This qualitative study explores how structural factors and self-talk mediate early career math teachers' experiences implementing student-centered reforms in high-need urban schools. Results indicate that implementing instructional changes can sometimes interfere with the success of classroom interaction rituals, and can contribute to internal…

This study was conducted on students studying financial management-related courses at Fuzhou Software Vocational and Technical College. The research objectives were threefold: (1) To investigate the students' perception of the effectiveness of short video-based instruction in financial management courses compared to traditional teaching methods.…

Background/Context: The last few decades of research on teacher professional learning (PL) show clear evidence that PL programs can shift instructional practice and accelerate student learning. Yet many programs continue to be ineffective, raising the question: what are features of effective PL design? Prior work attempting to answer this question…

Background: Traditional methods of managing educational materials are repetitive and often lack scalability. Integrating DevOps principles into educational content creation would provide a more streamlined approach to delivery. Objective: This solution proposal report shares initial experiences and introduces the concept of Lecture as Code (LaC),…

This study examines micro-teaching experiences of two pre-service mathematics teachers (PMTs) as they teach the concept of a cylinder using GeoGebra, focusing on their potential learning during instruction. The study was conducted within a practicum course in the final year of a mathematics teacher education programme in Türkiye. The notions of…

This study investigated K-12 educators' perceptions of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in teaching and learning, examining how teachers use and evaluate GenAI tools in relation to student thinking and classroom practices. Grounded in Bloom's Taxonomy (1956) and Ritchhart's (2015) Cultures of Thinking framework, the survey of 73 teachers…

This study aimed to determine if a game-based flipped learning (GBFL) environment was an effective learning model relative to flipped learning alone. Three sections of 6th-grade science students received varied methods of instruction by the same teacher over four weeks. One section received traditional, face-to-face instruction, another section…

Behaviourism proposes successful learning to be dependent on the performance of conditioned behaviours that are distinctly observable and objectively measurable. Over the past 100 years, various behaviourist concepts have been superseded by sociocultural and cognitive learning theories, but the entwined areas of assessment in mathematics education…

In this paper we compare the early years mathematics curricula of Germany, South Africa, and Australia in relation to the place value concept. Place value is an important topic as it underpins much of the number work completed by learners in the early years of schooling. We found that there were differences between the three curricula that could…

Worldwide interest in Lesson Study (LS) and the opportunities offered for student learning through the use of a Structured Problem-Solving Approach (SPSA), as typically adopted in Japanese LS research lessons in mathematics, have left largely unanswered questions about the extent to which these can be replicated elsewhere. This paper presents a…

In this research, we have explored the possible differences in students' performance in grade nine chemistry exams that could have been influenced by a different instructional approach in grade eight. We compared two groups of students: one group had received a transmissive propaedeutic approach in grade eight (especially related to the memorising…

With a brief half-second presentation, a medical expert can determine at above chance levels whether a medical scan she sees is abnormal based on a first impression arising from an initial global image process, termed "gist." The nature of gist processing is debated but this debate stems from results in medical experts who have years of…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a Special Education course on pre-school teacher candidates' knowledge levels and perspectives towards inclusive practices as well as their willingness and self-confidence about working in an inclusive classroom. The single group pre-test- post-test design was conducted to see whether there…

This research aims to determine the effectiveness of the Project-based 6E (engagement, exploration, explanation, elaboration, extension and evaluation) Learning Model. The researchers created the model by combining the basic features of project-based learning with an understanding of the learning cycle. The pre-test/post-test semi-experimental…

This study used a multiple probe design to evaluate the effects of a teacher-implemented video-schedule intervention on the mathematical skills and untargeted challenging behaviors of five elementary-school students with autism. Results indicated that the intervention was effective in improving participants' academic performance, and a decrease in…