Using linked data from the Millennium Cohort Study and National Pupil Database (N = 8,139), this study examined how the timing of school absences (years 1 to 11 between 2006 and 2017) affects achievement at the end of compulsory schooling in England. Absences during any school year are harmful to student achievement. However, absences in years 1…

Background/purpose: Entrepreneurs are the catalyst of change, innovation, and growth in any country. The contribution of entrepreneurship activities to the growth and prosperity of any nation is undeniably affirmed. Nurturing entrepreneurship potential to sustain the important national advancement activities has not been given sufficient attention…

Background/Objective. This study examines the phenomenon of psychological alienation from the perspective of Syrian refugee students in Al-Mafraq Governorate. It explores the impact of variables such as gender, parental presence, duration of asylum, family size, and family income. Psychological alienation is a significant concern for refugee…

Background/purpose: In response to the increasing need to foster future-ready competencies, this study investigates the relationship between computational thinking (CT) and creative thinking (CrT) in early childhood. Traditional early education often overlooks the integration of these higher-order cognitive skills. This research aims to examine…

Design and Technology (D&T) in the UK is approaching a crisis point, with declining enrolment, staffing shortages and increasing marginalisation in the curriculum. However, this paper argues that D&T is not a problem to be solved. Rather, it is a solution to be scaled. Positioned at the intersection of material practice, iteration and…

Background/purpose: This article presents partial results of a document review that constitutes a key input for the doctoral thesis in Didactics of Science entitled "Model of teacher professional development for the inclusive teaching of chemistry in the academic middle school, mediated by artificial intelligence", developed at the…

This study examines whether assessments focused on higher-order cognitive skills can help reduce AI-driven plagiarism in educational settings. A total of 123 participants completed three tasks of increasing complexity, aligned with Bloom's taxonomy, across four groups: control, e-textbook, Google, and ChatGPT. Results from repeated-measures ANOVA…

Compared to various market, state, and civil society sectors, schools' experiences of urban 'greening' in India remain curiously under-researched, despite the fact that schoolscapes are emerging as both awareness-raising agents for and fantastical visions of 'green' living. The paper seeks to address this lacuna in schoolscape scholarship by…

This study explores the effectiveness of different problem-posing approaches in improving learning outcomes and problem-posing abilities among prospective mathematics teachers. This study employed a pre- and post-tests control group experimental design. The experimental group engaged in online and direct problem-posing, the comparison group used…

Managing up has been associated with increased work engagement and outcome in many professional settings; however, such a mechanism remains under-explored in higher education. Building on Self-Determination Theory and Dualistic Model of Passion, this study investigates the relationship between managing up and work engagement among doctoral…

Although the Ghanaian mathematics curriculum emphasizes critical thinking as a core competence, students still appear to lack this skill. In this mixed-method study, the Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome (SOLO) taxonomy was used to assess senior high school students' thinking levels in permutation and combination. A sample of 256 males…

Background/purpose. The purpose of this research is to analyse and aim to develop a gamification-based learning tool. This is due to the diverse learning needs and responds to the challenge of differentiated learning that is student-centred in the classroom rather than teacher-centred. Materials/methods. The research method used is a research…

Background/purpose. This study aims to examine the effects of integrated board game development and cooperative learning on pre-service mathematics teachers' mathematical reasoning, conceptual understanding, creativity, and teamwork skills in Thailand. Materials/methods. Using a mixed-methods approach within the PAOR…

This paper examines Grade 10 students' conceptions of proof in a secondary school in Singapore. Using a purposive survey of 9 mathematical items, proofs by 8 students for two items, one on Number and Algebra and another on Geometry and Trigonometry, were coded using Harel's proof schemes. The findings show that the students' proofs for the two…

I investigate the effect of lowering welfare benefits for refugees on children's outcomes in Denmark. For identification, I exploit a reform that gave refugees lower benefits if they were granted residency after September 2015. The exact date of residency is plausible random due to the nature of the asylum process. By using Danish register data, I…