Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Investigating the effects of professional learning communities on teacher commitment in China

ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of professional learning communities (PLCs) on teacher commitment in China. A total of 1020 teachers in Shanghai participated in a survey. The results show the organisational characteristics of PLCs which comprise supportive leadership, organisational structure and cultural barriers, had significant and positive effects on the individual characteristics of PLCs, i.e., collaborative inquiry and sharing and shared purpose and responsibility, which further significantly and positively predicted teacher commitment. The study concludes with some implications for the improvement of teacher commitment.
Peran Brand Image Dalam Memediasi Pengaruh Electronic Word of Mouth Terhadap Purchase Intention

nPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh hubungan electronic word of mouth terhadap purchase intention Smartphone Samsung dengan brand image sebagai variabel mediasi. Penelitian ini dilakukan di Kota Denpasar. Jumlah sampel yang diambil sebanyak 104 responden dengan menggunakan metode non–probability sampling. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan menggunakan kuesioner. Teknik analisis yang digunakan adalah teknik analisis jalur (path analysis). Berdasarkan hasil analisis ditemukan bahwa electronic word of mouth berpengaruh signifikan terhadap brand image. Electronic word of mouth berpengaruh signifikan terhadap purchase intention. Brand image berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap purchase intention. Peran brand image sebagai variabel pemediasi turut mempengaruhi dan menentukan efektivitas pengaruh dari electronic word of mouth terhadap purchase intention.
Subordination and Legitimation of Self-Publishing: Shifting the Basis for Evaluation of Cultural Goods

A do-it-yourself culture and amateur production are significant features of creative industries. Self-publishing is an eloquent expression of these features. Self-publishers invest in and make decisions to publish their creative goods without the involvement of an established and external production company or publishing house. In creative industries, claims are made about the inferior quality of self-published works, creating a stigma for self-publishing. This article investigates the ways in which aspiring writers who are considering self-publishing, handle the tension between their aspiration to publish a book and the possible stigma of self-publishing. The study draws on an analysis of interviews with 59 writers who are considering self-publishing as an option or who have self-published a book. The aspiring writers are aware of the subordinate status of such publications and while some avoid self-publishing, others seek ways to establish and legitimise the quality of their work to avoid the stigma. Legitimisation is produced through the perception of a transitioning author role and by shifting the basis of evaluation of publishability to the consumer side in creative industries, to non-professional judgement, and to the experience of being published. The outcome of the decision to self-publish, and the underpinning culture for making such assessments, has consequences for how books and other cultural goods are currently produced and the type of cultural goods that reach consumers. The assessment of self-publishing as an option among writers exposes tensions and transformations in the evaluation of cultural goods in contemporary creative industries.
Percepciones de futuros docentes sobre el uso de tecnología en educación inicial

El propósito de este artículo es dar a conocer la percepción de futuros educadores sobre la necesidad, uso e importancia de implementación y la formación requerida para una práctica pedagógica que incluya las herramientas tecnológicas como mediaciones didácticas. La investigación se realizó bajo un enfoque cualitativo con alcance descriptivo y diseño transeccional que incluye recolección de datos cuantitativos. Los instrumentos de recolección de información fueron un cuestionario y grupos focales. La población se conformó por 175 estudiantes de licenciatura en educación inicial, con un muestreo aleatorio estratificado de 100 estudiantes. El principal hallazgo indica que aunque los estudiantes encuestados pertenecen a la generación millenial y son nativos digitales, al reflexionar sobre su práctica profesional no ven un uso potencial de la tecnología como herramienta didáctica, lo que puede considerarse como un obstáculo para la enseñanza.
KINDS OF QUESTIONS MAKING EFL STUDENTS LEARN: STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION

Interactions in the classroom play an important role because learning occurs in the interactions between more knowledgeable person and less knowledgeable person. Interactions in the EFL classroom can be seen as a dialogic activity in which the lecturer raises questions to the students. This study attempted to uncover the types of questions which can make students learn. The participants of the study were the lecturer and students of Language Learning Assessment course. The data of this study were the students’ perceptions on what kinds of questions make them learn and lecturer’s verbal questions. The results of the study show that there are four kinds of questions raised by the lecturer, namely analogy, optional, convergent and divergent questions. From those kinds of questions, divergent questions can make students learn because those questions drive students to have a discussion in which students can interact each other.
PENGARUH PERCEIVED USEFULNESS, PERCEIVED EASE OF USE, STRUCTURAL ASSURANCE, DAN SOCIAL INFLUENCE TERHADAP INTENTION TO REUSE DIMEDIASI OLEH TRUST (Studi pada Pengguna Aplikasi OVO di Kediri Town Square)

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, structural assurance, dan social influence terhadap intention to reuse aplikasi OVO, pengaruh yang ingin diketahui adalah pengaruh langsung maupun tidak langsung melalui variabel mediasi yaitu trust. Jenis penelitian ini adalah explanatory research yang menjelaskan hubungan kausal antara variabel-variabel melalui pengujian hipotesis. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah pengguna aplikasi OVO di Kediri Town Square, Kota Kediri. Sampel yang digunakan sejumlah 210 sampel yang diperoleh melalui teknik purposive sampling dengan karakteristik responden yang memiliki aplikasi OVO pada smartphone dan secara aktif menggunakannya dalam bertransaksi keuangan. Instrumen pengumpulan data menggunakan kuisioner dengan skala likert yang selanjutnya data diuji menggunakan Partial Least Square (PLS) melalui aplikasi SmartPLS3.0. Dari hasil pengujian data diketahui bahwa perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, dan structural assurance memiliki pengaruh secara positif dan signifikan terhadap Trust yang selanjutnya Trust memiliki pengaruh terhadap intention to reuse aplikasi OVO, sedangkan social influence hanya memiliki pengaruh terhadap intention to reuse aplikasi OVO dan lemah dalam mempengaruhi trust. Trust terbukti mampu memediasi pengaruh secara tidak langsung perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, dan structural assurance terhadap Intention to Reuse secara parsial. Kata kunci : perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, structural assurance, social influence, trust, intention to reuse
TRAINING, EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM MAKERERE UNIVERSITY, KAMPALA, UGANDA

The purpose of this study was to investigate the contribution of training and employee engagement on employee performance using evidence from Uganda’s health sector. This study is cross sectional and correlational. Usable questionnaires were received from 150 respondents from four Catholic founded hospitals that is Kamuli Mission Hospital, Buluba Mission Hospital, St. Benedict Mission Hospital and Budini Mission Hospital. Data were analyzed using SPSS. Regression analysis results indicate that training and employee engagement significantly predict employee performance by 44.7% and employee engagement was found to be a major predictor of employee performance as compared to training. Correlation analysis results indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between training and employee performance. Correlation analysis results further indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between employee engagement and employee performance. A partial mediation effect of employee engagement in the relationship between training and employee performance was also established. This research is important to managers, policy makers and Government in improving employee performance in the health sector. Given that this study was cross sectional, monitoring changes in behavior could not be possible. To the researchers’ knowledge, this is the first study to establish the contribution of training and employee engagement on employee performance and at the same time provide initial empirical evidence on the mediation effect of employee engagement in the relationship between training and employee performance using evidence from Uganda’s health sector.
How Does The Attitude Moderate The Effect of Education, Campus Reputation and Education Facilities on The Intention of Choosing The University

This study examines the effect of educational facilities, campus reputation and costs on intentions that is mediated by attitude. The sample consisted of 100 respondents, namely high school / vocational high school students in the city of Yogyakarta who had the intention to study at AMIKOM Yogyakarta,the sample techniques used Convenience sampling. Data collection is done through surveys by giving questionnaires directly to the sample. Furthermore, the collected data was analyzed by structural equation method (SEM). The results indicate that educational facilities, campus reputation and costs have a significant and positive influence on attitudesas well as the intention of students to study at Universitas AMIKOM Yogyakarta campus. Attitudes significantly and positively affect the intention of students to choose Universitas AMIKOM Yogyakarta campus.
Comparison of students’ evaluation of online courses versus face-to-face format.

The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a comparative study of the perceived differences between two similar courses (Accounting Principles I) offered in higher education, one offered online and the other with face to face teaching and learning. The internet has proven to be an effective tool in e-learning. At the same time, many courses are offered in the traditional synchronous way where the teaching and learning mainly takes place in the classroom. This study was conducted at a university in the USA amongst 25 students enrolled in an online accounting course and 35 students who studied the same course in a face-to-face format. The qualitative and quantitative data are based on the students’ course evaluation forms of the instructor’s teaching and overall satisfaction with the course. The findings suggest that the students found the asynchronous online teaching and learning interesting, however they expressed their concern on the difference in the communication style with the instructor. Many students nevertheless, suggest that learning and teaching in the classroom is equally effective in their learning.
Place-based education from three perspectives

Abstract This article examines the perception of the Czech place-based education program School for Sustainable Development from the perspectives of the participating students, teachers, and representatives of the local municipalities. The study is based on an analysis of paired or group interviews with 47 students, 7 teachers, and 6 representatives. The findings show that while the teachers perceived the process of the students’ involvement in planning and conducting a community-based project as highly participative, the students’ opportunities to shape the process through making their own decisions were rather limited and the teachers kept control over important parts of the process to themselves. While the cooperation of the schools with their respective municipalities was appreciated by most of the respondents, several barriers have been identified. Participation in the project has likely increased the teachers’ self-effectiveness, developed the students’ interpersonal competence, and improved the atmosphere at the schools involved. Abbreviations: PBE: place-based education; ENEC: European Network for Environmental Citizenship; STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; SSD: The School for Sustainable Development.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANXIETY IN OUT-OF-CLASS PERFORMANCE.IDENTIFYING LANGUAGE-ANXIETY SOURCES, ITS EFFECTS, AND COPING STRATEGIES

Language researchers have long been aware that anxiety can be associated with the language learning process and negatively correlate with academic achievement, motivation and successful oral performance. Foreign language anxiety was first defined as a negative feeling associated with a language classroom and resulting from a fear of negative evaluation, tests and communication apprehension (Horwitz and Young, 1991). Some learners also reported that they experienced language anxiety in out-of-class oral performance, that it negatively affected their feeling of competence, and beliefs about their successful language acquisition, and also triggered physiological and cognitive responses. The research aimed at identifying sources of language anxiety and its manifestations in adult EFL learners in out-of-class settings, and a set of six strategies was proposed to help learners mitigate the feeling of foreign language anxiety.
Weekend Islamic schools in Europe: Challenges and means of development

Many educational centers for instructing Muslim children in the principles of Islam and the Arabic language have been established in Europe. These centers are called weekend schools; students attend these schools on the weekend to learn the Holy Qur’an in addition to Arabic language skills. The current study aimed to examine the nature of these schools and their instructional focuses. The study used a qualitative method for data collection and conducted interviews based on semi-open questions. A total of 26 participants were interviewed during the Annual Conference of the Islamic Organization Union in France in 2012. The results indicate that there is no detailed database that shows the total number or overall percentage of Muslim students who attend weekend schools in Europe. The results also show that the rate of enrollment is increasing. The results of the study confirm that most of the students are primary school students who attend these schools for only 3 to 4 hours every week. The findings show that these weekend schools face several challenges. The most important of these challenges are the weak qualifications of the teachers, inadequate curriculum, an inconvenient instructional environment, and other challenges that will be covered in this research. The researcher argues that the efforts exerted by mosques and Islamic centers to maintain the identity represented in the supplementary schools and classes called weekend schools are insufficient due to the numerous challenges that these schools are facing.
Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries in Haryana : An Epidemiological Study

Research question: What are the preventable risk factors in traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI)? Objectives: 1. To study the risk factors in traumatic spinal cord injuries. 2. To identify preventable risk factors. Study design: Prospective study. Setting: Accident and emergency services and department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation of Pt. B.D. Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak. Participants: New traumatic SCI patients. Study variables: Age, sex, mode of injury, SCI level, seasonal variation, associated trauma, duration of hospital stay, socio-economic status. Results: Four hundred and eighty three new traumatic SCI cases reported in 2000-2001. Male to female ratio was 2.96:1 and the average age at injury was 35.4 years. Fall from height was most common cause of trauma (44.5%), followed by motor vehicle accidents (34.7%). One hundred and sixty four patients were tetraplegics and 283 patients were paraplegics, while 36 patients had no neurological deficit. Most common level of injury was first lumbar vertebra among paraplegics and fifth cervical vertebra among tetraplegics. There was increase in incidence of SCI during summer and rainy season. Average hospital stay was 39.5 days. Conclusions: Certain preventable risk factors in traumatic SCI (falls, vehicular accidents, improper pre hospital care and improper transportation) need to be addressed in order to reduce the frequency and morbidity of SCI, burden on meagre financial and health resources.
Putting play in its place: presenting a continuum to decrease mental health referrals and increase purposeful play in classrooms

ABSTRACT Recent shifts in elementary instruction over the past few decades have resulted in less play-based engagement in schools. Simultaneously, children are being referred for counseling or mental health services at startling rate. As members of elementary school leadership teams, counselors are often in a unique position to advocate for the best interests of children's overall well-being and to support school faculty in best meeting their needs. This article presents a Continuum of Play inclusive of play-based mental health services for children and instructional play approaches facilitated by classroom teachers. This continuum is intended to be a tool for school counselors to aid teachers in deciphering appropriate levels of developmentally appropriate, play-based classroom interventions with children who may present with academic or behavioral challenges before recommending a clinical therapeutic approach. We believe when children have more opportunities to engage in age-appropriate playful learning, the need for mental health supports may decrease.
Getting Off the List: Leadership, Learning, and Context in Two Rural, High-Needs Schools

In this article, we report findings from two cases of rural, high-needs elementary schools in the Southeastern United States that successfully improved learning outcomes for their students. As illustrated by our findings, a combination of effective teacher professional development, focused student learning initiatives, and enhanced community and family involvement contributed to the removal of the schools from priority and below average designations. In addition to illustrating the leadership practices that positively influenced improvement efforts in these two schools, and expanding the nascent body of scholarship on context-responsive leadership, our findings serve as a starting point for a larger project centered on the nexus of school leader agency in increasingly diverse cultural contexts.
Determinants of firm’s value: Evidence from financial industry

Article history: Received: June 14 2019 Received in revised format: July 25 2019 Accepted: August 5, 2019 Available online: August 5, 2019 The purpose of this study was to estimate and analyze the effect of dividend policy, profitability, firm size, leverage, and growth on firm value in financial sector listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2013 to 2017. A quantitative method is used for this research with 21 companies as research object, measured by purposive sampling techniques. The data analysis method used is panel data regression. The results show that firm size, leverage, and growth did not have any significant effect on firm value in financial sector companies in the period 2013-2017. However, dividend policy and profitability proved to have significant positive effects on firm value in financial sector companies for the period 2013-2017. Simultaneous results also show that dividend policy, profitability, firm size, leverage and growth had some effects on firm value. © 2020 by the authors; licensee Growing Science, Canada
Relationship between musical and language abilities in post-stroke aphasia

ABSTRACT Background The relationship between structural processing in music and language can be viewed from two perspectives: whether the neural processing of music and language recruits shared neural resources, and whether musical ability is associated with neuroplastic resilience against language impairment. Aims This study investigated music and language processing in persons who developed aphasia (PWA) following left-hemisphere stroke, and asked three questions: (1) whether musical structure processing is compromised in PWA, (2) whether there is a relationship between the processing of musical and linguistic structure, and (3) if prior musical ability is associated with post-stroke music and language task performance. Methods & Procedures Procedures included four computer-based tasks of sensitivity to structure in music and language, testing of general language impairment, and questionnaires on musical sophistication in 23 PWA. Outcomes & Results This study found that PWA’s processing of musical structure was unimpaired relative to neurotypical controls. This was also the case for individuals with agrammatic aphasia, who have a specific deficit in syntactic formulation. Second, music and language structural processing performance was not correlated in the healthy or aphasic group. Third, in PWA, prior musical ability correlated positively with implicit structural processing of music and language, and negatively with aphasia severity. The relationship between musical ability (years of music lessons) and aphasia severity was stronger when combined with an additional group of 15 PWA. Conclusions These findings suggest that while structural processing of music and language is dissociated in neurotypical individuals and in those with left-hemisphere damage, there may be a potential for neuroplastic effects of musical training on language impairment.
Mediation role of job satisfaction towards effect of conflict roles on organizational commitment

The current study aimed at analyzing as well as determining job satisfaction on organizational commitment in non-medical employees at Indonesia private hospitals. It examined the influence of role conflict on organizational commitment. The population in this study were all non-medical employees of Private Hospitals in Mataram City- Indonesia. The total samples were 118 employees. The researchers, in collecting data, applied techniques of questionnaires, documentation, and interviews. After that, the data were analyzed using 3.0 Partial Least Square (PLS) program. The results of this study have indicated that the role of conflict has got a negative and significant effect on organizational commitment. It has also got a negative and significant effect on job satisfaction. Furthermore, job satisfaction has got a positive and significant effect on organizational commitment. The role conflict itself, through job satisfaction mediation, has got a negative and significant effect on organizational commitment.
The impacts of gender on seasonal retirement mobility and wellbeing

Abstract With the increase in personal mobility and improvements in living standards, seasonal mobility for health reasons is a well-observed phenomenon among retired people worldwide. Existing studies have shown that there are relationships between seasonal retirement mobility and wellbeing, and this study attempts to explore the effects of gender on these relationships. The framework of therapeutic mobility, which includes daily activities, sociality and context, was used to analyse this relationship. Qualitative methods including semi-structured interviews, non-participatory observation and mobile ethnography were used to collect data. This study finds that female seasonal senior migrants in Sanya have more abundant and meaningful daily activities and receive more emotional supports, and as a result, gain more benefits than males, and that these differences are related to their gender roles. Furthermore, while gender itself cannot explain all the differences, it works within the intersection of economic condition, age and family support. This study has enriched the literature on therapeutic mobility and has practical implications.