Education plays a vital role in fostering trust -- both in institutions and among individuals. It does so by developing foundational skills such as literacy and numeracy, nurturing the values and attitudes needed for democratic participation, and ensuring that education institutions themselves earn and sustain learners' trust. Recent global…

Purpose: This study investigates the mediating role of virtual experience in the relationship between UTAUT2 constructs and perceived employability among vocational high school students. While previous research has examined students' behavioral intentions toward augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) using UTAUT2, their impact on job…

Over the past decade, numerous studies have explored students' reading practices in the EFL context. However, we lack evidence on how undergraduate students use task-oriented reading to understand complex academic texts like journal articles. This phenomenological case study investigates the adoption of Task-oriented Reading Instruction (TORI) in…

Despite significant progress in reducing poverty, the Philippines continues to face high inequality, which stayed elevated in the early 2000s as the economy grew. Although inequality has gradually declined since 2012, it remains among the highest in Southeast Asia. This paper examines how changes in education levels and occupational structure have…

This book argues that competency-based practices are the key to creating school systems that meet students' academic needs and prepare students to effectively communicate, collaborate, and self-regulate. With comprehensive coverage of competency-based practices and recommended steps to explore new approaches to instruction and assessment, Marzano…

Business analytics is an emerging and prominent tool in many industries seeking to exploit the advantages of data-driven decision making. Simultaneously, educational institutions are developing and delivering business analytics offerings to equip business professionals with the tools necessary to implement business analytics in modern businesses.…

Learning to capitalize in English requires identifying a word's type and sentence position. In two cloze studies (2021-2022), Australian students of all genders (95% White, monolingual) spelled words with one and two capitalization cues (proper nouns, sentence-initial words) and no-cue control words. High school (12-18 years, n = 59) and…

A quasi-experimental one group pretest-posttest design was utilized with 19 first-and-second-year doctoral occupational therapy students at a university in Tennessee to evaluate confidence, performance, benefits, challenges, and recommendations from an acute care simulation experience. Student confidence was evaluated using a researcher-developed…

Video-based learning (VBL) is widely used due to its flexibility and accessibility. However, only watching videos results in shallow learning, and therefore there has been much research on providing support for engagement in VBL. In this paper, we present our VBL platform and the results of a study performed in two consecutive years in the same…

This article aims to characterise geometric and computational thinking of future Early Childhood Education teachers through participating in a robotic problem-solving activity for 5-year-old pupils using MatataBot, MatataLab's educational robot. The study, carried out during academic year 2022-2023, involved 42 early childhood education students…

TikTok and other social media platforms have rapidly grown in popularity as a means for teachers to network and share pedagogical information and classroom practices. Classroom management is a particularly important skill for teachers as a support for students' academic, social, and emotional development and teacher well-being; however, many…

Motor skill interventions addressing global developmental delays have shown to be effective, but there is limited ecological validity and evidence of long-term effects in these studies. This naturalistic, cross-sectional study compared the MC of children (n = 87) in classes of teachers previously trained in the Successful Kinesthetic Instruction…

This paper explores the transformational potential of flipped blended learning in MBA education, with a focus on enhancing skill development in Marketing, Finance, and Human Resources (HR). Flipped blended learning, a pedagogical model where students engage with foundational content outside the classroom and use in-class time for deeper, applied…

This study evaluated the effectiveness of short-term study abroad programs on a frontier/rural campus, particularly in the light of promotion of internationalization efforts by educational institutions in the U.S. It measured students' intercultural competence and cultural adaptability before and after participating in a short-term study abroad…

School psychologists have the potential to improve students' reading skills by helping schools select evidence-based programs and then supporting their implementation. Blended learning offers a flexible implementation format to address long-standing challenges implementing and scaling reading programs in schools. The purpose of this study was to…