Severity Differences across Proficiency Levels among Peer-assessors by Shahla Rasouli, Rajab Esfandiari

“…The findings of the study may carry implications for the summative assessment of students' abilities.…”
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Second Language Writing: Research Insights for the Classroom. by Madeleine Youmans

“…As growing numbers of international students flood colleges and universities in the English-speaking world, and as English becomes increasingly important as a world language, ESL composition is a burgeoning field.…”
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Funding, inequalities, and access: An amalgam of challenges in South African higher education by Simangele Constance Cele, Samson Adeoluwa Adewumi

“…The recommendations on the challenges are presented by addressing the problem of funding, inequalities, and access to higher education such as expanding access to higher education (e.g. expanding access through online learning platforms), implementing affirmative action policies (e.g. increase students enrolment from the disadvantaged communities), increasing public funding, generating third-stream income funds, provision of scholarships and bursaries, corporate sponsorship, and students’ agency.…”
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Who Cares If the Teacher Has a Cat? The Impact of Affect and Interaction upon Motivation in Online Portuguese L2 Classes during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Bruno Costa, Jorge Pinto

“…Participants were two groups of students from 13 countries living in Portugal (N = 16). …”
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL-PEDAGOGICAL COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE IN DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY IN PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION: CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES, CONTENT, AND TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS by Nataliia Volkova, Olha Lebid, Oleh Lavnikov

“…Their combination fosters a supportive learning environment that stimu- lates communicative engagement among postgraduate students. Key principles include contextual learn- ing, social partnership, individualised academic support, and respect for students’ communicative strengths and limitations. …”
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Health Promotion at work for family health teams: a first-hand account by Anna Carolina de Oliveira Silva, Caroline Aguiar Fernandes, Elma Lourdes Campos Pavone Zoboli, Mariana Cabral Schveitzer, Brunielle Andressa Guimarães Silva, Jéssica Zamora Reboreda, Luiza Carraco Palos, Rafael Fernandes Bel Homo

“…Both professionals and graduate students evaluated the activity positively as a tool capable of fostering citizenship and welfare in the team. …”
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Pedagogical Relationships and Identities in Research Incubators: Reconceptualizing Research Training for Language Teachers by José V. Abad, Jennifer Daniela Regalado Chicaiza, Isabel Cristina Acevedo Tangarife

“…Conducted over two years in an English teaching program at a Colombian private university, the study included semi-structured interviews with four research incubator coordinators and two focus groups with eight students. We found that mentoring in research incubators nurtures attitudes and competencies crucial to the students’ construction of their identity as teacher researchers. …”
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Strategies for teaching and learning languages: autonomy

“…This shift necessitates changes in the roles of both teachers and students, emphasizing collaboration and mutual responsibility. …”
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The Role of “Preventive Vaccination in Healthy Children and Children with Chronic Diseases” Discipline in the Specialist Training Curriculum in the Field of “Pediatrics” by Leyla S. Namazova-Baranova, Tatiana E. Privalova, Vilya A. Bulgakova, Yuliya I. Ermakova, Marina V. Fedoseenko, Dina S. Rusinova, Tatiana A. Kalyuzhnaya, Elena A. Vishneva, Firuza Ch. Shakhtakhtinskaya, Maria V. Fominykh

“…Its significance in preparation of students of pediatric departments of higher educational institutions of Russia is validated. …”
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PENGARUH PENERAPAN PEMBELAJARAN BERBASIS MASALAH TERHADAP PRESTASI BELAJAR MATA PELAJARAN EKONOMI DITINJAU DARI KEMAMPUAN BERPIKIR KRITIS SISWA DI SMA NEGERI 3 REMBANG by Badrus Sholeh

“…Research population is 272 of teen grade students of SMA Negeri 3 Rembang in 2013/2014 academic year; he research sample taken is 152 student, which is detailed into 76 students for experiment class. …”
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Meaning no offense. The impact of anger on translation decision-making when dealing with offensive stereotypes by Beatriz Naranjo

“…In this study, a group of translation students were presented with two types of translation units from a blog entry in which negative judgements about people, places or situations were portrayed — potentially offensive (referred to as 'target units') and non-offensive ('distractors') ― and were instructed to choose between two translation options containing linguistic devices aimed at either attenuating or emphasizing the negative content. …”
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Home Birth in the Opinion of Obstetricians and Midwives: A Survey by Petya Dilova

“…Only 11.6% midwives and 35.5% students were confident that midwives could give adequate home birth care. …”
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Quality of Life of related liver donors in the late postoperative period by S. V. Gautier, V. K. Konstantinov, Kh. M. Khizroev, A. R. Monakhov, T. A. Dzhanbekov, S. V. Meshcheryakov

“…Comparison group was formed by healthy volunteers, students of the Medical University. The Russian version of the non-specific SF-36 questionnaire was used to assess QoL.Results. …”
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Does motivation theory really play any significant role on explaining university teachers’ performance: Understanding Bangladeshi context by Rebaka Sultana, Mohammad Faruk, Md. Saiful Islam, Md. Asif Khaled

“… The development of human capital is significantly impacted by the way teachers nurture and expand their students' intellectual capacity. The motivation of teachers is a crucial determinant of their performance, and consequently, it influences the success and achievements of their students. …”
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A multivariate analysis of the early dropout using classical machine learning and local interpretable model-agnostic explanations by Thanh Hai Nguyen, Phuong Le, Tuyen Thanh Thi Nguyen, Anh Kim Su

“… Student dropout rates can have a significant negative impact on both the development of educational institutions and the personal growth of students. …”
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EVALUATION OF THE SOCIAL COMPONENT OF INNOVATIVE CAPACITY OF REGIONAL SYSTEMS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF ITS DEVELOPMENT by Iosif Uzdenov

“…The essence and components of the innovation potential highlighted the social, economic, financial, scientific and technological, organizational and legal innovation potentials, proposed performance indicator of innovative potential use, to the social component of the innovation potential include: the proportion of people employed in science and high-tech industries, the number of students in higher education, the proportion of people with higher education and scientific degree, the wages level of persons employed in research; based on calculations of isolated leaders and outsiders of social innovation rankings, the reasons for its low level. …”
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Assessing the Validity, Practicality, and Effectiveness of Thematic-Integrative Teaching in Elementary Educatio by Salma Wati, Aqodiah Aqodiah, Mappanyompa Mappanyompa

“…This theme is current, closely related to the students' world, and present in their daily lives. …”
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Conscientização política e prática teórica no ensino de sociologia: um relato de experiência by Robson da Costa de Souza, Jefferson Evânio da Silva, Joanildo Burity

“…This article will initially deal with the importance of Socio-Philosophical Studies in the context of high school teaching/learning processes, problematizing, from a broader discussion on school institutionalization, the epistemological and political issues involvedboth in the debate about the presence of disciplines such as Sociology and Philosophy in basic education as well as in the discussion on the use of methods and techniques for teaching sociological theories among students in the school system. Having as reference the experiences reported (and developed) in the scope of a discipline of Theories of Social Sciences offered by a Professional Master’s Degree, in the City of Recife (PE), we will then see how teaching sociology, in the school context, is related to the universe of research and knowledge production in Human Sciences, in general, and Social Sciences, in a specific way. …”
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What are the broader impacts and value from a randomised controlled trial conducted in six public hospital antenatal clinics in Australia? An impact assessment using the Framework... by Peter G Gibson, Kirsten McCaffery, John Attia, Joerg Mattes, Megan E Jensen, Andrew Searles, Paul B Colditz, Shanthi Ann Ramanathan, Vanessa E Murphy, Michael Hensley, Michael Peek, Andrew Bisits, Leonie Kaye Callaway, Helen Barrett, Sean Seeho, Melanie Rao, Elissa Elvidge, Karen McLaughlin, Annelies Robijn, Warwick Giles, Alistair Abbott

“…The research trained and upskilled 18 midwives and obstetricians in evidence-based asthma management in pregnancy and improved research capability of six PhD students. Specialised equipment purchased by BLT is now being repurposed to undertake other research in regional Australia, saving further research investment. …”
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The Intro Course: A Pedagogical Toolkit by Jocelyn Thorpe, Sonja Boon, Lisa Bednar, Rachel Hurst, Krista Johnston, Heather Latimer, Marie Lovrod, Carla Rice, Alissa Trotz

“… Abstract This article offers ideas and strategies for teaching introductory-level courses in Gender and Women’s Studies by providing the responses of eleven experienced educators who were asked two questions: What main theme or idea do you hope students will learn in the introductory class you teach? …”
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