Geospatial expertise draws on and recognizes a vast array of seemingly unrelated interconnections allowing the geographer to find solutions to otherwise incomprehensible problems. Geospatial thinking involves both time and space, acknowledges cause-and-effect relationships of geographic phenomena at multiple scales, and recognizes the impact of…

This study investigated agricultural leadership development programs within the U.S. land-grant university system, initially launched by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation in 1965 and currently offered by 38 universities nationwide. Despite their widespread adoption, these programs often lack explicit integration of leadership scholarship and may…

Effective elementary principals enact "leadership for literacy" to support high quality literacy instruction. Yet not all elementary principals possess strong literacy knowledge. This study examines how principals with different professional backgrounds learn about and enact leadership for literacy and how the embedded systems of…

This study was conducted to collect validity evidence to support the use of an observation instrument to evaluate the performance of special education teachers (SETs) of students with significant disabilities (SWSD). In the study, a purposive sample of 49 SETs of SWSD, who were appropriately credentialed and experienced, evaluated the content of…

The article establishes how a membership association, following shared and intersecting strategies around competency and professional recognition frameworks, extends research management and administration (RMA) professionalization. Computer-mediated design using asynchronous sources provided data for thematic, narrative analysis within an…

Professionalism for language teacher trainers and teacher educators would require purposeful preparation, induction, and support to develop the knowledge base necessary to foster teachers' development. This study seeks to learn more about the current state of TESOL teacher trainers' professional development in the United States, including their…

Students frequently turn to the internet for information about a range of scientific issues. However, they can find it challenging to evaluate the credibility of the information they find, which may increase their susceptibility to mis- and disinformation. This exploratory study reports findings from an instructional intervention designed to teach…

In this paper, we describe student understanding of the "force concept" (basic concepts of Newtonian mechanics) by representing it as a vector-valued quantity, which we refer to as the "score-state vector," in a (30-dimensional) Force Concept Inventory (FCI) score space. We use a large ensemble of FCI results collected…

The primary objective is to investigate the cultural transmission of Lantern Chinese opera in Northern Sichuan through education. The content encompasses a thorough literature review, field research, and analysis of the three key informants, including opera artists, scholars, cultural experts, and community leaders who preserve and promote…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly emerged as a powerful tool with the potential to enhance learning environments. However, effective use of new technologies in education requires a good understanding of the technology and good design for its use. Generative AI such as ChatGPT requires particularly well-designed instructions due to its ease…

Research advisers play a vital role in guiding senior high school students through their research projects, which are essential for developing critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills. This study explores the attributes that students who have completed their research projects consider essential for an ideal research adviser.…

In hard-to-staff subjects like secondary school mathematics, out-of-field teaching--where teachers are required to teach subjects outside their expertise--is a necessary reality. While strategic investments in continuous professional learning by education authorities seem an obvious way to ensure that teachers are better prepared for such…

This study addresses the challenges of documenting and demonstrating practical knowledge (PK) in craft subjects. Acquiring PK is a dynamic process involving experience, reflection, practical work, and active engagement with the environment. The aim of this study is to explore the aspects of PK that can be seen in silent video documentation of the…

Reading activities are essential to the physics learning process. Physics teaching has mostly been carried out to foster higher order thinking skills such as critical thinking and argumentation skills. This present study aims to develop a reading model that can be enacted in physics education to facilitate critical thinking and argumentation…

Teachers' professional noticing--often conceptualized as their situation-specific skills of perception, interpretation, and decision-making--constitutes an important component of their professional competence. Noticing has become increasingly significant worldwide in the pursuit of inclusive mathematics education in classroom settings, whereby…