Background/purpose: This research aims to identify the relationship between digital intelligence and video game addiction among Middle school students, to identify gender differences in digital intelligence, and to reveal the digital intelligence skills that contribute most to predicting video game addiction. Materials/methods: The sample…

Low engagement of students in learning activities has become a significant barrier to positive learning outcomes and academic progress. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate which effective classroom practices teachers can implement to enhance student engagement. One of the valuable tools teachers can use is creating a supportive classroom…

This longitudinal study investigates the shifting roles of phonological awareness (PA) and morpho-lexical knowledge in Hebrew word reading fluency from kindergarten to Grade 4. The research addresses the developmental question regarding the relative importance of morphology versus phonology among beginning and more advanced readers. 440…

Background: The underrepresentation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) remains a persistent international challenge with complex causes. This study draws on five complementary theoretical perspectives--theory of circumscription and compromise, situated expectancy-value theory, the internal/external frame of…

This article examines enrollments in languages other than English in United States higher education from the perspective of geographical distribution. While the overall decline in language enrollments is well known, enrollments are also very unequal across states when accounting for population. By cross-referencing MLA language enrollment data…

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted family life, with disproportionate impacts on families who are racially and economically marginalized. Decades of developmental research emphasize how caregivers' or children's emotional responses to stressors shape children's post-exposure adaptation. Less work has examined the intersection of parents'…

Math and executive functioning (EF) skills are thought to be tightly linked in early childhood. To facilitate our understanding of this link in early childhood, here we present a meta-analysis of over 1,000 different correlation values between EF and math measures in early childhood (4-6yrs). The overall average EF-Math relation was r = 0.350, 95%…

This study incorporates a random forest (RF) approach to probe complex interactions and nonlinearity among predictors into an item response model with the goal of using a hybrid approach to outperform either an RF or explanatory item response model (EIRM) only in explaining item responses. In the specified model, called EIRM-RF, predicted values…

Camouflaging ([un]consciously hiding one's autism traits) is hypothesized to be an underlying mechanism explaining elevated levels of mental health difficulties in autistic adults. As previous studies investigating this relationship were all cross-sectional, the direction of this association remains unclear. Therefore, we investigated whether (1)…

This study investigates the role of diglossic and orthographic features in reading comprehension in Arabic. Specifically, it probes the independent contribution of language, metalinguistic, and decoding skills in the spoken language and in Standard Arabic to reading comprehension in the "abjad" writing system of Arabic. A sample of 112…

This study investigates the relationship among student engagement, learning strategies, and academic achievement. Data were collected from 4,825 eighth-grade students in Guangzhou, China, using the Delaware Student Engagement Scale (DSES) and the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ). Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with…

Why do the two self-regulatory modes of locomotion and assessment show opposite associations with mental health & well-being? To address this question, we examined whether social capital explains these links and whether regulatory modes and personality traits differentially predict mental health & well-being. Using data from the Young…

Language learning, both as a compulsory course at school and a longstanding pursuit, is not only cognitive but also an emotive endeavour, and it is not free of academic setbacks. How we react to the challenges and whether we persist or not act as critical factors in improving the sustainability of learning. Therefore, the present inquiry was…

We evaluate impacts heterogeneity of an Early Childhood Intervention, with respect to the Educational Attainment Polygenic Score (EA4 PGS) constructed from DNA data based on GWAS weights from a European population. We find that the EA4 PGS is predictive of several measures of child development, mother's IQ and, to some extent, educational…

The purpose of this study was to examine the memory abilities of bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD). We compare groups across short-term, working memory, and declarative long-term systems in the verbal and nonverbal domains. The study also analyzes how memory abilities are related to children's expressive and…