This research examined self-efficacy, locus of control, age, gender, and years teaching as a predictor for teaching job satisfaction among a sample of Filipino teachers working in the USA for three years or less. The sample size consisted of 96 participants. Participants completed three surveys, Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale, Rotter's Locus of…

This purpose of this multiple article dissertation was to explore clinical reasoning in Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students using a computer-based simulation. The first article, is a systematic literature review, examining the use of technology-enhanced simulation in physical therapy (PT) education. Sixteen articles met the inclusion…

This article presents the products and evaluation results of COPILOT (Cooperative Online Peer-assisted and Intercultural Learning in Occupational Therapy), an Erasmus+ funded project undertaken by a consortium of six European universities from 2018 to 2021, which addresses the need for internationalization and intercultural learning by developing…

The development and iteration of a body of professional knowledge appropriate to the demands of practice is a central concern of studies of professional education and work. This article concentrates on Bernstein's notion of the "region" of professional knowledge, identifying regions as complex socio-epistemic entities into which forms of…

Graduate professional programs seek to foster professionalism and civic-mindedness in their students. This study measures the development of civic-mindedness throughout a graduate physical therapy (PT) program curriculum committed to community engagement. Three class cohorts completed the Civic-Minded Professional (CMP) Scale at four time points.…

Using adult learning principles, health professions educators are well positioned to create interprofessional learning systems for collaborative, team-based practice in the transforming health-care system.

This paper explores the forms of lived time that characterise a vocational relationship to academic work. Drawing on interviews and surveys with over 30 academics who have left the profession early or have given up looking for ongoing academic work, it paints a portrait of vocationalism as a double-edged sword. The research found that despite…

In a rapidly growing world, the modern civilizations' efforts to make their citizens are always vital. The societies which have well-educated manpower naturally have a right to rule the world. Teacher qualifications that constitute the base of the education system will surely denote the quality of the education system. The teachers are the ones…

There are negative impacts of gender stereotypes particularly on the education of girls and women. The purpose of this study is to examine pre-service teachers' profession perceptions within the context of gender using word association test technique and to identify the definition of the concept of "profession" depending on sex. This…

We delivered to growers and Extension educators a workshop addressing good agricultural practices (GAP) for produce safety. To assess the workshop's effects as applicable to behavioral intervention theory, we studied past behaviors, behavioral intentions, and changes in knowledge. Workshop participants had been aware of but did not fully…

To have software tools that facilitate the rapid development of applications and generate information systems is a requirement in a globalized world. Worldwide in the engineers training field it is basic to apply measurements and evaluations to the rapid design tools used to obtain applications faster and generate quality information systems in…

Mixed methods research requires integration of qualitative and quantitative data. However, there is debate about how to define integration and what is required for integration to occur. This paper describes a mixed methods research project which revisits datasets from different eras, which were originally instigated for different purposes and had…

A key mandate of environment education (EE) is to motivate people to engage in environmentally responsible actions. However, school-based EE has not been successful in nurturing environmentally responsible actions in students. This is partly because of the information-oriented structure of current EE, which assumes that symbol-based knowledge…

This research uses a survey mechanism to query actuarial science programs as to the usage of industry advisory boards at such programs in the U.S. The study's methodology employs a questionnaire to examine the formation, governance, and utilization of such entities. The data collected identify the most widespread purposes and composition of…

Through the professionalization process, an occupation transforms into a profession. Although much scholarship has situated academic advising as a professional endeavor, in the past few years, the authors of two papers posited that advising is not a profession, a contention not shared by all within the advising community. Despite much scholarly…