This longitudinal trend research study (Creswell & Guetterman, 2019) investigates how pre-service teachers (PSTs) in a K-12 licensure program that includes a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) added endorsement develop the 4Cs (creative thinking, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration) through reflective writing during…

Developing Intercultural Learners in English Language Teaching Classrooms was educational action research to integrate intercultural training methods into English as a Foreign Language classrooms to develop learners' intercultural communication competence. This case study focuses on the action research procedure, the multiperspectivity in data…

Background/purpose: This study investigates the communication strategy employed by PT Pertamina Patra Niaga in implementing its "Ngabedahkeun Walahar" Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program in Karawang, Indonesia. It specifically examines how culturally responsive and participatory communication practices foster community…

Background/purpose: The eruption of Mount Agung in Bali from 2017 to 2019 had a significant impact not only on the island's physical landscape but also on its social structures and educational continuity. This study examines the role of Balinese local wisdom in shaping communicative learning strategies during the volcanic crisis. Specifically, it…

Deeper life interactions with students--which include conversations and relationships that occur around meaning, value, and purpose--have been shown to positively influence student success. The promotion of these interactions offers a dual-purpose: help retain students "and" impact the student experience beyond retention. In doing so,…

Purpose: Many students with communication disorders have unique social-emotional needs, yet school speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are not typically trained in how to address those needs. We developed a new training (STIRS [SLP Training to Increase Resilience in Students]) to equip elementary school SLPs to embed social-emotional learning…

The use of predictive analytics powered by machine learning (ML) to model educational data has increasingly been identified to exhibit bias towards marginalized populations, prompting the need for more equitable applications of these techniques. To tackle bias that emerges in training data or models at different stages of the ML modelling…

Concept maps are widely used across disciplines as a graphical tool for organizing and representing knowledge. While the effectiveness of concept maps as a learning tool to organize subject knowledge is well-documented in the literature, there is scant research on concept maps as a visual tool to augment L2 learners' multimodal communication…

Children develop cooperative behaviours within culturally specific social environments from an early age. This exploratory study analysed cooperation between siblings in two different cultural contexts: Yurakaré Indigenous community in Bolivia (N = 22; M[subscript age] = 5.31 years; 59.1% female) and urban Poland (N = 24; M[subscript age] = 4.86…

Background: Children and young people with life-limiting conditions in palliative care often have some degree of intellectual disability. Literature about death communication with this patient group is limited. This study aimed to explore professionals' perspectives on death communication with children and young people with intellectual…

This study leverages the digital sticky note feature in Zoom's whiteboard to provide students with opportunities to gain a better understanding of supply chain management through engagement and hands-on experience in a synchronous online class. The activity was implemented within an online graduate course in Operations and Supply Chain Management…

This study aims to investigate how students mobilise scientific and socio-political knowledge about climate change in communicative actions directed at the public. It presents a teaching and learning proposal for high school science classes, focusing on critical communication and action in the context of climate change. Grounded in the…

Having access to teaching assistants (TAs) in college classrooms has been shown to be beneficial for student performance. Past research has used surveys and observed student-TA interactions to measure their effectiveness, featuring primarily graduate student TAs. The present research was designed to gain insight into how students perceive and…

The frequency of home spatial activities (e.g., puzzles and blocks) correlates with young children's spatial skills, but causal evidence is limited. We addressed this issue by comparing the effects of a parent-led intervention aimed at increasing spatial activities to an active control targeting narrative activities (preregistered:…

Memorable messages have been studied as a form of anticipatory socialization in many contexts. However, few studies have investigated the role of memorable messages in academic major decision-making for college students. Due to the lack of gender diversity in certain fields, industry practitioners and academicians have called for increased…