The present study aims to study the Life Skills among Secondary School Students using the Descriptive Survey Method. The sample consists of 405 Secondary Students selected from six Secondary Schools in Idukki District. The technique used for selecting the sample is Stratified Random Sampling giving due representation to Gender and Locale. The…

This study ascertained the influence of gender, locality and age on metacognitive reading strategies of secondary school students. The sample size consists of 440 students randomly selected from 23 secondary schools. An adopted questionnaire tagged "metacognitive reading strategies questionnaire," was used as the data gathering…

The effect of interaction patterns on JS3 learners' retention in geometric construction was investigated in Anambra State,Nigeria. The researchers used a quasi-experimental approach with a non-equivalent control group for the pre- and post-test. The population consisted of 1,813 JS3 leaners. The study's subjects were a group of 155 JS3 learners…

Scholars theorize that the nature of school gun violence varies across school settings. Yet, there is a lack of statistical research testing this idea. This study investigates contextual factors associated with six forms of school gun incidents (N = 1,238) over a 40-year period (1980-2019) in the United States. To conduct the analyses, school,…

Providing online instruction has become a normal part in primary and secondary education. The teachers' work engagement and intention are critical to the sustenance of high-quality online teaching. Therefore, this mixed-methods study proposed and validated a theoretical model from the perspective of the Job Demands-Resources Model to shed light on…

Rural youths often feel compelled to leave their home communities to seek new opportunities, especially at the secondary-postsecondary educational transition. These decisions are driven in part by perceived developmental imperatives to leave rural regions given messages that success is best achieved elsewhere. The present study used the framework…

Over the last fifteen years, student well-being has become of greater concern in school education in Canada and beyond. However, there is very little data available on how well Canadian students are. The study that will be reported on in this paper provides such data, specifically the province of Manitoba. Using the Satisfaction with Life Scale,…

Indonesia has prioritized upper secondary vocational education since 2006. This study examines the labour market outcomes of upper secondary vocational education in terms of decent work (DW), using Indonesian Family Life Survey data and a research framework that links DW into the broader labour economics of the school to work transition. We…

The term "life-related," a significant characteristic of new political textbook(s) in China's new curriculum reform at senior high school level, means that the textbook(s) should be based on the learners' life experiences and designed to enhance learning in daily life. There has been little relevant research about student perspectives on…

Personality traits are enduring dispositions in behavior that show differences across individuals and tend to characterize the person across varying types of situations. Creative thinking is a thinking process that produces new methods, concepts, understandings, inventions, and works of art. It is the art of exploring student progress. Due to a…

Collaborative teaching models serving secondary multilingual learners designated as English Learners (ELs) have become increasingly prominent but remain understudied. This study draws upon an ecological framework and uses quantitative and qualitative survey findings from a national sample of school districts in the United States to investigate the…

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education has gained popularity as an interdisciplinary approach that combines these subjects into a single curriculum. STEM concepts align with the competencies the contemporary workforce requires, making it a desirable education model to foster twenty-first-century skills. The dynamism of…

This study explored the status of primary and middle school physical education (PE) teachers' professional knowledge competence (PKC) in the Amhara Region, in Ethiopia. For this, a quantitative research approach was employed and data were collected from 382 randomly selected PE teachers and analysed quantitatively. Findings revealed that the…

As complex global challenges threaten our children's future, there is little international debate that schools must foster education for sustainable development (ESD) by unpacking sustainable development (SD) themes and stimulating (meta)cognitive growth towards higher-order epistemological stances conducive of innovation and transformation.…

Education systems worldwide have shown much interest in "21st Century Competencies." In response to the call for better assessment of these competencies, we draw on a 4Cs framework (Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, and Critical Thinking) and develop the 21st Century Competencies Scale-4C on a sample of 5857 Grades Four to Nine…