Past research has shown that using an online student orientation can decrease anxiety for students taking online classes for the first time. This study focuses on the experience of first-time online students from a community college in South Texas using a multiple regression analysis to determine first-time online student readiness in the areas of…

Belonging and shame find themselves on a spectrum. Shame is on one end belonging the other. In the university setting belonging is widely researched. However, it is not known how shame resilience effects a college's students sense of belonging. This study tapped into shame resilience theory and self-authorship to start the conversation about shame…

Technology professional development for teachers typically relies on formal training or courses, but the forced, sudden transition to technology-based instruction in the spring of 2020 meant many instructors had to engage in self-directed professional development in a high-stakes, sink or swim environment. This qualitative narrative oral history…

Religious support has consistently been linked with better psychological functioning. The Multi-Faith Religious Support Scale (MFRSS; Bjorck & Maslim, 2011) is one measure used to assess such support, but to date, no one has assessed denominational differences using this scale. I compared Catholics and Protestants in this study regarding the…

College students who identify on the queer- and trans-spectrum (LGBTQ+) perceive and experience their campuses differently from their cisgender and straight peers. The differing experiences have resulted in LGBTQ+ students reporting a lower sense of belonging to their campuses. Researchers have found positive correlations between sense of…

Dietetics plays a pivotal role in maintaining health among all human beings (Slawson et al., 2013). Registered dietitians serve as the official, legally recognized healthcare providers for dietetics guidance (Davis & Affenito, 2014). The racial and ethnic profile of registered dietitians in the United States is largely White, lacks…

The problem of grade inflation has become epidemic in higher education. The purpose of this research was to determine the experiences, perceptions, and interpretations of adjunct college instructors with the phenomenon of grade inflation. The researcher used a qualitative phenomenological study methodology. Twenty-three respondents participated in…

The purpose of this Dissertation in Practice (DiP) is to discover how educators serving students with significant learning challenges describe the impact of participation in an appreciative leadership development program on their work and professional growth as leaders. This scholar-practitioner DiP achieves this goal through the scholarly pursuit…

Sleep is critical to teen physical and mental health, daily function, and school performance. Yet, sleep deficiency is prevalent among ethnoracially diverse teens. The purpose of this community-engaged focus group study was to explore multilevel influences on teen sleep from teen and community stakeholder perspectives and to use this information…

In "Reducing Stress in Schools," Mathew Portell, Ingrid L. Cockhren, Tyisha J. Noise, Julie Kurtz, and Julie Nicholson provide a toolkit of actionable, evidence-based practices for PreK-12 teachers, administrators, and staff to support students' and adults' nervous system regulation. Rooted in the tenets of trauma-responsive education…

Psychological well-being plays a crucial role in shaping students' academic success, emotional resilience, and overall educational experiences, while also significantly influencing teachers' job satisfaction and effectiveness. However, increasing academic pressures, institutional challenges, and digital advancements have posed new threats to…

This study investigated the extent to which students' social-emotional basic psychological need satisfaction (of social-emotional autonomy, social competence, relatedness with students, and relatedness with teachers) is associated with their prosocial motivation and, in turn, behavioral and emotional well-being outcomes. For motivation, autonomous…

This qualitative study probes into teacher power use and student silence in an EFL classroom in an English department of a private university in Makassar, Indonesia. Anchored by a qualitative analysis and participated by one female teacher and three EFL students, data were garnered through in-depth interviews and observation. It was designed to…

The study is based on research conducted on work-integrated learning (WIL), also known as teaching practice during the online enrichment and intervention programme for final-year student teachers at a tertiary institution in Johannesburg. This programme was conducted from 2016 and modified in 2020 to enhance and improve the History methodology…

Research has identified antecedents to flourishing--high levels of social, emotional, and psychological health--in adolescence and adulthood but few studies have attended to flourishing in childhood. Moreover, although there has been great interest in how environmental effects on mental illness vary by temperament, little attention has been…