Extensive research documents how teachers' understandings of education reforms impact implementation and outcomes. However, the role of teachers' emotional sensemaking in the context of reform remains underexplored. This article reviews research on teachers' emotional responses to reform and argues that an overreliance on retrospective,…

To design effective instruction, educators need to know "what" design strategies are generally effective and why these strategies work, based on the mechanisms through which they operate. Experimental comparison studies, which compare one instructional design against another, can generate much needed evidence in support of effective…

Given its prominence in maximising feedback processes, feedback literacy has received large scholarly attention over the past decade. This article aims to use a bibliometric approach to provide an overview of the evolution of feedback literacy from 2012 to May 1, 2024. Based on 240 documents retrieved from Scopus, a performance analysis and…

This systematic review of flipped classrooms examined the trends, purposes, results, and recommendations of relevant research conducted in primary schools. The study evaluated 20 articles that met the eligibility criteria obtained from publications in the Web of Science, ERIC, Scopus, Science Direct, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, TR…

Kantorski examined string education doctoral research between 1935 and 1992 and highlighted potential future areas of research. In this content analysis, I examined dissertations in string education between 1992 and 2022 to determine current trends of doctoral research. I reviewed 393 string education dissertations and coded each to determine the…

Item response theory (IRT) encompasses a broader class of measurement models than is commonly appreciated by practitioners in educational measurement. For measures of vocabulary and its development, we show how psychological theory might in certain instances support unipolar IRT modeling as a superior alternative to the more traditional bipolar…

Using interviews with global research stakeholders, this research explores how stakeholders within research-system-level research governance organisations conceptualised, responded to, and reasoned the realities of disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they positioned procedural changes to their governance mechanisms. Given that…

In all research, ethical considerations are crucial to reliability and quality and researchers are guided by various national and international documents and ethical committees. Despite different strategies to guide researchers and to ensure quality, there still seems to be uncertainty in educational science about how research ethics should be…

Decolonial studies, initiated by Southern scholars, scrutinize the coloniality of power, knowledge, and being as a constitutive condition of Western modernity, and explicate otherwise suppressed non-Western onto-epistemes. This paper examines Chinese academia's 'building Chinese education' as a decolonial, 'self-awakening', effort against the…

Mixed methods research studies have the potential to answer increasingly complex questions facing early childhood special education (ECSE) researchers. Despite the value that qualitative methods add to mixed methods research designs, most published mixed methods research in special education are quantitatively-dominant. In this article, we aim to…

Children's desire to read plays a crucial role in becoming a skilled reader, however, less research has examined the experiences of multilingual children. The current study reviewed the peer-reviewed literature on motivation for and attitudes toward reading in multiple languages among children. The review was guided by the following research…

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, implementation of innovative work behavior (IWB) among teachers is crucial. However, the current situation indicates that teachers' contributions to the understanding of IWB have not been thoroughly explored and need further investigation. This bibliometric analysis aims to systematically analyze and…

This scoping review provides an overview of the research related to educational placement decisions for students with special educational needs over a 20-year period in Canada. While educational placement has received considerable research attention in countries such as the United States, few studies have focused on the nature of the…

Background/purpose: This article analyses the importance of University Social Responsibility (SRU), which is driven by a change in the vision of academics. The SRU initiatives appropriately enhance the reputation and brand image of universities. When universities actively engage in social and environmental initiatives, they are seen as an agent of…

This study uncovers the development and structure of the research on English as a second or foreign language in post-Soviet countries. In total, 500 publications from the Web of Science database were analyzed. The findings revealed that the authors involved tend to cross borders in co-authorship publications. There is a small exchange of…