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The social and emotional competence of adolescents serves as the cornerstone for their success and future development. This study aims to explore the impact of distributed leadership on the social and emotional competence of adolescents, examining th...

There has been a widespread call for improvement in undergraduate STEM education, leading to what are known as evidence-based instructional practices (EBIPs). However, EBIP usage in STEM is a more recent phenomenon in the United Arab Emirates, which...

Active student involvement and instruction through experience in everyday contexts are pedagogical approaches suitable to promote inquiry-based learning and improve learners’ cognitive skills. Nevertheless, many university and postgraduate cour...

Academic vocabulary knowledge is central to reading and academic achievement. Largely based in the lexicons of Latin and Greek, academic vocabulary comprises morphemic structures. Many teachers devote little time to focused instruction in this area b...

Although STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) and student-centered instruction are growing rapidly in popularity, their reach is not adequately distributed across diversity groups (including individuals of different genders, econom...

Although there is evidence suggesting that teacher learning communities can improve instructional practices, the underlying mechanism is not well-understood. This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of self-efficacy and collaborative profes...

This study investigates the effectiveness of contact and online biology teaching by assessing student performance and gathering perceptions from students, teachers, and parents. Conducted in autumn 2021 with 3035 students, 124 biology teachers, and 7...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, educators changed their pedagogic practices, developed new teaching sequences, and blended learning approaches such as the flipped classroom. Claims have been made that the flipped classroom influences student motivation...

Implementing active learning methods in engineering education is becoming the new norm and is seen as a prerequisite to prepare future engineers not only for their professional life, but also to tackle global issues. Teachers at higher education inst...

Traditional lecture-based teaching often struggles to foster student engagement, active participation, and deep learning in large-class general education courses. As class sizes grow, students may become passive learners, limiting their ability to de...

With its capacity to support student-centered learning through digital transformation and shared experience, augmented reality (AR) has received increasing attention from both researchers and practitioners as an emerging technology to achieve innovat...

In this research brief, we synthesize research on integrated STEAM teaching and learning from our multi-state team, comprised of scholars from elementary mathematics and science education. This work focuses on student perceptions of STEAM experiences...

Recently, Taiwan’s higher education has been impacted by COVID-19 and the necessity of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI). In 2018, the Taiwanese government approved a roadmap for the development of a bilingual nation by 2030. This result...

This paper explores the history of evolving teaching techniques in Digital Signal and Image Processing (DSIP) education with a focus on integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to close the continuing gap between theory and practice. Since DSIP...

The integration of Lesson Study (LS) and Didactic Suitability Criteria (DSC) presents an innovative framework for enhancing mathematics teacher training in higher education. This study examines how LS-DSC fosters instructional refinement, professiona...

This study reports on a Design-Based Research (DBR) project that implemented Project-Based Learning (PjBL) in an undergraduate psychology course on Human Resource Development (HRD). The purpose was to move beyond lecture-based instruction and explore...

NoSQL databases are vital for modern big data applications, yet traditional teaching methods struggle with lagging content, insufficient practice, and low student engagement. To address these issues, this paper proposes the WWH-integrated teaching me...

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...

The increase in childhood obesity requires the incorporation of nutritional competence into school programs through appropriate activities, starting in the early years. In addition, it is important to promote scientific and cognitive skills during ch...

Science education has shifted towards emphasizing science literacy rather than simply memorizing facts. Studies have shown that incorporating writing in science education engages students in higher-order thinking, fosters critical reasoning skills, a...

School gardens and outdoor learning spaces are increasingly available to support authentic, student-centered exploration in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Integrating technology tools into school garden spaces...

In Japan, there is almost no national policy that details the attributes and abilities desirable for school management staff. However, in March 2023, Toda City in Saitama prefecture, a city famous for its aggressive education reforms, published the T...

Digital Design is a laboratory course, and the educator must focus on the students’ need to know why they study the theory and mainly on the transition from knowledge-based learning to competency-based learning. This study consists of five surv...

The study aims to establish a comprehensive framework aligning institutional governance, pedagogical theories, and teaching practice for the sustainable adoption of AI-facilitated digital representatives of human instructors in higher education video...

Connections among faculty who might be potential resources for diffusion of learner-centered practices across STEM departments were examined at a major research university. Specifically, the research assessed the impact of these connections on learne...

China is fast becoming a coveted destination and a hub for higher education among international students, particularly since the announcement of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in September 2013. Consequently, China’s higher-education instit...

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...

In this critical literature review, we examine how middle-level pedagogies, specifically critical pedagogies, impact students’ academic, physical, and socioemotional development. This literature review examines critical pedagogies research in middle-...

This article emerged from my study of three alternative-certification teachers, or teacher learners as they tried to enact culturally responsive practices while navigating their first year of teaching and taking graduate courses for initial certifica...

This study discusses the development of a software-centered EdTech (Education Technology) class model via the implementation of a course titled “3D Time Machine” at a 4-year university in the Republic of Korea over two semesters. The cour...

This study assessed the effects of a one-day environmental education program on sixth-graders’ environmental literacy at a nature center in eastern Taiwan. In this program, the use of role play and games for teaching about Formosan black bear a...

Teaching through English Medium of Instruction (EMI) is a theory-based pedagogy that has been adopted in many European and Asian countries as a strategic initiative in educational internationalization. To date, there has been little research into EMI...

Schools are responsible for developing students’ learning abilities in order to prepare them for the future. However, learning power was rarely explored in previous studies. This study considered classrooms as a proximal level of influences fro...

With the increasing integration of artificial intelligence into education, traditional instructional models in Hydraulic Engineering are shifting toward competence- and performance-oriented pedagogy under the New Engineering framework. Rooted in cons...

Medical educators face many challenges instructing future medical students, specifically in the integration of learning technologies. To overcome these challenges, educators must implement learner-centered and interactive teaching strategies. Anatomi...

This research focuses on the dynamic mix of students at international schools, where native English speakers and English as an additional language (EAL) students study English together. The study aims to explore how teaching practices are currently a...

This self-reflective case study describes our project team’s efforts to promote equity in science professional learning (PL) by centering the voices of educators in the PL design process and within the course itself. We believe that educators&r...

This article explores the transformational potential of centering indigenous identities and heritage within academic literacy instruction in higher education. The dominance of Eurocentric pedagogies in higher education has often marginalized African...

A large body of research has indicated that young second language (L2) learners often have problems with spelling, such as letter omission and mis-ordering. To give due attention to this issue, a duoethnographic study was undertaken by two researcher...

(1) Background: Physical Education sessions subject students to various physical and physiological demands that teachers must understand to design interventions aimed at improving health and fitness. This study aimed to quantify and compare external...

Background: There is a high risk for morbidity and mortality in pregnant women associated with influenza virus illness. Vaccine uptake rates in pregnant women remain lower than the targeted Healthy People 2020 goals despite recommendations from the C...

This paper explores interdisciplinary, human-centered entrepreneurship education that builds entrepreneurial self-efficacy and transformative learning among students. Grounded in Bandura’s social cognitive theory and Mezirow’s transformat...

Preparing the next generation of pharmacists to succeed in practice and provide premier care starts with ensuring pharmacy education standards are met and align with innovative practices and that education incorporates topics that are important to pr...

Recognizing that traditional science education materials often overlook students’ cultural and social contexts, this research examines the teacher-driven design of science teaching enactment—specifically, how teachers reflect on and adapt...

Engineering education continues to grapple with the shift from lecture-centered instruction to approaches that connect theory with practice and strengthen transferable competencies. This study examines an educational intervention in the Bachelor&rsqu...

This study aims to explore sixth-grade students’ experiences in context-based STEM activities centered around renewable energy, with a particular focus on their scientific creativity and interest in STEM careers. Adopting a qualitative research...

Confusion among stakeholders regarding some aspects of the special education process—chiefly the triennial reevaluation—leads to misapplication of rules across districts and states based on interpretations of informal lore-based reasoning. Local educ...

The incorporation of new technologies as training methods, such as virtual reality (VR), facilitates instruction when compared to traditional approaches, which have shown strong limitations in their ability to engage young students who have grown up...

To analyze how variability changes over time can enhance the understanding of how learners’ self-efficacy, motivation, and satisfaction is controlled and why differences might exist among groups of individuals. Therefore, this study compared the effe...

When approached through the theoretical lenses of canonical literature and the reductionist Western science of settler colonialism, climate crisis discourse grapples with a conception of apocalypse wherein catastrophe and hopelessness engender eco-an...