This research was partially funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF). While this problem has received considerable attention, no clear explanation has emerged. In my recent PhD thesis, I ...

Students are shaped by their teachers in the classroom — and this influence highlights the need to carefully choose who enters the teaching profession, an education leader stressed during the release ...

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Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...

While necessary, the two essential components of reading comprehension—decoding and language comprehension—are not sufficient to improve outcomes in international reading assessments such as Programme ...

which is read as give me the set of all x such that x belongs to {1,2,3,4} and x is even. But this notation jumped out of algebra and today we have ways to do this in many programming languages, such ...

In the last few weeks, I’ve seen online posts from teachers bemoaning their students’ lack of enthusiasm for reading. Our international standardized test scores are down again. And then there’s the ...

In Python, there are often multiple ways to achieve the same task, and iterating over data structures like lists is no exception. Two popular methods for iteration are list comprehension and for loops ...

Reading comprehension seems like it should be easy to define. In simple terms, it’s the ability to understand what one reads. But beneath that simple definition lies a diverse array of component ...