This article examines how a high school English language arts teacher fosters argumentative writing skills in a culturally and linguistically diverse classroom by leveraging students' dialogic strengths, framing argumentation as a social and critical process.

This study investigated secondary school teachers' beliefs about teacher educators' teaching competencies and performance. Additionally, it compared the differences between the perceived importance of teaching competencies and the teaching performance level among teachers from different backgrounds. The Delphi method was first used to identify…

This mixed-methods study examines the effectiveness of an intervention program designed to enhance the comprehension and interpretation of verbal-visual narratives, commonly known as picturebooks, among younger school-age pupils. The phenomenological approach explores how picturebooks influence comprehension in pupils with varying levels of visual…

Although the field of autism intervention has strived to identify evidence-based practices, translating these interventions into real-world settings remains a significant challenge. This gap particularly impacts marginalized communities, where access to and quality of services are often inferior. Implementation science addresses these gaps by…

Background: Parents are uniquely placed to support their child's development. Interventions which are designed to be delivered by parents therefore hold considerable promise, particularly for children with neurodevelopmental conditions that are associated with particular developmental strengths and challenges. Aims: This study worked in…

This systematic review aimed to synthesize evidence on aquatic activities compared with land-based activities in motor performance and physical fitness of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, developmental coordination disorder, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. A systematic search was conducted from four electronic…

Background: Computational thinking (CT) is an essential skill for preparing the younger generation to succeed in an AI-driven world, with pair programming emerging as a widely used approach to foster these skills. However, the role of individual factors and mutual engagement in shaping CT skills within pair programming remains underexplored,…

The aim of this paper is to explore how adult and community education can grapple with themes of democracy, voting, and civic engagement--with particular emphasis on learners and communities with low engagement in the political system--to empower and affect change on both an individual and collective basis through a critical pedagogical approach.…

This study assesses adaptive and maladaptive behaviour in a sample of 68 adults. The Spanish version of the Adaptive Behaviour Scale: Residence and Community (ABS-RC:2) was applied to 30 subjects with Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) and 38 subjects with Down Syndrome (DS) aged between 25 and 57. The results show that adults with FXS score higher than do…

Given the high risk of drowning among children with autism, there is a need for disseminating water safety education into mainstream settings. The current study explored the effectiveness of behavioral skills training (BST) in teaching water safety skills to 3 U.S. children with autism, when implemented by community-based swim instructors with no…

This study presents the design and development of an online learning environment that integrates Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and gamification to support undergraduate students' higher order thinking skills. The research adopts a design and development approach, utilizing the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and…

This study aims to identify the characteristics of implementation and integration strategies of computational thinking (CT) and scientific approaches in programming education, viewed from the lens of educational levels, subject Matter, and research focus. The method employed is a systematic literature review following the PRISMA framework. A total…

Purpose: Abstract thought builds the basis for problem-solving and knowledge consolidation across the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Scientists across these fields acknowledge its significance and have approached the topic from their distinct perspectives, and yet, in STEM, there is a lack of a unified…

Background/purpose: This study aimed to develop and examine the consistency of competencies for Sports Coaches in International Schools (SCI) Materials/methods: The study of competencies was conducted using in-depth interview techniques with five experts. The research instrument was a semi-structured interview form, analyzed using analytic…

Achieving deep learning in smart classrooms is an important issue in smart education. Research suggests that deep learning requires special scaffolding to support students' learning flexibility according to their own needs. In this regard, this study proposes a smart-classroom-oriented learning scaffolding that can reflect flexibility in learning…