Building a Future Research Agenda for Reducing Meat Consumption: A Review on Social Norms, Food, and Drink by Cristina M. Ostermann, Márcia Dutra de Barcellos

“…Our results highlighted investigations conducted in the United States, using the Focus Theory of Normative Conduct as a theoretical lens and involving undergraduate students. We propose six opportunities for further research considering three dimensions: theoretical, methodological, and contextual. …”
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INTERACTIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION AS A TOOL FOR TRAINING A COMPETITIVE SPECIALIST by О. Bieliaieva, Т. Skrypnikova, Т. Khmil

“…The main advantages of interactive learning are the ability to: level the contradiction between motivation and stimulation in the learning process, static and dynamic learning; form the future doctors' awareness of the importance and value of various types of communication; simulate professional situations, solving which students can demonstrate the acquired knowledge, abilities and skills in a relaxed and psychologically comfortable atmosphere, which encourages them to actively participate in all stages of an interactive class; solve real cases from medical / dental practice; implement formative assessment; regulate inter-subject relationships in the educational process; develop clinical thinking, the ability to substantiate one's own opinion and the ability to defend one's own position, critically evaluate adopted and propose alternative solutions, teamwork skills, communicative culture, positive motivation, and self-confidence.…”
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Digital Competence of Rural Teachers in Depopulated Regions of Spain: A Bibliometric Review by Pablo Fernández-Arias, María Sánchez-Jiménez, Álvaro Antón-Sancho, María Nieto-Sobrino, Diego Vergara

“…To achieve this goal, they need to acquire high digital competence in order to effectively integrate technology into their pedagogical practices, thus enriching the learning experience of students and fostering their participation. Digital competence contributes to reducing the education gap between urban and rural areas, promoting educational equity and inclusion. …”
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The Development and Psychometric Validation of an Arabic-Language Version of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale by Huda Abu-Saad Huijer, Souha Fares, Douglas J. French

“…Study 2 employed a cold pressor pain task to examine the PCS-A in a sample of 44 healthy university students. Results. Exploratory factor analyses suggested a two-factor structure. …”
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Observation guide for the partial practical exam of the Respiratory and Cardiovascular Systems in Introduction to the Clinic by Rubén Dario García Núñez, María Aurelia San Juan Bosch, Esteban Jesús Sánchez Martínez, Carla María García San Juan, José Demián Rodríguez Medina

“…<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> the proposed guide will allow raising the quality and rigor, as well as a greater preparation of the students to carry out the physical examination of the Respiratory and Cardiovascular Systems. …”
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Islamic Education in the Era of Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the Utilization of Digital Technology in the Teaching and Learning Process by Muhammad Faiq Hirzulloh, Tazkia Arifa Annadhif

“…Islamic education aligns with the use of digital technology in the learning process by helping students and teachers, as well as the learning process itself, personalized learning or self-study, freedom to choose all learning approaches, project-based learning, and applicable field practice. …”
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Measuring metalinguistic awareness among heritage speakers in the US-based L3 context by Elisa Fiorenza, Will Travers

“…In response to a recently proposed hypothesis that differences in metalinguistic awareness may be responsible for the variation in L3 grammatical development often witnessed amongst bilingual university students, and that teaching methods should accordingly be modified as a result, research that actually measures these varying levels of metalinguistic awareness has now become urgently needed. …”
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Family functionality as a mediator in the relationship between humanization and academic burnout in adolescents by Pablo Molina Moreno, Silvia Fernández Gea, María del Carmen Pérez-Fuentes, María del Mar Molero Jurado, José Jesús Gázquez Linares

“…This study aims to analyze the relationships between humanization competencies, academic burnout, and family functionality, to examine sex differences in these variables, and to explore the mediating effect of family functionality.MethodsThe sample comprised 1,092 secondary school students (584 females and 508 males) from Almería, Spain, aged 12 to 17 (M = 14.5 years).ResultsThe findings show that family functionality is positively associated with humanization competencies and academic efficacy, and negatively associated with emotional exhaustion and cynicism. …”
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Fuzzy Nonbalanced Hedonic Scale (F-NBHS): A New Method for Treatments of Food Preference Data Collected with Hedonic Scales of Points by Katieli Tives Micene, Pedro Miguel Ferreira Martins Arezes, Fernanda Gomes de Andrade, Bengie Omar Vazquez Reyes, Marcia Danieli Szeremeta Spak, Airton Kist, João Carlos Colmenero

“…A set of 64 foods, divided into 8 food groups, was evaluated by 119 students in two experiments. The frequency and variability of the data were studied according to the categories in different areas of the scale. …”
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Tracking teachers’ experience of adopting my English step to infuse differentiated instruction by Ilza Mayuni, Yinghui Chen, Ni Made Ratminingsih, Tara Mustikaning Palupi, Nurhasanah Halim

“…Future research should explore the extent to which students’ potential to learn English is improved by adopting MES.…”
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Development of problem-based learning practicum modules for the dangerous goods course by Dwi Candra Yuniar, Herlina Febiyanti, Shabrina Ramadhani, R.R. Retno Sawitri Wulandari

“…Based on the validity and product effectiveness results, problem-based learning e-modules on the developed Dangerous Goods material are valid and effectively used by teachers and students in the learning process.…”
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Digital Media Image of Business University Professor by M. A. Lukashenko, N. V. Gromova, A. A. Ozhgikhina

“…Inasmuch as they are the subjects who directly interact with students, their personal digital image plays an important role in shaping corporate image of the university. …”
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Where do “chemical imbalance” beliefs come from? Evaluating the impact of different sources by Hans S. Schroder, Jordyn Tovey, Reni Forer, William Schultz, Elizabeth T. Kneeland, Jason S. Moser

“…., the “source”), and the relative influence of each source.MethodsA total of 1,219 college students were asked where they had heard of the chemical imbalance explanation and how much they believed this to be true. …”
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Differences in User Perception of Artificial Intelligence-Driven Chatbots and Traditional Tools in Qualitative Data Analysis by Boštjan Šumak, Maja Pušnik, Ines Kožuh, Andrej Šorgo, Saša Brdnik

“…Participants (N = 85), Master’s students from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with prior experience in UX evaluations and familiarity with AI-based chatbots, performed sentiment analysis and data annotation tasks using these tools, enabling a comparative evaluation. …”
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Professional identity development of Flemish occupational therapists: A narrative study by Ellen Claessens, Sofia Vikström, Michael P. Sy

“…Self-efficacy fluctuated during their whole journey.Conclusion Five unique narratives, raise awareness of potentially vulnerable events in becoming an occupational therapist.Significance This study highlights the importance of actively reflecting on how to support students, novice, and senior therapists in developing and nurturing their professional identity (e.g. continued professional development, strong supervisor relationship, interprofessional education).…”
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Characteristics of bullying in ninth grade adolescents. Abreus, Cienfuegos, 2021-2022 by Marioly Ruiz Hernandez, Honey Turiño Matamoros, Yanara Calzada Urquiola, Laura Magda López Angulo, Daniela de la Caridad Cedeño Díaz

“…The sample consisted of 19 adolescent students from said school, who claimed to have been victims of bullying in the preceding six months. …”
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COMPARING HUMAN AND AI-BASED ESSAY EVALUATION IN THE CZECH HIGHER EDUCATION: CHALLENGES AND LIMITATIONS by Tomáš Kincl, Daria Gunina, Michal Novák, Jan Pospíšil

“…These tools have shown remarkable potential in the field of education, where their functionalities are increasingly leveraged not only by students but also by educators. This study investigates the extent to which human evaluator assessments align with automated evaluations conducted by large language models, with a focus on a) the complexity of the evaluated texts (academic essays that encompass literature reviews, critical assessments of sources, and reflective insights within the context of societal or economic practices) and b) the unique challenges posed by the Czech language, in which the evaluated works are submitted. …”

Testing the Reciprocal Effect between Value of Education, Time Investment, and Academic Achievement in a Large Non-Western Sample by Meimei Liu, TuongVan Vu, Nienke van Atteveldt, Martijn Meeter

“…In this study, we first examined whether students’ value of education, as a measure of motivation, is reciprocally related to achievement (class rank and self-rated performance) in a sample of junior high schoolers in an East-Asian country (N = 3445, Korean Youth Panel Study). …”
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Changes in University Teacher’s Pedagogical Activity in the Context of Digitalization of Education by I. S. Batrakova, E. N. Glubokova, S. A. Pisareva, A. P. Tryapitsyna

“…The purpose of this article is to consider the changes in university teacher’s pedagogical activity in the conditions of a rapid transformation of higher education and propose a theoretical and empirical substantiation of the importance of teacher’s understanding of the value-semantic attitude to pedagogical activity, which is not limited only to mastering digital competencies, but consists in mastering pedagogical knowledge that allows you to critically analyze the productivity of modern educational strategies and methods.The conducted research was based on the methodology of post-non-classical science, which implies the widespread use of qualitative research methods that reflect the convergence of explanatory and interpretative research approaches, the use of representations, opinions, attitudes, and values of the research participants as full data.The article describes the results of studying the university teachers’ attitude to changes, the value orientations of the ongoing changes, as well as the main difficulties faced by university teachers in the context of digitalization of education – the design of educational and training programs, modern educational and methodological complex, the organization of productive self-directed work and communication with students in the educational process.The main directions of overcoming the identified difficulties are given – the construction of flexible curricula within the framework of the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education, the development of the digital educational environment of the university and updating the content of the professional development programs for teaching staff. …”
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Compelling reading skills in English classes through guided discovery strategy by Katherine Castro Vélez, Samantha Vega Zambrano, GABRIEL BAZURTO, Jhonny Villafuerte Holguin

“…The problem arises from a niche in which it found that the guided discovery strategy is conducive to develop reading comprehension skills, however a problem is generated by the motivation shown in students by the type of texts used for the development of reading comprehension, based on this it have raised the development of it research, considering that several studies indicate that compelling reading has a positive influence on reading skills. …”
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