Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping the research paradigm of doctoral education, with growing evidence suggesting that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools could promote innovative behaviour among doctoral students. However, the use of AI tools in scientific research should be approached with special caution, as…

This study undertakes a dual exploration, examining the effects of individual differences on self-assessment accuracy, and students' perspectives on the reasons for their inaccuracies. A total of 112 psychology students self-scored an essay, then received the instructor's score and were interviewed. Results revealed: (1) a weak positive…

The hierarchical structure and complex relationships inherent in the teaching practicum often place teacher candidates (TCs) in challenging positions. This paper utilises Honig's concept of "dilemmatic space" to explore the ethical dilemmas faced by TCs during their secondary education practicum in urban China. A total of 94 TCs (77…

This account of practice focuses on how an action learning methodology was used for a project in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (the Department) a large Irish Government Department with a workforce of approximately 4,000 staff. The objectives of the project were to explore the reasons for the low engagement of senior managers…

Becoming academics has been hard-won by Chinese women, with over half the nation's academic workforce now female. But the conditions for academic women's flourishing remain fraught, even as they are publicly celebrated. This paper explores how discourses of patriotism and gender operate at one Chinese university through public pedagogies that…

Purpose: The changing landscape of higher education demands enhancing organizational performance to meet evolving needs, including technological advancements, diverse demographics and global competition. This study aims to examine the impact of knowledge-centered culture (KCC) and absorptive capacity (AC) on driving organizational performance,…

Background: Health literacy is an important public health concern and can be defined as 'the degree or extent to which the individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions'. Research on health literacy among recent immigrants to Canada is not that extensive.…

Self-efficacy is a perceived judgment that one has the ability to execute a course of action that brings about a desired result. While a growing body of research demonstrates the importance of self-efficacy by school leaders, little is known about the different sources of principals' self-efficacy. This qualitative study investigates the relevance…

Tense/aspect morphology on verbs is often thought to depend on event features like telicity, but it is not known how speakers identify these features in visual scenes. To examine this question, we asked Japanese speakers to describe computer-generated animations of simple actions with variation in visual features related to telicity. Experiments…

This paper explores UK school students' protest activism relating to their schools' policies and practices, drawing on two datasets: 1) a newspaper analysis of media reports relating to school protests between 2000 and 2021; 2) a survey of 800 secondary school pupils in Wales. Drawing on social movements literature and adapting concepts for the…

Background: Swedish employment rates are disproportionately low among people with intellectual disability and research on employment sustainability in this group is scarce. This study investigated employment sustainability among people with intellectual disability, with a focus on identifying facilitators. Method: Fifteen persons with intellectual…

The particularly complex issue of the curriculum for preschool education remains an open one, given the rapid social changes of the current period, but also the results of research in educational sciences and psychology. All of theses force reconsiderations from multiple perspectives, especially related to the cognitive training-development and…

In this empirical paper, we discuss the factors impacting Accounting teachers' effective implementation of assessment for learning (AfL) in the classroom and the action on the possible solutions in dealing with the impeding factors. AfL is considered a critical requirement for Accounting teachers and, if implemented effectively, improves the…

The aim of this study is to reveal the general view of research on inclusive education in the preschool period using the bibliometric analysis method. The data used in the research were obtained from 261 articles in the Web of Science (WOS) database. Within the scope of bibliometric analysis, the VOSviewer software program was used to create…

This article is personal and rather anecdotal as it is an attempt to sum up my experience of 30 years of Ofsted inspections. The key questions remain what they always were. How do you deal with the sometimes conflicting requirements of support and accountability, objectivity and impartiality, styles of inspection, reporting and grading? Perhaps…