College of Education
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Current Issue: Volume 8, Issue 5 (2025)
This issue includes an engaging selection of articles covering topics in education such as student perceptions of grading, teacher retention, child development, educational technologies, the eradication of bullying, student health and wellbeing, and student success. While encompassing a variety of articles, this issue focuses on topics of value to students and teachers and their relationships within the schools. Our readers will find the articles in this issue useful educational topics that may be applied in teaching practice and creating beneficial educational environments. The editors want to thank the authors, our peer reviewers, and the faculty and staff who so graciously assisted with their efforts in putting together this February 2025 Issue of the Journal.-
Edward Cromarty
Research Articles
Impact of a Kinesthetic Learning Model on Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Knowledge in African American Middle School Girls
Mercy F. Fash and Andrea A.N Ofori-Boadu
Teacher Retention and the Future of Learning: Alarming Concerns about Preparing the Next Generation of Citizens
DeJuanna M. Parker and Barbara D. Holmes
Factors Influencing Jordanian College Understudies' Impressions of Learning through Emergency Distance Learning (EDL)
Abdelnaser Sanad Alakayleh
Creating Seamless Transitions to Manage Type 1 Diabetes in Emerging Adult College Students
Carol Newton Highsmith
An Investigation of Ninth Grade Students’ Perceptions of Equitable Grading Practices
Sarah Ruth Morris, Sarah C. McKenzie, Jonathan Wai, and Robert Anthony Maranto
Conceptual Articles
Developing Nigrescence to Resolve the Double Bind Challenges in Community Engagement for Novice Critical Literacy Teacher Educators
Celicia L. Bell
Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Assessment Integrating Social Studies Education: The Proposed Socio-Critical Assessment Integration Framework (SCAIF)
Caroline O. Alordiah and Regina Arisi
Student-Conscious Practice and Pathways for Student Success
Anthony Walker and Sara Mata
Best Practices
The Dissertation Research Proposal Process: A Systematic Approach
Dianala M. Bernard
Leadership Approaches Implemented within K-12 Schools
Marian E. Truehill
Special Editor
Issue Reviewers
- Thomas Harvey
- Lamar University
- Carol Newton Highsmith
- University of North Carolina-Wilmington
- Anna K Lee
- North Carolina A & T State University
- Demetrice Smith-Mutegi
- Old Dominion University
- Brian Flores
- Hiawatha Smith
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls
- Mariza James
- Fayetteville State University
- Charles L. Lowery
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Patricia A Lynch
- Virginia State University
- Arij Rached
- Northeastern University
- Felix Quayson
- Texas State University
- Celeca Sukra
- New York City Department of Education
- Caroline O. Alordiah
- University of Delta, Agbor, Nigeria
- Obinna Chiekezi
- North Carolina A&T State University
- Andrea Woodson-Smith
- North Carolina Central University
- Kaitlin M Jackson
- Fayetteville State University
- Bradley Mills
- Fayetteville State University
- Locksley Knibbs
- Florida Gulf Coast University
- Paula E. Faulkner
- North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
- Magdalena Brzezinska
- WSB University at Poznan, Poland
- Md Mokter Hossain
- University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa
- Mohamed Ali
- Grand Canyon University
- Olcay Yavuz
- Southern Connecticut State University
- Yong Zeng
- Oakland University
- Neil Faulk
- Lamar University
- Nathan Taylor
- Robert Morris University
- Emmanouil Sofos
- Hellenic Open University
- Stephen Stunder
- Chestnut Hill College
- LaToyia Stewart
- Montgomery Independent School District