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,…

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…

This ex post facto descriptive study examined the open-ended comments from 566 university students in their course evaluations for online courses. The results indicated that the most prevalent themes for effective online teaching are personalized feedback, instructor engagement, clear assignment instructions and expectations, an engaging course…

Due to the nature of the teaching environment, students may often develop perceptions of their lecturers' ability as mathematicians, based on the pre-prepared and well-rehearsed content they present. In reality, performing mathematical calculations and solving problems is a difficult skill, and students may compare their own experiences…

This research used the Research and Development (R&D) methodology, which has research steps in the form of R1D1...R2D2...RiDi to get an educational innovation called "Online Self-Training Program to Development for Teacher's 21st-Century Skills Enhancement into Effective Practices" that is effective. It is an educational innovation…

National University's Master of Science in Educational Counseling underwent a revision in 2022 utilizing the approach of deriving program learning outcomes directly from the California Teaching Commission standards for school counselors. The program is offered solely in an online format. This study was undertaken to assess the program in terms of…

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'…

As the popularity of growth and fixed mindset in education grows, there is an increasing need to investigate how mindset is actually portrayed in the classroom, especially from the students' perspectives. This dissertation proposal aims to build upon the research conducted in the previous phase of the study. The research component study revealed a…

Teacher evaluation systems across the United States are increasingly including student surveys as one source of data, but concerns remain about students' ability to distinguish the multiple dimensions of teaching. We empirically examined this issue in an authentic evaluation system that uses a student survey based on the InTASC framework of…

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'…