This study investigates the current situation of some gender issues in primary (key stage one) education, such as gender imbalance of classroom interaction and pupils’ concentration levels at different stages of class. The present study is based on the observation of the classroom interactions of a carefully selected primary class in Northeast England. Throughout the observation which lasted tw...

Teacher-student interactions are key to most school-taught lessons. We present a new approach to studying these interactions; this approach is based on a fine-grained data collection, using quantitative field observations (QFOs), which relies on a well-established theoretical framework. The data collected can be analyzed in various methods to address different types of research questions; we gi...

Education systems are complex and involve interactions between humans (teachers and students); media based technologies, lectures, classrooms, etc. to provide educational services. The education system performance is characterized by how well students learn, which is measured using student grades on exams and quizzes, achievements on standardized tests, among others. Advances in portable commun...