Academic Articles & Research Papers

Public Health Nurse Preceptors in Ireland: Exploring Recognition, Preparedness, and Support for Professional Development.

Barriers to Professional Development among Clinical Faculty Members: A Qualitative Study.

Professional development, lifestyle behaviors, and job satisfaction: the mediating role of work-life balance in a multi-sector sample.

The Personal and Professional Development Experiences of Paediatric Nurses: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.

Participation in Continuing Professional Development Among Radiographers in Lilongwe District, Malawi.

Examining Educators' Understanding and Application of Learnings From an Online Brain Injury Professional Development Module-TeachABI.

Beyond novice-to-expert progression: a context-enabled continuing professional development framework derived from nursing practice in resource-constrained South African hospitals.

School-University Links for Evidence-Informed Practice

A range of studies has identified barriers to evidence-informed practice in schools, many of which recommend school-university links as a means for removing these barriers. In England, public policy also promotes school-university partnersh...

Expertise, Knowledge, and Resilience in #AcademicTwitter: Enacting Resilience-Craft in a Community of Practice

Online communities of practice are a useful professional development space, where members can exchange information, aggregate expertise, and find support. These communities have grown in popularity within higher education—especially on soci...

Exploring stress mediation: self-efficacy, sense of coherence, and self-esteem among nursing students in Poland—a multicenter cross-sectional observational study

BackgroundNursing students frequently encounter stressful and demanding situations during clinical training, which may hinder their well-being and professional development. A strong sense of coherence is thought to buffer the negative effec...

Transportation Engineering 2.0: A Vision for the Future Transportation Engineering Workforce

This study sought to advance a future-ready transportation engineering (TE) workforce by investigating emerging industry-wide challenges, essential skills, and opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. To accomplish this, a nationa...

Learning to Co-Teach: A Systematic Review

Research on how teachers learn to co-teach is scarce. In this systematic review, the PRISMA method was used to examine the relationship between teacher learning and co-teaching in professional development programmes. Inclusion criteria was ...

Investigating Professional Development Policy and Practice for Educational Policy-Makers in Vietnam: An Exploratory Study

There has been a large number of studies concerning professional development at the micro level. However, little research has been particularly conducted to investigate professional development at the macro level. This study aims to explore...

Faculty perceptions of a professional development program for developing CUREs and promoting inclusive and equitable teaching

ABSTRACT The Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) model can be used to explore how faculty prioritize learning about and adopting new pedagogical approaches. Here, we use the DOI framework to contextualize biology faculty perceptions of a profess...

Interdisciplinary Class Observation in Higher Education: Lessons Learned from the Professional Development Experience of Four Teachers

Peer observation of teaching has been adopted as a method to improve the quality of teaching. It involves observers providing descriptive feedback to their peers on learning and teaching practices. However, although extensively described in...

UNCLAIMED “DEMANDED PROFESSION” IN THE CAREERS OF LAW GRADUATES

The system of legal education has been developing to a greater extent under requirements of the market, going out of professionals’ control. In the condition of uncontrolled growth the processes ofde ter ior ation of quality, under utilizat...

Dual career (profession and sport) in academic system - a premise for the existence a regular university football championship in Romania

University football has tradition in the Romanian political context. The first teams that made history in amateur and later professional football were founded in the early twentieth century by students who returned to the country after comp...

“Their Bodies Were Made to Move and Wriggle Right from the Word Go”: A Qualitative Exploration of Family Engagement with Fundamental Movement Skills in Early Childhood

Background: Fundamental movement skills (FMS) underpin lifelong physical activity (PA) and health, yet many children are failing to meet age-appropriate standards. Caregivers hold a critical influence over children’s motor development, but ...

Hospital Information System Utilization in Iran: a Qualitative Study

Hospital information system (HIS) should ideally allow different forms of data to be stored and used for decision making by clinicians and managers alike. This system has been developed since the early 1980's, and many hospitals gradually c...

Assessing the knowledge of ethical clearance and animal welfare among researchers in Indonesia: A cross-sectional study

Background and Aim: Ethical treatment of animals in scientific research is fundamental to ensuring data integrity and public trust. In Indonesia, the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) plays a key role in ethical oversight,...