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The growing internationalisation of higher education is closely intertwined with English-medium instruction (EMI), that is, non-philological study programmes conducted in English in non-English-speaking countries. Although EMI is attributed numerous strengths, such as advancement of English language skills, a matter of concern is the sufficiency of students’ English language proficiency for fruitful engagement in EMI. This …

Expectancy value approaches in motivation research suggest that learners will engage in an activity if they expect to succeed in it. Attribution theory suggests that attributions, or perceived causes of learner outcomes, can influence the development of expectancy beliefs of future academic success among learners. Causal attributions, or the reasons to which individuals subjectively attribute …

Social competence is an important outcome of education for sustainable development since the process of social learning contributes to real change. Sustainable development refers to development processes combining economic and social well-being and efficiency with environmental resilience and health, both here, now, elsewhere, and in the future. Aim of the research was to examine students’ …

Near the end of the winter semester of the school year 2018/2019 the attitudes of students of graduate studies at Faculty of Science (PMF), edu-cational studies at Faculty of Science, Department of Physics (PMF-F) and Faculty of Education (UF), Čakovec Department (N=151) were analysed, re-garding the core values of the National Curriculum Framework (NOK) and …

Based on unpublished archive material and recent literature, the author has investigated the founding and operation of the Croatian Cultural Society Napredak from Sarajevo in Split. Starting in 1922, when the Split branch was founded, and despite the political pressures in monarchial Yugoslavia, many of its program goals were achieved. In its twelve-year existence (1928 …

The quality of life and work in institutions is governed greatly by the quality of the organizational climate which is closely related to the behaviours of all engaged individuals and the learning outcomes. It reflects the individuals’ socio-emotional, ethical and academic experiences and includes a large number of factors: spatial and time context, security, teaching …

Laptops, ultra notebooks, tablets, smartphones have gained lots of confidence among students. The popularity of social networking websites, particularly Facebook, has become an imperative for today’s generations. However, becoming a user and remaining as such within the security framework while knowing how to protect oneself from possible negative effects, is not a priority for most …

The aim of this research was to establish the degree of mathematical knowledge among first-year students of the Faculty of primary education and to show the role of language of mathematics in mathematics lectures. The sample consisted of 205 first-year students of the Faculty of primary education. Results of this research show that mathematical knowledge …

The aim of this research was to get an insight into the judgements of students of junior (N = 49) and senior (N = 59) years of Teacher Training College at the ‘’Juraj Dobrila’’ University in Pula on the availability, hazards and reasons for opiates abuse in their study environment. The intention was to recognize …

The center for quality assurance of the University of Split organized an online survey in which teachers from all university constituents shared their experiences with student evaluations of teacher effectiveness. Within this survey, the teachers responded to three types of questions: about students, teacher and teaching quality. Out of the 1,833 teachers employed at the …