Using machine learning, this research aimed to examine the crucial factors that predict the reading performance of fourth-grade students from Türkiye who participated in PIRLS 2021. When trained with the data of 3589 fourth-grade students and their 405 independent variables, the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm properly distinguished between…

As the price of college tuition continues to rise, higher education institutions and their governing bodies are facing immense pressure to fully understand and explain how tuition, fees, and other sources of revenue are being spent on their campuses. Understanding these expenditures is not only important for the leadership and constituents of the…

Previous research on college campus environments, student mental health, and COVID-19 has primarily focused on individual-level factors, with limited attention to the broader institutional characteristics. Objective and Methods: Using the national survey data from the American College Health Association, this study examines the influence of both…

This paper aims to analyze the structure of academic performance by investigating the influence of ascribed and achieved factors on student outcomes. Specifically, it explores the impact of gender, socioeconomic status of parents, parental education, type of high school attended, and level of study on academic success. Utilizing a longitudinal…

Global digital advancements provide postsecondary students with ample digital job opportunities. Thus, it is crucial to understand the psychological determinants that affect postsecondary students' choices of a digital career. Self-efficacy and interest are two widely used psychological determinants in the choice behavior of individuals. However,…

Background: Satisfaction of psychology students has implications for students' engagement, learning, and persisting with education. Understanding of influences on satisfaction remains incomplete. Objective: To investigate contributors to psychology students' satisfaction, we assessed multivariate associations of satisfaction with institutional,…

In this study, we examined demographic patterns of participation and persistence in high school elective music ensembles. We extend prior research that has only compared music and non-music students by explicitly modeling persistence across multiple years of ensemble enrollment. The research draws on data from the High School Longitudinal Study of…

Districts across the country are experiencing churn and uncertainty related to school staffing. In 2021, sixteen percent of teachers left their schools (National Center for Education Statistics 2022), and districts have struggled to fill the vacancies. In North Carolina, a survey of school districts identified over 11,000 vacancies that were…

Alexithymia, the difficulty in recognizing and expressing emotions, can create significant challenges for students, contributing to anxiety and stress that predict school-refusal behaviors. This study explored how alexithymia and school refusal behaviors impact high school students' academic performance (grade point average; GPA), considering how…

Longitudinal research on students' interest in higher education showed that interest declines throughout the study program. While researchers reported numerous factors explaining interest on the student level, research on the relationship between the lecturer level and students' interest development is considered scarce. This study aimed to…

This study utilizes the 2015 data from the Hong Kong sample of the Program for International Student Assessment to examine the relative importance of various factors on the science learning performance of Hong Kong students. Using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), we examined the effect of students' affective characteristics, involvement, and…

This study aimed to employ machine learning techniques to uncover the pivotal determinants influencing the reading proficiency of fourth-grade students across 65 regions, as participants in the PIRLS 2021 assessment. The primary objective was to discern and assess key factors at the student, family and school levels that predict high and low…

To sustain students' continuous learning in a COVID-19 pandemic context, schools and universities have shifted traditional classroom teaching to synchronous online teaching. However, there is limited understanding of acceptance and adoption of synchronous online teaching by university teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL). This study,…