Purpose: Adolescents with developmental language disorder (DLD) are an underserved population. Having DLD affects adolescents' academic and eventual economic success, supporting the need for accurate, clinically feasible DLD screening tools for adolescents. The objective of this review is to identify clinically feasible screening tools for…

The purpose of this quantitative study is to explore the relationship between the availability of literacy learning materials and teachers' practices in early childhood classrooms in Saudi Arabia. The overall goal is to promote an understanding of the influence of these factors on how children use these materials to improve their emergent literacy…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, lecturers wore masks which covered facial cues. In two studies, we examined students' ability to comprehend both factually and inferentially presented information when the speaker's facial cues were or were not available and when delivered with or without expressive prosody. While comprehension was not affected by the…

In this essay, the authors posit that democratic backsliding, rather than partisanship, is the prevailing political situation in which civics and social studies teachers are working. The authors then present evidence from focus groups composed of practicing social studies teachers from across the United States to illustrate how the reliance on…

Facilitating whole-class discussions based on tasks that support inquiry and provide conceptual learning opportunities has been identified as a central, challenging task of teaching. We drew upon practice-based and interactionist research traditions to decompose how eight experienced Grades 5-7 mathematics teachers facilitated whole-class…

Literacy is widely acknowledged as a necessary 21st-century skill, particularly for adult learners. However, continued low academic achievement among adult basic literacy learners remains a global concern. This study aimed to address the challenge of limited application of literacy in daily life among adult learners by examining the effectiveness…

The growing prominence of entrepreneurship research has spurred interest in understanding the Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM). This systematic review follows the PRISMA technique for article selection and investigates the dimensions, pedagogical strategies, and assessment methods of EM by analysing 132 peer-reviewed articles published between 2000…

Although research has studied argumentation in science learning, it is necessary to understand the criteria teachers and students apply to evaluate arguments in the context of classroom production. Researchers have employed Toulmin's argument pattern as the preferred model to analyze arguments. However, the model is unfeasible for people to…

Narrative authors use their imaginations to generate and select content for their writing. Narrative imagination is central to young writers' agency over their choices. However, writing pedagogies have become more formulaic, allowing little room for personal agency, while efforts to teach imagination have fallen by the wayside, regarded as vague,…

This book aims to broaden the teaching repertoires of pre-service and in-service early childhood teachers so they can better meet the needs of the children they teach. Covering 16 early childhood teaching strategies--ranging from traditional play-based approaches through direct teaching and technology-assisted instruction to postmodern…

Natural environments are beneficial for cognitive functioning and affect. Appraisals of such benefits can lead to the development of pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors in the long run. This study aimed to investigate the effects of an indirect exposure to a natural and urban environment during a short break in a school day, using a 'green'…

The Reading and Appreciating Mathematical Proofs (RAMP) project seeks to provide novel resources for teaching undergraduate introduction to proof courses centered around reading activities. These reading activities include (1) reading rich proofs to learn new mathematics through proofs as well as to learn how to read proofs for understanding and…

Students' literacy development in middle school has important implications for their academic trajectories, both in high school and beyond. In this paper, we present a systematic response analysis of sixth grade students' attempts to generate the main idea of short sections of text. We describe patterns that emerged from our analysis of main idea…

Success in the competition for external grants has become an important indicator when progressing in academic careers. Drawing on interview data with academics across various career stages and academic fields at one Finnish university, the study identifies four discourses that elucidate why research grants are deemed significant in advancing an…

This study explores secondary-school mathematics teachers' noticing of Critical Events Associated with Argumentation (CEAs), moments when students' reasoning or interactions become evident, offering teachers opportunities to promote argumentation in the classroom. Thirty-one teachers analyzed a written classroom scenario, identifying CEAs,…