The author asks, "Where can we, as English language arts teachers, create room in our classrooms for curiosity--for students and for ourselves?" She outlines ways to use Genius Hour to help create an equitable, level classroom with access and ownership for all.

Research Findings: Exuberant temperament, characterized by high approach and positive affect, is linked to socioemotional outcomes including risk of externalizing symptoms across development. Externalizing problems interfere with children's school readiness and lead to disruptive behavior in the classroom. While some moderating factors help…

This study aims to determine the views of administrators working at private schools in Kahramanmaras and Gaziantep on evaluating teacher's performance and to make some recommendations for an effective and sufficient teacher evaluation accordingly. This study explores questions such as what administrators think about implementing the evaluation…

Ethnic tolerance is one of key issues of global and national order and is considered to be one of the necessary conditions for effective professional training. The aim of our research was to determine the background factors of students' ethnic tolerance, its components and levels. Using two methods -- Tolerance Index by Soldatova and our own…

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between teaching quality and students' harmonious passion, deep strategy to learn, and epistemic curiosity in mathematics in 1,003 high school students. Data were analyzed using multilevel structural equation modeling, and results showed support for the hypotheses tested. First, we found…

The purpose of the present study was to examine Turkish counseling supervisors' and undergraduate supervisees' opinions about the supervisory relationship. Upon completion of Individual Counseling Practice course, semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with four voluntary supervisors (two female and two male) and their four voluntary…

It is well known that agism is present in both Eastern and Western literature, including in school textbooks. Older people are often portrayed as insignificant, sick, dependent, boring or lonely. Younger generations may develop "gerontophobia" from such textbooks, which is not beneficial for ensuring that individuals can live happily in…

The concept of life purpose has emerged as an important aspect of character with implications for a range of character-related dispositions and behaviors. In this study of intercollegiate athletes from diverse sports (N = 2,374), we examined purpose in relation to 2 aspects of identity (moral and athletic), 2 contesting orientations, empathic…

First-generation students are often described as disadvantaged in university adjustment, self-efficacy and grades. Yet this deficit model of understanding first-generation students ignores their cultural capital, which could increase resilience and resourcefulness. Here, 844 students (31% first-generation) in South Africa and Canada completed…

Critical thinking skills that enhance the ability of individuals to understand and make sense of the world and events and situations around them are one of the foremost research areas in the educational system of various countries. As a critical thinking individual, decisions made by the teacher in his/her class, the activities he/she has…

In this study, we investigated the currently applied selective admission criteria and tools of the two-year research master's programs of both the Graduate Schools of Life Sciences and Natural Sciences of Utrecht University (the Netherlands). In addition, we evaluated their transparency to applicants. Both admissions staff members and applicants…

This study was conducted to determine the change in the sociability levels of high school students depending on the frequency of their using social media and to investigate their social media uses. It employed a mixed-methods research design using both quantitative and qualitative methods together. The sociability levels of 352 students studying…

Introduction: The theoretical-empirical study is based on two particular case studies of families bringing up children from institutional care. It deals with the real needs of foster families, with the foster parents' perception of fostering and their experiences from the time spent with children in foster care, about the children's behaviour in…

As artificially intelligent systems make their foray into the day-to-day educational experiences of students, we need to pay careful attention to the relationship between the system and the student. In this article, the authors discuss designing the personality of a virtual tutoring system called IBM Watson Tutor. The AI personality is key to the…

Understanding how negative leadership behavior can harm individuals and organizations provides an opportunity to alter or avoid negative behaviors. In this study, the researcher analyzed the impact of negative leadership behaviors on faculty perceptions of perceived organizational support (POS) and job satisfaction. In order to understand this…