Cooperative learning is a student-centred approach that enhances engagement and understanding. This study investigates the effectiveness of the Buddy system, a cooperative learning strategy, in improving Year 9 students' mathematical performance in converting between decimals, fractions, and percentages (DFP), and explores their perceptions of the…

In recent years, digital education has become a cornerstone of higher education, particularly following the rapid expansion of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The specific objective of this study was to identify the key affordances (critical factors) and essential features for effective digital course design within higher education.…

This study focuses on the construction of the learner-centered teaching college English teaching mode under big data technology. Traditional college English teaching has issues, such as standardized teaching ignoring individual differences and lagging feedback. However, the development of big data technology offers opportunities for teaching…

Responding to the need for fine-grained investigation of what adaptive teaching entails, this article reports on 88 qualitative lesson observations with highly competent teachers. The findings illustrate how, amidst the unpredictable flow of classroom life, the participant teachers fashioned a power dynamic with students that was asymmetric and…

This small-scale, exploratory?research considered the experiences of professionals using person-centred planning (PCP) in annual review meetings within one local authority (LA) in England. Semi-structured interviews were?used to explore the experiences of five educational psychologists (EPs) and two special educational needs co-ordinators…

This study provides meta-analytic evidence supporting the validity of the Learning-Centered School Leadership Framework, as a whole and its core dimensions, in predicting student achievement. We conducted a meta-analysis on 208 effect sizes from 26 studies to estimate the direct and indirect effect sizes of the framework overall, as well as each…

The purpose of this paper is, through content analysis of 30 publications in the Greek and international literature in scientific texts, books, journal articles and conferences to analyze the conceptual content of pedagogical differentiation in primary education as it emerges from the descriptions and discussion of authors, researchers and…

Background: STEM instructors who leverage student thinking can positively influence student outcomes and build their own teaching expertise. Leveraging student thinking involves using the substance of student thinking to inform instruction. The ways in which instructors leverage student thinking in undergraduate STEM contexts, and what enables…

Since the racial reckoning during the summer of 2020, there has been a conservative backlash toward discussing race and racism in schools. Therefore, it is crucial that we learn more about how children think about racism to include their voices in the decisions being made about how racism should be taught in schools. In this study, I drew on Black…

By observing, or "noticing," what sparks learning in the classroom, teachers and students alike can cultivate a learning environment centered around personalization and choice. Education experts John Almarode and Paul Emerich France outline strategies for engineering a culture of self-reflection that sets learning in motion.

The community of inquiry (CoI) framework describes a process for creating collaborative learning through three elements or presences: social, cognitive, and teaching. Despite its popularity among researchers and practitioners, use of the CoI model is limited to mapping instructional activities, which are yet to be developed into an interaction…

Purpose: Across K-12 settings, instructional coaching continues to flourish as an approach to teacher professional development intended to address long-standing inequities in student achievement. Yet, coaching models differ in how to conceptualize change or transformation as a result of coaching efforts. Design/methodology/approach: This case…

Recent and important changes in pedagogy design include flexible learning methods that address student diversity (universal design for learning--UDL) and innovative learning spaces. The goals of this study were (1) to compare pedagogical practices in traditional and innovative learning environments in the context of the management dimension of…

The article deals with the didactic and methodological foundations of silence in learning, focused on students' reproduction of their own meanings and content of learning. According to the French scholars, Maurice Halbwachs and Pierre Nora, history and historical memory are contrary in several ways. As suggested by Gabriel Tarde the intensity of…

The purpose of this quantitative, causal-comparative study was to determine how, and to what degree learning methods (student-centered or instructor-centered) and gender independently or interactively made a difference in adult student achievement. The Wechsler Individual Achievement Test Third Edition (WIAT-III) was utilized to measure…