Background/purpose: This study aimed to know the degree of scientific research contribution in achieving sustainable development from the faculty members' perspectives in Jordanian universities. The study sample consisted of 458 faculty members from Jordanian universities who were selected using the convenience sampling method. Material/Method:…

Academic achievement matters to students' opportunities and well-being. Although previous research has shown the relation between achievement and student engagement, the role played by students' developmental needs demands further deepening. In this context, the aim of the present study is to analyse the mediating role of psychosocial development…

The growing demand for microcredentials in education and workforce development necessitates scalable, accurate, and fair assessment systems for both soft and hard skills based on students' lived experience narratives. Existing approaches struggle with the complexities of hierarchical credentialing and the mitigation of algorithmic bias related to…

The purpose of the study was to assess the impact of staff training and development on employee job satisfaction among administrative staff in selected private universities in Uganda. This study was undertaken due to the increasing concerns of job discontentment among staff in private universities, especially administrative staff. The study was…

This paper explores the competencies of Life Sciences pre-service teachers in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), following UNESCO's 2030 call to address global sustainability challenges. Effective ESD integration requires teachers to be adequately prepared, yet higher education often falls short in equipping future educators with…

Studies of hemispheric specialization have traditionally cast the left hemisphere as specialized for language and the right hemisphere for spatial function. Much of the supporting evidence for this separation of function comes from studies of healthy adults and those who have sustained lesions to the right or left hemisphere. However, we know…

While day-to-day negative affect normatively rises across adolescence, emotional experiences also stratify, or diverge, across individuals. Moreover, negative affect is not a unitary construct but comprises distinct feeling states (e.g., sadness, anger, anxiety), each characterized by distinct age-related trends. Yet, most developmental research…

This study examined the link between teachers' creative thinking tendencies and their creativity-fostering classroom practices in the context of STEM education. Employing a correlational research design, data were collected from 338 in-service teachers actively integrating STEM approaches into their instruction. Two standardized instruments were…

Disciplinary literacy focuses on subject-specific practices, vocabulary, and texts for P-12 students to better understand, interpret, and apply their knowledge within a discipline. This type of literacy invites students to actively take up the roles and processes established in the content area. Early experiences are essential in shaping…

This paper reports the findings from cycles three and four in a longitudinal design-based research (DBR) study with K-12 teachers to evaluate their gains in awareness, use, and perceptions about open educational resources (OER) in general and after engaging with the Pathways Project (PP), a repository of 900 world language activities. Two groups…

"Generative AI Technologies, Multiliteracies, and Language Education" is a comprehensive edited volume that examines the integration of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies within the framework of multiliteracies pedagogies to enhance language teaching and learning. This collection of chapters offers an in-depth understanding of how GenAI…

A supervised agricultural experience (SAE) program provides the opportunity for agricultural education students to apply their classroom and leadership experiences to a real-world, contextualized setting. In 2015, the National Council for Agricultural Education developed the SAE for All initiative to encourage all students to develop and maintain…

In this theoretical article, we propose a conceptualisation of noticing, drawing on our enactivist perspective, which takes account of what is now known about human cognition, and from which we draw out implications for how noticing develops. We review past work on mathematics teacher noticing and note the dominance of a paradigm of taking…

Professional associations support a field in many ways, including professionalization, setting standards of practice, advocating for members and the industry it supports, and generating and sharing knowledge, research, and scholarship. While they provide ongoing education, they can play a more intentional role in professional preparation. This…

This study was designed to examine principals' perceptions of their roles as curriculum leaders in elementary schools. This study employs a qualitative design with a direct personal interview technique to collect data. Principals from thirty-six elementary schools from five school districts in the Atlanta metropolitan area participated in the…