While the COVID-19 pandemic has affected many educational practices, it has also acted as an amplifier, accelerating emergent trends. One such trend concerns the nature of distance doctoral education that, even before the pandemic, was characterised by conceptual ambiguity. This article re-considers the meaning of "distance doctoral…

Purpose: Immigrant-origin youth are placed at risk by large-scale upheavals that affect their contexts of reception, including disruptions to education caused by public health and natural disasters, as well as other crises. Here we examine how immigrant-serving districts were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and district leaders' responses.…

The long-standing traditions of the dissertation are long overdue for a challenge. Creative and disruptive thinkers operate with a default "what if?" mindset that helps them challenge the status quo (Carter & Krahenbuhl, 2022). It is time for creative minds in higher education to kick-start how and why they see new opportunities…

Human anatomy is a foundational course in graduate health professional programs. Given the increased enrollment in anatomy courses, along with the development of new technologies, institutions are increasingly compelled to provide alternative course formats, including online learning. Similarly, higher education is increasingly transitioning from…

Corrective feedback (CF) is a central issue in language education, and, undoubtedly, teachers have a key role in boosting the potential outcomes of CF for learners. This study aimed to explore the effect of a teacher education course on the types of errors the teachers treated through oral corrective feedback (OCF), the types of OCF, and…

The early years of childhood represent a critical time frame in emotional development. This qualitative study sought to elucidate the impact of parental relationships and parents' emotional intelligence on young children's development of emotional intelligence capacity, as well as changes in this development when a dyadic clinical intervention was…

Nearly one in four college students struggle with food insecurity. Over the past decade, states and postsecondary institutions have expanded support for student nutritional needs through food pantries, emergency aid grants, and outreach and application efforts to efforts to increase student participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…

Activists in K-12 educational settings have challenged the reach of the criminal legal system into school contexts through the pervasive use of school resource officers (SROs). Community organizations, student leaders, and teachers (among others) have challenged the ways in which SROs perpetuate systemic racism and structural injustice in schools,…

Needs assessments serve a pivotal role in identifying the diverse competency needs of adult learners, particularly in the Cooperative Extension System (CES). While previous studies have found that an evaluation competency gap exists among Extension professionals (EPs), little is known about how to prioritize and sequence evaluation competency…

Communicating tertiary graduate skills and knowledge to employers is a contemporary issue in Australian outdoor education. Threshold concepts have been proposed as a positive way forward to a shared understanding between Higher Education (HE) professionals, students, graduates, employers, and other outdoor education stakeholders. While threshold…

This instrumental case study explored the experiences of two children diagnosed with an Intellectual Disability (ID) during interactive read-alouds delivered at home. Participating parents implemented interactive read-aloud strategies with ease and reported joy in the experience. The uniqueness of each child and the role of choice in reading…

Pyramidal training is an effective model for disseminating behavior analytic skills. However, pyramidal training in research is often conducted in controlled university settings. Further, research that has evaluated the effectiveness of pyramidal training in classroom settings (see Pence et al. 2014) often focuses on improving the use of one…

Anxiety disorders occurs at a high rate amongst autistic children. Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is a reasonably well-established multi-component intervention used to reduce anxiety in this population. Whilst there are known effective intervention components in CBT for treating anxiety among autistic children, there are few guidelines for how…

The frequency of home spatial activities (e.g., puzzles and blocks) correlates with young children's spatial skills, but causal evidence is limited. We addressed this issue by comparing the effects of a parent-led intervention aimed at increasing spatial activities to an active control targeting narrative activities (preregistered:…

The International Baccalaureate (IB) is experiencing rapid growth, resulting in demand for IB teachers in both public and independent schools. Since teaching IB requires specific knowledge of the language and pedagogy of the IB programmes, initial teacher education programs are well-positioned to prepare preservice teachers to teach IB. This paper…