Using unique administrative data from North Carolina that allow us to separate classroom teacher turnover during the school year from end-of-year turnover, we find students who lose their teacher during the school year have significantly lower test score gains (on average -7.5 percent of a standard deviation unit) than those students whose…

Recent decades have brought global expansion of private supplementary tutoring, and China is among countries in which patterns have been especially dramatic. National survey data indicate that 29.8% of primary and lower secondary students had received private supplementary tutoring in 2014, with proportions rising at higher levels of the school…

The objective of this study is to scrutinize the organizational image levels of the students studying at the school of sports sciences in line with some variables. The subject group of the study consists of the prospective sportspeople studying in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years of the departments of Teacher Training on Physical Training and…

Introduction: Peers are an important source of influence on children's social development. This study investigated the positive association between peers' and children's interpersonal character (i.e., humanity and justice) and the moderating role of children's and peers' social status including wealth (family SES), power (class leadership), and…

The current study examined: (1) the associations of COVID-19 stress with anxiety and depression and whether those associations differed by gender or grade level; and (2) how different coping strategies mitigated the associations of COVID-19 stress with anxiety and depression. During remote learning due to COVID-19, data were collected from 2,738…

Lots of innovations have been introduced into our lives with the 21st century. They offer great affordances and are benefited in every sphere of life. On the other hand, these innovations change our habits, including our teaching/learning habits. Therefore, actors in educational environments, especially teachers, have to keep pace with such…

In this study, it was aimed to determine the astronomy literacy levels of secondary school 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade students and to examine the sub-dimensions of astronomy literacy in terms of some variables. In the research, descriptive scanning method was used. The study was carried out with secondary school students studying in a secondary…

The purpose of the study was to assess the volume of academic vocabulary in elementary grades disciplinary textbooks. Academic vocabulary was examined in a corpus of best-selling elementary grades textbooks in three disciplinary areas--science, mathematics, and social studies. Academic words in texts were determined through automated procedures…

All states have youth sports concussion laws that have helped shape school concussion policy. However, state laws do not specify how schools distribute policy. The present study examined parent, youth, and school personnel's knowledge of school concussion policy in Colorado and ease of access to policy via school website. Youth (n = 1,987),…

There have been increasing concerns about the significant decline in teenagers' intentions to pursue STEM subjects or careers. This study examined how students' perceptions of parental expectations, STEM cultural capital, mathematics/science self-efficacy, gender, and parents' jobs were associated with STEM career aspirations and tested whether…

Educators and researchers highlight the important role that math plays as a consequential gateway to upward mobility in the United States (and globally). The purpose of this study was to develop a survey for teens in middle school and high school, to capture information about their math mindsets, identities, experiences studying math, and…

Research suggests that the mentee's individual characteristics may impact mentoring relationships; however, less is known about the mentoring experiences of adolescent girls presenting with behavioral challenges. We examined the experiences of middle school girls identified as behaviorally high-risk. Participants (N = 72) were referred to a…

The relationship between students and their academic institution is based on exchange. However, we have limited knowledge regarding how many exchanges students perceive, who (or what) the perceived exchange partners are, and what the perceived terms of those exchanges contain. To address this gap, we utilized a mixed-method approach to explore and…

The study examined the impact of students' absolute age-position at the time of testing by grade level and gender on their achieved level of mathematics, reading and science performance. An analysis was conducted based on a sample of 11,500 15-year-old pupils in the United Arab Emirates who participated in the OECD's Programme for International…

The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between university students' attitudes towards learning and their academic motivations. This is a relational survey model study and the population composed of university students studying at a state university. The sample is composed of the university students determined according to…