Educational systems must equip students with skills to thrive in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environments. Creativity is an essential skill for both success and resiliency in such an environment, but not all curricula explicitly prioritize creativity skills. Thomas Jefferson University's Creativity Core Curriculum has proactively…

Student responses on the PISA 2022 creative thinking test are a rich source of data. The CT Rescoring Project applied new scoring methods to PISA 2022 creative thinking data in 14 countries and economies to identify the most creative responses in the sample and shed new light on key questions about creativity and creative thinking. This report…

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to conduct a cross-national comparative examination of two graduate-level initial licensure teacher preparation programs at Universitatea Babe?-Bolyai in Romania and North Dakota State University in the United States of America, both considered research-intensive institutions in their respective countries.…

Purpose: This study aims to support teachers introducing books depicting minoritized religious cultural events, holidays and traditions in their classrooms using a four-part interpretive framework. Design/methodology/approach: This study introduces and enacts a lived religion approach for interpreting realistic fictional children's picturebooks…

Referring to rational choice theory, this paper aims to better understand the factors that drive exchange students to a particular destination. A conjoint experiment conducted among students at a Spanish public university allows estimating in an unbiased way the isolated effect of different destination attributes on the destination choice, as well…

Study abroad provides international students with diverse linguistic and cultural exposure. However, there are limited accounts of graduate students' international mobility from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Therefore, this study explored the experiences, challenges, and strategies of English use among ASEAN doctoral…

Research highlights the importance of cultural competence in occupational therapy (OT) education and practice, as emphasized by both student and practitioner perspectives. Previous studies in nursing and occupational therapy posit that short-term study abroad programs, supported by adequate faculty guidance, can significantly improve cultural…

The rapid development of digital technologies has driven the transformation of scientific research methods and created new requirements for researchers' digital literacy. The cultivation of postgraduate students' digital research literacy is thus of great significance for scientific research. This study aims to understand the current situation,…

Microteaching--an innovative teaching method in which students deliver a mini-lesson to a small group of peers within a limited timeframe to develop specific teaching skills and refine pedagogical behaviors--has been implemented in teacher education and training for half a century. This qualitative study explored the views of 10 graduate students…

Teaching is a challenging profession at any career stage and in any subject but perhaps especially so for beginning science teachers who step into full responsibility for core and background instructional roles inside and outside the classroom. Traditional professional development has often been inadequate and further complicated by competing…

Study abroad participants, including in short-term programs, often describe their time abroad as "transformative" and a period of intense personal growth. However, the contents of this transformation are often treated by administrators and students themselves as inscrutable, with the fact of having developed intercultural skills and…

One understudied segment of the domestic talent pool is the Black or African American individuals who are U.S. citizens and aspire to earn a graduate degree. Gender differences within this talent pool are specifically understudied. The 101,039 individuals who are U.S. citizens, who provided gender and race/ethnicity information, and who had scores…

This case study examines the use and possibilities of blogging as reflective practice journals by student teachers during their practicum. The blog serves as a tool for the construction of their teacher identity through the encouragement of daily reflection on school experiences. The study investigates how the blog, as a digital tool, facilitates…

This paper aims to make a theoretical contribution to the field of student activism in relation to the school. In an age marked by ecological, economic and technological change, and where certainties based on Humanism and anthropocentricism continue to be eroded, this paper explores possibilities for reintegrating the school as meaningful to the…

Quantum information science and engineering (QISE) is rapidly gaining interest from those within many disciplines, and higher education needs to adapt to the changing landscape. Although QISE education still has a strong presence and roots in physics, the field is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary. There is a need to understand the presence…