Background/purpose: This study aimed to develop and examine the consistency of competencies for Sports Coaches in International Schools (SCI) Materials/methods: The study of competencies was conducted using in-depth interview techniques with five experts. The research instrument was a semi-structured interview form, analyzed using analytic…

Our research focused on empirically documenting the STEM education research perceptions and practices of K-12 physics teachers in Kazakhstan. We explored how the teachers perceived and engaged with STEM educational research while implementing integrated STEM instruction and content. We recruited 50 physics teachers from a population of teachers…

Faced with record-low unemployment and a shrinking workforce, Poland is seeking to engage potentially millions of economically inactive people to prevent future labour shortages and reduce social welfare expenditure. The 2025 Act on the Labour Market and Employment Services expands the mandate of Regional and Powiat Labour Offices to include…

Purpose: Building on the job demands-resources theory, this study aims to investigate the relationships between study resources, personal resources, students' well-being and entrepreneurship outcomes. Design/methodology/approach: Longitudinal data were collected across three time points. A total of 154 Dutch students completed a questionnaire at…

Engagement with research has long been recognized as a key driver of improved language teaching practices and teachers' professional growth. Yet, language teaching practitioners often remain distanced from research activities, thus perpetuating a well-documented gap between research and practice. While much of the existing scholarship has centered…

While testlets have proven useful for assessing complex skills, the stem shared by multiple items often induces correlations between responses, leading to violations of local independence (LI), which can result in biased parameter and ability estimates. Diagnostic procedures for detecting testlet effects typically involve model comparisons testing…

Purpose: Challenges associated with transitioning from graduate to employee are often attributed to a lack of "work readiness". A useful tool to address this issue is a valid and reliable measurement scale for graduate work readiness (GWR), which is the purpose of this study. Design/methodology/approach: Using a mixed-method exploratory…

This study investigated the reasons why parents with children with special needs choose to leave their homeland with their children, the difficulties they encounter in their new countries, the services they receive for their children in new countries, and their level of satisfaction with these services. Semistructured interviews were conducted…

In this study, we examine the real-time decision-making processes of a teacher in a UK post-16 mathematics classroom focusing on the integration of student-centred teaching methods. The contribution of this study is a transdisciplinary theoretical discussion which links teachers' actual classroom practices (often traditional and teacher centred)…

Under neoliberalism, instrumentalization of education for economic purposes has been intensely accentuated in post-industrial societies, necessitating critical reflection on both educational practice and theory. How should a theory of education be structured as to consider both societal needs and the individual's right to develop as a cultural…

This study investigated the impact of Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) approach in the proficiency level of Grade 9 students along quadratic functions. It employed a quasi-experimental design with a qualitative approach. Two groups with 40 students each from Saint John Berchmans High School Incorporated were considered as the…

This study examined the ability of Thai EFL learners to use grammatical constructions to report facts in descriptive writing. The context of the study is different from previous studies as the context was a national written competition in which the participants took part in the activities willingly. The conceptual frameworks for observations…

Purpose: The current work focuses on the early childhood education system and the spread of kindergartens across Italian territories in the second half of the 19th century. At least in the initial stages of their development, the Catholic Church strongly opposed their establishment. This led to a dualism between Northern Italy, where the emergence…

Educational pathways in colonial and postcolonial spaces often range far beyond the classroom. Reconstructing histories of this wider terrain of education reveals long-running arguments over what types of new knowledge might be most useful for living well amid war and within fast-changing colonial and postcolonial states. These debates over the…

Purpose: This article examines the nature of parental frustrations and the conflicts they have fueled over the past several years that have pitted parents against school boards, administrators and sometimes teachers. It then offers a context for understanding parental demands for school choice through comparative analysis of the Irish educational…