Online learning has been experienced more acutely and affectively by students during COVID-19. Age, program type, and online learning environment were found to significantly and uniquely contribute to students' satisfaction through a hierarchical regression analysis. These results shed light on counselor training, particularly in the context of…

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically altered K-12 teaching and learning and is likely to affect the students' and teachers' futures. This is true for both general and special education. Lingering, long-term issues will affect teachers and students at all levels of education. However, 'silver linings' of the pandemic might nudge education into better…

Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty at higher education institutions across the world quickly converted courses to an online format. With that swift switch, a major challenge experienced by many students has been the loss of motivation, due primarily to the social isolation experienced during the pandemic. This study examined…

Public health and social measures (PHSM) have been central to the COVID-19 response. Consequently, there has been much pressure on decision-makers to make evidence-informed decisions and on researchers to synthesize the evidence regarding these measures. This article describes our experiences, responses and lessons learnt regarding key challenges…

As part of a design-based research effort into disrupting the spread of COVID-19 misinformation, we have iteratively designed, developed, and evaluated a learning intervention intended for public audiences. In this paper we describe the design principles we created to guide our applied research into education on the topic of online misinformation.…

Education for sustainable development (ESD) has become a focus of international education attention, for its multidisciplinary character and for the interest in caring for the environment due to their degradation and environmental impact. This study compared two tests, one was conducted before confinement on 325 participants with 3545 responses,…

A major aim of psychology education is to train students in psychological literacy -- the ability to apply psychological knowledge to everyday activities. In this paper we explore how well this has been achieved in recent years. As a result of COVID-19 the focus of teaching in recent months has inevitably been on developing online methods of…

Early engagement research focused on the traditional face-to-face classroom experience but has expanded over the past decade to encompass blended e-learning systems (BELS), which include asynchronous and synchronous online courses. However, limited research is available regarding student engagement in HyFlex, a BELS environment where students…

Facial first impressions are known to influence how we behave towards others. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we often view incomplete faces due to the commonplace wearing of face masks. Previous research has shown that perceptions of attractiveness are often increased due to these coverings, with initial evidence suggesting that this may be…

Transfer students are an increasingly important piece of the college athletics puzzle; however, little is known about the athletic identity of this important population and the effects of COVID on their commitment to sport. The purpose of this study was to measure and compare the athletic identity levels of NCAA student-athletes who transferred to…

This hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions provides on an update on progress toward safely getting back to work and back to school after COVID-19. Opening statements were presented by: (1) Honorable Lamar Alexander, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; and (2) Honorable Patty Murray, Ranking Member, a…

The focus of this research was to look into the information security awareness of Chinese university students during the COVID-19 pandemic and make recommendations based on the survey's findings and research literature. The quantitative method is applied in this study. 111 Chinese college students were randomly sampled and requested to answer a…

Service-learning is an experiential pedagogy that combines community service opportunities with academic content and critical reflection. When higher education rapidly shifted to online learning because of the COVID-19 pandemic, educators, community partners, and students had to reimagine how to implement the community component of this pedagogy.…

Education has been one of the areas most affected by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic since December 2019. This bibliometric review presents "the big picture" of the knowledge production on educational research conducted between January 1, 2020, and October 31, 2021. For this purpose, the current status of the related knowledge…

The government's policy of helping pupils and students 'catch up' with 'lost learning' misconceives learning, and endorses pedagogical approaches based on this misconception. Whether or not to learn lies with the learner, so teaching is more properly understood as an act of faith in people rather than of delivery to them. Such a view has…