Most schools in the United States report annual teacher shortages. Without teacher instruction, the stability of education and students' future is in jeopardy. Low self-efficacy is one possible cause of the teacher shortage. Preservice teachers report low self-efficacy during field experience in teacher preparation programs. This quantitative…

Teachers play a significant role in the effective implementation of sexuality education programmes in schools. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between teachers' attitudes, self-efficacy, and teaching practices in sexuality education in public primary schools. A survey using self-administered questionnaires was conducted.…

To remain globally competitive, education in the United States must focus on retaining students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). As laboratory courses have the potential to be powerful attractors or deterrents to a field, developing effective laboratory pedagogies is important to retain students in STEM. A course-based…

Background/Context: Beliefs about teaching for creativity is a newer area of empirical investigation in education. Purpose: The purpose of the quantitative study was to measure teachers' domain-specific beliefs about teaching for creativity, piloted for the first time in this study, and compare these beliefs with domain-general beliefs about…

Programming and automation continue to evolve rapidly and advance the capabilities of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. However, physical computing (the integration of programming and interactive physical devices) integrated within biomedical contexts remains an area of limited focus in secondary STEM education…

This research explores the perspectives of marketing students and educators about the Big Data courses in marketing education programs. It also examines drivers that predict interest on the part of marketing students in taking Big Data courses. Data was collected through interviews with 20 marketing educators, and a survey was completed by 480…

This paper presents a scientometric analysis of task-based teaching and learning using CiteSpace based on the research literature retrieved from the Web of Science core collection between 2013 and 2022. CiteSpace is employed to analyze the data, as it minimizes subjectiveness and increases credibility. A total of 1799 bibliographic records related…

Classroom teachers' awareness of the characteristics of students with mathematics learning difficulties is important for the planning and implementation of individualized intervention programs for students. This study aims to examine classroom teachers' awareness of students with mathematics learning difficulties, as well as the mathematics…

Twenty-first century skills such as critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration, communication, and creativity, prepare students for college and careers. When high school teachers fail to adopt and integrate technology in the core content area, students are at risk of not obtaining these necessary skills. This objective of this study was…

High-quality learning environments are critical to support students' learning and development. This study supported eight lead teachers of Starting Strong classrooms in four different early learning programs to try to improve teachers' knowledge, self-efficacy, and use of Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP) within their classrooms. Four…

This study applied the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) to explore the sources of self-efficacy and professional development activities that are most predictive of PreK-6 music teachers' efficacious beliefs. This study also compared teacher efficacy levels across different groups. The target population for this study was PreK-6 music teachers in the…

Flipped classroom is one of the important teaching modes among many novel teaching methods in recent years, students watch the video in the pre-class. However, if students cannot focus on the pre-class video learning or have problems with the learning content, the learning effect will be less than expected. Therefore, this research proposes a…

I investigated the challenges of online instruction for accounting courses and the factors that could impact final grades. The problem addressed by this study was to determine the factors that influence the final grades of online students for these courses. The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine the impact of student engagement,…

Science and art are intrinsically linked. Science requires curiosity, along with skills in observation, problem-solving, and critical thinking. Art is no different; however, the two disciplines are typically presented as opposites to children at a young age and the emphasis on differences lead to a false dichotomy of career paths and even…

This study sought to determine the impact writing center consultations have on student writing self- efficacy and to illuminate effective consultant strategies for fostering student writing confidence. As part of a multimethods study, a survey was administered for students to reflect upon and to assess their feelings of writing self- efficacy by…