This paper reports a study that compares teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) through face-to-face (FTF) and CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) methods, comparing them with the interdisciplinary perspectives of sociology, social psychology, and educational technology. Based on the sociocultural theory, the influence of gender…

Music is tool physical education (PE) teachers can use to help motivate students to greater physical activity (PA) rates during class activities. Music research in the PE context has found music to increase PA rates in the junior high school context (Brewer, et. al., 2016), that music increases the enjoyment to the PE experience for students…

This first report in the series explores the number and characteristics of veterans who used the Post-9/11 GI Bill (PGIB), the degrees that were obtained by those using the benefits, and their labor market outcomes. It provides data broken down by sex, race, ethnicity, and Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) scores. It covers every enlisted…

Superintendents are critical to the functioning of America's public schools. The stress of the public scrutiny and the multiple roles of this position contribute to a high turnover rate for all superintendents. The position is more stressful and the turnover rate is greater in rural districts. This phenomenological study of 14 long serving rural…

Even though Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) has become a central domain in education, there is still a lack of clarity in the underlying conceptual models guiding educational efforts and insufficient empirical evidence supporting these models. The Chilean Agency for Quality in Education developed a socioemotional questionnaire as part of the…

Globally, candidate preference for hybrid learning continues to increase at the expense of in-person learning, while interest in predominantly online learning remains flat. This increase is evident across regions and demographic groups, with overall preference highest among candidates who have traditionally demonstrated the most interest: women,…

Gender inequality has wide-ranging and adverse implications for all of society. For this reason, the United Nations has made it a top priority to address this issue through the Sustainable Development Goals, which state that gender equality is not only a fundamental human right but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable…

School victimization issues remain largely unresolved due to over-reliance on unidimensional conceptions of victimization and data from a few developed OECD countries. Thus, support for cross-national generalizability over multiple victimization components (relational, verbal, and physical) is weak. Our substantive-methodological synergy tests the…

In this study, it was examined whether the innovative instructional strategy of learning games would significantly increase students' learning outcome in the experimental groups and control groups. The study is a quasi-experimental research, which examined the effect of learning games instructional strategy on students' learning outcomes in eight…

Purpose: Doctoral students' ill-being in terms of stress, exhaustion and high levels of mental health problems has been well documented. Yet, the well-being of doctoral students is more than the absence of these negative symptoms. The number of studies exploring the combination of positive and negative attributes of doctoral students' well-being…

Several studies have investigated factors guiding children's decisions when learning from others, although less is known about factors that govern children's decisions when they transfer knowledge to others. Here we asked whether children would privilege ingroup members when teaching and, if so, whether this tendency would persist when…

Background: Entrepreneurship education has gained significant attention in engineering. This has led to the widespread development of engineering entrepreneurship programs (EEPs) that instill entrepreneurial skills and mindsets in engineering graduates. While research has documented the benefits of EEPs, there is a paucity of research examining…

Children are online at increasing frequency, for longer periods of time, and at younger ages than ever before. Schools in the USA are engaged in providing online citizenship education to students; however, there are few evaluations of how well programs work or tools to measure program effectiveness. The current study provides psychometric…

The aim of this study is to compare how well students who learn the Venn diagram technique and those who learn Know, Want, Learn (KWL) chart method perform in terms of their reading comprehension. This study measured pre- and post-test performance using a quantitative research method and comparative design. 64 Grade X students from Lembang in…

This study seeks to examine the connection between teacher implicit racial attitudes and how teachers label classroom behavioral disruptions. Grounding the research in attribution theory, which humans use in order to make sense of others' behavior through beliefs about locus of causality, stability, and controllability, the current study examined…