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08.04.2024 | Original Paper

Students’ descriptions of belonging experiences in post-secondary settings

For higher education students, feelings of belonging play an important role in their academic success and overall health and wellbeing. However, few studies to date have examined the contributors to and impacts of belonging experiences among …

verfasst von:
A. Dana Ménard, Arianna Pitre, Lana Milidrag, Laura Chittle

Open Access 28.03.2024

Exploring the relationship between the learning environment and bullying: PLS-SEM evidence from Norwegian higher education

Increasing awareness of the consequences of bullying leads to efforts to address deficiencies in the learning environments in which bullying occurs. This study explored factors that determine the learning environment and their influence on …

verfasst von:
Emmanuel Mensah Kormla Tay, Stephen Zamore

26.03.2024 | Original Paper

How to design ‘cultivated spaces’ in active learning classrooms: analysis of faculty reflections on learning space

A growing diversity of classroom designs, broadly labeled as active learning classrooms, is a rising development across higher education institutions. Along with the construction of these new spaces, stakeholders have developed new vocabularies …

verfasst von:
Merve Basdogan, Tracey Birdwell

Open Access 07.03.2024 | Original Paper

Assessing students’ perceptions of school climate in primary schools

Research at the secondary school level provides compelling evidence to suggest that a positive school climate is related to improved health, wellbeing, and cognitive outcomes for students. In response to these findings, school systems around the …

verfasst von:
J. M. Aldridge, M. J. Blackstock

17.02.2024 | Original Paper

Designing a caring classroom community: a propensity score matching study

Factors that support learner engagement and achievement are vast. School learning environments can promote care for learners. The present year-long study examined the Designed Caring Classroom Intervention in 17 s grade classrooms in a large …

verfasst von:
Laurie O. Campbell, Caitlin Frawley, Glenn W. Lambie, Xueying Gao

12.01.2024 | Original Paper

Patterns of university online teaching and learning delivery approaches and students’ performance during COVID-19

COVID-19 required new off-school technology-based learning environments for educational continuity. This study described the online delivery modes of lectures and tutorials in a university in Brunei Darussalam during COVID-19. A cross-sectional …

verfasst von:
Masitah Shahrill, Elvynna Leong, Daniel Asamoah, Lin Naing, Mohamad Iskandar Petra, Jose H. Santos, Anita B. Z. Abdul Aziz

08.01.2024 | Original Paper

Adaptation and evaluation of an Estonian version of the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI)

The main aim of our study was to adapt the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI) to an Estonian context. The QTI was translated and evaluated by three educational researchers and validated with a sample of 508 students from grades 6 and 9 in …

verfasst von:
Kristi Palk, Äli Leijen, Aleksandar Baucal, Liina Lepp

02.01.2024 | Original Paper

Pedagogical strategies employed in the Emergency Remote Learning Environment during the COVID-19 pandemic: The tale of teachers and school ICT coordinators

Education systems around the world closed schools to cope with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this current mixed-method study, 181 schoolteachers completed online questionnaires to characterize the pedagogical strategies which they used …

verfasst von:
Shlomit Hadad, Tamar Shamir-Inbal, Ina Blau

27.12.2023 | Original Paper

Cognitive appraisals as mediators of the relationship between digital technology use and students' achievement emotions in science and mathematics subjects

Based on the control-value theory, we investigated the achievement emotions experienced in science and mathematics classes by high school students in the context of digital technology use for educational purposes. Specifically, we examined the …

verfasst von:
Dora Stilin, Barbara Rončević Zubković, Rosanda Pahljina-Reinić

23.12.2023

Promoting adolescent subjective well-being: a classroom environment approach

Extensive studies have examined adolescent subjective well-being (SWB) and classroom environment separately. The recent decade has witnessed a new line of research on the relationship between SWB and classroom environment. However, researchers …

verfasst von:
Yanghua (Felicia) Huang, Harold Chui

13.12.2023 | Original Paper

Value vs. vulnerability: exploring asynchronous commenting in lecture-capture video recordings for undergraduate medical and dental students and its impact on learning through a pre and post survey design

Engagement through the use of technology requires a level of vulnerability and trust amongst teachers and learners. The emotional and social aspects of engagement can be significantly affected by the nuances of the learning setting. The study goal …

verfasst von:
Lyn K. Sonnenberg, Arif Onan, Jaime C. Yu, Victor Do

05.11.2023 | Original Paper

Interpretation of space: an analysis of study space usage on a university campus

This paper examines the study space preferences of college students in their respective university colleges. The study utilized principles of visual ethnography to collect participatory photographic data. Student participants completed three …

verfasst von:
Tina M. Budzise-Weaver, Pauline Melgoza, Sarel Lavy, Dhiraj K. S. K. Saraogi

27.10.2023 | OriginalPaper

Move with whom? A framework for analyzing collaboration within embodied learning activities

Enabled by technological innovations and evolving theories of cognition, embodied learning designs have proliferated over the last few decades. Collaborative tasks in particular offer rich learning opportunities as learners overtly coordinate and …

verfasst von:
Leah F. Rosenbaum

22.10.2023 | Original Paper

Learning environments in Brazilian academia during the Covid-19 pandemic

Learning environments are among the many postgraduate educational aspects impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. During this time, colleges and universities had to implement emergency remote teaching (ERT) to continue and keep their faculty, staff and …

verfasst von:
Tiago André Portela Martins, Adriana Teixeira Bastos, Ana Augusta Ferreira de Freitas, Iveltyma Roosemalen Passos Ibiapina

08.09.2023

Culturally responsive learning environments within higher education

This study was carried out to examine the confidence of faculty in providing culturally responsive teaching from both a student and faculty perspective within the helping disciplines of counseling and social work. Researchers hypothesized that …

verfasst von:
Ebony Hall Lang, Beck Munsey, Felicia Murray, LaShondra Manning, Tiffany Wigington

31.08.2023 | Original Paper

The influence of physical space on university mentoring

The aim of this research was to study the aspects and conditions of physical space which favor or hinder the experience of university mentoring according to the perception of participants. During fieldwork, an ethnographic approach was used, based …

verfasst von:
Sonia Martinez-Requejo, Inmaculada López Martín, Javier Fernández Collantes

30.08.2023 | Original Paper

The development of the Academic Incivility Scale for higher education

Academic incivility is a serious concern for higher education. The continuum of incivility to bullying is not agreed upon, but the behaviors associated with these constructs disrupt education at every level. Unaddressed, these behaviors can …

verfasst von:
Laurie O. Campbell, Jessica Tinstman Jones, Claudia C. Sutter, Jaimie Stickl Haugen

26.08.2023 | Original Paper

What did adolescents say in context of a pandemic? Analysis of topics addressed by students in TED-Ed clubs extracurricular school program in Argentina

This article reports youths ´ interests and concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic by analyzing what Argentine students aged 12 to 18 years expressed within the 2020 edition of TED-Ed Clubs, an extracurricular school program aimed at developing and …

verfasst von:
Melina Furman, Natali Savransky, Ariel Merpert, Mariana Sajón, Bárbara Funtowicz, Tobías Yatche

Open Access 21.08.2023 | Original Paper

Effectiveness of project-based mathematics in first-year high school in terms of learning environment and student outcomes

This study of first year high-school students in South Australia focussed on the effectiveness of using an innovative project-based mathematics strategy to improve the classroom learning environment and the student outcomes of enjoyment, academic …

verfasst von:
Paul E. Rijken, Barry J. Fraser

26.07.2023 | Original Paper

Conceptualization and measurement of adolescent students’ psychological need thwarting based on the student–teacher relationship

Particularly for adolescent students, tools for measuring their experience of negatively consequential aspects of student-teacher relationships are limited even though evidence shows that keeping this group motivated in the classroom is especially …

verfasst von:
Olajumoke Beulah Adigun