This survey research, assessed whether novice secondary school teachers knew and understood the effectiveness of empirically-supported learning strategies, namely spaced practice, retrieval interleaved using multimodal representations, elaborative interrogation worked-out examples. These ‘proven’ strategies can be contrasted with frequently used that have been found to less effective, such as r...

Introduction: Bag-valve-mask (BVM) ventilation is the first and important part of the airway management. The aim of present study was to evaluate the quality of four different BVM ventilation techniques - E-C, Thenar Eminence, Thenar Eminence (Dominant hand)-E-C (Non dominant hand), and Thenar Eminence (Non dominant hand)-E-C (Dominant hand) - among two novice and experienced groups. Methods: I...

The purpose of this pilot study is to validate the effectiveness of embedding teaching standards in reflection prompts. Does this approach improve the quantity and depth of reflection commentary for novice pre-service teachers? What must be in place to ensure that novice teachers are effectively internalizing the teaching standards? These questions are paramount in the design of a webbased, ele...

In the present study, we tested common assumption that teachers with more experience consider themselves better prepared for online teaching and learning (OTL). Utilizing data from a survey of 366 higher-education Portugal at beginning COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, performed structural equation modeling to quantify experience-readiness relationship. The contained an assessment teachers' OTL readin...

In view of native/nonnative language teacher dichotomy, different characteristics have been assigned to these 2 groups. The dichotomy has been the source of different actions and measures to clarify the positive and negative points of being (non)native teachers. In recent years, many researchers have revisited this dichotomy. The challenge to the dichotomy can be a source of motivation to explo...

Discussion: The analysis of the written accounts brought together many issues that have been addressed separately in the literature. However, the themes highlighted the complexity of dental education and the different environment of the teaching clinic from general practice. Some of these themes in future could be discussed in small peer group seminars to facilitate an easier transition from ex...

Abstract Assessment approaches including assessment purposes, processes, fairness, and measurement theory, English teachers’ professional development needs remain underexplored in the Middle East North Africa regions. This study provided empirical evidence on language teachers Saudi higher education context. A survey was used to examine current classroom assessment. total of 287 subjects (191 w...