Feedback is a critical component of the learning process and is essential to reinforce the effect of feedback with affective elements. Due to technological developments, providing automated feedback has become easy. Therefore, this study examined the effect of automated elaborated feedback provided with affective feedback on situational intrinsic…

The instructional quality of early career teachers is an important area of research that has potential to inform policy and practice. However, earlier research on this topic is primarily concerned with examining the relationship between early career teachers and their instructional quality. This study took a person-centred approach to examining…

Teacher professional learning communities (PLCs) have received extensive research attention due to their important role in teacher professional development and classroom practices. However, research aiming to explain the underpinning mechanisms of how PLCs foster teacher instructional practices is limited. Against this backdrop, this study…

This study investigated the role of Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs) in higher education and focused on their self-efficacy, pedagogical training, and performance. Given the expanding employment of GSIs and the influence of their teaching efficacy on undergraduate education, this research examined the effectiveness of a structured professional…

Puberty education is a widely accepted, critical component of sex education, yet little is known about its instruction. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a promising pedagogical approach for meeting the needs of diverse learners in the puberty classroom especially students with disabilities. This community-based participatory research project…

Parents play a critical role in supporting the language development of children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH). Research shows that key parent-child interaction factors--such as parental sensitivity, non-intrusiveness, and joint attention--are strongly linked to better language outcomes in DHH children. The quantity and quality of…

The purpose of this study is to adapt the scale titled "Classroom Management Self-Efficacy Instrument (CMSEI)" adapted by Slater and Main (2020) into Turkish and to test its validity and reliability. In line with the scale adaptation process, initial translation studies were conducted, followed by construct validity testing using…

War poses a unique crisis situation for special education teachers, with uncertainty, lack of resources, and fears for their own and their students' safety, compounded by a complex student population. This study explored Israeli special education preschool teachers' stress and well-being in the war that began on October 7, 2023, focusing on how…

Background/purpose. This study presents the development of a novel questionnaire to assess medical students' motivation to learn English for Medical Purposes (EMP), addressing a gap in existing tools tailored to specific language contexts. Based on Dörnyei's L2 Motivational Self System, the questionnaire uniquely contextualizes its items to…

Background/purpose: Student interest in mathematics plays a significant role in supporting their motivation and academic achievement. However, research in this area remains scattered and lacks a clear direction. This study was conducted to identify the development, trends, and research gaps in mathematics interest research between 2021 and 2025.…

This research was a qualitative transcendental phenomenological exploration of astronomy identity formation among astronomy majors and physics majors engaged in astronomy research. Participants (N=1?0), all of whom identified with traditionally marginalized groups in astronomy, were recruited from two large universities in New York state at…

Background/purpose: Computational Thinking is a fundamental problem-solving skill. As its importance has been recognized by the scientific community, it has been incorporated into the curricula of several countries to foster its development from the earliest years of schooling. Therefore, it is essential to design training programs that equip…

Engagement significantly contributes to student learning and academic success; it has preventive benefits against dropout and disruptive behavior. This study examines how principals' distributed leadership strategies affect student engagement with teacher self-efficacy as a mediator in the secondary schools of the state of Amhara, Ethiopia.…

Purpose: The proliferation of entrepreneurship education in higher education has heightened the demand for individuals to teach this subject across diverse academic disciplines. Moreover, while many entrepreneurship educators follow a serendipitous entry into the field, a discourse about how such diverse cohorts of entrepreneurship educators…

Subjective well-being stands as a pivotal and comprehensive psychological indicator reflecting an individual's quality of life, often intertwined with physical activity. However, the complex mechanisms through which physical activity influences an individual's subjective well-being have not been thoroughly explored. Consequently, this study aims…