The aim of this research has enabled us to establish the influential relationship between factors associated with e-learning, such as individual impact and depression, and the mediating role in psychological distress and computer anxiety related to the fear of failing an academic year in times of COVID-19 in university students at two universities…

Research on praise, in support of a growth mindset, has overwhelmingly focused on children. We explored how praise influences performance in college students. Colleges are often challenged to respond to students' established mindsets in the face of increasingly demanding coursework. Specifically, we examined how fear of failure may alter the…

This paper describes a neural network model that can be used to detect at- risk students failing a particular course using only grade book data from a learning management system. By analyzing data extracted from the learning management system at the end of week 5, the model can predict with an accuracy of 88% whether the student will pass or fail…

We present data from large introductory algebra-based physics courses at a large public research university in the US in which most students were bioscience majors or other health-related majors. The data was analyzed from two introductory physics courses, which are required for most of these students and they are often considered "weed…

This study explores how predictive different indicators are for high school graduation, college enrollment, and degree completion for different groups of English Learners. Using these indicators can improve schools' ability to understand the needs of English Learners, enabling them to provide better support and increase students' educational…

This study explores the extent to which college context (two- vs. four-year), gender, and race/ethnicity correlated with worsening course outcomes during emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, by comparing outcomes within students between the fall 2019 pre-pandemic and spring 2020 pandemic terms. In particular, it explores the…

Purpose: Islamic culture believes the evil eye can cause distress, mental illness, physical illness and even death through envious glances. However, the gap was highlighted about the influence of college students' religious beliefs, particularly those of the evil eyes, on their academic failures. Based on this notion, this study aims to explore…

Despite collaboration among different professions being recognized as fundamentally important to contemporary and future healthcare practice, the concept is woefully undertheorized. This has implications for how health professions educators might best introduce students to interprofessional collaboration and support their transition into…

This paper analyzes data from Native American students' attainment in a first-semester Spanish language course at an indigenous-serving institution before, during, and after the pandemic. The gap between Native American and non-Native American students increased during the first post-pandemic semester to the point that just one out of 11 Native…

This article emerges as part of the Grand Challenges in Assessment Project and describes two approaches to driving innovation in assessment. Each approach can be used to drive innovation, promising failure, and equity in assessment, teaching, and learning. The first approach, the TRIZ exercise, focuses on an approach to drive innovation at a…

One principal preparation program in Illinois experienced severe turbulence following the statewide redesign of all principal preparation programs. Myriad problems contributed to a cascading turbulence that negatively skewed stakeholder perceptions of program quality. In addition, the program failed two national accreditation submissions and faced…

Educators increasingly extol failure as a necessary component of learning and growth. However, students frequently experience failure as a source of fear and anxiety that impedes risk-taking and experimentation. This essay examines the dissonance between these "generative" and "stigmatized" paradigms of failure, and it offers…

Can web-based interactive student response systems (SRSs) improve student performance in large introductory international relations courses? Does switching from first-generation clicker-based SRSs to second-generation web-based SRSs impact student learning? To answer these questions, we draw data from multiple offerings of Introduction to…

Mistakes occur frequently in mathematics. Reframing mistakes into positive moments can be psychologically important in a student's educational journey. We investigated two tertiary math classes that explicitly valued mistakes through a pedagogical requirement called "productive failure". For a percentage of their grade, students…

This article responds to commentaries on the author's opening article in this issue, "Disruptive Innovation and Technology Enhanced Learning" (EJ1288163). Herein, Michael Flavin begins by discussing arguments for and against Uber and Wikipedia as disruptive innovations. He addresses commentaries in this issue by Michael Raynor, Terry…