The dissonance between teachers' substantial effort to provide feedback and students' under-engagement with feedback has been consistently reported in higher education. A contributing factor to this disparity students' lack of feedback literacy, however, has been under-researched. This case study of two Chinese undergraduate students therefore…

Two experiments examined the effect of teaching with content relevance strategies on student learning outcomes. In both experiments, college students were randomly assigned to one of three teaching conditions in which the instructor: (1) made no effort to teach the lesson content as relevant (control); (2) taught the same lesson content in a…

Despite the growing epidemic of suicide ideation and attempt in adolescents, there is a lack of theory-based, empirical research to shed light on these issues in this population and inform school counselors' preventive and responsive practices. We utilized Joiner's Interpersonal Theory of Suicide (IPTS) to examine the extent to which the…

The aim of the present study was to investigate whether meaning in life and hope mediate the association between coronavirus stress and resilience in university students. The participants were 376 (68% female) undergraduate students attending a public university in Turkey. The age of the students ranged from 18 to 38 years (Mage = 20.67, SD =…

Research in discourse processing has provided us with a strong foundation for understanding the characteristics of text and discourse, as well as their influence on our processing and representation of texts. However, recent advances in computational techniques have allowed researchers to examine discourse processes in new ways. The purpose of the…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how military spouse learners in the online learning environment describe their experiences with cognitive dissonance and the ways they realign their cognition, attitudes, or behaviors of preconceived expectations with their actual experiences in the Southeastern United States. The…

This study explored the experiences of women leaders who graduated from a student affairs master's degree program, and advanced to positions of vertical movement to roles of increasing responsibility, wider influence, and greater accountability. Specifically, exploration of this progression, and the influences on their experience of lateral…

Food insecurity (FI) among college students is a relatively new area of study that has revealed alarming rates of FI on four-year campuses. Most current scholarship on food insecure college students (FICS) measures the extent of the problem with scant attention paid to the lived experience of FI or to FICS at private institutions, including…

There has been a paucity of research investigating the illicit substance use habits of adolescent Orthodox Jewish males, particularly the contributing factors that moderate these behaviors. This research study represents an exploratory effort to ascertain the perceptions of Orthodox Jewish high school principals and classroom rabbis regarding the…

This qualitative study explored experiences with parental involvement and reading achievement among low-income African American students. The researcher collected data from 18 teachers and 30 African American parents with in-depth interviews and a focus group. Findings revealed factors that significantly influence reading achievement among…

The rapid development of technology and the Internet accessibility have expanded the learning opportunities to everyone who has access to technology and the Internet. Higher education institutions have begun to integrate the use of technology into their education system, and this includes adult education. The experience of adult learners using…

Literature suggests that checking behaviors are aimed at reducing feelings of uncertainty both in clinical samples with obsessive-compulsive disorder and in general population. Previous studies also showed that deontological guilt is an emotion often associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Thus, the aim of the current study was to…

In this paper we explore the possibility of rethinking the concept of emotional intelligence within the context of education. By developing a pedagogical dialogue with Michel Henry's phenomenology of incarnation, we try to move beyond existing models of emotional intelligence by shifting the emphasis from the intellectual significance "of…

Embodied learning environments have a substantial share in teaching interventions and research for enhancing learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. In these learning environments, students' bodily experiences are an essential part of the learning activities and hence, of the learning. In this systematic…

Purpose: Entrepreneurship is important for economic growth, through its role in the provision of employment. In the recent past, a number of African universities have developed entrepreneurship education courses to facilitate the growing demand for entrepreneurs in the market. An immediate outcome anticipated from entrepreneurship education is to…