Blended collaborative learning has emerged as an effective pedagogical model that integrates face-to-face and online learning environments, offering a dynamic platform for deep learning--characterized by critical thinking, knowledge synthesis, and application. However, existing research offers mixed findings on how blended collaborative learning…

One of the main challenges related to school climate is the difference in perception between students, teachers, and principals. In fact, school policies may fail to address bullying issues effectively due to the misidentification of the magnitude of the issue. To investigate this challenge, we used data from the 2021 Progress in International…

The objective of this study is to investigate the influence of gender and school level (middle and high school) on a range of homework-related behaviors and attitudes among students. The study's participants were 920 students from various middle and high school levels in Turkey. The study examined a number of variables, including homework…

The COVID-19 pandemic's shift to emergency remote teaching (ERT) revealed significant gaps in K-12 teachers' preparedness to use educational technology (ET) outside traditional settings. This study explores ET usage among Utah's K-12 teachers in 2021, focusing on tool prevalence, differences between elementary and secondary educators, and…

The characteristics of global competence among South Korean college students at a single large national university using performance-based assessments to evaluate key dimensions: global perspective and intercultural sensitivity. The study identified five distinct student profiles, illustrating a spectrum from limited to advanced levels. The…

The "CUPA-HR 2025 Higher Education Employee Retention Survey" (ERS) examined why higher ed employees consider leaving, which groups face greater turnover risk, and where institutions should focus to improve retention. In its third administration, the 2025 ERS provides an updated analysis of what drives non-faculty staff to seek other…

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…

Background: Previous studies have shown that when young people witness bullying, perceived social norms of their peer group affect their behavior. However, few studies have examined the specificity of norm misperception (i.e., overestimation of peer antisocial responses and the underestimation of prosocial responses relative to the objective group…

Using a cross-cultural comparative study approach, this study analyses and compares the leadership discourses revealed through interviews with early childhood education (ECE) leaders in Finland and Singapore. The interviews were conducted both before the COVID-19 outbreaks in 2018 and during the pandemic in 2021. Conducted as focus group…

Researchers have conducted numerous studies on the positive effects of intrinsic motivation to learn mathematics and the negative impact of mathematics anxiety on students' performance in mathematics literacy. The study examined how the introduction of cognitive activation in mathematics lessons, a mediator variable, would alter these effects…

Postsecondary education confers many benefits to individuals. Relative to those without any postsecondary education, they earn more income, are less likely to experience depression and have higher self-esteem, and live longer. Access to these benefits, however, varies considerably across gender, race and ethnicity, and family income despite the…

Previous research has provided compelling evidence of a strong connection between extracurricular activities and positive youth development. While both school offerings and student participation affect the outcomes of extracurricular activities, earlier studies have primarily focused on student participation. In contrast, this study shifts the…

Non-cognitive factors, such as motivation, have shown to play a significant role in adolescences science learning. However, there is little longitudinal research investigating students' intrinsic motivation in science learning over school years. Based on self-determination theory, this study examines the change in, and associations between,…

This study identifies the intercultural and contextual stressors experienced by undergraduate international students in a business program at a private Canadian university. Using a sequential mixed-methods design, we drew on Redfield et al.'s (1936) concept of acculturation and Berry's (2001) theoretical model. First, we invited all international…

Background: Emotion and peer problems tend to increase in autistic young people during adolescence. However, the extent to which endogenous (e.g., pubertal maturation) and exogenous (e.g., school adjustment, bullying) factors contribute to trajectories of emotion and peer problems in autistic young people is unclear. Methods: Using data from the…