This study examines the influences of learners' motivation, self-monitoring, and self-management on learning satisfaction in online learning environments. The participants were 185 undergraduates and 99 graduate students majoring in computer science and engineering. The participants' motivation, self-monitoring, self-management, and learning…

Purpose: An increasing non-drinker population is developing, but much research focusses on alcohol misuse, rather than the experiences of those who abstain or consume little alcohol, particularly within student populations. This student co-constructed qualitative research aimed to understand alcohol abstainer and light drinking students'…

Purpose: This study seeks to unravel the psychological well-being of education sector professionals by exploring the mediating role of self-esteem in the relationship between perceived organizational support and burnout among university teachers. Design/methodology/approach: This survey-based study employs a relational, cross-sectional model to…

Background: In today's high-tech society, the relationship between social networks and the formation of political orientation and socio-political activity within the student environment has become a key subject of research. Objectives: The aim of this article is to investigate the correlations between the influence of various social media…

Higher education has often been accused of its anti-social character, represented by the metaphor of the 'ivory tower'. However, the idea of the pursuit of knowledge per se, which is associated with the ivory tower, has not been widely recognized as a public ideal of higher education. In this study, by drawing on the 20th-century British…

A common theme across psychological research on belonging in school has been a focus on the social--on the quality of students' connections to others in the school environment. In this review, I argue that when a student indicates that they do or do not "feel like I belong at my school," social connections are necessary but not…

Despite a growing attention on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in Physical Education (PE), there has been limited literature on how PE can provide SEL experiences in continuity with other subjects within a specific school context. This study aimed to investigate perspectives and experiences of teachers in PE and classroom for a school-wide SEL…

This collective case study documents four research universities' efforts to advance faculty diversity and inclusion on their campuses. Informed by the campus racial climate framework, our research team offers identifies two broad categories of barriers, including structural barriers and active barriers. Structural barriers included institutional…

The concept of resilience has been employed as an analytical tool in a wide range of scientific disciplines and fields from the natural sciences to social sciences and humanities, but within linguistics it is a relatively new and so far, rarely applied concept. This paper is intended as a contribution to fill this gap through a sociolinguistic…

Reflection is fundamental to teachers' agency, professional learning, and sustainable school improvement. This study investigates schoolteachers' conceptions of reflection and the factors they report as affecting their engagement in it. The study deploys Habermas' (1984) theory of communicative action, specifically the "lifeworld…

Five distinct generational cohorts, from the Silent Generation (born 1920s-1940s) to Generation Z (born 1996-2010s), are active in the workforce. These cohorts are defined by shared characteristics shaped by pivotal historical events influencing their worldviews and work behaviors. Each generation presents unique challenges due to differing…

The mastery of the ability to identify and describe plant morphology is an essential aspect of studying biology. The skill of describing plants can be developed through diverse learning resources, including textbooks and contextual materials. Therefore, this study aims to determine students' ability to describe the morphology of plants using a…

Attempts to raise the emergent literacy of "at-risk" children have prompted programs to teach caregivers how to implement school-like reading and writing activities at home. As an alternative to these programs, which often overlooked families' funds of knowledge, critics have encouraged literacy educators (e.g., teachers, literacy…

The main objectives of this research were to analyze the impact of the use of augmented reality (AR) for analyzing the safety of sport equipment, on the motivational climate, behavior, and intention to use, and to validate a theoretical model for predicting continuance intention to use AR among students. The sample consisted of 254 university…

Objective: This study explores mental health stressors related to family dynamics of Korean American college students during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants: In January 2021, using purposive sampling, we recruited 15 Korean American student leaders at a west coast university. Methods: Self-identified leaders were interviewed via…