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The AERA-NSF Grants Program is currently accepting proposals for both its Dissertation and Research Grants. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Program provides dissertation grants to graduate students and small research grants to doctoral level scholars using large-scale data sets in their research.
Sabine Meinck and Agnes Stancel-Piątak explain in their blog the importance of early childhood education, and the factors that encourage early childhood learning. The blog post refers to their article 'Preparing the ground: The importance of early learning activities at home for fourth grade student achievement' in which they disseminate their findings basing on data from TIMSS and PIRLS studies.
In order to better understand differences between education systems’ performance, background information on non-cognitive variables such as instructional practices or students’ motivation for mathematics and science; the journal of Studies in Educational Evaluation has launched a call for papers for a special issue on TIMSS.
This article is an excerpt from the book 'Limitless Mind' authored by Jo Boaler, which explains the importance of stimulating academic environments that boost learning and increase productivity.
A new research paper authored by Jihyun Lee and Minge Chen, illustrates empirical findings that measure predictive validities of non-cognitive variables for mathematics achievement based on the TIMSS 2015 study, for students in the primary and secondary school across multiple countries.