Kazakhstan prioritizes economic growth and competitiveness through education reforms emphasizing STEM fields. Despite efforts to attract students to STEM, women remain underrepresented. Drawing on human capital and self-determination theory and in-depth interviews with female students majoring in STEM fields, this study examines the motivations of…

This study examined the status of STEM teachers' Social-Emotional Competencies (SEC), PD engagement in social-emotional learning (SEL), and level of teaching self-efficacy (TSE) in urban secondary public schools that serve students with a large proportion of ELs (N= 307). Results show that there are significant gaps between the current and optimal…

Purpose: A prior randomized trial found a school social intervention yielded significantly better outcomes (social and autism features) immediately following intervention compared to typical school programming (services-as-usual [SAU]) for children on the autism spectrum. In that study, children in the SAU condition subsequently completed a summer…

In the years 2019-2021 a significant step was made in terms of distance learning, which would have otherwise, in normal circumstances, taken several years. While the solutions applied were the best in the given situation, the question arises of what these solutions imply in terms of long-term, systematic changes. The presented research touches…

The purpose of this study was to examine how pre-service teachers' competence beliefs, value beliefs, pedagogical beliefs, and their intention to integrate technology were related to one another. The sample was composed of 137 pre-service teachers from 22 schools in Taiwan. Using path modeling, the current study found that there was an interaction…

The problem of improving the professionalism of teaching staff for higher education is certainly important in the Kazakhstan education system. In modern conditions of constant changes in the content of education, the graduate model, the teacher must be ready for constant professional growth, freely orient in his profession and related fields of…

In a clinical psychology training context, there is a need to examine students' theoretical knowledge as well as their professional competence. One promising method to assess students' professional competence is the Objective and Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). In this report, we describe and discuss the implementation of OSCE on a…

In the 21st century, with the exponential rise in global population and a greater demand for environmental resources, the focus of engineering is on integrated solutions within a multifarious context. To successfully navigate today's multidisciplinary and multicultural environment, engineers require soft skills in addition to their technical or…

Background: Applied Calculus courses serve hundreds of thousands of undergraduates as quantitative preparation and gatekeepers across diverse fields of study. The current study investigated how motivational factors are associated with students' learning outcomes in Applied Calculus courses from the perspective of self-determination theory--a sound…

The purpose of the scientific treatise is to investigate and intensify competence-based readiness of future teachers to professional activities in educational institutions, namely, the interrelated competencies of leaders' communication competence (LCC) and communication components of global competence (GC). To do this, jigsaw activities &…

The educational productivity theory directed that students' variables affect their performance. Therefore, this descriptive correlational study was designed to examine students' interpersonal skills and its association with their achievement. There were 3,200 high school students participated in this study, selected from 80 high schools of Punjab…

This paper aims to analyze the main competences developed by graduates of a professional master's degree in Brazilian public administration. For this purpose, the research developed (i) a theoretical framework to present the main competences for public sector professionals, (ii) a bibliometric analysis with the scientific publications about…

There is much to say about teaching in this particular pandemic moment but neither the words to capture it fully nor the distance to reflect on its complexity. But this much is known: In order to heal as educators, as leaders of classrooms, and as facilitators of community, radical love needs to be invited into the classroom--even if the initial…

We examined the relations of restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRB; insistence on sameness, repetitive sensory-motor, self-injurious behavior) to social skills overall and aspects that comprise social skills as measured by the VABS-II (coping skills, play/leisure time, interpersonal relationships) in 24- (n = 63) and 36-month old (n = 35),…

E-Assessment, which is a key element in the instructional design process, plays a major role in supporting and enhancing learning. However, the current e-assessment design does not achieve the desired pedagogical objectives in the e-learning environments. In this paper, we propose a hybrid pedagogical framework for e-learning environments, that…