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Examining the Recruitment, Placement, and Career Trajectories of Secondary Mathematics Teachers Prepared for High-Need Schools

Background School leaders are challenged by the relatively limited supply and high turnover of qualified secondary school mathematics teachers. In response, policy makers and teacher educators have developed various pathways and incentives to recruit, train, place, and support highly qualified mathematics teachers to work in hard-to-staff schools. Focus of Study In this study, we investigate the recruitment, placement, and early career trajectories of 158 Grades 6–12 mathematics teachers from two preparation programs focused on staffing “high-need” schools in the same region. Setting The contrasting programs were both supported by the same university in the Northeast United States. Participants & Programs The participants were 158 secondary school (Grades 6–12) mathematics teachers. Of these, 48 were recruited and prepared through a teacher education program with financial support from the National Science Foundation-funded Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. The other 110 school mathematics teachers were recruited and trained through the Greater Boston office of Teach For America. Both programs required two years of service in high-need schools. Research Design In this study, we used a comparative design. Descriptive profiles of teachers from each program were created. Then, participants’ early career trajectories were compared using logistic regression and survival analysis. Data Collection and Analysis We administered a longitudinal survey and created a database combining survey data and each program's administrative data. Conclusions Our data illustrate that the Noyce scholarship-supported pathway was generally successful in recruiting individuals with STEM majors, training them to be mathematics teachers, and placing those individuals as secondary school mathematics teachers in high-need schools. The comparison of the scholarship-pathway teachers with the secondary school mathematics teachers in the alternative-certification pathway provides a useful contrast. On the one hand, the alternatively certified secondary school mathematics teachers were less likely than the scholarship-pathway teachers to have STEM majors, and the attrition rate for the alternatively prepared teachers was higher than the attrition rate for the scholarship-supported teachers, particularly after they had completed the two-year service requirement. On the other hand, the alternative-certification program recruited a more diverse pool of potential teachers and placed these teachers in schools serving a higher proportion of low-SES students.
High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) Mahasiswa Program Studi Pendidikan Matematika dalam Menyelesaikan Masalah Grup

Salah satu indikator yang dapat digunakan untuk mengukur high order thinking skills (HOTS) mahasiswa dengan melakukan evaluasi hasil belajar. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kemampuan mahasiswa program studi pendidikan matematika dalam menyelesaikan soal High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) pada mata kuliah teori grup. Metode yang digunakan adalah analisis deskriptif dengan teknik analisis isi. Penelitian ini melibatkan 18 mahasiswa program studi pendidikan Matematika Universitas Islam Majapahit (UNIM) dan 22 mahasiswa program studi pendidikan matematika Universitas Muhammadiyah Surabaya (UM Surabaya). Analisis data dilakukan dengan indikator soal high order thinking skills (HOTS) yang terdiri atas level analisis, evaluasi, dan mencipta. Hasil penelitian diperoleh bahwa dari 18 mahasiswa program studi pendidikan matematika UNIM, sebanyak 4 mahasiswa memiliki HOTS tinggi, 11 mahasiswa memiliki HOTS sedang, dan 3 mahasiswa memiliki HOTS rendah. Sedangkan dari 22 mahasiswa program studi pendidikan matematika UM Surabaya, sebanyak 2 mahasiswa memiliki HOTS tinggi, 17 mahasiswa memiliki HOTS sedang, dan 3 mahasiswa memiliki HOTS rendah. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa mahasiswa memiliki penguasaan aspek-aspek HOTS dalam memecahkan masalah grup tetapi belum merata.
Stories Unfold of Grade 7 Science Teachers on Instructional Materials: An Assessment

Common sentiments of teachers in the field with the implementation of the K to 12 Curriculum are limited instructional materials. One of the responses to face these challenges is to use localized and contextualized materials for teaching based on the needs of students and teachers. This descriptive single case study anchored on Kolb’s theory of experiential learning highlights the role of instructional materials in student’s retention of knowledge. An in-depth, focused group discussion was used to assess the needs of Grade 7 science teachers of Northern Tacloban City National High School purposely selected as participants. Findings revealed that teachers need multimedia in the form of animated video with corresponding worksheets where they can answer questions based on the video seen, this helped for a more in-depth understanding of concepts, skills, and processes of the subject. The result of the study paves the way to develop an instructional kit in making learning more interactive and enjoyable to students.
Digital Awareness: A Model for School Counselors.

As the integration of technology into schools is becoming prevalent, school counselors and educators must work together to identify students who may be suffering from digital addiction. As a student advocate and leader within their schools, school counselors are in an optimal position to educate school staff, students, and community members on the signs and symptoms, dangers, and treatments of digital addiction. Early identification of digital addiction is essential for the well-being of all students.
A Joint Evaluation With Lessons for the Sustainable Development Goals Era: The Joint GEF-UNDP Evaluation of the Small Grants Programme

The integrated nature of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for greater synergy, harmonization, and complementarity in development work. This is to be reflected in evaluation. Despite a long and diversified history spanning over almost three decades, joint evaluations have fallen out of fashion. Evaluators tend to shy away from joint evaluations because of timeliness, institutional and organizational differences, and personal preferences. As the SDGs call for more joint evaluations, we need to get them right. This article supports the appeal for more joint evaluations in the SDGs era by learning from the existing long and diversified experience. This article shares lessons from a joint evaluation that is relevant in the context of the SDGs for the United Nations Evaluation Group, the Evaluation Cooperation Group, and the wider international evaluation community.
Do Preverbal Infants Understand Discrete Facial Expressions of Emotion?

An ongoing debate in affective science concerns whether certain discrete, “basic” emotions have evolutionarily based signals (facial expressions) that are easily, universally, and (perhaps) innately identified. Studies with preverbal infants (younger than 24 months) have the potential to shed light on this debate. This review summarizes what is known about preverbal infants’ understanding of discrete emotional facial expressions. Overall, while many studies suggest that preverbal infants differentiate positive and negative facial expressions, few studies have tested whether infants understand discrete emotions (e.g., anger vs. disgust). Moreover, results vary greatly based on methodological factors. This review also (a) discusses how language may influence the development of emotion understanding, and (b) proposes a new developmental hypothesis for infants’ discrete emotion understanding.
Multigenerational Forces and Regenerative Capacities: Matter, Weather, Flesh, and the Sociogenic

To what extent are multigenerational forces associated with the becoming of measured academic skills? This study argues that by considering inhuman(e) ontologies such as a system of racialized structural relations, a new materialist and radical black feminist lens opens up new possibilities for conceptualizing and understanding how shifting structures of sociopolitical relations have had temporally enfolding (re)configured and (re)produced differences over multiple generations. By fitting multilevel growth models to the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study empirically demonstrates (1) the importance of the grandparent’s wealth and permanent income on the grandchild’s embodied reading development in relation with the parent’s material resources; (2) the importance of historically shifting sociopolitical relations and their materialization in the becoming assemblages of reading skills; and (3) that multigenerational processes are an assemblage of historical, sociopolitical, and biopolitical forces. The author argues that systems of sociopolitical relations outlive individuals and their shifting ontologies do materialize in constrained, enabled, or debilitated bodily capacities across multiple generations. It is suggested that scholars, policymakers, and practitioners must take seriously the multigenerational forces of regenerative capacities.
Corporate social responsibility and employee pro-environmental behaviors

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to extend the corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature by examining the influence of a firm’s external CSR activities (efforts directed toward external stakeholders of the firm) and internal CSR activities (efforts directed toward employees) on employees’ organizational citizenship behaviors toward the environment (OCBE) via organizational pride. The authors also examine the moderating role of perceived organizational support (POS) between CSR and organizational pride.Design/methodology/approachA total of 324 questionnaires were collected from the hospitality industry of Pakistan.FindingsThe results of this research revealed that dimensions of CSR (external and internal) have a positive influence on organizational pride. Also, organizational pride is found as an underlying mediating mechanism between the relationship of CSR and OCBE. The results also indicated that a higher level of POS strengthens the relationship between CSR and organizational pride.Practical implicationsThe findings are limited to only hospitality industry. Organizations can enhance employees’ sense of pride through CSR activities, which subsequently enhance employees OCBE. The findings also suggested that organizational pride contains intrinsic motivation that can help employees to enhance their OCBE.Originality/valueThis research suggests that organizational pride and POS are important factors which influence the relationship between CSR and OCBE. Further, it also empirically tests this model in a developing country context.
Engaging in mixed sector scholarly practice: scholarship on the edge

Following on from earlier research that examined the scholarship of teaching and learning in three Australian tertiary settings (Williams, Goulding and Seddon 2013), this paper explores a broader range of scholarship in mixed-sector institutions. Ernest Boyer (1990) originally proposed four separate, yet overlapping functions of scholarship: discovery, integration, teaching and application - or engagement as it later came to be known (Rice 2002). Although it is readily recognised as a 'natural fit' for mixed-sector institutions with their close industry ties, little is known in the scholarly community about the scholarship of engagement in these settings because it is often either undocumented or published in industry journals. Other forms of mixed-sector scholarship are similarly underrepresented in the scholarly literature.
TASK-BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING IN GRAMMAR INSTRUCTION:A LITERATURE REVIEW

The role of grammar instruction for EFL/ESL learners has been a major debate among the stakeholders; the English language teachers and students, researchers and practitioners. Some believe that language teaching should focus on meaning and fluency to reach the goal of language as a means of communication, while some others argue that the focus on language form and accuracy is more important in language acquisition. Despite this long controversy, grammar gains its prominence in English language teaching, particularly in Asian context. Many methods and approaches with their strengths and weaknesses have been proposed in order to get the best learning outcomes in grammar instruction. One which has proven effective to achieve the goal of language learning is Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). Various methods have emerged as an attempt to make CLT feasible in any classroom contexts and one of them is the task-based language teaching (TBLT). This paper aims to give the review of TBLT frameworks in grammar instruction
An investigation into the effects of short-course professional development on teachers’ and teaching assistants’ self-efficacy

ABSTRACT Whilst attendance at short, day-long courses or workshops features prominently in teachers’ continuing professional development (CPD) profiles, research remains equivocal about their lasting impact. The present study addresses questions about the impact of short-course CPD in the context of a national CPD programme aimed at developing teachers’ and teaching assistants’ self-efficacy in relation to inclusive physical education. A repeated measures design was adopted to examine the contribution of the CPD programme to participants’ self-efficacy. Data were collected from n = 1533, n = 1432, and n = 149 teachers and teaching assistants at baseline, immediately after the course, and 3–6 months later as a follow up. Results suggest that short-course CPD can positively affect teachers’ and teaching assistants’ self-efficacy in the short term. However, longer-term benefits were confounded by gender, age, years experience working in the profession, efficacy beliefs prior to attending the CPD course, and perceptions on the quality of the course attended. The results of this study reinforce existing research that the effectiveness of short-course CPD is dependent on a range of individual factors and perceptions on CPD quality, and that greater tailoring of delivery is required to ensure that learning is maximised for all involved. Abbreviations: CPD (Continuing Professional Development); PE (Physical Education; IPE (Inclusive Physical Education)
The Argumentative Indian

Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 for his contribution in the field of welfare economics. He is Lamont Professor at Harvard. This text forms the opening sections of the first essay in Sen’s book of the same title published in 2005. The sub-title of the book is ‘Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity’. Sen argues in this essay that in India there has been a long tradition of questioning the truth of ideas through discussion and dialogue.
Analysis of Some Underyling Factors Necesitating The Use Of Alcohol Among Youth In Ikenne Local Government, Ogun State.Nigeria

This study investigated some underlying factors that necessitated the use of alcohol among youth in Ikenne Local Government in Ogun State. A sample of 243 youth comprises of 204 males and 42 females were randomly selected to participate in the study. The mean age and standard deviation was 20.2 and 9.31 respectively. The descriptive survey of ex-post-facto research design was employed. Two instruments namely Adolescent Behavioural Inventory(ABPI) and Alcohol Abstinence Self- Efficacy Scale (ABSS) were used to generate data for the study. All the hypotheses data were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Data was analysis with the use of Multiple Regression and Pearson product Moment Correlation. The results indicated that there is a significant combined contribution of emotion ,physical, social on alcoholic usage and F (3,239) = 13.352; P< . 05. Also, emotion was found to be the best factor necessitating the use of alcohol, (β = .518; t = 8.0345; p < .05), followed by physical reason as (=β . 344; t = 5.648; p
Development of a Scale to Measure Histrionic Traits According to the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology

The aim of this study was to develop a version of the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory 2 (IDCP-2) focusing on the Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD) traits according to the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) model, and to verify its psychometric properties. The method was divided into two stages. The fi rst was related to the revision procedures of the IDCP-2 based on the HiTOP, focusing on the assessment of features typical of HPD. The second aimed to verify the psychometric properties of the new version of the IDCP-2 (i.e., IDCP-HPD) in a convenience sample (N=208), mainly composed of women, with data collection carried out online. The IDCP-HPD was administered with the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) and Five-Factor Histrionic Inventory (FFHI) factors. Of the 16 initial traits provided by the HiTOP, 8 were selected as relevant for the HPD and 17 items were selected to compose the new factors. The 4 factor solution found through exploratory structural equation modeling, the correlations with the external measures and the eff ects found in the between-group comparisons suggest the psychometric adequacy of the IDCP-HPD. The fi ndings of this study should be interpreted as initial evidence for the IDCP-HPD, indicating the practicality of the test.
‘Manufactured hysteria’: audience perceptions of sensationalism and moral panic in Australian news representations of asylum seekers

Seeking asylum is a highly polarising topic, exacerbated by news discourses that construct asylum seekers as threats to the nation. National and international news coverage has been said to incite ‘moral panics’ via the use of sensationalised depictions of asylum seekers, however, few studies have examined audience responses. This article discusses the findings of research utilising Critical Discourse Analysis alongside an Audience Reception framework to examine how 24 Western Australians perceive news coverage of asylum seekers. All participants critiqued news constructions of the issue, with many emphasising sensationalism and the incitement of fear as central concerns affecting their trust and engagement with Australian coverage. Analysed with consideration of the ‘moral panic’ and ‘media panic’ literature, these findings demonstrate that sensationalist depictions of asylum seekers are being resisted by audiences. This inclination towards ‘media panics’ over ‘moral panics’ is discussed in terms of its implications for democracy and audience reception scholarship.
A multidimensional approach to perfectionism and self-compassion

ABSTRACT Research suggests that maladaptive perfectionism impedes the development of self-compassion, a self-attitude with numerous biopsychosocial benefits. The precise relationship between these constructs remains unclear, but accurate modeling could foster an understanding of the barriers that perfectionists experience to self-compassion, enabling focused interventions to be developed. This study used structural equation modeling within a convenience-sampled, general, population (n = 428; age = 34.3 yrs, SD = 12.1) to analyze how multidimensional perfectionism related to multidimensional self-compassion. The maladaptive perfectionism dimensions (Concern over Mistakes; Discrepancy) predicted lower levels of self-compassion and its positive dimensions (Self-kindness; Common Humanity; Mindfulness). Adaptive perfectionism also predicted higher levels of Self-judgment. Findings were discussed theoretically, and their utility for developing population-tailored, dual-focused, interventions aimed at reducing perfectionism and increasing self-compassion was explored.
The Impact of Counsel at First Appearance on Pretrial Release in Felony Arraignments: The Case of Rural Jurisdictions

This article examines the impact of early provision of counsel on judges’ pretrial release and bail decisions in two rural counties in upstate New York, in cases involving felony charges. This study builds upon previously reported research on misdemeanor cases. We note that although the stakes are higher in felony cases, few studies have investigated the dynamics of first appearance decisions at either level. We investigate the hypotheses that when defendants are represented by attorneys at their first appearances in court, (a) judges are more inclined to release on recognizance or under supervision, (b) judges impose less restrictive bail amounts, and (c) as a consequence, defendants spend less time detained prior to disposition. We find mixed support for these hypotheses, although some evidence that counsel at first appearance (CAFA) produces the expected outcomes. We conclude that the implementation of programs intended to ensure CAFA may be tempered by courthouse cultures, and that future research on court reform should include the study of rural jurisdictions.
The Critical Need for Help-Seeking Controls in Clinical High-Risk Research

Despite rapidly growing knowledge of the clinical high-risk (CHR) state for psychosis, the vast majority of case-control studies have relied on healthy volunteers as a reference point for drawing inferences about the CHR construct. Researchers have long recognized that results generated from this design are limited by significant interpretive concerns, yet little attention has been given to how these concerns affect the growing field of CHR research. We argue that overreliance on healthy control participants in CHR research threatens the validity of inferences concerning group differences, hinders advances in understanding the development of psychosis, and limits clinical progress. We suggest that the combined use of healthy and help-seeking (i.e., psychiatric) controls is a necessary step for the next generation of CHR research. We then evaluate methods for help-seeking control studies, identify the available CHR studies that have used such designs, discuss select findings in this literature, and offer recommendations for research.
Job Training Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction, and Job Performance

Training is an important ongoing investment in human assets to assist employees in learning skills and acquiring knowledge to achieve organizational goals. To maximize training effectiveness, three major activities of needs assessment, program design and delivery, and training evaluation need to be well-prepared to make trainees be satisfied with the training. Job training satisfaction proposed by Schmidt in 2007 was defined as how people feel about the aspects of the job training they receive in the workplace. Research has shown that well-designed and prepared training activities in a training program will result in job training satisfaction (JTS), which then influences employee’s work-related attitudes such as job satisfaction (JS). This will further affect their intentions of turnover and job performance. Thus, in this chapter, the fundamental concepts of training, job satisfaction, and job training satisfaction will be introduced. The key factors and models to develop successful training programs will be presented. The relationships between training, job training satisfaction, job satisfaction, and job performance will be elaborated. The purpose of this chapter elucidates the importance of JTS, which human resource practitioners should always bear in mind when designing and delivering a training program.