This report presents normative data for the easyCBM reading and mathematics assessment system, designed for students in Grades K-8 to support academic screening and progress monitoring. The normative indices provide educators with reliable benchmarks for identifying students at risk for academic difficulties, setting growth targets, and evaluating…

This study explores machine learning (ML) for assessing elementary students' scientific argumentation skills, addressing the inefficiency of traditional teacher-based evaluations. We developed tailored test questions and scoring rubrics, collecting data from sixth-graders in China. Four shallow learning algorithms (Polynomial Naive Bayes, k-NN,…

According to self-determination theory, all students benefit from need-supportive teaching (i.e., provision of autonomy support, structure, and involvement). Yet, teachers seem to differentiate between students in their level of need support. This study examined to what extent teacher expectations could explain differences in teacher-reported…

Despite the increasing integration of technology in early childhood education, empirical research on the effectiveness of Web 2.0-based numeracy learning remains limited, particularly in developing countries. This study investigates the impact of a Web 2.0-based Numeracy Education Program on first-grade students' numeracy skills using a…

Background/purpose: The study addresses the challenge of integrating technology into Pancasila Education in Indonesian primary schools. Despite schools having technological facilities, teachers still rely on conventional teaching materials. The research aims to develop and validate digital game-based learning materials using the Lumio by Smart…

This study explores machine learning (ML) approaches for identifying gifted students by integrating academic and socioemotional characteristics from the data collected with the Having Opportunities Promotes Excellence teacher rating scale. By using the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and ML approaches, including support vector machine (SVM) and…

Background: Teaching programming and computational thinking is becoming a major issue in many education systems. Numerous approaches are possible, but very few studies compare these different ways of implementing programming and computational thinking learning. Objectives: We compared three ways of teaching programming and computational thinking…

Demographic pressures are reshaping the challenges faced by primary education systems around the world in ways that carry significant implications for the landscape of global educational inequality. We first demonstrate highly disequalizing demographic pressures on the world's educational systems today: persistent expansionary pressures burden…

Phonemic awareness (PA) refers to the ability to reflect on and manipulate phonemes. The development of the ability to become aware of and conduct mental operations on phonemes might involve higher-order cognitive processes, such as executive functions (EFs), which help modulate attention to goal-relevant information and support behavioral…

Knowledge and its acquisition are central to the field of curriculum studies, but the ways in which empirical studies of pedagogical approaches relate to theories of knowledge acquisition are under researched. This paper reports the outcomes of a rapid evidence assessment about the impacts of "experiential learning" (EL), regarded by…

Teacher shortages are not only severe and long term, but are strongly patterned by social inequities. In many Western countries the teaching workforce is dominated by White women, yet there is a lack of consideration as to why these patterns persist. This paper presents the first longitudinal exploration of young people's trajectories into…

Background: The use of digital technology in physical education (PE) is widely debated. PE is influenced by children's everyday lives and by changes in society, including the powerful presence of digital technology. However, there is little research on using digital technology in the context of invasion games in primary school PE. The possibility…

Singapore's education system is globally recognized for its high academic standards. In this paper, I explore how Singaporean parents navigate sentiments of uncertainty and risk in relation to their children's education. While academic achievements are still considered crucial to foster a competitive population, there has been a shift of attention…

This study focuses on a pivotal discursive interaction with a university instructor and "Roseanna," an undergraduate situated as a writing mentor in a service-learning course centered around an after-school writing club with Black fifth graders. Course instructors sought to humanize pedagogical practices by establishing an asset-based…

This paper examines how African Diaspora Literacy (ADL) can be meaningfully integrated into elementary classrooms to center Black histories, cultures, and identities. Grounded in Black educational traditions and critical inquiry, the study explores how two teachers--one teaching African Studies to grades K-5 and another teaching fifth…