The present research investigates the influence of school principals' social justice--oriented leadership on teachers' engagement with their work. Particular attention is given to the mediating effects of subjective and psychological well-being, as well as the moderating function of gender. Data were obtained from a sample of 492 public school…

Classroom teachers' and paraprofessionals' relationship is important for ensuring student success, but very little research has examined their work relationship. Despite collaboration in the classroom, their relationship is primarily hierarchical in nature, with classroom teachers often serving as the day-to-day supervisor of paraprofessionals.…

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a serious disorder that affects a person's life, their parents, and the entire family. CP's impact on the family is long term, complex, and multifactorial. This study explored family functioning in families raising children with CP in Greece and Italy. A total of 120 married parents participated in the study: 60 mothers and…

Background: Instructional design is essential for the implementation and quality of STEM education. However, it remains challenging to help teachers acquire pedagogical content knowledge and come up with novel instructional design ideas in STEM. education. Purpose: Guided by the full-perspective learning theory, this study proposed a conceptual…

Assessment plays a fundamental role in shaping the quality of science education, particularly in physics, where both conceptual understanding and procedural competence are essential. This study aims to analyze the understanding of high school physics teachers regarding the cognitive process and knowledge dimensions in assessment design based on…

The border between the United States and Mexico has figured frequently in national and international politics, in the construction of a "border wall" and in issues involved in US immigration policy. While those who visit the area clearly see a disparity between what we who live here experience and what is occasionally portrayed by the…

Researchers conducting studies related to special education contexts in rural schools must find ways to account for and consider unique and diverse cultural and contextual factors. In this article, we introduce mixed-methods social network analysis as one way to incorporate the structural and cultural aspects of rurality within a research design.…

How do the characteristics of new teachers vary geographically? In this article, Yujia Liu, Chanh B. Lam, J. Cameron Anglum, and Tuan D. Nguyen use a novel rurality measure, the Community Assets and Relative Rurality (CARR) index, to examine trends in teachers entering the profession across different levels of rurality, focusing on teachers in…

The present study aimed to examine the impacts of nomophobia, academic distress, and introverted personality on academic practice and achievement university students. To address this, the researchers formulated four research questions and employed a mixed research approach of correlational design. Both stratified and simple random sampling…

While the relationship between reading self-efficacy, motivation, and achievement is well-established, their relative predictive power within blended learning contexts remains underexplored. The aim of the study was to analyze the stronger predictor of reading accomplishment among 244 Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language students enrolled in a…

In this cowritten reflection, two co-principal investigators of a federally funded participatory action research (PAR) project that involved a university-community collaboration discuss how they built a relationship of trust through a deep shared belief in PAR ethics and ethos and through what they learned together from their collaboration with…

The present study aimed to determine the proficiencies of digital education platforms employed in mathematics courses instructed by classroom teachers based on various variables. For this purpose, the views of classroom teachers on the sub-dimensions of the Digital Education Platform Evaluation Scale (DEPES) were analyzed based on various…

The basic aim of this study is to specify mental well-being levels and investigate some various conservatory students. Conservatory students studying at Dicle University and Gaziantep University State Conservatory in the 2020-2021 academic year participated in the research. Purposeful sampling was used in this study, which was carried out with a…

Little is known about the associations between bullying, empathy, and age. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to investigate the relationships between traditional bullying (verbal, physical, and relational) and cyber bullying based on the roles of cognitive empathy, affective empathy and age among adolescents. Three instruments to collect…

Purpose: "Psychosocial health" is a new term to comprehend the already established factors involved in mental health and psychological well-being. The term has not been specifically defined and explained within the framework of psychology. Design/methodology/approach: The study proposed and validated a new model of psychosocial health.…