Background: Gamification has been used in recent years to enhance the student experience in educational environments and to help students achieve an optimal experience. However, there is limited empirical evidence of the effects of gamification on specific psychological experiences, such as the students' flow experience, which is a highly…

This study uses the concept of dilemmatic space to unpack the complexities of teachers' work when it comes to assessing students in the GenAI age. A key idea of dilemmatic space is that dilemmas are not 'out there' but constructions based on individuals' priorities, knowledge and values. Therefore, studying what teachers perceive as 'dilemmatic'…

Background/purpose: This study aimed to investigate the degree to which social studies teachers in Jordan possess digital teaching skills and to examine whether there are statistically significant differences based on professional experience. The study highlights the increasing importance of digital competencies in education, particularly in the…

Despite practice supervision in paramedicine contributing to 50% of undergraduate programmes, there is currently no national mentorship framework in place. With the issue of failure to fail reported within other disciplines, there is limited research around this phenomenon in the field of paramedicine. To explore the factors that contribute to…

Although the "eye-mind link" hypothesis posits that eye movements provide a direct window into cognitive processing, linking eye movements to specific cognitions in real-world settings remains challenging. This challenge may arise because gaze metrics such as fixation duration, pupil size, and saccade amplitude are often aggregated…

This integrative review identifies COVID-19-related challenges among international university students and explores their coping strategies and university support. To the best of our knowledge, this integrative review is the first to address both the challenges encountered by international students during the pandemic comprehensively and their…

In this essay, Catherine Park and Glynda A. Hull take an analytical deep dive into a student artifact produced in an undergraduate education course they teach to trace how diverse young people navigate their multiple identities and cultures relationally and are constantly in processes of negotiating these relations. Through this analysis they…

This study explored the nexus between professional identity and the emotional experiences arising from comprehending children's perspectives among seven Taiwanese novice preschool teachers. Thematic analysis was applied to assess drawings, photos, and individual interviews from the teachers. The study found that when novice preschool teachers…

Field facilitation is a crucial pedagogical intervention aimed at supporting student learning in resource-constrained open and distance learning environments, particularly in the Global South. This study used second generation activity theory to analyse a field facilitation intervention in an education faculty at a Malawian university,…

Teaching Assistants (TAs) (may also be known as Learning Support Assistants or Classroom Assistants) are important members of staff within a school environment. There is guidance on the deployment of TAs; however, little is known about how these recommendations are operationalised in a school setting. The aim of this research was to explore TA…

Humanitarian engineering (HE) graduate programs aim to improve environmental and social equity by training engineers to identify and rectify disparities in infrastructure services. While these programs help increase the engineering field's focus on equity, students involved in HE activities have reported questioning their ability to have a social…

Attitude change on the death penalty is a highly relevant issue to both legal and public policy actors. The current study adopted a novel approach to student attitude change with exposure to first-person narratives through community engaged learning. Senior capstone students (n = 28) completed projects on the death penalty. Students submitted four…

Despite the utilization of adventure therapy techniques in behavioral health disorder prevention programming, little is known about how providers become trained in adventure-based prevention practice. Additionally, limited literature examines how adventure therapy providers are trained. This exploratory qualitative study provides a starting point…

Purpose: Measurable results of efforts to teach empathy to engineering students are sparse and somewhat mixed. This study's objectives are (O1) to understand how empathy training affects students' professional development relative to other educational experiences, (O2) to track empathy changes due to training over multiple years, and (O3) to…

Historically settler and Indigenous childhoods have been defined in educational terms. However, scholarship has tended to focus on policy, curriculum, gender and the place of Indigenous Maori children as colonial education subjects, with less emphasis on settler children's experiences or responses. This article explores this through a case study…