Although there has been a rich amount of research about lifelong learning providing benefits such as economic advancement and personal fulfillment, less is known about factors that increase or decrease a person's likelihood of pursuing it. Nonetheless, knowing these predictors and barriers can have practical consequences on encouraging people to…

Despite the debates surrounding online private tutoring, most scholars agree that the private tutor approach provides much positive insight to be adopted. The present study measures the students' intention in using online private tutoring. The measurement was conducted with a structural equation model analysis. The expectation confirmation model…

This paper examines the roles of parental social class and cultural capital in inequalities in English school qualifications. The analytical focus is the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Integral to Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction is the conception that inequalities in cultural capital explain the unequal scholastic…

Training studies have shown the positive effects of play tutoring on children's social skills. This study investigates whether the theoretically suggested mechanism of change--social pretend play quality--explains the effect of play tutoring on social pretend play competence and social skills. Twenty-seven Swiss playgroups (N = 214 three- to…

Defending a victimized peer is a socially risky behavior that may require high peer status and may depend on how popular or disliked bullies are in the classroom (i.e., within-classroom correlations between bullying and status). Past research has investigated defending as a unidimensional construct, though it can involve confronting the bully…

The present study observed 86 three-year-old children (M = 43.7, SD = 6.4) from 15 Swiss childcare groups, to investigate multiple individual and contextual contributions to toddlers' positive engagement with peers. The children's individual characteristics (age, sex and social skills) and childcare-related predictors (emotional and behavioural…

In this study, health anxiety and optimism were determined as predictors of subjective happiness. A total of 301 individuals, 168 females (55.8%) and 133 males (44.2%) participated in the study carried out based on the correlational model. The research data were collected online due to the pandemic. In the study, Personal Information Form, Health…

The use of grade point average (GPA) to guide and inform decision-making permeates many corners of the educational landscape, including admission decisions into collegiate academic programs. Using GPA in this way turns an individual academic measure into a commodity that can be used to settle a competition amongst applicants. The rationale for…

This study provides the first analysis of closure and restructuring trends for essentially all schools nationwide over the past 30 years. We analyze the annual closure and restructuring rates of all schools across the United States, how these rates changed over time, and what factors predict closure and restructuring. [For the Technical Report,…

The purpose of study was to examine to what extent, if any, areas of worklife predicted burnout reported by university educators employed in a 4-year degree granting private liberal arts institution of the Midwestern United States. The areas of worklife model and Maslach's burnout model and measurements were utilized to guide this study's…

Authentic leadership is a relatively new concept in leadership literature with little empirical research in educational settings and within the realm of information technology professionals. Authentic leadership is slated to be a form of leadership that yields positive follower and organizational outcomes. Researching authentic leadership and job…

Purpose: The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study is to determine the impact of prerequisite course type on student final quantitative research methods final grade after controlling for mathematics anxiety, statistics anxiety, and task presentation/performance. The additional purpose is to determine if there are significant…

Purpose and Method of Study: The purpose of this nonexperimental quantitative study was to examine the relationship between level of job satisfaction and perceived organizational support among nonexempt employees at East Central University. A stepwise multiple regression research design was used to investigate the association between the…

Most physician assistant (PA) programs receive applications in excess of available seats, yet based on the 2019 PAEA Curriculum Report, the all-cause attrition rate is 7.4%. Given the large pool of applicants available to select from, it is valuable to identify students who will succeed in and graduate from the program. Admissions interviews are…

Genotype-by-environment interaction (GxE) studies probe heterogeneity in response to risk factors or interventions. Popular methods for estimation of GxE examine multiplicative interactions between individual genetic and environmental measures. However, risk factors and interventions may modulate the total variance of an epidemiological outcome…