Revisiting the effects of project-based learning on students' academic achievement: A meta-analysis investigating moderators

CH Chen, YC Yang - Educational Research Review, 2019 - Elsevier
Project-based learning is generally considered an alternative to traditional, teacher-led
instruction. However, there is a noticeable lack of meta-analyses with regard to determining …

Causal network analysis

W An, R Beauvile, B Rosche - Annual Review of Sociology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Fueled by recent advances in statistical modeling and the rapid growth of network data,
social network analysis has become increasingly popular in sociology and related …

Grammar schools in England: A new analysis of social segregation and academic outcomes

S Gorard, N Siddiqui - British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The UK government is planning to increase the number of pupils attending state-funded
selective grammar schools, claiming that this will assist overall standards, reduce the …

Multifractal test for nonlinearity of interactions across scales in time series

DG Kelty-Stephen, E Lane, L Bloomfield… - Behavior Research …, 2023 - Springer
The creativity and emergence of biological and psychological behavior tend to be nonlinear,
and correspondingly, biological and psychological measures contain degrees of irregularity …

'Best friends forever'? Friendship stability across school transition and associations with mental health and educational attainment

T Ng‐Knight, KH Shelton, L Riglin… - British Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Friendships have been linked to mental health and school attainment in
children. The effects of friendlessness and friendship quality have been well researched, but …

Multifractal nonlinearity as a robust estimator of multiplicative cascade dynamics

M Mangalam, AD Likens, DG Kelty-Stephen - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Multifractal formalisms provide an apt framework to study random cascades in which
multifractal spectrum width $\Delta\alpha $ fluctuates depending on the number of estimable …

Contextual effects on students' achievement and academic self-concept in the Nordic and Chinese educational systems

K Yang Hansen, J Radišić, Y Ding, X Liu - Large-scale Assessments in …, 2022 - Springer
Background The current study investigates school contextual effects on students' academic
self-concept and achievement, that is, peer socioeconomic effect and big-fish-little-pond …

Reframing the English grammar schools debate

R Morris, T Perry - Educational Review, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract In October 2015 the Department for Education (DfE) permitted a grammar school in
Tonbridge, Kent, to open up an annexe in Sevenoaks, 10 miles away. Amidst claims that the …

Study Demands–Resources Theory: Understanding Student Well-Being in Higher Education

AB Bakker, K Mostert - Educational Psychology Review, 2024 - Springer
This article reviews the literature on student well-being (burnout and engagement) and their
relationships with study demands and resources, student behaviors (proactive and self …

Knowledge flows in Data Envelopment Analysis. The role of peer effects

N Chatzistamoulou, K Kounetas, K Tsekouras - Omega, 2024 - Elsevier
Although the benchmarking literature has amassed both theoretical developments and
empirical evidence on the performance of DMUs, the void related to the learning perspective …