In the United States, 350,000+ fatalities are due to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (CPR Certification HQ, 2018). If patients do not receive quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) within the first few minutes of the attack, they will perish. According to the American Heart Association (2019b), healthcare (HC) providers have reduced CPR…

Instructional designers need project management skills when managing instructional design projects (Liu et al., 2002). Based on a 2018 study, project management knowledge was found in over 40% of job postings and is recognized as a competency needed for career preparedness (Klein & Kelly, 2018; Larson & Lockee, 2009). It is unknown how…

Educators and community members in the Cayman Islands are subjected to school inspections that are based on the United Kingdom model for inspecting schools. This model has not been tested to determine its appropriateness for use in a Caribbean education setting. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of educators and community…

Learning how to organize information, prioritize tasks, adjust to changing demands and reflect on their learning requires students to use executive function (EF) skills. Research shows that EF processes are essential to learning and can impact academic performance. Students who are not given adequate practice with EF skills may struggle with…

School-based occupational therapy practitioners (OTPs) often face challenges impacting their ability to collaborate and communicate consistently with educators, including decreased time, lack of resources, educators' limited knowledge regarding occupational therapy (OT) scope of practice, informal communication and decreased focus on preventive or…

This exploratory study examined whether the school counselors' racial match and the type of post-graduate multicultural training predict multicultural awareness for school counselors. Using a predictive correlational research design was the most appropriate for determining a relationship between the variables. The utilization of a predictive…

Students in Oklahoma schools who struggle to read consistently perform low in reading, including those with dyslexia. Teachers of these students are directly linked to students' achievement in all areas of academics. This qualitative content analysis explored the perceptions that six selected Oklahoma public school educators had about dyslexia and…

The purpose of this study is: (1) To examine the perceptions of preservice teachers in teacher education programs in relationship to self-efficacy with the focus on mathematics, (2) Compare student's self-efficacy based upon the year in college, (3) Compare student's self-efficacy based upon their concentration, and (4) Compare student's…

This research employed a matched-pairs randomized field experiment design to evaluate a classroom-based health education intervention for pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten children in a rural region of the southeastern United States. Schools were matched on demographic characteristics, then one school from each pair was randomly assigned to the…

Youth development programs designed for Latinx youth remain understudied. However, some research reports indicate that having bilingual and bicultural facilitators and developing culturally-infused programs may be effective. Extension educators developed a hands-on youth educational program specifically designed for Latinx youth. Educators…

Historical significance is a historical thinking concept. Being able to identify historical significance is viewed as important for understanding change and continuity in the past, and for understanding the way 'history' is constructed by present society. This article discusses how Swedish students in Grade 5 (age 11 years) perceive and understand…

Research has shown 21st century skills are essential to a student's success outside of the high school classroom. The 21st century skills prepare students to enter the workforce or higher education with the ability to think critically and creatively, collaborate with others, take the initiative when approached with a task, and use technology to…

This pilot study explored the linguistic attitudes, knowledge, and beliefs of undergraduate majors in speech-language pathology (SLP) and the role an interest in linguistics played in their choice of the SLP major. Fifteen undergraduate students declared as SLP majors participated in this mixed-methods study. Participants responded to a survey and…

This article presents preliminary analysis of a test item in a large-scale study design to promote the development of geometric reasoning progression. Two sets of data were analysed to validate the item designed to assess secondary school students' knowledge of a rectangle. The first data set involved 155 Year 4-10 students from seven trial…

In this essay, Barbara Applebaum reframes the case for subversive incivility by emphasizing the links between civility, comfort, and willful ignorance. The scholarship defending incivility gives much attention to ascertaining when incivility is justified. While acknowledging the importance of this focus, Applebaum asks whether it fails to…