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Causey, J.; Gardner, A.; Pevitz, A.; Ryu, M.; Shapiro, D. – National Student Clearinghouse, 2023
Nearly all states in the United States (45) currently have a postsecondary attainment goal to improve the average education levels of their residents and develop a highly-educated workforce. During a time of accelerated COVID-19 related postsecondary enrollment declines, the question as to how states will meet these goals could be particularly…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment, College Enrollment, Enrollment Rate
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Cincera, Jan; Kroufek, Roman; Bogner, Franz X. – Environmental Education Research, 2023
The article presents findings from a Czech environmental literacy survey conducted in 2020 on a sample of 6th (N = 3773), 8th (N = 21518), and 9th graders (N = 4368). Specifically, the effect of environmental and sustainability education (ESE) as well as the effect of gender and age on environmental knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, place attachment,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainability, Multiple Literacies, Foreign Countries
Veronica Lane – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to explore academic self-efficacy and utility value for college coursework for college undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the present study employed qualitative analysis to explore challenges students faced and what strategies they are using to promote their sense of well-being during…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Undergraduate Students, Graduation, Academic Persistence
OECD Publishing, 2023
This "Spotlight" presents data and analysis on vocational education and training (VET) from Education at a Glance 2023. VET is a key component of most education systems in OECD countries. About one in three 25-34 year-olds have a vocational qualification as their highest level achieved, whether at upper secondary, post-secondary…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Equal Education
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Seidu Sofo; Emmanuel Thompson; Eugene F. Asola – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
The study aimed to examine the important predictors of Ghanaian classroom Diploma in Basic Education teacher trainees' growth mindset toward student learning. Participants included a purposive sample of 328 (177 male and 151 female) second- and third-year teacher trainees in one college of education in the northern part of Ghana. The predictor…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes
Robin L. Hopkins – Maryland State Department of Education, 2023
In Maryland, one way children's well-being is measured is by looking at the data from the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA). While the data can illustrate how children perform on various indicators across language and literacy, mathematics, social foundations, and physical well-being and motor development, it is really a reflection of the…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Young Children, Literacy
Hanushek, Eric A.; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; Woessmann, Ludger – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -- Facebook interests -- to construct novel regional…
Descriptors: Time, Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Correlation
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Schaadt, Gesa; Werwach, Annika; Obrig, Hellmuth; Friederici, Angela D.; Männel, Claudia – Child Development, 2023
Consonants and vowels differentially contribute to lexical acquisition. From 8 months on, infants' preferential reliance on consonants has been shown to predict their lexical outcome. Here, the predictive value of German-learning infants' (n = 58, 29 girls, 29 boys) trajectories of consonant and vowel perception, indicated by the…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Vowels, Infants, German
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Fassett-Carman, Alyssa N.; Smolker, Harry; Hankin, Benjamin L.; Snyder, Hannah R.; Banich, Marie T. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Adolescence and emerging adulthood is likely a sensitive period for the neural effects of stress due to increasing life stress, onset of stress-related disorders, and continued gray matter (GM) development. In adults, stress is associated with GM differences in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), hippocampus, and amygdala, but little is known…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Development, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Gender Differences
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Krskova, Hana; Breyer, Yvonne – International Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine individuals' levels of work ethic amongst current and recent university attendees across three countries. This article presents the results of a survey of 537 respondents from the United States of America, Korea and China, thus extending the previous research into work ethic, often conducted from a…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Work Ethic, Gender Differences
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Chierchia, Gabriele; Soukupová, Magdaléna; Kilford, Emma J.; Griffin, Cait; Leung, Jovita; Palminteri, Stefano; Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne – Developmental Science, 2023
Understanding how learning changes during human development has been one of the long-standing objectives of developmental science. Recently, advances in computational biology have demonstrated that humans display a bias when learning to navigate novel environments through rewards and punishments: they learn more from outcomes that confirm their…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Learning Processes, Developmental Stages, Adolescents
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Almeida, David M.; Rush, Jonathan; Mogle, Jacqueline; Piazza, Jennifer R.; Cerino, Eric; Charles, Susan T. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
This study examined age-related patterns in exposure and affective reactivity to daily stressors across a 20-year time span among adults who were between 22 and 77 years old at their baseline interview. Longitudinal data from the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE) consisted of three bursts of eight consecutive nightly interviews of stress…
Descriptors: Adults, Stress Variables, Affective Behavior, Responses
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Orfan, Sayeed Naqibullah – Curriculum Journal, 2023
Textbooks are one of the areas in which gender inequality is institutionalized effortlessly. The study investigated the representation of gender in primary and secondary English textbooks. A total of 14 categories of underrepresentation and misrepresentation were used to examine gender portrayal. The results show that women are significantly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbook Content, Females, Males
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Kazu, Hilal; Pullu, Serkan – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2023
The aim of this study was to examine the correlation between preservice teachers' cognitive flexibility levels and their teaching self-efficacy perceptions. Convenience sampling was used for the sample group of the study conducted according to the correlational survey model. The sample group consisted of 4th-year students who were studying in the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Self Efficacy, Preservice Teachers, Gender Differences
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Ainscow, Mel – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2023
Promoting equity is a policy challenge facing education systems throughout the world, not least in the United Kingdom where there are continuing concerns about the progress of learners from disadvantaged backgrounds. This paper draws on the experience of its author within a series of large-scale government-funded improvement initiatives to address…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Context Effect, Cultural Differences
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