Psychological theory suggests that evaluators' individual values and traits play a fundamental role in evaluation practice, though few empirical studies have explored those constructs in evaluators. This paper describes an empirical study on evaluators' individual, work, and political values, as well as their personality traits to predict…

Although education for intellectual virtues, including the virtue of intellectual humility, has received increasing attention in recent years, less focus has been devoted to specific obstacles that can inhibit the cultivation of intellectual virtue. In this article, Kirsten Welch presents one such impediment to the development of intellectual…

Background: Real-world problems are important in math instruction, but they do not necessarily trigger students' task motivation. Personalizing real-world problems by (1) matching problems to students' shared living environment (context personalization) and (2) asking students to pose their own problems (active personalization) might be two…

This article demonstrates how the Haudenosaunee concept of goodness is central to the foundational ontology of five Haudenosaunee higher education personnel who were identified by former students as instrumental to their postsecondary student success. Findings regarding participants' roles in student support and incorporation of Indigenous…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how teacher candidates' responses to a case provided an opportunity to make inferences about their dispositions and thus, build awareness of their assumptions. Fourteen teacher candidates responded to a dilemma-embedded case at the beginning and end of their student teaching semester. Candidate…

Teachers' organisational citizenship behavior has a significant impact on students learning outcome in particular, as well as the overall effectiveness of the school. The main purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to critically explore the practices and demurrals of primary school teachers' organisational citizenship behaviors in…

The article aims to determine the correspondence of the value orientations of students and teachers to the pragmatic and civilizational goals of political education in the process of introducing digital information and communication technologies for sustainable development. The study involved 92 students of the School of Marxism, TongJi…

Purpose: This study aims to explore the influence of Mutqen programmes on university students' personality and skills development. It evaluates the cognitive attitudes of university student participants in Mutqen training programmes. The research was analysed thematically, and this paper reports on the roles businesses and universities play in…

Positive education, as a method for the positive development of students' personality, embodies the 24 character strengths that Peterson and Seligman developed in their studies and that are necessary for new professional profiles. This new social and work landscape inspired supranational institutions, such as the European Union, to develop…

The investigation of the variables related to the mental health of teaching candidates is important since teachers' mental health affects students' personal, social, and academic development. The purpose of this research was to investigate the intermediary role of hope in the relationship between the social entrepreneurship characteristics and the…

This study develops, validates, and applies a teacher applicant typology using labor market data. We construct our typology by applying a correlated topic model to 11,000 personal statements teachers submitted as part of their applications for open positions in Wisconsin public schools between 2015 and 2017. We identify seven types of teacher…

The applicability of leadership theories on leaders' personal values in a non-Western context remains unclear. This study attempts to explore school leaders' value-driven leadership practices in Malaysian primary schools. This study employed a qualitative approach using interviews with five school leaders from Malaysian national primary schools.…

In this research, it was aimed to interculturally research the value of patience with the data obtained from the students who participated in the study from two different countries. The research was designed as a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods. Accordingly, the Traditional Screening Technique based on quantitative data and the…

Stress and the associated correlates, such as depression, alcohol abuse, and suicidal ideation, are a global issue among college and university students. We assert that character is a personal resource that students have at their disposal to address personal, social, and environmental challenges they may encounter in their personal and academic…

This paper presents the findings of our exploration of our open educational practices (OEP) with graduate students. As reflective practitioners, we used a self-study methodology and collaborative autoethnographic methods to interrogate our open approaches to teaching and supervision. We draw on our developing competencies to support the wisdom,…