This narrative inquiry explores cross-cultural experiences of a faculty mentor and an international doctoral student mentee in counselor education. Analysis unearthed themes on the approach to and experience of cross-cultural mentorship, attunement and affirmation, growth opportunities, and professional and personal connections. Findings…

This study explores the acceptance of collaborative learning among learners in online flexible distance learning environments. This study examines the direct effects of interaction with peers and tutors, social media usage, learners' self-efficacy, and social presence on collaborative learning. The study employed a survey-based data collection…

The self-perception of pre-service teachers regarding classroom management, and their aspirations for their future selves, can impact their behavior. This qualitative case study examined how pre-service teachers envision themselves in relation to classroom management. The findings indicate that pre-service teachers aspire to be authoritative…

Behavior is a form of communication. For many young children, they may engage in certain behaviors to consciously or subconsciously communicate a need to access something, such as a desired adult or peer, sensory stimulation, or a tangible item. Other times, children may engage in a behavior to escape or avoid something, such as a particular…

Do students learn from video lessons presented by pedagogical agents of different racial and gender types equivalently to those delivered by a real human instructor? How do the race and gender of these agents impact students' learning experiences and outcomes? In this between-subject design study, college students were randomly assigned to view a…

What happens when undergraduate dance pedagogy students observe dance educators' teaching practices in diverse dance education sectors? Traditional field observation focuses primarily on the teacher, teaching methods, and classroom management. Comparatively, critical field observations examine teacher and learner action equally through rich…

Background: Research clearly points toward a relationship between teaching behavior and students' affect. The relations between teaching behavior and middle school students' mental health, in the form of positive and negative affect, are particularly important to understanding how school-based clinicians can provide support for teachers and…

Do preparation and perceived support from guardians and teachers influence student attendance to a residential environmental education (EE) field trip program? To explore this question, pre-visit surveys were administered to racially diverse sixth-grade students at seven schools invited to attend a residential EE program at no cost, namely…

We aimed to determine whether early adolescents who report higher levels of teacher connection have a greater prevalence of flourishing and whether this association is present across levels of parent connection. We analyzed cross-sectional data, collected in the International Survey of Children's Well-Being (2016-2019), from 33,269 11- to…

Bullying is a social phenomenon that involves more participants than the bully and the victim. Since the identification of other bullying participant behaviors, endeavors have been made to explore what inclines a person to defend a victim of bullying. With the social cognitive theory in mind, the current study examined whether students' level of…

As learning environments shift toward meeting the needs of an increasingly diverse student population, empathy is becoming an important tool for instructors. Empathy deepens the connection between students and instructors. This connection can also emerge in the library, where librarians are teaching students in a variety of contexts, from the…

This dissertation research explores how college instructors perceive and demonstrate care toward students. This research also seeks to consider how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced instructors' caring behaviors. Although instructor care has been linked to several positive student outcomes, including persistence, little research has examined caring…

Teacher-student relationships (TSR) have been linked in research to a positive correlation with Student Academic Achievement (SAA). However, few of these studies have used empirical data to quantitatively link TSR to SAA. This study used an explanatory sequential mixed method design model to explain quantitative results through semi-structured…

Being able to defend victims of school bullying is central in any intervention; thus, it seems paramount to investigate which factors may contribute to defending behavior. The present report aims to investigate whether empathic self-efficacy is associated with helping behavior and whether interpersonal factors (i.e., social preference and…

This study used data from 435 teacher-child dyads in early childhood classrooms to examine the extent to which teachers' use of behavior specific praise (BSP) with children screened for elevated rates of externalizing behaviors was influenced by the intensity of child challenging behavior and gender. Observational assessments indicated that…