This book provides a comprehensive examination of teacher design thinking and practice, structured across ten chapters that can be read either as a complete narrative or as standalone works. The content is organized into three parts--Part 1: Foundations and frameworks (Chapters 1-3)--Establishes the theoretical groundwork for understanding…

Natural environments are beneficial for cognitive functioning and affect. Appraisals of such benefits can lead to the development of pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors in the long run. This study aimed to investigate the effects of an indirect exposure to a natural and urban environment during a short break in a school day, using a 'green'…

Educational neuroscience was born out of the promise that brain imaging would generate discoveries that change how we educate our children. Many neuroscientists and educators alike feel that this promise has not been fulfilled and have begun to question the utility of this nascent field that is arising at the intersection of two well-established…

Research on the effects of background music has historically produced mixed findings. This study examined whether listening to background music impacted participants' writing fluency and perceived cognitive load. Participants in this experiment were 109 attendees of a science and history museum. Participants had to be at least six years old to…

This study aimed to analyze the relationship between student cognitive engagement and academic achievement and inquired about the moderating effects of student gender on the relationship. A cross-sectional quantitative survey approach was conducted to do descriptive and inferential statistics. Simple random sampling was employed to select…

Within educational research, there is a growing interest in using neuroscience methods such as electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potentials (ERPs) to probe neural mechanisms underlying students' learning and development, in natural, school-based settings. The results of these studies are beginning to appear in educational,…

Research on neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) has led us to refine our theoretical and methodological approaches. We explore whether new deficit clusters in line with the Research Domain Criteria, a novel multifactorial framework, optimally explain known conditions such as ADHD, DLD, or SLD in reading. Following the PRISMA guidelines for…

The aim of the present study was to analyse how university students' achievement goals are associated with two distinct academic outcomes: academic performance and academic engagement (i.e., cognitive, affective and behavioural). Also, it investigated the potential mediating role of cognitive and metacognitive self-regulation learning strategies…

The aspects of preschool education curriculum (re)design have recently been emphasized both in various international and national legal documents and in the professional mainstream literature with the aim to support children's holistic development. The maturity and advancement of a child across cognitive, physical, social-emotional, and behavioral…

This study addresses a gap in the empirical research about how students use computational thinking (CT) skills throughout the problem-solving process, which is a crucial skill for STEM learning. I conducted task-based interviews with two pairs of Year 8 students with strong mathematical problem-solving skills and previous experience in solving…

Self-regulated learning comprises cognitive, emotional, and behavioral dimensions. However, flipped classroom studies have mainly focused on behavioral self-regulation and overlooked their relationships with each other. This quasi-experiment was conducted to investigate whether implementing self-regulated cognitive strategies (SRCSs) in preclass…

Narrative voice and focalization are two essential narrative techniques, but their roles in understanding narrative texts still need to be determined. This study uses Event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate how auditory comprehension of literary text is affected by narrative voice and mode of focalization, and how these influences are…

Despite the enormous clinical relevance of disordered sleep to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), to date, few studies have employed objective measures of sleep architecture in ASD. Previous studies have identified an association between slow wave activity in electroencephalography (EEG) at sleep onset and daytime cognitive and affective functioning…

KAT6B and KAT6A belong to the MYST family of lysine acetyltransferases, and regulate gene expression via histone modification. Although both proteins share similar structure and epigenetic regulatory functions, it remains unclear if KAT6A/6B mutation disorders, both very rare conditions, yield the same neurocognitive presentation and thus benefit…

Productive struggle (PS) has emerged as a critical construct in mathematics education, emphasizing the importance of persistence, cognitive engagement, and conceptual understanding in problem-solving. However, inconsistencies in its conceptual and operational definitions have hindered its effective implementation and assessment. This study…