Student dropout continues to pose one of the biggest challenges to learning and participation in higher education. This study discusses the ways in which self-regulatory assessment and feedback pedagogies can help to enhance student retention and minimise dropout in tertiary inst...
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Research Article10.9734/ajess/2026/v52i93328
Background: Sustained antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence during pregnancy is important for maternal health and prevention of vertical HIV transmission. This study examined ART adherence and its socio-economic, geographic, and health-system correlates among HIV-positive pregna...
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Research Article10.9734/ajess/2026/v52i93322
Background & Purpose: The successful enactment of Kenya’s Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) heavily depends on teacher readiness. This study evaluated teacher preparedness for CBC implementation in Junior Schools across the Upper Eastern Region of Kenya, through a comparative...
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Research Article10.9734/ajess/2026/v52i93323
The persistent difficulties experienced by LGCSE learners in developing effective Sesotho writing skills indicate a need to strengthen writing instruction in Lesotho secondary schools. This study explored teaching strategies used to improve LGCSE learners’ Sesotho writing skills....
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Research Article10.9734/ajess/2026/v52i93324
Suicidal ideation among undergraduate students is an important mental-health concern that may be associated with academic, psychological, interpersonal, and social difficulties. This study examined the prevalence of suicidal ideation among undergraduate students, assessed differe...
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Research Article10.9734/ajess/2026/v52i93321
This study examined how teachers and school leaders in schools under Thimphu Thromde, Bhutan, perceived the Royal Civil Service Commission's (RCSC) Leadership Feedback System (LFS), and how these perceptions were associated with perceived instructional leadership effectiveness an...
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Research Article10.9734/ajess/2026/v52i93320
This study examined whether teaching workload and perceived organisational support predict teacher turnover intention among early childhood teachers in public elementary schools. A predictive research design was employed with 128 Kindergarten to Grade 3 teachers from 13 public el...
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Research Article10.9734/ajess/2026/v52i93318
Museum public signs mediate historical and cultural information for linguistically diverse audiences, and their translation requires both source-text accuracy and target-language accessibility. This qualitative case study applies Li Changshuan’s Comprehension-Expression-Adaptatio...
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Research Article10.9734/ajess/2026/v52i93319
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how teaching-learning materials are designed, adapted, delivered and evaluated in school education. Earlier AI-supported materials relied mainly on constrained intelligent tutoring, adaptive practice and automated feedback, whereas contem...
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Research Article10.9734/ajess/2026/v52i93314
Background: Research capability-building requires a needs-based understanding of the areas in which education personnel require technical support. Aims: To assess the research technical assistance needs of education personnel in the Schools Division of Zamboanga del Sur as a basi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajess/2026/v52i93315
Academic accessibility is important for ensuring equitable participation in secondary education, yet students may encounter institutional, socioeconomic, instructional, and resource-related barriers. This study examined common barriers to academic accessibility for students as pe...
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Research Article10.9734/ajess/2026/v52i93316
Hands-on STEM resources are increasingly used to connect abstract scientific and mathematical ideas with observable and manipulable learning experiences, yet classroom evidence from Grade 9 students in the Indian context remains limited. This study evaluated a curriculum-aligned...
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Research Article10.9734/ajess/2026/v52i93317
Aims: This study explored, described, and interpreted the lived experiences of early-career teachers with one to five years of teaching experience in a private basic education institution, focusing on the personal, professional, and organisational factors influencing their decisi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajess/2026/v52i93309
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has unsettled a central premise of higher-education assessment: that the quality of a submitted artefact is a sufficiently trustworthy proxy for the competence of the named student. This problem is acute in engineering, where text, code,...
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Research Article10.9734/ajess/2026/v52i93311
Low academic performance in Samtse Dzongkhag may reflect interconnected challenges related to teachers, resources, parental engagement, learner characteristics, and language. This cross-sectional descriptive-correlational survey examined teachers’ perceptions of factors associate...
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Research Article10.9734/ajess/2026/v52i93312