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  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,423 Views
23 Pages

This systematic review explores key characteristics of effective vocational education and training (VET) teachers’ professional development and the transfer of its results into educational practice. Through thematic analysis of 24 journal artic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
909 Views
20 Pages

18 September 2025

University counselors in China are anticipated to demonstrate professional conduct as an integral aspect of their vocational responsibilities. Although the existing literature primarily emphasizes normative professional behaviors, there is a notable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,029 Views
13 Pages

This paper aims to provide an understanding of effective professional development (PD) for mathematics teachers according to the context of South Sudan schools. Hunsicker’s (2011) checklist of effective PD was taken as a framework. The framewor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,815 Views
19 Pages

Professional Development for Teachers of Gifted Education in Hong Kong: Instrument Validation and Training Effectiveness

  • Alan Chi Keung Cheung,
  • Daniel Tan Lei Shek,
  • Anna Na Na Hui,
  • Kim Hung Leung and
  • Ruby Shui Ha Cheung

Project GIFT is a pioneer research-based gifted education program which has been found to be effective in fostering holistic development of students in Hong Kong. Nevertheless, little is known whether the Project is beneficial to teachers. To investi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,008 Views
21 Pages

21 December 2021

A concern in Mathematics Education is the professional development of the teacher and to promote effective training programs. The literature provides principles guiding the design of such programs, which were considered for an instruction intended to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
871 Views
14 Pages

Background: This study aimed to explore the relationships between work stress, professional identity, and job burnout in elderly care workers and to assess whether work stress and professional identity interact to influence job burnout. Methods: A su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,003 Views
20 Pages

Urban built environment professions are facing challenges due to the less predictable future of cities, as well as the increasing expectations from clients and the general public. It is crucial to support and inform these professions with sound evide...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,601 Views
17 Pages

18 December 2023

Purpose: This systematic review assesses the effectiveness of face-to-face and online delivery modes of continuing professional development (CPD) for science teachers. It focuses on three aspects: evaluating the effectiveness of these modes, summariz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,447 Views
32 Pages

It is believed that school leadership contributes to efficiency and equity in school performance. Therefore, it is essential that professionalization initiatives for school leaders foster learning and development processes towards effective leadershi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,157 Views
13 Pages

20 October 2023

Establishing a new sports club in the local community is an important factor that can enhance the local image, develop a social infrastructure due to tourist visits, and make residents feel attached to their community. Accordingly, this study examine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,353 Views
12 Pages

7 June 2023

Due to the rapid development of science and technology, economic development has changed dramatically, resulting in the transformation of career characteristics. Individuals need to convey a higher career adaptability than ever before in order to fac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,342 Views
19 Pages

28 June 2024

With the advancement of farmer professional cooperatives in China, the prevalence of the “empty shell” phenomenon has posed a significant challenge to the health and sustainability of these cooperatives. Utilizing data from 1570 such coop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,304 Views
16 Pages

10 February 2020

This study examines the association between professional training, higher academic qualifications (educational levels) and operating performance of audit firms in Taiwan. We particularly focus on the curvilinear effects of higher academic qualificati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
155 Citations
42,747 Views
16 Pages

Nowadays, the classic perception of the pharmaceutical profession in community pharmacies is facing worldwide extinction due to many factors. Among the numerous factors, online pharmacies are increasingly gaining ground thanks to their ability to fac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,785 Views
15 Pages

3 February 2023

It is essential to reorient education in order to improve student learning outcomes and offer instruction in sustainable development. This reorientation should particularly focus on updating the educational concepts and behaviors of principals and te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,899 Views
12 Pages

In recent decades, the agricultural sector has witnessed rapid technological interventions from field to the production stage. Thus, the importance of these technological interventions must be strictly evaluated. The traditional statistical method of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
99 Citations
13,727 Views
10 Pages

Side Effects Reported by Jordanian Healthcare Workers Who Received COVID-19 Vaccines

  • Osama Abu-Hammad,
  • Hamza Alduraidi,
  • Shaden Abu-Hammad,
  • Ahmed Alnazzawi,
  • Hamzah Babkair,
  • Abdalla Abu-Hammad,
  • Ibrahim Nourwali,
  • Farah Qasem and
  • Najla Dar-Odeh

Background Distribution of COVID-19 vaccines has been surrounded by suspicions and rumors making it necessary to provide the public with accurate reports from trustworthy experts such as healthcare professionals. Methods We distributed a questionnair...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,125 Views
11 Pages

(1) Background: Near-miss incidents are the foundation of major injuries. They are warning signs that loss is imminent. Long working hours are a risk factor for near-misses along with sleep problems, job-related stress, and depressive symptoms. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,971 Views
40 Pages

Method for Assessing the Influence of Phobic Stimuli in Virtual Simulators

  • Artem Obukhov,
  • Mikhail Krasnyanskiy,
  • Andrey Volkov,
  • Alexandra Nazarova,
  • Daniil Teselkin,
  • Kirill Patutin and
  • Darya Zajceva

25 September 2023

In the organizing of professional training, the assessment of the trainee’s reaction and state in stressful situations is of great importance. Phobic reactions are a specific type of stress reaction that, however, is rarely taken into account w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,431 Views
28 Pages

6 March 2025

Farmer professional cooperatives are essential in promoting China’s rural revitalization. However, the widespread occurrence of “empty shell” cooperatives, which are characterized by operational stagnation and human resource depleti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,093 Views
17 Pages

Monitoring and Assessment of Protected Areas’ Management Capacities in the Republic of Serbia

  • Nikola Banjac,
  • Rado Maksimović,
  • Katarina Dragaš and
  • Jelena Ivetić

28 January 2019

The necessity to measure the effectiveness of the management of protected areas has been widely recognized. This paper aims to show a realistic state of affairs in protected area management in the Republic of Serbia on the basis of the results of man...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,192 Views
15 Pages

23 March 2021

This paper reflects on UK mathematics education following the poor performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) metric, which compares reading, science, and mathematics across 27 countries. We compared a range of features...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,485 Views
18 Pages

7 March 2019

Limited studies have investigated the relative influence of both external and internal factors in the implementation of community-based urban agriculture (UA) (ICUA). Furthermore, little research exists explaining how different mechanisms might influ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
11,191 Views
18 Pages

Models on Teaching Effectiveness in Current Scientific Literature

  • Roberto Sánchez-Cabrero,
  • José Luís Estrada-Chichón,
  • Alfonso Abad-Mancheño and
  • Lidia Mañoso-Pacheco

5 August 2021

Knowing what defines ‘effective teaching’ contributes significantly to the appropriateness and validity of the instruction provided to pre-service teachers during their initial training. This may help them to perform as expert teachers before finishi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,817 Views
18 Pages

11 March 2022

Trust in information sources about COVID-19 may influence the public attitude toward the disease and the imposed restrictions, thus determining the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in a given country. Acknowledging an increase in trust in the governme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,000 Views
25 Pages

Fostering argumentation competences in geography classrooms is critical from both a language-aware and content-complexity perspective. Peer feedback can be a successful method for geography teachers to successfully promote written argumentation skill...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,306 Views
26 Pages

27 January 2025

The aim of the research was to examine the effect of preschool teachers’ perception of professional competence on their professional burnout in Türkiye. A total of 157 teachers composed the study group. In this research, The Burnout Measur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,357 Views
21 Pages

The main objective of this study was to investigate the effect of burnout on suicidal behaviours and the mediating effect of self-esteem in this relationship. A total of 1172 healthcare professionals working in Portugal’s private and public sec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
1,583 Views
12 Pages

Effect size and meta-analysis in Spanish professional psychologists

  • Laura Badenes-Ribera,
  • Dolores Frías-Navarro and
  • Amparo Bonilla-Campos

The Evidence-Based Practice approach is based on the use of scientific research in decision-making in an effort to produce the best possible services in clinical practice. The knowledge level about effect size statistics and meta-analysis studies may...

  • Feature Paper
  • Communication
  • Open Access
13 Citations
12,642 Views
11 Pages

24 November 2016

Academic, medical, and research communities are struggling to quickly and effectively address unethical conduct within their professional ranks. Without a policy in place, individuals and institutes are subject to convoluted procedures and unnecessar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,008 Views
12 Pages

Purpose: To investigate nursing professionalism as a mediating factor in the relationship between resilience and job stress levels for nurses working in long-term care hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was cond...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,623 Views
12 Pages

Examination of the Effect of Career Barriers and Presenteeism Behaviors on Teacher Professionalism through Structural Equation Model

  • Nuri Berk Güngör,
  • Serkan Kurtipek,
  • Fikret Soyer,
  • Ekrem Levent İlhan and
  • Laurentiu-Gabriel Talaghir

16 December 2022

The aim of this study is to reveal the effect of career barriers and presenteeism behaviors of physical education and sports teachers on teacher professionalism through a structural equation model. The hypotheses presented because of the literature r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
638 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,519 Views
13 Pages

This pilot study aims to analyze the effectiveness of a type of non-pharmacological intervention such as the educating and training of professional caregivers on behavioral alterations and prescription of psychotropic drugs of older adults in nursing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,702 Views
19 Pages

This paper investigates the extent to which the teacher factors of the dynamic model of educational effectiveness are related to each other forming stages of effective teaching. It also investigates whether teachers situated at higher stages are more...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,058 Views
12 Pages

Weekly External Load Performance Effects on Sports Injuries of Male Professional Football Players

  • Francisco Martins,
  • Adilson Marques,
  • Cíntia França,
  • Hugo Sarmento,
  • Ricardo Henriques,
  • Andreas Ihle,
  • Marcelo de Maio Nascimento,
  • Carolina Saldanha,
  • Krzysztof Przednowek and
  • Élvio Rúbio Gouveia

One of the most challenging issues professional football players face throughout their careers is injuries. Those injuries often result from suboptimal training programs that were not designed according to the players’ individual needs. This pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,022 Views
10 Pages

Suicide is a major public health issue. In Japan, local governments are responsible for suicide prevention, and local government officers are therefore expected to act as gatekeepers for suicide prevention. In this study, through a questionnaire surv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,283 Views
11 Pages

5 February 2016

This study tested the effects of the principal’s professional orientation towards leadership/enabling school structure (ESS) on two mediating variables, school academic optimism (SAO) and professional teacher behavior (PTB), on the outcome variable s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
763 Views
19 Pages

6 November 2025

Background: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is increasingly used to supplement evidence-based medicine (EBM), especially in the treatment of cancer patients. Objective: The study aimed to analyze the beliefs, attitudes, and expectations...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,203 Views
7 Pages

Exploring the Effect of Pacing Plan Feedback for Professional Road Cycling

  • R. Dukalski,
  • S. Lukosch,
  • A. Schwab,
  • P.J. Beek and
  • F.M. Brazier

In road cycling, cyclists strategically use their energetic resources in unique race-specific circumstances. For time-trial events, professional cycling teams design pacing plans aimed at the effective management of anaerobic work capacities of indiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,914 Views
20 Pages

30 December 2024

This study aims to investigate the influence of leadership on the self-efficacy of healthcare professionals. Additionally, it seeks to explore whether stress mediates the relationship between leadership and self-efficacy. Specifically, our study is f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,157 Views
10 Pages

Effect of Mindfulness on the Stress–Recovery Balance in Professional Soccer Players during the Competitive Season

  • Joaquín Holguín-Ramírez,
  • Arnulfo Ramos-Jiménez,
  • José Trinidad Quezada-Chacón,
  • Mónica Sofía Cervantes-Borunda and
  • Rosa Patricia Hernández-Torres

31 August 2020

Professional athletes are subjected to constant stress that often leads them to exceed their capacities and lose their homeostasis, which without a proper recovery program can lead to injury, chronic fatigue, and overtraining. This work examines the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,169 Views
11 Pages

20 December 2022

Until today, the impact of organizational atmosphere on job satisfaction has still attracted the attention of researchers in the field of education to help decision-makers and school leaders improve the teachers’ commitment, professional identi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,717 Views
11 Pages

To provide high-quality nursing care, nursing education requires the basic quality of self-leadership from professional nurses so that they can make self-directed and responsible judgments and decisions. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate rel...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,978 Views
11 Pages

The Effects of Melatonin Supplementation on Professional Football Player Performance: A Systematic Review

  • Antonio Almendros-Ruiz,
  • Alejandro Lopez-Moro,
  • Javier Conde-Pipò,
  • Alfredo Santalla,
  • Bernardo Requena and
  • Miguel Mariscal-Arcas

21 October 2023

Background: Melatonin is a hormone that has shown anti-inflammatory actions, reduced oxidative stress, and has effects on physical performance, so the aim of this study was to review the effects of melatonin supplementation on the performance of prof...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
11,334 Views
10 Pages

Barriers to Effective Communication between Patients, Relatives, and Health Care Professionals in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic at Public Hospitals in Limpopo Province

  • Ndidzulafhi Selina Raliphaswa,
  • Dorah Ursula Ramathuba,
  • Takalani Rhodah Luhalima,
  • Seani Adrinah Mulondo,
  • Thivhulawi Malwela,
  • Azwidihwi Rose Tshililo,
  • Julia Langanani Mafumo,
  • Maria Sonto Maputle,
  • Mary Maluleke and
  • Mutshinyalo Lizzy Netshikweta
  • + 3 authors

1 March 2023

Background: Effective communication between health care professionals, admitted patients, and their families is crucial to improving the health care outcomes and patient satisfaction. Hence, barriers to effective communication cause a lot of confusio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,759 Views
13 Pages

Effects of Isometric Training on Ankle Mobility and Change-of-Direction Performance in Professional Basketball Players

  • Luis Miguel Fernández-Galván,
  • Rodrigo Fernández-Viñes and
  • Jorge Sánchez-Infante

2 September 2025

Basketball requires high-intensity, multidirectional movements that place significant stress on the ankle joint. Limited dorsiflexion and reduced change-of-direction (COD) ability are associated with impaired movement efficiency and may contribute to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,593 Views
12 Pages

This study aimed to discover coping strategies among professional male Tunisian footballers during the Ramadan 2021 fast. One hundred and eighty footballers who belong to twelve Tunisian professional clubs (age: 25.54 ± 4.41 years, weight: 77....

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,186 Views
17 Pages

30 September 2021

This study aims to explore strategies for promoting Korean teachers’ cooperative professional development in the context of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). To this end, this study aimed to provide empirical evidence that may help in expl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,276 Views
22 Pages

Determinants of Job Performance in Professional Workers and Moderating Effect of Gender: The Peruvian Case

  • Felipe Eduardo Yong-Chung,
  • Elizabeth Emperatriz García-Salirrosas,
  • Ralphi Ricardo Jauregui Arroyo and
  • Manuel Escobar-Farfán

9 October 2025

As the workforce adapts to evolving professional demands, working conditions simultaneously become increasingly stressful, competitive, and challenging, making it essential to examine the determinants of job performance among highly educated workers....

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