This research investigated the impact of the number of talkers with whom children engage in daily conversation on their language development. Two surveys were conducted in 2020, targeting two-year-olds growing up in Japanese monolingual families. Caregivers reported the number of talkers in three age groups and children's productive vocabulary via…

This paper uses longitudinal data from England to examine the medium-term impact of a means-tested conditional cash transfer programme, Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), on higher educational participation and attainment. Combining regression modelling with entropy balancing, this paper finds that two-year EMA recipients are more likely to…

Teachers perceive the characteristics of their teaching jobs differently. However, little is known about beginning teachers' perceptions of their teaching job characteristics and how their professional identity differs with these perceptions. Grounded in the job demands-resources model, we clustered three typical types of job characteristics…

Digital transformation is reshaping social and economic relations through the adoption of digital technologies, playing a crucial role in Kazakhstan's modernization and economic diversification. This study aims to comprehensively analyze the multifaceted process of digital transformation in Kazakhstan, with a particular emphasis on identifying…

While the under-representation of women in senior leadership roles in the UK higher education sector is well recognised, scant regard has been paid to how this impacts female academics from alternative ethnicities and from overseas. This paper aims to help address this by summarising the findings from an integrative review of published evidence…

Background/purpose: This study examines the transformative and innovative roles of the teaching faculty at King Khalid University (KKU) in the context of the Fifth Industrial Revolution, with particular focus on the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education. Materials/methods: The study utilized a survey research design,…

Problematic internet use (PIU) has become a noticeable issue among adolescents, which negatively affects their physical and mental health. Previous research has noted the protective role of school climate in reducing PIU, but the underlying mechanisms need to be further explored. Based on the ecological systems theory, this study focused on the…

Higher education plays a crucial role in society through research and innovation, but research indicates there is resistance to adopting new technologies. The presence of artificial intelligence (AI) offers an innovative approach to learning, information retrieval, and decision-making. AI has garnered global attention for its ability to generate…

Digital learning materials and digital testing have become pervasive in Danish primary and lower secondary classrooms. These digital learning materials and tests offer teachers with quick overviews of student performance through data visualisations. However, few studies have examined the role of these types of data visualisations in shaping…

Shadow education (SE) or supplementary private tutoring research has gained significant traction in the past two decades. With extensive implications of SE on the ecology of education and academic performance, this study investigates Malaysian secondary school students' views on SE and its perceived impact on their academic performance. Eight…

Popular discourses of computing and computer science can often frame the sector and the people within it as highly intelligent yet socially challenged, contributing to stereotypes that can potentially exclude those perceived to lack these skills or characteristics. For young people, such stereotypes can influence their educational and career…

Canada's federally funded English language programming has historically overlooked the holistic learning needs of adult literacy learners, who have limited prior education and low English proficiency. Literacy learners' educational and language needs are further compounded by limited digital literacy, as they face barriers to accessing and…

This study investigated the interrelationships among science process skills (SPSs) developed through home-based experiments (HBEs) and examined the correlation between SPS and science literacy (SL) among middle school students. Employing a qualitative correlational design, the study involved 77 seventh-grade students in Aceh Province, Indonesia.…

Background/purpose: It is an urgent necessity to identify geometric conceptual errors among students at different levels. These errors cannot be ignored, as they hinder the learning of related concepts. Teachers need to be aware of these errors, which are often embedded in students' cognitive structures, so that they can work on eliminating them…

The on-going use of the Coolabah Dynamic Assessment (CDA; Chaffey, 2002) protocol to identify students with high learning potential is explored, with a particular emphasis on students from communities that are often under- represented in opportunities for high potential and gifted learners (i.e., students from culturally, linguistically and…