Despite the utilization of adventure therapy techniques in behavioral health disorder prevention programming, little is known about how providers become trained in adventure-based prevention practice. Additionally, limited literature examines how adventure therapy providers are trained. This exploratory qualitative study provides a starting point…

Many adolescents who experience psychosocial problems do not often seek help. Help-seeking behaviours and intentions are influenced by personal, social, and structural factors, and they differ by gender. Help-seeking has not been investigated in the led outdoor activity (LOA) domain, in which thousands of adolescents participate annually. The…

The academic success of students in higher education institutions (HEIs) depends on a multitude of factors, including the assessment strategies employed. In recent years, many HEIs have prioritised continuous assessment methods, often as a complement to or replacement for traditional final exams. This study examined the impact of two assessment…

Academic selection for post-primary education is an important feature of the educational landscape in some parts of the United Kingdom, most notably in Northern Ireland and some areas of England, in addition to several other global contexts. This work systematically reviewed studies in a UK context which investigated the consequences of academic…

Raising citizens' awareness of the importance of microbiology in everyday life is crucial, especially considering the recent societal challenges such as emerging diseases or antibiotic resistance. Integrating this awareness into secondary education is essential, yet teaching microbiology requires alignment with national curricula. To evaluate how…

The applied field of "Global Early Childhood Development", developed in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised Rich and Democratic) settings, asserts universal frameworks and understandings of early childhood development pathways. This field advocates for the roll out of parenting interventions aimed at improving child development…

As PhD students' well-being gathers relevance, exploring what factors influence it and how is crucial. Therefore, this study quantitatively examined the joint effect of personal and contextual variables on PhD students' well-being and qualitatively assessed their perceptions about the main issues they faced during their doctoral course. Through a…

This study examines the serial mediating role of college outcome expectation and engagement in the relationship between a sense of belonging and loyalty. It goes further by exploring the serial mediating roles of college outcome expectation and student engagement, in contrast to previous research that primarily concentrated on the direct…

In the background of recent research which recognises the 'ubiquitousness' of outdoor school breaktimes in the UK (Baines and Blatchford 2023) and the acknowledged role in play being key to peer friendships (Carter, 2022), this article focuses on the location where these breaks or playtimes are spent -- the school playground. The data is drawn…

This report presents the findings of a research project carried out for the School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa Te Puna Whare Matauranga a Kura (SLANZA) and the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa (the National Library) in 2024. School libraries are not mandatory in Aotearoa New Zealand schools.…

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the story map method applied to fourth-grade primary school students on the students' ability to determine the main idea in narrative texts. The study was conducted within the scope of a quasi-experimental design, one of the quantitative research methods; a matched control group post-test model…

In this article, we analyzed the levels of reading comprehension: literal, inferential, and critical, using a diagnostic test about the understanding of the Mean Value Theorem (MVT) in engineering students of the Universidad de La Salle in the Calculus I lecture (Differential Calculus). The objectives of this article are to identify in which of…

This paper reports on our study of the effectiveness of the course instruction in the numeracy course 'Numbers for Life', offered at McMaster University, Canada, and taught by one of the co-authors. In this course students explore the ways to reason with numbers in a variety of contexts important not only for their individual lives and their…

In urban, industrialized cultures, the best predictor of how children acquire their native language is child-directed speech from adults. However, in many societies, children are much less exposed to such input. What has remained unexplored is the impact of another type of input: other children's speech. In cross-cultural head-turn experiments, we…

Malaysia recorded the largest decline among other ASEAN countries in the 2022 PISA mathematics performance. Although the COVID-19 pandemic may have contributed to this poor mathematics performance, previous PISA trends have shown that Malaysian students were already struggling in mathematics before the pandemic. Given this pressing concern, this…