in secondary schools in the center…