Background & Significance: Recruiting and retaining high-quality teachers is a pressing policy concern due to the declining prestige of the profession and lower enrollment in teacher preparation programs (Kraft & Lyon, 2024). Understanding the determinants of teacher wellbeing, job satisfaction, stress, burnout, and intentions to leave is…

Machine translation tools have gained increasing popularity among translation learners, transforming their translation learning behaviors. However, it is unclear how learners' continuance intention to use these tools is affected yet. Based on the task-technology fit (TTF) model and the value-based adoption model (VAM), the present study examined…

Learners' affective responses to pedagogic tasks and the effort that they invest in completing them are critical to the learning that takes place through tasks in task-based language teaching (TBLT) (Lambert, Aubrey, & Bui, 2023). Fluctuations in learners' willingness to communicate (WTC) during pedagogic tasks--or task-specific WTC (Aubrey…

This study employs the Theory of Planned Behaviour to investigate mathematics teachers' beliefs regarding their intention to collaborate regularly in an online community. The central premise is that initiating such a community necessitates an implementation strategy informed by a better understanding of underlying beliefs influencing teachers'…

This study aims to examine the attitudes and readiness of Omani pre-service teachers toward implementing artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom. The research employed the integrated technology acceptance model (TAM) to explore how these future educators perceive and prepare for AI integration. Using a mixed-methods approach that combined…

In England, motivation for language learning is low, especially for learning German at high school, with potentially negative educational and societal implications. Previous research has tended to overlook the relevance for low motivation of social factors such as negative messages in public discourse (Krüsemann, H. 2018. "Language learning…

The use of a learning management system (LMS) is believed to be significant for students' academic performance, but students' attitudes regarding its use are divided. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to apply a modified version of the technology acceptance model to determine the motivators for University of Professional Studies Accra…

Getting feedback on assignments is a ubiquitous educational experience. Researchers have typically described the feedback process in one of two ways--feedback as transmission of information from a more knowledgeable other to the learner or feedback as a student-centered dialogue. The present study highlights a gap between theory and practice by…

List-method directed forgetting usually involves asking people to study a list, followed by a cue to forget it, and then studying a second list. Prior work suggests that List 2 encoding is necessary for directed forgetting to occur, but recent studies have found that moving the forget cue from List 1 to List 2 allows people to selectively forget…

The teaching of entrepreneurship has been progressively included in the curricula of several university courses to stimulate the development of empowering attitudes and an entrepreneurial mentality. However, a new form of entrepreneurship has emerged with a focus on sustainability and the creation of new projects that aim to reduce social…

With current social, environmental and economic challenges, there is an increasing need to encourage more sustainable business models, which include social entrepreneurship, in the education of our future leaders and entrepreneurs. This has resulted in significant research and practice towards improving students' social entrepreneurial intention…

Many studies show that augmented reality (AR) provides multiple benefits to science education, including learning gains, motivation to learn, and collaborative learning. However, while using AR largely depends on the teachers' willingness, existing literature lacks studies that identify teachers' intentions to use this technology. This study…

Background: Family carers of people with an intellectual disability sometimes need to transfer their caregiving tasks for example because of illness or ageing. We examined carers' experiences with long-term care planning and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their intentions to engage in long-term planning in the Netherlands. Method:…

This study incorporated the technology acceptance model (TAM) and theory of planned behavior (TPB) to interpret students' perception of MOOCs. This study was based on a survey questionnaire; all 525 respondents were undergraduates in China. A five-point Likert scale was used to collect data in order to measure relationships among the constructs of…

We designed this study to find out if teachers' beliefs and intentions would have an impact on children's self-regulation skills and to see if teachers would estimate self-regulation skills of children properly. There were 43 teachers and 190 preschool children as participants. We asked teachers to report their beliefs about teaching and we also…