The continued increase in the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has important implications for early childhood educational settings. The deficits and difficulties associated with ASD can pose challenges for the inclusion of children with this diagnosis within mainstream child care settings. Research primarily conducted within school…

The necessity for establishing links between school mathematics and students' personal lives and cultures, as enshrined in the ethnomathematics program, is being recognized and investigated in different regions across the globe. However, a comprehensive understanding of the antecedents that drive the integration of ethnomathematical perspectives…

Purpose: Schools play a crucial role in the psychological development of adolescents. However, the education is inadequate for many students. This study aims to understand students' views and suggestions on the implementation of mental health education in schools and to help schools find the target point of the implementation of mental health…

Although much research has focused on factors that contribute to effective online education in higher education (HE), insights remain scattered. In this study, we provide a more holistic perspective on how to facilitate effective online HE by concurrently examining factors that were hitherto treated separately. In our meta-review, we synthesized…

Responding to the pivotal role of English nowadays, higher education institutions require every student to take an English course. In higher education, teaching English focuses more on the specific discipline of the students. It helps students to have good English capabilities within their field of study. Writing skill is demanded because the…

The association between parents' work-family conflicts and children's academic outcomes is an understudied topic. The present research investigates the role of quadratic measures--parental working hours' scale, parental age, parental interaction quality, and learning materials at home--in children's cognitive outcomes. It employs a community…

This teaching tip explores the integration of AI tools into database education. The author describes how instructors can use AI tools to prepare teaching materials and how students can use AI to facilitate database development. The teaching tips provided encompass both course-level objectives and assignment-specific strategies. The inclusion of AI…

Software engineers are tasked with writing functionally correct code of high quality. Maintainability is a crucial code quality attribute that determines the ease of analyzing, modifying, reusing, and testing a software component. This quality attribute significantly affects the software's lifetime cost, contributing to developer productivity and…

Teacher shortages and attrition are problems of international concern. One of the most frequent reasons for teachers leaving the profession is a lack of job satisfaction. Accordingly, in this study we have adopted a causal inference machine learning approach to identify practical interventions for improving overall levels of job satisfaction. We…

While developmental dyslexia has been extensively studied in children, research on adults is still rather limited. This paper aims to bridge the gap in existing research by presenting the findings of a study that examined the reading and spelling skills of adults with dyslexia and assessed the effectiveness of a linguistic intervention designed to…

The authors discuss the shift in play-based educational experiences during the past decade in Guyana. They hold that nature-based play has become a type of pedagogy in decline and even at risk of extinction. Their study presents the status of nature play beginning with Guyana's national early childhood program in 1976 and employs a descriptive…

The main objective of this study is to develop a training curriculum that integrates the basic components of digital literacy and the 70-20-10 learning model to enhance the digital literacy abilities of teachers at Nanchang Vocational University. The curriculum mainly includes the following two research questions: (1) What is the current status,…

Background: A peer-led self-advocacy group, Our Voice SA, is used as a case study to explore how the social engagement of people with intellectual disability contributed to their self-advocacy about things that are important to them. Method: Secondary analyses of data (interviews, observations and program data) were thematically analysed using…

Background/purpose: Insufficient integration of local history into the national curriculum has resulted in students' limited understanding of their regional cultural identity. In Ciamis Regency, the Kagaluhan values embedded in Sanghyang Siksakandang Karesian (SSKK) hold great potential for character education but remain underutilized in history…

This study explores talent-development trajectories of early-career chemical engineers to identify key components for success in the field using the talent development megamodel as a theoretical framework. Interviews with 12 recent PhD graduates reveal a trajectory across four developmental stages: (a) math ability and science ability, (b)…