Feedback penetrates many walks of our lives, and its importance in L2 teaching and assessment is well recognised. However, while corrective feedback and writing feedback have been the focus of much L2 research and classroom practice, there seems relatively little attention to feedback on spoken interactional skills. Concomitantly, translating…

In our first installment of a series of short articles, we focus on demystifying the publishing process. We first review terminology that is important for authors to understand yet is not clearly defined in easily accessible ways. Then, we describe the publishing process, beginning with preparing and submitting a manuscript, and ending with either…

Purpose: The lateral feedback seeking literature has primarily examined lower-level employees' feedback seeking from peers. Thus, the authors still know very little about feedback seeking when the leader is the "seeker" and peers are the "targets" of such seeking. The purpose of this paper is to expand existing discussions on…

Developing special issues or special topic sections for peer-reviewed journals is one way in which school psychologists can contribute to their field's research base. Special issues are designed to advance scholarship in a particular area and are guest edited by individuals, other than the journal's editor in chief (EIC), who have expertise in…

In this article, the authors report on the opportunity to share information with fellow members from institutional accrediting agencies at the "Initi8: Improving Ethical Reasoning at Scale" workshop facilitated by James Madison University, in June 2023. Helpful was the various viewpoints, perspectives, and musings of individuals engaged…

The article provides a resource to help faculty cultivate their education research ideas and place those ideas within a framework suitable for publication in a peer-reviewed journal such as "Chemical Engineering Education." The six-element publication framework is supported by two metaphors, a funnel and a house, to illustrate how to…

Collegial, competent, and consultative supervision is a practical, innovative approach to peer supervision for practicing school counselors. This integrative approach is inspired by Cheston's Ways Paradigm framework, uses the Ronnestad and Skovholt model of counselor development, and is supported by empirical studies about peer consultation and…

Despite decades of research and thousands of peer-reviewed articles on nonverbal communication written by a worldwide community of academics, a number of people in position of power, including security, justice and legal practitioners have embraced "body language" pseudoscience. This autoethnography aims to offer an otherwise…

Peer grading has diverse applications in many fields, including the peer grading of open assignments in online courses. The major challenge in peer grading is improving the seriousness (reviewing carefully) of reviewers. Previous studies have proposed several incentive reward mechanisms intended to reward or punish reviewers. Although these…

This article speaks on a critical component of independent learning is to cultivate the habit of self-study, which is an effective way of improving students' grades, material understanding, class participation, and confidence. Self-study also enables students to be independent learners, which not only hones their critical and reasoning skills but…

In an era where teachers are increasingly being asked to demonstrate evidence of their impact, action research is identified as a practical and critically reflective research approach for enhancing explicit teaching and learning. Using a historical perspective, foundations for reflective practice and action research in educational contexts are…

The chapter describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of repeated peer review assignments in a health sciences program. Details of the assignment, quantitative and qualitative indirect assessments, and considerations for implementing this type of assignment in other courses are provided.

Peer assessment plays an important part in education, fostering involvement and critical thinking skills for the students, while reducing the grading workload for the teacher. However, research on review allocation mechanisms in the context of peer assessment is relatively scarce in the literature. Although the first electronic peer assessment…

This paper presents a summary of a three-year project funded by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) evaluating the Schools Partnership Programme (SPP). The SPP is a peer-led, collaborative school improvement model in England, developed by the Education Development Trust (EDT), where clusters of schools conduct peer reviews and support one…

The Peer Assessment Collaboration Evaluation (PACE) Tool is an original peer assessment tool designed and developed by the authors to address the prevalence of social loafing in group projects in online learning environments. Online group projects offer students collaborative opportunities to engage in critical thinking and problem-solving.…