Objectives: The study aims to create a comprehensive framework for the effective organization of parallel teaching of two foreign languages in higher education in Kazakhstan, accounting for linguistic, psychological, didactic, and technological aspects. Methods: We used theoretical (modeling, analysis, and generalization) and empirical methods…

Introduction: This study aims to determine whether student profiles, based on cognitive, intrapersonal, and interpersonal competencies from the NRC2012 model, change depending on the type of higher education institution and the time spent in higher education by Chilean higher education students. Method: Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) was used to…

Autistic youth experience elevated rates of co-occurring internalizing symptoms. Interventions to treat internalizing symptoms in autistic youth are almost uniformly costly and time-intensive, blunting dissemination of intervention and highlighting the need for scalable solutions. One promising option is a relatively new class of evidence-based…

This study investigates how preservice science teachers (PSTs) develop and utilize representations in chemistry when they engage in argument-based inquiry environments using the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) approach. The data-transformation variant of convergent design, which is a particular form of mixed method research, was used in the study.…

Developing Intercultural Learners in English Language Teaching Classrooms was educational action research to integrate intercultural training methods into English as a Foreign Language classrooms to develop learners' intercultural communication competence. This case study focuses on the action research procedure, the multiperspectivity in data…

This study investigated the role of teacher-student relations, student-student relations and school identification in the relationship between social and emotional competencies and student engagement. Participants included 656 Chinese middle school students with an age range of 12-16 years who completed the social and emotional competencies scale,…

Concept maps are widely used across disciplines as a graphical tool for organizing and representing knowledge. While the effectiveness of concept maps as a learning tool to organize subject knowledge is well-documented in the literature, there is scant research on concept maps as a visual tool to augment L2 learners' multimodal communication…

The ability to effectively use digital technology and problem-solve are critical skills for maintaining democratic health, particularly as civil society and the modern digital landscape continuously evolve. However, information on whether individuals have the critical problem-solving skills to use digital technology and confidently affect change…

Previous studies employing cross-lagged panel models (CLPMs) found mixed results regarding reciprocal relations between competence beliefs and intrinsic motivation. CLPMs have been criticized for leading to erroneous causal inference in certain situations. Two datasets were analyzed regarding reciprocal relations between competence beliefs and…

This qualitative study explored the experiences of early career school-based agricultural education teachers in California who participated in a multi-part professional development series focused on emotional intelligence. Rooted in Guskey's model for teacher change, the study aimed to examine how emotional intelligence-based learning influences…

Needs assessments serve a pivotal role in identifying the diverse competency needs of adult learners, particularly in the Cooperative Extension System (CES). While previous studies have found that an evaluation competency gap exists among Extension professionals (EPs), little is known about how to prioritize and sequence evaluation competency…

Children with CHARGE syndrome display significant delays in their motor development compared with peers without disabilities. Although individual constraints related to CHARGE syndrome characteristics are often a primary concern for motor development, environmental constraints have been shown to play a contributing role. Specifically, several…

Children with developmental language disorders (DLDs) may experience barriers to communicative participation. Communicative participation is defined as 'participation in life situations in which knowledge, information, ideas or feelings are exchanged'. Barriers experienced in communicative participation cannot be explained by language competence…

This study was interested in the level of correspondence between high school students' self-perceptions of academic competence and achievement. The objectives were to (a) identify different profiles of students in terms of correspondence between perceptions of general academic competence and achievement in language arts and mathematics, (b)…

Despite the recognition of the benefits that can be achieved through the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and, more broadly, Open Educational Practices (OEP), there has been little research on the competences that are needed to enable educators to utilise such practices. To contribute to closing this gap, this paper presents a framework of…