Science AI Journal
Social Sciences · Research topic

Open research questions in Educational Practices and Challenges

44 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,354 Educational Practices and Challenges papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • The lack of qualified teaching staff in Uzbekistan's education system. The need for contextual and cultural adaptation of Lesson Study. The challenge of improving lesson quality and student participation.

    The Republic of Uzbekistan Challenges to improve of Lesson Quality by Lesson Study · 2026 · DOI

  • The risk of education becoming exclusive to upper grades in future education systems. The need for teachers, parents, and schools to adapt to the changing needs of students.

    Pre-service Teachers’ Perceptions of Future Education · 2026 · DOI

  • Systemic and psychological pressures influence teachers' pedagogical beliefs and practices. The 'rhetoric-reality gap' between reform goals and classroom practice is a significant challenge to IBL implementation. Teachers face challenges in transitioning from teacher-centered to interactive teaching styles.

    Autonomy, Agency, and Anxiety: A Qualitative Survey Study of Moroccan EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of Inquiry-Based Learning<!--a=1--> · 2026 · DOI

  • Unclear assessment criteria. Differing expectations between parents and teachers. Insufficient consideration of support measures.

    CONFLICTS BETWEEN TEACHERS AND PARENTS IN INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN CASES OF GRADING PROBLEMS: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES, LEGAL SUPPORT AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS · 2026 · DOI

  • The gap between the rules governing interaction in classroom lessons and in community and home events. The lack of understanding of how to achieve cultural congruence in classroom participation structures.

    Cultural congruence in classroom participation structures: Achieving a balance of rights∗ · 1983 · DOI

  • The traditional research methods are limited in their ability to inform practice in schools. The 'primary' and 'secondary' traditions in education have distinct pedagogical styles and assumptions.

    Evaluating Practice: Pupils' Views of Transfer from the Primary to the Secondary School · 1983 · DOI

  • Basic Books. Willis, P. 'The Main Reality' Final Report of an SSRC Project The Transition from School to Work, University of Birming ham. (1980) From Primary School (1972) Education

    Evaluating Practice: Pupils' Views of Transfer from the Primary to the Secondary School · 1983 · DOI

  • For the students, tests were a distinct activity in their lives in the school whose importance was limited to acquiring stars and tokens or moving up in grade levels with their classmates and were not understood as a measure of individual self-worth.

    Between Games and Failure: A Micro-Ethnographic Study of Navajo Students and Testing · 1983 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of the medical education system in Namangan region in the early 1950s. The study highlights the need for further research on the ideological and educational aspects of medical training.

    The Issue of Training Medical Personnel in Namangan at the End of the 19th Century · 2026 · DOI

  • the field remains dependent on intuition and localized insight - limiting its capacity to articulate shared standards of excellence or to support improvement across settings

    Book Review: Jonathan B. Krasner, Jon A. Levisohn, and Sharon Avni, Eds.: Teaching and Learning in Jewish Day Schools · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a lack of research on the adaptation of Lesson Study in Uzbekistan's education system. The study addresses the gap by exploring the effectiveness of Lesson Study in Uzbekistan schools.

    The Republic of Uzbekistan Challenges to improve of Lesson Quality by Lesson Study · 2026 · DOI

  • The study does not provide a comprehensive analysis of the challenges faced by teachers in implementing differentiated instruction. The study does not discuss the scalability of the differentiated instruction management model. The study is limited to a single primary school context.

    Differentiated Instruction Management for Enhancing Student Well-Being in Unggulan Aisyiyah Bantul Primary School · 2026 · DOI

  • Future studies can investigate the effectiveness of the contextual management model in different school contexts. Future research can explore the challenges faced by teachers in implementing differentiated instruction. Future studies can examine the scalability of the differentiated instruction management model.

    Differentiated Instruction Management for Enhancing Student Well-Being in Unggulan Aisyiyah Bantul Primary School · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a need to understand pre-service teachers' perceptions of the future of education. The study aims to fill this gap by revealing the perceptions of pre-service teachers on the future of education.

    Pre-service Teachers’ Perceptions of Future Education · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a lack of standardized instruments to assess children's learning habits from teachers' perspectives. Existing measures often focus on children's self-reports or parental evaluations, while instruments capturing teachers' practices and perceptions remain scarce.

    Teachers’ practices in supporting the learning habits of first graders in Hungary · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a lack of qualitative data on the challenges teachers face when implementing IBL in Moroccan EFL classrooms. The existing literature provides little insight into the 'rhetoric-reality gap' between reform goals and classroom practice.

    Autonomy, Agency, and Anxiety: A Qualitative Survey Study of Moroccan EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of Inquiry-Based Learning<!--a=1--> · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a need for explicit instruction on stress-reducing strategies in special education teacher preparation programs. Special education teacher candidates often experience high levels of stress, leading to burnout and attrition.

    Using Contemplative Practices with Teacher Candidates to Decrease Stress and Increase Flourishing · 2026 · DOI

  • ZP schools face numerous challenges, including multilingual infrastructure and socio-economic barriers

    Primary Education in Zilla Parishad Schools of Gadchiroli District: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies for Quality Improvement. · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a need to clarify assessment criteria and communication in inclusive education. There is a need to formulate possibilities for prevention and resolution of conflicts between teachers and parents.

    CONFLICTS BETWEEN TEACHERS AND PARENTS IN INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN CASES OF GRADING PROBLEMS: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES, LEGAL SUPPORT AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS · 2026 · DOI

  • With limited studies that focus on middle childhood education and free play, this study aimed to determine the knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) related to free play of 120 early grade schoolteachers in private and public schools of Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines.

    Comparative Analysis of the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of First to Third Grade Teachers of Private and Public Schools Toward Free Play · 2021 · DOI

  • This paper concludes with the observation that code switching alone is insufficient to achieve a successful transition of MOI if the deeper issue of teachers’ beliefs is neglected.

    Teachers’ misconceptions and questionable practices when using Putonghua as the medium-of-instruction: a case study of Hong Kong · 2012 · DOI

  • DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS We are cautious in interpreting the results of the experiment realizing that one experiment does not confirm our hypotheses, but merely provides limited evidence on their behalf, but we the experimental group will reemphasize that students in performed significantly better on two examinations than students in the control group, controlling for possible inter vening variables.

    Individualized Instruction in an Introductory Government Course · 1975 · DOI

  • The research started from the general assumption that content about Roma in classroom teaching significantly contributes to the development of democratic culture of students but that it is insufficiently represented in the content of classroom teaching.

    Development of Democratic Culture through Contents about the Roma in Classroom Teaching – Students’ Perception · 2025 · DOI

  • Results showed that the term “bicultural curriculum” was not well understood, and there was confusion over whether Te Tiriti o Waitangi or the Treaty of Waitangi forms the basis of the bicultural curriculum.

    Early childhood education student teachers’ perceptions of implementing a bicultural curriculum · 2024 · DOI

  • The strategy generates diverse competences and its disadvantages are scarce, concluding that cooperative learning is a structure of actions, values, and skills, in which teachers and students perform particular tasks that allow them to work together, to generate significant learning.

    El rol del docente en el aprendizaje cooperativo: Caso plantel “Lic. Adolfo López Mateos” de la Escuela Preparatoria de la UAEMex · 2019

Most-cited papers in Educational Practices and Challenges

Most recent work

Find a gap in your own Educational Practices and Challenges sub-topic

This page shows what the Educational Practices and Challenges literature already flags as unresolved. To narrow it to your specific question, run the guided finder — it searches the gap library on demand and checks candidates against 250M+ OpenAlex works.

Open the Research Gap Finder →

Related topics in Social Sciences

Legal Issues in Turkey
2,444 open questions
Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
1,223 open questions
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
1,013 open questions
Online and Blended Learning
923 open questions
Science Education and Pedagogy
908 open questions
Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
866 open questions
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
778 open questions
Writing and Handwriting Education
761 open questions
44 open questions have been extracted from the limitations and future-work passages of 1,354 Educational Practices and Challenges papers in our library. Each one below links back to the study that raised it, so you can read the original claim in context.

Tools for your next paper

Gaps & Literature SearchFind open questions in any field — 120,000+ open gaps mined from our own library.Pre-CheckIs your paper ready? A Tier 1–5 acceptance probability in seconds.Journal FinderA ranked shortlist of target journals from a 17,500-venue index.Duplicate Publication CheckerCheck prior-publication & salami-slicing risk across 8 sources.Citation GeneratorFreeA DOI or title → APA, MLA, Vancouver, Chicago, BibTeX, RIS. No signup.Graphical Abstract MakerFreeTurn your findings into a colorblind-safe graphical abstract.

Compare the category — Honest roundups of the AI research tools, ours listed alongside the alternatives.

Command palette

Jump anywhere, run any action.