As Artificial Intelligence (AI) advances, discussions regarding its potential in education have attracted significant attention. This systematic review synthesizes AI affordances in online higher education, particularly identifying various ways AI is used throughout the online instruction cycle. We analyzed fifty-five studies focusing on publication trends, research methodology and quality, AI affordances

Generative AI (GenAI) provides distinct affordances that contribute meaningfully to learning. However, there are also several challenges, most notably ethical considerations. While much of the current research on GenAI in academia focuses on technical capabilities or ethical concerns, few studies have examined how GenAI can be leveraged to promote equity and inclusivity, particularly in academic communication

This study examined whether a mediational cascade involving children's respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) reactivity to a series of cognitive and socio-evaluative stressors, their callous-unemotional (CU) traits, and psychological adjustment was moderated by their cardiac pre-ejection period (PEP) reactivity. Using a multi-method, multi-informant design, 238 mothers and their preschool children (Mage = 4

Despite well-documented behavioral changes, the development of neuropsychological substrates underlying inhibitory control remains unknown, hindering understanding of this construct over time. Stability and change in N2, a neural correlate of inhibitory control, and its crosslagged, bidirectional associations with maternal emotion characteristics were examined in 121 preschoolers (59% female, predominantly

Digital games are a double-edged sword; while they may pose potential negative effects for players, they are also recognized as valuable tools for fostering 21st century skills. Although 21st century skills have been widely promoted, this is the first meta-analysis to examine the effect of digital games on players’ 21st century skills, specifically focusing on all 4C skills: critical thinking, creativity

To see whether communicative-based multimodal skills (compared to non-communicative motor skills) predicted complex language skills, this study examined the predictive power of multimodal and motor skills on narrative and expressive pragmatic abilities across two groups. Participants were children with typical development (N = 88, Mage = 5.34, 48% female) and with neurodevelopmental disorders (N = 51

This essay provides a two-pronged critical assessment of a subset of the literature on racial disproportionality in special education: that which aims to estimate racial disparities among otherwise similar children. This body of research has shown that Black students are less likely than comparable White students to receive special education, and has been interpreted by many to mean that current policies

Physical computing is a field that involves the use of sensors, actuators, and microcontrollers to build systems that interact with the environment. This approach has been used in education, particularly to teach computer science, programming, computational thinking, and design concepts. This systematic review explores the use of physical computing in K-12 education, with a focus on what educational

Children of migrant and seasonal farm workers (MSFWs) represent a highly disadvantaged and understudied population in the U.S., with unique educational and socio-linguistic needs. This study leverages nationally representative data on children of MSFWs attending Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) programs to investigate how Spanish-English dual language learners’ (DLLs’) school readiness skills

Professional development (PD) both influences and is influenced by teachers' emotions, yet emotions remain unaddressed in PD frameworks. This study pursues three objectives: (1) to offer a theoretical framework illustrating how PD processes influence and are influenced by teachers' emotions, (2) to systematically review how empirical studies have assessed teacher emotions in PD, and (3) to synthesize

This study describes a novel measure of children's Theory of Mind (ToM) development—called the Comprehensive Assessment of ToM (CAT)—that addresses limitations in existing ToM measures. This behavioral measure includes three–six items each about diverse desires, diverse beliefs, knowledge access, knowledge expertise, false belief, and visual perspective taking, as well as nonsocial representational

Interprofessional collaboration is the preferred working approach for supporting children with special educational needs. Furthermore, educational psychology services (EPS) have been identified as a significant means of realizing the ideals of inclusive education for at-risk children. However, the literature on interprofessional collaboration is highly dominated by research in healthcare context with

Targeted school funding is a potentially valuable policy lever to increase educational equality by race, ethnicity, and income, but it remains unclear how to target funds most effectively. We use a regression discontinuity approach to compare districts that narrowly passed or failed a school funding election. We use close tax elections in nine states to identify effects of operating funds, and we use

The rapid pace of technological change with generative artificial intelligence is accelerating much faster than our capacity to understand and regulate it. Higher education institutions have been firmly focused on the impacts of this innovation on academic integrity while grappling with unknown longer-term impacts on students' academic study and future work. This mixed method study aims to capture

Student goals play a crucial role in both practice and theory in higher education, particularly for understanding and enhancing student motivation. However, on a conceptual level, goals are studied through separate and isolated frameworks, which complicates the ability of practitioners and researchers to combine insights from both streams of scholarship effectively. This systematic review aimed to

Active learning strategies embedded in video content have become increasingly prominent tools for enhancing learners' educational experiences. However, the literature offers varied results concerning their effectiveness. In this research, we conducted a series of meta-analyses to assess the influence of active learning strategies on learners’ motivation, cognitive load, and learning performance. On

It is widely postulated that caregivers’ emotion socialization strategies support children’s positive socio-emotional functioning with peers. However, this theoretical model has been rarely examined empirically in the context of early childhood education and care (ECEC), despite ECEC being a prominent environment for children to practice peer play (a robust marker variable for social and emotional

Higher education programs increasingly emphasize professional identity formation (PIF) within their curricula, particularly in fields such as medicine and teacher education. Programs in social sciences and humanities (SSH) also increasingly recognize their role in preparing students for professional futures, yet knowledge on PIF in these disciplines is less integrated into the body of literature. This

Students with or at-risk for emotional and behavioral disorders served in residential facilities have been exposed to traumatic events at higher rates compared to their peers. Behavioral interventions may be more effective for this population if they include trauma-informed relationship building adaptations. One intervention that may be modified to include such adaptations is Check-in, Check-out (CICO)

To increase human-computer interaction and motivate university students' online learning, this study investigated the effects of affective pedagogical agent (PA) providing parallel empathy and reactive empathy in an online learning scenario. In a 2 (Parallel empathy: yes vs. no) × 2 (Reactive empathy: yes vs. no) between-subjects design, 122 university students learned 10 psychological concepts about

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) has revolutionized the production of instructional videos and lectures in MOOCs, opening a new chapter in their use for education. This technology enables the generation of talking instructors from text and images or clips of real people. However, the impact of behavioral fidelity and visual cues provided by these generated instructors

Accurate spelling is essential for academic and professional achievement. Developing cost-effective assessments to provide early support for children experiencing difficulties with spelling is crucial. In the past, dictations have been the primary method for measuring spelling skills. However, given that reading and spelling rely on shared orthographic knowledge, detecting spelling errors might serve

Teacher motivation plays a key role in achieving a high instructional quality. However, there is a clear need for more detailed research on the underlying mechanisms that link teacher motivation to high-quality instruction. In this systematic literature review, we synthesize existing empirical work examining the intrapersonal processes mediating the relations between teacher motivation and teaching

Robotics technologies powered by artificial intelligence are revolutionizing language learning, particularly for children who are at critical stages of language development. With the increasingly prevalent use of social robots in children's language acquisition, however, a comprehensive understanding of their effectiveness in this regard remains lacking. To address this gap, this study conducted a

Despite substantial improvements to memory precision in childhood, the neural mechanisms underlying these changes remain unclear. Here, 40 children (7–9 years; 22 females, 18 males; majority White) and 42 adults (24–35 years; 22 females, 20 males; majority White) modulated their approaches to memory formation—focusing on the specific details to encourage precision or general category to encourage imprecision

Acquiring robust semantic representations of numbers is crucial for math achievement. However, the learning stage where magnitude becomes automatically elicited by number symbols (i.e., digits from 1 to 9) remains unknown due to the difficulty to measure automatic semantic processing. We used a frequency‐tagging EEG paradigm targeting automatic magnitude processing in children (N = 33, 5–10‐year‐old

The effort monitoring and regulation (EMR) model integrates self-regulated learning and cognitive load theory to examine how students monitor, regulate, and optimize effort during learning. Since its introduction in 2020, it has inspired research that explores how to correct learners' misinterpretations of effort and metacognitive biases and how instructional interventions can improve learning strategies

Teachers’ beliefs influence the educational experiences they provide for students with disabilities. Furthermore, beliefs are highly contextualized, necessitating careful attention to the contexts in which they are developed and deployed. Informed by DisCrit, we employed narrative analysis to explore the beliefs of five special educators working in self-contained settings serving students labeled with

When determining what others know, we intuitively consider not only whether they succeed but also their probability of success in the absence of knowledge (e.g., random guessing). Across three experiments (n = 240 North American 4–6‐year‐olds, data collected between 2020–2023) we find that 4‐year‐olds understand that tasks with a lower probability of chance success are harder. However, it is not until

As societies worldwide grapple with substantial educational inequities, understanding their underlying causes remains a priority. Here, we introduce the Brilliance-Belonging Model, a novel theoretical framework that illuminates how cultural beliefs about exceptional intellectual ability create inequities through their impact on students' sense of belonging. The model identifies two types of widespread

Puberty education is a widely accepted, critical component of sex education, yet little is known about its instruction. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a promising pedagogical approach for meeting the needs of diverse learners in the puberty classroom especially students with disabilities. This community-based participatory research project partnered with a community organization that provides

Peer relationships are imperative for healthy social and emotional development. In preschool, children are exposed to a new, structured environment, in which there is a sharp learning curve to adjust to unfamiliar expectations. Children with inattention (IA) and hyperactivity/impulsivity (H/I) may have limited social awareness and exhibit disruptive behaviors that lead to peer rejection. Beyond IA

The aims of this study were to (a) characterize the prevalence and interrelationship of Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals in academic (reading, writing, math) and developmental (language, social skills, behavioral) domains in a large national sample of autistic children across the elementary and secondary grade levels and (b) examine how demographic and developmental factors predict having

Starting in 2021/2022, Canada implemented a new early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy, the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC). CWELCC aims to reduce the cost of child care to an average of $10CA/day. However, prior implementation of similar policies resulted in differential outcomes in terms of benefits received. The current mixed methods study examined 1341 parents’ knowledge

Racial disproportionality in special education and school discipline remains a persistent social justice issue in the U.S. education system. Drawing from a 4-year-long school-community-university partnership within an Anishinaabe Band of Ojibwe in northern Wisconsin, we propose a theoretical and practical framework called decolonizing agency to address racial disproportionality through systemic transformation

This meta-analysis includes 71 studies representing 254619 teachers and the academic performance of their students. The results indicate significant but small effect sizes for overall TSE constructs on academic performance, r from 0.063 to 0.192. The two largest effect sizes are between overall TSE for subject teaching and overall TSE, outperforming the personal and general efficacy (Gibson & Demo

This pre-registered randomized clinical trial examined the efficacy of a prevention program on parenting of siblings and sibling relationships among Latinxs. Participants were 272 sibling dyads (82.9% Mexican) with 5th graders (Mage = 10.63; SD = 0.38; 51.8% female), their younger siblings in 1st to 4th grades (Mage = 8.18; SD = 1.06; 54.8% female), and their caregivers. Families were randomized to

Many children in the United States are growing up in homes with a non-English primary spoken language. Because students must learn and perform in English-language classrooms, understanding early factors and processes involved in developing English vocabulary is critical. With a longitudinal panel model, we examined the prediction of fifth-grade English vocabulary skills from both extrinsic (i.e., mothers’

This study examines the impact of a combined self-assessment and commitment strategy intervention on college students' self-regulated learning (SRL) and academic performance in asynchronous online learning. Using an ex post facto control design, we compared students' performance and behavioral analytics across three course units in two consecutive years of a large online college course. Compared to

Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) are used to document the needs of students with disabilities and outline provisions with which to support access and inclusion in educational settings. However, often the programs focus on students’ specific needs rather than giving agency to students or considering how wider ecosystems impacts students’ ownership of learning. This study adopted Bronfenbrenner's

A burgeoning literature suggests that criminal justice contact in adolescence hinders educational attainment, but prior research primarily considers short-term outcomes and relies on self-reported arrest information. In this article, we leverage Illinois administrative records over 25 years linked to a multicohort longitudinal study to provide estimates of whether an officially recorded juvenile arrest

Asynchronous online discussions (AOD) offer pedagogical advantages as a social learning tool, but their success largely depends on students' motivated participation and sustained engagement. Recent research highlights the potential of leveraging temporal data to understand discussion dynamics and inform instructional strategies. However, the role of contextual factors in analyzing temporal data has

While the dominant population-based research is immensely useful in revealing the general trends, it falls short of capturing the intraindividual –or within-person – changes on the individual level. Capturing the individualized processes helps create personalized interventions and advance our understanding of the person in which the learning process takes place. This study aimed at modeling the within-person

This study examined school outness, school climate, and country inclusivity to assess their associations with bias‐based bullying and cyberbullying among sexual and gender minority youth (SGMY) in Europe in 2020–2021 (N = 12,764; Mage = 16.07; 69% female; 43% cisgender girls; 31% bisexual). Outness was positively related to bias‐based bullying (β = 0.10, R2 = 0.21) and cyberbullying (β = 0.04, R2 =

Aperiodic electroencephalography (EEG) activity is hypothesized to index biological mechanisms that underpin brain functioning. This longitudinal study characterized the developmental trajectories of the aperiodic slope (i.e., aperiodic exponent) and offset from infancy to 7 years of age in a US community sample (N = 391, 46.5% female, predominantly White; data collection 2013‐2023). The study further

Racial and ethnic disparities in children's diets are prevalent. Little is known about how fathers' food parenting practices may contribute to these disparities. We examined racial and ethnic variations in food parenting practices and their associations with 2–6‐year‐old children's diets in a cross‐sectional sample of U.S. fathers surveyed in 2021–2023 (N = 1015; 16% Asian, 9% Black, 6% Hispanic, 70%

Children’s classroom behavioral engagement and peer acceptance are linked to school readiness and positive educational outcomes. However, these developmental and social processes may depend on the social context in which children evolve. Thus, the friendships children develop in kindergarten may encourage classroom engagement and peer acceptance, based on the friends’ characteristics and the duration

Inhibitory processes have been consistently linked to children’s academic and behavioral outcomes. Researchers have argued that response inhibition (i.e., the ability to suppress a prepotent response) and interference suppression (i.e., the ability to ignore task-irrelevant information) represent two distinct constructs in preschool-age children and may be differentially related to children’s academic

Social media is a popular tool for caregivers and educators to find and share learning activities for children. Yet there is little empirical work on the educational quality of these activities. The current study identified early learning (n = 108) and early math (n = 216) activities posted on TikTok. Activity videos were coded for the presence/absence of mathematical content and the extent to which

Professional development is a necessary support for both teachers’ well-being, and high-quality teacher-child interactions, which are the central mediators of the effects of early care and education on children’s development. Among teachers of older children, effective professional preparation is associated with lower work-related stress and higher classroom quality, but these associations have not

Need for cognition (NFC) reflects the tendency to enjoy and engage in cognitive challenges. This study examines the relations between NFC and academic interest among 922 German secondary school students (academic track) assessed four times in Grades 5–7 (initial age M = 10.63, SD = 0.55; 41% female; 90% first language German) in mathematics, German, and English. Data were collected between 2008 and

What are the psychological consequences of receiving direct and indirect help in childhood? We conducted three preregistered experiments (N = 619, 7–9 years, 80% Dutch, 51% girls, 49% boys, mostly higher socioeconomic status) in the Netherlands (July 2020–July 2022). Children received direct help (correct answer), indirect help (hint), or no help. An internal meta‐analysis showed that children who

Childhood adversity takes a toll on lifelong health. However, investigations of unpredictability as a form of adversity are lacking. Environmental unpredictability across multiple developmental periods and ecological levels was examined using a multiethnic, longitudinal birth cohort (1998–2000) oversampled for unmarried parents. Data were from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 4898

This study evaluates the effectiveness of a faculty professional development (PD) course titled – Online Course Development and Teaching Certificate Academy (OTA), which focuses on the technology, pedagogy, and instructional design concepts essential for transitioning to online classrooms. OTA follows the Community of Inquiry principles by integrating social, teaching, and cognitive presences throughout

Observed parental sensitivity during a parent–child teaching task and free‐play task was tested as mediators of the association between family socioeconomic risk and child receptive language at 48 months, consistent with family investment theory. Parents (n = 881 mothers; 624 fathers, data collected between 2006‐2008) and their 5‐month‐old children (52% male) were recruited from public health clinics

To better characterize and understand AI in higher education and its role in relation to educational disparities and inclusivity, this paper presents a comprehensive bibliometric assessment of research on AI in higher education. Using quantitative topic modeling and qualitative analysis methods, this study describes: (1) the research landscape of AI in higher education and (2) the common topics of

University institutions face the challenge of training faculty in inclusive digital skills to provide quality education for all. This paper presents a study that designed, developed, and evaluated a blended-learning training programme for faculty in Spain, focusing on emerging technologies from an inclusive perspective. A qualitative methodology was employed, incorporating a case study approach with

Adjusting practice to different goals and characteristics is key to learning, but its development remains unclear. Across 2 preregistered experiments, 190 4‐to‐8‐year‐olds (106 female; mostly White; data collection: December 2021–September 2022) and 31 adults played an easy and a difficult game, then chose one to practice before a test on either the easy, difficult, or a randomly chosen game. All children

College students' misuse of mobile devices during class for off-task purposes is a global issue that harms learning. While prior studies examined device misuse frequency within individual countries, no known studies have directly compared transnational differences in this behavior, leaving little known about whether crosscultural differences influence this behavior. This study investigates whether