Pub Date : 2026-01-10DOI: 10.1016/j.edurev.2026.100764
Alan C.K. Cheung , Jieping Shi
This article systematically reviews research on the achievement outcomes of educational technology applications designed for improving the reading achievement of students in middle and high schools based on a set of rigorous inclusion criteria. A total of 53 eligible studies involving more than 53,000 students were included in the final analysis. The results indicate that educational technology applications helped to moderately increase reading achievement in secondary-school students who struggle with reading (ES = 0.15). A small majority of the studies (N = 23) were evaluations of two comprehensive models: READ 180 (N = 17) and Voyager Passport (N = 6), with an overall effect size of 0.16. Supplemental computer-assisted instruction programs such as the Jamestown Reading Navigator and IRAISE produced a smaller effect size of 0.08. Interactive and personalized software such as Lexia PowerUp Literacy generated the largest effect size of 0.34. Research design also significantly moderated the effectiveness of these educational technology applications, whereas release year, sample size, grade level, and duration did not. Given that the majority of the included studies were conducted in the United States, the findings should be interpreted and generalized with caution. Limitations, policy implications, and future directions are finally discussed.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-07DOI: 10.1016/j.edurev.2026.100763
Yang Tao , Deliang Wang , Diyue Liu , Gaowei Chen
Calls to foster productive classroom dialogue have prompted the widespread development of video-based teacher professional development (VB-TPD) programs designed to enhance teachers' dialogic teaching skills. Despite their proliferation, few studies have systematically examined the effects of these programs on teachers and students and synthesized critical features of their design and implementation. This systematic review scrutinized 35 empirical studies on VB-TPD programs for dialogic teaching, providing an integrated synthesis of their impacts on teacher and student learning outcomes and depicting the landscape of key phases, critical activities, and available approaches that support teacher professional growth. The review found that VB-TPD programs positively influenced teachers' teaching practices, beliefs and self-efficacy, and reflective foci, as well as students' cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes. Moreover, four main phases were identified across VB-TPD programs: planning, implementation, reflection, and post-reflection. These phases encompassed seven critical activities for teachers: 1) developing theoretical and practical knowledge, 2) conducting practice-based activities, 3) designing or revising lesson plans, 4) implementing and recording lessons on video, 5) establishing rules for video discussions, 6) discussing and reflecting on the video, and 7) post-reflection and planning. Each activity was underpinned by various approaches that facilitated effective teacher learning. The findings of this study can inform the design of future VB-TPD programs aimed at fostering teachers’ dialogic teaching.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-06DOI: 10.1016/j.edurev.2026.100762
Chun Sing Maxwell Ho, Junjun Chen
This systematic literature review on Educational Entrepreneurial Leadership (EL) aims to consolidate existing knowledge, address inconsistencies, and clarify EL's conceptual framework, thus providing a more comprehensive understanding of its applications and implications in educational settings while establishing a robust foundation for future theoretical and empirical explorations of EL. Our review covers the origins and conceptual definitions of EL, operational constructs, and conditions necessary for practicing EL. We analyzed the following article types: quantitative (n = 29), qualitative (n = 43), commentary (n = 13), literature review (n = 3) and mixed-method (n = 3) published between 1996 and Oct 2025 using an integrative approach while appraising their quality. The results revealed: (a) schools are increasingly adopting EL as a dynamic and innovative response to the stringent demands of neoliberal educational reforms and market-driven policies; (b) four common approaches were used to conceptually define EL in schools; (c) there were seven operational EL constructs; and (d) dynamic conditions influenced the use of EL for promoting school improvement and facilitating transformative change. The review highlights the conceptual ambiguities and empirical overlaps between EL and other leadership theories underscoring the need for clearer distinctions and more rigorous empirical support. It also highlights the need to refine EL's theoretical framework and assess its distinct impact to fill an important niche in educational leadership studies.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-26DOI: 10.1016/j.edurev.2025.100761
Kathryn Watson , Joseph Taylor , Caroline Sutton Chubb
This meta-analysis was designed to examine the effectiveness of school-based mental health interventions. Articles that used a school-based mental health intervention in K-12 schools and written in English and offered an effect size with a comparison group were considered for the study. We pulled articles from the American Psychological Association, PsychInfo, Education Resources Information Center, Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection, Google Scholar, Rand, and PubMed resulting in the identification of 1262 studies. After screening, 60 studies offering 210 effect sizes remained in the meta-analysis and were included in a meta-regression. The study is limited by publication bias as published studies are more likely to yield a positive result. A higher effect in this study reflects positive effects on student outcomes related to school-based mental health interventions. Key findings show a positive average effect of school-based mental health interventions in K-12 schools, with a stronger average effect in secondary settings. Therefore, implications for practice are that decision makers should be intentional about incorporating school-based mental health interventions into their school community.
{"title":"A meta-analysis of school-based mental health interventions","authors":"Kathryn Watson , Joseph Taylor , Caroline Sutton Chubb","doi":"10.1016/j.edurev.2025.100761","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edurev.2025.100761","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This meta-analysis was designed to examine the effectiveness of school-based mental health interventions. Articles that used a school-based mental health intervention in K-12 schools and written in English and offered an effect size with a comparison group were considered for the study. We pulled articles from the American Psychological Association, PsychInfo, Education Resources Information Center, Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection, Google Scholar, Rand, and PubMed resulting in the identification of 1262 studies. After screening, 60 studies offering 210 effect sizes remained in the meta-analysis and were included in a meta-regression. The study is limited by publication bias as published studies are more likely to yield a positive result. A higher effect in this study reflects positive effects on student outcomes related to school-based mental health interventions. Key findings show a positive average effect of school-based mental health interventions in K-12 schools, with a stronger average effect in secondary settings. Therefore, implications for practice are that decision makers should be intentional about incorporating school-based mental health interventions into their school community.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48125,"journal":{"name":"Educational Research Review","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100761"},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145844774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1016/j.edurev.2025.100760
Annette Hessen Bjerke , Tonje Hungnes , Kari Elisabeth Bachmann , Ove Edvard Hatlevik , Ingjerd Legreid Ødemark
The positive outcomes associated with elevated levels of efficacy beliefs have sparked interest in examining the sources of such beliefs. Mastery experience, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion and psychological state are all crucial for self-efficacy. In this systematic literature review, we examined the characteristics of the accumulated body of research on the sources of mathematics and science self-efficacy in primary and secondary education. The aim was to understand how the reviewed studies contribute to the discussion of students' mathematics and science self-efficacy development. We implemented a comprehensive search strategy for academic databases based on our research questions and inclusion/exclusion criteria, aligning with recommendations for systematic reviews. The analysis included 139 studies, and revealed that the research on mathematics and science self-efficacy development can be divided into three categories. The first category comprises 40 studies that assess Bandura's sources of self-efficacy, while the second includes 30 studies that refer to his sources. By contrast, the 69 studies that comprise the third category do not explicitly measure or discuss Bandura's sources of self-efficacy. The distribution of this research worldwide is clustered—that is, some countries have engaged in more active research and publication on this topic than others. A reliance on quantitative methodologies is evident, whereby ‘construct confusion’ hinders opportunities for direct comparison among studies. While attempts have been made to rate the sources, they are perceived as interconnected and varying between genders. Hence, we adopted a critical stance and highlighted several shortcomings that must be considered when designing future research.
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Positive peace education (PPE) builds on Johan Galtung's (1969) theory of positive peace, which emphasizes the importance of addressing not only direct violence, but also structural and cultural violence, to achieve sustainable peace. This means moving beyond peacekeeping and ‘negative peace’ to transform education systems, processes, and practices that facilitate positive peace. Operationalizing PPE in schools, however, remains conceptually and practically underdeveloped, with limited shared understanding of how it can be enacted and divergent ideas of what positive peace looks like in the classroom. This paper addresses this gap through a critical interpretive synthesis of international literature to examine how teachers, students, and school communities enact PPE in curriculum, pedagogy, relationships, and everyday school life. Findings are structured into four key themes: (1) situated practice; (2) pedagogical balancing; (3) teacher and student agency, and (4) lived peace praxis. The paper makes two key contributions, providing the first critical interpretive synthesis of PPE enactment in schools, and positioning ethics of care as a generative lens to interpret, integrate, and theorize PPE as culturally grounded, relational praxis.
{"title":"Implementing positive peace education in schools: A systematic literature review of global practices","authors":"Aizat Arystanbek , Assemgul Bukutova , Gulbagira Toleu , Lynne Parmenter , Hilary Cremin , Assylzhan Ospanbek","doi":"10.1016/j.edurev.2025.100759","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.edurev.2025.100759","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Positive peace education (PPE) builds on Johan Galtung's (1969) theory of positive peace, which emphasizes the importance of addressing not only direct violence, but also structural and cultural violence, to achieve sustainable peace. This means moving beyond peacekeeping and ‘negative peace’ to transform education systems, processes, and practices that facilitate positive peace. Operationalizing PPE in schools, however, remains conceptually and practically underdeveloped, with limited shared understanding of how it can be enacted and divergent ideas of what positive peace looks like in the classroom. This paper addresses this gap through a critical interpretive synthesis of international literature to examine how teachers, students, and school communities enact PPE in curriculum, pedagogy, relationships, and everyday school life. Findings are structured into four key themes: (1) situated practice; (2) pedagogical balancing; (3) teacher and student agency, and (4) lived peace praxis. The paper makes two key contributions, providing the first critical interpretive synthesis of PPE enactment in schools, and positioning ethics of care as a generative lens to interpret, integrate, and theorize PPE as culturally grounded, relational praxis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48125,"journal":{"name":"Educational Research Review","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100759"},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145732703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-08DOI: 10.1016/j.edurev.2025.100757
Quentin Brouhier , Isabel Raemdonck , Virginie März
Although professional development has been widely studied, the professional learning of late-career teachers remains an underexplored area. This mixed-methods systematic review synthesises findings from 12 peer-reviewed studies published between 2000 and 2024, focusing on teachers aged 50 and above. The analysis, structured around the Job Demands-Resources model, examined how professional learning is defined, experienced and supported in the later stages of teaching careers. The findings revealed significant inconsistencies in how late-career teachers are defined, whether by age, experience or perceived expertise, highlighting the lack of a coherent conceptualisation for this group. Similarly, professional learning was operationalised in various ways across studies, ranging from formal, structured programmes to informal, workplace-embedded practices. The review identifies late-career teachers' preference for socially embedded and collaborative learning opportunities, such as mentoring, dialogue and reflective practice. However, mentoring late-career teachers is typically seen as a one-way relationship where only the mentee learns, rather than as a shared learning experience in which both mentor and mentee grow together. Using the job demands-resources model, the review categorises key job demands (e.g., workload, role ambiguity) and resources (e.g., collegial support, autonomy, self-efficacy) that influence late-career teachers’ engagement in learning. It highlights a notable gap in tailored interventions addressing their specific needs. The review concludes with both theoretical and practical implications, advocating for more nuanced, context-sensitive approaches to professional learning that value the continued growth, contributions and well-being of teachers in the later stages of their careers.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-06DOI: 10.1016/j.edurev.2025.100758
Callula Killingly, Sandra Matheson, Laura Bentley, Elizabeth Swanson
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.edurev.2025.100748
Sebastian P. Suggate, Viktoria L. Karle, Tanja Kipfelsberger, Heidrun Stoeger
Evidence suggests that fine motor skills (FMS) relate to academic and cognitive development; however, findings are unclear, strewn across multiple disciplines, and lack adequate synthesis. We conducted the first comprehensive meta-analysis examining the links between different FMS facets (i.e., dexterity, speed, graphomotor, bimanual, general) and a broad range of academic-cognitive skills (i.e., sub-categories of reading, writing, mathematics, and cognition). A literature search identified 21,225 articles resulting in 118 eligible correlational studies (j = 143, k = 1110, N = 79,856). FMS exhibited significant and moderate relations with academic-cognitive skills (r = .329, d = .697). Graphomotor skills and writing showed the largest effect sizes. Mediation analysis suggested that cognitive skills mediated the link between FMS and academic skills. Overall, findings suggest that FMS share cognitive processes with academic skills, but that FMS are still related functionally to academic skills, especially writing. The discussion focuses on educational implications, moving beyond establishing if links exist to investigating why.
有证据表明,精细运动技能(FMS)与学业和认知发展有关;然而,研究结果不明确,散布在多个学科中,缺乏充分的综合。我们进行了第一次全面的荟萃分析,研究了FMS不同方面(即灵巧性、速度、书写运动、双手操作、一般)和广泛的学术认知技能(即阅读、写作、数学和认知的子类别)之间的联系。文献检索确定了21225篇文章,得到118项符合条件的相关研究(j = 143, k = 1110, N = 79856)。FMS与学业认知技能表现出显著和中等的关系(r = .329, d = .697)。笔迹运动技能和写作表现出最大的效应值。中介分析表明,认知技能在FMS与学业技能之间起中介作用。总体而言,研究结果表明,FMS与学术技能共享认知过程,但FMS在功能上仍与学术技能相关,尤其是写作。讨论的重点是教育意义,而不是确定是否存在联系,而是调查原因。
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.edurev.2025.100738
Nikoletta Mária Gulya , Anikó Fehérvári
The potential for relationships between students with disabilities and their typically developing peers is largely shaped by the attitudes of the typically developed students. This research aims to enhance understanding of these attitudes through a meta-analysis of results measured with the Chedoke-McMaster Attitudes towards Children with Handicaps Scale (CATCH). We examined changes in these attitudes from 1986 to the present, considering both temporal and geographic distribution, as well as the correlation of student gender, relationships with peers with disabilities, and the presence of a family member with a disability with these attitudes. A total of 40 studies were included in the research, analysing their quantitative data through weighted regression, t-tests, and meta-analysis. Our findings reveal a negative trend in students' average attitudes over the past 38 years. Gender shows a small positive effect on attitudes, while having a peer with a disability and having a family member with a disability exert a medium positive effect. Our results indicate that educational interventions should focus on knowledge sharing about learners with disabilities to provide mainstream students with relevant information, and additionally, create more opportunities for interaction between typical and disabled peers to foster understanding and friendships.
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