People often change their evaluations upon learning about their peers' evaluations, i.e., social learning. Given sleep's vital role in consolidating daytime experiences, sleep may facilitate social learning, thereby further changing people's evaluations. Combining a social learning task and the sleep-based targeted memory reactivation technique,…

Knowing a child's affiliative feelings about a peer helps us understand child's social behavior toward peers and can predict how a relationship between two children would continue. A picture-drawing task, in which a child draws himself or herself and a peer, is a potentially valid way to measure a child's feelings of affiliation toward the peer.…

Peer mentoring programs are common throughout the US in supporting college students who are transitioning to a new campus, yet most studies on peer mentoring have described who peer mentors are rather than capturing what the peer mentors' role is or tasks that they engage in during peer mentoring. The purpose of this case study was to explore peer…

Pervasive internet use in higher education has rendered social anxiety a lesser problem in circumventing interactions. However, the attenuation of vitality in interactions still remains a contentious issue, especially in asynchronous online discussions. This study aims to elucidate how anonymity and social presence affect the relationship between…

At the request of a fifth-grade teacher and former student teacher, Vivian Gussin Paley spends two mornings in her classroom to help address a problem, a seemingly garden-variety scene where a boy is excluded from a playground ball game. As discussion unfolds, deeper issues of friendship and unfairness for the individuals (the one who did the…

Generating data from small group interviews with 41 boys aged 10-11 years from two London schools in 2022, this paper contributes to the field of gender by introducing a new form of non-hegemonic and positive masculinity, which I am calling 'blended' masculinity, and which was the most common formation in each school. Although its features…

This study aims to determine the relationship between the loneliness levels and intrinsic motivation levels felt by distance learners in a virtual environment. To this end, predictive design was used as a quantitative research method. The results obtained from 330 distance learner participants revealed a medium level negative statistically…

Taking on leadership roles provides teenagers opportunities for personal growth and development. Peer-led physical activity opportunities can promote peer engagement and social support, which are crucial for promoting physical activity among students. This article presents an easy way to incorporate peer-led physical activity opportunities or…

Web annotation environments are widely used in education based on the premise that student interaction in these environments benefits individual and group learning. However, there is little research on factors driving student interaction in web annotation activities. In this study we asked: What dynamics could explain social interaction among…

Introduction: An innovative undergraduate helping skills course where students learn, practice, and apply a problem management model with a peer volunteer on a non-clinical issue across three supervised helping meetings is presented. Statement of the Problem: Undergraduate helping skill courses are typically offered as in-class role-plays. This…

Teaching practice is an essential component of any teacher training programme. It is a great opportunity for preservice teachers to work in the actual school context, experience how theories merge with actual practices, and develop identity as professional teachers. To this end, they require peer mentorship. This study explored the relationship…

Purpose: Peer network interventions support social interaction among students with autism and their peers and may be able to support reciprocal friendship development. However, little research has attempted to examine the nature of relationships that form within them. This study utilized a convergent parallel mixed methods design to explore how…

The ethics of citation has attracted increased attention in recent discussions of research and publication ethics, fraud and plagiarism. Little attempt has been made, however, to situate specific citation misbehaviors in terms of broader ethical practices and principles. To investigate researchers' perceptions of citation norms, we surveyed active…

Background/purpose: Transitioning from coursework to an independent, complex inquiry has constantly been a challenge in advanced scientific programs, which often presents numerous barriers arising from limited research knowledge, experience, and skills necessary to navigate the contemporary research environment. This conspicuous gap breeds…

This study aimed to identify the effects of peer relationship instructions between students with and without disabilities in inclusive education settings in South Korea. We conducted a meta-analysis using journal articles published over the last 20 years. From a total of 1419 student data within 33 primary studies, we found an overall effect size…