The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how triangulating responses from the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) with information from the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) exposes data incongruency, specifically when considering the population of students with disabilities at 2-year…

Although the effectiveness of extracurricular support offers for pupils with developmental learning disorders (DLD) is well documented, little is known about the utilisation of these services. Following the Behavioural Model of Health Care Utilisation, and based on data of a self-developed online survey (N = 225 parents of third and fourth…

Over the past 30 years, higher education institutions (HEIs) worldwide have been grappling with the difficulties experienced by many students entering higher education due to their poor pre-entry core mathematical skills. In the Republic of Ireland and the UK, the provision of mathematics learning support (MLS) is the approach most commonly…

This study offers insights regarding the use of mobile devices by students to help educators in Library and Information Science (LIS) and across disciplines better understand their current and potential use. Using a web survey and descriptive content analysis methods, this article reports student perceptions of the role mobile devices play in LIS…

Technology addiction has become an alarming disorder that has increasingly caught the attention of researchers, mental health counsellors and doctors. Unfortunately, those who are having the disorder do not realize that they are going through the phase of pleasurable, addictive experience of appealing themselves by long hours of social networking,…

For decades, declines in library reference use have been inextricably tied to technological improvements. This article asserts that reference staffing models may be a significant predictor of a decline in reference questions. Using two years of data, collected from a large public university, the researchers determined user preferences among five…

The purpose of this research was to develop and test an instrument to measure school leaders' use of Twitter for professional development (PD) and learning. Findings from an exploratory factor analysis indicate that the resulting nine-item Twitter for PD Scale offers a valid and reliable instrument to measure school leaders' use of Twitter for PD…

Electronic resources play a vital role in promoting students' learning in higher education. This research investigated predicting factors for effective e-resources usage, emanating problems and practical implications. Using a survey, the study employed SPSS to analyse the resultant data. Moreover, regression analysis and One-way ANOVA determined…

Social network sites are being widely used by teachers, and this phenomenon has been studied extensively. Yet the knowledge base supporting policy and practitioner decisions around the implementation and facilitation of these sites remains underdeveloped. This paper suggests that one reason for this lies in a mismatch between the methods that are…

During the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic colleges and universities in the United States were forced to move to remote delivery of courses and services. Academic library electronic resources naturally adapted to the virtual environment, particularly streaming video. This study considers the trends in academic streaming video usage during…

This study explored primary school children's personal use and views of social media and the social and psychological drivers that may underpin engagement. 100 children, aged 9-11 years old, in a Welsh, urban local authority completed an online questionnaire investigating social media engagement (SME) and perceptions of use, Fear of Missing Out…

In this thesis, we hypothesize that data visualization users are subject to systematic errors, or cognitive biases, in decision-making under uncertainty. Based on research from psychology, behavioral economics, and cognitive science, we design five experiments to measure the role of anchoring bias, confirmation bias, belief bias, and myopic loss…

One of the most notable effects that COVID-19 has engendered in education is the ICT use in teaching at all educational levels. This study provides data on the ICT usage by teachers in the teaching of Music in Secondary Education in Andalusia (Spain). It also explores the relationship between ICT practices and teachers' perceptions of the…

The Learning Management System (LMS) facilitates the learning and teaching process in higher learning institutions (HLIs) using the Internet. Despite the advantage of having these LMS in institutions, usage is still a challenging problem. This study investigated the factors influencing the usage of LMS in HLIs. To achieve the objective of the…

The use of teacher's guidebooks, which were prepared to assist teachers based on the curriculum implemented within the framework of the constructivist model, was discontinued in the 2018-2019 academic year. This study was based on a case study and prepared to examine the teacher's guidebooks that were removed from the curriculum in the 2018-2019…