Purpose: This study aimed to examine how physical education (PE) students engage with fitness content on TikTok. Methods: The evaluation involved 597 students enrolled in a PE 1 course across three campuses of a prominent university. Results: Findings show that students primarily watch TikTok videos for entertainment, with male students also…

Background: Engineering requires new solutions to improve undergraduate performance outcomes, including course grades and continued enrollment in engineering pathways. Belonging and engineering role identity have long been associated with successful outcomes in engineering, including academic success, retention, and well-being. Purpose: We measure…

Background: Achievement emotions are important for mathematical achievement. However, it is currently unclear how specific combinations of emotions--and their associated control and value appraisals--relate to mathematics performance, especially in younger students. Aims: The aims of this study were to (i) identify heterogeneous profiles of…

This study investigates the speech rate of Cypriot Greek-speaking children with developmental language disorder (DLD) as well as the effect of age and gender. The participants were 16 children with DLD ages 4 years 11 months to 8 years 1 month and 22 children with typical language development (TLD) ages 4 years 5 months to 8 years 7 months. Both…

Metacognition and curiosity play an important role in the educational process. Therefore, it is significant to examine their correlation with students' performance and satisfaction with classes. In order to examine whether the effect of metacognition and curiosity on physics performance and satisfaction with physics classes depends on gender, a…

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to examine the impact of gamification on students' engagement and to understand their perceptions of gamification as a teaching and learning style. Design/methodology/approach: The participants in this research were students who had studied the principles of accounting courses at University of Technology…

This study examined the link between academic majors and Dark Triad personality traits in 2,387 Greek university students. Utilizing Bifactor Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling, we identified a general dark factor (D-factor) and three specific traits. Latent Profile Analysis revealed four personality clusters: self-centric personalities,…

School climate and teacher-student interactions are important factors leading to differences in student development. However, the mechanisms through which these two factors influence university students' academic achievement remain unclear, and there is a notable lack of in-depth research from the perspective of group differences. The study…

This study aimed to determine physical education teachers' views on physical education lessons from a gender perspective. The study also sought to exemplify teachers' attitudes and behaviors towards students in classes, including their view on sports and school athletes, and behaviors within the framework of gender by assessing their metaphorical…

Background/purpose: The study tries to discover how predictive thinking can be incorporated into writing activities to assist students in developing their creative skills in writing learning environments. Through this study, teachers will be able to adopt a new teaching method that helps transform the way creative writing is taught in language…

Background/purpose. Regular physical activity is important for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and preventing various chronic diseases. However, despite its well-documented benefits, many people encounter multiple barriers to participating in it. The present research aimed to analyze the perceived barriers to physical activity in a sample of…

The prevalence of examination cheating has continued to impact educational assessments all over the world. This study leveraged on using rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT), a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approach to treat examination cheating behavior among secondary school students in Nigeria. The researcher used a…

Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience stress, potentially affecting parenting and child outcomes. The roles of psychological flexibility and parental reflective functioning in coping strategies of parents of children with ASD are not fully understood. The study aims to examine differences in psychological flexibility,…

Dual enrollment is expanding in California. Participation in dual enrollment varies across demographic groups and regions. A growing number of high school students are earning associate degrees via dual enrollment. Dual enrollment outcomes vary across demographic groups and geographic regions.California continues to invest in dual enrollment. This…

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is steadily gaining prominence in higher education and brings about huge impact on college students' daily life. However, limited studies paid attention to college students' use behavior of generative AI and its influencing factors. The study aimed to explore this issue by adopting an extended Unified Theory…