Education Sciences, Volume 16, Issue 1

Despite advances in AI pedagogical agents, research on developing creative instructional design remains limited, and how they affect pre-service teachers’ creative thinking—especially with metacognitive scaffolding—is unclear. Based...

This scoping literature review examines the outcomes and institutional adaptations of pathway programs designed to increase diversity in medical and allied health professions. These programs address systemic barriers faced by students from underrepre...

Data fluency—the ability and confidence to actively make sense of and use data—is increasingly recognized as essential for students’ civic participation and scientific literacy, yet questions remain about implementing data-rich inst...

Public schools often operate with shared devices, unstable connectivity, and limited support for digital tools, which can make feature-heavy platforms difficult to adopt and sustain. This study reports the first formal design iteration and formative...

In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, instructors in higher education have reported a decline in foundational reading habits, particularly in STEM courses where dense, technical texts are common. This study examines a low-barrier instructional i...

Monitoring the development of increasingly essential collaborative skills at the individual level within a classroom context requires effective, easy-to-use, and quick measurement tools. These tools should provide global feedback on the skillset rath...

Middle school is a critical period for science education, yet the collective impact of socialization agents on students’ longitudinal science learning trajectories and subsequent STEM careers remains underexplored. This study investigates how s...

This article reports on a comparative case study that examined the ground rules used to facilitate a dialogic space in two discrete and diverse research studies: Year 5 & 6 children learning to code with ScratchMaths as part of their mathematics...

Teachers’ language assessment literacy (LAL) encompasses the knowledge and competencies required to design and implement assessment practices that support learning. Although prior research has documented general trends in LAL development, less...

Never before has the role of the federal government in underwriting U.S. higher education been more visible than in the early months of the second Trump Administration. The Administration’s aggressive anti-DEI and anti-science attacks have expo...

This Special Issue focuses on the role of mathematics in engineering education [...]

The education field has been striving to develop STEM teaching and learning methodologies that effectively integrate subject knowledge across disciplines and connect it to daily life. Many teachers believe that practical work can help students better...

The integration of AI tools like ChatGPT into educational assessments, particularly in the context of Multivariable Calculus, represents a transformative approach to personalized and scalable learning. This study examines the Exams as a Service (EaaS...

The transition from high school to university-level mathematics is often accompanied by significant challenges. During the COVID-19 pandemic, these difficulties were further exacerbated by the abrupt shift to online learning. In response, educators i...

Learning to teach represents a complex process of professional and personal transformation that involves constructing new professional identities, negotiating prior experiences, and engaging with the epistemologies of teaching. For both first- and se...

Engineering laboratory courses are essential for developing conceptual understanding and practical skills; however, the time students spend assembling prototypes and troubleshooting wiring issues often reduces opportunities for analysis, programming,...

This study explores how school principals evacuated from their schools in the wake of the 7 October 2023 war perceived their unique challenges, the strategies they adopted, and the ways in which their agency was shaped during the extreme crisis. Usin...

In today’s multicultural and interconnected societies, as schools and classrooms become more diverse, promoting inclusive attitudes and supportive learning environments is a central challenge for education systems. Present systematic review syn...

(1) Aim: This paper aims to develop a research agenda grounded in the Capability Approach to address the “quality of use” gap emerging from the proliferation of generative AI (GenAI) in education. (2) Method: We conducted a deductive them...

This study explores the integration of technology and artificial intelligence (AI) as catalysts for professional teacher development within the context of Mexico’s educational challenges. Adopting a qualitative and exploratory approach, a four-...

Rising rates of mental health concerns worldwide highlight the need for accessible and effective support. Music wellness, defined as “interacting with music in a way that contributes to holistic health and flourishing,” may help address t...

This study analyzes how Spanish universities integrate inclusion, accessibility, digital competence, and artificial intelligence (AI) into the professional development of university teaching staff, in a context marked by rapid digital transformation....

Although AI integration in education is accelerating, professional development for Chinese EFL teachers remains predominantly techno-centric and lacks disciplinary specificity, resulting in persistently lower levels of AI literacy. To address this, t...

Despite the extensive application of machine learning (ML) methods to educational datasets, few studies have provided a systematic benchmarking of the available algorithms with respect to both predictive performance and interpretability of the result...

This paper foregrounds the study life of students in Early Childhood and Social Education through the concept of educational belonging, conceptualized as situated, relational, affective, and spatial practices that are continually renegotiated. As an...

Short-form video platforms increasingly shape students’ media practices, yet little is known about the pedagogical value of student-generated videos in university mathematics. This study examined an intervention in a first-year mathematics cour...

Informal learning increasingly occurs in digital environments, where citizens access, evaluate and apply knowledge outside of formal education. In the context of disaster preparedness, such informal learning is crucial for promoting individual and co...

As universities increasingly work towards the adoption of their third mission—fostering entrepreneurship and innovation—the concept of the Entrepreneurial University (EntUni) emphasizes the need to cultivate a defined set of entrepreneuri...

Universities must prepare future professionals with critical thinking skills to effectively address complex social and environmental challenges. In engineering degrees, while technical competences are strongly developed, the acquisition of ethical an...

Socioscientific issues (SSIs) provide meaningful contexts for developing students’ competencies in scientific evaluation and decision-making. This study developed an SSI-based instructional unit to support primary school students in making deci...

Tutoring has played a significant role in pandemic-related learning recovery, supporting student learning and engagement. This paper follows up on a recent randomized controlled trial (RCT) estimating that one-on-one virtual early literacy tutoring w...

Although pre-service teachers play a crucial role in promoting safe mobility among children, there are no validated instruments to assess their civic competencies, knowledge, and behaviors in road safety education. Existing questionnaires primarily t...

Pragmatic language is a core component of school-based social participation, yet children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Social Communication Disorder (SCD) frequently experience persistent difficulties in using language appropriately across...

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) shows transformative potential in mathematics education. However, empirical findings remain inconsistent, and a systematic synthesis of its effects across distinct engagement dimensions is lacking. This prer...

Perceived social support is considered essential for enhancing the inner academic motivational resources of students, in particular motivational self-regulation. We aimed to examine the possible associative mediation of motivational regulation strate...

The integration of generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek, into higher education offers transformative opportunities for personalised learning and academic productivity. However, their unregulated use raises concerns about academi...

The phenomenon of underachievement of working-class young people in the English education system reveals long-standing prejudices surrounding English language development. This article reports the findings of a small-scale, qualitative study explorin...

This study investigates the factors influencing Chinese K-12 teachers’ adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for instructional purposes by extending the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with pedagogical beliefs, perceived inte...

Science teaching in early years contexts has been identified as deficient due to poor educator confidence, lack of content knowledge, or minimal opportunities being made available for science experiences. To identify strategies to counteract these fa...

Serious games are increasingly recognized as powerful pedagogical tools, often offering engaging, interactive, and practical learning experiences. This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a 3D virtual serious game specificall...

As new technologies, such as electronic medical records (EMRs), are introduced into healthcare services, we need to consider how they may be incorporated into simulated environments, so as to maintain and enhance authenticity and learning opportuniti...

The present exploratory study investigates how pre-primary and primary student teachers (STs) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) perceive the impact of bilingual education programs (BEPs) on children’s learning experience. Speci...

In the context of the increasing digitalisation of education, teachers are facing growing technological demands that may affect their professional well-being. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between digital competencies, technos...

While the international influence of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) on education policy debates is well recognized, the degree to which PISA findings drive actual policy reforms and classroom practices remain debated. Using...

Generative AI is a promising adjunct to blended learning, offering an innovative means to enhance academic performance. Its rapid diffusion has been accompanied by criticism and uncertainty, particularly regarding ethics and the potential displacemen...

This study developed and evaluated an adaptive e-learning environment for selected number theory topics using a mixed-methods research design, conducted over an eleven-month period across secondary and early tertiary education contexts. The evaluatio...

(1) Background: Developing cultural competence and reflective communication skills remains a challenge in nursing education. Traditional teaching methods often provide limited opportunities for safe practice of culturally sensitive interactions in em...

University dropout is a problem that affects all universities around the world. It is multidimensional and multicausal in nature. The consequences of a student dropping out affect them not only financially but also in terms of their self-perception....

This study explored dynamic assessment (DA) of writing in a linguistically and culturally diverse context. Drawing on conceptualizations of DA and ecological languaging competencies (ELC), an ELC-based Loop Pedagogy was designed and adapted in a prim...

Vision-language models (VLMs) integrate visual and textual information and are increasingly being used as innovative tools in educational applications. However, there is a lack of evidence regarding current practices for integrating VLMs into teachin...