This study explores how students' professional learning is distributed across and mediated by multiple learning environments during student affairs graduate preparation. Utilizing activity system analysis and qualitative case study, the study reports on the experiences of four second-year Master's students at a Midwest preparation program.…

This review provides an overview of the literature related to inclusive education for students with autism/takiwatanga in Aotearoa. A search of peer-reviewed literature identified 49 potentially relevant publications; of these, 13 met the inclusionary criteria. The reviewed publications addressed issues of how best to achieve inclusive education…

There is significant research on the built environment's support for children's optimal learning in educational settings. While faith itself is transmitted through conversation with God, the process of conversation, as well as a child's interaction and growth within their community, is affected by the physically built environment of the classroom.…

In the spring of 2020, the academic school year for all educational institutions was tremendously impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused great concern with school administrations, teachers, parents, students, and their communities. In the fall of 2020 and the following two years, many school decision-makers responded by offering students…

The current set of studies examined whether two common appraisals that students make during learning (whether they have control over their learning and whether they place value into learning the material) give rise to common types of thoughts students also experience (mind wandering, personal connections, and freely-moving thought). Study One…

This article examines the visual environment on the campuses of two Historically Black Colleges or Universities and two Predominantly White Institutions. I use photos and observations to identify common physical campus variables that may give some insight into the Historically Black Colleges or Universities' campus culture and the unique traits…

Contemporary educational practices impose challenges and necessary changes in teaching and learning processes in which cyberspace and virtual contexts become places of learning. Affection, emotion, perception, and imagination compose the construction of meaningful adult knowledge. Such theoretical assumptions become fundamental for teaching and…

Through effective organizational leadership, school leaders may influence a positive school culture. Lack of purposeful implementation of the elements required to make schools exceptional places to work is the problem, which may harm organizational culture and have a negative effect on staff, students, and the school community. This study sought…

Through effective organizational leadership, school leaders may influence a positive school culture. Lack of purposeful implementation of the elements required to make schools exceptional places to work is the problem, which may harm organizational culture and have a negative effect on staff, students, and the school community. This study sought…

Through effective organizational leadership, school leaders may influence a positive school culture. Lack of purposeful implementation of the elements required to make schools exceptional places to work is the problem, which may harm organizational culture and have a negative effect on staff, students, and the school community. This study sought…

This research seeks to understand the relationship between marginalized identities and trauma in adolescents in relation to classroom outcomes, both behavioral and academic, through an intersectional framework. A synthesized review of literature as well as a quantitative study using the HSLS:09 data was conducted to discern how marginalized…

Students spend little time completing tasks when deadlines are far off; however, they tend to increase their work amounts as deadline approaches. This phenomenon, which is called deadline rush, can be modeled by exponential distributions. Deadline reactivity, represented by a rate parameter of the exponential distribution, parameterizes individual…

Despite decades of initiatives, engineering education continues to lack diversity. The proportion of women, BIPOC, LGBTQA+, low-income, first-generation, and disabled students in engineering education remains below national population levels. The culture of engineering is a barrier to increasing participation in engineering for students from these…

Virtual learning is ever-changing and due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, it has grown in popularity. In the twenty-first century, technology has altered the way teachers deliver content and information to students. Virtual teachers are responsible for helping students learn new ways to teach with technology while also making sure they do well in…

This quantitative, correlational study explored the relationship between teacher retention and teachers' perception of high school learning and the social-physical environment along the "I-95 Corridor of Shame." Two regression analyses were conducted using a dataset of 68 observations taken from 17 "I-95 Corridor of Shame" high…