This study aimed to determine nursing students' views on sustainability and their awareness levels in this regard. The study has a mixed research design. No sampling was made, and it was aimed to access the whole population. Two hundred twenty-two students were included in the quantitative part of the research, while 16 students participated in…

Volunteering requires a high level of commitment to community development, especially from young people. The first study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of university students of education regarding volunteering and the second study, analysing the differences in students' knowledge regarding interest in volunteering. The…

This study examines whether graduate students in STEM fields at an R1 institution understand copyright law. Thirty graduate students participated in semi-structured interviews related to copyright and ownership. This study revealed that these students often conflate issues around copyright and plagiarism and have little understanding of their own…

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education has been acknowledged that it could prepare students for the twenty-first-century workforce. Thus, pre-service teachers on the verge of entering the educational milieu are actively urged to incorporate it into their upcoming pedagogical classroom. Pre-service teachers' prospective…

Survey responses from 858 undergraduates were examined to determine the key factors affecting students' deep approach to learning at two public institutions. Principal component analysis was adopted to eliminate multicollinearity among factors and extract the key influencing factors. A robust multiple linear regression model was built to explore…

The purposes of this research were to: 1) study the components and indicators of the competence of pre-service teachers based on the TPACK concept, and 2) study the results of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) on the competence of pre-service teachers based on the TPACK concept. This research was divided into four phases and data were collected…

Undergraduate engineering students are commonly introduced to design in their first year and tackle a more authentic design challenge during senior year, with intervening courses focused on technical problem solving. Along this trajectory, students should acquire skills related to the development of engineering requirements, which are important to…

The associations of microbes with their environment can result in both positive and negative effects on humans. While most people are aware of the existence of microbes, research shows that perceptions of microbes and their effects are often incomplete or include misconceptions. Much like the positive psychology movement, the recently proposed…

This study examined the relationships between factors contributing to high school students' mathematics achievement. Three hundred fourteen high school students participated in the study. We collected the data through the "Self-Efficacy Scale for Mathematics Literacy," "Bidimensional Mathematics Anxiety Scale,"…

Purpose: This study aimed to describe the knowledge and alternative conceptions of climate change in a group of Chilean science and non-science teachers with different teaching experiences. Design/Approach/Methods: The study used a quantitative approach with an exploratory, descriptive, and transversal design, in which a Climate Change…

Scientific modeling is a core practice of scientific inquiry. Students' engagement in modeling can be enhanced by attending to epistemic criteria, which in science are standards used to evaluate the validity and accuracy of scientific models. While prior research has focused on students' development and use of epistemic criteria in scientific…

This study explores the cognitive structures of pre-service primary teachers regarding fraction comparison, using Vinner's concept-image framework to analyze how these pre-service teachers mobilize their knowledge to compare fractions. The mixed-methods approach, combining both quantitative and qualitative analyses (including a questionnaire),…

Learning objectives are intended to be used as tools for both instructors and students. Student use of learning objectives is related to developing metacognitive skills and self-regulation of learning. Many medical institutions provide learning objectives to their pre-clerkship students, but it is unknown if or how the students use them. A…

Pre-service teachers (PSTs) often encounter challenges grasping the conceptual understanding of fractions, which can affect their readiness to teach this topic. This study investigates a novel approach to enhancing PSTs' comprehension of fractions by focusing on the fraction-as-a-measure meaning within a measurement context. Through a modified…

This study investigates how journalism students perceive and use large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, their understanding of the technology, and their ethical considerations. Findings indicate that while students see LLMs as inevitable tools in their future careers, they often misunderstand how these tools generate content, in part…