The aim of this study is to determine the social media addiction levels of university students and examine whether their social comparison orientations and ruminative responses significantly predict social media addiction. The study group consists of 261 university students. "Social Media Addiction Scale", "Iowa-Netherlands Social…

The present paper presents the results of a study which examined the changes in the levels of willingness to communicate (WTC) in the virtual world of "Second Life" (SL) reported by a single student of English philology in 19 sessions spanning the period of one semester, and the factors accounting for such fluctuations. Using data…

The conception of racial categories from a biological perspective is unconsciously embedded in the individual's cognition. This is true even among university students majoring in biology and medicine. Even though students have never learned about "race" explicitly in formal biology class, they are highly likely to implicitly construct,…

Over the last two decades, research has reached the conclusion that educator teamwork is necessary to ensure the achievement of school goals. No attempts, however, have been made to provide integrative evidence regarding its contribution to school effectiveness. To fill this void, the authors review two decades of professional team research in the…

This study aimed to see whether there is an influence of school principal leadership, organizational culture, and teacher competence on teacher performance. Another aim was to see how much influence these factors have on teacher performance either partially or simultaneously. The research used a quantitative approach with survey methods. Analysis…

This article presents a conceptual model of cross-cultural alignments in education in the digital era. The intention was to explore and respond to urgent questions regarding learners and the learning environments in today's networked society. The model explores the enabling or constraining influences of educational systems, digital environments,…

There remains a need in education scholarship to understand how social processes act across levels to influence one another, drive cultural norms, and direct students' postsecondary pursuits, with careful consideration of students' held identities and the communities in which they are embedded. Utilizing narrative constitution of identity and the…

A primary goal of this study was to examine adolescents' use of the most commonly used social media apps in the United States. An additional goal was to examine the relationship between social media use and adolescent externalizing behaviors. The moderating influences of gender and race/ethnicity also were assessed. The sample included 1,072…

This study explores the impact of professional doctorates in the workplace in the specific context of the criminal justice sector, through a qualitative study of practitioners who have graduated from professional doctorates in criminal justice and security risk management. A thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 25 graduates was…

Background: Very few studies explicitly investigate the prevalence, similarities, and differences among adolescents who experience one or both types of bullying victimization. Objective: The exploratory study aims to illustrate patterns of concurrence of traditional bullying and cyberbullying victimization and identify similarities and differences…

In the era of electronic-learning 3.0, existing dimensions related to technologies and learner are not adequately explored while discussing e-learning adoption. In the current study, technology and learner dimensions are converged to overcome this insufficiency in analysing e-learning adoption. Earlier studies have reported less about e-learning…

Creativity is deemed as an integral part of twentyfirst century skills and is emphasized in science education curricula in Turkey as well as in other countries. Therefore, the purposes of this research were to examine the concepts of creativity demonstrated in the developing possible solutions step of the DBL and to determine the students'…

The article "Hegemonic and counter-hegemonic discourses in science education …", by Flavia Rezende and Fernanda Ostermann (2019), presents an interesting critical analysis of the antagonisms between the meaning of "teaching science" and of "science education." The authors took a critical look at the construction of…

The purpose of this study was to look into the factors that influence mathematics teacher educators' formative assessment practices. This paper took a qualitative case study research design approach with six educators teaching mathematics in three teacher Colleges of Education in Ghana. The exploration focused on factors that hinders teacher…

The present article addresses the question of whether, and to what extent, critical thinking should make attunement to current social and political landscapes central to its practice. I begin by outlining what I consider to be the basic positions in the debate about the political contextualisation of critical thinking, which are referred to as the…