Purpose: This study aims to asses students' sustainability consciousness (SC) in relation to their perceived teaching styles in seven public sector institutions in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach: A survey technique was used to collect data from respondents. Grasha's (1996) Teaching Styles Inventory and Gericke et al.'s (2019) Sustainability…

Purpose: The teacher role in the classroom can explain important aspects of the student's school experience. The teacher-student relationship, a central dimension of social capital, influences students' engagement, and the teaching style plays an important role in student outcomes. But there is scarce literature that links teaching styles to…

Purpose of the Research: With online education taking centerstage in recent times, the primary objective of this study is to find out the student perception of online classes from teachers who had no past experience of online teaching, with respect to their teaching effectiveness, teaching style and pedagogy in an online classroom. This study is…

Teaching excellence in higher education can be defined and studied in different ways, but research efforts to date have often focused on institutional or instructor perspectives. This article uses a data set of over 500 open-ended comments submitted by Political Science undergraduates as part of a teaching award process to identify themes that…

Flipped learning is believed can open valuable class time to higher-level activities. However, the findings of previous studies on the effects of flipped learning on the teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) are sometimes mixed. Hence, this study investigates the effect of flipped learning on EFL tertiary students' ability to write…

This dissertation explores how varied delivery strategies may influence college student affective learning in a mediated setting. I employed a hybrid-grounded approach to the exploration of student-participant interviews wherein student-participants engaged with one of two online media literacy learning modules. The results of this study…

Purpose: In a previous study of authentic university academic caring (AUAC) at the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI), students perceived teaching faculty as the primary provider of academic caring and caregiving. This paper presents a research study on university faculty caring intelligence. University faculty caring intelligence is faculty's…

Teachers are closely connected with secondary students and have an impact on students' approaches to learning and academic results. The present study aimed to explore the effects of teacher immediacy and autonomy support on junior high students' approaches to learning. We conducted a questionnaire survey with 232 junior high school students and…

Recognizing the importance of students' attitudes in enhancing their academic achievements, this qualitative study aimed to examine the role of second language (L2) willingness to communicate (WTC) in students' English language achievements. The data were collected through semi-structured face-to-face interviews with 11 Afghan English as a Foreign…

This cross-sectional study aims to respond three research questions: (1) Do perceived teaching styles predict students' motivation, academic engagement, and disaffection? (2) Does students' motivation predict engagement and disaffection? (3) Does motivation mediate the influence of teaching styles in students' engagement and disaffection? A…

The purpose of this study was to replicate Reeve et al., (2023) by applying the newly proposed tripartite model of self-determination theory (SDT to the context of higher education. The study also investigated the validity of the "Three State Questionnaire" (TSQ) as a measurement tool in higher education. The study consisted of 521 first…

The aim of this research was to explore the correlation between prospective teachers' attitudes towards STEM education, their lifelong learning levels, and individual innovativeness. A relational screening model was used, and 190 prospective teachers participated in the study. The research found a positive correlation between STEM attitudes and…

This paper reports on empirical results about the influence of two different teaching designs on the development of tertiary students' modelling competency and attitudes towards modelling. A total of 144 first year engineering students were exposed to a diagnostic entrance test, a modelling unit consisting of five lessons with ten tasks, enframed…

Teacher power is a crucial component in understanding power dynamics in classroom discourse. Using Schrodt et al.'s typology of power bases as a lens, this qualitative case study discovered that teacher participants used hybrid forms of power when interacting with their college students in one block-section class in the Philippines. Moreover, the…

Background: Development of subject-matter interest can motivate long-term learning. Prior research indicates that what instructors do in learning environments and how students feel about their relationship to instructors influence students' learning via the motivational mechanism of interest. This study's research into instructor actions in online…