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Can school cultivate active global citizens? Exploring school and student factors related to students’ global citizenship in the Republic of Korea Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Seongkyeong Jeong, Hwanbo Park
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Regression discontinuity designs in education: a practitioner’s guide Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Youmi Suk
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Key antecedents of maximal levels of aspiration and minimal boundary goals: a structural equation modeling analysis Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Flaviu A. Hodis, Georgeta M. Hodis
Research findings indicate that two types of goals, which focus on the lowest (highest) levels of achievement possible in a learning setting, are strong predictors of how well students attain in school. Unfortunately, little is known about how these two goals, termed minimal boundary goals (MBG) and maximal levels of aspiration (MLA) relate to psychological constructs that are theorized to be antecedents
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A primer on the validity typology and threats to validity in education research Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Kylie Anglin, Qing Liu, Vivian C. Wong
Given decision-makers often prioritize causal research that identifies the impact of treatments on the people they serve, a key question in education research is, “Does it work?”. Today, however, researchers are paying increasing attention to successive questions that are equally important from a practical standpoint—not only does it work, but for whom and under what circumstances? Invalid conclusions
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Analyzing changes in college students’ career decisions: using LCGA Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-03-29
Abstract The purpose of this study was to identify career decision groups based on the career decision trajectories of college students over a 3-year period, and to examine the factors influencing group classification and differences. To achieve this goal, a latent class growth analysis (LCGA) was conducted on longitudinal data collected from 867 college students from 2018 to 2020. As a result of the
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Relationships among learning organization, resistance to change, job crafting, and innovative work behavior in South Korea: public vs. for-profit sectors Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Junhee Kim, Doo Hun Lim, Seung Won Yoon, Hyosun Kim
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An introduction to the difference-in-differences design in education policy research Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-03-27
Abstract Education researchers often encounter scenarios where an abrupt policy change occurs within or across jurisdictions or populations that affect key student outcomes. Difference-in-differences is a research design analysts can use to estimate causal effects of these “natural experiments.” This article introduces education researchers to the difference-in-differences approach. We provide an overview
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Longitudinal reciprocal relationships among mastery goals, autonomous motivation, and motivation instability Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Takatoyo Umemoto, Tsutomu Inagaki
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The effect of mobile scaffolding on academic achievement and cognitive load of third grade students in mathematical problem solving Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Firuzan Hilal Karabay, Can Meşe
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Will COVID pandemic intensify the inequality in transnational education participation? Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Catherine Yuan Gao, Wenqin Shen, Haotian Xu
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Measurement issues in causal inference Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Benjamin R. Shear, Derek C. Briggs
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Effect of argumentation-based instruction on student achievement: a mixed-research synthesis Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Ayhan Koçoğlu, Sedat Kanadlı
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A comparison study on self-regulation and sense of presence in online learning: a meta-analytic review Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Ahrong Beik
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Effectiveness of the prediction–observation–explanation strategy on students with mild intellectual disabilities Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-03-04
Abstract This study aimed to investigate the effects of the prediction–observation–explanation (POE) strategy using worksheets designed for the “living things and life” topic on conceptual understanding and science process skills (SPS) of students with mild intellectual disabilities (SMIDs). The sample consisted of 12 SMIDs (eight students for the main study and four students for the pilot study).
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Multidisciplinary approaches to establishing trauma informed practice for pre-service teachers Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-03-04
Abstract In response to the urgent need for teachers to be better equipped with strategies for responding to students who suffer the effects of complex trauma (CT), this inter-disciplinary study investigated the lived experiences of professionals (social workers, psychologists, criminal justice workers and community workers) working with school students with CT in out-of-school contexts. The aim of
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Promoting the itemized educational spending of rural coastal households in Bangladesh through unconditional cash and food assistance Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Md. Abdul Bari, Ghulam Dastgir Khan, Yuichiro Yoshida, Tatsuya Kusakabe
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Relationships among the volitional strategies, task values, and goal commitment of remedial teaching teachers and differences in teaching experience and professional background Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Ju-Chieh Huang
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The moderating effect of creative metacognition on adolescents’ risk-taking in creative performance Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Jungmin Woo, Seon-Young Lee
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Evaluation method for the comprehensive quality of students based on multi-source data fusion Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Zhangfu Wang
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Utilization of differentiated instruction in K-12 classrooms: a systematic literature review (2000–2022) Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Linlin Hu
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Characteristics explaining students’ creative behaviors in South Korea using random forest Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-02-14
Abstract There is limited research that holistically explains the characteristics of creative students in nurturing creative behaviors. This lack of a holistic approach to studying creative behaviors may inhibit accounting for the tangled dynamics among explanatory variables. Thus, the present study examined personal and environmental characteristics that predicted creative behaviors using a random
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Examining factors influencing students to leave science classes in Cambodia: a two-level hierarchical linear modeling Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-02-12
Abstract Cambodian upper secondary education is divided into two tracks: science and social science. Students make their track selection in grade 10 and begin their enrollment in grade 11. The enrollment in the science track has witnessed a steep decline from 96% in 2014 to 34% in 2020, while the enrollment in the social science track has seen a remarkable surge from 4% in 2014 to 66% in 2020. This
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Agentic citizenship learning in China: official curriculum and student agency Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Jia Jiang
Although citizenship education (CE) has been widely addressed in many countries’ curricula, few studies have sufficiently explored students’ learning of official CE curriculum content. Accordingly, in this study, students’ responses to the CE curriculum content are investigated in a constrained social context taking an agency perspective. Drawing on qualitative data set in two high schools in China
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International academics in national research institutes in Korea and Japan: contributions, reasons for migration, and challenges Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Yangson Kim, Inyoung Song, Noboru Miyoshi
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A pedagogy of emptiness: a daoist perspective Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Ying Ma, Hongyu Wang
In a time of intellectual and emotional overload in education, this paper offers room for breathing through a pedagogy of emptiness from a Daoist perspective. It begins by introducing the concept of Daoist emptiness through three intertwining features—generative, transcendent, and inclusive—important for rethinking pedagogy. It then moves to four significant pedagogical implications: emptiness as opening
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Investigating ChatGPT-4’s performance in solving physics problems and its potential implications for education Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Dazhen Tong, Yang Tao, Kangkang Zhang, Xinxin Dong, Yangyang Hu, Sudong Pan, Qiaoyi Liu
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Impact of cognitive load and working memory on preschoolers’ learning effectiveness Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Yun Hyun Pack, Na Ya Choi, Bokyung Kim
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Association between psychological need satisfaction and online self-regulated learning Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Achmad Hidayatullah, Csaba Csíkos
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Longitudinal trajectories of the career barriers of school dropouts using latent class growth analysis Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Hyojin Cho, Sun Young Park, Eun Sul Lee
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The impact of measurement noninvariance across time and group in longitudinal item response modeling Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 In-Hee Choi
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Access to senior secondary science and mathematics: examining the evidence for stratification in an Australian school system Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Jenny Dean, Philip Roberts, Steve Murphy
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Innovation readiness for digital learning within the University 4.0 Model Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Bakytgul Jugembayeva, Aliya Murzagaliyeva
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Propensity score methods for causal inference and generalization Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Wendy Chan
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Is gamification always productive? A study of the effectiveness of Bebras cards in promoting primary students’ computational thinking skills Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Belén Ramírez de Arellano Falcón, Javier del Olmo-Muñoz, Ramón Cózar-Gutiérrez, José Antonio González-Calero
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Educational practitioners’ conceptualizations of the nature, impact and challenges of educational research in Kazakhstan Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Elaine Sharplin, Laura Karabassova, Marya Bekova
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Enhancing the English writing skills of in-service students using marking mate automated feedback Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Thao-Trang Huynh-Cam, Somya Agrawal, Thanh-Tinh Bui, Venkateswarlu Nalluri, Long-Sheng Chen
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Language learners’ mindset and their academic engagement in online classrooms: the mediating role of achievement emotions Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Faramarz Ebn-Abbasi, Nazila Fattahi, Mohammad Javad Sayyahi, Musa Nushi
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Exploring the factors that influence academic stress among elementary school students using a LASSO penalty regression model Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 JiYoon Kim, Saebuyl An, Sehee Hong
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Unravelling the interplay between competencies, career preparedness, and perceived employability among postgraduate students: a structural model analysis Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Ranjit I George, Bino Paul
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Pursuing the traces of mathematical reasoning Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Arzu Aydoğan Yenmez, Semirhan Gökçe
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Profiles of instructional practices and associations with teachers’ self-efficacy, classroom autonomy, teacher collaboration, and school climate in Korea Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Jaehong Jang, Hawon Yoo, Ksan Rubadeau
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Effect of personal belief in a just world on academic anxiety of college students during COVID-19 pandemic Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Wei Na, Denggang Tian
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The effect of interactive games on english language learners’ reading comprehension and attitudes Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Seyyed Ali Ostovar-Namaghi, Mostafa Morady Moghaddam, Elahe Rad
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Tackling school-related gender-based violence through teacher professional development in Cambodia Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Sofie Cabus, Serey Sok, Lotte Van Praet, Sarym Heang
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The (mis)understood image of the Korean students: how do high-achieving college students navigate their college experiences? Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Yeseul Choi, So Hee Hyun, Seunghyeop Lee
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Where to study abroad? American college students’ choice of a study abroad destination: pre-college, college and program capital Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Jae-Eun Jon
Despite the position of the United States as a top destination for international student mobility and the advancement of research on study abroad decisions, little is known about how American college students choose a destination country for study abroad. Expanding the understanding of students’ choice of a study abroad destination can contribute to promoting study abroad and guiding college students’
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Negotiating identities, values, and teaching practices: five immigrant teachers in Singapore schools as potential agents of educational diversity Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Peidong Yang, Lee Tat Chow
In a globalized world with increasing international migration and encounters of difference, education is presented with new challenges and opportunities regarding diversity, including teacher diversity. This paper focuses on teachers with immigrant backgrounds and explores how they potentially add constructive diversity to the receiving country’s education system. The empirical setting of this paper
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Spontaneous Change: Applying Zhuangzi’s Concept of Hua (化) to Global Citizenship Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Jing Dang
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Learning from Asia: an APER collective response to the special issue on “Asia as Method” Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Kevin Kester, Vandra Masemann, Keita Takayama, Ruth Hayhoe
This collective response paper concludes the Special Issue on “Revisiting ‘Asia as Method’ in Education Research: Toward Ontologies and Epistemologies of Difference.” The paper provides reflections, constructive critiques, and key learnings from individual papers and the Special Issue as a whole. A key feature of the paper is the dialogue and inter-referencing it fosters among and between the discussants
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Reduced in-person learning in COVID-19 widens student achievement gaps in schools Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Chol-Kyun Shin, Youngeun An, Soon-young Oh
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, using t test analysis. Second, we conducted a regression
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School and teacher level predictors of organizational loyalty in an era of school reform Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-06-03 Murat Özdemir, Könül Abaslı, Duran Mavi, Gamze Tuti, Erdem Karataş
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Re-opening an Asia-Scar: engaging (troubled) emotions in knowing, knowledge production and scholarly endeavors Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Phan Le Ha
In this article, I bring to the center of inquiry the role of emotion in scholarship, knowledge production, and scholarly endeavors. I discuss the ways in which emotion, in varied forms and intensities, shapes how one may respond to particular bodies of knowledge and academic initiatives. In a complex manner, I engage with Kuan-Hsing Chen’s “Asia as Method” (Chen in Asia as Method: towards deimperialization
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The codes of school mathematics culture as mirrored in mathematics interns' reflective blogs Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Liat Biberman-Shalev, Smadar Bar-Tal
In spite of the massive body of work reconceptualizing school mathematics in keeping with progressive approaches, research has shown that many school mathematics teachers still opt for more traditional methods. The present study sheds light on the mechanisms that shape mathematics teachers’ knowledge, beliefs, and instructional practices and thereby sheds light on those factors that support or impede
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A narrative exploration of agency in the education-migration nexus Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Thomas Brotherhood
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Interactive whiteboards in primary schools: a Vietnamese language arts classroom with a quasi-experimental study Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Nguyen-Bich-Thy Bui
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What deters some immigrants from learning the language of their new home: Factor analysis of immigrants’ deterrents to educational participation in South Korea Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Jihyun Kim
This study aimed to understand the factors that deter immigrants from participating in Korean language programs in South Korea by finding the underlying structure of the deterrents. A new instrument with 39 items that measures adult immigrants’ deterrents to participation in Korean language programs was developed. In total, 267 responses were collected, and 170 complete useable responses were analyzed
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Motivational design for enhancing behavioral engagement in a flipped Chinese course Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Xiaolan Zhou, Shumei Chen, Sumio Ohno, Jinhua She, Hiroyuki Kameda
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Primary school teacher candidates’ perceptions of “aesthetics”: a case study from Turkey Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Ahu Taneri, Nilgün Dağ
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Community development through university social responsibility: precursors and outcomes Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Muhammad Asrar-ul-Haq, Zainab Raza, Muhammad Waheed Akhtar
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Bridging principal-agent and mechanism design theories: an integrated conceptual framework for policy evaluation Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 1.823) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Heeyun Kim