Collaboration is rapidly becoming sacrosanct in today's K-12 schools. A basis for these collaborative school experiences is the ability to share one's observations of classroom activities. The Professional Learning Community (PLC) framework described here is a pedagogically based process that provides opportunities for Early Field Experience…

The health education program entitled "Show me your genes and I will tell you who you are" was implemented in a Junior High School in Greece in order to help the participating students get acquainted with basic genetics concepts as well as the procedures and implications of genetic testing. This article presents the stories that were…

Drug design and development requires collaboration among scientists with diverse expertise. In early-stage drug design, establishment of promising drug candidates requires integration of structure-based molecular design with biopharmaceutics and ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity) principles. Much of this work is…

This study examines how the introduction of TeachTown:Basics, a computer-assisted intervention for students with autism spectrum disorder, influenced teachers' use of other evidence-based practices. In a randomized controlled trial that enrolled 73 teachers nested within 58 schools, we used three-level hierarchical linear models to evaluate…

Literacy coaches need support developing their professional capacities for coaching (Kern et al., 2018). This study explored the ways novice literacy coaches developed literacy coaching discourses during coursework in two reading specialist master's degree programs. Through qualitative and discourse analysis of transcribed coaching videos and…

The present study was conducted within the framework of sociocultural theory to examine the effect of flipped instruction on Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' development of conditional sentences. The study benefited from quantitative methodology within which 60 intermediate Iranian male EFL learners who were checked for their…

Centering on cognitive and reflective development of pre-service primary school teachers, this study aimed to contribute new understanding of how teacher identity is formed through increased teacher self-efficacy by preservice teachers trained in cognitive coaching developed by the researcher. Its purpose was three-fold: examining the impact of…

Research has identified characteristics of professional development programmes (PDPs) that are important for accomplishing change in teachers' practice and student achievement. However, these characteristics do not predict and guarantee the outcomes of a specific PDP. In the present study the authors investigated whether the expectancy-value…

Purpose: This research aims to examine self-regulated learning (SRL) skills of undergraduate students (USs) and reveal the role of higher education programs in promoting SRL skills. Research Methods: In this mixed-method research, the participants consisted of 1411 freshmen and senior students and 17 senior-year interviewees. Data collection tools…

In this article I am going to review the 'progress' which L2 materials development has made both as a practical pursuit and as an academic discipline since my first contact with materials development in the 1960s. I am also going to evaluate the current situation, to make predictions about future developments and to make recommendations to…

The objective of this study was to assess, through a cross-institutional comparison, whether higher education institutions in the Republic of Ireland have responded to Bologna Declaration first- and second-cycle programme restructuring and applied the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) to similarly-accredited civil engineering programmes in a…

This research explores the development of environmental caring character through the Adiwiyata Green School program, with particular reference to a school's inclusive provision for students with special needs. This study used the CIPP (context, input, process, product) evaluation model, including semi-structured interviews, observations and…

The study aimed to investigate the effect of a training program on improving working memory for students with learning difficulties in reading Arabic. The study sample consisted of (10) students with learning disabilities from Basic Education students from the fifth and sixth grades, and those between the ages (10-11) years as a pilot group and…

The purpose of this article is to share the experiences of secondary schools that are part of the Kansans Can School Redesign initiative as they navigated through a remote learning environment during the last quarter of the 2019-2020 school year. Those experiences are in the context of three questions posed to secondary educators engaged in the…

The Generalization of Information and Communication Technologies in Education program (GENIE) has made way for computers, video projectors, interactive whiteboards and multimedia rooms into many public schools in Morocco, and has worked to add the communicative dimension to the process of technology-assisted teaching. The program also worked on…