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Yue Ma; Xinwu Zhang; Lucy Pappas; Andrew Rule; Yujuan Gao; Sarah-Eve Dill; Tianli Feng; Yue Zhang; Hong Wang; Flavio Cunha; Scott Rozelle – Child Development, 2024
In low- and middle-income countries, urbanization has spurred the expansion of peri-urban communities, or urban communities of formerly rural residents with low socioeconomic status. The growth of these communities offers researchers an opportunity to measure the associations between the level of urbanization and the home language environment…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Family Environment, Language Usage, Infants
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Laura M. Hopson; A. D. Lidbe; M. S. Jackson; E. Adanu; X. Li; P. Penmetsa; H. Y. Lee; A. Anderson; C. Obuya; G. Abura-Meerdink – Educational Review, 2024
School transportation may have important implications for academic success, but few studies examine how these variables are related. This systematic review is the first that synthesizes research linking school transportation with academic outcomes. Using the PRISMA framework, the authors conducted a literature search across multiple data sources…
Descriptors: Student Transportation, Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Correlation
P. P. Shajimon; Pratheesh Abraham – Online Submission, 2024
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…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Geographic Location, Daily Living Skills, Secondary School Students
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Hsuan-Fu Ho; Chia-Lin Tsai – Discover Education, 2023
The problem of teacher shortages in rural areas are intractable, as schools lack adequate qualified teachers, which inevitably exerts a negative impact on student learning and school development. In Taiwan, the government has implemented relevant policies, but the high teacher turnover rate and the high proportion of nonqualified teachers are…
Descriptors: Influences, Career Choice, Teacher Attitudes, Rural Urban Differences
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Chol-Kyun Shin; Youngeun An; Soon-young Oh – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
This study aims to examine the impact of reduced in-person learning during COVID-19 on students' academic achievement gaps focusing on rural--urban and in-school disparities. To this end, first, we investigated the regional disparity of student performance between Seoul and Gangwon, representative areas of urban and rural regions in South Korea,…
Descriptors: In Person Learning, Achievement Gap, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Lazarous Mbulo; Glenda Blutcher-Nelson; Pranesh P. Chowdhury; Catherine O. Egbe; Abdallahi Bouhabib; Krishna Palipudi – Health Education Research, 2024
We utilized Global Adult Tobacco Survey data to examine singlestick purchases and related demographic characteristics in 10 African countries (Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Mauritania, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda and Tanzania). Results show the weighted percentages and prevalence ratios with predicted marginal means to evaluate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Smoking, Demography, Age Differences
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Elliott Nkoma; Moses Kufakunesu – School Psychology International, 2024
The study employed a qualitative research approach using a phenomenological research design since the lived experiences of educational psychologists in Masvingo Province were scrutinized with the intention of establishing the extent to which educational psychologists matched the laid down specifications pertaining to their professional operations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Psychology, School Psychologists, Role
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Abebayehu Aemero Tekleselassie – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2024
Based on survey data collected from 237 principals including narrative responses to open-ended items, this study explores how personal, institutional, and professional factors contribute to interest in principalship in Ethiopia. A key finding indicated earning a degree in a field other than educational leadership diminishes one's proclivity for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Career Choice
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Toyin Odofin; James Urien; Sunday Obro – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
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…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Gender Differences, Geographic Location
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Francis Menjo Baye; Ebenezer Lemven Wirba; Ernest Ngeh Tingum – Education Economics, 2024
This paper evaluates the impact of education on inequality using the recentered influence function regression and standard inequality measures. Results indicate that between 2005 and 2010, the returns to education declined from the 10th to the 50th percentiles, but increased at the upper tail of the distribution. Inequality is lower in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Outcomes of Education, Educational Policy
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Chong Zhang – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
This study explores the implications of promoting online learning for equalisation, focusing on urban China where online learning is promoted to alleviate socio-economic gaps between rural migrants and urban residents. To achieve equalisation, online learning should benefit disadvantaged individuals as least as much as, if not more than, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Equal Education, Urban Areas
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Luis Herskovic; Josefina Silva – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2024
This study uses administrative student data from Chile to explore the transitions of urban and rural students to higher education. We find that urban students are more likely to register to take university entrance exams than rural students. Among those who do take the exams, urban students perform significantly better. Even though both groups of…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Foreign Countries, College Students, College Entrance Examinations
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Yanan Wang; Jorge Calero; Chuansheng Gao; Jialei Ma – SAGE Open, 2024
Balancing the allocation of preschool education resources is a crucial objective within China's preschool education reform. Our analysis focused on investigating the disparities between regions and urban-rural areas in China from 2011 to 2019, employing the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS), spatial analysis,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Resource Allocation, Rural Urban Differences
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Osakwe, Ifeoma Julie; Egara, Felix Oromena; Inweregbuh, Onyemauche Christopher; Nzeadibe, Augustina Chinyere; Emefo, Chinyere N. – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2023
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…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Geometric Concepts, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Kotherja, Ortenca; Hamzallari, Blerina – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2022
Performance is a concept that indicates the importance of work. The purpose of this article is to highlight the influence of socio-demographic characteristics on teachers' job performance. This study is conducted in the pre-university system. In this study, the quantitative method is used and the empirical data were collected using questionnaires.…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Predictor Variables, Job Performance, Rural Urban Differences
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