Ensuring adequate support for English learners (ELs) is key to the state meeting its mission of providing a world-class education for all students. Toward that end, California's State Board of Education has recently added a long-term English learner (LTEL) category to the California School Dashboard and enacted a requirement that LTEL as a group…

Creativity and creative problem-solving are seen as the most important components of education today. This situation reveals the need to identify students' creative problem-solving characteristics. This study, it was aimed to examine the creative problem-solving characteristics of gifted and non-gifted students in terms of giftedness diagnosis,…

The presence of social media platforms in secondary students? daily life is growing on but it may appear difficult to know which ones are more convenient for academia, particularly among secondary school pupils who are commonly substantial internet-based life clients. This study seeks to understand Zambian pupils' profiles of social media usage,…

The present work describes a simple hands-on experiment kit for colorimetric quantification of ferric (III) ion (Fe[superscript 3+]) in an aqueous medium using anthocyanin extracted from "Ruellia tuberosa" L. as a green indicator. The extraction of a high amount of anthocyanin was easily accomplished by using only hot water instead of an…

This paper analyses data from the Swedish sample of the international VASI (Views about scientific inquiry) study (Lederman et al. [2019]. An international collaborative investigation of beginning seventh grade students' understandings of scientific inquiry: Establishing a baseline. "Journal of Research in Science Teaching." Published…

This explanatory mixed-methods study investigated the use of bilingual students' linguistic repertoire for teaching and clarifying grammar. A repeated-measures design was used in which the quantitative data were complemented with follow-up qualitative data. Data were collected in six treatment sessions and from twenty-five all-male twelfth-grade…

This case study carried out during the 2020 coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown used online data collection means to investigate the distribution of cognitive demand levels of probability and counting principles (PCP) learning tasks in a popular online Grade 12 mathematics textbook, based on the PCP teachers' rating. The teachers'…

The study aimed to examine the attitudes of high school students in Prizren, Kosovo toward the Albanian Language and Literature course. The participants of the study included volunteer students who were attending the public schools in Prizren, Kosovo during the 2020-2021 academic year. A total number of 615 students were included in the study.…

Boaler (2016) asserted that problem posing is the "essence of real mathematics", yet many students do not have opportunities to pose and then solve their own mathematical questions. Rather, students spend their time solving tasks someone else posed--often their teacher or textbook. To promote problem posing, the author designed,…

While the relationship between self-determination and the academic achievement of students has been widely tested across cultures and groups, limited research has examined the antecedents of self-determination and their impacts on school engagement, which is the pre-requisite of academic achievement. The present study, based on the self-system…

Adolescent suicide is a critical problem in the United States. Identification and reporting of warning signs is a suicide prevention practice that is particularly important in schools, where adolescents spend the majority of their time. Though it is necessary to consider both risk factors and warning signs when evaluating an individual's suicide…

Career and Technical Education (CTE) Emerging Health Professional (EHP) programs are primarily populated by female students in the U.S. The development and testing of innovative educational models such as serious simulation games have been suggested for greater internalization of hand hygiene best practices behaviors for EHP students, but 50% of…

South Africa's National Senior Certificate examination system was introduced in 2008 as a single national examination system, in order to facilitate fair and standardised assessment and to provide all learners with an equal chance of access to higher education. However, limited research has been done to investigate the discrimination power of the…

Background: teen Mental Health First Aid (tMHFA) is an Australian school-based universal program for grade 10 to 12 students. tMHFA teaches teens how to recognize and respond to a peer in crisis or experiencing mental health concerns. Methods: Schools implementing tMHFA in 2019 and 2020 were propensity score matched, yielding a sample of…

The project described in this article focused on the school's environment and students' connections with the school. The project took place in a large, comprehensive high school with eight 12th grade students, one with intellectual disabilities, three with learning disabilities, two with autism spectrum disorders, and two with health impairments.…