Balancing out-of-class time for college students is not only crucial for reducing academic and emotional burdens but also plays a significant role in students' development. Using a work-life balance framework, this study proposes a theoretical framework of the balance between academic and non-academic time involvement and defines different balance…

Typically, students view classroom assessments like tests, exams, reports, and essays as a major stressor in higher education. However, it is also plausible that students have experienced instances in which the purposes, format, and design of classroom assessment actually supports their well-being. We used a qualitative descriptive design to…

At the foundation of research concerned with professional training is the idea of an assumed causal chain between the policies and practices of education and the eventual behaviours of those that graduate these programs. In medicine, given the social accountability to ensure that teaching and learning gives way to a health human resource that is…

Concept-based approaches to curriculum design have been proposed to solve content and curricula overload and promote conceptual learning. Few health professions have adopted this approach and little is known about how to support this educational change. We aimed to understand how nutrition and dietetics educators may navigate proposed education…

When considering health professionals' requirements and responsibilities, competence is a complex concept that extends beyond knowledge to encompass understanding, application, technical skills, problem-solving, and clinical judgment. Rural clinical placements provide a rich learning environment for students to improve their competencies,…

Rasch modelling is a powerful tool for evaluating item performance, measuring drift in difficulty over time, and comparing students who sat assessments at different times or at different sites. Here, we use data from thirty UK medical schools to describe the benefits of Rasch modelling in quality assurance and the barriers to using it. Sixty…

This study examined how transformational teaching practices and the adoption of flexible learning strategies influence students' university experiences. Adopting qualitative approach and employing thematic analysis, 10 participants who had encountered flexible learning during and after the pandemic were involved in the research. The study…

This study explores the intercultural communication challenges international postgraduate students encounter under local academic supervisors in public and private universities in Malaysia. Driven by the Malaysian Education Blueprint 2015-2025's goal of attracting more international students, the research highlights the critical role of…

In a literary studies-focused Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) project, students?from Catalonia, Spain and the U.S. experienced holistic learning activities that hinged experiential analysis and interpretation practice to urgent problems of social and economic instability. By using the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to…

Drawing on personal and household data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) 2020, the study aims to examine the relationship between internet-based entertainment and self-expectations in education in adolescents, as well as analyzing the moderating effects of various parenting styles on this relationship. Its research findings reveal that…

We study the external validity of instrumental variable estimation. The key assumption we impose for external validity is conditional external unconfoundedness among compliers, which means that the treatment effect and target selection are independent among compliers conditional on covariates. We study this assumption with a case study about the…

The drama fever has been riding high with consumer usage of over-the-top (OTT) streaming services on the rise and the prevalence of mobile devices with Internet connectivity. The researcher-teacher sometimes overhears her students chatting about the drama series they binge-watch. Given this binge-watching phenomenon on college campuses in Taiwan,…

Objective: While qualitative research suggests there may be detrimental effects of fitness testing in physical education (PE), little quantitative data have helped to understand how students experience fitnesstesting lessons. This study aimed to examine whether the physical self-concept plays a role in how students experience fitness testing at…

This paper explores barriers to student in-class attention during lecture. It also tests how these barriers can be reduced for better student learning outcomes. Analyzed using quantitative and qualitative techniques, data were randomly collected from 129 university undergraduate students through a questionnaire consisting of 20 open- and…

The present study tested the relationship between digital literacy skills and autonomous learning strategies in high school students in southern Sonora to see their impact on the training processes implied by the digital age. A quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional study of correlational scope was conducted with 365 secondary school…