This exploratory report investigates how children, aged 6- to 12-years, reason about divisions in labour. It focuses on understanding when in development children might associate higher status groups with intellectual as opposed to physical labour. It explores this question by introducing a sample of mostly mid/high-SES American children to a…

Positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) is a schoolwide approach to promote positive school safety in which student academic success can occur. However, at least one third of students in United States schools are suspended once in their K12 school career for violating a school's code of conduct. School suspensions have been linked to…

Higher education is weathering a tsunami of declining student enrollment, budget cuts, and hiring freezes. Academic libraries have been downsizing and reorganizing for decades in the midst of their own identity crisis from increasing automation. Traditional librarian duties are increasingly becoming the responsibility of library staff. The stress…

Researchers have discussed the crucial effect that information technology (IT) personnel have in a variety of industries. However, a knowledge gap exists in analyzing the effect that interactions between higher education IT personnel and their customers (learners, faculty, and staff) have on the ability to learn, teach, and achieve. The current…

The Australian regional university where this pilot study was completed is confronted with a number of demographic factors that challenge the delivery of effective student support and engagement. In 2020, the teacher education student cohort comprised of approximately 5,100 students, with 82.6% 25 years of age or older, 20.3% identified as having…

The functioning of a vocabulary testing instrument rests in part on the test-taking actions made possible for examinees by item format, an aspect of test development that warrants consideration in second-language vocabulary research. For example, although iterations of the written receptive vocabulary levels test (VLT) have integrated improvements…

The purpose of this qualitative case study research was to explore how structured programs such as recreation, sport, and leisure activities can help elementary school at-risk youth in an afterschool program at a K-5 elementary school in central North Carolina. The central research questions for this study include the following: What are the…

The purpose of this research is to describe and analyze the involvement process of informal sector workers as learning society in "Kampung Inggris" Pare Kediri. Informal sector workers play an enormous role in learning society activities, both in course institutions and in community activities, especially informal sector workers with…

It is common for universities that seek community partnerships to employ full-time staff, formally sanctioned as boundary spanners, to develop and manage such partnerships. These staff are frequently administrative or allied staff rather than tenure-track faculty or academic unit administrators. Given the multiple interests of universities and…