Generative artificial intelligence (AI) large language models have become sufficiently accessible and user-friendly to assist students with course work, studying tactics, and written communication. AI-generated writing is almost indistinguishable from human-derived work. Instructors must rely on intuition/experience and, recently, assistance from…

Objective: This exploratory study examined campus attitudes toward vaccines to guide subsequent development of context-relevant interventions for increasing vaccine acceptance and uptake. Participants: We gathered ethnographic data on a convenience sample of campus community members (students, faculty, staff) at a public university over six weeks…

Attention is crucial for learners to enhance their learning and build knowledge. Sustaining prolonged attention requires students to self-regulate their behavioral, emotional, and cognitive processes. At the same time, learners engage in mind wandering approximately 30% of the time spent in educational activities, leading to a deterioration in…

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted how racially minoritized patients and clinicians have suffered racial discrimination. It also made visible the ways in which Asians across the globe experience racial hate and illuminated that the experiences of Asians in medicine are not often spotlighted. In the United States specifically, Asian Americans are…

Introduction: Student retention is a critical issue in higher education. Universities have responded by implementing supports like early alert systems. Objective: We investigated students' knowledge of and experiences with an early alert system designed to enhance academic persistence. Method: We surveyed (N = 356) undergraduates at a large public…

Background: Formative assessments build a positive learning environment and provide feedback to enhance learning. This study examined the impact of online formative and low-stake summative assessments on medical students' learning outcomes in the Clinically Oriented Anatomy course from 2016 to 2020. We aimed to demonstrate that formative…

Purpose: One important decision speech language pathologists make when planning anomia treatment is the identification and selection of the specific vocabulary items to target during therapy. However, this process is not entirely straightforward. Although 'functional relevance' has high face validity for the identification of target items,…

This study explores implementing place-based education in teaching Arabic literature in Arab schools in Israel. The research proposes a pedagogical approach that connects literary texts to their physical and cultural environments. This approach extends learning beyond traditional classroom boundaries. Through systematic analysis of curricular…

This study explores the use of webcam-based eye tracking during a learning task to predict and better understand neurodivergence with the aim of improving personalized learning to support diverse learning needs. Using WebGazer, a webcam-based eye tracking technology, we collected gaze data from 354 participants as they engaged in educational…

This promising practice article explores the implementation of an academic recovery program along with supplemental programs at a small liberal arts Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the southeastern United States, Miles College. Miles is an open-enrollment institution, where most students are Pell Grant eligible,…

The need to increase the number of Black educators in United States (US) classrooms is predicated on the demographic imbalance between a primarily white teacher force and a racially and culturally diverse student population. It is also premised on the demonstrated value that Black teachers bring to the classroom, especially for Black children.…

In this study, we use discursive analytic tools to understand how transnational high school students in one suburban high school in the United States Pacific Northwest describe their social and academic experiences in school. The majority of the students from this study were born in the United States and therefore do not fit with the traditional,…

Due to the higher autism research presence of higher-income countries, the known social and cultural experiences of families raising a child with autism are centered on their realities. This narrative overlooks the experiences of many families who do not fit this archetype, such as those residing in low- and middle-income countries, who are…

This paper explores the perceptions of future career trajectories amongst racialised minority PhDs in UK higher education. Drawing on 22 semi-structured interviews, my findings discuss how racialised minority PhDs relate to an academic career trajectory and identity, how they experience white organisational spaces and how diversity, or lack…

This paper is based on the ethnographic multiple case study of four refugee background youths from Burma at four different schools in a midwestern urban school district in the US. My research finds that the normalization of English constructed the focal youths' language-related identities. I also argue that through this normalization, language…