Research
New papers from ed tech and student success journals, and preprints from arXiv and EdArXiv
Thursday, August 6
Wednesday, August 5
Students’ perceptions of personalized learning paths as a strategy for E-learning development
Personalized Learning Paths (PLPs) became rather popular in e-learning settings, providing customized learning experiences according to specific characteristics about the learners such as the learning styles and the learning goals and etc. This paper aims to explore student perceptions on PLPs along three dimensions:…
doi.orgOut of the Gate: The Relationship Between Dual Enrollment Gateway Course-Taking and College Academic Momentum
This study explores the relationship between dual enrollment (DE) math and English gateway course-taking and academic momentum indicators — earning 30 credits by the end of the first year, first-year credit accumulation, and persistence to the third semester. The study is based on a sample of first-time freshmen at…
doi.orgHispanic Serving? Exploring the Impact of the Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program
Approximately 20 percent of all U.S. postsecondary institutions are eligible to apply for a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) grant, with over a 90 percent increase since 2010. Despite extensive descriptive and qualitative research on Latine-serving institutions (HSIs), fewer quantitative studies have examined how an…
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Tuesday, August 4
Game-based learning for ethics: benefits, challenges, and dilemmas
Abstract Ethics is recognized as a foundational element of human decision-making and a critical competency across educational disciplines, especially in STEM, where solving authentic, complex problems is essential. Traditional methods of ethics instruction often fail to provide the engagement needed for learners to…
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Monday, August 3
“An Enrollment Opportunity That’s Aligned with Who We Are” A Critical Analysis of Campus Presidents Supporting Prison Education During Targeted Incarceration
This qualitative study draws upon semi-structured interviews with 31 college and university presidents whose institutions host prison education programs. We examine how presidents justify their support for prison education and find three dominant themes among their narratives: mission and margin, knowledge and…
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Sunday, August 2
Unveiling patterns of socially shared regulation in relation to self‐regulated learning: The roles of individual profiles and group dynamics in online collaborative learning
Abstract The rapid growth of massive online learning has intensified interest in self‐regulated learning (SRL) and socially shared regulation of learning (SSRL), yet empirical insights into their interplay in online collaborative learning (OCL) remain limited. This study employed a three‐layer analytical method…
doi.orgNot all collaboration benefits from competition: Collaboration modes in a computational thinking game
Abstract Digital game‐based learning often leverages social dynamics to enhance engagement, yet the interplay between collaborative structures and competitive pressures remains complex. This study investigated different collaboration modes and how they interact with competition to influence computational thinking (CT)…
doi.orgStandardized assessment of LLM English proficiency
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in language learning and assessment, yet their English proficiency is seldom reported against interpretable proficiency standards. We introduce the China’s Standards of English Language Ability (CSE) framework to assess the proficiency levels and subskills of LLMs.…
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Saturday, August 1
Introduction to “From crisis to continuity: Re-examining online teaching and learning in elementary and secondary education”
doi.orgThe design framework for pedagogical agents supporting constructivist learning with generative AI
doi.orgMeasuring Acceptance of Age-Tiered AI Literacy Guidebooks: A Developmentally Informed Study of K-12 Students and Teachers
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Thursday, July 30
Hybrid intelligence feedback systems in design thinking development: Stage‐specific insights on pedagogical effects and characteristics of generative AI and instructors
Abstract Fostering design thinking relies on instructional feedback, yet traditional instructor‐led methods face practical limitations. Although generative AI (GenAI) may offer promising solutions based on its advantages, existing studies predominantly characterise it as a performance‐enhancing task assistant rather…
doi.orgThe agency gap in AI-supported writing: How reactive and proactive agent designs shape multimodal reasoning
Generative AI is becoming part of academic writing, but its educational value depends on how control is shared between learner and system. This study examined an agency gap : performance differences that may arise when AI agent initiative is misaligned with learners’ generative AI literacy. Seventy-nine medical and…
doi.orgDifferential engagement with generative artificial intelligence in higher education: Gender, motivation, and achievement trajectories
Abstract This study moves beyond asking whether generative AI (GenAI) improves learning to examine who engages, how they engage, and what kinds of questions they ask. We investigated how graduate students used a GenAI chatbot designed based on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture to support statistics…
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Wednesday, July 29
A scoping review of generative AI-powered agentic AI in education: Research landscape, agentic capabilities, and insights from the frontier agent paradigm, exemplified by OpenClaw
Generative AI-powered agentic systems are increasingly proposed for educational applications. However, the research landscape remains fragmented, and the relationship between technical capabilities and pedagogical design remains poorly understood. To address this gap, this scoping review systematically mapped 474…
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Tuesday, July 28
Which factors matter in data-driven peer learning: Social intimacy, proficiency gaps, or selection autonomy?
Peer learning is a promising strategy that encourages knowledge co-construction and reflection, while biased partner choice may hinder effective collaboration. Data-driven systems with interpretable learning analytics create new affordances for optimizing peer selection through knowledge awareness. Grounded in a…
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Monday, July 27
From simulation to flight: Simulation-assisted drone learning with teacher-AI co-designed scaffolds for secondary students’ STEM knowledge and competencies
A persistent challenge in drone-based STEM education is the scarcity of teacher-verified, interactive simulations that support both conceptual learning and competency development. Generative AI can accelerate content creation, but its outputs frequently lack pedagogical validity and contextual alignment. This study…
doi.orgArtificial intelligence ethical awareness of university students in Ghana: A network and latent profile analyses
Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly integrated into students’ academic lives in Ghana, making it crucial to examine their perspectives on ethical dimensions. Against this backdrop, this study assesses the artificial intelligence ethical awareness (AIEA) among 509 Ghanaian university students across the…
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Sunday, July 26
Anticipatory governance and leadership for AI implementation in higher education: A scoping review
Abstract As the education sector attempts to address rapid changes caused by Artificial Intelligence (AI), it becomes crucial to examine approaches to leadership at the organizational and system levels. This scoping review explores how anticipatory models of governance are conceptualised and operationalised globally…
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Saturday, July 25
Chat as learning: Student–AI conversations as discipline-associated cognitive engagement patterns
Generative AI teaching assistants are increasingly adopted in higher education, yet debates persist over whether student–AI conversations engage students in genuine cognitive processes or function primarily as information retrieval. We propose “Chat as Learning,” a measurement paradigm that treats student prompts as…
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Friday, July 24
Incorporating pedagogical agents into desktop virtual reality: Does visual-tone emotional congruency matter?
doi.orgI hear you: Enhancing middle school mathematics engagement and learning outcomes through teachable agent voice design
doi.orgAn empirical study of ChatGPT use in engineering education: Prompting and performance
This study investigates how specific prompting behaviors influence the academic performance of engineering students using ChatGPT. A total of 128 fourth-year students across four engineering programs participated in weekly sessions involving rotating task types: case analysis, engineering design, multi-step…
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Thursday, July 23
A socio-technical framework for educational excellence: Empirical validation of artificial intelligence and Jidoka integration in accounting pedagogy within emerging financial markets
The focus of this research is on how AI instrumentation affects quality-assurance systems based on the concept of Jidoka within the ecosystem of accounting education in an emerging financial-market environment. The study fills a void regarding technology use beyond traditional financial-center locations by addressing…
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Wednesday, July 22
In the AI era: A project-based digital storytelling framework for art and design education
The ascent of generative artificial intelligence (AI) challenges art and design education to reaffirm the value of human creativity. This study proposes and examines a pedagogical response: a project-based learning (PBL) model with digital storytelling (DS) at its core, designed to cultivate the emotional, cultural,…
doi.orgAI-mediated authentic assessment and metacognitive reflection: A mixed-methods study of the AAIWA model
This study introduces the Authentic AI-Assisted Writing Assessment (AAIWA) model, integrating authentic rubric-based assessment, condition-responsive AI feedback, and structured metacognitive reflection as a unified recursive architecture within Indonesian pre-service teacher education. Existing models treat these…
doi.orgThe double-edged sword effect of AI use on college students' learning engagement
With the growing prevalence of AI-assisted learning, there has been little research that investigated the intricate impacts of AI use on students' learning. In response to this research gap, this paper based on the Self-efficacy Theory, respectively analyzes the double-edged sword effect of AI use on college students'…
doi.orgEqual Access, Persistent Divides: Gender Segregation in Italian Higher Education across Three Decades (1995–2022)
Abstract Adopting an “equal but different” perspective, this study investigates long-term changes in gendered patterns of university enrolment and field-of-study choice in Italy, focusing on the care-technical divide among cohorts of upper secondary school graduates from 1995 to 2022. Leveraging a unique longitudinal…
doi.orgWhere Do Women Exit the Academic Pipeline?: Evidence from a Decade of National Data in Japan
Abstract Gender disparities in academia persist worldwide, yet empirical evidence remains limited on where, at which stages, and to what extent women exit academic careers. Using a uniquely comprehensive, decade-long national dataset from Japan (2014–2023), this study provides system-level evidence of gendered…
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Tuesday, July 21
A longitudinal investigation into the uses of IT in primary and secondary education
This longitudinal study to investigate the range of uses of IT in primary and secondary education examined a corpus of sixteen years of EDUsummIT official reports and E-Books (2009-2025) to identify recurring themes and patterns, as well as variations in how information technology (IT) and more recently, artificial…
doi.orgShifting gaze, shifting performance: The role of individual gaze behavior and joint attention in collaborative learning in tech-enhanced classrooms
doi.orgPerhaps You Should Use a Colon: Predicting Citation Counts of U.S. Higher Education Journal Articles
The reputations of researchers and journals alike are substantially based on the frequency with which their publications are cited. Some inquiry has examined predictors of citation counts, but these studies generally do not examine education research, and the findings often diverge considerably across disciplines or…
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Monday, July 20
The experience of using AI-generated social stories as a behavioral intervention tool for children
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into educational and therapeutic settings, understanding professional user experience with AI-generated interventions is crucial for successful implementation. This study examines how education and therapy professionals experience using social stories created…
doi.orgArtificial intelligence in educational leadership: A PRISMA-Guided bibliometric review and agenda for future research
Research on artificial intelligence (AI) in educational leadership is expanding rapidly but remains fragmented. This study synthesises the field through a PRISMA-guided bibliometric analysis of 219 peer-reviewed articles from Web of Science and Scopus and develops an agenda for future research. Using VOSviewer, we…
doi.orgAI adoption readiness among Ukrainian education managers: Barriers, typologies, and policy implications
Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in education requires strategic leadership from education managers, yet little research examines AI readiness among this stakeholder group, particularly in post-Soviet transitional contexts. As decision-makers who control whether and how AI enters educational practice, managers’…
doi.orgVETTING: A dual-LLM framework for in-loop safety verification via policy isolation in educational AI
Educational AI systems increasingly rely on large language models to support student writing and inquiry, yet enforcing safety and instructional constraints during open-ended, multi-turn interaction remains challenging. Existing approaches commonly embed such constraints within conversational prompts or rely on static…
doi.orgNavigating the challenges of Gen-AI in Chinese higher education: Balancing technological innovation with academic integrity and intellectual engagement
The rapid integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen-AI) into Chinese higher education (HE) is reshaping academic practices, raising concerns about critical thinking, academic integrity, and the essence of intellectual work. While Gen-AI offers significant benefits by streamlining academic tasks and…
doi.orgLevels of AI awareness and pedagogical skills among Nigerian teachers: The differentials of gender and teachers’ experience
The rapid diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI) across educational systems has intensified the need to assess teachers’ readiness to engage with AI-informed pedagogy, particularly in underrepresented contexts. This study investigated the levels of AI awareness and AI pedagogical skills among secondary school…
doi.orgTemporal dynamics of online learning interactions: A learning analytics study within the CoI framework
Understanding how online learning unfolds over short time spans is essential for improving the design and facilitation of digital learning environments. This study examines the temporal dynamics of online learning interactions through the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework in two two-week online courses for older…
doi.orgFostering collaborative futures: Multidisciplinary approaches to AI integration in educational ecosystems
With the rapid evolution of AI and data-driven technologies, AI integration in the educational ecosystem requires careful consideration. This paper aims to facilitate the process of fostering collaborative futures with AI agents in education by examining the impact of AI on education from the perspectives of…
doi.orgReframing school leadership for the digital age
The role of school leadership in digital transformation is increasingly recognised as central to creating inclusive, adaptive, and future-proof schools and education systems. However, the complexity of this task is often underestimated in policy, research, practice, and professional development. This article explores…
doi.orgTransforming curiosity through AR: An empirical study of flow-based environmental health education for elementary students
Environmental health education faces the challenge of connecting students with the often-overlooked organisms coexisting in their everyday environments. This study developed and validated an augmented reality (AR)-enhanced mosquito vector control curriculum grounded in integrated curiosity-flow theory. The curriculum…
doi.orgAssessing digital competence of K1-12 teachers in Kosovo: A study through the lens of DigCompEdu and TPACK
Digital competence is a critical skill for teachers in the modern era, as technology reshapes the education eco-system. The ability to integrate digital tools effectively into teaching practices not only enhances learning outcomes but also equips students with skills that are important for their daily lives. For…
doi.orgHuman-centered AI for teacher educators: Designing professional learning for critical AI literacy
Teacher educators play a pivotal role in shaping how preservice teachers understand, evaluate, and integrate artificial intelligence (AI) in classrooms, yet they rarely receive systematic preparation to lead this work. This design-based study examines how principles of Human-Centered AI (HCAI) and critical AI literacy…
doi.orgInstitutional structures, digital inequality, and AI integration in higher education
The global diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education raises questions about institutional equity, as adoption patterns shaped by structural factors risk reproducing existing inequalities. This study provides one of the first systematic comparative assessments of AI integration across Nigerian…
doi.orgPre-Arrival Motivation Among Postgraduate Taught Students Entering a United Kingdom University: An Exploration Through Self-Determination Theory
This study provides rare insight into postgraduate taught (PGT) students’ motivations for entering university by capturing views before arrival rather than after enrolment. Drawing on responses collected in the weeks prior to course commencement, it presents a large-scale pre-arrival qualitative analysis across…
doi.orgLinking Narrative Identity and Learning Dispositions to Enhance University Student Wellbeing
As student wellbeing concerns rise in higher education, understanding how students make meaning of their experiences may offer insight into their approaches to learning. This multistage mixed-methods study, combining explanatory sequential and convergent components, investigated how university students’ narrative…
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Sunday, July 19
A Survey of Graph-Based Knowledge Tracing from Structural and Propagation Perspectives: Models, Applications, and Future Directions
Knowledge Tracing (KT) is a fundamental task in intelligent education that tracks students' knowledge states through their historical interactions. Early deep learning-based KT mainly relies on sequential models, which often find it more challenging to explicitly model the complex many-to-many relationships between…
jedm.educationaldatamining.orgHuman-AI Collaboration in Inductive Thematic Analysis
As generative AI becomes increasingly integrated into qualitative analysis, a central methodological concern is how researchers can use AI to support coding without weakening human interpretive authority, contextual judgment, and the protection of participants' voices. This study examines how experienced qualitative…
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