Effective professional learning includes the provision of opportunities for teachers to actively engage with learning in a supportive community, where ideas can be shared, trialled, questioned and revised. The professional learning designed within the Embodied Learning in Early Mathematics and Science (ELEMS) Project aimed to assist teachers in…

This qualitative study employs thematic analysis of open-ended survey data to examine how 187 low-income college students in a need- based scholarship and support program perceive contributors to their success and barriers they face. Using an abductive approach that integrates inductive coding with theoretical alignment, we identified key themes,…

This study delves into how local communities engage in the management of Tanguar Haor, a vital wetland in northeastern Bangladesh designated as an Ecologically Critical Area (ECA) and a Ramsar site. The study looks at relationships between important socioeconomic factors like income, education, age, gender, and local participation in wetland…

During summer, children's activities are dependent on their families' and communities' resources, raising concerns about inequalities in access to summer enrichment experiences. In this research brief, we use nationally representative data from the 1999 and 2011 ECLS-K cohorts to examine trends in kindergarten children's summer enrichment…

"Self-directed learning" and "student-centred learning" are key theoretical constructs in the educational literature. However, to date, the similarities and differences between these terms have not been examined. This paper therefore provides a historical overview of both constructs, followed by an analysis of the similarities…

This practice report examines how an implementation of Kift's (2009) Transition Pedagogy evolved over 15 years in a First and Further Year Experience (FFYE) program at an Australian university. Designed to enhance student success, particularly for students from low socio-economic status (LSES) backgrounds, the program applies transition pedagogy…

This paper presents the findings of a meta-analysis on parental involvement and its relationship with the academic achievement of Chinese students. Unlike most meta-analyses that rely on data from published studies, this study draws from 363 representative regional samples, encompassing 399,375 students in mainland China, including 212,072 Year 4…

Scholars and the public alike have questioned the benefits of obtaining an undergraduate education. Although research has extensively examined short-term outcomes associated with college experiences, relatively few studies have investigated non-economic outcomes beyond graduation. This paper explored the link between college experiences and…

Since its implementation in 2006, Portugal's full-time schools programme led to a massive increase of curricular enrichment and family-support activities in public schools throughout the country. The literature review brings together important contributions from previous research and assessments of the full-time school programme, including results…

The pervasive use of the Internet and technology has its impact on citizens' civic participation. There are growing numbers of research which explore digital citizenship (DC) for citizens' better civic participation in the information society. With the growing attention of digital citizenship, a systematic review of empirical research focused on…

Within this study, we explored the relationship between racial ideology and leadership experiences of Black college student leaders at a historically white institution. Using a phenomenological approach, we sought to delineate the leadership experiences of Black college students as related to their racial identity. We provide evidence that racial…

Engagement with socioscientific issues (SSI) has emerged as an important focus for science education. SSI have been successfully used to teach science concepts, but they also serve a role in helping learners develop a capacity to engage with science in everyday life. Here we present an epistemic framework for characterizing socioscientific…

Research has shown the importance of dealing with real-life issues and of enabling student encounters with complexity in chemistry education in order to increase student participation. Therefore, this study aims to analyse how complexity evolves in students' discussions and how this complexity relates to aspects of tentativeness in chemistry. In…

This study quantitatively examines how students' cocurricular involvement in their first year of college relates to their pre-college attributes and perceptions of the role of cocurricular involvement on employability. We situate this study in Astin's (1984) theory of student involvement, Ajzen and Fishbein's (1980) theory of reasoned action, and…

Technological advancements and changes in online survey participation pave the way for new data collection methods. Particularly, the increasing smartphone rate in online surveys facilitates a re-consideration of prevailing communication channels to, for instance, naturalize the communication process between researchers and respondents and to…