Literacy resilience: bridging linguistic literacy and self-regulated learning for enhanced educational success by Alisa Amir

“…Findings reveal a notable discrepancy between teachers’ perceptions of literacy resilience’s importance and their assessment of students’ levels. While teachers emphasize its high importance, they perceive students’ levels to be low, suggesting a gap between recognized importance and current development. …”
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A comparison of the effects of AI‐based chatbots and peer interactions on speaking anxiety among EFL learners by Meltem Ballıdağ, Selami Aydın

“…This quasi‐experimental study gathered data from 44 university preparatory students in a Turkish state university via a background questionnaire and the Turkish version of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale. …”
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Intrapersonal strengths and interpersonal support: predicting academic buoyancy through psychological capital and growth mindset by Gui Xiao, Huifang Liu

“…The qualitative phase involved semi-structured interviews with 18 students to offer richer insights into these dynamics, analyzed using thematic analysis.ResultsThe quantitative analysis revealed that psychological capital and social support significantly and directly predict academic buoyancy (β = 0.413 and β = 0.341, respectively, p < 0.001). …”
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Regenerating physiotherapy curriculum in higher education: diving into planetary health and service-learning conceptual synergies by Berta Paz-Lourido, Álvaro Ribeiro-Chaves

“…This form of experiential critical pedagogy empowers students to learn while serving their communities in a range of areas—most notably in response to the urgent challenges of planetary health. …”
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Youth Engagement in Water Quality Monitoring: Uncovering Ecosystem Benefits and Challenges by Sangyong Cho, Leah Hollstein, Luis Aguilar, Johnny Dwyer, Christopher Auffrey

“…Although no areas showed spatial significance for perceived ecological services, students identified specific areas with esthetic and biodiversity value, particularly at Mill Creek’s confluence with the Ohio River and along the northern stretch of the stream corridor. …”
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Balancing physical development and health in adolescents through controlled High-Intensity Training by Stanislav Lazarev, Iryna Kryventsova, Vasyl Lutskyi

“…The study encompassed 28 students (14±0.9 years) from a lyceum in Kharkiv, Ukraine. …”
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University-based physical education as a structured temporal and spatial opportunity for shaping health-oriented lifestyles by Lu Zhang, Tao Zhong, Kui Dong

“…Male students had higher rates of smoking, obesity, and unhealthy diets compared to females. …”
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Feasibility and Reliability of a Novel Game-Based Test of Neurological Function in Youth: The Equilibrium Test Battery by Heather A Shepherd, Cody R van Rassel, Amanda M Black, Robert F Graham, Keith Owen Yeates, Carolyn A Emery, Kathryn J Schneider

“… # Results Fifty-five uninjured high school students (31 females and 24 males, mean age = 16.24 \[1.09\]) from three high schools participated in the study. …”
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Promoting positive beliefs toward research evidence: results from a utility-value intervention study with pre-service teachers by Maximilian Knogler, Ricardo Böheim, Annika Diery, Judith Harackiewicz, Tina Seidel

“…In the first condition (default course design), teacher educators used two typically applied strategies for promoting utility-value, i.e., direct communication of utility-value and application tasks, in which students can discover utility-value. In the second condition (enhanced course design), students were additionally stimulated to reflect on the utility-value in two written assignments. …”
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Academic transition from high school to an undergraduate medical program using active methodologies within an integrated curriculum: Qualitative research by Alexandre Ferreira da Silva, Enzo Sá Pantoja da Silva, Daniel Figueiredo Alves da Silva, Selma Kazumi da Trindade Noguchi, Juarez Antônio Simões Quaresma

“…Material and methods: A qualitative study was conducted through interviews with 15 students from a private medical school who started in the first semester of 2018. …”
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Editorial by Mani Man Singh Rajbhandari

“…This is a type of learning that JIS initiates through the journal’s vision “Enriching Beautiful Minds towards Intelligent Minds” Our next issue will be published in November 2021 for which we invite researchers, managers, leaders, scientists, students and others for paper submission. The call for paper submission is also announced in the journal’s announcement portal http://journalofinterdisciplinarysciences.com/announcement/ The Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) is an open access, which offers free submissions, free publication and open access to download its published research paper from the journal’s website http://journalofinterdisciplinarysciences.com/ It is recommended that all author(s) submitting their manuscript to JIS are advised to read the author guidelines from the journal website http://journalofinterdisciplinarysciences.com/submit-your-papers/authors-guidelines/ Let us join and collaborate together to ENRICH the BEAUTIFUL MINDS TOWARDS INTELLIGENT MINDS Mani Man Singh Rajbhandari. …”
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Teaching and learning to support climate-neutral transitions: Exploring opportunities and challenges for interdisciplinary design courses by Robin A. Chang, Nikoo Mohajermoghari, Wang Yu, Agnieszka Wendland

“…The final insights acknowledge the method as an effective way to enhance instructor-student relationship dynamics and interdisciplinary opportunities. …”
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Risk assessment and simulation optimization of evacuation in large public building fires: A case study by Qiang Li, Zaohong Zhou, Yunbin Sun, Hongjun He

“…Taking a cafeteria for primary and secondary school students as an example, the results indicate that the fire evacuation risk level of the student cafeteria is “moderately high risk.” …”
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Roughness of two simultaneous harmonic complex tones in various pitch registers by Joanna SZCZEPAŃSKA-ANTOSIK

“…Twelve sound engineering students judged each dyad for roughness by the method of absolute magnitude estimation. …”
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“Geographical memories” in honour of Professor Yorgos Photis by Maria Pigaki

“…I’m certain that the colleagues, the students and the graduates of the department having the luck and the honour to meet him, will continue his work inspired by his ethics and values. …”
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Sign language lexicography: a case study of an online dictionary by Lucia Vlášková, Hana Strachoňová

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Penerapan Teknik Collaborative Writing (CW) terhadap Peningkatan Emotional Intelligence (EI) by Eka Fajar Rahmani

“…This study investigates the implementation of collaborative writing technique in developing emotional intelligence of students. The participants are students of Sekolah Tinggi Bahasa Inggris Pontianak who took Essay Writing and Literary Criticism class. …”
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Hepatic encephalopathy and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis are associated with increased liver-related readmissions in cirrhosis by Shan Wang, Shan Wang, Lin Zhang, Jin Li, Jiajun Feng, Jie Gao, Rui Huang

“…Differences between groups were analyzed using Student’s t-test and chi-square test. Logistic and multiple linear regression analyses were performed to identify predictors associated with readmission and the length of the first hospitalization.ResultsIn total, 1,285 patients were diagnosed with cirrhosis. …”
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Molecular genetic techniques in current biomedical research. Part II: PCR applications in diagnostics of human infectious diseases by A. N. Volkov, L. V. Nacheva, Yu. V. Zakharova

“…The lecture is primarily designed for students of biomedical specialties and healthcare professionals using molecular genetic techniques in their practice.…”
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Using blended and online learning to increase appreciation of learning outcomes: case of a problematic game design unit by Isaiah T. Awidi, Tauel Harper, David Savat

“…An online survey was administered via the LMS to 137 enrolled students, with 101 responses collected over a four-week period. …”
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