Teacher appreciation has been promoted as a strategy to combat teacher shortages, under the assumption that public recognition boosts job satisfaction and retention. However, empirical support for this claim has been sparse, particularly regarding how sources of appreciation influence teachers. This study adopted an ecological framework to…

This study, guided by the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework, investigated the levels of implementation and relationships between teaching, social, and cognitive presence in online MBA programs at five Ethiopian private higher education institutions. It also analyzes the impact of the teaching and social presence on the cognitive presence. Using…

Objective: Extending previous research on sleep quality and college students' mental health, this study tested behavioural and cognitive precedents to sleep quality to inform future health interventions and programmes. Design: Cross-sectional surveys. Setting: The study took place in a large US Midwestern university. Method: Data were collected…

Language mindsets and L2 willingness to communicate (L2 WTC) are closely related and have contributed greatly to learners' L2 learning achievements under the SLA paradigm. However, relatively less attention has been given to the influence of language mindsets and L2 WTC on L2 pragmatic acquisition. This paper aims to examine the potential…

The study examined the mediating roles of academic buoyancy and academic emotions in the relationship between classroom social climate (CSC) and student engagement in English as a foreign language (EFL) learning. The study involved 759 Chinese university students and utilized confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation…

Background: Research has demonstrated that distinct oral language skills contribute unique variance to text comprehension in students from second grade onward. This study examined these relationships for kindergarten students whose comprehension is often assumed to be determined by word decoding skills. Method: Eighty-eight kindergarten students…

The main aim of this study is to examine whether academic identities of the faculty members are statistically significant predictor on their organizational trust. The population of the study, which was designed as a correlational study, consisted of 37,868 faculty members working in state universities in Central Anatolia region. The sample of the…

Analyses of administrative data have revealed that during the 1990s and early twenty-first century, young people in England from ethnic minority backgrounds appeared to have a greater propensity to participate in higher education than their white British counterparts. This paper presents the results of an analysis of linked administrative data for…

As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become increasingly integrated into educational settings, understanding the factors that influence teachers' acceptance or resistance to AI is critical, particularly in the STEM education sector. Despite growing interest in AI in education, few studies have examined the psychological and cultural…

Background: Recent debate surrounding school finance in the U.S. revolves around adequacy principles, defined as spending required to achieve the common goal of national average math and reading scores. Some experts argue that funding disadvantaged schools in many U.S. states is inadequate to meet the national common goals. For instance, analyzing…

Measures of job satisfaction and preparedness from an initial survey with music teachers (n=40) were used to predict flow states using Csikszentmihalyi's theory of flow. Flow state and corresponding professional action data were collected through experience sampling. Multiple linear regression was used to show relationships between demographic…

Understanding factors that influence reading achievement among bilingual children is considerably more complex than it is for monolingual children. Research on dual language development indicates that bilingual children's oral language abilities are often distributed across languages in varied ways, due to heterogeneity of dual language exposure…

The pervasive use of the Internet and technology has its impact on citizens' civic participation. There are growing numbers of research which explore digital citizenship (DC) for citizens' better civic participation in the information society. With the growing attention of digital citizenship, a systematic review of empirical research focused on…

Prior research has shown the importance of collaborative culture as well as teacher job satisfaction and commitment in navigating complex school improvement processes. This study investigated the relationship between collaborative culture, affective commitment, and job satisfaction of teachers taking both collaborative cultures in the entire…

Variation in the "FMR1" gene may affect aspects of cognition, such as executive function and memory. Environmental factors, such as stress, may also negatively impact cognitive functioning. Participants included 1,053 mothers of children with and without developmental disabilities. Participants completed self-report measures of executive…