Computer Programming is believed to have effect on creativity, reasoning, analytic and mathematical skills. This cognitive development is at a cost from both ends of students and teachers of computer programming. Its abstractive nature makes it difficult to teach and learn hence, the enormous hours spent in teaching, learning and developing…

"Transforming Learning with New Technologies" demonstrates the limitless ways teachers and students can use laptops, smartphones, coding, serious learning games and many more new and emerging technologies to create highly interactive, inquiry-based teaching and learning experiences in K to 12 schools. Focusing on the day-to-day realities…

In this paper we elucidate ways the deeper interactional underpinnings of dialogic discourse are found in the deep characteristics of the local classroom community. We analyse how, over one school year, a teacher promoted development of shared community values in her classroom of seven and eight-year-olds in the United States. We elaborate on the…

The Braun and Simpson's (2004) study indicates that the Pause method is an effective teaching approach for auditing based on four sets of hypotheses in developing students' oral, written and interpersonal communication skills. In addition, it is more beneficial to the learning process and more enjoyable than the lecture-only method. The extent of…

Constructivism represents a heterogeneous body of theoretical approaches across different disciplines for these alliances, as well as, attracting and antagonizing vast audiences within these disciplines, including psychology and education. A major influence on the rise of constructivism has been the theory and research in human development.…

The sudden emergence and rapid spread of COVID-19 is a reminder of our frailty, where the magnitude of the impact facing the world as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has become increasingly apparent. One way that we have effectively responded to this emergency educationally, has to become innovative in our relationship with technology. The value…

Games and learning have many overlapping characteristics, which has led to the popular trend of using games as educational tools. However, game-based learning (GBL) has not been sufficiently evaluated through the lens of individual learner differences. The theoretical frameworks of goal achievement orientation and self-determination theory (SDT)…

Professional development is a critical part of implementing new instructional strategies. Despite its importance, little information is available explaining if and how professional development motivates teachers' instruction. This qualitative descriptive study examined what influences teachers' motivation to implement STEM instructional…

This study evaluated whether an intervention on implicit bias would mitigate police academy recruits' implicit associations and color-blind racial ideology. The police recruits' racial attitudes were tested before and after the completion of the implicit bias training. Their implicit associations on Race, Skin-Tone, and Weapons were tested as…

After being introduced to "ambitious" teaching methods during teacher education, only some beginning teachers attempt to enact those methods, as others gravitate toward the conventional practices that overwhelm K-12 settings. To learn more about why, I conducted a multiple-case study of four beginning secondary mathematics teachers who…

Integrating design thinking methodology into writing courses can help students to develop creative approaches to problem definition and solution development. Tracing how students work with and through written genres common to design thinking reveals the possibilities and potential of learning new patterns of inquiry and argumentation. Developing…

After ten years of public school teaching and countless student teaching observations, the author knows firsthand that English language arts (ELA) teachers are committed to teaching researched argumentative writing and, further, they often frame their assignments as questions. In this article, the author proposes that ELA teachers accelerate…

Advocates of open educational resources (OER) promote OER's advantages over traditional course materials, such as student cost savings, but little is known about OER's impact on the college instructors who teach with it. Implementing new course materials often requires considerable effort on the part of faculty, so relevant empirical research has…

Operationalism, representationalism, and pragmatism are three major philosophies of measurement in psychology and education. These philosophies play important roles in designing and conducting measurements, as well as interpreting results. When measurement results are available, validity evidence plays important roles in supporting the…

The qualitative study used two case studies to explore the career search experience of college graduates with autism. The study included interviews with college graduates diagnosed with ASD, interviews with family members of the college graduate, and interviews with hiring supervisors of the college graduates with ASD to glean information…