International large-scale assessments are on the rise, with the Programme for International
Student Assessment (PISA) seen by many as having strategic prominence in education …

Students' socioeconomic status (SES) is central to much research and policy deliberation on
educational inequalities. However, the SES model is under severe stress for several …

Modern educational theories emphasise effectiveness enhancing factors at the classroom
level and differential effectiveness for sub-groups of students and across different learning …

Forty years ago, the discipline that we call educational effectiveness and improvement
research (EEI) simply did not exist in a recognisable form. There were some researchers …

Contextual factors have been identified as greatly influencing students' reading
performance. However, the collaborative influence of key contextual factors on students' …

Home shared book reading during the preschool years is a strong predictor of students'
reading achievement in primary school, and, according to Sénéchal (2012), it can benefit …

South African learner achievement remains poor, despite large investment in schooling over
the last two decades. Literature and research findings offer no single explanation or solution …

Abstract This paper employs Pierre Bourdieu's cultural capital theory to examine the extent
to which students' cultural capital is related to teacher-student interaction in the context of …

Recent decades have seen a rise of international large-scale assessments, which have
become an influential instrument for informing educational policies. Likewise, they play an …

Insight into the challenges for women entrepreneurship engagement is significantly lacking
in the context of Rural, Regional and Remote (RRR) communities. Evidence suggests that a …