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Maria Adriana Neroni; Nathan Crilly; Maria Antonella Brandimonte – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2024
When faced with the need to transform an object, idea, or situation, people have a tendency to favor adding new components rather than removing existing ones. This is called the "additive bias." Previous research, along with historical and anecdotal examples, shows that this bias may significantly reduce problem-solving abilities and…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Associative Learning, Bias, Problem Solving
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Yvonne Vissing – Education and Society, 2024
A cross-cultural historical examination of Santa Claus reflects that women have contributed substantially to the legend of Santa Claus, but their contributions are downplayed, demeaned, or reframed to fit a sexist view of women's roles. Santa Claus type figures have emerged around the world as part of celebrations of the winter solstice, but…
Descriptors: Feminism, Holidays, Christianity, Popular Culture
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Tiwaloluwa A. Ajibewa; Kendrin R. Sonneville; Alison L. Miller; Claudia M. Toledo-Corral; Leah E. Robinson; Rebecca E. Hasson – Journal of American College Health, 2024
This study explored cross-sectional associations between prior weight stigma experiences, physical activity (PA) intentions, behaviors, and the acute effects of a weight stigma exposure on PA intentions and behaviors among undergraduate students. Weight-stigma experiences and behavioral intentions were self-reported. Moderate-to-vigorous PA and…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Social Bias, Physical Activity Level, Intention
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Dennis Murphy Odo – Literacy, 2024
The purpose of this meta-analysis is to synthesise the research evidence on the use of decodable texts in the teaching of word reading and pseudoword decoding to determine their effectiveness in facilitating the development of reading skills in children without reading disabilities. A total of 821 articles were identified in the initial search.…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis, Decoding (Reading), Reading Difficulties
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Aylin Kirisci-Sarikaya; Halim Guner – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
With the global increase in refugees, understanding and improving the educational experiences of refugees has received more attention in academic research. This study aims to investigate the perspective of preservice teachers (PSTs) towards Syrian refugees, who are one of the largest groups of refugees in Turkey. The study explores the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Preservice Teachers, Social Bias
Mistie M. Parsons – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Since at least the publication of "A Nation at Risk" (1983), the United States has used competition and top-down approaches in seeking student achievement in the country. Twenty years ago, to create a pathway for the lowest achieving schools in the country to have a clear path for improvement, the turnaround school movement was…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Females, Educational Improvement, Gender Bias
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Nicholas M. Perez; Aldo Cimino – Journal of School Violence, 2024
Student hazing activities on American college campuses have resulted in numerous deaths reported in the news media. Despite regular reports on hazing-related fatalities, no research has examined how these deaths are reported. The current study aims to bridge this research gap by analyzing articles covering hazing deaths in the U.S. between 1994…
Descriptors: News Media, Trend Analysis, Hazing, Death
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Florian Keusch; Paulina K. Pankowska; Alexandru Cernat; Ruben L. Bach – Field Methods, 2024
Data donation is a novel approach to collecting digital trace data, where users are asked to download their retrospective data from a platform and share them with the researchers. Little is known about the willingness to donate data and the potential bias that may arise from nonparticipation. We conducted a study among over 900 German Facebook…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Research Methodology, Information Dissemination, Social Media
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Anne Valauri – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2024
Purpose: Early childhood and early elementary are key times when children develop internal and external antifat attitudes; thus, it is necessary to better understand the available children's literature around fatness. This paper aims to examine children's picture books with fat protagonists to better understand the current landscape of children's…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Obesity, Social Bias
Huda Essa – ASCD, 2024
In "The Consciously Unbiased Educator," cultural proficiency expert and former teacher Huda Essa helps educators uncover and surmount the limitations of unconscious biases--stereotypes that form below the surface of our awareness, making them harder to detect. Although these biases are not formed with the intent to do harm, if they are…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Teacher Attitudes, Stereotypes, Social Bias
Celina Bernice Reed – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine the lived experiences of Black/ African American women aspiring, serving, or having previously served in the role of Superintendent of Schools in the State of Texas. Additionally, the study investigated the perceived barriers and challenges that impacted the participant's ascent to the superintendency, and…
Descriptors: African Americans, Women Administrators, Superintendents, Barriers
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Jill Fenton Taylor; Ivana Crestani – Qualitative Research Journal, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to explore how an academic researcher and a practitioner experience scepticism for their qualitative research. Design/methodology/approach: The study applies Olt and Teman's new conceptual phenomenological polyethnography (2019) methodology, a hybrid of phenomenology and duoethnography. Findings: For the…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Phenomenology, Ethnography, Bias
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Yang Bai; Yijie Wang; Bairen Ding – European Journal of Education, 2024
Empirical research conducted in numerous countries provides substantial evidence supporting the pivotal role of cultural capital in comprehending educational inequality. However, the operation of cultural capital varies across certain regions in East Asia due to distinct educational systems. This study integrates micro-level mechanisms of cultural…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Bias
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František Bartoš; Maximilian Maier; Eric-Jan Wagenmakers; Franziska Nippold; Hristos Doucouliagos; John P. A. Ioannidis; Willem M. Otte; Martina Sladekova; Teshome K. Deresssa; Stephan B. Bruns; Daniele Fanelli; T. D. Stanley – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
Publication selection bias undermines the systematic accumulation of evidence. To assess the extent of this problem, we survey over 68,000 meta-analyses containing over 700,000 effect size estimates from medicine (67,386/597,699), environmental sciences (199/12,707), psychology (605/23,563), and economics (327/91,421). Our results indicate that…
Descriptors: Publications, Selection, Bias, Meta Analysis
Jillian Kelly – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the impact of gender bias on female superintendents' careers on Long Island. Despite comprising the majority of teachers, women hold a significantly lower proportion of leadership positions. The research employed a mixed-method approach with quantitative and qualitative phases to explore this disparity. The findings reveal…
Descriptors: Females, Superintendents, Disproportionate Representation, Gender Bias
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