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Education Sciences, Volume 15, Issue 6

2025 June - 147 articles

Cover Story: This study compares the motivation and teaching practices of STEM and non-STEM college instructors with the aim of discovering factors that may contribute to and can be applied to improve the retention and persistence of STEM students. Non-STEM instructors were more motivated by belief in student efficacy than STEM instructors, and they reported more use of evidence-based teaching practices. Both STEM and non-STEM Instructors who were motivated by mastery goals were more likely to use evidence-based teaching practices; growth mindset was also a significant predictor of evidence-based teaching practices for non-STEM instructors. A pathway to STEM student success may be training and incentivizing instructors, especially those who may question students’ abilities to learn difficult STEM material. View this paper
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Articles (147)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,299 Views
19 Pages

Scientific culture in pedagogical work involves the integration of scientific principles, values, and practices into education to promote critical thinking, evidence-based reasoning, and curiosity. It fosters an environment where students develop as...

(This article belongs to the Section Teacher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,493 Views
15 Pages

Accountability in education is an important legal, professional and ethical consideration for all teachers in their practice, as it leads to deep reflections about educational outcomes for their students. However, in respect of inclusive education, a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teachers and Teaching in Inclusive Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,754 Views
21 Pages

An Experience with Pre-Service Teachers, Using GeoGebra Discovery Automated Reasoning Tools for Outdoor Mathematics

  • Angélica Martínez-Zarzuelo,
  • Álvaro Nolla,
  • Tomás Recio,
  • Piedad Tolmos,
  • Belén Ariño-Morera and
  • Alejandro Gallardo

This paper presents an initial output of the project “Augmented Intelligence in Mathematics Education through Modeling, Automatic Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence (IAxEM-CM/PHS-2024/PH-HUM-383)”. The starting hypothesis of this proje...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technology Integration in Mathematics Teacher Education: Enhancing Pedagogy and Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,366 Views
21 Pages

In the recent K-12 educational literature, arts-based data visualization has been positioned as a compelling means of rendering data science and statistical learning accessible, motivating, and empowering for youth, as data users and producers. Howev...

(This article belongs to the Section Curriculum and Instruction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,247 Views
20 Pages

Word problem posing is a critical component of student mathematics learning. This study examined the effects of a problem-posing intervention designed to improve mathematics performance and sentence-writing conventions. Using a multiple baseline acro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics: Focusing on Students with Learning Disabilities or Difficulties)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,059 Views
19 Pages

A Scoping Review of STEAM Policies in Europe

  • Elina Roinioti,
  • Stephanos Cherouvis,
  • Szymon Filipowicz,
  • Annalisa Addis,
  • Kerry Chappell and
  • Kostas Karpouzis

The Road-STEAMer Horizon Europe Program examines STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) education policies across Europe, with a specific focus on integrating the arts into traditional STEM disciplines. Through the analysis o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Motivating Teachers for Europe: Advancing EU Knowledge and Values in Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,428 Views
19 Pages

This conceptual paper presents a framework for supporting multilingual students’ mathematical discourse through teacher professional development grounded in design-based research (DBR). Drawing on sociocultural learning theory, the Integrated L...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Supporting Multilingual Students in Schools: Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,487 Views
18 Pages

In applied linguistics, teacher professional development and teacher autonomy have long been hot research topics. However, little attention has been paid to the issue of what attitudes teachers hold toward their professional development. Furthermore,...

(This article belongs to the Section Language and Literacy Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,342 Views
21 Pages

Methodology Based on Critical Reflective Dialogue to Optimize Educational Leadership

  • Sofía Gamarra-Mendoza and
  • José Gregorio Brito-Garcías

For educational leadership that promotes equity, there is evidence of successful leadership practices developed by educational leaders striving for social justice, such as the one planned by Leithwood. Furthermore, training programs for educational l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,487 Views
12 Pages

This theoretical position paper explores the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance student engagement through the lens of academic leadership. To illustrate our argument, we include exploratory, mixed-methods evidence drawn from a desc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Higher Education Governance and Leadership in the Digital Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,696 Views
16 Pages

Generalist kindergarten teachers often report insufficient theoretical and pedagogical preparation for music instruction in their teacher education, leaving them feeling underprepared. This study explores how pre-service kindergarten teachers in Hong...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teacher Professional Development and Teaching Practices in Early Childhood Education: An International Landscape)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,828 Views
47 Pages

Since the launching of ChatGPT (generative) AI has been developed so much and fast that it has entered higher education (HE) and higher education institutions (HEIs). The article is meant to help HE(Is) how to deal with AI strategically and in leader...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Higher Education Governance and Leadership in the Digital Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,179 Views
35 Pages

The growing number of public one-way and two-way immersion schools (French/German) in the Swiss cantons of Bern, Jura, and Neuchâtel has resulted in an increased need for teachers who are explicitly prepared for those schools. This need led to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bilingual Education in a Challenging World: From Policy to Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,942 Views
18 Pages

This study explores the role of gender in shaping learners’ outcomes in an adaptive learning environment. Despite the growing adoption of adaptive learning platforms in various educational settings, the literature on gender-related differences...

(This article belongs to the Section Technology Enhanced Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,655 Views
20 Pages

This article examines the integration of digital simulations as a tool for strengthening leadership development across the four phases of the principal pipeline—recruitment, preparation, induction, and in-service professional development. Set i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strengthening Educational Leadership Preparation and Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,565 Views
25 Pages

Stakeholder engagement is crucial for inclusive public education policymaking that reflects diverse community needs. Since 2002, Qatar’s education system has undergone extensive reforms, yet little attention has been given to policymakers&rsquo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,632 Views
17 Pages

An Educational Trading Card Game for a Medical Immunology Course

  • Vincent Singleton,
  • Ciara Bordeaux,
  • Emma Ferguson and
  • Tyler Bland

Medical students face cognitive overload and disengagement due to the rigorous demands of their education. This study evaluates the impact of Medimon Learning Cards, a mnemonic-based trading card game, on engagement, satisfaction, and knowledge reten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
10,450 Views
21 Pages

Purpose: This study adopted a quantitative design to evaluate a new latent construct, “Parental Academic Commitment (PAC)”, that was composed of parental involvement (PARINVOL) and parents’ expectations of their children’s aca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Educational Leadership: International Perspectives and Global Innovations)
  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
15,147 Views
38 Pages

Teacher well-being (TWB) is increasingly recognized as being influential on educational outcomes, teacher retention, and overall school performance. However, despite a growing body of empirical research, TWB remains conceptually ambiguous, with multi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mind Matters: Exploring Mental Health and Well-Being in the Education System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,699 Views
20 Pages

People in multilingual societies develop complex and interconnected food-making and food-discussing networks. On the basis of an experimental course titled “Food at Home, Food on the Move: Globalization and Regionalism in Modern Food Culture&rd...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation and Design in Multilingual Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,987 Views
26 Pages

This study examines the relationship between student loan debt and civic engagement among college graduates, with particular attention to differential effects by field of study. Drawing on data from the College and Beyond II dataset, this research an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,442 Views
25 Pages

Linguistically and culturally responsive pedagogies (LCRPs) recognize students’ multilingual and cultural resources as central to inclusive and equitable learning. While such approaches are increasingly promoted in English language education (E...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fostering Educational Equity through Linguistically and Culturally Responsive Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,956 Views
24 Pages

Recognising linguistic diversity as a person’s characteristic is arguably central to their multilingual identity and is important as an equity issue. Different indicators suggest that students with migrant backgrounds, whose linguistic diversit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fostering Educational Equity through Linguistically and Culturally Responsive Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,181 Views
36 Pages

The assessment of mathematical competence, particularly in real-world problem-solving contexts, has become increasingly crucial in high school educational evaluation. While traditional methods have shifted towards emphasizing problem-solving skills,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,505 Views
10 Pages

In the swimming context, practitioners show difficulties in learning its basic skills, and the emotional factor seems to be one of the triggers for these complications, with “fear” standing out as one of the most studied emotions due to i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,804 Views
15 Pages

The existence of poor academic performance among English as a second language (ESL) high school learners in the Eastern Cape Province has raised a lot of debate among scholars on the most suitable approach teachers could use to assist learners. Teach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,297 Views
17 Pages

Participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields is crucial, as these fields present an opportunity for individuals to overcome socio-economic adversities such as unemployment and poverty. In South Africa, access to ST...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gender and STEM Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,744 Views
24 Pages

This qualitative study investigates how critical thinking is cultivated in postgraduate distance learning, focusing on two time points, 2016 and 2025, in the context of the Greek higher education system. It draws on semi-structured interviews with 30...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Unleashing the Potential of E-learning in Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,432 Views
20 Pages

With the emergence of AI technology, its adoption in higher education has become an interesting field for researchers. The present study explores the acceptance of AI for learning the English language by Pakistani EFL students using the UTAUT-2 and M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,214 Views
18 Pages

In this article, we document our experiences as teacher educators as we designed and implemented two courses that scaffold primary preservice teachers to engage critically with postmodern picture books and to explore a range of pedagogical practices...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inspiring Engagement through Reading and Writing with Children’s Literature in Initial Teacher Education)
  • Essay
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,397 Views
21 Pages

In the face of ongoing debate surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education, this essay examines the limitations of current DEI frameworks by interrogating the theories of justice on which they are implicitly based. While DEI...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Navigating the Challenges, Tensions, and Complexities of Political and Legislative Attacks in Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,970 Views
18 Pages

Understanding Fourth-Grade Student Achievement Using Process Data from Student’s Web-Based/Online Math Homework Exercises

  • Oksana Ilina,
  • Sona Antonyan,
  • Maria Kosogorova,
  • Anna Mirny,
  • Jenya Brodskaia,
  • Manasi Singhal,
  • Pavel Belakurski,
  • Shreya Iyer,
  • Brandon Ni and
  • Larry Ludlow
  • + 2 authors

Understanding how students’ online homework behaviors relate to their academic success is increasingly important, especially in elementary education where such research is still emerging. In this study, we examined three years of online homewor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,335 Views
19 Pages

Policy discourses of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) have influenced Ontario’s K-12 education system for decades. Recently, EDI education policies have mandated that district school boards collect demographic data from students and staff. The...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enhancing Educational Leadership and Management for Effective Education Policy Implementation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,463 Views
20 Pages

This paper proposes the Digital Metacognitive Question–Answer Relationship (dmQAR) Framework, an adaptation of traditional QAR models for the complexities of digital reading environments. In response to the nonlinear, multimodal, and algorithmi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Literacy Environments and Reading Comprehension)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,747 Views
17 Pages

Adolescents’ performance in high-stakes standardized examinations plays a pivotal role in shaping their educational trajectories. This longitudinal study investigated whether parental attendance at parent–teacher conferences (PTCs) during...

(This article belongs to the Section Education and Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,711 Views
19 Pages

Teachers’ professional vision (PV) is important for implementing teaching quality in classrooms. PV entails noticing and reasoning on relevant events out of classrooms’ complexity. Many events entail situations of classroom management and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enhancing the Power of Video in Teacher Education)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,563 Views
25 Pages

Physics teaching faces challenges due to students’ limited understanding of fundamental concepts such as force and motion, as well as the restricted pedagogical strategies often employed by instructors and the limited variety of approaches to p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,751 Views
19 Pages

Conceptualizing the Education Doctorate (EdD) as a Lever for Improving Education Leaders’ Use of Research Evidence

  • Jill Alexa Perry,
  • Elizabeth Farley-Ripple,
  • Andrew Leland,
  • Samantha Shewchuk and
  • William Firestone

This paper explores how redesigned Education Doctorate (EdD) programs in educational leadership can serve as a lever for strengthening the use of research evidence (URE) in schools and districts. Drawing on the COM-B framework, we conceptualize a the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strengthening Educational Leadership Preparation and Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,551 Views
26 Pages

GAI technologies are increasingly recognized as mentor-like resources in higher education. While these tools offer academic guidance and personalized feedback, little is known about how students perceive and evaluate AI-generated mentorship. This stu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Learning Design for the Digital Age: Leveraging Technology for Engagement and Use)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,526 Views
19 Pages

There is a need for teachers in 4–12th grade to possess strong foundational reading skills to support older students who persistently struggle with reading. The present study examined novice, 4–12th grade teachers’ knowledge of foun...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Students with Special Educational Needs in Reading and Writing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,103 Views
17 Pages

When education in STEM, social science, and the humanities are disconnected from each other and from place, it is inauthentic and nonresponsive to the lived experiences of people and communities. In rural spaces, the Food–Energy–Water (FE...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue STEM Synergy: Advancing Integrated Approaches in Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,143 Views
22 Pages

Outdoor experiences significantly enrich intangible cultural heritage tourism, yet limited interaction often restricts deep cultural learning. This research investigates how a mobile application, grounded in experiential learning theory, enhances tou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Outdoors: Playing, Learning and Teaching)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,035 Views
19 Pages

Emotional exhaustion in schoolteachers is a critical issue due to its detrimental effects on teachers’ mental health and its potential negative impact on students’ academic outcomes. This study aimed to develop and validate the Teachers&r...

(This article belongs to the Section Education and Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,864 Views
19 Pages

Preschool mathematics support remains insufficient, which can limit children’s skill development and impact their long-term academic success. This study explores how collaboration between researchers and teachers can enhance these practices. It...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Early Childhood Education and Care Lays the Foundations for Learning and Wellbeing)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,198 Views
17 Pages

A Metareview of Research on Educational Inequality and Socioeconomic Disadvantage

  • Jennifer E. Symonds,
  • Yekaterina Chzhen,
  • Neil Kaye,
  • Jay Dominy,
  • Charlotte Campbell,
  • Catherine Sykes,
  • Sude Işıl Baştuğ,
  • Sara Fiasconaro and
  • Ilyar Heydari Barardehi

Socioeconomic inequalities in educational achievement are pervasive across societies. To inform a European Commission-funded project on educational inequalities in children, adolescents, and young adults, we used a scoping review methodology to synth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,357 Views
36 Pages

Citizen Science from the Perspective of Higher Education Professors

  • Helton Luis Nina Lameira,
  • Mayerly Alexandra Guerrero-Moreno,
  • Everton Cruz Silva,
  • Paulo Roberto Brasil Santos,
  • Maria Alexandra Teodósio and
  • José Max Barbosa Oliveira-Junior

Citizen science (CS) has the potential to be a crucial tool to effectively address positive contributions in the global context of the challenges of change in our societies and environment. Recent research highlights the growth of CS in formal educat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,449 Views
28 Pages

This study explores how Danish student teachers notice teaching quality when engaging with video-enhanced campus teaching and the research-based observation manual PLATO. Despite the limited tradition of using systematic observation tools in Danish t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enhancing the Power of Video in Teacher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,216 Views
17 Pages

Teacher preparation programs often prioritize reading instruction, with writing largely integrated into reading method courses. Consequently, many pre-service teachers feel unprepared to teach writing effectively. This design-based research study aim...

(This article belongs to the Section Teacher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,546 Views
21 Pages

This study explores the design of Metaverse technologies for preserving and teaching Lanna Dance, a traditional cultural heritage of Northern Thailand. It addresses the challenges of sustaining intangible cultural heritage by developing an immersive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,116 Views
14 Pages

While AI integration in higher education has transformative potential, existing studies may not fully capture the unique socio-cultural and institutional contexts of top-tier universities in China. This study investigates students’ perceptions...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI Trends in Teacher and Student Training)

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