Diglossia is defined as the use of one official language in a formal context (e.g., school), including reading and writing, and an unofficial language in an informal context (e.g., home). Many Chinese children have experienced diglossia. However, the impact of diglossia on Chinese children's literacy development remains unclear. To examine the…

Despite a marked increase in the volume of research investigating issues about reading interventions for students with ASD (e.g., Bailey and Arciuli, Rev J Autism Dev Disord 7(2):127-150, 2020; Chiang and Lin, Focus Autism Other Dev Disab 22(4):259-267, 2007), very few studies have examined the current reading practices experienced by children…

Speaker diarization, the process of identifying "who spoke when" in audio recordings, is essential for understanding classroom dynamics. However, classroom settings present distinct challenges, including poor recording quality, high levels of background noise, overlapping speech, and the difficulty of accurately capturing children's…

Motor, psycho-emotional, cognitive and social variables, plus other factors like gender, influence how schoolchildren perceive their motor competence level. By means of a hierarchical linear regression analysis, this longitudinal study aimed to determine the predictive value that coordination, anxiety, and self-esteem at the age of 9 years can…

In recent years, interest in the dynamic nature of creativity from a socio-cognitive perspective has increased. However, few studies have been conducted to assess creative potential dynamically. The present study attempted to investigate whether creative strategies mediated within a dynamic assessment of creativity in the graphic domain were…

Background/purpose: This study aimed to develop and validate a causal model of factors influencing the mathematical reasoning ability of Grade 6 students in Thailand. Materials/methods: The sample consisted of 530 students selected through multi-stage random sampling. Research instruments included a basic mathematics knowledge test, a mathematical…

This study employs the Cultural Linguistics framework based on the schemas of event, emotion, image, role and proposition (Sharifian, Embodiment via body parts. John Benjamins Publishing, 2011a) to describe how Cultural Conceptualisations are shaped in the available lexicon of EFL learners from sixth grade Primary and tenth grade of Secondary…

This longitudinal study aims to examine Austrian lower secondary grade students' (N = 415) emotional school well-being, social inclusion and academic self-concept regarding school placement over time (beginning of 5th till end of 6th grade). Using the Perception of Inclusion Questionnaire (PIQ), students with and without learning disability (LD)…

Adolescents living in low-income neighborhoods are at greater risk of engaging in unhealthy behaviors. To promote the adoption of healthy behaviors, we the authors incorporated health education into an environmental conservation framework as a stealth intervention in low-income urban middle schools in Northern California, USA. Using a…

Peer relationships in schools play a crucial role in children's social and emotional development. Ethnic minority students and those with parents who have low education are especially vulnerable to negative social outcomes, such as peer rejection, which can lead to mental health problems. Pre-primary education has been hypothesized to provide…

This research explores student perceptions of national and international painting competitions organized by school administrations in secondary schools. The study research group comprises 400 students enrolled in grades five through eight at a secondary school in the Çankaya district of Ankara province in Türkiye during the 2023-2024 academic…

This study investigated how well students differentiate their responses' accuracies (metacognitive monitoring) and estimate their test scores beyond counting--and counting on--the number of correct responses alone. Monitoring abilities of 2832 sixth-graders (1410 male and 1422 female native in Turkish) at an 11-item Program for International…

Morpho-orthographic segmentation, rapid parsing of complex written words into their morphological components, is a potential source of difference in word recognition between struggling and typical readers. Although typical readers use morpho-semantic representations and morpho-orthographic segmentation in processing morphologically complex words,…

There is currently no designated policy, procedure or staff in place to facilitate the objective of increasing student yield. As a result, magnet applications and acceptance of invitations to attend Owl Middle School is approached without a strategy which makes planning difficult and negates the ability to determine effective methods. Filling…

Through local scientific learning, this action research attempts to improve primary school students' understanding of the nature of science. The target group consisted of nine grade 6 students from a school in Thailand's northeast. The observational tools were the understanding of nature of science test, understanding of nature of science…