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EFFECTIVE TEACHING APPROACH
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ACHIEVEMENT
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LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
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MATHS AND SCIENCE LEARNING
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SOCIAL AND MOTIVATIONAL OUTCOMES
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EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND LEADERSHIP
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PROGRAMME EVALUATION
TUTORING IMPLEMENTATION: A REVIEW
The Covid-19 pandemic interrupted student learning to various extents in the past two years. Many studies demonstrate that tutoring programs where students receive small-group or one-to-one academic support are effective in improving academic achievement. However, there are few reviews that summarize the evid ...
17 11 2022
DOES AN ACADEMIC LANGUAGE CURRICULUM IMPROVE ELEMENTARY STUDENTS’ READING SKILLS?
A recent randomized evaluation funded by the Institute of Education Sciences investigated the effects of WordGen Elementary on students’ reading achievement. WordGen Elementary includes a curriculum with reading, writing, and speaking activities that aim to enhance students’ understanding and communication of ...
11 11 2022
THE EFFECT OF LEARNING ANALYTICS ON COLLEGE STUDENTS’ METACOGNITIVE AWARENESS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
A study conducted by Karaoglan Yilmaz out of Bartin University in Turkey examined the effect of learning analytics (LA) in an online learning environment on college students’ metacognitive awareness and academic achievement. LA is an instructional technology collecting, measuring, and reporting students’ onli ...
07 11 2022
The Influence of Physical Exercise on Adolescent Non-Cognitive Skills and its Paths: An Empirical Analysis Based on CEPS Data
Adolescents represent the nation’s future and both their health level and non-cognitive skills are key components of the country’s human capital. Research into the effects of physical exercise on adolescent non-cognitive skills is of great practical significance for formulating relevant national policies to p ...
04 11 2022
The effects of tutoring and family engagement on reading outcomes
While the study investigated the impact of this intervention on a small number of students, the findings contribute to the growing number of studies that have found the implementation of Future Forward is associated with gains in reading achievement. Matching students with a paraprofessional to provide one-on ...
03 11 2022
Can Reflection Consistently Improve Teachers’ Classroom Behaviors? A Study Based on a Longitudinal Survey of Teachers with Different Teaching Philosophies
Reflection has become increasingly important in professional development of primary and secondary school teachers. Teachers’ reflection is personal examination of their educational actions and processes. ...
31 10 2022
A study of a communication app’s effectiveness on decreasing absenteeism
Absenteeism is negatively associated with student outcomes. It is now a problem faced by many schools in the District of Columbia. Many schools have tried various strategies of engaging families to reduce or prevent absenteeism, including two-way communications about students’ attendance. Recently, a group of ...
18 10 2022
The Influence of Leisure-Time Activities on Teenager Academic achievement and its Mechanism: An Empirical Study Based on CEPS Data
In recent years, in an effort to alleviate excessive academic burden of teenagers, relevant governmental departments have released and implemented a series of “burden reduction” regulations and measures. In the context of the current Double Reduction Policy, it is of great significance to study the impact of ...
13 10 2022
How Can Online Reproduction Sustain？The Influence of Digital Habitus and Online Tutoring on the Academic Performance of Urban and Rural Students
Published in the Journal of Educational Studies, this study used PISA 2015’s data of mathematics, science, and reading performance of students from four Chinese provincial administrative regions to examine the influence of digital habitus and online tutoring on academic achievement of urban and rural students ...
12 10 2022
Will Internet Use Increase Peasant Household Education Investment: Micro Evidence from CHFS2019
At present, the problem of urban and rural education equity is prominent, and it has become the choice of farmers to block the intergenerational transmission of poverty through education investment. A study published in Agricultural Technology Economics, based on the 2019 China Household Finance Survey data ( ...
20 09 2022
The power of scaffolding in digital game-based learning
Digital game-based learning (DGBL) has become a popular instructional approach in recent years. Some researchers have suggested that scaffolding integrated in games can provide timely support that better facilitates students’ learning process and improves learning outcomes. ...
15 09 2022
Sustaining content through literacy instruction to improve reading comprehension outcomes in the early grades
A recent longitudinal randomized controlled trial (RCT) by Kim and colleagues evaluated the effect of the Model of Reading Engagement (MORE) intervention on the reading comprehension of early elementary students. The MORE intervention consisted of providing students in Grade 1 with 20 thematic content literac ...
15 09 2022
Why do students cheat?
Academic cheating is a serious worldwide problem that begins during childhood. Inspired by nudge theory from behavior economics, researchers believe physical and verbal nudges can affect cheating rates among children. ...
29 08 2022
Preventing summer slide through the mail
Summer slide, or the loss of student learning progress over the summer months, is of concern to parents and educators. While summer school has been offered as a possible solution, it can be expensive and difficult to serve all students. Lighter touch strategies such as engaging students to read and complete ...
15 08 2022
Research on the Influencing Factors of Junior High School Students' Mathematics Achievement ——An Analysis Based on Hierarchical Linear Model
How to improve students' classroom learning efficiency has always been an important educational issue. Students' internal factors and the classroom environment as one of the important external factors will have an impact on their academic performance. ...
25 07 2022
Interparental Conflict Affects Adolescent Mobile Phone Addiction:Based on the Spillover Hypothesis and Emotional Security Theory
Parental conflict is an important risk factor affecting adolescents' behavior problems such as Internet addiction, but the mechanism between parental conflict and adolescents' mobile phone addiction is still unknown. Recently, an article published in the Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology, based on the sp ...
25 07 2022
The effects of academic interventions on academic achievement and academic anxiety outcomes in elementary school children
A recent meta-analysis by Fishstrom and colleagues examined the effects of academic interventions on academic achievement and academic anxiety in students in kindergarten to Grade 6. ...
18 07 2022
The Effects of the Age Beginning to Accept Preschool Education on Children’s Future Development in Adolescence
A study published in the Studies in Preschool Education, using the data from the Study on Social and Emotional Skills （SSES）in Suzhou，China as an analysis sample, examined the long-term effects of early education and care under 3 years old on academic literacy and social and emotional skills from a perspectiv ...
20 09 2022
Who Are Willing to Send Their Children to Secondary Vocational Schools？ ——A Survey of 15，428 Parents of Ninth Graders in "Three Autonomous Prefectures"
At present, the country's demand for secondary vocational and technical talents is still strong, but parents' demand for their children's secondary vocational school entrance remains low, and the contradiction between supply and demand of secondary vocational and technical talents is further highlighted. Ther ...
20 09 2022
Effects of a multitiered system of language support on kindergarten oral and written language
Petersen and colleagues conducted a large-scale randomized controlled trial, aiming to examine the effects of a multitiered system of language support (MTSLS) on kindergarten children’s oral and written language. ...
29 08 2022
Does storytelling matter for preschoolers?
A research team in New York University evaluated a classroom-based oral storytelling program called Reading Success Using Co-Constructive Elaborative Storytelling Strategies (R-SUCCESS). ...
01 08 2022
Understanding the dynamics of dosage response on reading interventions
A recent meta-analysis published in the Review of Educational Research intends to identify and understand the intervention characteristics associated with the largest reading effect sizes. ...
28 03 2022
The relationship between home cognitive environment and the development of infants and toddlers aged 0-3 years
The first few years of a child's life are the most rapidly developing stage of his or her life, and promoting the healthy physical and mental development of infants and toddlers aged 0-3 years is gradually receiving widespread attention both at home and abroad. In a recent article published in Psychological D ...
07 03 2022
The longitudinal effects of SPELL
Language and literacy skills during the preschool years are the foundations for children’s future reading achievement. A recent follow-up study by Bleses and colleagues investigated the longitudinal effectiveness of an early childhood language and literacy intervention, SPELL, on reading skills through second ...
28 12 2021
Enhancing Expressive Language of Second-language Learners in Kindergarten
A study published in the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness reports on the efficacy of an intervention to improve kindergarten second-language learners’ general language skills (vocabulary, grammar, language expression, and comprehension) in their second language (L2). ...
16 11 2021
Effects of Language Comprehension Interventions on Language and Literacy Outcomes
Language comprehension is an important component of reading that allows readers to derive meaning from oral or written language. Instructions on the components of language comprehension, including vocabulary, semantics, morphology, and syntax, may support language and reading comprehension. A meta-analysis pu ...
16 11 2021
THE EFFECTS OF PROJECT-BASED LEARNING ON ADVANCED PLACEMENT EXAM SCORES
A recent cluster randomized controlled trial by Saavedra and colleagues evaluated the effect of a project-based learning approach to teaching advanced placement (AP) courses on AP exam scores. More schools are now offering advanced placement courses. Still, racial and socioeconomic gaps in attaining qualifyin ...
08 11 2022
Mathematics summer learning
A recent meta-analysis by Lynch and colleagues provides fresh insight on contemporary research focused on the effects of summer programs for mathematics. The authors noted that studies cited in previous meta-analyses of the effects of summer programs on mathematics achievement are now approximately 20 years o ...
15 09 2022
Comparing mathematical games
In a recent meta-analysis, Gulsah Kacmaz and Adam K. Dubé analyzed the findings from 26 studies on mathematical games to better understand the types of pedagogical approaches supported in mathematical games, the types of mathematical knowledge emphasized in these games, and the overall effectiveness of differ ...
04 07 2022
How can I assist students with mathematical difficulties?
A recent meta-analysis validated the effectiveness of a series of interventions for primary school students with mathematical difficulties. The studies included in this analysis were interventions involving the design and evaluation of mathematical textual questions in random or quasi-experimental studies. ...
20 06 2022
What works for elementary school students' math learning?
A new research review conducted by the team at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Educational Research and Reform, recently published in AERA Open, analyses the best available evidence for mathematics courses for primary school students internationally to identify methods that work in mathematics and teach ...
06 06 2022
Can educational robots improve students' creativity—— Meta analysis based on 48 experimental and quasi experimental studies
The study published in the Journal of East China Normal University (Education Science Edition),, coded and analyzed data from relevant experimental studies at home and abroad through Meta-analysis in order to investigate the effects and bottlenecks of educational robots in schools, so as to provide reference ...
30 05 2022
Parent engagement in science education: the more the merrier?
Parents are the first teachers of their children. The success of school education needs parental engagement. However, there is a cost to everything. What are the costs of encouraging more parental involvement in children’s science education? Robinson and her colleagues used a randomized field experiment to ex ...
28 02 2022
Digital games for improving student motivation in mathematics
The Journal of Computer Assisted Learning has recently published a meta-analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of digital games for the enhancement of K-12 student motivation in mathematics. To be included in the review, studies had to use randomized or quasi-experimental designs and evaluated interventions i ...
10 01 2022
Relations among phonological processing skills and mathematics
A recent meta-analysis was published that investigated the association between phonological processing skills and mathematics in children. A total of 94 studies (135 unique samples, 826 effect sizes) was examined in the study. ...
10 01 2022
Negative Parenting Styles and Preschoolers’ Social Adaptation Difficulties: The Mediating Effect of Parent-Child Conflicts
Children’s social adaptation is a manifestation of the level of their socialization. Positive social adaptation is represented by qualities such as pro-activeness, sensitivity, cooperation, and popularity among peers in children’s social interaction. Social adaptation difficulties include externalizing behavi ...
30 03 2023
A Longitudinal Study on the Immediate and Long-term Effects of Television Exposure on Preschoolers’ Executive Function
Executive function comprises a series of higher-order cognitive abilities of individuals that can effectively regulate their behavior and thinking. It has three main components: working memory, inhibition, and set shifting. Young children need to use their executive function to make plans, eliminate interfere ...
23 11 2022
The Impact of Childhood Violence on Mental Health of Rural Children in China and its Gender Differences
Childhood violence severely impairs physical and mental health of children all over the world. It can inflict not only serious physical injury but also lifelong depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other mental problems on the victims. Childhood violence prevention and intervention have be ...
14 11 2022
Parental Phubbing and Young Children’ Problem Behavior: A Moderated Mediation Model
Child problem behaviors refer to those behaviors that are detrimental to physical and mental health of young children, including externalizing problems such as aggression, violence, disobedience to discipline, etc. and internalizing ones like anxiety, depression, withdrawal and so on. Problem behaviors impede ...
10 11 2022
DOES GAME-BASED LEARNING AFFECT STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT EMOTIONS?
Compared to traditional instruction, students learning through educational games might gain more in academic achievement. According to self-determination theory and control-value theory, game-based learning (GBL) promotes students’ positive achievement emotions (PAE, e.g., joy, confidence, hope) and reduces n ...
09 11 2022
The Influence of Marital Quality on Coparenting: A Cross-level Mediation Analysis Based on the Common Fate Model
The common fate model is a reliable instrument in family or dyadic relationship research, which successfully explains the inherent interdependence of close relationships. It was used in this study to examine the influence of marital quality on coparenting and the cross-level mediating effect of the couple’s s ...
01 11 2022
TEACHER POSTCARDS TO REDUCE ABSENCES
A recent study published in the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness examines the effectiveness of sending teacher-written postcards home to reduce absences in preschool through second grade. ...
24 10 2022
The Relationship between Peer Attachment and Mobile Phone Addiction of Junior Secondary School Students
Peer attachment refers to the intimacy between adolescents and their peers, in which they give each other warmth and support. Good peer attachment can reduce emotional and behavioral problems. Peer attachment is also considered as an important factor affecting adolescents' mobile phone addiction. In order to ...
20 10 2022
The Impact of Psychological Abuse and Neglect on Adolescents' Externalizing Problem Behaviors: The Mediating Effect of Antisocial Attitudes and Moderating Effect of Gender
Externalizing problem behaviors mainly refers to behaviors that violate social ethics and harm others, including antisocial, illegal, aggressive and bullying behaviors. Adolescence is a period of high incidence of individual externalizing problem behaviors, which have a negative impact on the physical and men ...
17 10 2022
The Impact of Poverty on Family Expenditure on Adolescent Out-of-School Education: With a Discussion of Compulsory Education Policy Compensation for Students from Impoverished Households
Poverty alleviation through education has been crucial for the elimination of absolute poverty in China and will continue to play an important role in reducing relative poverty. ...
02 11 2022
SIX LETTERS TO CHANGE PARENTS’ MATH EXPECTATION TOWARDS THEIR CHILDREN
Gender stereotypes in math, which refers to the belief that men have superior math ability than women, can harm female students’ math competence beliefs. Similarly, students’ beliefs that math ability is inborn and does not change much with effort (fixed mindset) can weaken their competence beliefs. Lee and c ...
25 10 2022
A review on exclusionary discipline
Exclusion, encompassing various ways students can be removed from school settings (e.g., suspension and expulsion) for behavioral reasons (e.g., too disruptive or dangerous), has been adopted by educational practitioners for more than two decades. Existing studies have shown that children are more likely to b ...
21 10 2022
The Impact of Family Educational Expenditure on Poverty Vulnerability of Multidimensional Poor Families——Based on the Survey Data of 10 Impoverished Counties in China
Based on the theories of multidimensional poverty and poverty vulnerability, this study utilized data from the empirical research on rural households in eight nation-level and two province-level impoverished counties in 2018; economic income, physical and mental health, and opportunities for ability improveme ...
11 10 2022
Who Are Willing to Send Their Children to Secondary Vocational Schools？ ——A Survey of 15，428 Parents of Ninth Graders in "Three Autonomous Prefectures"
At present, the country's demand for secondary vocational and technical talents is still strong, but parents' demand for their children's secondary vocational school entrance remains low, and the contradiction between supply and demand of secondary vocational and technical talents is further highlighted. Ther ...
20 09 2022
How Informationization Promotes Quality and Balanced Development of Compulsory Education —An Empirical Study Based on Large Samples of Guangdong Province under Longitudinal Data
Education informatization is of great significance to promote the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education. However, how to promote the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education by informatization is still a key problem that needs to be solved. ...
20 09 2022
From Parental Educational Involvement to Students’ Achievement: A Serial Mediation Model of Parental Autonomy Support and Self-regulation Learning Potential
Parental education involvement, as the main content of parental investment, is the interaction between parents and the school and their children in order to improve their children's academic achievement. ...
05 09 2022
How Principals' Transformational Leadership Affects Teachers' Organizational Commitment ——An Empirical Analysis Based on Mediating and Moderating Effects
In recent years, the declining attractiveness of school organization and teaching profession has attracted widespread attention. A study published in the Education Research, based on the interactive service chain theory,explore the school circumstances principal transformational leadership influence on teache ...
22 08 2022
Graphic organizers help to enhance students’ generative cognitive processing
A recent study published in Journal of Educational Psychology examined the role of graphic organizers in promoting generative processing in learners. Graphic organizers are common ways of structuring texts. These include compare-and-contrast (e.g., matrix), sequence (e.g., flowchart) and hierarchy (e.g., tree ...
15 08 2022
A study of arts integration
A recent study done by Kisida and colleagues examined the effects of integrating arts into students’ learning by measuring elementary-aged students’ learning outcomes after receiving a lesson on Arkansas state history through a theater performance. The authors suggest that arts integration has positive effect ...
13 09 2022
Influencing Factors and Action Mechanism of Online Learning in Supporting Learners' Empowerment.
With the advent of the era of "Internet + education", online learning has become a new normal of education. Although online learning has the advantages of supporting learners to develop high-level abilities such as autonomy and critical thinking, as well as rich resources and free space and time, there are al ...
05 09 2022
From Parental Educational Involvement to Students’ Achievement: A Serial Mediation Model of Parental Autonomy Support and Self-regulation Learning Potential
Parental education involvement, as the main content of parental investment, is the interaction between parents and the school and their children in order to improve their children's academic achievement. ...
05 09 2022
Effects of exercise intervention on children's mental health
A study on the effect of exercise on children's mental health, through a 12-week exercise experiment on 169 primary school students, explored the effect of exercise intervention on children's physical self-esteem(Physical self-esteem is an important part of overall self-esteem, and it is the earliest germinat ...
22 08 2022
Are Screens Raising Problem Children?
With the rapid development of information technology,emerging electronic media represented by smart phones and tablet computers have entered thousands of households. As digital natives, it has become common for preschoolers to be exposed to and overuse of electronic media, which has aroused public concerns an ...
22 08 2022
Sensibly distribute resources: Prior-year statewide achievement test data is sufficient
Universal screening for identifying students at risk for future reading problems is important, but inaccurate and costly approaches are not worth investing in. Paly and colleagues recently conducted a retrospective research project to analyze four approaches to reading risk screening in terms of their accurac ...
15 08 2022
How Can the “Urban Education Dream” of Migrant Children be Possible
Paying attention to the educational expectations of migrant children has important implications for improving efficiency and equity and justice in China's society. A recent study published in the Journal of Central China Normal University(Humanities and Social Sciences), based on the baseline data of the Chin ...
08 08 2022
Directions for ECE during pandemic: a perspective from global research
The coronavirus outbreak hit the world in early 2020 and caught all industries off-guard. Since then, schools and pre-schools were forced into long terms of suspension, bringing a completely new challenge to students, parents and teachers and pushing early childhood education to go fully digital. ...
01 08 2022
The effectiveness of teacher evaluation training programs
A recent study by Kraft and Christian seeks to understand the relationship between the teacher evaluation system and teachers’ performance by examining the effects of sending administrators to teacher evaluation training programs in the Boston Public Schools (BPS). This study also focused on teachers’ percept ...
01 08 2022