The American University of Sharjah (AUS) Writing Center, one of the first writing centers in the Gulf region, supports a multilingual student body in the transnational context of the United Arab Emirates. The profile gives an account of the Center's history, peer-tutoring program, tutor-training course, and Writing Fellows initiative, with…

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of the three presences in the Community of Inquiry framework on student satisfaction and intent to persist when mediated by satisfaction. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze these relationships in 762 students taking online courses at two French-speaking universities in Canada.…

Over the past decade, Southeast Asian countries have made significant progress in advancing inclusive education, largely driven by the momentum of Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4). The SDGs have served as a powerful catalyst, encouraging these countries to align their educational policies and practices with the principles of inclusion and…

Students across the country suffered varying amounts of learning loss during and immediately after the COVID-19 pandemic. While recent gains have been made, the recovery has been slower than many would like and remains incomplete. Chronic absenteeism increased during this period, raising questions about its role in driving learning loss and…

Background: Workplace incivility has become a growing concern in healthcare settings, particularly among nursing staff, where interactions with supervisors, patients, colleagues, and physicians can significantly affect psychological well-being and job performance. This study explores the sources and extent of incivility within hospital…

Although the use of AI technology driven by anxiety has become increasingly common, research on the relationship between high school students' math anxiety and their intention to use AI for problem-solving remains limited. This study, grounded in the Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) model, aims to explore the relationship between math anxiety and…

This essay examines how line graphs functioned as markers of status and authority in early 20th-century America, distinguishing intellectual elites from ordinary citizens. Despite education reformers' efforts to democratize functional thinking and graphical representation in the first decades of the century, line graphs retained their position as…

This study explored the key factors influencing the sustainable success of herbal businesses in Sakon Nakhon Province, Thailand, amid the growing global demand for herbal products. The research focused on the economic, social, environmental, and managerial aspects affecting sustainability and competitiveness. We employed a quantitative research…

Mental ill-being among children and adolescents have increased in many high-income countries. The causes for this development are still unclear, but due to the scale of the problem, broader societal changes are likely to contribute. One of the societal level hypotheses -- the "educational stressors hypotheses" -- suggests that the…

B. F. Skinner's work in the field of verbal behaviour represented a movement of global significance. However, in today's age, even those who appreciate its profound importance in the archives of psychology accept that it did not sufficiently account for complex human language. Recent advances in psychological science have led to the emergence of a…

The overall goal of this project is to gain a broad picture of belonging and the politics of belonging in early education settings (In Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland the children attend school from 6 or 7 years. In the Netherlands children attend compulsory school at 4 years of age. Using the terms early education settings and (pre)schools…

Background: Social context and peers significantly impact students' motivation, especially in collaborative learning settings. However, there is limited evidence on how students strategically influence each other's motivation through socially shared regulation of learning (SSRL). Aims: This study examined secondary school students' SSRL during…

To investigate how children organise their vocabularies, we can analyse the errors they make when unable to retrieve a word. Analysis of naming errors has not been sufficiently explored in the first language (L1) of bilingual children. We employed a picture naming task to investigate the types of errors made by 142 bilingual and 119 monolingual…

Purpose: This study aims to offer a model solution for the educational ecosystem transformation to enable entrepreneurial responses to contemporary environmental challenges. Design/methodology/approach: The research applies the grounded theory, the process-based approach, comparative analysis, data analysis, systematised literature review and the…

Academic advising plays a critical role in student engagement and persistence at community colleges, and colleges are increasingly adopting advising technologies to increase their capacity to support students. However, much remains unknown about the process of planning for and implementing technology-mediated advising redesigns. To explore these…