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Education & Educational Research
Shelley Xiuli Tong, Rachel Ka Ying Tsui, Nicole Sin Hang Law, Leo Shing Chun Fung, Ming Ming Chiu, Kate Cain
Summary: This study examined the development of prosodic reading and its associations with reading comprehension among Cantonese-English bilingual children. The results showed that the pitch contours of wh-questions had the strongest link to reading comprehension in both languages, and there was a crossover effect from Cantonese pitch to English reading comprehension.
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Education & Educational Research
Bjoern Witzel, Ruth Goergen-Rein, Katharina Galuschka, Sini Huemer, Irene Corvacho del Toro, Gerd Schulte-Koerne, Kristina Moll
Summary: The study found that a digital game-based intervention program can effectively improve spelling skills, particularly in the areas of phonological processing and letter-phoneme correspondence. This intervention can be easily integrated into daily life and can be used as a supplement when learning therapy is not available. The satisfaction and usability of the intervention were also reported to be high.
LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION
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Elise Ameloot, Tijs Rotsaert, Thomas Ameloot, Bart Rienties, Tammy Schellens
Summary: This study investigates the impact of using learning analytics to support students' autonomy and competence needs in a blended learning environment. The findings show that teachers' adaptation based on learning analytics positively influences students' satisfaction with the adapted learning environment. However, students' basic psychological needs vary depending on the face-to-face workshop subject. The study emphasizes the importance of thoughtful blended learning course design and provides recommendations for effective learning analytics utilization in university settings.
COMPUTERS & EDUCATION
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
Betty L. Wilson, Brandi Anderson, Brittany Davis, Christian Gorchow, Julisa Tindall, Agnes Nzomene Kahouo Foda
Summary: While research on white founders of social work is plentiful, there is a lack of documentation on Black social work pioneers and their contributions. This article uses Critical Race Theory to examine the role of racism and white supremacy in social work education, and calls for a shift away from white-centered discourse and curricula to acknowledge and center Black social work pioneers. Implications for decolonizing pedagogy and anti-racist practice in social work education are also discussed.
JOURNAL OF TEACHING IN SOCIAL WORK
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
J. B. Buckley, A. K. Thompson, T. R. Tretter, C. Bieseckera, B. S. Robinson, A. N. Hammond
Summary: This study examines a HyFlex engineering fundamentals course with almost 500 first year students, using focus groups, open-ended survey questions, and course observational data. The findings highlight the importance of considering the joint dynamics of teaching, social, and cognitive presence unique to HyFlex environments in promoting learning and belonging. Implications include strategies such as utilizing the CoI framework, interactive tools to facilitate student engagement, and opportunities for live student questions, particularly with audio capability.
INTERNET AND HIGHER EDUCATION
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
Corinne Maxwell-Reid, Kwok-chi Lau
Summary: This study investigates the difficulties encountered in teaching junior secondary science lessons through English in the predominantly Cantonese-speaking context of Hong Kong. The researchers, comprising an educational linguist and a science education specialist, utilized student questionnaires, teacher interviews, and classroom observation to identify these difficulties. They employed genre understandings based on systemic functional linguistics and knowledge of the science curriculum to investigate the issue. Analysis of lesson extracts, teaching materials, interviews, and questionnaires revealed the impact of teaching materials on coherence between curricular objectives and teacher discourse, particularly in terms of complex descriptions affecting student understanding of the lesson.
JOURNAL OF ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
Jian Tao, Yueting Xu, Xuesong Andy Gao
Summary: This semester-long study investigates teachers' responses to online teaching in a Chinese university, with a specific focus on the interplay between teacher emotions and agency enactment. Analysis of data from three-round interviews with 12 teachers revealed complex emotional trajectories dominated by outcome emotions and characterized by the co-existence of positive and negative emotions. The various facets of teacher emotions, together with the underlying appraisals, were closely connected to agency enactment.
TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
(2024)
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Romina Cachia, Artur Pokropek, Nikoleta Giannoutsou
Summary: This article introduces a shortened version of the European Commission's SELFIE tool for measuring the digital capacity of schools. Two shorter measurement instruments, called midi-SELFIE and mini-SELFIE, are proposed based on the original tool. The validity and uses of these shortened versions are explored through various cases and compared to the complete instrument. The results suggest that the shortened versions of SELFIE are reliable alternatives for specific purposes.
COMPUTERS & EDUCATION
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
Dustin M. Grote, Amy J. Richardson, Walter C. Lee, David B. Knight, Kaylynn Hill, Hannah Glisson, Bevlee A. Watford
Summary: Transfer student capital (TSC) helps community college students realize the potential for a lower-cost option to a bachelor's degree through the transfer pathway. However, the quality and quantity of information networks and infrastructure affect the accrual of TSC, and information asymmetry can impede students' transfer progress. The study explored the information network for coursework transfer in engineering using qualitative coding techniques, network analysis, and pathway analysis. The findings highlighted the complex and disjointed web of information sources for TSC accrual, with both problematic and promising pathways. The study suggests that utilizing network analysis can enhance the evaluation and improvement of information systems for transfer.
COMMUNITY COLLEGE REVIEW
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
Uemran Y. Nalbantoglu, Nilay T. Buemen
Summary: This study presents a multi-case study that reveals improvements in teachers' ability to adapt curriculum through long-term professional development support. The findings show that such support enhances teachers' productive adaptation and leads to systematic and deliberative adaptive decisions. Additionally, the study highlights the need for further support in areas such as extending and omitting curriculum.
TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
Kazuhiro Yoshida
Summary: This commentary highlights the significance of Target 4.7 in relation to educational outcomes and discourses about development and sustainability. It emphasizes the increased relevance and urgency of focusing on Target 4.7 in the face of global crises such as security and climate change. The commentary argues for the possibility of transformation through education and raises questions and challenges for achieving transformative behavioral change.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
Mariah J. Fairley
Summary: This study investigates the transnational identities of six English language teachers in an Egyptian university context and finds that adopting humanizing teaching, bridging cultural divides, and promoting transformative teaching are ways in which teachers can utilize their transnationality to promote social justice.
TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
Ronit Herscu-Kluska, Sara Pe'er
Summary: This study examines the impact of visual media-based assignments on teachers' attitudes towards older adults and aging. The research findings show that documentaries can broaden teachers' perspectives on aging and generate more positive attitudes. These results highlight the importance of developing teacher education courses on aging and recognizing the potential of documentaries as educational tools.
TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
Edna Martinez, Sharon Velarde Pierce, Isela Pena
Summary: This study examines the emotional labor of faculty advisors at baccalaureate degree-granting community colleges in the context of funding concerns and increased work expectations. The findings highlight that advisors prioritize students' needs, overextend themselves selflessly, and face pressures from neoliberalism and bureaucratic checkpoints. It contributes to the literature by addressing the complexities of community college faculty's work and professional lives and shedding light on the normalization of emotional labor in their role.
COMMUNITY COLLEGE REVIEW
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
Sonja Lutovac, Minna Uitto, Virve Keranen, Anniina Kettunen, Maria Assuncao Flores
Summary: This study examines the current nature of teachers' work from the perspective of 25 Finnish basic education teachers, using narrative as a theoretical perspective and methodological approach. The study identifies various categories such as multiple teacher roles and fragmentation of teachers' work, teamwork and multi-professional cooperation, pupils' diverse backgrounds, changed learning skills and behavior, opportunities and challenges of digitalization, schools' open architecture, and the pandemic. These categories illustrate the hectic and changing nature of teachers' work today, involving relational intensification and challenging the redefinition of teachers' identities. The implications for pre- and in-service teachers' professional development are discussed.
TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
Sokunrith Pov, Norimune Kawai, Saovorak Nov
Summary: This survey study investigated the influence of pre-service teachers' knowledge and experience on attitudes toward inclusive education in Cambodia. The findings indicated that pre-service teachers had very limited knowledge of inclusive education, and their attitudes were significantly influenced by their experience in teaching students with disabilities, knowledge about gender, and knowledge about inclusive education.
TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
Robert J. Weijers, Bjorn B. de Koning, Ester Scholten, L. Y. J. Wong, Fred Paas
Summary: Asking questions is important for learning, but students rarely do so. This study examines the effect of nudging in online classrooms to encourage question asking behavior, student engagement, and grades. The findings suggest that the prompt nudge can be an effective tool to encourage questions in the online classroom, while the goal-setting nudge had no significant effect.
INTERNET AND HIGHER EDUCATION
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
Pauline Rose, Yusuf Sayed
Summary: This commentary reflects on the progress made in tracking two targets associated with the education Sustainable Development Goal. It points out the design problems of these targets, with a focus on inputs rather than outcomes. The article argues for meaningful participation and a shift in focus from institutions in the global North.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
Sara C. Mcdaniel, Duhita Mahatmya, Allison L. Bruhn
Summary: This national study aimed to examine the association between work and COVID-19 related stressors and the levels of educator burnout and stress, as well as the differences in these levels based on sociodemographic and school characteristics. The study also explored how work-related Sense of Coherence affected the relationship between work and COVID-19 stressors on educator burnout and stress. The findings showed a positive correlation between work and COVID-19 stressors and educator burnout and perceived stress. Gender differences were observed, with female educators experiencing higher emotional exhaustion. Educators who considered leaving their teaching jobs had lower personal accomplishment levels, and when student-related stress was high, it led to increased educator stress and overall perceived stress. Implications for policy and practice are discussed.
TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
Peipei Mao, Zhihui Cai, Zhikeng Wang, Xin Hao, Xitao Fan, Xiaojun Sun
Summary: This study investigated the effects of dynamic feedback and static feedback on students' learning using an educational programming game. The results showed that dynamic feedback, adjusted to the task difficulty levels, was more effective in enhancing students' learning achievement and gaming engagement. Furthermore, providing detailed explanations after both easy and difficult game tasks led to a decrease in learners' engagement.
INTERNET AND HIGHER EDUCATION
(2024)
