The present study aimed to examine the opinions of preschool teachers regarding the characteristics of twice exceptional (2E) children. The research was conducted with the participation of 41 preschool teachers working at schools in a provincial centre in Turkey. The data were collected using a semi-structured interview form consisting of four…

Background: Previous national and international research has investigated potential patterns of SEN identification, in which there may be overrepresentation of males, individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and pupils attending schools in economically disadvantaged areas. Aims: The aim of the current study is to link administrative…

Academic misconduct and academic integrity are issues of importance to Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Phraseologies and practices may conflate unintentional mistakes with attempts to gain illegitimate advantage, with some groups potentially at higher risk. HEIs across the United Kingdom (UK) responded to a Freedom of Information Act (FOI)…

This article aims at a better understanding of the Brazilian education system's performance concerning the quality and equity over the decade 2007-2017. It examines the extent to which students' sociodemographic characteristics are related to schooling trajectory without failure in primary education and how such relationships have changed over…

To explore young adolescents' negotiation of their national identity in an educational context, we individually interviewed nine students (ages 10-14) with different backgrounds attending an ethnically diverse school in Sweden. The transcribed interviews were thematically and qualitatively analyzed. Results show that students negotiated their…

In the context of an emerging new additional learning needs (ALN) system in Wales, this research explores who was likely to be identified with special educational needs (SEN) under the previous system. Our study reveals analysis of linked Welsh education and health data on SEN identification in learners in mainstream education settings born…

In the literature, STEM identity tends to be characterized either as students' relationship with the STEM field "as a whole," or their relationship with a particular STEM area, such as science. With this study, we add to the existing scholarship by characterizing the profiles of students who identified themselves as "STEM…

This study examines some teacher sociodemographic factors and school characteristics that may influence teachers' identification of gifted students. Teachers initially nominated a sample of 505 students aged 7-17 years (M = 11.51, SD = 2.07), but only 359 completed a general intelligence test and 225 reached the minimum percentile to be considered…

This study explores machine learning (ML) approaches for identifying gifted students by integrating academic and socioemotional characteristics from the data collected with the Having Opportunities Promotes Excellence teacher rating scale. By using the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and ML approaches, including support vector machine (SVM) and…

The need to identify and recognize school going children with giftedness remains a concern of the Republic of Kazakhstan's government. This concern motivated this study to examine the internal structure of the giftedness characteristic identification scale (GCIS) for use by Kazakhstan's school children. Exploratory quantitative research approach,…

Teachers play important roles in identifying and promoting gifted students. An open question is: Which student characteristics do teachers use to evaluate whether a student is gifted or not? We used data from a representative sample of Dutch primary school teachers (N = 1,304) who were asked whether or not they thought the students (N = 26,720) in…

In this study, we explore intergroup relations and student interactions in eight diverse secondary schools in Nigeria over one academic year. We use mixed methods and a social network analysis of these interactions and relationships to highlight the perspectives of students within a divided society. We analyze data from student interviews we…

In post-conflict and transitional settings, adolescents are important civic and political actors as potential peacebuilders. Policy and programming often focus on promoting prosocial outcomes for these younger generations, but there has been growing attention to their perspectives and psychological development. Drawing on theory in developmental…

Research on bullying and victimization has largely focused on univariate analyses on older children. Little is known regarding the bullying and victimization experience of young children with a person-centered approach, especially in Chinese affordable kindergarten settings. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence and…

Enderun School was a palace educational institution designed for the training of administrative and military staff in the Ottomans. The Enderun School had an important role in the success of the Ottoman Empire. Enderun, a school where especially civil and military administrators were trained, was established to create the necessary manpower…