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Education Sciences, Volume 15, Issue 11

2025 November - 151 articles

Cover Story: Educator retention is crucial to high-quality early childhood education, yet workforce levels are critically low. This study examines how organizational climate and leadership shape collaborative practices to sustain retention. Using constructivist grounded theory, data from Australian Northern Territory educators revealed two core categories—‘struggle’ and ‘hope.’ Struggle reflected organizational climates with poor communication and low psychological safety, leading to resistance and stress. Hope emerged in climates fostering trust, reflection, and open dialogue, supporting wellbeing and stability. The findings emphasize that intentional leadership and caring organizational climates are essential for collaboration and retention—illustrating that building connection, builds retention. View this paper
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Articles (151)

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,508 Views
20 Pages

Translanguaging for Equity and Justice in Assessment: A Systematic Review

  • Zhongfeng Tian,
  • Jamie L. Schissel,
  • Chia-Hsin Yin and
  • Jessica Wallis McConnell

20 November 2025

This systematic review examines how translanguaging has been integrated into educational assessment, a domain historically dominated by monolingual norms. Drawing on 33 empirical studies published between 2012 and 2023, we employed an inductive&ndash...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,898 Views
25 Pages

Navigating Social Inclusion: How Social and Cognitive Factors Relate to Friendship Quality in Children with ADHD, Dyslexia, and Neurotypical Development

  • Sofia Kouvava,
  • Katerina Antonopoulou,
  • Asimina M. Ralli,
  • Ioanna Voulgaridou and
  • Constantinos M. Kokkinos

20 November 2025

Friendships contribute to children’s social inclusion at school. Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or dyslexia experience substantial difficulty maintaining meaningful friendships. This study aims to elucidate the di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effective Policies and Practices in Inclusive Preschool and Primary Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,254 Views
19 Pages

Validity and Reliability of the ECIP-Q Among Peruvian Adolescents: A Tool for Monitoring Cyberbullying and School Coexistence

  • Julio Dominguez-Vergara,
  • Henry Santa-Cruz-Espinoza,
  • María Quintanilla-Castro and
  • Carlos López-Villavicencio

20 November 2025

Cyberbullying is a public health concern in adolescence that requires measures with valid and comparable evidence across subgroups. This study examined the validity and reliability evidence of the European Cyberbullying Intervention Project Questionn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,296 Views
17 Pages

20 November 2025

The need to move away from traditional assessments, as well as the need to contextualize assessment with interesting, real-life, and authentic tasks, should be considered as a crucial element in 21st-century education. This need has become more evide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,316 Views
17 Pages

19 November 2025

Efforts to improve student retention and degree achievement in STEM disciplines has increasingly highlighted the importance of faculty professional development and the adoption of evidence-based teaching practice. Despite teaching being a core facult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,007 Views
17 Pages

Emotional Intelligence, Creativity, and Subjective Well-Being: Their Implication for Academic Success in Higher Education

  • Presentación Ángeles Caballero García,
  • Sara Sánchez Ruiz and
  • Alexander Constante Amores

19 November 2025

Professional skills training and academic success are key challenges for contemporary educational systems, particularly within higher education. The labour market increasingly demands well-prepared graduates with specific competencies that are still...

(This article belongs to the Section Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,168 Views
25 Pages

19 November 2025

This study examines the performances of gifted and talented high schoolers in transforming computational thinking skills and mathematical knowledge into creative STEM project production. A mixed-methods sequential explanatory research design involvin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Creativity and Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,789 Views
25 Pages

19 November 2025

Reading comprehension (RC) can be predicted from language comprehension (LC) and decoding, and all three constructs are responsive to structured teaching. Culturally responsive instruction, which explicitly connects students’ lived experiences...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Evidence-Based Literacy Instructional Practices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,599 Views
23 Pages

19 November 2025

Integrated science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (i-STEAM) education has been recognized for its potential to promote interdisciplinary learning and connect scientific knowledge to socially relevant contexts. However, its implementa...

(This article belongs to the Topic Constructing and (Re)constructing Social Identities in Educational Contexts: Power, Norms, and Resistance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,921 Views
19 Pages

19 November 2025

In this study, we explore writing development from Grade 3 to 6 in four groups of students with varying reading abilities measured in a screening in Grade 2 as follows: students with (1) poor word reading, (2) poor reading comprehension, (3) mixed di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Students with Special Educational Needs in Reading and Writing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,480 Views
18 Pages

Willing but Underserved: Interpreting Digital Training Needs of Grade 8–12 Teachers in a Rural Libangeni Circuit

  • Mbazima Amos Ngoveni,
  • Gabriel Tshepo Mphuthi,
  • Louisa Mmatlawa Maile,
  • Ronald Vuledzani Mulaudzi,
  • Regina Mosima Tefo and
  • Enid Manyaku Pitsoane

19 November 2025

Rural teachers often face systemic barriers that limit their ability to engage in technology-integrated pedagogy despite growing global emphasis on digital education. This study examined the digital training needs, tool proficiency, and institutional...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue STEM, Arts, and Special Education: Teacher Education Partnerships and Professional Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,766 Views
14 Pages

19 November 2025

This study investigated the impact of a Science-Technology-Society (STS)-based nature education program on the creativity levels of middle school students. Recognizing creativity as a crucial human capacity for individual and societal progress, the r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Creativity and Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,549 Views
18 Pages

From Emergency Remote Teaching to Hybrid Models: Faculty Perceptions Across Three Spanish Universities

  • Carlos José González Ruiz,
  • Sebastián Martín Gómez,
  • Sonia Ortega Gaite and
  • María Inmaculada Pedrera Rodríguez

18 November 2025

This study examines university teachers’ digital competences during Emergency Remote Teaching at three Spanish institutions—the University of La Laguna, the University of Extremadura, and the University of Valladolid—and, from the f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beyond the Clickstream: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Approaches to Understanding Online Learners)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,010 Views
18 Pages

When Performance Takes Priority: Beliefs That Shape Engineering Students’ Mental Health Help-Seeking

  • Matthew D. Whitwer,
  • Joseph H. Hammer,
  • Brenna Gomer,
  • Elahe Vahidi and
  • Sarah A. Wilson

18 November 2025

Engineering education is at a critical juncture where supporting student mental health is essential for fostering persistence, equity, and the development of a resilient and innovative workforce. Yet, undergraduate engineering students experiencing m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rethinking Engineering Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,162 Views
33 Pages

18 November 2025

This paper presents the development of an Impact Framework for STEAM education created as part of a project to support systemic, evidence-based reform. The framework was derived from an extensive synthesis of data collected through policy mapping, na...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beyond the Bottom Line: Systemic Pathways to Identity-Responsive STEM Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,644 Views
24 Pages

Bridging STEAM and Cultural Heritage Through Inclusive Inquiry: The SciArt Professional Development Program

  • Angelos Sofianidis,
  • Eleni Petridou,
  • Elena Stylianou,
  • Christina Tsaliki,
  • Lamprini Malletzidou,
  • Clara Sarmento,
  • Constadina Charalambous,
  • Sapfo Fotiadou,
  • Tereza Makridou and
  • Anastasios Molohidis
  • + 6 authors

18 November 2025

This study presents a professional development (PD) program designed within the “SciArt—Promoting 21st-century skills through an inclusive STEAM approach to Cultural Heritage” project, which aims to prepare teachers to implement an...

(This article belongs to the Section STEM Education)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
898 Views
4 Pages

17 November 2025

Children are reared in unique socio-cultural, political, and historical contexts (Rodd, 1996) [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Understanding Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) from Cultural Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,432 Views
20 Pages

Why Should We Count in Sámi and Kven?

  • Anne Birgitte Fyhn and
  • Ánná Káisá Partapuoli

17 November 2025

The use of Norwegian numerals in the Sámi language is widespread among Sámi native speakers. Like the Sámi languages and the minority language Kven, Welsh is an endangered minority language in a Western European country with one...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Grounding Indigenous Pedagogies and Perspectives in STEM and Mathematics Education: Learning That Supports the Well-Being of the Self, Family, Community, Land, and Ancestors)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,786 Views
22 Pages

Digital Storytelling in Teaching and Learning Mathematics: A PRISMA Systematic Literature Review

  • Dimitrios Deslis,
  • Andreas Moutsios-Rentzos,
  • Panagiota Kaskaouti and
  • Maria Giakoumi

17 November 2025

Digital storytelling (DST) has emerged as a promising pedagogical approach in mathematics education, combining narrative and digital media to enhance conceptual understanding, engagement, and reflective practice. This systematic review synthesises re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Empowering Teacher Education with Digital Competences)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
3,984 Views
9 Pages

17 November 2025

Today, the field of education faces unprecedented challenges that necessitate innovative approaches to teacher education and teaching practices (Darling-Hammond, 2017; Hussein, 2025; West & Bautista, 2022) [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teacher Professional Development and Teaching Practices in Early Childhood Education: An International Landscape)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,769 Views
27 Pages

17 November 2025

This study examined lexical complexity patterns in elementary reading textbooks across four pivotal decades (1957, 1974, 1995, 2014) to understand how educational reforms have influenced developmental progressions in reading materials. The study anal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Evidence-Based Literacy Instructional Practices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,698 Views
12 Pages

From First-Year Dreams to Sixth-Year Realities: A Repeat Cross-Sectional Study of Medical Students’ Specialty Preferences

  • Yael Hollander,
  • Nir Amitai,
  • Shimrit Salem Yaniv,
  • Itamar Ben Shitrit,
  • Anat Horev,
  • Inbal Golan Tripto and
  • Amir Horev

17 November 2025

Medical students often begin their studies with preconceived notions about specialties, which may evolve as they gain clinical experience. This study aimed to assess changes in specialty preferences over six years of medical training and to compare t...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,958 Views
36 Pages

16 November 2025

The integration of digital technologies in mathematics is becoming increasingly significant, particularly in promoting conceptual understanding and student engagement. This study systematically reviews the literature on applications of Computer Algeb...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Unleashing the Potential of E-learning in Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
936 Views
18 Pages

Examining Coherence in Preservice Mathematics Teachers’ Noticing of Students’ Thinking About Classification in Geometry

  • Hélia Oliveira,
  • Fernanda Caroline Cybulski and
  • Márcia Cristina de Costa Trindade Cyrino

16 November 2025

This study aims to examine the thematic coherence among preservice mathematics teachers’ noticing components when analysing students’ thinking about classification in geometry, as well as the actions they propose to respond to those stude...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Different Approaches in Mathematics Teacher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,340 Views
15 Pages

16 November 2025

Learning regulation is a central determinant of student achievement and autonomy in higher education. Grounded in Self-Determination Theory, this quasi-experimental study examined the effects of a seven-week intervention in biomedical education that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,190 Views
21 Pages

15 November 2025

This study examined stakeholders’ satisfaction with current student classification and progress monitoring systems and explored their perceptions of the potential role of artificial intelligence (AI) in enhancing these processes. A cross-sectio...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,814 Views
14 Pages

15 November 2025

Background: To understand the state of the art of how artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity are taught together, this paper conducts a systematic literature review on integrating AI into the cybersecurity curriculum in higher education. Meth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Blended Learning: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
814 Views
24 Pages

14 November 2025

Early childhood education is a demanding profession. Understanding how early childhood (EC) professionals’ draw on internal assets and external resources to sustain well-being is critical, as their well-being is linked to the quality of the car...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strengths and Assets of the Early Childhood Workforce)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,556 Views
27 Pages

14 November 2025

Research has shown that attention plays a crucial role in developing mathematical problem-solving skills, particularly for students who struggle with non-routine tasks. Even basic operations require shifts in attention, underscoring the deep connecti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics: Focusing on Students with Learning Disabilities or Difficulties)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,638 Views
17 Pages

Beyond Detection: Redesigning Authentic Assessment in an AI-Mediated World

  • Steven Kickbusch,
  • Kevin Ashford-Rowe,
  • Andrew Kemp,
  • Jennifer Boreland and
  • Henk Huijser

14 November 2025

The rapid uptake of generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT, DALL·E and MS Copilot) is disrupting conventional notions of authenticity in assessment across higher education. The dominant response, surveillance and AI detection, misdiagnoses the problem....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Power and Promise of Authentic Learning in Higher Education: Critical Approaches and Practical Strategies)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,958 Views
17 Pages

Use of Active Methodologies in Basic Education: An Umbrella Review

  • Andrea María González López,
  • María Ángeles Pascual Sevillano and
  • Paolo Sorzio

14 November 2025

Active methodologies are consolidated as a key trend in education for the competence development of students at all educational stages, due to the academic, social, personal, and professional benefits that their implementation in the classroom provid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,154 Views
15 Pages

14 November 2025

Drawing from a broad and multifaceted stream of educational research and practice that has gradually emerged in recent decades within science education field, widely known as Inquiry-Based Science Education (IBSE), the current study aims to extend it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,530 Views
15 Pages

What’s Next for Feedback in Writing Instruction? Pre-Service Teachers’ Perceptions of Assessment Practices and the Role of Generative AI

  • Maria Navío-Inglés,
  • Jesús Guzmán Mora,
  • Paula O’Connor-Jiménez and
  • Almudena García González

14 November 2025

Providing effective feedback on writing remains a challenge for teachers. Among the tools and strategies being explored to address this issue is generative artificial intelligence (AI), due to its potential to deliver immediate and tailored feedback...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enhanced Didactics: Transforming Education Through Intelligent Technologies and Fostering 21st Century Skills)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,278 Views
16 Pages

Techno-Pedagogical Approaches and Academic Performance: A Quantitative Study Based on LMS Log Data

  • Luisa M. Regueras,
  • María J. Verdú,
  • Juan P. de Castro and
  • Susana Álvarez-Álvarez

13 November 2025

The widespread adoption of virtual classrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the integration of Learning Management Systems (LMSs) into Higher Education, positioning them as essential tools in blended learning environments. LMSs provide tea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beyond the Clickstream: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Approaches to Understanding Online Learners)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
924 Views
20 Pages

13 November 2025

Teacher wellbeing is a matter of social justice since burnout syndrome disproportionately affects those working in under-resourced and diverse educational contexts by limiting their ability to foster inclusive and equitable learning. To this situatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,174 Views
29 Pages

13 November 2025

Academic failure and social inequalities are becoming more prevalent in schools. While knowledge has evolved and society has undergone significant transformation, schools have largely remained structured around a uniform model applied indiscriminatel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teacher Effectiveness, Student Success and Pedagogic Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,911 Views
21 Pages

13 November 2025

Existing observation instruments to measure differentiated instruction often lack insight into the degree to which teachers’ decisions match the actual needs of their students, and neglect the importance of preparation and evaluation. This arti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Measuring Teaching Quality)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,787 Views
19 Pages

13 November 2025

Teachers’ motivation and behavioral intentions are pivotal to implementing educational innovations effectively. Understanding these processes requires theoretical frameworks that capture both deliberate decision-making and underlying motivation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Addressing Challenges in Teacher Preparation for Transformative Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
755 Views
21 Pages

12 November 2025

This study aims to identify the most significant characteristics of non-university teaching staff within the general system in Spain who participate in non-traditional tasks outside the school and the classroom within the educational field. An explor...

(This article belongs to the Section Teacher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,663 Views
21 Pages

12 November 2025

As schools increasingly adopt data-informed practices, the importance of teacher data literacy has grown significantly. However, little is known about how teachers in Singapore understand and experience data use in their daily work. This qualitative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
847 Views
24 Pages

12 November 2025

In this study, a PRISMA-guided scoping review of research papers on teachers’ epistemic meta didactic–mathematical knowledge with regard to functions is carried out. The objective is to identify the factors that characterize the epistemic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Different Approaches in Mathematics Teacher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,286 Views
13 Pages

12 November 2025

Engagement in everyday creative activities is widely considered to be a good way to develop creative thinking ability. Perhaps, by engaging in such activities, creators can learn at which point their work could be acknowledged as novel and useful by...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Creativity and Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,154 Views
19 Pages

11 November 2025

This pilot study analyzes the level of development of personal and social competencies linked to Effective Personality in Early Childhood Education pre-service teachers, to provide evidence for the construction of an inclusive teaching profile. Using...

(This article belongs to the Topic Diversity, Educational Inclusion, Emotional Intelligence, Coping, and Other Factors That Influence Psychological Health and Well-Being)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,521 Views
19 Pages

11 November 2025

Multimodal assignments can improve student engagement, offer different paths for meaning-making or accessing information, and shift top-down power structures often inherent in traditional classrooms. However, despite the growing interest in including...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,020 Views
23 Pages

11 November 2025

Inclusive education represents a central pillar of social sustainability, demanding a nuanced understanding of the factors shaping students’ attitudes toward people with disabilities. Grounded in the social–relational model of disability&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,997 Views
16 Pages

11 November 2025

Systematic and rigorous approaches are necessary to fully understand GenAI’s (Generative AI’s) impact on L2 English/EFL (English as a Foreign Language) academic writing in higher education. In this scope, postgraduate EFL writing has been...

(This article belongs to the Section Language and Literacy Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,808 Views
36 Pages

Initial Validation of the IMPACT Model: Technological Appropriation of ChatGPT by University Faculty

  • Luz-M. Pereira-González,
  • Andrea Basantes-Andrade,
  • Miguel Naranjo-Toro and
  • Mailevy Guia-Pereira

10 November 2025

This study presents the initial validation of the IMPACT model, a psychometric tool developed to evaluate how university faculty adopt ChatGPT in higher education. It specifically addresses the existing gap in validated instruments designed for educa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue ChatGPT as Educative and Pedagogical Tool: Perspectives and Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,720 Views
19 Pages

10 November 2025

This study investigates the effectiveness of a virtual reality (VR) simulation for teaching the hand lay-up process in composite manufacturing within mechanical engineering education. A within-subjects experiment involving 17 undergraduate mechanical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Redefining Education with Immersive Technologies: Transforming Education with AR and VR)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,647 Views
12 Pages

10 November 2025

Curiosity is viewed as an essential element playing a key role in the learning process, driving learners to proactively identify and bridge knowledge gaps. However, the interaction between instructional strategies and psychological factors in nurturi...

(This article belongs to the Section Education and Psychology)

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