Aim: Educational practitioners are increasingly aware of trauma experiences in students as a factor in child disturbance and schooling problems. This discussion paper aims to clarify definitions of trauma and differentiate them from other adverse childhood experiences (ACE), describe trauma impact in terms of clinical outcomes (PTSD, emotional and…

Didactic transposition theory examines the development from scientific/academic knowledge being produced by scientists to it becoming learned knowledge constructed by learners. According to the theory, four kinds of knowledge exist: scientific knowledge, knowledge to be taught, taught knowledge and learned knowledge. In this study, learning and…

Autistic individuals often struggle to find and maintain employment. This may be because many workplaces are not suited to autistic individuals' needs. Among other difficulties, many autistic employees experience distracting or disruptive sensory environments, lack of flexibility in work hours, and unclear communication from colleagues. One…

We explored the effects of assessment gamification on students' content knowledge and perceptions of satisfaction, course experience, learning, and impact of teaching techniques. The course preparation, attendance, quizzes, classroom activities, and team projects of an undergraduate operations and supply chain management course had game elements…

Chinese children routinely outperform American peers in standardized tests of mathematics knowledge. To examine mediators of this effect, 95 Chinese and US 5-year-olds completed a test of overall symbolic arithmetic, an IQ subtest, and three tests each of symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude knowledge (magnitude comparison, approximate…

The views of a transition/IEP team members of the collaborative efforts of each other have had little or limited viewing. Annually there are approximately six million special education students in the United States of America (Samuels, 2017). While in high school, these students and their transition/IEP team are tasked with preparing them for…

Educational content labeled with proper knowledge components (KCs) are particularly useful to teachers or content organizers. However, manually labeling educational content is labor intensive and error-prone. To address this challenge, prior research proposed machine learning based solutions to auto-label educational content with limited success.…

Digital media tasks are increasingly used in university settings to assess students' scientific knowledge. The use of such tasks has generated the need for principled analytical approaches to better understand how meaning-making operates in these artefacts. However, there has been a proliferation of approaches to multimodality in recent years and…

Community colleges expect their employees to promote academic success and propel students to graduation by providing a range of services, including academic advising. Increasingly, advising professionals continue to extoll the benefits of effective academic advising. The problem of the lack of enough trained advisers and information about the…

Individuals on the autism spectrum experience high rates of mental health issues. Meta-analyses indicate promising effects of psychological therapies, but challenges remain in ensuring and supporting access. This systematic review identified 12 studies that report on the barriers and facilitators to accessing psychological treatments for mental…

There had been a lack of research on the relationship between a new graduate Registered Nurses' knowledge, experiences, attitudes, and age bias toward older adults. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there was a relationship between new graduate Registered Nurses' knowledge, experiences, attitudes, and age bias toward older…

Capturing developmental and learning-induced brain dynamics is extremely challenging as changes occur interactively across multiple levels and emerging functions. Different levels include the (social) environment, cognitive and behavioral levels, structural and functional brain changes, and genetics, while functions include domains such as math,…

Knowledge of the professional roles of others is a foundational skill for team-based professionals such as occupational therapists, nurses, physical therapists, social workers, speech-language pathologists, and inclusive educators. Currently, interprofessional education (IPE) and practice are areas of focus in higher education professional…

Multicultural (MC) counseling and social justice (SJ) are foundational parts of counselors' professional identity, and they are fostered through a developmental process that counselor educators facilitate. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between counselor educators' ethnic/racial identity development (ERI), their social…

As colleges and universities adapt to an evolving workforce and changing sociopolitical landscape, the need for campuses to be responsive to the needs of students is imperative. For divisions of student affairs, the ability to clearly articulate the impact of their services on student learning and development will ensure future resources and a…