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Direct linkV. Paul Poteat; Robert A. Marx; S. Henry Sherwood; Jerel P. Calzo; Hirokazu Yoshikawa – Grantee Submission, 2024
Background: Schools are responsible for promoting LGBTQ+ students' academic success, yet many LGBTQ+ students contend with unsupportive learning environments. Gender-Sexuality Alliances (GSAs)--clubs that affirm students' sexual orientation and gender diversity--could promote academic engagement and protect against disaffection. Aims: We aimed to…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Learner Engagement, Social Support Groups, Clubs
Susu Zhang; Xueying Tang; Qiwei He; Jingchen Liu; Zhiliang Ying – Grantee Submission, 2024
Computerized assessments and interactive simulation tasks are increasingly popular and afford the collection of process data, i.e., an examinee's sequence of actions (e.g., clickstreams, keystrokes) that arises from interactions with each task. Action sequence data contain rich information on the problem-solving process but are in a nonstandard,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Problem Solving, Computer Assisted Testing, Prediction
Ramy Cappellino Abbady – Grantee Submission, 2024
Following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Islamophobia became increasingly visible across the U.S, impacting anyone perceived to be Muslim. Despite being named after a religion, Islamophobia is a racial ideology predominantly targeting people of Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian (MENASA) descent. In this qualitative study, the…
Descriptors: Elections, Islam, Muslims, Social Bias
Feller, Daniel P.; Talwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Kopatich, Ryan D.; Magliano, Joseph P. – Grantee Submission, 2023
Background: A significant portion of adults struggle to read at a basic level. Word reading (defined here as decoding and word recognition) appears to play a pivotal role for this population of readers; however, less is known about how word reading relates to other important semantic processes (e.g., vocabulary, sentence processing) known to…
Descriptors: Correlation, Word Recognition, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
Barendse, Marjolein E. A.; Flannery, Jessica; Cavanagh, Caitlin; Aristizabal, Melissa; Becker, Stephen P.; Berger, Estelle; Breaux, Rosanna; Campione-Barr, Nicole; Church, Jessica A.; Crone, Eveline A.; Dahl, Ronald E.; Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A.; Dvorsky, Melissa R.; Dziura, Sarah L.; van de Groep, Suzanne; Ho, Tiffany C.; Killoren, Sarah E.; Langberg, Joshua M.; Larguinho, Tyler L.; Magis-Weinberg, Lucía; Michalska, Kalina J.; Mullins, Jordan L.; Nadel, Hanna; Porter, Blaire M.; Prinstein, Mitchell J.; Redcay, Elizabeth; Rose, Amanda J.; Rote, Wendy M.; Roy, Amy K.; Sweijen, Sophie W.; Telzer, Eva H.; Teresi, Giana I.; Thomas, April Gile; Pfeifer, Jennifer H. – Grantee Submission, 2023
This study aimed to examine changes in depression and anxiety symptoms from before to during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of 1,339 adolescents (9-18 years old, 59% female) from three countries. We also examined if age, race/ethnicity, disease burden, or strictness of government restrictions moderated change in…
Descriptors: Change, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Marta K. Mielicki; Eric D. Wilkey; Daniel A. Scheibe; Charles J. Fitzsimmons; Pooja G. Sidney; Elien Bellon; Andrew D. Ribner; Mojtaba Soltanlou; Isabella Starling-Alves; Ilse Coolen; Daniel Ansari; Clarissa A. Thompson – Grantee Submission, 2023
Math performance is negatively related to math anxiety (MA), though MA may impact certain math skills more than others. We investigated whether the relation between MA and math performance is affected by task features, such as number type (e.g., fractions, whole numbers, percentages), number format (symbolic vs. nonsymbolic), and ratio component…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Numbers, Number Concepts, Computation
Download full textJohn Hollander; John Sabatini; Art Graesser; Daphne Greenberg; Tenaha O'Reilly; Jan Frijters – Grantee Submission, 2023
Adult literacy learners are characterized by their diversity, both in terms of educational histories and cognitive skill sets. Accounting for the specific strengths and weaknesses of each learner is vital to the assessment of literacy gains and optimization of educational systems. We examined pre- and post-difference scores on a component reading…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Education, Adult Students, Student Characteristics
Abigail Helsinger; Donnette Narine; Phyllis A. Cummins; Takashi Yamashita – Grantee Submission, 2023
The need for non-formal education (NFE), which does not result in a formal degree or certificate, is substantial as labour markets often require adult workers to take an initiative in advancing their job-related skills. Yet, NFE opportunities are more often pursued by high-income and high-skilled adults than their low-income and low-skilled…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, Job Skills, Adults, Adult Education
William E. Even; Takashi Yamashita; Phyllis A. Cummins – Grantee Submission, 2023
Using data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, this paper compares the earnings premium and employment share of jobs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) across 11 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The results reveal that the STEM wage premium…
Descriptors: STEM Careers, Wages, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attainment
Takashi Yamashita; Wonmai Punksungka; Phyllis A. Cummins – Grantee Submission, 2022
This chapter discusses three main topics: (1) volunteer as a form of civic engagement, (2) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), and (3) basic skills including literacy, numeracy and digital problem-solving skills. Volunteering, STEM background, and basic skills are important social and economic indicators of societies. Yet,…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Citizen Participation, STEM Education, Educational Background
Nathan T. T. Lau; Eric D. Wilkey; Mojtaba Soltanlou; Rebekka Lagacé Cusiac; Lien Peters; Paul Tremblay; Celia Goffin; Isabella Starling Alves; Andrew David Ribner; Clarissa Thompson; Jo Van Hoof; Julia Bahnmueller; Aymee Alvarez; Elien Bellon; Ilse Coolen; Fanny Ollivier; Daniel Ansari – Grantee Submission, 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the globe have been exposed to large amounts of statistical data. Previous studies have shown that individuals' mathematical understanding of health-related information affects their attitudes and behaviours. Here, we investigate the relation between: (1) basic numeracy; (2) COVID-19 health numeracy; and…
Descriptors: Numeracy, COVID-19, Pandemics, Health Behavior
Lora J. Henderson; Belinda E. Hernandez; Kate Joshua; Dustina Gill; Jessika H. Bottiani – Grantee Submission, 2022
Indigenous communities demonstrate immense cultural strengths despite being impacted by mental health and academic disparities due to ongoing systemic racism and historical trauma. Given that schools are a context in which indigenous youths' needs have potential to be met through preventive intervention, this scoping review explores and summarizes…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Prevention, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students
Amanda B. Nickerson; Margaret E. Manges; Gina M. Bellavia; Jennifer A. Livingston; Lyndsay N. Jenkins; Thomas H. Feeley – Grantee Submission, 2022
This study investigated the extent to which adolescents' personal normative attitudes (also referred to as personal norms) and perceived peer norms regarding bullying, sexual harassment, and bystander intervention predicted each step of the five-step bystander intervention model (i.e., Notice, Interpret, Accept Responsibility, Know how to Help,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Student Behavior, Bullying
Samantha Coyle; Paula Vagos; Carrie Masia Warner; Joana Silva; Ana Xavier; Grace Martin; Jessica Wimmer; Avi Kalver; Britney Jeyanayagam; Helen-Maria Lekas; Ana Ganho-Ávila; Luiza Lima; Ana Santos Henrique – Grantee Submission, 2022
This qualitative investigation explored the social and academic experiences of socially anxious adolescents and young adults in Portugal and the US as they lived through the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were 10 Portuguese adolescents (mean age = 16.9 years; 50% female) and 7 young adults in the US (mean age = 19.67…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, COVID-19, Pandemics
Tareena Musaddiq; Kevin Stange; Andrew Bacher-Hicks; Joshua Goodman – Grantee Submission, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic drastically disrupted the functioning of U.S. public schools, potentially changing the relative appeal of alternatives such as homeschooling and private schools. We study changes in families' choices of school sector using longitudinal student-level administrative data from Michigan and nationally representative data from the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Schools, Home Schooling
