Adapting innovative educational technologies to bolster students' academic learning is increasing rapidly. This study explored schema congruent and incongruent participants behaviour when experiencing video-based materials as the medium of learning within the frame of a flipped learning environment. The participants watched an educational learning…

This study investigated 77 Taiwanese pre-service primary teachers' beliefs, knowledge and emotions about mathematics teaching and learning by using a drawing task: specifically, creating pictures of themselves as mathematics teachers at work. Its major findings were: (1) The majority of the participants chose to illustrate a mix of teacher- and…

The Programme for International Student Assessment, carried out every three years by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development across a large number of countries and economies, have shown that socioeconomically disadvantaged students are almost three times more likely than advantaged students not to attain the baseline level of…

The hierarchical model of achievement motivation assumes that individual characteristics predict achievement goals, which further predict achievement outcomes. One of the individual characteristics that may be particularly important in subjects that require abstract reasoning, such as mathematics, is need for cognition. Therefore, the aim of the…

This case study aims to explore the experience of a group of religious Druze students in an advanced distance learning intercollegiate course on multiculturalism, that involved a distant learning platform and a virtual world (VW). Though 96 students from four different colleges and backgrounds took part in this intercollegiate course, this study…

The practice of persisting and learning from design failures is essential to engineering design and offers unique ways of knowing and learning for K-12 students. To understand how students engage in the practice of persisting and learning from design failures, we must first understand how, if at all, they recognize that a design failure has…

Effective leadership will be seen from his exemplary behaviour. Leadership behaviour greatly determine its success in leading an organization and its members, so that the commands and directions given will be carried out as well as possible by its members. The research aimed to describe leadership behaviour of a boarding-school in Indonesia. This…

A substantial body of research suggests that young people's emotions -- both positive and negative -- are linked to a wide range of future outcomes. This paper contributes to this literature by investigating the link between young people's positive and negative emotions and their performance in high-stakes examinations. Using Programme for…

This paper presents the findings from a study conducted to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent school closures on the wellbeing of gifted students and their attitudes towards online (distance) learning. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic circumstances on the parents of gifted children was also explored in this study. Data…

It is universally recognized that cadaveric dissection is an essential part of anatomy training. However, it has been reported to induce mental distress in some students and impair their intrinsic motivation (IM) to study. One of the postulated reasons for this behavior is the lack of adequate information and preparation of students for cadaveric…

The current study aims to focus on the relationship between school principals' quantum leadership behaviours and teachers' psychological capital levels. The target population of the study consists of 462 teachers working at public schools in Sapanca district of Sakarya in 2020-2021 academic year. The sample of the research consists of 224 teachers…

The relation between children's guilt proneness and theory of mind (???) was examined in children (? = 96) aged 7- to 11-years. Guilt proneness was assessed with a self-report scenario-based measure and ToM was examined with a battery of first-order and second-order mental-state tasks. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that second-order,…

To be racialized as a Black person in a US context provokes a series of questions that necessarily indict history, human experience, and anti-Black reverberations that pathologically script them as unlearned and uneducable (Dumas, 2014). Against this backdrop, Black students are engaged in meaning-making. More research is needed to explicate how…

Objective: To examine the relationship between college student anxiety, optimism, gratitude, and perception of the Physical Activity and Lifestyle program (PAL) instructional response/effectiveness following COVID-19. Participants: Data were collected from a southeastern, midsize university (n = 1640) during April 2020. Methods: Participants…

In this reflective essay, Andrea Avery considers how teaching Lucy Grealy's 1994 Autobiography of a Face in a memoir class functions to cultivate embodied vulnerability among high school seniors. She discusses her own identity as a disabled/chronically ill teacher and how her positioning of and interaction with Grealy's text invites her students…