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Cui, Tianxue; Kam, Chester Chun Seng; Cheng, Emily Hongzhen; Liu, Qimeng – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
This study aimed to explore factors related to academic success (resilience) for students with socioeconomic disadvantages (SED) from the individual, school, and family domains. We also compared such factors with the results for students with socioeconomic advantages (SEA). A sample of 1767 eighth-graders (851 students with SEA and 916 students…
Descriptors: Success, Resilience (Psychology), At Risk Students, Disadvantaged Youth
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Jia, Xiyuan; Zhang, Xinwu; Jing, Jiangchao; Zhou, Ming; Li, Haoyang; Friesen, Dimitris; Ma, Yue – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2022
Rural China has seen an increase in its migrant workers returning home. As a result, many of these workers' children, who had previously boarded at school, needed to return home as well. While the existing research indicates that boarding affects the development of disadvantaged children, the effect of the switch to nonboarding on the growth of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Migrant Workers, Boarding Schools
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Zhong, Baizhang; Zhu, Fenghui; Xia, Liying – SAGE Open, 2021
The digital divide is an important issue that has been addressed in the world for several decades. However, little attention has been paid to the special population that emerged in cities of developing countries: rural migrant workers. Previous studies have shown that family background is a potential determinant of digital inequality among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Migrant Children, Migrant Workers
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Liu, Ji – SAGE Open, 2021
During the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) outbreak, many education systems were forced to shut down and move learning and instruction online. The future of learning is here before we know it. While the combination of distance learning and educational technology presents a timely solution combating adverse consequences of school disruptions,…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change
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Hong, Yang; Fuller, Carol – Cogent Education, 2019
China has been experiencing rapid economic growth over the past few decades accompanied by an overwhelmingly large number of rural habitants out-migrating to urban areas for work and better earnings. However, children of migrants are not entitled to free schooling provisions in these urban destinations and so millions of school-aged rural children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Rural Areas, Boarding Schools
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Yang, Yihua; Zhang, Linxiu; Zeng, Junxia; Pang, Xiaopeng; Lai, Fang; Rozelle, Scott – Computers & Education, 2013
Experts agree that computers and computing play an important role in education. Since the 1980s there has been a debate about gender as it relates to computers and education. However, results regarding gender differences concerning computer use in education are not consistent. In particular there is little work done in China on this issue.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Females, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers
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Zhou, Zheng; Peverly, Stephen T.; Lin, Chongde – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2004
A problem with interpretations of differences in mathematic achievement between students from Asian countries and those from the United States is the seemingly implicit assumption of the cultural homogeneity of Asian societies. Researchers rarely measure the effects of variables within cultures that are hypothesized to be related to differences…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Mathematics Achievement, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries