Myint Swe Khine

Curtin University

The present study investigated the associations of students sense of school belonging, instructional clarity in mathematics lessons, students like learning mathematics, students confident in mathematics, and mathematics achievement among eight graders in Jordan. Participants were 7,176 students from Jordan who participated in Trends in Internationa...

Motivation science is a field that delves into the very core of what drives us—why we do what we do. It's a field that bridges several disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, economics, and even sociology. Researchers in this field are fascinated by the question of what makes people tick. In particular, they focus on understanding what mot...

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a global survey conducted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to assess educational systems by evaluating the academic performance of 15-year-old school students in mathematics, science, and reading. In PISA 2022, 13,437 students from Australia participated...

Motivation is a multifaceted construct that has intrigued scholars and practitioners for centuries. As technology continues to evolve and permeate every aspect of our lives, its impact on motivation warrants a thorough examination. The advent of technology has revolutionized the way we approach and understand motivation. In education, technology ha...

Motivation has long been a subject of intense study in the field of education, as it is widely recognised as a critical factor in shaping students’ academic achievement, engagement and overall learning experience. The field of motivation science, which draws on theories and research from a range of disciplines including psychology, neuroscience and...

Self-regulated learning (SRL) is a process in which learners take control of their own learning, managing their own cognitive, motivational, and behavioral processes to achieve academic success. It is an approach that has gained considerable attention in educational psychology because of its profound implications for improving academic performance...

Motivation science is a field that delves into the very core of what drives us—why we do what we do. It's a field that bridges several disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, economics, and even sociology. Researchers in this field are fascinated by the question of what makes people tick. In particular, they focus on understanding what mot...

The study of neuroscience and its relation to motivation is a dynamic and rapidly evolving field, merging insights from psychology, biology, and neurology to understand how the brain influences motivation. Motivation, fundamentally, is the process that initiates, guides and sustains goal-directed behaviors. It encompasses the drives that propel hum...

Emotion-based motivation is a concept that bridges the realms of psychology and neuroscience, examining how emotional states influence motivational processes. Emotions are complex psychological states that involve physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience. They play a critical role in shaping our motivations, guiding us...

Each chapter is carefully edited and auto-summerized. The ultimate goal is to provide a current literature review of Springer Nature publications on a given topic in order to support readers in overcoming information overload and to help them dive into a topic faster; to identify interdisciplinary overlaps; and to present papers which might not hav...

Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence that employs algorithms to analyze data sets and create self-learning models capable of forecasting outcomes and categorizing information autonomously. In essence, it empowers machines to learn from data and generalize to unfamiliar data, enabling them to perform tasks without explicit instruc...

Since the advent of the internet, online and distance education has become the predominant mode of instructional delivery in education and training settings. Effective online learning is not solely dependent on instructional design. Factors such as student engagement, learning styles, and personal characteristics also play a significant role in det...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming business, communication, healthcare, and industries, and education is no exception. AI offers a range of tools and applications that have the potential to revolutionize the way we teach and learn (Popenici & Kerr, 2017). One particularly promising area is the development of Intelligent Tutoring S...

Students come to learning with unique styles, paces, and interests. Educators are mindful of this phenomenon and strive to create learning experiences that cater to these differences. The traditional one-size-fits-all approach to education has long been criticized for failing to cater to individual student needs. The emergence of Artificial Intelli...

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology raises important ethical considerations for the field of education. As AI systems become more advanced and capable of tasks like grading, providing instructional content, and even teaching classes, we must examine the ethical implications and ensure AI is implemented in educationally...

Objectives: Interest in Mindfulness in several professions including teaching has increased. To develop the techniques and methods based on mindfulness, several research papers were carried on this topic in teaching according to a comprehensive definition that takes into account awareness, memory and retention to describe a variety of teaching prac...

The terms “artificial intelligence” and “machine learning” have become ubiquitous, with their applications being actively explored by enterprises, healthcare, and various industries for enhanced performance and competitive advantage. Building upon a multitude of scholarly investigations, this volume delves into the contemporary landscape of educati...

This comprehensive volume investigates the untapped potential of machine learning in educational settings. It examines the profound impact machine learning can have on reshaping educational research. Each chapter delves into specific applications and advancements, sheds light on theory-building, and multidisciplinary research, and identifies areas...

In this book, first-hand accounts from academics and practitioners explore the concept of "professional identity development" in the context of higher education and provide guidance to develop and enhance professionalism. The Development of Professional Identity in Higher Education presents a new understanding of identity development. Highlighting...

It is becoming increasingly vital for the next generation of students to acquire problem-solving, critical thinking, and collaborative skills for them to be successful in the 21^st century. The use of technology greatly bolsters the integration of these skills. Robotics, one of the many emerging arrays of technologies, presents learners w...

This study explored how students and teachers perceived the interdisciplinary integration of 3D printing technology in teaching and learning within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) elementary schools and its relation to students' attitudes toward STEM careers. The study participants were 148 students and seven teachers from two elementary schools in...

French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari introduced the rhizome concept and its principles and their legacy influenced many academic disciplines including education. The studies have been conducted in education, teaching, and learning using the rhizome concept, and other theories and philosophy introduced by Deleuze and Gu...

Message from the Guest Editors Dear Colleagues, The recent introduction of the artificial intelligence language model, ChatGPT, has led to its initial capabilities garnering major attention in educational enterprises. The objective of this Special Issue is to provide a current overview of the significant impact of ChatGPT as a tool for teaching and...

Students become more actively involved in their studies when teachers integrate ICT into their lessons. Since computer self-efficacy is positively related to the integration of technology in education, improving pre-service teachers' computer self-efficacy could increase their intention to use technology. The present study explores the association...

To examine the relationship between students' perceptions and their non-cognitive outcomes, this research uses secondary analysis of PISA data from 14,167 students in the United Arab Emirates. Seven factors of learning environment were identified after reviewing the literature. The findings reveal that six factors of the learning environments had a...

Educators and research centers worldwide are working to better understand human learning afforded by the confluence of non-invasive brain imaging and cognitive neuroscience to translate research into educational practices and policies. In the process of relentless pursuit, many developments and discoveries on human learning have been reported in th...

This comprehensive book presents emergent findings and promising results in teacher education, curriculum, assessment, teaching and learning approaches, pedagogical innovations and practices, and professional development in educating the next generation of students. The volume reflects the current trends and highlights teacher education programs in...

What is Happening In this Class? (WIHIC) is the widely used questionnaire to measure psycho-social aspects of the classroom and explore how these aspects affect student learning and achievement. The purpose of this study is to examine the cumulative estimates of reliability and conduct reliability generalization meta-analysis of Cronbach’s alpha fo...

Non-cognitive abilities, also termed as Social and Emotional Skills (SSES), are believed to have a profound and far-reaching impact on individuals' growth and development. Previous psychological experiments confirmed that non-cognitive factors could have an impact on education, health and social well-being. The SSES reports by OECD offer insights o...

The present study sought to examine the effect of gender on student engagement in English language learning and self-regulation in a tertiary institution. Three hundred and eighty-nine first-year students from a Gulf state responded to the engagement in English language learning and self-regulation (EELLS) survey developed by Zubaidi et al. (2016)....

Educational planners and researchers believe that social and emotional skills play a crucial role in functioning well in the 21st century. This paper investigates how social and emotional skills mediate the relationships between students' cognitive ability and academic achievement. Recently, the OECD organised a large-scale international project to...

Purpose This study examined the conceptions of assessment and its relationship to self-regulation and self-confidence among pre-service teachers. Design/methodology/approach Participants were 278 pre-service students attending a teacher's college in Bahrain. This study employed the structural equation modeling (SEM) approach to investigate the rel...

Educators face formidable challenges in educating the young generation in escalating technology development, intense economic competitions, and uncertain world events. It is more challenging to train teachers who can guide students to equip them with knowledge and skills, survive the future labour market, and prepare them for the jobs that do not e...

This book documents systematic, prodigious and multidisciplinary research in the nature and role of academic self-efficacy, and identifies areas for future research directions within the three sections of the book: 'Assessment and Measurement of Academic Self-efficacy', 'Empirical Studies on What Shapes Academic Self-efficacy', and 'Empirical Studi...

This volume documents attempts to conduct systematic and prodigious research using multilevel analysis in educational settings, and present their findings and identify future research directions. It showcases the versatility of multilevel analysis, and elucidates the unique advantages in examining complex and wide-ranging educational issues. This b...

This comprehensive book presents emerging research findings and promising reform practices in the field of teacher education, curriculum, assessment, teaching and learning approaches, pedagogical innovations, and professional development in educating the next generation of globally competent students. It reflects the current trends and highlights c...

In this study, we examined relationships between learning environment characteristics (disciplinary climate, teacher support, and teacher feedback) and student outcomes (enjoyment of reading, and reading achievement) among 12,058 students from China who took part in the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment. The results of structural...

Academic self-efficacy is a psychological construct that deals with an individual's belief about capabilities to learn or perform educational activities at designated levels. Academic self-efficacy is a critical component in theories of motivation and learning. Studies show that academic self-efficacy is domain-, context- or task-specific and assoc...

The chapters in this book provided each their perspectives and new knowledge to the field of academic self-efficacy (ASE) in education concerning the assessment and measurement of ASE, what shapes ASE and what the influence of ASE is. This has been done through their new empirical research, new discussions and new overviews or perspectives on exist...

Hierarchical linear modeling, also known as multilevel modeling, is increasingly prevalent in social science research because of its advantages not available in traditional statistical analysis. Education research often involves using data of nested nature since schooling systems are in a hierarchical structure. The students are clustered in the cl...

The current generation of students grow up in the age of technology. They are exposed to a plethora of devices that allow them to stay connected at all times. The impact and adverse consequences of the overuse of social media on school performance are well documented in the literature. Drawing from the recently available data from the study on soci...

Relationships between students’ perceptions and their non-cognitive outcomes (epistemological beliefs, self-efficacy and attitudes to science) were investigated through secondary analysis of data from 14,167 United Arab Emirates students who participated in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Structural equation modeling (SEM...

The study reported in this chapter explored the reliability and validity of an instrument to measure salient factors related to the motivational and self-regulation of students in English language classrooms.

Assessment is a process of evaluating the quality of learning, and teachers devote a substantial amount of time to assessment related activities (Levy-Vered & Alhija, 2015). There are many types and forms of assessments that teachers can select for assessing students. In the school settings, formative and summative assessment are common activities....

The Rasch model, a subset of a larger group of models known as item response theory (IRT), is becoming a common way of analyzing psychometric data in educational research. There are many reasons why researchers are adopting this approach. One of the reasons for using Rasch analysis technique is that it is possible to express a person’s measures on...

This book focuses on the use of the Rasch measurement model in validation studies and in analyzing the psychometric properties of a variety of test instruments, questionnaires, and scales in international contexts. It broadly examines the development and application of Rasch modeling, providing in-depth analyses of the properties of various scales...

Learning analytics is referred to the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of information about learners and their contexts for the purposes of understanding and optimizing learning. In recent years learning analytics has emerged as a promising area of research that traces the digital footprint of the learners and extracts useful knowle...

Despite the exponential growth in STEM-related jobs, there is an acute shortage of people choosing to pursue STEM-related studies and careers. Compared with men, women are underrepresented in STEM-related courses and careers. The present study, therefore, examined the associations of perceived usefulness of 3D printing technology, self-concept in u...

The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework developed over a decade ago is still valid and applicable in educational contexts when dealing with the use of technology in teaching and learning. With widespread availability of devices and prolific use of technology among students, teachers need to be conversant with various techn...

The term 'learning analytics' is defined as the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of information about learners and their contexts for the purposes of understanding and optimizing learning. In recent years learning analytics has emerged as a promising area of research that trails the digital footprint of the learners and extracts use...

This book looks at the value of integrating the arts and sciences in the school curriculum. It argues that this will help students further their understanding of analytical concepts through the use of creativity. The authors illustrate how schools can work towards presenting common practices, concepts, and content. Coverage features case studies an...

Assessment and evaluation have always been an integral part of the educational process. Quality and purposeful assessment can assist in students’ learning and their achievement. In recent years, considerable attention has been given to the roles of educational measurement, evaluation, and assessment with a view to improving the education systems th...

In the increasingly competitive and changing world, efficient education system that drives the human development in the country is the key to a nation's progress. The education providers-schools and higher learning institutions must focus on student success and design instruction that considers the individual differences of the learners. In recent...

The term computational thinking came into wide use as a popular expression during the 1980s that refers to a collection of computational ideas that people in computing disciplines acquire through their work in designing programs, software and computations performed by the computer hardware (Tedre and Denning 2016). It was envisioned that computatio...

This study examined the effect of gender on students attitudes towards Mathematics. 1039 elementary students from a Gulf state responded to the Math and Me survey (Adelson & McCoach, 2011) which has two constructs (Enjoyment of Mathematics and Mathematical Self-Perceptions). Data were analysed using structural equation modelling (SEM), in particula...

A conceptual understanding of how students learn and what motivate them to choose a specific approach to learning have been of interest to all educators. A number of instruments that measure students learning styles and orientations, study preferences and ways of knowing exist in the literature. This study explored the reliability and validity of t...

We investigated students’ perceptions of their science classroom environments with the use of the What Is Happening In this Class? (WIHIC) questionnaire at the university level in Myanmar. The translated questionnaire was administered to 251 students in first-year science classes at a university. Both exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory fa...

This book covers studies of computational thinking related to linking, infusing, and embedding computational thinking elements to school curricula, teacher education and STEM related subjects. Presenting the distinguished and exemplary works by educators and researchers in the field highlighting the contemporary trends and issues, creative and uniq...

Textbooks are primary teaching aids, sources from which students obtain knowledge of science domain. Due to this fact, curriculum developers in the field emphasize the crucial role of analysing the contents of science textbooks in improving science education. Scientific domain knowledge relies on graphical representations for the manifestation of i...

The capacity to perceive the visual images accurately, construct mental representations and imaginary of visual information, understand and manipulate the spatial relations among objects have been considered as spatial ability, a powerful indicator of personal quality and individual differences. Past and present studies reveal the significant corre...

Students’ view on themselves is the root of self-regulatory skills, and it will serve as an evaluator of their capability to succeed. This study attempts to find the relationship between students’ self-regulation in learning and academic achievements in Mathematics and Science in the secondary schools in Bahrain. ‘Engagement in Mathematics/Science...

Social interaction is integral to the healthy psychosocial development of adolescents. The rapid expansion and evolution of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector over the last two decades has opened up a new world of unlimited opportunities and possibilities for social interaction. Despite the tremendous strides that have been m...

This study examined the big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE; Marsh, 1987) on mathematics self-concept of 7404 adolescents (female = 3767 [51%], male = 3637 [49%]; Mage = 15.85 years, SD = 0.28) from 456 schools in the United Arab Emirates, one of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. The results of multilevel regression analyses indicated good suppor...

This study examined the psychometric properties of the Original Grit Scale using Rasch analysis in a sample of 777 adolescents hailing from a collectivistic society, one of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. Results of the Rasch analysis provided support for the appropriateness of the Original Grit Scale as a measure of one of the noncognitive sk...

Teaching in the classroom today can no longer sustain the interest of students and be effective if the process involves traditional approach - teachers as sole provider of content information. In recent years technology has played a significant role in transforming education to more progressive and interactive activities. However the use of technol...

This book describes recent approaches in advancing STEM education with the use of robotics, innovative methods in integrating robotics in school subjects, engaging and stimulating students with robotics in classroom-based and out-of-school activities, and new ways of using robotics as an educational tool to provide diverse learning experiences. It...

This study explored the reliability and validity of the inventory that measures attitudes toward mathematics among middle school students. The original version of Attitudes toward Mathematics Inventory (ATMI) was adapted and translated into Arabic language and administered to middle school students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The data were a...

Each chapter in this book makes a unique contribution to the body of the literature and enhances the understanding of spatial ability and its influence on learning in the STEM disciplines. It addresses spatial abilities, ways to measure them as well as their impact and how they can affect learning subjects in scientific, technology and engineering...

Science education research emphasizes the irreplaceable value of textbooks in students’ acquisition of scientific knowledge. Illustrations such as diagrams contained in science books are crucial modes of visual representations that facilitate learners’ conceptual learning. Through classifying, coding, and analysing diagrams from twenty science text...

In the field of education, researchers firmly believe that non-cognitive skills and factors are equally or even more important than cognitive aspects in the educative process and for employment potentials. When identifying the personal qualities that are required to function well in the 21st century, the role of non-cognitive factors is often highl...

and Shaljan Areepattamannil (Eds.) Emirates College for Advanced Education, United Arab Emirates In the field of education, researchers firmly believe that non-cognitive skills and factors are equally or even more important than cognitive aspects in the educative process and for employment potentials. When identifying the personal qualities that ar...

The past several decades of research in education has suggested that students’ attitudes, interests, beliefs, and values are important to educators and such affective dispositions are often predictor of students’ subsequent behaviour which leads to academic success (Popham, 2005). Voluminous studies have been conducted in the field of mathematics e...