Child development is a product of the combination of the experience provided by family/social context and their own. Both child and environmental factors are integral when understanding a child's outcomes. The current study mainly investigated the characteristics of the home literacy environment (HLE) and the relationship between the HLE and…

Taking college courses while in high school--known as dual enrollment (DE)--gives students greater access to core subjects like English and math. Along with legislation, in the past few years California has invested nearly $700 million to support K-12 and community college districts to expand and support dual enrollment--and to help accelerate…

Background/purpose: This research examines the development potential of guidance and counselling services for early childhood with special needs through a SWOT analysis and the IFAS and EFAS frameworks. The study aims to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats influencing the effectiveness of these services. Materials/methods: A…

Previous studies have examined life satisfaction, academic resilience, and curiosity as individual predictors of student engagement. Yet, limited evidence addresses how these traits collectively relate to university engagement, particularly among Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) students. This study investigated the predictive roles of…

This scoping review examines the literature on infant and toddler giftedness from 1982 to 2024, exploring characteristics, early identifiers, and interactive strategies that support giftedness in infancy. The review highlights the complexity of defining and researching early giftedness, along with the influence of various paradigms and the…

This article explores how student-faculty pedagogical partnerships, widely implemented in North American institutions, can inform the development of inclusive and collaborative teaching models within European university alliances, with a focus on UNITA Universitas Montium. Grounded in the student voice movement, the study analyzes four U.S. case…

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) commissioned CooperGibson Research (CGR) to conduct a mapping exercise to identify the availability and thematic focus of professional development and support programmes used by early years settings in England. This research aimed to support EEF's decisions around funding programme evaluations and identify…

The COVID-19 pandemic and transition to remote learning presented difficulties for children's educational and behavioural outcomes, specifically in children with neurodevelopmental disorders like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Subsequently, children were forced to adapt to a home-based learning environment, and parents took on a…

An online tutorial should be the core of the student learning support services in the digital era to maintain the quality of distanced higher education. However, in Universitas Terbuka with supposed to be the cyber university of Indonesia, the participation in the online tutorials was still not encouraging. For example, the average of the…

Using the 2015 data of the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), the relationship between family socioeconomic background, parent involvement, and shadow education participation was explored through structural equations. The results showed that: parent involvement strengthened shadow education participation; parent involvement played a part in the…

In recent years, questions about the purpose of higher education (HE) have come to the fore as HE tuition fees have escalated both in the UK and internationally. The extent to which universities provide students with opportunities for developing skills needed not only for future employment but participation in civic life has become an important…

Bilingual Two-Way Immersion (TWI) programs are becoming increasingly popular in the United States, especially amongst white, non-Hispanic, middle-class English speaking-parents (Valdez et al. in Urban Rev 44:601-627, 2016). While they are growing in numbers and popularity, researchers caution against the challenges and inequalities that they face…

The changing structure of the society and the increase in the number of working women has been influential on the relationship between the child and the parent. Today, the woman, who is responsible for the nutrition and care of the child according to the traditional point of view, can perform these duties not on her own but with her husband and…

Through the lens of the Community of Inquiry education experience (Vaughan & Garrison, 2006), this practice report provides guidance and examples for online instructors to engage students within discussion boards in the digital realm. Five elements will be discussed: embedding multi-media, affiliative humour and storytelling, Socratic…

The Integrated Student Choice Model and Theory of Planned Behavior are used to frame an analysis of longitudinal student data. We utilize generalized structural equation modeling to evaluate our framework and to examine the impact of select student characteristics and college experiences on actual involvement in study abroad, giving particular…