Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Virtual worlds for collaborative learning: Arab EFL learners' attitudes toward Second Life

In the Arab world, there is a lack of research investigating the use of virtual games to support learning English as a foreign language (EFL). The aim of this study was to examine EFL learners' attitudes towards the integration of the Second Life virtual game as a collaborative instructional tool. A descriptive inquiry method was followed, and data gathered using a questionnaire that had been tested for validity and reliability. Forty-one undergraduates, enrolled in two computer-assisted language learning classes, at a school of education represent the study sample. Findings indicated that the majority were in favor of using virtual worlds as collaborative learning contexts. Recommendations include that: 1) EFL teachers be trained to utilize virtual games; 2) EFL learners be encouraged to utilize virtual portals as collaborative learning opportunities to engage with target foreign language speakers around the world, and 3) EFL instructors create learning tasks requiring learners to interact with other language speakers in virtual games to ensure rich language exposition. Moreover, it is recommended that further studies consider a qualitative design that makes use of in-depth observations and interviews to explore learners’ attitudes about the integration of this technology in an EFL context.
A Multilevel Model for Examining Perceptions of School Climate, Socioeconomic Status, and Academic Achievement for Secondary School Students

Abstract This multilevel study examined the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) and student perceptions of school climate on academic achievement at the student and school levels. Data used were from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002. The sample included 9,518 students enrolled in 584 public high schools. The results revealed that student-level predictors, such as gender, race, SES, academic risk factors, high school programming, and student perceptions of school climate, play a significant role in math achievement scores. A school-level variable (e.g., school SES) was also a significant predictor in math achievement scores. The findings have important implications, specifically, they point to a need for measuring school climate at the student level and using data to inform climate improvement strategies and interventions at the student level, especially for those living in poverty and exposed to multiple risks.
The Role of Shared Leadership and Communication in Promoting Strategic Consensus and Performance

ABSTRACT The current study aims to investigate the effect of strategic consensus among managers on organizational performance, with an emphasis on shared leadership and communications in Iranian knowledge-intensive firms. Since Iran has its unique cultural characteristics with favoring a more authoritarian attribute, and leadership in knowledge-intensive firms has a more shared style, the context of the study is more appealing to such relationships. Data were collected from 115 randomly selected knowledge-intensive firms and analyzed using structural equation modeling by LISREL. Findings show that shared leadership positively influences strategic consensus of the management team, but it does not have a direct effect on performance. Also, communication among managers increases their strategic consensus which in turn positively affects firm performance. The findings act as a guideline for managers and suggest them to broaden the scope and the content of consensus and also for more effective decision-making and improved performance.
“In your head, zombie”: zombies, predation and memory

ABSTRACT Imagining fictional creatures like zombies in survival situations boosts long-term memory for words encoded in these situations more than rating words for pleasantness (zombie effect). Study 1 required word-ratings in a zombie-survival scenario; participants were told they had to protect against either possible zombie attack or contamination. The zombie-survival situations yielded identical recall levels but higher recall rates than pleasantness. Study 2 matched a zombie-survival scenario on perceived fear with scenarios involving ghosts or predators. Perceived disgust in the zombie scenario was higher than in these other survival conditions. Words were remembered better when processed in survival scenarios than when rated for pleasantness, but there was no reliable difference in recall between the scenarios. In neither study did the number of death-related words produced in a word-fragment completion task fit the mortality salience account of the zombie memory effect. Overall findings suggest that this effect relates to the fear system.
Inclusive Education as a Basis for Sustainable Development of Society.

According to statistics, currently, approximately 4% of individuals with disabilities or incapacity for work are enrolled in higher education institutions of the Russian Federation. Thus, according to this figure, it is clear that higher education in the Russian Federation is available to a limited number of individuals with disabilities or incapacity for work. Involvement of a greater number of people with disabilities to the higher education system requires the creation of special conditions that make training for these people available and attractive.
Investigating the Impacts of a Collaborative Language Teacher Professional Development.

This research investigates teacher implementation of the Guided Language Acquisition Design (GLAD) model over time and after teachers received a unique combination of additional GLAD training, coaching, and collaboration. Teachers who took part in this in this study had previously received an initial full-week, intensive GLAD training; however, they struggled to implement GLAD accurately. This study, therefore, investigates the effects of implementing a new model of supplemental professional learning for teaching GLAD within an existing threeweek summer school program. Teams of teachers instructed English Learners in the morning and then had planning, reflection, and professional development time each afternoon. Although this experience was designed to both teach teachers about GLAD and instruct students, this particular research study focuses on the experience of the teachers. This two-part qualitative research study includes observations and interviews during the summer, in addition to followup interviews during the school year to investigate the sustainability of the experience. Results suggest that the overall effects of participation are positive; however, the effects are largely individualized, depending on the participant’s expectation of the experience and characteristics of their specific collaborative team. Recommendations for improving the sustainability of the approach are also provided.
Betting Market Outcomes and NBA Television Viewership

The authors demonstrate that betting market outcomes are a statistically significant and economically relevant driver of local market television viewership in the National Basketball Association. Ratings are higher when the local market team covers the point spread and when point spread outcome uncertainty is increased. They further illustrate that point spread market outcomes have a larger relative impact on viewership in less-popular games and when the local market team is expected to perform poorly. This suggests wagering market access serves as insurance to the league and its franchises against reduced viewership in games that are less appealing to consumers. The results assess the degree to which wagering interest has driven past revenues as well as how the legalization of sports wagering may influence future revenues.
Improving Language Comprehension to Enhance Word-Problem Solving

Abstract The focus of this article is the role of language comprehension within word-problem solving (WPS). The role of the language comprehension in WPS is explained, and an overview of research illustrating language comprehension’s contribution to WPS is described. Next, an innovative intervention that embeds word problem (WP)-specific language comprehension instruction within a validated form of schema-based WP intervention is described, and the methods and results of a randomized controlled trial assessing the added value of embedding WP-specific language comprehension instruction are outlined. Implications for practice and future research are drawn.
The effect of salesperson’s expertise and salesperson’s likeability through trust mediation (Case study of PT. Bank Negara Indonesia (Persero) Tbk. Brawijaya Malang)

This study focuses on the role of salesperson in increasingrepurchase intention through trust that formed between salespersonand customers. The purpose of this study is to determine the effectof salesperson's expertise and salesperson's likeability on trust andrepurchase intention. The sample of this study was BNI BrawijayaMalang's customers who received special services from thesalesperson (personal banking assistant - PBA) and had a minimumdeposit of IDR 500,000,000, - The sample in this study was includedin the purposive sampling category and amounted to 140 people.Data analysis through Partial Least Square (PLS) with version 3.0smartPLS. The results of this study indicate that salesperson'sexpertise has a significant effect on trust and repurchase intention,salesperson's likeability has a significant effect on trust but is notsignificant in repurchase intention. Trust acts as a partial mediationon the influence of salesperson's expertise on repurchase intention,but acts as a complete mediation on the influence of salesperson'slikeability on repurchase intention.
“I Don’t Love My Baby?!”

Many new mothers question the nature of their motherly love after birth. This affectionate relationship towards the infant is commonly called bonding in everyday speech, clinical practice and research. Bonding may not sufficiently describe the mother’s emotional response to the infant and does not capture the ambivalence and struggle to develop maternal affection of many women. This study aims to explore the phenomenon of disturbed maternal affection through the clinical case of one mother who experienced severe and prolonged disturbances. Two in-depth interviews led to a descriptive phenomenological analysis. The mother developed depressive symptoms from not feeling enough for her child, not the opposite, as is often hypothesized. We describe and discuss crucial constituents of her experience, such as ambivalence, remoteness, boredom, guilt, and the looming repetition of parenting patterns, and a solution resulting from therapy-enhanced reflection on motherhood vis-à-vis early life patterns, sociocultural expectations and existential predicaments.
In the Eyes of the Beholder: Experimental Evidence on the Contested Nature of Materiality in Sustainability Reporting

Materiality is an ambiguous concept in sustainability reporting where potential users are more heterogeneous than in financial reporting. Building on decision usefulness and dual process theory, we scrutinize in an experimental setting how two important stakeholder groups react to manipulations of the topic of nonfinancial information while controlling for differences in nonfinancial performance. We find that potential employees consider nonfinancial information as generally more material compared with capital market participants. Furthermore, for capital market participants, the nonfinancial topic of energy is more material than the topic of biodiversity, while for potential employees, both topics are equally material. Capital market participants seem to follow a more analytic decision-making process than potential employees. Capital market participants also adjust their decisions in combination with quantitative performance differences, and their risk assessment of a company mediates their decisions. Our findings show that materiality of nonfinancial information lies in the eye of the beholder.
Assessing Student Social Studies Learning: Effects of Learning Environment, Inquiry, and Student Learning Interest

Abstract This study aims to examine the effect of the learning environment, inquiry, and learning interest on student social studies learning assessment. The participants involved in this study are 130 students from public primary schools in South Jakarta. Data collection consists of social studies learning score, learning environment scale, inquiry scale, and learning interest scale. The results of the study show that the learning environment, inquiry, and learning interest directly influenced student social studies learning assessment in which inquiry and learning interest have a significant effect on student social studies learning assessment. Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji pengaruh lingkungan belajar, inkuiri, dan minat belajar terhadap penilaian belajar Ilmu Pendidikan Sosial (IPS) siswa. Peserta yang terlibat adalah 130 siswa dari sekolah dasar negeri di Jakarta Selatan. Pengumpulan data terdiri dari skor pembelajaran IPS, skala lingkungan belajar, skala inkuiri, dan skala minat belajar. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa lingkungan belajar, inkuiri, dan minat belajar secara langsung mempengaruhi penilaian belajar IPS siswa. Dimana inkuiri dan minat belajar memiliki pengaruh yang signifikan terhadap penilaian pembelajaran IPS. How to Cite : Rosfiani, O. , Akbar, M. , Neolaka, A. (2019). Assessing Student Social Studies Learning: Effects of Learning Environment, Inquiry, and Student Learning Interest. TARBIYA: Journal of Education in Muslim Society, 6 (1), 46-57. doi:10.15408/tjems.v6i1. 11593.
Perceptions of mindful teaching are associated with longitudinal change in adolescents’ mindfulness and compassion

The purpose of this study was to examine how student perceptions of mindful teaching are associated with changes in students’ mindfulness, self-compassion, and compassion for others across a single high school year. We hypothesized two pathways of effect: a direct path whereby when high school students perceive their teachers as demonstrating mindful qualities, they are more likely to emulate these qualities, and an indirect path whereby mindful teaching affects student outcomes by providing an environment that fulfills the developmental needs of students. To test these hypotheses, a short-term longitudinal study of high school students (N = 599) was conducted in which student outcomes from the beginning to the end of the school year were regressed on perceptions of mindful teaching at the beginning of the year and school need fulfillment during the midpoint of the school year. Results revealed support for the indirect path: student perceptions of mindful teaching predicted changes in student perceptions of school need fulfillment, which then predicted changes in students’ own mindfulness, self-compassion, and compassion for others over time. Results are discussed in terms of how mindful teaching might represent a kind of social affordance for students, one in which the needs of students are seen and fulfilled, and, as a result, one in which the students may be more willing to emulate and internalize the qualities of their teachers.
The contributions of social entrepreneurship and transformational leadership to performance

Purpose The exploration of performance determinants in social enterprises has gained increasing relevance among researchers and practitioners, particularly in rural tourism. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the contributions of transformational leadership and social entrepreneurship to the performance of social enterprises in the context of rural tourism. Further, the mediating roles of social capital, creativity and social value were investigated. Design/methodology/approach Data were gathered through a survey of 168 employees of social enterprises operating in the rural tourism setting. Eight surveyors were sent out to conduct the survey. Data were analyzed by structural equation modeling (SEM) using AMOS 18.0. Findings The results of the SEM suggested that transformational leadership is positively associated with social value, social capital and performance of social enterprise. In addition, social entrepreneurship had a significant influence on social value, social capital and performance of social enterprise. Creativity and social value predicts the performance of social enterprise. Further, social capital was found to have a positive relationship with creativity. Finally, the mediating roles of social capital, creativity and social value were also confirmed. The findings thus highlight the power of the social value creation and social capital in the social enterprises operating in the rural destinations. Social implications The findings assert that social entrepreneurship and transformational leadership are key sources of social value creation, social capital and creativity in rural tourism context indicating the need for additional efforts on this kind of entrepreneurial activity. The findings can motivate policymakers to promote social entrepreneurship in rural tourism destinations as a means of stimulating bottom-up social capital and social value creation. Originality/value This study is among the first to examine the hypothesized relationships focusing on tourism social enterprises.
Pengaruh Customer Experience, Utilitarian Benefit dan Hedonic Benefit terhadap Intention to Recommended melalui Customer Satisfaction

Consumer experience and design product is one of the important elements in marketing, the benefits design are expected to be able to make consumers feel satisfied. Does the consumer experience and design benefits always increase customer satisfaction? This study aims to examine the effect of customer experience and design benefits (utilitarian benefit and hedonic benefits) toward intention to recommended with customer satisfaction as an interviening variable. Research conducted by involving 100 respondents using iPhone smartphone products in Kebumen City was taken using purposive sampling technique. The collected data and analyzed using path analyze and processed using the SPSS 24.0 statistical tool. The hypotheses result of the study show that from the seven hypotheses there is only one that is rejected, namely the fifth hypothesis. The findings of this study reveal that the customer experience and hedonic benefit variables are antecedents of consumer satisfaction that can foster the intention to be recommended, where as in the utilitarian variable benefits can only influence consumer satisfaction but cannot foster the intention to be recommended by consumers.
Language Teacher Beliefs About Technology

Much of the work done on language teacher beliefs about technology remains limited to the individual or institutional scales. This study responds to calls to reinsert language teaching and learning into a larger ecosystem by examining language teacher beliefs and uses of technology from an ecological theoretical perspective. Using a case study research design comprised of interviews and participant observations, the study analyzed two language teachers' beliefs and uses of technology in terms of beliefs (language, learning, technology) and scales (temporal, spatial). Analysis revealed multiple beliefs, such as language for cultural understanding and technology as a threat, that were produced at multiple scale levels. Analysis also revealed layered interactions between beliefs and scales that has led to tensions in both beliefs and uses of technology, such as the societal pressure to include technology that clashed with personal and institutional understandings of learning. Implications for how to address this complexity are discussed.
Mediating Processes in the Relations of Parental Monitoring and School Climate With Cyberbullying: The Role of Moral Disengagement

In recent years, studies have extensively explored both personal and environmental predictors of cyberbullying. Among these predictors, parental monitoring and school climate were often expected to be associated with cyberbullying behaviors. However, little is known about the mediating mechanisms through which these relations may develop. The present study aimed to expand the current research by testing a theoretical model including the mediating role of moral disengagement in the relations between parental monitoring (including less collaborative vs. more collaborative strategies), school climate, and cyberbullying behaviors. Five hundred and seventy-one Italian adolescents (54.5% male) aged 14 to 20 years were recruited from high schools. Measures included demographics and parental monitoring, school climate, moral disengagement and cyberbullying scales. To test the hypothesized model, we estimated full and partial mediation models by structural equation modeling. Results showed negative indirect links of parental monitoring (but only the more collaborative strategies) and school climate with cyberbullying via moral disengagement. Less collaborative strategies of parental monitoring were neither directly nor indirectly related to cyberbullying. The findings revealed moral disengagement as an important process in explaining how ecological factors, such as parenting behaviors and school environments, are associate with cyberbullying. Limitations, strengths, and implications for practice are presented.
Coming back and moving backwards: return migration and gender norms in Egypt

ABSTRACT This study examines how gender norms and household gender dynamics are modified in Egypt as a result of male return migration from other Arab Countries. Data come from the 2006 and 2012 Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. For 7,314 married couples in 2006 and 8,992 married couples in 2012, treatment effects regression models of gender norms and household decision-making and return migration are estimated. Egyptian women with spouses who have migrated to an Arab country and returned value more traditional gender norms. Women in households with a spouse who returned also make fewer household decisions compared to women in non-migrant households. Women with spouses who have migrated multiple times also make fewer household decisions compared to women who had a spouse migrate before 2006. The findings suggest transformation of household gender dynamics and reinforcement of traditional gender ideologies by male emigration to and immigration from other Arab countries.
Coping styles and coping resources in the work stressors–workplace bullying relationship: A two-wave study

ABSTRACT This study investigated coping styles and coping resources in the relationship between work stressors and exposure to workplace bullying. A two-wave survey was conducted (N = 482) to investigate whether T1 emotion-focused coping amplifies the positive lagged relationship from T1 role conflict and role ambiguity to T2 bullying. T1 problem-focused coping was predicted to buffer this relationship. Further, we expected that two coping resources – T1 self-efficacy and optimism – positively relate to T2 problem-focused coping and negatively relate to T2 emotion-focused coping. SEM analysis partially supported the hypotheses: T1 emotion-focused coping amplified the relationship between T1 role conflict and T2 bullying. However, no evidence was found for the buffering role of T1 problem-focused coping. Neither for role ambiguity, a significant moderating role of both problem- and emotion-focused coping was found. Further, T1 self-efficacy was positively related to T2 problem-focused coping, however, unrelated to T2 emotion-focused coping. T1 optimism was unrelated to T2 emotion- or problem-focused coping. This study advances our understanding of the underlying mechanisms in the relationship from work stressors to bullying, particularly highlighting the amplifying role of emotion-focused coping in the relationship between role conflict and bullying. Further, we gained insight in the relationship between self-efficacy and problem-focused coping.