Bathroom access and use in conjunction with biological urge to void is an important part of optimal bladder health. School settings are uniquely positioned to influence the development of bladder habits. The aim of this study was to identify barriers and facilitators to high school bathroom use for adolescent women. A qualitative study design was…

Ongoing shortages of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers have prompted policy aimed at recruiting career change teachers as a solution. However, little is known about what deters career changers from becoming STEM teachers. This gap is explored through interviews with nine career changers who contemplated, but decided…

In this literature review, I explore the research centered on co-teaching, including its history and evolution, labels and definitions, benefits and drawbacks, and working models, with the goal of making transfers to music teaching contexts. Established initially within an inclusive teaching framework as a result of governmental reforms,…

"Generating College Completion: Charting a Path to Institutional AI Adoption for Student Success in Higher Education" provides a comprehensive framework for institutional AI adoption in higher education, focusing on student success and completion. The report examines different approaches to AI adoption, ranging from building in-house…

Talent development environments are usually group-based, meaning athletes comprise each other's learning context. Consequently, athletes' ability to learn with and from each other is essential. This implies that there is a key role for coaches to play in cultivating reciprocal, cooperative athletes and creating talent environments in which…

Amid the globalized environment of higher education, international graduate students remain vital contributors to U.S. institutions as they contribute billions of dollars to the U.S. economy annually, drive innovation, and play a significant role in diversifying and globalizing U.S. institutions. Open Doors reported that international students…

Preschool teachers are frontline workers to the mental health crisis, and commonly have very little to no training in identifying students with trauma symptoms. This qualitative case study examined the State Change trauma training program located in Vermont in the United States. This study explored how this program trained preschool teachers…

Teachers' role identities shape their teaching practices. However, research on the interplay between language teachers' role identities and classroom technology integration is rather limited. Based on interview responses and classroom observations of eight K-12 language teachers, this study revealed two contrastive forms of role identities that…

This descriptive-interpretive qualitative study analyzed educational technology scholars' written discourse with the goal of promoting sustainable terminology usage in the educational technology field. The study analyzed 105 conceptual definitions extracted from 191 doctoral dissertations on various forms of technology-based learning, including…

The land-grant system's tripartite mission of teaching, research, and Extension was intended to improve the American livelihood while making contributions to the advancement of U.S. agriculture and economic development. To date, historical analyses within the field of agricultural education have focused on special interest topics rather than a…

The purpose of the current study was to explore the lived experiences among parent leaders and a program coordinator who participated in a parent-directed training program to support other Latine parents of children with autism spectrum disorder. We used qualitative methods to explore 4 Latine parent leaders' and 1 program coordinator's…

Purpose: This qualitative study interrogates the barriers that historically disadvantaged higher education students in South Africa face when it comes to access and success. It specifically explores the challenges black students encounter in gaining epistemic access within the South African higher education system. Design/methodology/approach:…

This study uses China as a case country to investigate the factors that influence university instructors' teaching agency by drawing on experiences in the engineering field using Margaret Archer's social realist framework. With survey results including 659 valid responses, the findings reveal that instructors' delivery of contextual instruction…

School administrators organise several factors, such as the structure of the school, teachers, staff, students and parents to achieve educational objectives. Managing such a large-scale organization often involves addressing unexpected problems. School administrators face significant challenges in maintaining educational continuity following…

Resident directors (RDs) in Europe manage a university in a microcosm--overseeing academic affairs, student affairs, finances, facilities, human resources, legal issues, and health and safety. Literature on the RD role remains scarce, and we sought to fill this gap by examining the lived experiences of 22 RDs in Europe. Our phenomenological study…