The most prominent theories of reading consider reading comprehension ability to be a direct consequence of lower-level reading skills. Recently however, research has shown that some children with poor comprehension ability perform normally on tests of lower-level skills (e.g., decoding). One promising line of behavioral research has found semantic processing differences between good and poor c...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to examine the effects of interface consistency on the learning performance of skilled and novice computer users who are studying with web-based e-learning systems. Design/methodology/approach – A literature review was conducted, and an experiment was set up to collect data on learning performance with respect to interface consistency and e-learning sys...

Low-Skilled Immigration and the Expansion of Private Schools This paper provides a political-economic model to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country’s education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of parents who are more likely to send their children to publicly or privately funded schools. Four m...

A pervasive notion in the literature is that complex concept maps reflect greater knowledge and/or more expert-like thinking than less complex concept maps. We show that concept maps used to structure scientific writing and clarify scientific reasoning do not adhere to this notion. In an undergraduate course for thesis writers, students use concept maps instead of traditional outlines to define...

This paper uses Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data linked to administrative track the educational and labour market outcomes of young people. Students with lower skills have rates participation in further education. While low-skilled men out-earn their higher-skilled counterparts when they are very young, earnings overtaken by those higher early 20s, earn around 15 per c...

This study aimed at investigating the correlations among three major dimensions of individual differences, learning styles, motivation and strategy use in reading English as a foreign language (EFL). Subjects were 422 Taiwanese undergraduate students from different levels who were classified into two groups according to their reading performance. Three questionnaires were adapted from various r...