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Education Sciences, Volume 13, Issue 5

2023 May - 104 articles

Cover Story: The study reports on students’ opportunities to acquire generic competencies when they work with knowledge-related assignments at upper secondary school. The data of the 30 investigated assignments included lesson observations and teacher interviews. The analysis of the teaching practices focused on students’ joint activities, process-like emphasis, epistemic challenge, and information practices. Cluster analysis produced the following three groups of assignments: Open and challenging assignments with guidance and support (8 cases), which support students’ knowledge-related competencies the best, Demanding assignments without support (7 cases) in which students work independently with limited support for challenging assignments, and Well-defined, teacher-directed assignments (15 cases), which were well-structured and teacher-centered assignments. View this papaer
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Articles (104)

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,968 Views
11 Pages

Agriculture is being increasingly transformed into a technological industry and calls for a greater need for digitally literate employees. To ensure school students are best placed for this requirement, the development of teacher digital literacy, se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,083 Views
24 Pages

Preservice Elementary Teachers Conceptions and Self-Efficacy for Integrated STEM

  • Deepika Menon,
  • Deef A. A. Shorman,
  • Derek Cox and
  • Amanda Thomas

Educational reform efforts have emphasized preparing highly competent and confident preservice teachers to deliver effective K-12 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) instruction. Self-efficacy is a key variable that influences mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research and Innovation in STEM Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,646 Views
16 Pages

A Virtual Reality Laboratory for Blended Learning Education: Design, Implementation and Evaluation

  • Dario Antonelli,
  • Athanasios Christopoulos,
  • Mikko-Jussi Laakso,
  • Valentina Dagienė and ,
  • Agnė Juškevičienė,
  • Vaida Masiulionytė-Dagienė,
  • Maksymilian Mądziel,
  • Dorota Stadnicka and
  • Chrysostomos Stylios
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Launched during the pandemic, the EU-funded JANUS project aimed to ensure the continuity of student workshops at universities using a virtual reality (VR) robotics laboratory. With the return to normality, the project has been redesigned to capitalis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,467 Views
15 Pages

(1) Background: This study aimed to examine the effect of assimilating coaching tools among educational staff on the cultivation of (emotional, behavioral, and cognitive) self-regulation skills among Palestinian Arab middle school students in Israel....

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,733 Views
13 Pages

Perceived Connection to Instructor and Instructor Passion as Predictors of Transformative Experiences in Science

  • Kevin J. Pugh,
  • Cassendra M. Bergstrom,
  • Michael M. Phillips,
  • Julie M. Sexton and ,
  • Colton Olson and
  • Eric M. Riggs
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Transformative experience represents a deep-engagement construct and refers to experiences in which students use science content to see and experience the world in meaningful new ways outside the classroom. Such experiences are associated with deep l...

(This article belongs to the Section STEM Education)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
12,498 Views
20 Pages

Reality and Future of Interculturality in Today’s Schools

  • David Pérez-Jorge,
  • Ana Isabel González-Herrera,
  • Miriam González-Afonso and
  • Anthea Gara Santos-Álvarez

In today’s society, high-quality educational contexts must include intercultural education and educational inclusion as main elements of school culture. Equity, social justice, and equal opportunities for everybody require the construction of f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teaching and Learning Interculturality in Education around the World: Anything New under the Sun?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,232 Views
28 Pages

Concerns have been raised globally about the impact of the pandemic on the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people (CYP). How prospective headteachers rose to the challenge posed by the pandemic in supporting the wellbeing of their s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue International Perspectives on Inclusion in Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,606 Views
18 Pages

Inclusive internal resources moderate teachers’ mental health and predict teachers’ inclusive practices. Therefore, it is important to enhance inclusive internal resources during the beginning of initial teaching experiences. Applying the...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
11,862 Views
13 Pages

Digital assessment has become relevant as part of the digital learning process, as technology provides not only teaching and learning but also assessment, including productive feedback. With the rapid development of educational technology and the exp...

(This article belongs to the Section Technology Enhanced Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,657 Views
14 Pages

Navigating University: The Design and Evaluation of a Holistic Support Programme for Autistic Students in Higher Education

  • Charlotte Brownlow,
  • Neil Martin,
  • Donna-Marie Thompson,
  • Amelia Dowe and ,
  • Ding Abawi,
  • Jessica Harrison and
  • Sonja March
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Successfully engaging with university study can be challenging for autistic students and has been highlighted in the research literature as an area of concern. This study sought to address support for autistic students at one Australian university th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Inclusive Autism Research and Practice: Co-produced Understandings of Inclusion and Educational Support)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,538 Views
32 Pages

The starting point (1) of our proposal is the observation of the lack of intercultural practices in schools in France, even in the crucial context of teaching French to migrant children (2). Thanks to previous studies, we, therefore, develop theoreti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teaching and Learning Interculturality in Education around the World: Anything New under the Sun?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,099 Views
17 Pages

Secondary Education Teacher Training and Emotional Intelligence: Ingredients for Attention to Diversity in an Inclusive School for All

  • Mercedes Arias-Pastor,
  • Steven Van Vaerenbergh,
  • Jessica Fernández-Solana and
  • Jerónimo J. González-Bernal

This study, which is part of a broader research project, aims to investigate the impact of the initial training received by students in the Master’s Degree in Secondary Education and Baccalaureate, Vocational Training, and Language Teaching (MD...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,429 Views
23 Pages

Supporting Preservice Teachers in Analyzing Curriculum Materials

  • Markus Obczovsky,
  • Thomas Schubatzky and
  • Claudia Haagen-Schützenhöfer

Developing evidence-based curricula is a common approach in science education research to improve the quality of teaching. Curriculum developers recurrently provide curriculum materials (CMs) to support teachers who design instruction in the classroo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physics Teacher Education – from Professional Knowledge to Professional Performance and Beyond)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,043 Views
19 Pages

Teachers’ Professional Training through Augmented Reality: A Literature Review

  • Juanjo Mena,
  • Odiel Estrada-Molina and
  • Esperanza Pérez-Calvo

Practicum is regarded as a fundamental aspect of the training of prospective teachers. In addition, digital tools are increasingly used to enrich a traditional face-to-face experience. However, the technological exploitation of Augmented Reality (AR)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Online Practicum and Teacher Education in the Digital Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,102 Views
24 Pages

Less than 20% of the early childhood education and care (ECEC) staff members working in British early childhood centres agree that the inclusion of all children is an essential part of their working agenda, as they feel unqualified to take care of ch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Supporting Inclusivity in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Community)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,583 Views
14 Pages

Discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation remains a pressing challenge throughout Europe, including within Ireland. Despite this, anti-discrimination education is lacking and uneven within school settings. Responding to this ga...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Contemporary Research in Sport, Physical Activity, and Physical Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
13,718 Views
14 Pages

Blended learning is a growing phenomenon in higher education after the COVID-19 pandemic (the educational process moved entirely online), and the way is prepared for blended education mode in universities. Although blended learning research is on the...

(This article belongs to the Section Technology Enhanced Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,259 Views
18 Pages

For the majority of people, bursaries are a significant concern during their academic careers. This research focuses on how satisfied subsidized students are with the program and how it affects their ability to learn after receiving disadvantaged stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,252 Views
17 Pages

There is a consensus about the benefits of an artistic activity on health and well-being. In France, a gifted child is considered a special needs student for whom enrichment is advocated. Therefore, this study examines the extent to which a whole-cla...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Identifying and Supporting Giftedness and Talent in Schools)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
27,494 Views
9 Pages

Picture books are part of many young children’s lives, whether at home or in early childhood or school settings. Their unique creative combinations of words and visual images can engage children’s attention, stimulate their imagination, a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of the Arts in Early Language and Literacy Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,410 Views
13 Pages

The involvement of refugee families in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a complex issue in many countries. In this paper, we explore how early childhood (EC) educators construct refugee families’ sense of belonging in two metropolit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Supporting Inclusivity in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Community)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,643 Views
18 Pages

This qualitative study explores the implementation and adoption process of the use of digital devices and tools in teaching and learning before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal. Using Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory as a...

(This article belongs to the Section Technology Enhanced Education)
  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,670 Views
16 Pages

Digital Competence in University Lecturers: A Meta-Analysis of Teaching Challenges

  • Marta Liesa-Orus,
  • Raquel Lozano Blasco and
  • Lorena Arce-Romeral

This meta-analysis (random effects) studies the self-perceived digital competence of university lecturers in university teaching, using 7470 lecturers from Europe and Latin America collected in K = 31 samples, with teaching experience of between 6 an...

(This article belongs to the Section Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,566 Views
13 Pages

Cost Analysis in Online Teaching Using an Activity Map

  • Nuria Segovia-García and
  • Ester Martín-Caro

Virtual education has been associated, on some occasions, with economic models of scale that strengthen the mercantilist vision of teaching, thereby raising questions on the quality of the service. Some studies on educational costs associated with th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,021 Views
19 Pages

Enhancing Cultural Empathy in International Social Work Education through Virtual Reality

  • Komalsingh Rambaree,
  • Nessica Nässén,
  • Jörgen Holmberg and
  • Göran Fransson

School-based bullying is a major global social problem affecting societies around the world. It is argued that Virtual Reality (VR) offers benefits and possibilities in social work education. Within this context, a study was carried out with the aim...

(This article belongs to the Section Technology Enhanced Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,967 Views
17 Pages

This study analyzes the critical aspects of the professional life of primary school teachers in a southern European context. The social changes of the last two decades have profoundly impacted teachers’ well-being, putting a strain on their abi...

(This article belongs to the Section Education and Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,008 Views
15 Pages

Effectiveness of Digital Storytelling in Teaching Economics

  • Jana Nunvarova,
  • Petra Poulova,
  • Pavel Prazak and
  • Blanka Klimova

Digital storytelling is one of the teaching methods that aims to improve motivation of students, critical thinking and learning outcomes. The results of previous research show the successful use of this method in education, but its use in some subjec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Innovation in Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,365 Views
19 Pages

In this article, we analyze the basis of a proposal that allows teaching the notions of reflection, refraction, interference and diffraction from a unified perspective, using Fermat’s variational principle, recovered by Richard Feynman in his f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Learning and Teaching Optics)
  • Essay
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,116 Views
18 Pages

This paper argues that the neoliberal consensus about education finance has broken down due to growing economic inequality. First, I use a comparative historical analysis of political alliances to examine patterns of world trade and nations’ po...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Education Improvement Promoting Human Capabilities Development in Post-Neoliberal Period)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,947 Views
3 Pages

This collection of eight articles in this special edition clearly exemplifies the variety of thoughts and definitions relating to the territory of social and emotional education [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social and Emotional Education in Schools)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,617 Views
13 Pages

This paper aims to provide an understanding of effective professional development (PD) for mathematics teachers according to the context of South Sudan schools. Hunsicker’s (2011) checklist of effective PD was taken as a framework. The framewor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teacher Professional Development and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,178 Views
15 Pages

Studies show that students’ view of the subject of physical education (PE) is often dominated by sports discourse, and that the profession of higher education often fails to balance this view, which, in many contexts, does not align with the ai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Contemporary Research in Sport, Physical Activity, and Physical Education)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,257 Views
21 Pages

This paper presents a bibliometric systematic review on model-based learning analytics (MbLA), which enable coupling between teachers and intelligent systems to support the learning process. This is achieved through systems that make their models of...

(This article belongs to the Section Technology Enhanced Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,598 Views
16 Pages

Agon—Are Military Officers Educated for Modern Society?

  • Leif Inge Magnussen,
  • Ole Boe and
  • Glenn-Egil Torgersen

The research question in this article concerns how a competitive environment affects the learner’s (officer cadet’s) personal leadership development and their relationship to their team and with future civilian foundations. More specifica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Higher Education Research: Challenges and Practices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,469 Views
26 Pages

Engaging students in epistemic and conceptual aspects of modeling practices is crucial for phenomena-based learning in science classrooms. However, many students and teachers still struggle to actualize the reformed vision of the modeling practice in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Practices in Science and Engineering Education)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
12,132 Views
13 Pages

Learning Difficulties with the Concept of Function in Maths: A Literature Review

  • Macarena Trujillo,
  • Lorena Atarés,
  • María José Canet and
  • María Asunción Pérez-Pascual

The concept of function is a threshold concept in mathematics since it is essential for a deep understanding of the subject and is often problematic for students. Despite the importance of this concept, numerous studies have found that students have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,778 Views
12 Pages

The Impact of Interprofessional Education on Health Profession Students’ Professional Identity

  • Gioia J. Ciani,
  • Gary Grimaldi,
  • Maribel Macalintal and
  • David Orner

Establishing interprofessional identity is critical in preparing health care teams to work in collaborative environments and enhance efficacy of patient care. Accreditation standards for health profession programs have been implemented to include int...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health Professions Education & Integrated Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,509 Views
15 Pages

This paper presents a study analyzing second language vocabulary gains after an extensive reading program that included non-fiction graded readers of scientific content in English. The study was conducted in a Spanish primary school (N = 96) and impl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Second Language Acquisition and Language Education – Bridging the Interface)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,972 Views
15 Pages

Embracing Co-Design: A Case Study Examining How Community Partners Became Co-Creators

  • Liam Murdock,
  • Libby (Elizabeth) Osgood and
  • Luke McCarvill

Co-design increases the number of voices in a design project, which enhances the experience for all co-creators and produces a better product. A case study is presented of a ten-month co-design project-based learning experience between two engineerin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges of Project Based Learning (PBL) in Engineering Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,918 Views
17 Pages

Melody Mystery: Learning Music Theory through Escape Room Puzzles

  • Kenneth Y. T. Lim,
  • Kim Mai Truong and
  • Yuxuan Wu

This paper explores the use of escape room puzzles and instructional scaffolding in teaching novice learners about basic music theory. This study used the notion of epistemic frames in games as the basis for its experiment, combined with the use of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Game-Based Learning and Gamification for Education—Series 2)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
33,166 Views
21 Pages

In recent years, there have been growing calls to include STEM education in early childhood (EC). This has created new challenges for EC teachers as they try to find ways to integrate STEM content and pedagogical strategies into school-based curricul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research and Innovation in STEM Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,774 Views
13 Pages

Plants Are Not Boring, School Botany Is

  • Nataša Kletečki,
  • Dario Hruševar,
  • Božena Mitić and
  • Andrej Šorgo

The quality of botanical education depends on the quality and interests of the teacher. The aim of our paper was to conduct an initial study on the attitudes of primary and secondary school teachers about plants and botany. We initiated a study in wh...

(This article belongs to the Section Teacher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,210 Views
21 Pages

Different studies highlight the importance of developing entrepreneurial competence (EC) from the earliest educational levels, as well as during the teacher training stages, as they are considered to be facilitating and transforming agents in the int...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entrepreneurship Education Creating Impact for Societies: Known Worlds and New Frontiers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
11,511 Views
16 Pages

Exploring Gamification Approaches for Enhancing Computational Thinking in Young Learners

  • Javier del Olmo-Muñoz,
  • Andrea Bueno-Baquero,
  • Ramón Cózar-Gutiérrez and
  • José Antonio González-Calero

The integration of computational thinking (CT) in mathematics education is increasingly important due to its intersections with mathematical thinking and its role in the 21st century. Recent years have seen a growing interest in the use of innovative...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Models and Tools for Math Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,710 Views
34 Pages

The Impact of Dyslexia Box: A Case Study on Students in an Integration Class in Greece

  • Lamprini-Anna Gaitanidi,
  • Carmen Corujo-Vélez and
  • Esther Vega-Gea

This study evaluates the impact of a Greek intervention tool called Dyslexia Box, which is aimed at helping students with dyslexia acquire necessary language skills. It mainly focuses on the development of phonological awareness, reading, and writing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,590 Views
13 Pages

Welcome, How Can I Help You? Design Considerations for a Virtual Reality Environment to Support the Orientation of Online Initial Teacher Education Students

  • Rebecca Walker,
  • Valerie Morey,
  • Judith Dinham,
  • Madeleine Dobson and ,
  • Craig Sims,
  • Mark Bi and
  • Wesley Lamont
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Alongside the rapid and broad uptake of online learning in higher education, fully online students report feeling isolated and disconnected from their institutions. Although formal course content may be expertly designed to engage online learners, mu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,955 Views
22 Pages

This paper investigates the impact of digital reading during educational disruption on science and engineering students’ learning experience. Before the pandemic, some studies explored whether university students preferred using printed or digi...

(This article belongs to the Section Technology Enhanced Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,653 Views
14 Pages

Early school leaving rates among Roma are higher than in the majority population, as confirmed by several studies, but the descriptions are often two-dimensional. Intersectionality is described as a persistent situation formed by several social dimen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Conceptions, Perceptions and Intersections of Equity Gaps in Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,286 Views
24 Pages

Educational reforms and educational policy changes have favored the learning of English as a foreign language (EFL) in public education. Empirical research has examined how EFL specialist teachers in urban public schools perceive these changes or the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Second Language Acquisition and Language Education – Bridging the Interface)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,295 Views
22 Pages

Development and Evaluation of Digital Learning Tools Promoting Applicable Knowledge in Economics and German Teacher Education

  • Jasmin Reichert-Schlax,
  • Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia,
  • Katharina Frank,
  • Sebastian Brückner and ,
  • Moritz Schneider and
  • Anja Müller
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Digital teaching interventions allow for tailor-made university teaching. This is especially relevant for teacher education, where applicable professional teaching knowledge needs to be promoted for later professional success. Digital teaching tools...

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