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Reema Shakhatreh; Hisham Shakhatreh · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Diabetes is a metabolic disorder characterized by chronic high blood sugar levels due to insulin deficiency or resistance. In type 1 diabetes, the pancreas fails to produce adequate insulin, whereas in type 2 diabetes, insulin production may be insufficient, or the body becomes resistant to its effects. Gestational diabetes occurs during pregnancy due to red…
Feyza Kurban; Hüseyin Bahad?r Yan?k · DOAJ Open Access Articles
The study aims to define the processes of pre-service mathematics teachers in reaching spatial visualisation generalisations within the context of drawing surface nets of solids. Two theories, Polya’s problem-solving steps and novice-to-expert problem-solving schemas, were used as reference frameworks to describe the participants' spatial visualisation gener…
Shanga Hama Radha; Asal Tawfeeq; Sanaa Mohamed · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Background: Urinary tract infections are quite prevalent among children presented with non-specific symptoms including abdominal pain, fever, and nocturnal urine incontinence. The study aimed to determine the sensitivity of uropathogenic bacteria to antibiotics and assess their ability to form biofilms.Methods: This study was carried out in Kirkuk City. A to…
Dimitris Panagou; Christina E. Kostara; Georgios Stylos; Konstantinos T. Kotsis · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Throughout the years, scientific research has increasingly aimed to identify students' misconceptions and alternative views regarding fundamental concepts and principles of chemistry. Valuable international bibliographic information was created, including details on teaching density and gaining respondent acceptance. The study aimed to explore alternative id…
Musa Adekunle Ayanwale; Mdutshekelwa Ndlovu · DOAJ Open Access Articles
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on high-stakes testing, including the National Benchmark Tests in South Africa. Current linear testing formats have been criticized for their limitations, leading to a shift towards Computerized Adaptive Testing [CAT]. Assessments with CAT are more precise and take less time. Evaluation of CAT programs requi…
Sura Mohamed Kamkam; Mahmoud Afrouz; Zargham Ghabanchi; Manijeh Youhanaee · DOAJ Open Access Articles
It is believed that classroom interaction is essential for learning a second language (L2). Studies on teaching second/foreign language present evidence that affirms the significance of interaction in language learning and its function in facilitating learners' attempts to gain competency in an L2. They also consider learners’ affective states and their perc…
Tayebeh-sadat Hosseini; Mahnaz Mostafaei-Alaei; Hamid Allami · DOAJ Open Access Articles
The study aimed to investigate the Iranian EFL teachers’ knowledge of educational ethical codes in academic settings through the employment of a newly-designed questionnaire, developed by the researchers. To this end, six university professors as experts were invited to participate in an unstructured interview related to the issue under study. The preliminar…
Hussein Al Khafaji; Zahra Amirian; Mohammad Amiryousefi; Abbas Sultan · DOAJ Open Access Articles
This study was an attempt to see whether the instruction of pragmatic markers in virtual vs. face-to-face classroom settings had any effect on Iraqi EFL learners’ speaking ability. It also attempted to examine the intervening effects of some factors including age (teenagers in the language institute vs. adults in the university), gender, social class, and th…
Tareq Al-Shammari; Majid Asgari; Raed Ugla; Ehsan Rezvani · DOAJ Open Access Articles
The usefulness of using literature in language teaching has always been acknowledged by language teaching researchers who have studied the said issue from different aspects and in various contexts. The present investigation tries to discover if the use of authentic and simplified literary texts could improve learners’ reading achievement, and then check if t…
Omar ISMAILI; Abdelhamid BELAIDI · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Audio description is a technique that was first introduced in the early 1970s by the American professor Gregory Thomas Frazier. Its aim is to describe the visual elements of a cinematographic or audiovisual work for blind or visually impaired individuals, providing them with essential information to understand the piece, including decors, characters, actions…
Maree J. Davies; Camilla Highfield; Gabriella Foreman-Brown · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Critical thinking (CT) is increasingly included within education curriculum policy development to support students’ intellectual progress. Teachers who embed CT learning and are cognisant of students cultural identity increase their ability and aptitude to think critically. This paper reports results from an anonymous survey administered to 490 teacher parti…
Bonginkosi Hardy MUTONGOZA · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Introduction: Although universities have traditionally been regarded as ivory towers that are safe spaces for learning and personal development, recent trends in South Africa have revealed that universities are increasingly becoming recognized as sites for violence, including student-on-staff violence. Against this background, this study sought to explore na…
Mite Setiansah; Nuryanti Nuryanti; Edi Santoso; Agus Ganjar Runtiko; Wiwik Novianti · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Digital literacy education is essential for everyone, including seniors to sustain their quality of life. The Digital Academy for Seniors aims to instill digital skills among seniors through a non-formal learning program. This qualitative research aimed to provide a comprehensive description of how the program can develop digital resilience and improve the q…
Simranjeet Kaur; Sunita Singh · DOAJ Open Access Articles
This ethnographic case study presents findings of an 18-month research study focusing on the ways in which families residing in an urban slum were using mobile phones and how this use supported literacy practices. Data collection included participant observations and interviews with 42 participants including parents, children and community members. Results o…
Christine McWhorter; Tiffany Mitchell Patterson · DOAJ Open Access Articles
On the 400th anniversary of American enslavement the New York Times (NYT) 1619 project launched an interactive digital experience including a popular podcast centering the contributions and narratives of Black Americans. This study sought to understand how HBCU students responded to learning Black music history through what we term a “pop culture podcast.” T…
Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha · DOAJ Open Access Articles
This paper examines literature from the COVID-19 period (2020-2022) to outline prevalent themes and essential competencies in the post-COVID era. Employing informetrics within a quantitative research approach, the study scrutinizes Scopus database data using COVID-19, e-learning, e-commerce, and media and information literacy terms. Results reveal a surge in…
Micah Stohlmann · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Growth mindset has received more focus in schools in the past fifteen years as a possible way to improve various educational outcomes. Helping students to believe in the malleability of intelligence and the potential to improve in ability and various human qualities is important. Students with growth mindsets set self-improvement as achievement goals, use al…
Fadila TINAWATI; Trisni UTAMI; Argyo DEMARTOTO · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Introduction: This study explores the relationship between exposure to the risk of COVID-19 infection and productivity at the workplace among manufacturing industry workers in Indonesia in the context of social restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This qualitative research has a case study approach. Key informants in this study were obtained …
van Vugt, Floris · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Imagine we want to understand whether musicians are more empathic than non-musicians. We recruit two groups of individuals, musicians and nonmusicians, and administer empathy tests. To compare the empathy scores we could use a two-sample t-test, or, equivalently, a one-way ANOVA. However, before we do so, textbooks advise us we have to investigate whether th…
Ira Bruce Gaultney; Todd Sherron; Carrie Boden · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Today’s college students grew up with digital news media and social media readily available on their smartphones. As a result, students are likely to use their smartphones to access the news through social media where partisan misinformation is easily spread. Efforts to combat the spread of misinformation on social media are being explored on several fronts,…