The general problem addressed by this study was that students who have been retained in the elementary grades were more likely to drop out of high school than their low achieving but socially promoted peers. The specific problem addressed in this study was that it is unclear what factors during students' retained years contribute to their…

The aim of this study is to examine possible sources of negative math attitudes as well as some possible effects. The main body of this dissertation are three stand-alone chapters that are designed to be stand-along academic article. Chapter 2 uses data from the High School Longitudinal Study (HSLS) and lagged-dependent variable and school fixed…

This article focuses on the assessment of the progress made on the provisioning of quality education at selected public schools in Limpopo province. Qualitative research methodology was used as the author was interested in collecting data on the experiences, perceptions, and views of the research participants. Three research instruments for data…

The aim of this study was to discover what kind of perceptions young children in need of social, emotional, and behavioural support have about themselves. The interest was especially in social and emotional self-perceptions. For this study, ten children attending Finnish early childhood education and care were interviewed in spring 2016 and the…

This poll was conducted between June 15-June 25, 2022 among a sample of 1,000 all teachers. The interviews were conducted online. Among the key findings are: (1) Teachers report spending over $500 of their own money in the last school year on classroom materials, and they spent around $300 on professional development; (2) Teachers are much more…

This study examined the role of learning difficulties in academic emotions and achievement across the transition to lower secondary school among 848 Finnish adolescents. Reading difficulties (RD) and math difficulties (MD) were identified based on test scores in Grade 6 and 7. Students with difficulties were identified as having resolving,…

Purpose: Given the unclear relationship between cognition and affect, this article reports on a study exploring how the conative variable of values may provide some explanation for students with excellent performance despite a negative attitude toward mathematics. Design/Approach/Methods: The study reported in this article represents Korea's…

This study aimed at understanding teacher emotions through interviewing 25 and surveying 1,492 primary teachers in China using a mixed method. Content analysis was employed to analyse the data using the five nested ecological systems -- microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macro-system, and chronosystem. Statistical techniques such as mean score,…

This study was carried out with 86 primary school teachers in Kenya's Narok County and explored factors affecting integration of ICT in teaching and learning. Multiple regression was used for data analysis. The results revealed that 32.5% of the variance was explained by the independent and extraneous variables (R[superscript 2] = 0.325, P =…

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between teachers' perception of organizational cynicism and school administrators' behaviours of favouritism. Since the research is a study that was carried out in order to detect the relationship between favouritism and cynicism, it is in correlational survey model. The sample of the…

There is provisional evidence that burnout may be contagious within professional communities via the crossover effect, referring to an inter-individual transmission of stress or strain. However, our understanding of effective means for tackling stressors is scarce. We tested a two-level path model to explore the interrelation between teachers'…

Interest in the role of emotion within mathematics education has increased in recent decades. Within a case-study framework, I explored how an Affective Instructional Design (AID) supported an early years teacher develop the capacity to change her instructional approaches, influenced her mathematic affect, and the affective experiences of her…

From the 61 indicators presented in the two TALIS 2018 Reports, we constructed indices on the education quality, based on the teachers' and principals' opinions, by country/economy, for the 10 themes of these Reports. The indices result from the association between the OECD perspective on indicators' influence on the education quality and whether…

Leaders' reframing of employees' negative emotions is a vital part of socio-emotional support at work. This qualitative research aimed to achieve a richer understanding of principals' reframing of teachers' negative emotions in principal-teacher relations. The study used data from semi-structured interviews with 12 principals and 24 teachers and…

Prevention scientists recognize that implementing effective prevention practices and programs responsive to the needs of individuals but based solely upon the findings from variable-centered methods presents several limitations due to numerous risk factors, pathways, and unobserved influences. One such understudied influence that is masked by…