The troika that helps students develop their social and emotional abilities: peer relationships, teacher-student relationships, and family relationships
The development of social and emotional abilities is deeply rooted in the interaction of interpersonal relationships, and peer relationships, teacher-student relationships, and family relationships are the core ecological factors in the socialization process of adolescents, providing an important framework fo ...
03 12 2025
The influence of teacher language practices on children’s language development
A recent meta-analysis by Jiang and colleagues explored the role of teachers’ language practices in fostering young children’s language development from preschool to third grade. ...
17 10 2025
Evaluating the long-term effects of a partial-day Pre-K program
Research shows that early childhood education (ECE) can strongly influence children’s learning and development. Universal prekindergarten (UPK) offers free access to all age-eligible children, yet by 2019–2020 only 10 states and the District of Columbia had adopted it. ...
16 10 2025
早期数学困难:从幼儿园到四年级的成长轨迹与预测因素
Math learning difficulties (MD) have been recognized as a crucial aspect of students’ daily life and their future educational advancement. While many students demonstrate math difficulties as early as kindergarten, researchers have a lack of understanding of achievement trajectories and factors influencing ma ...
11 10 2025
Educational Robotics and Kindergarteners’ 4Cs Development
A recent meta-analysis by Sapounidis and colleagues examined the effects of Educational Robotics (ER) on the development of kindergarteners’ twenty-first century skills, namely communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. From an initial pool of 2141 records, 22 empirical studies met inclu ...
30 09 2025
How can education prevent the middle-income group from slipping? --Analysis of data based on China's household tracking survey
The study, published in the Journal of East China Normal University (Educational Science Edition), is based on the China Statistical Yearbook and the Peking University China Household Tracking Survey from 2010 to 2020, covering 25 provinces/municipalities/autonomous regions, and encompassing three levels: ind ...
26 06 2025
Could a short professional development program enhance children’s science learning outcomes?
A recent experimental study by Guan and Hu in southeast China investigated two approaches to improving early childhood pre-service teachers’ science teaching abilities and children’s learning outcomes ...
24 06 2025
The Influence of Job Satisfaction and Professional Identity on Teacher Caring Behaviors — Analysis and Countermeasures Based on a Survey of Kindergarten Teachers in 5 Provinces
Caring teachers are the professional standard for high-quality teachers in kindergartens in China and abroad. ...
31 03 2025
Enhancing children’s reading outcomes: The interplay of topic background knowledge and parent-child interaction
Reading comprehension often depends on prior topic knowledge, as evident in everyday experiences like understanding technical manuals. ...
14 03 2025
Special Subject on Cultural Capital in the Chinese Context How Cultural Capital Functions
In the context of emphasizing educational equity and the deepening implementation of quality-oriented education, how cultural capital influences academic achievement through multiple mechanisms has become a key issue in understanding educational stratification and institutional tensions. ...
14 01 2026
How to Crack the Dilemma of “Difficult to Educate Children” in Township Boarding Schools?
As a vital component of rural compulsory education, township boarding schools play a crucial role in optimizing educational resource allocation and promoting educational equity. However, many such institutions currently face the persistent challenge of "boarding without proper nurturing. ...
12 01 2026
Does Excessive Homework Load Affect Social and Emotional Skills of Students in The Effect to Family Education on Children's Human Capital Development: Facts and Mechanisms
With the implementation of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Promotion of Family Education and the advancement of “establishing a coordinated education mechanism among schools, families, and society,” the role of family education in children's development has become increasingly prominent. A st ...
08 01 2026
The Short-Term Effects of the“Double Reduction”Policy: Evidence from Household Surveys and Online Platform Data
The academic burden of primary and secondary school students is an important policy issue for the development of education and the growth of young people in our country. Although the policy has been implemented for four years, due to the lack of micro-tracking data, most existing studies are based on cross-se ...
06 01 2026
The Impact of“Flexible Working Hours”on the Workload of Teachers in Compulsory Education
This study was published in Journal of Fujian Normal University(Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition). This study is based on survey data from 3,106 teachers across 10 provinces (municipalities) in the eastern, central, and western regions of China, analyzed using the propensity score matching method. ...
05 01 2026
The Impact of Compensation Incentive Programs for Teachers of Primary and Middle Schools on Students' Academic Performance: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Studies
A meta-analysis published in China Economics of Education Review (Vol. 10, No. 4, 2025) examined the effects of teacher compensation incentive programs on student academic performance. ...
04 01 2026
Flipped Classroom vs. Traditional Teaching in Enhancing Mathematics Achievement and Interest Among Secondary School Students
The results indicated that the flipped classroom produced substantially greater gains in mathematics achievement than the conventional method: the experimental group’s mean achievement scores increased from 60.8 to 86.1, compared with an increase from 62.0 to 64.7 in the control group, and the treatment effec ...
15 01 2026
Special Subject on Cultural Capital in the Chinese Context How Cultural Capital Functions
In the context of emphasizing educational equity and the deepening implementation of quality-oriented education, how cultural capital influences academic achievement through multiple mechanisms has become a key issue in understanding educational stratification and institutional tensions. ...
14 01 2026
How to Crack the Dilemma of “Difficult to Educate Children” in Township Boarding Schools?
As a vital component of rural compulsory education, township boarding schools play a crucial role in optimizing educational resource allocation and promoting educational equity. However, many such institutions currently face the persistent challenge of "boarding without proper nurturing. ...
12 01 2026
Does Excessive Homework Load Affect Social and Emotional Skills of Students in The Effect to Family Education on Children's Human Capital Development: Facts and Mechanisms
With the implementation of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Promotion of Family Education and the advancement of “establishing a coordinated education mechanism among schools, families, and society,” the role of family education in children's development has become increasingly prominent. A st ...
08 01 2026
The Short-Term Effects of the“Double Reduction”Policy: Evidence from Household Surveys and Online Platform Data
The academic burden of primary and secondary school students is an important policy issue for the development of education and the growth of young people in our country. Although the policy has been implemented for four years, due to the lack of micro-tracking data, most existing studies are based on cross-se ...
06 01 2026
The Impact of“Flexible Working Hours”on the Workload of Teachers in Compulsory Education
This study was published in Journal of Fujian Normal University(Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition). This study is based on survey data from 3,106 teachers across 10 provinces (municipalities) in the eastern, central, and western regions of China, analyzed using the propensity score matching method. ...
05 01 2026