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Maciej Jakubowski; Tomasz Gajderowicz; Harry Patrinos – World Bank, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant disruption in schooling worldwide. This paper uses global test score data to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the most recent results from a linear trend using data from all rounds of the Programme for International Student…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Achievement Gains
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Karakaya, Yunus Emre; Ugurlu, Fatih Mehmet; Polatcan, Ismail; Yilmaz, Metin; Karademir, Tamer – Journal of Educational Issues, 2021
This study was conducted to reveal the educational beliefs of prospective physical education and sports teachers, who receive education at the higher education level in Turkey, according to dependent and independent variables. Within this scope, the "Educational Belief Scale" was used to collect the data from 359 prospective teachers.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preservice Teachers, Physical Education Teachers, Beliefs
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Buus, Katrine; Pedersen, Louise Møller – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2021
This article examines why students experience Problem-Based Learning (PBL) environments differently and discusses considerations for improving PBL environments to support a more diverse student population. Based on theoretical perspectives regarding motivation, identification, and learning, we present a new typology consisting of four types of…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Individual Differences, Identification, Student Experience
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Loft, Lisbeth; Waldfogel, Jane – Child Development, 2021
This study examines the socioeconomic status gradients in children's well-being at school using data on the total population of Danish public school children age 6-11 (N = 147,994). Children completed the national well-being at school survey, an environment-specific self-report of satisfaction with school, social well-being at school, and…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Social Differences, Well Being, Foreign Countries
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Chestnut, Eleanor K.; Zhang, Marianna Y.; Markman, Ellen M. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
How do children learn gender stereotypes? Although people commonly use statements like "Girls are as good as boys at math" to express gender equality, such "subject-complement statements" subtly perpetuate the stereotype that boys are naturally more skilled. The syntax of such statements frames the item in the complement…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Syntax, Gender Issues, Semantics
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Chang, Sen – Childhood Education, 2021
Solar energy holds great potential for addressing energy poverty around the world. With creative design and implementation, school children can access solar-powered solutions to facilitate their studies and help their families. The Solar Cow allows students to charge portable batteries while they study and take the batteries home to their parents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Energy, Natural Resources, Rural Areas
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Lüken, Miriam M.; Sauzet, Odile – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2021
Despite increasing data on young children's patterning skills and evidence of a link between early pattern knowledge and later mathematics performance, little is known about the strategies children use to solve patterning tasks. This mixed-methods study examined 3- to 5-year-old children's informal strategies when solving eight patterning tasks…
Descriptors: Pattern Recognition, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Mathematics Instruction
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Wiley, Kathryn E. – American Journal of Education, 2021
In this article, I use ethnographic data to theorize about the causes of Black-White racial disparities in discipline at a "mostly White" middle school. Using critical race and institutional theories, I identify two racial discipline logics: criminalized sequestering and racial exemption. These logics differently governed how school…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Middle Schools, Middle School Students, Discipline
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Washington, Karla N.; Westby, Carol; Fritz, Kristina; Crowe, Kathryn; Karem, Rachel Wright; Basinger, Melanie – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to characterize narrative competence of typically developing bilingual children using Jamaican Creole (JC) and English. Method: Story comprehension and fictional storytelling tasks in JC and English were completed by 104 bilingual preschoolers aged 4-6 years. Story comprehension was analyzed using inferential…
Descriptors: Creoles, English, Bilingualism, Preschool Children
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Rodríguez-Ardura, Inma; Meseguer-Artola, Antoni – Interactive Learning Environments, 2021
The successful move to a new generation of technologies that provide students with personalised e-learning environments is connected to their ability to facilitate flow experiences -- through which e-learners feel fully engaged in the educational activities at hand. However, little is known about the heterogeneous influence of subjective and…
Descriptors: Attention, Psychological Patterns, Learner Engagement, Electronic Learning
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Hadeed, Salma A.; Henry-Campbell, Suzette – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2021
The purpose of this paper is to examine underlying factors that hinder the expatriate experience and the ways quality-controlled training methods can be delivered to them in order to acclimatize into different cultures. Companies see transatlantic business expansion as a critical piece of their agenda in the quest for greater market share. In this…
Descriptors: Job Training, Cultural Differences, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Workers
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Weigelt, Matthias; Memmert, Daniel – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2021
Purpose: The purpose was (1) to test a new version of a mental rotation task (MRT), which assesses mental rotation abilities of men and women for sport-specific items, and (2) to investigate potential differences in MRT performance, which are based on athletic expertise. Methods: Eighty-eight basketball experts (42 females) and 123 novices (64…
Descriptors: Athletes, Team Sports, Spatial Ability, Visualization
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Cavaco, Carmen; Alves, Natália; Guimarães, Paula; Feliciano, Paulo; Paulos, Catarina – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2021
This article aims to analyse teachers' perceptions of school failure and dropout through a gender perspective in the Portuguese context. The statistical data show that, in most OECD countries, the rates of school failure and dropout are higher for boys than for girls. In Portugal, the difference in the school failure and dropout rates for boys and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Academic Failure, Dropouts
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Hardin, Caroline D. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2021
Hackathons, the time-bound collaborative project-based computer science competitions increasingly popular with computer science students, are one of the largest-scale innovations in computing education of the past decade. This research examined three hackathons and 46,500 surveys to find that educational benefits were unequal between genders in…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Cooperative Learning, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Arawjo, Ian; Mogos, Ariam – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2021
Even in the turn toward justice-oriented pedagogy, computing education tends to overlook the quality of intergroup relationships, which risks entrenching division. In this article, we establish an intercultural approach to computing education, informed by intercultural and peace education, prejudice reduction, and the sociology of racism and…
Descriptors: Intergroup Relations, Computer Science Education, Social Justice, Cultural Awareness
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