This study responds to the debate on understanding and evaluating teacher learning in professional development programmes, with particular reference to the development of equitable mathematics classrooms. Conducted in the context of a year-long PD ma...
16 February 2023
It is imperative that universities continue to explore innovations that support staff and student learning and pursue their mission to promote social responsibility and community service. Communities of Practice have been used to facilitate innovatio...
This article studies practical argumentation in the context of designing application problems and transforming them into modelling problems. To this end, the practical arguments developed by prospective primary education teachers were analysed, using...
This study aims at examining how B Corporations advance Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their practices by analyzing the socioenvironmental problems they address and the solutions they provide to those problems. All Argentinian B Corporations...
17 September 2022
It has become important for nurses to implement self-leadership and exercise critical thinking in problem-solving to address the health issues of patients. This has led to a need for nursing education programs in which nursing students learn to embra...
The pharmacy counter is a good place to identify and discuss medication-related problems. However, there is a lack of practical communication tools to support pharmacy technicians (PTs) in initiating a conversation with patients. This study aimed to...
A deeper understanding of the processes leading to problem framing and behind finding solutions to problems should help explain variability in the quality of the solutions to those problems. Using Sternberg’s WICS model as the conceptual basis of pro...
In this paper we propose STEAM practices that would foster mathematics learning through modelling architecture while connecting to culture and history. The architectural modelling process is applied by the teachers as participants of these practices...
Both the public and clinicians are interested in the application of scientific knowledge concerning problem animal behaviour and its treatment. However, in order to do this effectively it is essential that individuals have not only scientific literac...
Engineering optimization is the subject of interest for many scientific research teams on a global scale; it is a part of today’s mathematical modelling and control of processes and systems. The attention in this article is focused on optimizat...
Objective. To investigate competence of general practice nurses caring for patients with mental health problems in the somatic departments.
Material and methods. A quantitive study on competence of general practice nurses using an anonymous questionn...
Multidose drug dispensing (MDD) is an adherence aid used by one-third of patients receiving home care services in Norway. The system can increase patient safety by reducing dispensing errors and increase adherence, however it has also been criticised...
Engineering troubleshooting involves making sense of trouble while working toward containment or resolution within the conditions of professional practice. As inquiry and action unfold, engineers’ understanding of the relevant problem may also...
29 April 2022
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has been a major part of people’s livelihood in the rural areas of many developing countries, including those in Southeast Asia (SEA). Nevertheless, because of the use of mercury, ASGM activities hav...
New-age (Nano) Modified Emulsions (NME) for stabilising marginal materials used in the upper-pavement layers of roads have been proven in laboratories, through accelerated pavement tests (APT) in the field as well as in practice. In addition, materia...
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The article examines the challenges university teachers face when adopting connective pedagogy in organizing teaching. Instead of studying the learning outcomes of the method, we decided in this research to focus on the teachers’ experiences wh...
Fresh water and arable land are essential for agricultural production and food processing. However, managing conflicting demands over water and land can be challenging for business leaders, environmentalists and other stakeholders. This paper charact...
Teacher professional learning occurs across various contexts. Previous studies on teacher learning and changes in practice have focused on either classroom contexts or learning communities outside of school, but have rarely investigated teacher learn...
To reduce logistics scheduling costs and energy consumption, this paper studies the slab allocation and hot-rolling scheduling integrated optimization problem that arises in practical iron and steel enterprises. In this problem, slabs are first alloc...
Feeding problems are associated with the consumption of a limited amount or restricted variety of foods and often occur in children with gastrointestinal diseases. The majority of studies to date do not use valid and reliable measurements to detect f...
This article examines the contribution of restorative practice and therapeutic jurisprudence in community courts, which have adopted a problem-solving approach. Through interviews with stakeholders, it explores the implementation of the community cou...
Disassembling is an important process in the maintenance, reparation, and disposal of mechanical as well as structural systems. More often than not, however, disassembling processes are not prepared in advance; we need to organize the disassembling p...
Mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) play a significant role in supporting prospective teachers (PTs) to develop the mathematical content and pedagogical knowledge they need for teaching. We examined how four novice prospective MTEs learn within a Co...
Background: Sexual dysfunction in people with cancer is a significant problem. The present clinical practice guideline makes recommendations to improve sexual function in people with cancer. Methods: This guideline was undertaken by the Interventions...
This study investigates the integration of LTspice simulations and structured reflective practices within a project-based learning (PBL) framework in a Microelectronic Circuits course. The course was designed to improve students’ conceptual und...
Heritage management in infrastructure planning is in this paper regarded as a ‘wicked problem’—A multidimensional and unpredictable activity infused with conflicting stakeholder perspectives. By focusing on the West Link and drawing on theoretical no...
In this paper, we present a novel support vector machine learning method for multi-label classification in the steelmaking process. The steelmaking process involves complicated physicochemical reactions. The end-point temperature is the key to the st...
This study is based on the urgent need to adapt education systems to meet the challenges of the 21st century. It examines the implementation of the “Innovative FOCUS” program at the secondary school level to promote creative problem-solvi...
Behavioral Momentum Theory (BMT) and Resurgence as Choice (RaC) are two theoretical and quantitative models of behavior that, when applied prospectively, might improve behavioral treatments and increase the likelihood of long-term success. Despite th...
16 May 2024
This systematic review and meta-analysis examined the impact of evidence-based practice (EBP) education programs on undergraduate nursing students, focusing on enhancing EBP competency, critical thinking, and problem-solving ability. Methods: The sea...
4 June 2020
Nutrient deficiencies are a public health problem in Sri Lanka. Achieving food security is a major challenge due to unhealthy eating patterns. The nutritional status of a woman and her knowledge is a powerful indicator of the nutritional security of...
Approaches to game-based learning often frame games as tools to deliver content efficiently or increase student engagement. Approaches that focus more on games as mediators of educational discourse are currently underexplored. This article presents a...
The teaching of environmental education must change to promote critical, sustainable, and reflective engagement with environmental problems. This study introduces a social-science question for primary education focused on pharmaceuticals in surface w...
Computational thinking (CT) has been accepted and embraced by educators and researchers alike, but many questions remain surrounding what concepts and topics have been used in CT, what tools have been used to help teach CT, and the current range of r...
Effective preparation for STEM subject exams requires not only content knowledge but also structured and efficient learning strategies. This observational study examined the association between the implementation of a structured learning framework (P...
9 October 2021
A large proportion of small and medium-sized enterprises are managed by their owners and founders. The goal of this research was to describe the diversity of management practices in owner-managed SMEs. Understanding this diversity will raise awarenes...
This article discusses the issues of cluster policy formation in the Republic of Kazakhstan on the basis of studying the experience of leading countries. The research aim is to find new effective tools and institutions for the development of the clus...
For a long time, there has been a gap between theoretical optimization research and real-world applications. A key challenge is that many real-world problems are black-box problems, making it difficult to identify their characteristics and, consequen...
This study helps to clarify the teaching practices used by some Finnish teachers to optimise student learning and to teach problem solving. Eighteen teachers (primary through university) from rural, municipal, and metropolitan schools were interviewe...
Truck platooning has recently become an essential issue in automatic driving. Though truck platooning can increase safety and reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions, the practical vehicle routing problem involved in truck platooning has not bee...
Introduction: Sexual pleasure is a human right and a central aspect of human sexuality that contributes significantly to people’s overall well-being, making it an essential element to consider in clinical settings. This study aims to expand the...
The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence, characteristics, and factors related to feeding problems among normal children, and the differences in feeding practices between those with and without feeding problems. Caregivers of 402 healthy...
As a kind of effective tool in solving complex optimization problems, intelligent optimization algorithms are paid more attention to their advantages of being easy to implement and their wide applicability. This paper proposes an enhanced northern go...
Self-care practices are considered an important resource for workers’ psychophysical well-being. These resources were especially relevant during the COVID-19 outbreak, during which both workaholism and sleep–wake problems were documented....
The spread of COVID-19 in 2020 forced universities around the world to transfer on-site education to a virtual environment. The main goal of this study was to compare the experiences regarding online learning of students in programs that require clin...
As part of a university-based quality improvement project, we aimed to evaluate child psychiatrists’ knowledge, skills, attitudes, and practices regarding assessment and treatment of pediatric sleep problems. We developed a nine-question survey of kn...
Molenaar’s manifesto on psychology as idiographic science (Molenaar, 2004) brought the
This paper introduces a novel parallel method for solving common variational inclusion and common fixed-point (CVI-CFP) problems. The proposed algorithm provides a strong convergence theorem established under specific conditions associated with the C...
We devise a practical and systematic spreadsheet solution paradigm for general optimal control problems. The paradigm is based on an adaptation of a partial-parametrization direct solution method which preserves the original mathematical optimization...
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