Learning Journal Volume 16, Number 7 available

The seventh issue of Volume 16 of The International Journal of Learning has now been published.

Volume 16, Number 7 contains:

• Student Performance, Student Motivation and Project Work in the EFL Classroom: Is There a Link? by Eusebia Iris Muresan.
• Intellectual Capital Reporting in Schools: A Complexity-Scientific Approach to Educational Management by Andreas Liening and Ewald Mittelstaedt.
• Praxis: Teachers’ Dilemma to Choose the Right Action by Seema Arif.
• Mathematics Beliefs and Achievement among Engineering Technology Students by Siti Mistima Maat and Effandi Zakaria.
• Design of a Mini Experimental Curriculum to Help Greek Primary School Students Learn about Daily-Life Technologies by Athanassios Tassios and Christina Solomonidou.
• “Fresas” (Strawberries) and Other Latino Student Groups: The New Student Demographics in South Texas Schools by Maria Elena Reyes, Irma Guadarrama and Veronica Lopez-Estrada.
• Education in Today’s Diverse Society: A Sociological Approach by Barbara Sposet.
• Emotional Intelligence and Professional Education: The Use of Narrative Journaling by James Smith.
• Pluricultural de-englishisation: English as Lingua Franca (ELF) in Multilingual Global Context by Yew Lie Koo.

• Are We There Yet? Towards the Development of Inclusive Education in One District in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by Sithabile Ntombela.
• A Comparative Investigation of Student Teacher and Mentor Beliefs During Teaching Practice by Evdokia Karavas and Mary Drossou.
• Maternal Parenting Styles and Adolescents’ Socio-Academic Development by Anna Nirmala M Kulasingam and Roselan Baki.
• Effects of Different Types of Chinese Characters on the Ability of Character Recognition for Chinese Children by Yi-Chen Wu and S. Jay Samuels.
• Weblog: A Collaborative Tool for Learning Academic Reading by Izaham Shah Ismail.
• Undergraduate’s Quantitative Skills and Industrial Needs by Siti Aishah Sh. Abdullah.
• Information and Communication Technology for Interactive Learning Systems by Stoica Marian, Ghilic-Micu Bogdan and Rosca Gh. Ion.
• The X, Y and Z of Generations in Schools by Kenneth Young.
• The Nature of Interaction in English Language Classrooms by Francis Chisikwa Indoshi, John Bett and Florence Y. Odera.
• Utilization of Pedometers to Increase Student Engagement in a Distance Education Course in Canada by Bonnie Cummings-Vickaryous and June LeDrew.
• Linking University and High School Students: Exploring the Academic Value of Service Learning by Duncan MacLellan.
• Children as Art Critics: Mapping a Continuum of Aesthetic Learning in Visual Arts Education by Karen Maras.
• Early Literacy in Informal settings: Supporting Home Literacy Practices: Supporting Home Literacy Practices by Liam Morgan and Andrew Chodkiewicz.
• The Development of Teaching Practice: A Working Hypothesis Based on Cultural-Historical Psychology by Marc Clarà and Teresa Mauri.
• Is a Direct Approach to Student-level Engagement Factors the Crucial Missing Link in Science Education Reform? An International Perspective with New Zealand as a Case in Point by W. Marc Jackman and Michael A. R. Townsend.
• Towards a Biological Framework for Learning and Teaching by Geoff Woolcott.
• Teaching with “The Density Notebook”: Learning Outcomes about the Concepts of Mass, Volume and Density by Helen Stavridou and Stergios Grammenos.
• Quasi-Experimental Research into the Effects of an International Collaboration Project on Hong Kong Secondary School Students’ Learning Motivation by Patrick Hak-Chung Lam.
• Moral Rights and Authenticity in the Learning Process by Travis Huckell.
• Selecting and Training Graduate Teaching Assistants: Empowering Potential Colleagues in the Classroom by Pamela Lewis and Ryan Menefee.
• The Impact of Economic Disadvantage on Academic Achievement in Hawaii: A Multi-level Analysis by Shuqiang Zhang.
• Pre-Service Primary Teachers’ Science Teaching Efficacy Beliefs and Attitudes toward Science: The Effect of a Science Methods Course by Sule Bayraktar.
• Service Learning: Opportunities for Deep Learning in Fashion Design and Merchandising Education by Karen Videtic.
• Student Engagement in Online Language Learning: A Case Study Examining the Online Delivery of Tertiary Language Courses by Kayo Nakazawa.
• Cultivating the Librarian Within: Effectively Integrating Library Instruction into Freshman Composition by Jesse Ulmer and Nancy Fawley.
• The Problems of Applying Labels of Learning Style to National Cultures by Kevin Nield.
• Turkish Preservice and In-Service Teachers’ Beliefs about Inquiry by Mahsa Kazempour, Aidin Amirshokoohi and Huseyin Colak.
• Teaching Conversation through Films: A Comparison of Conversational Features and Collocations in the BNC and a Micro-Corpus of Movies by María Elena Rodríguez Martín and María Moreno Jaén.
• From Home to School: The Relationship Among Parental Involvement, Student Motivation, and Academic Achievement by Brittany Coleman and Mary Nell McNeese.
• Learning Experience through Diary Writing: A Case Study by Paulo Vieira Nogueira and Sara Canelhas.
• The HEPS Questionnaire as a Reliable Statistical Instrument for the Study of Health Education in Portuguese Early Childhood Education by Glicéria Gil and José Alves Diniz.
• Lifelong Learning: Looking at Triggers for Adult Learning by Kenneth Kungu and Krisanna Machtmes.
• Exploring Pre-Service Teachers’ Perceived Weaknesses during their School-Based Teaching Experience: School-Based Teaching Experience and Pre-Service Teachers’ Perceived Problems by Mine Dikdere.
• Teaching Biology or Teaching to the Test? How High Stakes Standardized Tests Impact the Biology Classroom by Sharon Macpherson.
• Classroom Strategies for Students with Mental Health Problems by Beverly A. Doyle and Lynne E. Houtz.
• The State of Art of the Adult Education System in Finland: Basic Mathematics and Students’ Experiences by Laia Saló i Nevado, Aino Hannula and Marja-Liisa Hassi.
• Multiple Intelligences in Japanese Language Learning by Wei Hui Suan and Tajularipin Sulaiman.
• Training People with Disabilities in the Use of IT: A Community Case by Silvia Berenice Fajardo-Flores and Juan Contreras-Castillo.
• Evaluation of Teaching and Learning Mathematics with Online Activities by Raúl Díaz Len, Ascensión Hernández Encinas, Jesús Martín Vaquero, Araceli Queiruga Dios and Isabel Visus Ruiz.
• Developing Effective Professional Development by Angela Tohill.
• Enhancing Student Immersion in Negotiation-based Learning Environments by Simon Usherwood.
• Turn On, Tune In, and Listen by Kantatip Sinhaneti.
• A Workshop Model for the Teaching of Civic Efficacy by Joe Lubig.
• Family Structure and the Educational Outcomes of British Children: Some Preliminary Evidence by Yuxin Li and Karen A. Mumford.
• Extravagant Joy: Digital Libraries, the Illusion of Abundance and the Fragmentation of Learning by Mark Woodhouse.
• The Modification and Adaptation of Montessori Education in Japan by Kimiko Kai.