THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF HIGHER GRADING STANDARDS ON STUDENT MATH ACHIEVEMENT
Do higher grading standards encourage better student performance, or do they discourage students instead? ...
20 03 2024
The Effect of Adolescents' Perception of Parental Academic Pressure on Psychological Adaptation: The Protective Role of Ego-resilience
Stress and coping theory suggests that individuals in stressful situations mobilise their whole body to cope, but that maladaptive disorders can develop if they are chronically or excessively exposed to this condition. ...
04 02 2024
Relationships between Perceptions of Teacher Autonomy Support and Pupil’ s Intellectual Risk-taking
Teacher Autonomy Support refers to the teaching behavior that teachers respect, support and encourage students, and strive to improve students' learning autonomy, which is usually manifested in giving behavioral or emotional support, respecting students' ideas, giving students independent space, allowing them ...
19 01 2024
Peer’s Participation in Cram School, Teenager’s Emotional Well-being and Academic Performance: How Has the “Double Threat” Occurred?
Since July 2021, the "double reduction" policy issued by the government has gradually been implemented. The "double reduction" policy is not only aimed at reducing the burden of education for young people at the individual level, but also can play a "multiplier effect" for individual burden reduction by reduc ...
29 12 2023
Can Physical Exercise Reduce Adolescents’ Deviant Behaviors?
The increasingly serious problem of juvenile delinquency is becoming more and more the focus of social concern, and deviant behaviors such as school violence and theft are potential triggers of delinquency in adolescence. Therefore, focusing on examining the influencing factors of adolescent deviant behaviors ...
22 12 2023
Parental Involvement in Education and School-Age Children's Academic Achievements
Whether parental involvement is "too much of a good thing" or "too little of a good thing" for children's academic achievement in the context of double burden reduction in and out of school is a scientific question that needs to be addressed in evidence-based education. ...
21 12 2023
Effect of Subtitles on Learning Effectiveness in Instructional Videos
As a core digital educational resource, instructional video is more than just a teaching aid; it plays a pivotal role in both formal and informal learning. ...
18 12 2023
The Moderating Effect of Cognitive Load on Learning Engagement Mechanisms in a Blended Learning Context
Cognitive load theory suggests that an individual's cognitive resources are limited and that various cognitive activities consume cognitive resources. Changes in the learning environment and learning tasks affect the way students cognitively process, the amount and type of information, and thus the cognitive ...
02 11 2023
IMPROVING STUDENT OUTCOMES THROUGH SCHOOL MEALS
An increasing body of literature connects the benefits of school meals and dietary interventions to student academic outcomes and attendance. Despite this, 15 states rejected federal funds for summer food programs targeting hungry children. ...
27 03 2024
The effect of sleep quality on academic performance in children aged 10 to 12 years
It has been shown that sleep quality can positively predict individual academic performance. However, the previous studies mainly focused on middle school students and college students, and paid little attention to primary school children. Results from a recent domestic cross-sectional study showed that prima ...
19 12 2023
Has the Burden of Students’ Homework Eased in the Context of "Double Reduction"
With the continuous improvement of education level and the deepening of education reform in our country, the burden of student homework has become an important issue of national concern. Homework is the basic link of school education and teaching activities, is an important channel to consolidate and deepen w ...
17 11 2023
The Relationship between Mathematics Instructional Time and Academic Achievement in Junior High School
The issue of schoolwork burden in primary and secondary schools has been a topic of continuous concern for all sectors of society. In addition to the after-school burden, which is the concern of the "double-minus" approach, the schoolwork burden also includes the in-class burden, which is represented by the o ...
06 11 2023
How Social Support Systems Affect Students’Learning Performance in New College Entrance Examination
Can the new college entrance examination reform promote student development?Learning performance is the key to measure student development and evaluate the education system. One study, published in the China Higher Education Research, based on the theoretical perspective of social support, the study empirical ...
24 10 2023
The Impact and Mechanism of Physical Exercise on Adolescent Academic Performance
In China, the concept of “emphasizing literature over martial arts” in traditional culture and people’s contradictory understanding of physical exercise and students’ academic performance lead to physical exercise being placed at the end of the education system, which leads to a serious shortage of physical e ...
23 10 2023
AFTER-SCHOOL TUTORING FOR LOW-INCOME FAMILIES IN CHINA
The after-school tutoring market is huge in China as families have to boost their children’s competitive advantage through paid after-school tutoring. However, mainly only relatively high-income families can afford to pay the tuition fee, as the cost is too high for vulnerable social classes. Thus, it is unkn ...
19 06 2023
THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF MATH ANXIETY ON MATH PERFORMANCE IS STRONGER AMONG GIRLS THAN BOYS
Math anxiety is commonly known as negatively associated with math performance among students. Per the Cognitive-Attentional theory, a high anxiety level impedes recall and the working memory capacity, subsequently leading to lower performance. Using a large sample, Yu and colleagues conducted a study to exami ...
12 06 2023
IS LITERACY FIRST EFFECTIVE IN THE LONG TERM? INSIGHTS FROM A MULTISITE RCT
The effectiveness of early literacy tutoring interventions in the short term, specifically in grades K-2, has been supported by various studies. ...
28 03 2024
EFFECTIVE PERSONALIZED AND ADAPTIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES TO IMPROVE LITERACY
Efforts to address student reading increasingly look to technological solutions as a means of reaching more students in effective ways. In particular, the need for remote and blended learning options increased as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
21 03 2024
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
The Influence of Technology-Supported Teaching Intervention on Students' Computational Thinking Training
Computational thinking integrates a variety of thinking activities such as problem solving, designing systems and understanding human behavior, and has become an important thinking ability in the intelligent environment accelerated by informatization and digitalization. ...
27 09 2023
EFFECTS OF APPS ON EARLY MATH AND READING
While thousands of educational apps are available to students, teachers, and parents, relevant research studies on their effectiveness are still limited. A meta-analysis by Kim and colleagues reviewed findings of 6 intervention studies and 285 effect sizes to figure out the effectiveness of educational apps f ...
08 05 2023
MATHEMATICS INTERVENTIONS FOR ADOLESCENTS WITH MATHEMATICS DIFFICULTIES: A META-ANALYSIS
A meta-analysis published in the Learning Disabilities Journal has synthesized the findings of interventions designed to improve the mathematics achievement of secondary school students with mathematics difficulties (MD). ...
04 05 2023
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
The Influence of Parental Involvement on Children’s Sense of Hope in County Area-An Empirical Study Based on the Data of N County in Western China
A sense of hope is an extremely important positive psychological quality for children and a protective psychological resource for children's depression, so it is important and necessary to cultivate children's sense of hope. ...
29 01 2024
The Effects of Screen Exposure and Parental Media Intervention on Media Addiction in Preschool Children
At present, the degree of social media is further deepened, and the problem of children's media addiction has attracted more and more attention. ...
24 01 2024
The Effect of Left-behind Experience on the Non-cognitive Ability Development of Chinese Rural Children and Its Mechanism
As a product of urbanization and industrialization, the phenomenon of left behind children is widespread in developing countries. ...
23 01 2024
The Effectiveness of Family Education Guidance Services and their Improvement --Analysis based on Survey Data from 1,850 Households in Hubei Province
Family education guidance services are an important means of improving the quality of family education and promoting the healthy and comprehensive development of children. ...
17 01 2024
The influence of parental education anxiety on pupils' learning quality and learning experience
Parents' anxiety about their children's education has always been a hot topic of research. An article published in Journal of Shanghai Educational Research, based on the 2021 basic education quality monitoring project in Zhejiang Province in 2021,48,188 fourth grade students and their parents in primary schoo ...
10 01 2024
The Influence of Positive Academic Emotions on Learning Engagement of Rural Students in Delivery Class
With the development of internet technology, the delivery classroom has broken through time and space limitations, which is not only conducive to promoting educational equity, but also further achieving the balance of high-quality resources. ...
09 01 2024
Peer’s Participation in Cram School, Teenager’s Emotional Well-being and Academic Performance: How Has the “Double Threat” Occurred?
Since July 2021, the "double reduction" policy issued by the government has gradually been implemented. The "double reduction" policy is not only aimed at reducing the burden of education for young people at the individual level, but also can play a "multiplier effect" for individual burden reduction by reduc ...
29 12 2023
Children's Solitude Preference and Academic Stress: The Mediation of Depression and the Buffering Effect of Interpersonal Emotional Regulation
The "double reduction" policy focuses on cultivating morality and cultivating people, adheres to the student-oriented, and takes the protection of students' rights and interests as the fundamental starting point. A 2022 empirical survey based on six provinces in the eastern, central and western regions of Chi ...
21 11 2023
IMPROVING STUDENT OUTCOMES THROUGH SCHOOL MEALS
An increasing body of literature connects the benefits of school meals and dietary interventions to student academic outcomes and attendance. Despite this, 15 states rejected federal funds for summer food programs targeting hungry children. ...
27 03 2024
EFFECTS OF LATER SCHOOL START TIMES ON TEACHERS
Considerable research has explored the impact of delayed school start times on students’ academic achievement and well-being. However, a recent study in The Journal of School Health goes beyond and investigates the effects of later school start times specifically on teachers’ health and daytime functioning. ...
26 03 2024
EFFECTS OF FEEDBACK IN TECHNOLOGY-RICH LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
The utilization of technology-rich learning environments (TREs) involves integrating new technologies and media to enhance information resources and tools, such as intelligent tutoring systems, virtual reality, and educational learning games. ...
25 03 2024
WHEN AND HOW TO DELIVER TUTORING TO MAXIMIZE ITS IMPACT
The American Educational Research Journal has published a meta-analysis on the impact of tutoring programs on student academic achievement in preK-12. The study aims to show how the effects vary based on a range of characteristics. ...
22 03 2024
THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF HIGHER GRADING STANDARDS ON STUDENT MATH ACHIEVEMENT
Do higher grading standards encourage better student performance, or do they discourage students instead? ...
20 03 2024
EXAMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SEL PROGRAM COMPONENTS
Numerous empirical studies suggest that social-emotional learning (SEL) programs generally yield positive outcomes for students. These programs have been shown to enhance academic performance and reduce conduct problems. ...
19 03 2024
How Can Educational Development Help Invigorate the Country?
High-quality economic development is the primary task in building a strong country, and the development of education is regarded as an important measure to promote high-quality economic development. In the past 70 years, many scholars at home and abroad have conducted empirical studies on the relationship bet ...
26 02 2024
How to Improve Teachers' Positivity to Participate in After-school Service under the Policy of “Double Reduction”?
Teachers are the main implementers of after-school services and the key to ensure the quality of after-school services. ...
01 02 2024
The Effects of Metacognitive Teaching on Student Academic Performance: A Meta-analysis of Experimental or Quasi-experimental Studies in Past 20 Years
Cultivating the ability to "learn to learn" is considered to be one of the core literacies to meet the needs of the 21st century, while meta-cognition is considered to be the core of "learning to learn". ...
31 01 2024
IS LITERACY FIRST EFFECTIVE IN THE LONG TERM? INSIGHTS FROM A MULTISITE RCT
The effectiveness of early literacy tutoring interventions in the short term, specifically in grades K-2, has been supported by various studies. ...
28 03 2024
EFFECTIVE PERSONALIZED AND ADAPTIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES TO IMPROVE LITERACY
Efforts to address student reading increasingly look to technological solutions as a means of reaching more students in effective ways. In particular, the need for remote and blended learning options increased as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
21 03 2024
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