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  • Open Access
4 Citations
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Challenges Faced by Students with Special Needs in Primary Education during Online Teaching

  • Rafail Bachtsis,
  • Maria Perifanou and
  • Anastasios A. Economides

22 February 2024

This study investigates the psychological, educational, and technological difficulties faced by primary education students with special needs during online teaching. An interpretative phenomenological analysis was used for the qualitative analysis of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,836 Views
16 Pages

In China, English as a foreign language is important and compulsory from primary education to higher education, essentially because English has become a global language. The Ministry of Education emphasizes that school principals should attempt to tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,201 Views
15 Pages

STEM Distance Teaching: Investigating STEM Teachers’ Attitudes, Barriers, and Training Needs

  • Katerina Tzafilkou,
  • Maria Perifanou and
  • Anastasios A. Economides

5 November 2022

The aim of this study was to investigate STEM teachers’ attitude towards STEM Distance Teaching (DT), as well as their perceived barriers and training needs. A mixed survey was conducted on 158 STEM teachers in secondary education who taught th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,410 Views
17 Pages

Extensive empirical research has emphasized the benefits of integrating Online Teaching Video Cases (OTVCs) into pre-service preschool teacher education. However, there is a research gap concerning the perceptions and needs of pre-service preschool t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,461 Views
21 Pages

Teaching in Hospitals and Healthcare Resorts: A Qualitative Study of Teachers’ Needs

  • Agnieszka Małkowska-Szkutnik,
  • Aleksandra Berkowska,
  • Maja Gajda and
  • Dorota Kleszczewska

The daily functioning of children who suffer from chronic conditions may be limited by the disease and by hospitalization. Hospital schools have an important role in counterbalancing those negative effects. The aim of the study was to define hospital...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,294 Views
18 Pages

11 September 2021

Problematic Internet use (PIU) is a risk factor for psychological distress during COVID-19, as teachers are a psychologically vulnerable population. We explored the role of PIU in terms of primary and middle school teachers’ fear of COVID-19 and psyc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,422 Views
16 Pages

Research has shown that school leader practices can influence teachers’ lived experiences of teaching out-of-field. Less is understood about principals’ attitudes towards out-of-field teaching and their perceptions of the teachers’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,422 Views
13 Pages

Higher Education Faculty Perceptions and Needs  on Neuroeducation in Teaching and Learning

  • Maria Fragkaki,
  • Stylianos Mystakidis and
  • Konstantinos Dimitropoulos

14 October 2022

Being a professor at the university is associated with the acquisition of sufficient domain knowledge and skills to teach. On the other hand, there is a constant need to update and strengthen teaching skills and contribute to an effective learning pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,692 Views
15 Pages

A Needs-Based Analysis of Teaching on Vaccinations and COVID-19 in German Medical Schools

  • Franziska Baessler,
  • Ali Zafar,
  • Katharina Mengler,
  • Ricarda Nadine Natus,
  • Anne Josephine Dutt,
  • Manuel Kuhlmann,
  • Emre Çinkaya and
  • Simon Hennes

19 June 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need for improving public confidence in vaccines. Academic gaps and redundancies on vaccinations must be identified to revise the medical curriculum for up-to-date training of medical students. This cross-sectiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,332 Views
14 Pages

21 December 2024

Despite inclusive education being high on the agenda of educational systems worldwide and part of international legislation and policy, particularly the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which emphasises inclusion and equality as the basis for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,675 Views
16 Pages

Let’s Get Digital: ICT Training Needs in Pre-Service Language Teaching

  • Stephen Pearse Hughes,
  • Silvia Corral-Robles and
  • José Luis Ortega-Martín

13 December 2023

During the last five years, language teaching in Europe has been heavily influenced by two major occurrences. On the one hand, the outbreak of COVID-19 forced teachers to extensively adapt many of their teaching practices to the digital world; this m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,585 Views
20 Pages

Aligning Software Engineering Teaching Strategies and Practices with Industrial Needs

  • José Metrôlho,
  • Fernando Ribeiro,
  • Paula Graça,
  • Ana Mourato,
  • David Figueiredo and
  • Hugo Vilarinho

Several approaches have been proposed to reduce the gap between software engineering education and the needs and practices of the software industry. Many of them aim to promote a more active learning attitude in students and provide them with more re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,950 Views
17 Pages

The use of effective teaching strategies should be developed from teachers’ reflections on educational needs. This study has a twofold objective: to identify needs in teaching-learning processes in the university setting as well as to present a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,501 Views
15 Pages

29 November 2024

The aim of this study was to investigate environmental conditions in teaching practicums that support the development of pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs. Motivational orientations such as self-efficacy beliefs and enthusiasm are cru...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,948 Views
15 Pages

Personalised Professional Development in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

  • Seo Hong Lim,
  • Lyndon Lim,
  • Che Yee Lye and
  • Wei Ying Rebekah Lim

Despite the affordances of professional development (PD) in teaching and learning in facilitating quality teaching and contributing to students’ learning outcomes, there is merit in exploring educators’ needs by enabling conditions to fur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
12,023 Views
11 Pages

Preventing Procrastination Behaviours: Teaching Styles and Competence in University Students

  • Nuria Codina,
  • Isabel Castillo,
  • José V Pestana and
  • Isabel Balaguer

20 March 2020

Based on the self-determination theory, this study examines the relationship between students’ perceptions of their teachers’ teaching styles, satisfaction of the need for competence, and procrastination behaviours in university students....

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,069 Views
15 Pages

Effects of Motivation, Basic Psychological Needs, and Teaching Competence on Disruptive Behaviours in Secondary School Physical Education Students

  • Antonio Granero-Gallegos,
  • Pedro Jesús Ruiz-Montero,
  • Antonio Baena-Extremera and
  • Marina Martínez-Molina

Currently, disruptive and aggressive behaviours of a physical and verbal nature are a reality among adolescent students and a concern in the educational context. Therefore, the main objective of this research was to analyse the effects of perceived t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,217 Views
15 Pages

Cooperative Approaches and Academic Motivation towards Enhancing Pre-Service Teachers’ Achievement

  • Dolors Cañabate,
  • Maria Eugènia Gras,
  • Teresa Serra and
  • Jordi Colomer

3 November 2021

This paper describes a quantitative study that explores both the degree of preservice teachers’ (PSTs) motivation and achievement, and the dimensions of need-supportive teaching, when PSTs were involved in designing and implementing contextualized ph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,992 Views
14 Pages

Effects of a Web-Based Autonomy-Supportive Intervention on Physical Education Teacher Outcomes

  • Henri Tilga,
  • Hanna Kalajas-Tilga,
  • Vello Hein,
  • Lennart Raudsepp and
  • Andre Koka

The current study tested the efficacy of a web-based autonomy-supportive intervention program on changes in physical education (PE) teachers’ self-reports of autonomy support, psychological need satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and teaching effica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,645 Views
16 Pages

18 September 2024

Background: Teaching style has a significant influence on students’ learning outcomes. This study focused on identifying teaching profiles in Physical Education characterized by high directiveness, using structure and control behaviors that imp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,363 Views
18 Pages

5 February 2024

During puberty, children experience an increased need for autonomy in all areas of their lives, including school. However, teachers use different levels of autonomy-supportive teaching strategies, which might have detrimental effects on students&rsqu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,447 Views
14 Pages

22 July 2013

It is a commonplace that water is essential for life, but to what extent is the general public, and children in particular, aware of how water affects health? The aim of this review was to consider the relationship between water and health under thre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,927 Views
17 Pages

24 July 2024

This study explores students’ perceptions of the advantages of academic campuses as the location of studies that involve social interaction, with a focus on the role of social interaction in the learning experience. The study examines students&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,321 Views
22 Pages

28 September 2021

There is a myriad of career opportunities stemming from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. In addition to careers in corporate settings, teaching is a viable career option for individuals pursuing degrees in STEM di...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3,225 Views
8 Pages

A Study on Needs Analysis in English Teaching and Learning Skills for Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Polytechnic Engineering Students Pursuing Degree

  • Seeni Mehraj Begam Bt V. K. S. Vyzul Karnine,
  • Abdul Shakour Duncan Preece and
  • Siti Salmiah Binti Muhammad

It is known that one of the most vital indicators in scaffolding teaching and learning is carrying out a needs analysis which is considered part of continuous improvement of the curriculum design. In order for the students to gain knowledge and to ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,882 Views
11 Pages

Teachers’ Global Perceptions and Views, Practices and Needs in Multicultural Settings

  • Zoe Karanikola,
  • Glykeria Katsiouli and
  • Nektaria Palaiologou

13 April 2022

Multiculturalism and globalization are common traits of western societies, and affect the way people interact and communicate. In such a context, this study comes to investigate teachers’ perceptions, practices and needs towards global and inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,181 Views
35 Pages

9 March 2023

There is a need for action in health promotion for children and adolescents. Schools are assumed to be an appropriate place to enable students to behave healthily. Numerous interventions have been piloted in schools, but sustained implementation appe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
964 Views
15 Pages

Unified Sports for Inclusive Education: Assessing Basketball’s Role in Supporting Students with Special Educational Needs—A Pilot Study

  • Mario Ruggiero,
  • Pietro Montesano,
  • Leopoldo Ferrante,
  • Cristina Mennitti,
  • Olga Scudiero and
  • Filomena Mazzeo

This pilot study evaluates the effectiveness of basketball, implemented according to Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and educational best practices, as an inclusive tool for students with Special Educational Needs in lower secondary sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,576 Views
27 Pages

Adopting the Situation in School Questionnaire to Examine Physical Education Teachers’ Motivating and Demotivating Styles Using a Circumplex Approach

  • Géraldine Escriva-Boulley,
  • Emma Guillet-Descas,
  • Nathalie Aelterman,
  • Maarten Vansteenkiste,
  • Nele Van Doren,
  • Vanessa Lentillon-Kaestner and
  • Leen Haerens

Grounded in SDT, several studies have highlighted the role of teachers’ motivating and demotivating styles for students’ motivation, learning, and physical activity in physical education (PE). However, most of these studies focused on a restricted nu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
6,526 Views
15 Pages

The COVID-19 pandemic literally stopped most human movement and activities as it initially spread, which included dental practices and dental education. This defined the need for significative changes in teaching and learning with the use of “e-learn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,327 Views
20 Pages

1 October 2025

The integration of STEAM education is widely recognized as a pathway to foster creativity, problem-solving, and collaboration, yet its implementation remains fragmented due to systemic and organizational barriers. This study examines educators’...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,408 Views
16 Pages

23 October 2021

The share of renewables in the U.S. electricity generation mix is increasing and one of the major obstacles to enhancing employment in the renewable energy (RE) sector is finding skilled/qualified labor to fill positions. RE systems engineer jobs mos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
538 Views
13 Pages

Effect of a “Team Based Learning” Methodology Intervention on the Psychological and Learning Variables of Sport Sciences University Students

  • Mario Albaladejo-Saura,
  • Adrián Mateo-Orcajada,
  • Francisco Esparza-Ros and
  • Raquel Vaquero-Cristóbal

19 October 2025

Traditional teaching methods are often far from aligning with professional practice demands. Team-Based Learning (TBL), a variant of Problem-Based Learning, may foster motivation, autonomy, and deeper knowledge acquisition, especially in those educat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,176 Views
13 Pages

8 October 2023

This theoretical article sets a goal to investigate how task-based needs analysis (TBNA) as part of instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) may mediate between constructs and concepts in second language acquisition (SLA) and task-based design....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,900 Views
22 Pages

26 January 2024

Ecoethics studies the moral relationship among human beings, the environment and its non-human components, whereas education for ecoethics involves a reflexion on how to live, how to make environmental choices and how to think about the consequences...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,014 Views
14 Pages

Detrimental Effects of Disempowering Climates on Teaching Intention in (Physical Education) Initial Teacher Education

  • Ginés David López-García,
  • Antonio Granero-Gallegos,
  • María Carrasco-Poyatos and
  • Rafael Burgueño

Previous research has looked at the positive consequences generated by teacher-generated climates on the motivational experiences of pre-service teachers. However, there is scant research focusing on the adverse motivational consequences that affect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,632 Views
13 Pages

Challenges and Elements Needed for Children with Learning Disabilities in Teaching and Learning the Quran

  • Hafizhah Zulkifli,
  • Syar Meeze Mohd Rashid,
  • Suziyani Mohamed,
  • Hasnah Toran,
  • Norakyairee Mohd Raus and
  • Mohd Nasri Suratman

26 September 2022

People with disabilities have the same right to access education and, therefore, the space and opportunity to study the Quran as other groups. However, there are some issues regarding the teaching of the Quran to students with special learning needs,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,526 Views
11 Pages

Grounded in self-determination theory, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between autonomy-supportive teaching, mindfulness, and basic psychological need satisfaction/frustration. Secondary school students (n = 390, Mage =...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,471 Views
20 Pages

Teachers’ Needs for Support during Emergency Remote Teaching in Greek Schools: Role of Social Networks

  • Stefanos Nikiforos,
  • Eleftheria Anastasopoulou,
  • Athina Pappa,
  • Spyros Tzanavaris and
  • Katia Lida Kermanidis

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a rapid shift to Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT). Social networks had a key role in supporting the educational community in facing challenges and opportunities. A quantitative study was conducted to assess...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,180 Views
3 Pages

Pharmacists worldwide, including Saudi Arabia, are now increasingly expected to play a more patient-centred role. The transition of pharmacists from a dispensing role to a more patient-centred clinical role requires the adoption of innovative learnin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,337 Views
14 Pages

It is not uncommon for teachers to face challenging behavioral issues in their classrooms, including disruptive, aggressive, or insulting behavior toward peers or adults. In this paper, we describe what knowledge, skills, and support is needed among...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,011 Views
14 Pages

Active teaching methods are emphasized as an important part of an effective teaching process for Generation Y students. Still, some individual characteristics, such as creativity and learning style, need to be considered as they can affect outcomes o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,826 Views
10 Pages

Teaching Urology to Undergraduates: A Prospective Survey of What General Practitioners Need to Know

  • Ángel Borque-Fernando,
  • Cristina Redondo-Redondo,
  • Concepción Orna-Montesinos,
  • Luis Mariano Esteban,
  • Sophia Denizón-Arranz,
  • Arlanza Tejero-Sánchez,
  • Ramiro García-Ruiz,
  • José Manuel Sanchez-Zalabardo,
  • Jesús Gracia-Romero and
  • Antonio Monreal-Híjar
  • + 4 authors

Background: Higher education training in Medicine has considerably evolved in recent years. One of its main goals has been to ensure the training of students as future adequately qualified general practitioners (GPs). Tools need to be developed to ev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,873 Views
20 Pages

The Drivers of Change for Future Learning: How Teachers Were Taught in the COVID-19 Crisis and What Will Come Next?

  • Usama M. Ibrahem,
  • Hussein M. Abdelfatah,
  • Dalia M. Kedwany,
  • Abdullah Z. AlMankory,
  • Ibrahem M. Diab and
  • Rabab A. Abdul Kader

11 October 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on education and resulted in huge changes. This research paper investigates on the factors driving change for future learning by studying the training of teachers during the COVID-19 crisis and their perceptions re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,175 Views
12 Pages

Lecturers’ Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Its Relationship with Students’ Disposition towards Studying during Online Teaching in the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Rubén Abello-Riquelme,
  • Milenko Del Valle,
  • Yaranay López-Angulo,
  • Cristian Sanhueza-Campos and
  • Yasmina Contreras-Soto

20 July 2022

When examining learning at university, especially in a pandemic context, it is important to analyze the actions taken by lecturers to promote students’ disposition towards studying. The objectives of this research project were to analyze the ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,182 Views
9 Pages

It is without question that technology in schools is here to stay. Educators have always been interested in the extent to which technology can be used to transform education and enhance student learning; however, the degree to which it is utilized in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
137 Views
18 Pages

How Need-Thwarting Teaching Styles Are Combined for Physical Education Teachers: Differences in Students’ Motivational Outcomes

  • Javier García-Cazorla,
  • Carlos Mayo-Rota,
  • Zilia Villafaña-Samper,
  • Diego Esteban-Torres,
  • Luis García-González and
  • Ángel Abós

12 January 2026

Grounded in the circumplex model, this study examined how need-thwarting teaching styles, control and chaos, are combined by Physical Education teachers (as perceived by students) and how these combinations differ in relation to students’ basic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,439 Views
17 Pages

The facilitative role of perceived autonomy support from physical education (PE) teachers on adolescents’ leisure-time physical activity (PA) has been supported. This study aimed to examine the mechanism by which perceived controlling behaviors...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,014 Views
12 Pages

Influence of an Educational Innovation Program and Digitally Supported Tasks on Psychological Aspects, Motivational Climate, and Academic Performance

  • Raquel Vaquero-Cristóbal,
  • Lucía Abenza-Cano,
  • Mario Albaladejo-Saura,
  • Lourdes Meroño,
  • Pablo J. Marcos-Pardo,
  • Francisco Esparza-Ros and
  • Noelia González-Gálvez

18 December 2021

Background: In university education, there is a need to provide students with the ability to use knowledge, and it has been shown that the cooperative model, with respect to information and communication technology (ICT), is effective. The aim of thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,095 Views
12 Pages

Predicting Bullying through Motivation and Teaching Styles in Physical Education

  • Carlos Montero-Carretero,
  • David Barbado and
  • Eduardo Cervelló

From the theoretical framework offered by the self-determination theory, the objective of the study was to test a predictor model of bullying behaviors based on the physical education teacher’s supportive style, the students’ satisfaction...

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