The use of multiple-choice (MC) instruments to assess pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) has advantages in terms of test economy and objectivity, but it also poses challenges, for example, in terms of adequately capturing the intended construct. To help address these challenges, we developed and evaluated a new instrument to assess science…

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can influence physical, cognitive and social development, impacting life outcomes including the child's capacity to learn and become socially integrated. While steady relations to reliable, understanding adults may enhance child resilience and mitigate long-term effects on well-being, the difficulties of…

Current educational demand is ranking the learner among the most intellectual beings on the basis of school accountability and school achievement in the more challenging content like Science and Mathematics. The learners use their own strategies to learn the concept which are not taught to them show high achievement and know how to learn and apply…

The objective of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a practice-oriented approach in teaching Python programming to students in Kazakhstan. The study participants comprised students from a control group (CG) and an experimental group (EG), with 89 students in each group. The mean age of the participants was 20 years. The sample included…

Social justice has been a topic of social change that has typically been introduced in education at the pre-teen or teenager level of development. However, recent studies have uncovered there is value in introducing social justice issues at a much younger age. The purpose of this literature review is to establish a foundation for the need to…

Purpose: This study investigates the role of AI awareness, academic level, information sources, and educational support in shaping accounting students' Attitudes toward AI in Auditing. The research aims to provide actionable insights for integrating AI into accounting education and equipping students with the necessary skills to adapt to a rapidly…

Plant Awareness is a multidimensional construct that reflects the level of an individual's perception, understanding, and valuation of plants. Enhancing Plant Awareness is vital for conserving biodiversity and promoting sustainability, given the frequent neglect of plants' ecological roles. This study analyzes the relationship between the…

This study aims to (1) investigate the current and expected levels of intercultural communication competence (ICC) of foreign language teachers at Guangxi University of Foreign Languages (GUFL); and (2) develop an appropriate model for enhancing their ICC. The results revealed significant gaps between current and expected ICC levels of GUFL…

Education has become the right of every child so as to live with dignity and harmony. Family and Classroom are the two major zones determine mental health status of the children. Facilitating a holistic and healthy environment prevents them from delinquency. Besides academics, teachers must be equipped with 360-degree potentialities to face…

The main purpose of this study was to examine the association between interest in nature and attraction to the mass media. We measured environmental knowledge, environmental attitudes, and attraction to celebrities among a sample of 185 English-speaking community-based adults obtained through Mechanical Turk. A secondary purpose of the study was…

In this article, John Tillson discusses the conditions under which what he calls "knowledge insertion" would be desirable "for the one who has knowledge inserted." He argues that making use of knowledge insertion would not be cost free; in particular, it would come at the price of relationship goods realized through…

The main purpose of this study was to examine the association between environmental knowledge, environmental attitudes, and attraction to celebrities among a sample of 185 English-speaking community-based adults obtained through Mechanical Turk. A secondary purpose of the study was to validate measures of environmental attitudes and environmental…

How should a liberal democratic society value knowledge and understanding, and does this valuation inform how we ought to reason about the justice of our educational institutions? In scholarly and public discourse, it is orthodox to argue that because educational institutions bring about various goods--goods of character such as wellbeing or…

In this paper, we put forward a theoretical framework for understanding data literacy in initial teacher education. We have come to understand that data literacy is non-linear, non-hierarchical, and requires pre-service teachers to be able to work with a range of data sources to respond to the complexities of a classroom. Knowledge, therefore, can…

Background: Research on the effects of intervention dose on outcomes within adolescent sexual health education programming is lacking. Existing research on dose typically utilizes the number of sessions as a variable. In a school setting, there are scheduling limitations, student absences, and other logistical barriers that have the potential to…