RETHINKING THE LECTURING MODE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A FOCUS GROUP STUDY by Sarah MERROUCHE

“…The focus group method is used to characterize lecturers’ principles, practices and challenges, and students’ views, worries and aspirations. Techniques are eventually suggested to make lectures a true learning experience for foreign language learners.…”
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Learning management system as a necessary element of blended learning by O. V. Andryushkova, M. A. Gorbunov, A. V. Kozlova

“…The results are given of polling students about evaluating the indicators of the quality of DiSpace 2.0 e-learning environment (interface friendliness, communication convenience, functional completeness) and electronic educational-methodical complex (availability, content completeness, presentation convenience, involvement in the educational process, topicality). …”
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BLACK TOURISM IN ROMANIA AND WORLDWIDE by Romeo Cătălin CREȚU, Silviu Ionuț BEIA, Ioan Iulian ALECU, Petrică ȘTEFAN

“…For Romania, the authors of the article, together with master's students from the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine - Bucharest, Faculty of M.R.D., specialization in Management in agritourism and public catering, applied 1121 questionnaires to possible tourists who visited the fair. …”
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Building EFL Preservice Teachers’ Professional Identity: Does Gender Matter? by Elisa Pérez-Gracia, Rocío Serrano-Rodríguez, Alfonso Pontes-Pedrajas

“…Results showed that the participants understood teachers’ professional identity to be connected to the ability to motivate students, manage the classroom, and care about interpersonal relations. …”
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“REINVENTING” ROMANIAN ECONOMIC HIGHER EDUCATION, A CHALLENGE OF THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY by NELU A MITEA

“…Universities are held to cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit among their students, that of competitiveness and success in the profession and, therefore, they must encourage performance and excellence. …”
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An Overview of Transdisciplinary and Bottom-up Approach for Urban Resilience: The Case of Turkey by Esen Özdamar, Ertuğ Önay

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Effectiveness of three manual toothbrushes with different bristle designs in terms of plaque removal and gingival inflammation: A randomized controlled trial by Ratna Mishal, Ashish Shrestha, Tarakant Bhagat, Santosh Kumari Agrawal

“…Methods A concurrent parallel randomized clinical trial was done among 105 female undergraduate medical students in which both examiner and analyser were blinded throughout the study period. …”
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Examining The Development of Classroom Assessment Competencies among Pre-Service Teachers: Focus Areas for Universities of Education by Loc Phuoc Hoang, Phuong Anh Le, Thuy Bich Thi Vo

“…These insights provide a strong foundation for recommending improvements to teacher education programs and policies, aiming to better prepare teacher students with essential skills required for effective classroom assessment in the digital age. …”
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Sustainable science or business as usual? Exploring awareness and actions in German University Laboratories by Caterina Baars, Patrycja Karwasiecka, João Henrique Paulino Pires Eustachio, Andrea Dobri, Jelena Barbir, Sven Kannenberg, Walter Leal Filho

“…However, overall understanding and identification of actions that can improve the current situation is rather unclear due to a large data gap on the opinions and attitudes of staff and students within institutions. This study explored sustainable actions among laboratory staff and students in a sample of German universities, in the categories of materials, devices, procurement, waste disposal, and awareness. …”
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Explaining the Unexplained: Examining the Predictive Value of Semen Parameters, Sperm DNA Fragmentation and Metal Levels in Unexplained Infertility by Navdeep Kaur Ghuman, Kamla Kant Shukla, Srividhya Nandagopal, Sunil Raikar, Shailendra Kumar, Priyanka Kathuria, Dinesh Choudhary, Poonam Elhence, Pratibha Singh

“…Statistical Analysis Used: Chi-square test, Student’s t-test, sensitivity and specificity analysis, binomial logistic regression analysis. …”
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Rape Myth Acceptance in the Digital Age: The Effects of Using Dating Apps and the Moderation Role of Gender by Luye Li

“…This study addresses these gaps by examining a sample of 647 Chinese-speaking college students in Canada. The findings indicate that the use of dating apps is positively associated with higher RMA; male students exhibited greater RMA levels than female students; and gender moderates the impact of dating app usage, with a more elevated effect on RMA observed in male students compared to female students. …”
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Segismundo y su torre: la literatura áurea como recurso para el tratamiento de la integración en el aula de Educación Infantil / Segismundo and his Tower: Golden Age Literature as... by Alicia Vara López, Zaida Vila Carneiro

“…For that, we propose a teaching experience designed for students of the Degree in Preschool Education at the University of Cordoba. …”
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Motives and barriers in Emergency Remote Teaching: insights from the Greek experience by Stefanos Nikiforos, Eleftheria Anastasopoulou, Athina Pappa, Spyros Tzanavaris, Katia Lida Kermanidis

“…Results indicated that teachers' motives were highly influenced by (i) the fear of administrative penalties, (ii) internal commitment to themselves and their students and (iii) pedagogical reasons. Furthermore, certain personal characteristics of teachers, such as gender, age, years of employment and employment status, were also vital factors for ERT implementation. …”
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Family and marriage social institution in young people’s minds and its support in modern Russia by T. E. Petrova, Z. V. Zhiratkova, A. G. Kovalchuk

“…The authors undertook an online research of value preferences of student youth in Moscow, Penza, Saransk, Tver, Ufa, and Kazan universities (a total of 738 people were interviewed) and identified the most stable priorities, including family, health, education, and work. …”
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Learning through AI-clones: Enhancing self-perception and presentation performance by Qingxiao Zheng, Zhuoer Chen, Yun Huang

“…A mixed-design experiment with 44 international students compared self-recording videos (self-recording group) to AI-clone videos (AI-clone group) for online English presentation practice. …”
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Impact of a 15-week ability-based training program on body composition and physical fitness in university-based fire academy recruits by Annette Zapp, Kyla Schults, Krissy Sanchez, Paige Sutton, Amanda Ehlrich, Jay Dawes

“…Follow-up testing occurred at weeks 7 and 15. In the interim, students participated in an ability-based physical training (PT) program, including sandbag and bodyweight training and a running program based on time-based finish classifications. …”
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The use of metaverse in medical education: A systematic review by Qian Li, Hui Duan, Xinxu Zhou, Xiaobin Sun, Lan Tao, Xiuying Lu

“…Most studies reported improved student guidance, reduced training time, and enhanced learning interest, and confidence. …”
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School-Based Health Centers Addressing Health Equity for LGBTQ + Patients (SBHCs HELP): protocol for a stepped-wedge trial to implement innovations promoting structural competency... by Cathleen E. Willging, Daniel Shattuck, Marisa Sklar, Rachel A. Sebastian, Robert L. Stout, Mary M. Ramos

“…This study will demonstrate the usefulness of a multifaceted implementation strategy, the DAP, in helping SBHCs build structural competency to serve a sizeable population of students affected by stigmatization, discrimination, and other social forces that create inequities in health. …”
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Introducing a Novel Clustering Method for Distribution Networks to Enhance Network Performance and Ensure Load Supply in the Event of Contingencies: A Fuzzy Function-Based Approa... by Mohamad Reza Mohamadi, Mohammad Sadegh Ghazizadeh, Mohamad Abedini

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Categorical perception in absolute pitch by A. RAKOWSKI

“…Three music students, possessing of absolute pitch, participated in an experiment of categorical identification of two adjacent musical pitch categories A#_4 and B_4. …”
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