Implications For Education Research Articles

Undergraduate Students’ Logical Consistency in Mathematical Thinking: Implications for Teaching and Learning

This paper introduces the concept of logical consistency in students’ thinking in mathematical contexts. We present the Logical in-Consistency (LinC) instrument as a valuable assessment tool designed to examine the prevalence and types of logical inconsistencies among undergraduate students’ evaluation of mathematical statements and accompanying arguments. Beyond its utility as an assessment tool, this paper also underscores the potential of the LinC instrument as an instructional aid, effective for identifying students who may inadvertently overlook logical contradictions within their mathematical assertions. Furthermore, this paper outlines a practical classroom activity based on the LinC instrument format. This activity is tailored to enhance students’ capacity for reasoning with logical consistency, specifically in proof-oriented mathematics courses. We hope this activity helps instructors address and mitigate logical inconsistencies in students’ thinking throughout their classroom activities.

How Do Learners Make Sense of CSR Tensions? Implications for Sustainability Management Education

How Do Learners Make Sense of CSR Tensions? Implications for Sustainability Management Education

How Do Learners Make Sense of CSR Tensions? Implications for Sustainability Management Education

How Do Learners Make Sense of CSR Tensions? Implications for Sustainability Management Education

The use of interactional metadiscourse markers by Saudi EFL male and female college students: the case of a gender-sensitive topic

A few studies have explored the use of interactional metadiscourse markers in argumentative writing by male and female college students. More importantly, none explored the topic of metadiscourse resources with respect to gender-sensitive topics. Thus, the present study aims at examining the exploitation of interactional metadiscourse markers by Saudi male and female English as a Foreign Language (EFL) college students in their writing about ‘Who are Better Drivers, Men or Women?’. The study is corpus-based on students’ essays. The corpus consists of four sub-corpora: (a) men favouring men, (b) men arguing for women, (c) women arguing for men and (d) women writing in favour of women. We followed a qualitative and quantitative approach to data analysis. Using AntConc and Hyland’s (2005) metadiscourse model of interactional markers, the results reveal that female writers employed attitudinal lexis, hedges, self-mentions and boosters more than male writers. As for the variables of gender and stance choice, females arguing for men’s driving significantly utilised hedges more than the other three groups. Additionally, female writers writing in support of female drivers significantly used self-mentions more than male writers arguing for men’s driving. This study shows that sensitive topics may cause a difference in the distribution of metadiscourse markers used by people of both genders, and it provides some pedagogical implications for EFL instructors and curriculum developers.

Leisure Occupations of LVAD Candidates: Qualitative Content Analysis & Implications for Enhancing Daily Living With a Complex Medical Device

Abstract Date Presented 03/23/24 A qualitative content analysis showed that left ventricular assist device (LVAD) candidates have diverse leisure interests, many of which require modification or avoidance postimplant. Activity-specific patient education implications will be shared to optimize leisure participation. Primary Author and Speaker: Jessica Asiello Additional Authors and Speakers: Brenna Bigenwald, Sophie D. Nash, Christina M. Kelley Contributing Authors: Abigail Begin, Marissa Dittrich, Erin E. Donovan, Kimberly Beatty, Nicole C. Lam, Alyssa M. Taubert, Lisa Evans, Nicole Paul, Dana Kuhn, Kellie Cannone, Lauren McInnis

Pre-service teachers’ ways of understanding, observing, and supporting self-regulated learning

This study explores pre-service teachers' (PSTs') ways of understanding, observing, and supporting self-regulated learning (SRL). The implementation of an open-ended questionnaire (N = 118) was followed by a qualitative analysis based on Zimmerman's SRL framework. The PSTs reflected on their understanding of the phases of SRL: forethought, performance, and reflection. The PSTs demonstrated a theoretical understanding of SRL but a weaker understanding of how to observe and support students' SRL skills and their development. The findings have practical implications for teacher education and teachers' professional development.

How teacher characteristics shape Chinese undergraduate EFL learners’ enjoyment and anxiety

ABSTRACT Emotion research in second language acquisition has flourished under the growing influence of Positive Psychology in recent years. This mixed-method study explored the effects of teacher characteristics on learners’ foreign language enjoyment (FLE) and foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) in the Chinese educational context. A total of 347 EFL (English as a foreign language) learners from a provincial key university filled out an online questionnaire. Results showed that participants with male teachers reported more FLE than those with female teachers. Multiple regression analyses revealed that teacher characteristics predicted much more variance in FLE than in FLCA. Teachers’ happiness was the strongest predictor of learners’ enjoyment, while teachers’ strictness was the most significant predictor of anxiety. Qualitative data on students’ enjoyable and anxiety-provoking experiences regarding teachers also indicated that participants experienced more FLE with humorous, patient, supportive, happy, encouraging, and friendly teachers, yet teachers who were strict, frequently practiced random calls, and only spoke English in class would evoke participants’ FLCA. Based on these findings, pedagogical implications for foreign language teaching at the collegiate level are provided.

Learners use of audio/video playback controls in technology-enhanced listening: a systematic review

This systematic review investigates learner use of audio/video playback (AVP) controls in technology-enhanced listening environments. To this aim, 61 academic works produced from 2000–2021 underwent inclusion/exclusion criteria and were analyzed. The resulting corpus was made up of 16 peer-reviewed articles. We first situate the studies examined with regards to contextual, educational, and methodological characteristics of AVP controls research. Then, we conducted thematic analysis to identify, analyze and report affordances and limitations of AVP controls. Four affordances and two limitations were identified. The affordances describe how AVP controls enable students to resort to different strategies, change their interaction patterns with learning materials, address comprehension problems and enhance listening comprehension performance. Similarly, limitations describe how proficiency level restricts interaction with AVP controls and the need for learner training on AVP buttons. Results are discussed along with integrated data. Pedagogical implications and avenues for further research are also discussed.

Exploring the impact of automated written corrective feedback on the academic writing skills of EFL learners: An activity theory perspective

AbstractGrounded in the activity theory, we adopted a sequential explanatory mixed-methods approach to explore the impact of automated written corrective feedback (AWCF) on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ academic writing skills (i.e. task achievement, coherence and cohesion, lexicon, and grammatical range and accuracy). To this end, two intact classes were selected and randomly assigned to an electronic class (30 EFL learners), receiving AWCF electronically, and a non-electronic class (26 EFL learners), receiving written corrective feedback (WCF) non-electronically. Both groups of learners engaged in interactive writing activities guided by the principles of the activity theory, which capitalised on the roles of writing collaboration, social environment, and the mediation of electronic/nonelectronic artefacts to develop the writing skills. The required quantitative and qualitative data were collected via IELTS academic writing Task 1 and Task 2, a stimulated recall technique, and an individual semi-structured interview. The results of one-way ANCOVA indicated that the electronic learners outperformed their non-electronic counterparts in writing performance, task achievement, and grammatical range and accuracy, whilst no significant differences were found between the two groups’ coherence and cohesion and lexicon. The stimulated recall technique, conducted with seven electronic EFL learners, confirmed the electronic learners’ behavioural, cognitive, and affective engagement with the AWCF. The individual semi-structured interview, conducted with the same electronic learners, also indicated the electronic learners’ positive and negative attitudes and perceptions towards the AWCF, further corroborating the findings. Pedagogical implications are discussed within the framework of the activity theory to clarify how instructional procedures and learning environments can be designed to more effectively contribute to EFL learners’ interactive writing activities and, hence, their writing skills development.

Top-ranked U.S. and U.K.’s universities’ first responses to GenAI: key themes, emotions, and pedagogical implications for teaching and learning

The emergence of ChatGPT, a Generative AI program, has sparked discussions about its teaching and learning value, and concerns about academic integrity in higher education (HE). An extant review of the literature indicates that a scarcity of research exists on GenAI, specifically a synthesis of the official views, guidelines and articles of top-ranked universities on the use, limitations, challenges, and opportunities brought by ChatGPT in the early phase when ChatGPT was released in 2022 until early May 2023, which can offer insights into the concerns and recommendations for educators. Using the corpus assisted discourse analysis approach, this study identified the key themes and emotions elicited by evaluations of the ChatGPT situation from a self-built corpus containing 151 articles from 47 top-ranked U.S. universities and 34 U.K. ones. Our findings indicated three prominent themes discussed on official websites, including ChatGPT as a text and content generator, use of ChatGPT in teaching and learning, and potential implications and opportunities of using ChatGPT in HE. Further examination revealed that bias, concern, worry, threat, fear, and trust were the prevailing emotions relating to ChatGPT. Illustrated with examples collected from our corpus, this paper offers an in-depth discussion of universities’ first responses to the use of ChatGPT. The insights gained have some pedagogical implications for academics, researchers and educators and may inform policy and practice in HE on the use of GenAI.

Body Self-Esteem and Sexual Satisfaction in Chilean Adults: Implications for Comprehensive Sexual Education

Sex education is a complex and often controversial issue, and in Chile, this is no exception. The country's progress towards a curriculum that extends beyond public health-related sex topics has experienced ups and downs, resulting in the current lack of a comprehensive program. Comprehensive sexual education (CSE) programs typically include topics known to have a positive effect on individuals' overall sexual health, such as body self-esteem. The effectiveness of these programs can be measured through individuals' sexual satisfaction. Given the limited national evidence on this subject, the objective of this study was to analyze the relationship between body self-esteem and sexual satisfaction in Chilean adults, considering various socio-demographic variables. The sample consisted of 203 cisgender individuals who completed body self-esteem and sexual satisfaction scales. The results indicated a positive relationship between body self-esteem and sexual satisfaction. Using multiple regression, it was found that body self-esteem explained 17% of sexual satisfaction variability. These findings underscore the importance of sex education and its impact on individuals' sexual well-being.

Motivational beliefs as predictors of academic achievement of translation students: a situated expectancy-value theory perspective

ABSTRACT Despite a growing consensus on the function of motivation in translation and its learning, it is unclear whether different motivational beliefs can invariably predict translation learning outcomes. Informed by the expectancy-value theory of motivation, this paper considers to what extent a set of motivational beliefs (i.e. expectancy for success, intrinsic value, extrinsic value, and emotional cost) can predict students’ translation learning achievement and self-perceived translation proficiency. The data for the present study include the achievement data of 279 undergraduate students and their responses to a questionnaire. Results from partial least squares structural equation modelling showed that the participants’ expectancy for success directly predicted their achievement and self-perceived translation proficiency, whereas their intrinsic value, extrinsic value, and emotional cost only indirectly affected these two outcome variables. These results provide evidence of the relative importance of motivational beliefs in predicting translation learning outcomes. This study contributes new insights into the psychological aspect of translation learning and has implications for translation teaching.

Analysis of China’s English Curriculum Standards for Compulsory Education from the Perspectives of Self-regulated Learning

This paper analyzes the English Curriculum Standards for Compulsory Education (2022 Edition) developed and implemented by the Ministry of Education in China. We used Self-regulated Learning as a perspective in analyzing the curriculum standard and identified several elements of Self-regulated Learning emphasized in the document. This paper further elaborates how an inclusion of self-regulation is aimed at enhancing the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language in China. It presents the stages and sub-processes of self-regulated learning, in analyzing the curriculum standard. In this qualitative text analysis, the findings have been reported on thematic basis using the self-regulated learning framework and the elements that facilitate self-regulation. The findings show that English education under the guidance of the Standards attaches high importance towards stimulating learners' autonomy and cultivating their self-regulated learning ability. This finding has an important implication for the future teaching and learning of English as a foreign language in China as such a policy focus on the self regulation can lead towards an improved engagement of the English learners in schools.

Green Chemistry and Its Impact on the Transition towards Sustainable Chemistry: A Systematic Review

This study presents a systematic review that addresses the didactics of Green Chemistry in the field of chemistry education, and its main goal is to explore the implications of education in Green Chemistry in response to growing environmental concerns. To carry this out, three databases were reviewed—Dialnet, Web of Science, and Scopus—using the PRISMA method and inclusion and exclusion criteria were established. Articles from journals from the last 6 years, in English or Spanish, that addressed the didactics of Green Chemistry at any educational level, and that offered free access to the whole text, were included; studies that did not specifically focus on the didactics of Green Chemistry or that addressed topics not pertinent to the goals of this review, as well as textbooks, laboratory guides, and other educational resources, were left out. The Boolean operators “AND” and “OR” were used with respective keywords, in both English and Spanish, in the different databases to see with which combinations the greatest number of studies fitting the proposed goals were obtained. Finally, 13 of the 695 articles initially selected were included and analyzed (Dialnet: 146; Web of Science: 330; Scopus: 219). The results show how Green Chemistry can play a fundamental role as a learning strategy to promote sustainable development and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals established in the 2030 Agenda.

A discourse model to analyse verbal interaction in Tunisian EFL lesson discourses

In this article, a discourse model was developed to analyse verbal interactions in 38 Tunisian EFL lessons. This model identifies four elements of exchange structure—INITIATION, RESPONSE, NEGOTIATION, and TERMINATION—and several communicative acts that differ from those proposed by Sinclair and Coulthard (1992). Data analysis underscores the prevalent patterns of verbal interaction within Tunisian EFL lessons and highlights the model's importance in understanding teachers' classroom practices. This research has pedagogical implications for EFL teachers and potential applications in teacher training programs. It offers in-service EFL teachers a descriptive tool to analyse, evaluate, and critically reflect on classroom practices.

Risk spillovers among oil, gold, stock, and foreign exchange markets: Evidence from G20 economies

This paper investigates the tail risk spillover effects among the stock and foreign exchange markets of G20 economies, as well as the oil and gold markets by constructing a tail event driven network. Adjacency matrices indicate time-varying connectedness between network nodes. The systemic risk decomposition results highlight the predominant contribution of stock markets to the aggregate risk level, while oil, gold, and specific currencies such as JPY, USD, and CNY contribute to diversifying systemic risk. Moreover, tail event driven network quantile regression analysis demonstrates the asymmetry and market heterogeneity of risk spillover effects. Our findings have instructive implications for financial regulators and institutional investors.

“What are you looking for in a candidate?” The career search process for international students in higher education student affairs

AbstractThis study examined lived experiences of two international student affairs professionals in the United States. Through a series of interviews, the dialogues unfold rich narratives that explore the multifaceted journey from academic preparation to career placement in the field of higher education student affairs (HESA). It also underscores the unique challenges encountered by international students compared to their domestic counterparts during the job search process. Given the limited research pertaining to the experiences and support for international graduate students during the job search process in the field of HESA, this study provides valuable insights and implications for educators, institutions, and career support services to better address the needs of the diverse and growing demographic of the candidates.

Let’s Do It Differently: Exploring the Effectiveness of 5E-Supported EFL Grammar Instruction

The teaching of and research on grammar have long been central to language education, with an ongoing quest for more effective models for fostering student understanding and application. The 5E (viz., Engagement, Exploration, Explanation, Elaboration, and Evaluation) instructional model, recognized for its effectiveness in promoting engagement and active learning, may not only constitute an innovative approach to grammar instruction but also leverage an interactive inquiry-based environment which improves student comprehension and retention of grammatical concepts. This study examines the potential effectiveness of the 5E Model in EFL grammar instruction. The participants, 70 students in two intact tenth-grade sections from a public school in Irbid, Jordan, were randomly assigned into an experimental group (n=35), taught using the 5E Model, and a control group (n=35), taught per the guidelines of the prescribed teacher’s book. A pre-/post- test targeting five grammatical structures (viz., state and dynamic verbs, second conditional, making suggestions, defining relative clauses, and non-defining relative clauses) was used. The findings showed statistically significant differences (at α= 0.05) between the experimental and control group students’ performance in both overall grammar and each of the five structures in favor of the former. The study concludes with several pedagogical implications and recommendations for further research.

EXPRESS: The Impact of Subtle Contextual Information on Remembering to Complete Academic Goals.

Remembering to complete goals-termed prospective memory (PM)-is critical for success in everyday life, yet minimal empirical work has been dedicated to examining prospective memory within an educational setting. The main goal of this study was to investigate students' ability to complete numerous future-oriented academic intentions (PM tasks) while simultaneously paying attention to a lecture and to see if working memory capacity (WM) and adding subtle contextual information would support the students' likelihood of completing their PM tasks. Participants took part in a 2-hour session of college course-like activities. Throughout the session, there was occasionally the opportunity to complete one of several naturalistic PM tasks. The following findings are based on the results of our Bayesian models. Providing subtle contextual clues about when PM tasks could be completed was found to likely increase performance. The number of PM intentions to be remembered (i.e., load) produced no discernable effect on ongoing task performance or PM performance. Furthermore, individual differences in WM capacity were likely to be predictive of a near-zero change in PM performance. The current findings hold meaningful implications for educators, wherein providing context, even at a subtle level, can enhance students' ability to remember to complete tasks, without altering their ability to focus on the tasks at hand. Moreover, it appears that asking students to remember to complete multiple, prospective in-class tasks is not likely to hinder task completion or their ability to focus on other ongoing tasks.

Moroccan university students’ interest in reflective thinking: the role of age, gender, and academic level

ABSTRACT Given the contemporary global issues and recent advances in technology, 21st-century skills are deemed necessary to successfully adapt to the challenges inherent in today’s world. Reflective thinking is one of the crucial skills for fostering critical thinking, lifelong learning, and employability skills among students. In light of the scarcity of research on reflection in Moroccan higher education, the current study investigates the extent to which Moroccan university students are interested in engaging in reflective thinking and the role of age, gender, and academic level in their interest in reflective thinking. The data are collected from 107 Moroccan English department students. The results indicate the absence of gender-based differences in interest in reflective thinking among the students. Nevertheless, age and academic level significantly differentiate Moroccan university students in terms of their interest in reflective thinking. Building on this, the current study suggests some pedagogical implications for integrating reflective practice in university courses and programs, and highlights several issues that can serve as avenues for future research.