This book offers an in-depth look at the experiences of international students as they pursued undergraduate degrees in the US. Drawing on recurring interviews with the students and other qualitative data collected over four years, the book investigates how the students' academic development intersected with other life factors, including their…

Student engagement has been considered an antecedent of school achievement and a protective factor against school dropout. Some concerns have been raised concerning its under-theorization, that is the inadequate theoretical discourse about the meaning and nature of student engagement. Also, educational robotics (ER) has been found to increase…

Purpose: Engagement of non-academic stakeholders is an important element of education for sustainability, but is rarely mentioned in contemporary agricultural education literature. This article investigates the process of engagement of non-academic stakeholders into higher education programs on agriculture. Non-academic stakeholders refer to…

Prior research has revealed a variety of factors associated with teacher views around when to incorporate challenging mathematical tasks into instruction, such as teachers' pedagogical content knowledge and their prior assumptions about student ability. There has been less focus on how motivational beliefs (teacher anxiety, enjoyment, confidence)…

The challenge-hindrance stress framework has received little attention in teacher professional development. This study explored challenge-hindrance stress and its relationship to teachers' work passion and professionalism in the Chinese education improvement context. A sample of 917 middle school teachers was investigated, and structural equation…

Existing research confirms that there is a relationship between school attachment and subjective well-being. However, the mechanisms mediating the relationship between these two variables still need to be explained. This study aims to examine the role of self-efficacy belief and academic motivation in the relationship between school attachment and…

This study examines educators' perceptions of adopting Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools in education through the lens of the extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) model. Using structural equation modeling (SEM) on data collected from 490 participants, the research investigates: (a) the extent to which…

This study examines the impact of Nearpod on students' motivation and learning outcomes about minerals. The study adopted a quantitative method; a pre-experimental design type of one-group pretest-posttest design, whereby one group of grade 10 students (n=24) was taken as a sample. An observation tool was used to study students' motivational…

Background: Goal orientations (GO) are influential achievement goals in predicting achievement motivation and effectiveness. However, few studies have paid specific attention to investigating the effects of GO on learning achievement in the area of business management education. Objectives: This study developed a business simulation game system…

While key attributes of effective feedback have frequently been included in studies on student learning, little research has focused on the impact of the timeliness of feedback on student motivation. By providing students with written feedback at 1, 3, 7, 10, or 14 days after submission, this mixed design study enriches our understanding of the…

Background/purpose: As populations worldwide continue to age, lifelong learning (LLL) is increasingly recognized as essential to promoting active aging, ensuring older adults' well-being, productivity, and societal engagement. However, despite policy emphasis, global participation rates in LLL among older adults remain low. This study addresses…

Background/purpose: Interactions encompass various aspects that support group members during collaboration; therefore, maintaining and fostering interactions in collaborative research teams (CRTs) as communities of practice (CoPs) in terms of shared knowledge, collective goals, and participation is crucial. The purpose of this study is to explore…

This study based on the Hedonic Motivation System Adoption Model (HMSAM), the Expectation Confirmation Model (ECM), and Task Technology Fit (TTF), explores the factors influencing users' continuance intention in gamified learning within metaversity. A total of 286 valid questionnaires were collected using random sampling. The data were analyzed…

Understanding what motivates students to enroll, persist, and complete an undergraduate research experience is crucial in developing strategies for creating well-rounded and inclusive research programs. This paper showcases an approach for a virtual undergraduate research onboarding program to orient engineering students to the National Science…

Based on three-wave longitudinal data from 1512 Chinese college students, this study attempted to examine changes in vocational identity (VI) processes and career decision self-efficacy (CDSE) and their reciprocal association. Latent growth curve analyses highlighted longitudinal increases in in-breadth exploration, career commitment making,…