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Zhao, Kai – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
Rural students' academic performance is of critical importance for college success and later life outcomes. Prior literature on the rural-urban gap in academic performance has produced mixed results. Drawing on data from students at a highly selective university in Beijing, this study compares the differences in academic performance between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Rural Urban Differences, Academic Achievement
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Mbonyiryivuze, Agnes; Yadav, Lakhan Lal; Amadalo, Maurice Musasia – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
We investigate students' misconceptions in electrostatics, direct current (DC) and magnetism which are important in electricity and magnetism. We developed and administered a multiple-choice questionnaire test to reveal students' misconceptions related to charged bodies, lightning, electric fields, electric potential, forces, DC resistive electric…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Energy, Magnets
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Sekalegga, Lawrence Branco – International Journal of Music Education, 2022
This paper provides an analysis of how secondary school music teachers (N = 10) in Uganda apply instructional strategies (peer teaching, practical music-making, modeling, and feedback) in their music lessons. Analysis was undertaken to establish if there were any similarities or differences amongst the urban, suburban, and rural music teachers and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Secondary School Teachers, Music Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Hu, Xinye; Hu, Shouping – Research in Higher Education, 2022
Developmental education (DE) reform took place among the 28 Florida College System (FCS) institutions in 2014. In this study, we examine how cohort-based passing rates in college-level English and math courses changed at different colleges for pre- and post-policy period and explore what institutional characteristics were related with various…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, State Legislation
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Smoter, Mateusz – Youth & Society, 2022
This paper contributes to our understanding of whether, and if so, how public employment services in Poland are attempting to reach young NEETs, and whether they fail or succeed in their efforts. The study shows that most NEETs below 25 years of age in Poland, including rural NEETs, remain beyond the reach of the PES registers. The coverage rate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Services, Out of School Youth, Unemployment
Castleton, Tate – ProQuest LLC, 2022
According to the National Center for Education Statistics (2021), more than half of all public-school districts and nearly one-third of all public-school students attend rural schools in the U.S. This study identifies characteristics of the physical environment of rural schools, considers how the physical environment of rural schools compares to…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Educational Environment, Rural Schools, Rural Areas
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Wang, Yijie; Bai, Yang; Ding, Bairen – Chinese Education & Society, 2022
Based on the questionnaire survey data of 13,176 primary and secondary school students in Jiangsu Province, this study found that class has a significant impact on students' online learning effect: the learning effect of students from elite families is better than those from non-elite families. Online teaching depends on the equipment provided by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Online Courses, Equal Education
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Dai, Xianhua; Li, Wenchao – Journal of Intelligence, 2022
The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of economic capital, culture capital, social capital, social security, and living conditions on children's cognitive ability. However, most studies only focus on the impact of family socio-economic status/culture capital on children's cognitive ability by ordinary least squares regression…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Social Services, Living Standards, Cognitive Ability
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Tatebe, Jennifer – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2021
Rapid urban development in small rural communities is occurring at an unprecedented pace in regional Aotearoa New Zealand. Despite this growth, rural schools are positioned at the margins of the planning process and the implications of this urbanisation trend remains unknown. This research challenges the notion of the rural-urban divide by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Small Schools, Rural Schools, Rural Education
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Hodges, Jaret; Ottwein, Jessica K. – Rural Educator, 2021
For nearly two decades, the state of Texas mandated gifted education services and provided funding to public school districts. One policy that was unique to the state was a mandatory minimum spending requirement. This research examines how mandatory minimum spending floors influenced spending in public school districts within the state and how…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Educational Finance, Financial Policy
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Bron, Agnieszka; Thunborg, Camilla; Osman, Ali – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
This paper explores learning trajectories in becoming 'rural women' in Sweden, by using a biographical and socially-situated learning perspective. The data is based on in-depth biographical interviews with three young women who moved between rural and urban areas, and finally decided to return to a rural area. The findings show three learning…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Rural Population, Females, Employed Women
DaVonti' DeAngelo Haynes – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Lower retention and graduation rates continue to persist among urban and Appalachian student cohorts. However, these two groups have historically been viewed as different and needing different supports to persist in their educational pursuits. Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine the experiences of, and integrational supports utilized by…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Urban Education, Rural Education, Academic Support Services
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Yam Nath Adhikari; Karna Rana – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2024
This paper analyses university teachers and students' experiences of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal and presents post-pandemic implications. Potential ramifications of the findings in a normal setting were suggested by the analysis of data gathered through semi-structured interviews with participants both during and after…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Sustainability, Online Courses
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James L. Olive; Chelsea Gilbert; Meredith Wronowski; Anthony Peddle – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
Research on trauma in education has primarily focused on the student experience while the prevalence and scope of educator trauma remains largely unexplored, especially through an identity-conscious lens. This study addresses the gap in our understanding of educator trauma through a national survey of United States educators. Results indicated…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Allison Gilmour; Equia Aniagyei-Cobbold; Roddy Theobald – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
We used longitudinal staffing data from Pennsylvania to explore differences in special education personnel attrition across personnel categories, individual characteristics, and district characteristics. Special education administrators and school psychologists had the highest attrition rates among special education personnel, with special…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Characteristics
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