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Educ. Sci.2026, 16(2), 263;https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci16020263 
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7 February 2026

Translation technology has become ubiquitous in multilingual classrooms without evidence-based implementation guidance. This mixed-methods study examined K-12 teachers’ translation practices (n = 88 survey; n = 3 district leader interviews), co...

  • Review
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Educ. Sci.2026, 16(2), 262;https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci16020262 
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7 February 2026

This scoping review explores how critical pedagogy has been conceptualized and implemented in school-based health education between 2014 and 2025. Grounded in Freirean principles, the review addresses a growing call to move beyond biomedical, behavio...

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A Narrative Review on Augmented Reality in Education

  • Federica Pallavicini and
  • Patrizia Anesa
Educ. Sci.2026, 16(2), 261;https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci16020261 
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6 February 2026

Augmented Reality (AR) is transforming education by integrating digital and real-world elements to create immersive and practical learning experiences. AR offers unique benefits in education, such as enhancing student engagement, facilitating underst...

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Educ. Sci.2026, 16(2), 260;https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci16020260 
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6 February 2026

This study examines how international educators come to understand Lesson Study as a form of professional learning through participation in the Lesson Study Immersion Program in Japan (LSIP-JR). While prior research has documented the impact of Lesso...

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Gender Differences in the Impact of Workload Demands and Motivation on Teachers’ Burnout and Stress: A Multigroup Analysis

  • Oluwanife Segun Falebita,
  • Seun Emmanuel Ayeni,
  • Stella Kemilola Ekundayo,
  • Akinbiyi Benard Ambode,
  • Ntuthuko S’bonelo Xulu and
  • Hannah Bosede Bankole

6 February 2026

Teachers’ well-being continues to attract global attention due to rising workload demands and emotional exhaustion in educational settings. In secondary education, stress and burnout remain critical issues that impact both teaching quality and...

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6 February 2026

Background: The rapid diffusion of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education is reshaping students’ learning practices and raising concerns about unequal access and educational equity. In the Italian university context, where...

  • Systematic Review
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Cameras On or Off? A Critical Analysis of Privacy, Equity, and Pedagogical Engagement in Online Education

  • Antonio Cedillo-Hernandez,
  • Lydia Velazquez-Garcia,
  • Maria Del Pilar Longar-Blanco,
  • Manuel Cedillo-Hernandez and
  • Maria G. C. Lopez-Gonzalez

6 February 2026

The widespread adoption of online education has brought new debates regarding the mandatory use of webcams during synchronous classes. While keeping cameras on may foster student engagement, enhance non-verbal communication, and provide teachers with...

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6 February 2026

Understanding how different debriefing formats impact learner’s cognitive load is crucial for designing effective post-simulation reflection activities. This paper examines cognitive load after post-simulation debriefings facilitated either by...

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Digital Escape Rooms as Active Learning Tools in Biomedical Sciences: A Multi-Course Evaluation in Undergraduate Biology Education

  • Raúl Cobo,
  • Alicia Navarro-Sempere,
  • Sandra Pascual-García,
  • Pascual Martínez-Peinado,
  • Yolanda Segovia and
  • Magdalena García

6 February 2026

Digital escape rooms are increasingly used as active learning tools in higher education, yet evidence from preclinical biomedical subjects and comparisons across academic years remains limited. This study examined students’ perceptions of digit...

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A Systems Thinking Approach to Integrated STEM in School-Based Agricultural Education

  • Neil A. Knobloch,
  • Christopher J. Eck,
  • Aaron J. McKim and
  • Hui-Hui Wang

5 February 2026

The content and career cluster of agriculture, food, and natural resources (AFNR) provides opportunities for K-12 teachers to engage students to solve complex authentic problems that blend science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), yet...

  • Project Report
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5 February 2026

This study assesses the efficacy of the Physics Communication Project (PCP) in bolstering students’ confidence, particularly in teamwork and presentation abilities. The PCP is a group-work exercise for first year students taking Physics 1, the...

  • Review
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5 February 2026

This article analyzes how the OECD and UNESCO conceptualize and develop proposals linking systemic leadership with educational equity. These proposals aim to address the challenges of an increasingly complex global scenario in which management effici...

  • Essay
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5 February 2026

This essay describes a leadership domains and capabilities framework and a futures thinking framework that educational leaders can use to help them navigate successfully through turbulent times. The leadership framework includes seven stable domains,...

  • Systematic Review
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Identification and Detection of Specific Learning Disabilities: A Systematic Review

  • Isaías Martín-Ruiz,
  • Elena Rueda-Flores,
  • Lidia Infante-Cañete,
  • Elena Alarcón-Orozco and
  • Maria-Jose Robles-Sánchez

5 February 2026

This study addresses the enduring controversy surrounding the diagnostic criteria for Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) following the publication of the DSM-5, which is related to their definition. The aim of this study is to review and compare th...

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5 February 2026

The business model canvas (BMC) is broadly used in entrepreneurship education as a trusted, practical tool for mapping out a company’s business model. Although the BMC helps students to obtain a quick overview of business operations, in practic...

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Revisiting the Home Literacy Environment in the Digital Age: Insights from a High-SES Context

  • Besjanë Krasniqi,
  • Julie A. Grossman,
  • Susan Sonnenschein and
  • Michele L. Stites

5 February 2026

Decades of research have documented the critical role of parental practices, beliefs, and resources in shaping children’s literacy development. This study examined how home practices shape children’s literacy engagement across both digita...

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21 Pages

5 February 2026

School principals face unprecedented occupational stress and burnout, intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding how working conditions influence principal wellbeing is essential for developing effective support systems. Drawing on the Job D...

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197 Views
18 Pages

Resilient and Engaged: The Role of Kindergarten and Primary School Teachers’ Personal Resources

  • Simona De Stasio,
  • Benedetta Ragni,
  • Daniela Paoletti,
  • Palma Menna,
  • Mariacristina Rappazzo,
  • Ilaria Buonomo,
  • Paula Benevene and
  • Carmen Berenguer

4 February 2026

This cross-sectional study explores the connections between resilience, work engagement, proactive strategies and personal resources among Italian kindergarten and primary school teachers. It specifically seeks to determine if and how personal resour...

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58 Views
20 Pages

4 February 2026

This study examined the value of Sentence Repetition (SRep) tasks as an ecologically valid tool for assessing bilingual children’s morphosyntactic competence. Seventy Greek–Turkish bilinguals and Greek monolinguals (aged 8–12) compl...

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217 Views
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4 February 2026

International frameworks recognise Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) as both a right and an evidence-based necessity. This study explores how key stakeholders perceive its implementation in Greece, focusing on educational policy, teacher prepar...

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92 Views
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Motivation and Engagement in Co-Created Assessment: Insights from Students as Pedagogical Partners

  • Nagaletchimee Annamalai,
  • Meerita Kunna Segaran and
  • Ramesh Kumar Moona Haji Mohamed

4 February 2026

This study investigates students’ motivation and engagement when participating as pedagogical partners in co-creating assessment rubrics for English language learning. Grounded in self-determination theory, this research explores how students&r...

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82 Views
20 Pages

4 February 2026

This study investigates the impact of a pedagogical intervention that integrates subject didactics and disciplinary content on teacher students perceived knowledge in teaching theoretical aspects of physical education at the upper secondary school le...

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127 Views
20 Pages

4 February 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI), including rapidly expanding generative AI tools, is increasingly shaping how school-age students search for information and complete learning tasks. Yet comparative evidence on AI awareness, use, and attitudes across sch...

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Integrating Generative AI in Engineering Education: Enhancing Learning and Attendance in a Vehicle Theory Course

  • Fernando Viadero-Monasterio,
  • Ramón Alberto Gutiérrez-Moizant,
  • Miguel Meléndez-Useros and
  • Daniel García-Pozuelo Ramos

3 February 2026

This paper presents the results of a two-year innovative teaching project in the Vehicle Theory course, a fourth-year Mechanical Engineering subject at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. The project explored the integration of generative artificial in...

  • Perspective
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Who Gets to Belong in Chemistry? A Decolonization Perspective Informed by Dominant Group Theory

  • Zakiya S. Wilson-Kennedy,
  • Raeshan D. Davis and
  • Christen D. Jones

3 February 2026

A sense of belonging in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is often conceptualized primarily through social dimensions, overlooking its disciplinary and epistemological contexts. In chemistry, understanding belonging r...

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69 Views
21 Pages

3 February 2026

This study aimed to identify young school students’ language learning strategies (LLSs) within their diverse socio-linguistic reality. The study was conducted in one elementary school in a peripheral city characterized by a heterogeneous popula...

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81 Views
14 Pages

3 February 2026

Higher education is in a period of change driven by increasing demands for student-centred learning, flexible delivery, and stronger industry relevance. While innovation in course design is widely recognised as essential, academics often face barrier...

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98 Views
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Development and Validation of a Novel Instrument to Measure Campus Climate in College Students

  • Steven Michael Sanders,
  • Jake R. Fioresi,
  • Michele S. Lee and
  • Regan A. R. Gurung

3 February 2026

There is increasing interest in perceived campus climate in the postsecondary education literature. However, conceptualizations and measurements of this construct have lacked reliability, statistical rigor, and validity. This study aimed to develop a...

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250 Views
15 Pages

3 February 2026

Student engagement is a key predictor of academic achievement and retention in higher education. This study investigated the impact of personalised behavioural nudges, delivered through structured phone calls and supported by personalised email/Micro...

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190 Views
18 Pages

Supporting Pre-Service Teachers’ Sense of Belonging Through Employment-Based Pathways

  • Danielle Gordon,
  • Jennifer Clifton,
  • Ronan Kelly,
  • Phillipa Greig and
  • Dallas McDougall

3 February 2026

The current teacher workforce crisis has increased policy and funding interest in employment-based pathways (EBPs), particularly in hard-to-staff schools. This qualitative study of one university’s EBP examines how [the Employing Queensland: In...

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96 Views
28 Pages

3 February 2026

Outdoor education (OE) represents an established approach to connecting learning with real-world contexts and supporting sustainability-related competencies. The aim of this study was to examine how Slovenian lower secondary natural science and biolo...

  • Review
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74 Views
22 Pages

Digital Literacy Research for Teaching Excellence in Higher Education: A Bibliometric Perspective

  • Ana Xóchitl Barrios-del-Ángel,
  • Laura-Esther Jiménez-Ferretiz,
  • Hugo Silva-Lavín,
  • Miriam N. Sánchez-Garza,
  • Karla Paola Jiménez-Almaguer and
  • Miguel Reyna-Castillo

3 February 2026

Digital competence has become a key component of teaching excellence in higher education. This study, from a global framework, presents a bibliometric analysis of scientific production on digital competences in the university context to identify rese...

  • Article
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105 Views
27 Pages

3 February 2026

The Special Education Center at National Taiwan Normal University implemented the PSMIGP (Problem-Solving and Multiple Intelligences for Gifted Preschoolers) program, designed to cultivate problem-solving abilities and multiple intelligences in gifte...

  • Article
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123 Views
15 Pages

Teacher Education Students’ Practices, Benefits, and Challenges in the Use of Generative AI Tools in Higher Education

  • Stavros Athanassopoulos,
  • Aggeliki Tzavara,
  • Spyridon Aravantinos,
  • Konstantinos Lavidas,
  • Vassilis Komis and
  • Stamatios Papadakis

2 February 2026

Despite the growing adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools in higher education, limited research has examined how future educators perceive and use these technologies in their academic practices. This study investigates the prac...

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115 Views
13 Pages

2 February 2026

The digitalisation of education has introduced new possibilities for inclusive teaching practices, particularly in supporting students with special educational needs (SEN). While digital tools have demonstrated potential to enhance learning outcomes...

  • Article
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114 Views
14 Pages

2 February 2026

Teacher well-being is increasingly shaped by rapid technological change in education. As digital innovation accelerates, teachers’ well-being is closely linked to technological self-efficacy, understood as confidence in using digital tools alon...

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82 Views
22 Pages

2 February 2026

Digital storytelling (DST) is an innovative pedagogical approach that integrates multimedia creation, personal narrative, and autonomy in L2 education. Yet, its influence on learner engagement remains underexplored in asynchronous delivery modes and...

  • Article
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159 Views
18 Pages

2 February 2026

The rapid expansion of esports within higher education, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has raised important questions regarding their impact on students’ physical and psychological development. While traditional sports are well known for...

  • Article
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74 Views
26 Pages

2 February 2026

Often expressed teacher beliefs are misaligned with observed instructional practices. We propose that instructor beliefs do not solely exist as isolated entities within instructors’ minds, but that instructors’ classroom decisions and act...

  • Review
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86 Views
24 Pages

Methodological Choices When Assessing Summer Bridge Programs in STEM Majors: A Scoping Review

  • Daniela Caballero Díaz,
  • Avani Amin,
  • Pako Musa and
  • Vincent Leung

2 February 2026

Summer Bridge Programs (SBPs) support students’ personal, organizational, content-related, and social challenges as they transition from high school to postsecondary education. However, the research is not conclusive on the overall effect of th...

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78 Views
25 Pages

2 February 2026

This study investigated conceptual change in novice English teachers’ understanding of English teaching fostered through an Attentive Teaching-based professional development course. In particular, the practice of an approach called Attentive Te...

  • Article
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120 Views
13 Pages

The Differential Impact of Informal Experiences on Teachers’ Identity and Career Aspirations

  • M. Gail Jones,
  • Emma Refvem,
  • K. Rende Mendoza,
  • Sarah J. Carrier,
  • Julianna Nieuwsma,
  • Tammy Lee and
  • Amy Taylor

2 February 2026

This explanatory mixed-methods study explored the relationship of teachers’ early informal teaching and facilitation experiences on the development of a teacher identity and decisions to pursue careers in teaching. Science teachers were surveye...

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153 Views
18 Pages

Interdisciplinary Conceptualizations of Variables and Parameters Through Narratives

  • Eugenia Taranto,
  • Sara Bagossi,
  • Ferdinando Arzarello and
  • Silvia Beltramino

2 February 2026

The concepts of variable and parameter are fundamental for mathematical activity but are also challenging to rigorously introduce at a didactic level. In this paper, we discuss findings from an 11th-grade class interdisciplinary project involving mat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
212 Views
27 Pages

Student-Faculty Partnerships in Mathematics Undergraduate Coursework

  • Alyssa G. Cavazos,
  • Luis Miguel Fernández,
  • Isabel del Rosario Amaro,
  • Elianna Olivo and
  • Cristina Villalobos

1 February 2026

This study examines how student–faculty partnerships are experienced within undergraduate mathematics coursework at a majority Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Drawing on the Student as Partners (SaP) theoretical framework and using an inter...

  • Article
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115 Views
25 Pages

1 February 2026

(1) Background: Although integrated STEM education is an important policy focus, teacher preparation to implement high-quality integrated STEM and STEAM learning experiences in an equitable manner is not widespread. Teacher beliefs significantly impa...

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