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Mehmet Karakus; Alisher Tlessov; Anas Hajar; Matthew Courtney – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Recent decades have witnessed a global expansion of private supplementary tutoring, known as shadow education--additional support in academic subjects that takes place outside of regular school hours. Using the data of 55 countries from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2022, this study examines the association between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Private Education, Tutoring
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Wong, Hin-Wah – Chinese University Education Journal, 1999
Analyzes the concept of "knowledge base" in education. Describes the process and methods of inquiry into the nature of selective and universal schooling. Delineates the distinctive nature of teaching and learning based on the analysis of differential treatment of learners' individual differences and motivations of the two kinds of…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers