The pathway for women to reach the superintendency in the United States is shaped by entrenched systems that resist progress. Women are often unfairly blamed for their lack of representation, which then perpetuates the notion that they are less suited for leadership. However, women are proving their capabilities by dismantling societal barriers,…

Reflective and formative assessments are commonly used in both K-12 and higher education but are less common in university mathematics courses. In fact, much of mathematics education seems to be heavily reliant on summative assessments. In this article, we introduce a formative assessment in the frame of a reflective homework system that can be…

In order to plan and conduct more effective and efficient online teaching studies, it is important to determine how ready faculty members are for online teaching, what they can contribute to online teaching studies, and what their perspectives on online teaching are. In this study, the readiness of faculty members who teach distance education…

The 2022 World Conference on Early Childhood Education resulted in the Tashkent Declaration, which emphasized the need for an extension of early childhood education to vulnerable children, such as those living with a form of disability. A Gulf country, United Arab Emirates (UAE), participated in the world conference and committed towards…

Growth mindset has gained educators' attention in order to shape students' self-beliefs about their intelligence. However, research findings lack consensus on using a growth mindset to improve student outcomes. Therefore, the current study explored the pedagogical practices of selected primary school teachers intending to foster a growth mindset…

Purpose: Canada is a country that has a democratized higher education system, based on solid principles of access, quality and accountability. Brazil, on the other hand, is a country that seeks to advance its higher education system. For this reason, this paper aims to understand with the main stakeholders of the systems, the perceptions in…

Over the past year, training to better understand diversity in the classroom has risen to the forefront of the minds of administrators and faculty. The purpose of this teaching tip is to provide a benefit to academics by using short, student-reported issues about racial concerns within case story vignettes that focus on microaggressions. These…

Many remote Aboriginal Australian students live away from home for periods of time to access secondary education through boarding schools. While financial, political and community support is burgeoning for boarding models that provide scholarships, sports programs, or accommodation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, very little…

The act of reading affects people in individual and social life. The purpose of this research is the evaluation of student opinions to develop reader culture in universities. Research data were collected through a semi-structured interview form developed by the researchers. Participants in this research included 60 students studying at various…

This article reports on an UKLA funded study which is working with young readers to explore the use of fictional texts to interrogate raciolinguistic ideologies in schools. We draw on data generated from workshops where young students read and responded to "Front Desk," a 2018 novel by the Chinese writer Kelly Yang, which centres around…

The study presented in this article investigated the influence of "lecturer biographic factors" on curriculum implementation in universities in Botswana. Over the last two decades, Botswana has been transforming its education system to improve curriculum implementation in universities, particularly in terms of who should be allowed to…

Teacher educators prepare prospective teachers to deliver Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in schools. Lecturers' personal perceptions of ESD guide them in this work. While there has been some research into lecturers' perceptions of ESD in general, teacher educators as a group have been given scarcely any consideration. As groundwork…

This study describes a psychometric evaluation of high school student responses to the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (CLASS), and the subsequent development of a more parsimonious attitudes and beliefs survey structure for potential use with K-12 students in physics courses aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards.…

Learning systems are widely adopted as educational tools. The success of a learning system depends on the level of acceptance by instructors and learners. Research has identified Education as a Service (EaaS) as a resource that enables instructors and learners to access a new kind of service for learning system, containing: (1) support tools and…

A prerequisite to anti-racist socialization in families is acknowledging ethnic-racial (power) differences, also known as color-consciousness. In a sample of 138 White Dutch families from the urban Western region of the Netherlands with children aged 6-10 years (53% girls), observations and questionnaires on maternal color-consciousness and…