Creativity is one of the top skills in today's flat and global society, so creativity development should be one of the priority goals of education. In formal education, the effectiveness of creativity development significantly depends on teachers' beliefs about creativity. This study surveyed 394 Ukrainian teachers to explore their beliefs about…

This study enlists a transformative approach to mixed methods research in order to problematize what different methods can offer for expanding understandings of educator language attitudes and ideologies. Analyses consider Likert-scale survey responses and linguistic autobiography data from a sociolinguistics course in an online Educating…

Identity can be defined as how an individual is perceived as an individual in any presumable setting. When the literature is reviewed, there is a limited number of studies conducted regarding English teachers' perceptions towards teacher identity. This study will shed on a light on the related area. This is a quasi-experimental study. The survey…

Background: Preparing preservice teachers for teaching placements and future careers is crucial. However, their motivation often fluctuates as they gain experience and receive feedback from influential sources. While previous studies have examined changes in preservice teachers' motivation over time, there has been little research on how this…

In this mixed-methods study, the researchers examined students' perceptions of the importance of engagement using existing learner-to-learner, learner-to-instructor, and learner-to-content frameworks. To optimise the most effective ways to engage online learners, the researchers identified engagement strategies that are most valuable and least…

Background/purpose: Learner autonomy has been a burgeoning interest among language researchers and practitioners. Given extensive research into the construct, it remains necessary to explore it from a wider context. This study thus aims to investigate the perceptions of autonomy in English language learning among English major students at a…

The demographics of school-aged students in the U.S continue to shift, with increasing numbers of students coming from historically underrepresented minority populations. Yet the percentage of white, female teachers remains disproportionately high. Using a framework revised from Garmon's (2004) study in which he found experiential factors;…

The aim of the study was twofold; first, to examine the degree of achieving International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards among pre-service teachers at the college of basic education at the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) from their point of views and second, to examine differences in the…

In Pakistan, it is aimed at both national and international levels to promote and develop critical thinking among students and teachers at all educational levels (sustainable development goals, VISION 2025, national standards for teachers, national educational policies, etc.). However, little research has investigated teachers' critical thinking…

This study examines the Adversity Quotient (AQ) and resilience of deans in colleges of education in Central Luzon, Philippines, within the context of higher education leadership. Using an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, the research first employed the Adversity Quotient Profile Questionnaire with 15 purposively selected deans to…

This study used gender-sensitive research to investigate stress levels and stressors among pre-service teachers. The differences and similarities in stress levels between male and female pre-service teachers were studied. There were five significant findings: (1) both male and female pre-service teachers had high-stress levels; (2) male…

Background/purpose: Despite the contributions of existing literature, there is a clear deficiency in studies that systematically address the development of pedagogical acmeology skills as a core component of teacher training programs. This study aims to address this gap by examining pedagogical acmeology as a holistic approach to improving…

This particular small-scale research tries to scrutinize the teacher training practices and the quality of Pedagogical Formation ELT Certificate Programs from the perspectives of teacher candidates. In this respect, those teacher candidates' views about the issue will be taken through a questionnaire consisting of 5-point Likert-type items and an…

This study examines elementary education department students' view about the methods and techniques generally preferred by their instructors in teaching The History of Atatürk's Principles and Revolution I and II courses. For the purpose of the study, the questionnaire (r=0.90), investigating the methodological and technical skills of instructors,…

The technological training of Early Childhood Education students is essential for the development of their Digital Teaching Competences (DTC), and are crucial for their future work as teachers. The aim of the present study is to assess the level of digital competence of students and to analyze the differences between two universities that provide…