Education & Educational Research

Article Education & Educational Research

Antecedents of American hospitality students' intercultural communication apprehension: Effect of ethnocentrism, cultural intelligence and core self-evaluations

JungHoon (Jay) Lee, Jinsoo Hwang

Summary: This study examines the personal traits that affect the intercultural communication apprehension (ICA) among American hospitality students. Results show that cultural intelligence (CQ) and core self-evaluations (CSE) can decrease ICA, while ethnocentrism promotes ICA. Additionally, CSE can reduce the impact of ethnocentrism on ICA.

JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY LEISURE SPORT & TOURISM EDUCATION (2024)

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Mapping cognitive processes in video-based learning by combining trace and think-aloud data

Marijn Gijsen, Leen Catrysse, Sven De Maeyer, David Gijbels

Summary: This study investigates the differences in cognitive levels of processing when learning from interactive videos and how these differences are related to learning outcomes. The results suggest that students in the deep condition spent more time on key information and processed both details and key information in a deeper way, while students in the surface condition spent more time on details and factual knowledge and rehearsed them more. Students in the deep condition scored higher on the amount and coherence of information they recalled from the videos.

LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION (2024)

Article Education & Educational Research

LGBTQ plus students' weekly academic engagement and disaffection predicted by experiences in gender-sexuality alliance meetings*

V. Paul Poteat, Robert A. Marx, S. Henry Sherwood, Jerel P. Calzo, Hirokazu Yoshikawa

Summary: Gender-Sexuality Alliances (GSAs) can contribute to LGBTQ+ students' academic engagement and reduce disaffection. The level of leadership within GSAs is related to academic engagement and disaffection.

LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION (2024)

Article Business

Focus on education: Taking stock of key themes, topics, trends and communities in international business and international management education research

Angelito Calma, Gabriele Suder, Thomas P. Kenworthy

Summary: This paper examines the education-focused literature in the fields of International Business (IB) and International Management (IM) to identify the main topics, themes, trends, and subdomain clusters. Through a combination of text-and network-based analysis, the study reveals five main areas of focus: global perspective, learning and skill development, teaching and curriculum development, economic and management issues, and student types and experience. Additionally, it investigates the presence of critical perspectives, such as sustainability, ethics, empathy, and gender, in the education literature.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (2024)

Article Business

Teaching loss of brand control to engineering entrepreneurship students through analogical mapping

Alfonso Siano, Alessandra Bertolini, Francesca Conte, Agostino Vollero

Summary: The advent of the digital environment is causing the removal of the brand from corporate control. This paper proposes an interdisciplinary analogy to learn about the loss of brand control and aligns brand dynamics with planetary dynamics. The use of the analogy holds the potential to provide valuable insights into brand management dynamics for entrepreneurship education.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (2024)

Article Business

Entrepreneurial attitude: Gender differences in moroccan university students

Jose Maria Biedma-Ferrer, Miguel Angel Montanes-Del Rio, Carmen Virues, Jose M. Sanchez

Summary: Higher education institutions play a crucial role in fostering students' entrepreneurial attitudes, and gender has an impact on these attitudes. A study conducted in Morocco found that female students exhibit a more positive entrepreneurial attitude compared to male students, especially when they are single and at the bachelor level.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (2024)

Article Education & Educational Research

Does changing learning environments affect student motivation?

Sabine Schweder, Diana Raufelder

Summary: This research examines how modifications in learning environments influence students' basic needs and motivation using longitudinal data. The findings suggest the importance of an integrated approach of SDL and TDI to maintain motivation and meet basic needs in different educational settings.

LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION (2024)

Article Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications

A novel quantitative assessment of engagement in virtual reality: Task-unrelated thought is reduced compared to 2D videos.

Vishal Kiran Kuvar, Jeremy N. Bailenson, Caitlin Mills

Summary: Recent research suggests that students' minds often wander off-task during learning, regardless of the learning modality. This study explores the potential of virtual reality (VR) to reduce task-unrelated thoughts (TUT) and finds that learning with VR leads to lower TUT and better performance.

COMPUTERS & EDUCATION (2024)

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Individualizing goal-setting interventions using automated writing evaluation to support secondary school students' text revisions

Thorben Jansen, Jennifer Meyer, Johanna Fleckenstein, Andrea Horbach, Stefan Keller, Jens Moeller

Summary: This study investigated the challenges in setting revision goals for students and found that an individualized goal-setting intervention based on automated writing evaluation can significantly improve students' revision performance. The findings suggest that automated writing evaluation can provide support for personalized goal-setting in ESL writing.

LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION (2024)

Article Education & Educational Research

Understanding and meeting the professional development needs of English educators at a private tutoring organization in China

Robby Lee Robinette

Summary: This study focuses on the professional development needs of teachers at an English private tutoring organization in China regarding guided reading. By developing an innovation configurations map and receiving guidance from experts, participating educators improved their knowledge and skills. The project demonstrates the positive outcomes of tailored professional development initiatives for teachers in this sector.

TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION (2024)

Article Economics

Measurements of performance gaps are sensitive to the level of test stakes: Evidence from PISA and a Field Experiment

Yuval Ofek-Shanny

Summary: This study conducted a field experiment in Israeli middle schools and used data from PISA 2015 to examine the impact of test engagement on performance gaps between ethnic minority and majority groups. The findings suggest that test engagement can account for more than 50% of the performance gaps measured in low-stakes assessments. Test engagement is also correlated with personality traits that influence life outcomes. Policymakers should consider both test engagement and proficiency when assigning stakes to assessment tests.

ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION REVIEW (2024)

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Troubling teacher preparation: Intersections of identity, diversity, and inclusive practice

Naheed A. Abdulrahim

Summary: This study examines the impact of identity on uncovering teacher candidate awareness and understanding in teaching students with disabilities in culturally sustaining ways. Through individual interviews and focus groups, the study reveals an emerging awareness and receptivity to equity-based inclusive education among teacher candidates. The findings have implications for teacher preparation research and practice that prioritize issues of culture, power, and disabilities among students.

TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION (2024)

Article Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications

Collaborative analytics-enhanced reflective assessment to foster conducive epistemic emotions in knowledge building

Yuqin Yang, Kaicheng Yuan, Gaoxia Zhu, Lizhen Jiao

Summary: The study finds that the design of collaborative analytics-enhanced reflective assessment can promote conducive epistemic emotions to knowledge building among undergraduates, and enriches our understanding of the relationships between metacognition, epistemic emotions, and knowledge building practices.

COMPUTERS & EDUCATION (2024)

Article Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications

Enhancing elementary school students' computational thinking and programming learning with graphic organizers

Tzu-Chi Yang, Zhi-Shen Lin

Summary: Computational thinking is essential in the current era and learning programming is the most effective way to develop it. Introducing computational thinking and programming at an early age is recommended. Graphic organizers serve as a bridge between students' existing knowledge and new learning, enhancing their learning process. The study found that using graphic organizers improved elementary school students' computational thinking, programming skills, and learning experiences.

COMPUTERS & EDUCATION (2024)

Article Economics

Learning losses during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Mexico

Enrique Alasino, Maria Jose Ramirez, Mauricio Romero, Norbert Schady, David Uribe

Summary: This paper provides evidence of significant learning losses and partial recovery in Guanajuato, Mexico during and after the COVID-19 school closures. Students' performance in Spanish and math declined by 0.2 to 0.3 standard deviations after schools reopened, equivalent to 0.66 to 1.05 years of schooling. By June 2023, students were able to recover about 60% of the learning loss, but still scored 0.08-0.11 standard deviations below their pre-pandemic levels.

ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION REVIEW (2024)

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Income inequality is associated with heightened test anxiety and lower academic achievement: A cross-national study in 51 countries

Ronnel B. King, Yuyang Cai, Andrew J. Elliot

Summary: This study found that students in countries with higher income inequality experience greater test anxiety and have lower academic achievement. Test anxiety is also associated with lower achievement in reading, math, and science. However, income inequality does not directly mediate the relationship between test anxiety and achievement.

LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION (2024)

Article Education & Educational Research

The more, the better? Learning with feedback and instruction

Salome Wagner, Leonie Sibley, David Weiler, Jan-Philipp Burde, Katharina Scheiter, Andreas Lachner

Summary: This study investigates the synergy and interaction effects of combining strategy instruction and feedback on learning in physics. The findings suggest that the elaboration level of feedback determines whether combining instruction and feedback produces additive or reducing effects.

LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION (2024)

Article Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications

Adopt or abandon: Facilitators and barriers of in-service teachers' integration of game learning analytics in K-12 classrooms?

Yiming Liu, Jeremy Tzi Dong Ng, Xiao Hu, Zhengyang Ma, Xiaoyan Lai

Summary: This study examines teachers' usage intention and behavior towards the Game Learning Analytics (GLA) system in K-12 classrooms. The study found that personal, environmental, and technological factors influenced teachers' intention and behavior, and that technostress moderated the intention-behavior relationship. The study also identified the heterogeneity of GLA usage among teachers with different individual characteristics.

COMPUTERS & EDUCATION (2024)

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Searching for a middle ground: Teachers' identities and perceptions on the teaching and learning of writing

Erika Abarca Millan, Constanza Alvarado Vargas, Patricio Cabello, Silvana Arriagada

Summary: This study examines the identities of eight language teachers participating in a collaborative problem-based Professional Development Program (PDP) and how their positioning in the teaching and learning of writing shapes their identities in the classroom. Through semi-structured interviews and a dialogical and narrative approach to identity, the study reveals the clear contradictions in the teachers' narratives, highlighting the multiple and unitary, individual and social, and continuous and discontinuous nature of teacher identity.

TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION (2024)

Article Education & Educational Research

Teaching with simulators in vocational education and training - From a storing place to a new colleague

Sofia Nystrom, Song-ee Ahn

Summary: Based on practice theory, this study investigates the impact of using simulation as a teaching method on VET teaching practice in upper secondary schools in Sweden. The findings show that simulators not only bring new knowledge and relationships in teaching practice but also have side effects such as dependency on external factors.

TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION (2024)