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❝Incentive designs in which the number of reward recipients is limited seem to be more beneficial to high-performing students.❞ Many institutions provide financial incentives for higher education students contingent on their performance, hoping to increase their motivation and achievement. The aim of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the effects of performance-based financial incentives on higher…

❝Most studies suffered from poor methodological rigour.❞ With the opportunities and challenges stemming from the artificial intelligence developments and its integration into society, AI literacy becomes a key concern. Utilizing quality AI literacy instruments is crucial for understanding and promoting AI literacy development. This systematic review assessed the quality of AI literacy scales using the…

❝Men had the lowest PSA scores, with women scoring nearly 1.5 times higher and non-binary individuals almost twice as high as men.❞ While PSA among higher education students is widespread, research on demographic predictors of PSA is limited and the findings are mixed. Previous research on demographic predictors of PSA among higher education students does…

❝The fact that none of the reviewed previous studies contained null or contradictory results might, at least to some degree, be influence by the unwillingness of authors to write papers on selection and influence with null results or the unwillingness of journals to publish them.❞ Friends in early adolescence play a significant role in students’…

❝Interaction is largely influenced by endogenous mechanisms and friendships, vocal and high-literacy students initiate and receive more interactions, communication group norms shift with changing group compositions.❞ Our study shows the suitability of dynamic actor-oriented models for studying interaction in education and small groups. Group work in classrooms is employed by teachers across all levels of…

❝Schools heavily prioritized social integration over academic integration.❞ After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a high number of Ukrainian refugee children came to the Czech Republic, a country with little previous experience with refugee schooling. This study explored how Czech lower secondary schools in the 2022/2023 academic year managed to adapt to Ukrainian…

❝Slovakia is highly polarized and conspired.❞ The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine received widespread international condemnation. In Slovakia, the invasion became a subject of much political discussion with large number of MPs openly advocating Russian interests. This study investigates Slovak political discourse on Facebook in the weeks before and after the invasion began. We examine…

❝Let’s share our data.❞ In 2021/2022 school year, as part of the CoDiTe project, we collected granular interactional data from students’ group work along with longitudinal relational data about students’ friendships. Several papers from the data are now under review and we hope the data could be of use to anyone interested in studying mechanisms…

❝Ukrainian students were not well integrated in social networks in Czech schools in the beginning of the Russian invasion.❞ Czech Republic became a country hosting the highest number of Ukrainian refugees per capita following the 2022 Russian invasion. Many of those refugees were children requiring access to education. The Czech system of education faced an…