Science education is increasingly integrating a focus on socio-scientific issues. Policy makers and scholars also suggest education for sustainable development (ESD) is important for tackling current and future sustainability issues. ESD may foster students' action competence in sustainable development (ACiSD; knowledgeability, willingness,…

In today's ICT-based learning environment, students are expected to evaluate the structure of their courses and associated teaching methods. The expectation is that these evaluations will provide valuable feedback to teaching staff. This quantitative study explores the impact of students' evaluations of teaching (SETs) and is based on the…

A series of studies have found gender bias in student evaluations of teaching. Evidence from several observational studies show that women are evaluated lower than men. These findings are supported by experimental studies aimed at isolating the effect of a possible gender bias from other differences between male and female teachers. In this paper,…

The current research sought to test the effect of using technology on students in various mathematics courses. The study was conducted in the mathematics department of our college of education. We tested how the students evaluate our teaching method and how involved they are in the acquisition of knowledge while using different digital…

This paper aims to offer an understanding of how (intersectional) bias in student evaluations of teaching affects academics' mental health and career progression. Despite the widespread acceptance of student evaluations, an emerging stream of research has begun to highlight the biases and prejudices that underpin much of data collection when it…

Cross-sectional studies such as TIMSS can reveal associations between teaching practices and student achievement that are against expectations with the theory of Educational Effectiveness Research. Therefore, this paper extends TIMSS 2019 study into a follow-up approach examining what is the contribution of TIMSS educational assessment in Teacher…

A critical aim of teacher quality research is to identify and distil its multiple components. While many such components have been identified in the literature, there is a scarcity of research that has attempted to empirically investigate how these elements integrate within a larger profile of teacher quality, including how particular teachers'…

Purpose: The paper investigates the learning practices carried out by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the transition from strictly face-to-face to remote teaching in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It also analyses how these practices could be used as a baseline to support new perspectives on learning in the…

This study investigated university teachers' characteristics and their influence on teaching practices: Coming from expectancy-value theory, teachers' personal value of teaching was introduced as a possibly relevant variable and examined along with constructivist and transmissive teaching beliefs as to how they affect various aspects of university…

Older adult education is still under-researched, with many terminological ambiguities, clichés, and prejudices. Older adult teacher education and older adult English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher education is rare. Many factors can influence EFL teachers of older adults' teaching performance and its perception. Pre-service (presumably…

Research on concerns about Emergency Remote Teaching has focused on teaching and management strategies, with some studies considering learners' satisfaction, reactions, learning and overall acceptance. The present case study, based on a survey on 3,183 undergraduate and postgraduate learners, aimed at investigating engineering students'…

Quantitative student evaluations of teaching (SET) and assessments are widely used in higher education as a proxy for teaching quality. However, SET are a function of individual rating behaviours resulting from student background, knowledge and personalities, as well as the learning experience being rated. SET from three years of data from a…

Student engagement in higher education has been studied from different theoretical perspectives and in different countries. Current issues include both concerns regarding students' attitudes and ambivalence and, in addition, the definition of the concept of student engagement and how various pedagogical approaches may contribute to contrasting…

Teachers' knowledge rooted in classroom practices guides their actions when dealing with a specific subject matter. To assess the quality of these practices, a close examination of the "classroom reality" is needed. The present study, which was carried out in Greece, investigates secondary science teachers' practices. To record these…

The 2013 curriculum which has been implemented for more than six years in Indonesia has many problems in its application. Therefore, we need to conduct empirical research to determine the causes of the ineffective implementation of the 2013 curriculum in schools. This study involved 13 high schools and vocational high schools in the provinces of…