This study addresses how similar teacher education institutions differ in terms of teacher educators' research engagement and what causes these differences. Underlying factors were explored by comparing teacher educators' research engagement at two Education Colleges in Myanmar that differed in terms of the educators' research activities. Applying…

This qualitative study implemented a Critical Discourse Analysis using the "PRDE English Program Gender Equity Manual" (2015). In addition, this study compared the narrative literature from PRDE's English 9th textbook--"Inside: Language, Literacy and Content by National Geographic and Cengage Learning" (2014) (NG Texts) , and…

Narrative practices are essential for the speakers of the Arapaho language. While traditional oral narratives play a crucial role in transmitting knowledge and the support of culture, conversational stories help speakers connect to their interlocutors, entertain, and create solidarity. Interactional techniques and linguistic mechanisms of Arapaho…

Public engagement and collaboration through networked practices--known as networked participatory scholarship (NPS)--may influence academic culture to "support, amplify, and transform scholarship" (Veletsianos & Kimmons, 2012, p. 768). This study examined the open online scholarly community #FemEdTech as it engages in NPS to create,…

School textbooks affect the different aspects of students' learning. One way that textbooks can affect students' learning is through the values embedded in the texts. In the present research, we intend to study values in elementary school mathematics textbook. Specifically, we study values in the Geometry and Measurement unit of the Palestinian…

This study aims to reveal the trends in the related field by examining the researches evaluating the measurement invariance in education and psychology between 2008-2019. Accordingly, 99 articles published in three journals that were selected using the purposive sampling method among the journals indexed on Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)…

Positive behavioral support is an approach that uses the principles of applied behavior analysis and system changes to improve individuals' quality of life and reduce problem behaviors. In positive behavior support, it is aimed to determine the functions of the problem behaviors of the child and to gain appropriate behaviors that meet the same…

The purpose of this study is to determine the root values touched upon in the youth novels in Turkish literature and their frequencies and to show the distribution of the values by the books. The youth literature books examined within the scope of the study consist of fifteen novels in the series called "Bridge Books" published by a…

This paper shares results from a critical content analysis of Newbery-winning titles from 1922-2019 for representations of race/ethnicity, gender, and disability. Each title was coded for the inclusion and representation of race/ethnicity, gender, and disability at both the book and main character levels. Lenses of critical race, gender schema,…

Given the disproportional rates of youth with disabilities who are being incarcerated, it is important to ensure they are receiving a free appropriate public education (FAPE) as defined under the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA). Based on the policies provided by the Office of Special Education Program (OSEP), we developed and implemented…

The capacities of early childhood educators to function well in their work environments are critical to providing high-quality programs for children. Few studies have investigated work-related wellbeing of educators from an organisational perspective. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study that investigated the perspectives about the…

This study examines the ways campus artifacts communicate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI)- and Latinx-servingness at dually designated Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). Using critical ethnographic methods, the researchers collected data at three…

This study evaluated the online participation of 40 students who, while studying a graduate programme in a fully online higher education institution, were assigned to small online groups for a four-week period in order to develop a written task. The type and frequency of their postings in the online forums were analysed. In addition, knowledge…

The European Qualifications Framework (EQF) was released in 2008 by the European Parliament and the Council of Europe for Lifelong Learning purposes. Thirty-six countries that are members of or in the process of the membership to the European Union (EU) have prepared their own national qualifications framework in accordance with the EQF. In…

This paper analyzes summative content and citation patterns in the "Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council" (ISSN 1559-0151), a peer-reviewed, scholarly publication related to honors education, during its first 20 volumes of existence from 2000 to 2019. The bibliometric study consists of two parts: an analysis of articles and…