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Teacher collaboration: 30 years of research on its nature, forms, limitations and effects

ABSTRACT This article reprises and reflects on 30 years of the author’s work on teacher collaboration. The distinctive nature of this work has not been in making a case for teacher collaboration in terms of its benefits for students, teachers, or educational change. These arguments are widely available elsewhere. Rather it has examined ways of collaborating that are available to teachers, how formal or informal collaboration should be, how collaborative efforts can be misused or misdirected, and what factors must be considered when deliberately designing teacher collaboration so it will have the most beneficial effects. The article discusses the explanatory and strategic power of three concepts in particular—contrived collegiality, professional capital, and collaborative professionalism. Conclusions are drawn about next steps for educational research in terms of establishing clear typologies of teacher collaboration in relation to their impact and appropriateness in different circumstances.
Socio-Narrative Representations of Immigrants by Italian Young People

This paper aims to explore how young Italians represent the phenomenon of migration by using a socio-narrative approach and taking into account the role of media in shaping the collective imaginary. To this end, socio-narrative representations are deemed a valuable tool both at the conceptual and analytical level. Accordingly, this empirical study relies on the three main dimensions of socio-narrative representations (objectification, anchoring and narration) and on two mass communication theories (agenda-setting and cultivation theory) to analyse qualitative data. In-depth semi-structured interviews revealed that the iconic dimension has a predominant role in the mythopoietic mechanisms of construction of socio-narrative presentations. In fact, it emerges that also the anchoring and narrative processes frequently originate from certain stereotypical pictures and stories continuously broadcasted by mass media, which select and portray only a partial and inaccurate depiction of migration, based on the narrative distinction between “us” and “them”. In fact, this complex phenomenon is often reduced to the images of the victims of humanitarian crises, thereby favouring processes of distant suffering and compassion fatigue. Implications of these findings are discussed, as well as suggestions for future research.
Impulse Control Moderates the Link Between Parent–Child Cultural Orientation Gaps and Externalizing Problems in Chinese Immigrant Early Adolescents

The current study aimed to investigate whether the expected association between parent–child cultural orientation gaps and externalizing problems was moderated by impulse control (IC) among Chinese early adolescents in immigrant families. Ninety-one first- and second-generation Chinese immigrant youths (58% girls) aged between 11 and 13 years and their parents completed independent measures of mainstream and heritage cultural orientations. IC was evaluated via a computerized version of the Iowa Gambling Task, while externalizing problems were assessed via parental report. Regression analyses indicated that low levels of IC represented a risk factor for externalizing adjustment among early adolescents who were less oriented toward the mainstream culture than their parents. In addition, high levels of IC were protective for early adolescents who were less oriented toward their heritage culture than their parents. The findings suggest that IC plays an important role in Chinese early adolescents’ behavioral adjustment. Implications of the results are discussed.
Navigating the circles of social life: understanding pathways to sport drop-out among French teenagers

ABSTRACT Sports practice is a way to be physically active. Despite public health efforts to support it, teenagers’ sport participation is declining in some European countries. One reason for the decline is drop-out from sports practice. Various analytical frameworks have been applied to this issue but little is known about how teenagers understand their own pathway in the social context, ending with a drop-out from sports practice. This study aimed to identify reasons given by teenagers about sports practice drop-out situated within the circles of their everyday lives, through 100 semi-structured interviews. The results made it possible to classify the reasons for dropping out into five themes: friendship, body, family, school, and sport. Two processes lead to drop-out: constraints which prevent access to the circle of sports practice and/or a decision-making that brings them out of it. The respondents could mention one or multiple reasons, accumulating (snowball effect) or following one another (cascade effect). Depending on the moment of drop-out, some circles of social life played a preponderant role. The family seemed to be central in the decision to drop out during primary school, whereas sport itself and school were influential in middle and high schools respectively. The results showed that the more recent the drop-out, the more the teenagers planned to resume sports practice. These data are relevant for health education policies to prevent physical inactivity through sport. It is important not only to remove the constraints that prevent access to the circle of sports practice, but also to promote the most pleasurable sports experiences.
Improving Student Creative Thinking Skills Through Project Based Learning

The purpose of this study is to improve the ability to think creatively, make pyrolysis devices and make fuel oil from plastic waste. This research is a classroom action research conducted in 3 cycles with the stages of each cycle which includes 4 stages, namely observation, process, observation and reﬂection. The research subjects were students of class XI IPA 3 SMA Negeri 14 Semarang as many as 34 people who entered 12 sons and 22 girls. Data collection uses test instruments and measurement of creative thinking abilities and student response questionnaires. The data were analyzed descriptively and from the results of research that showed ﬂuency, ﬂexibility, originality, and elaboration after the application of hydrocarbon and petroleum learning. The results show that the average way of thinking of students is inthecreativepredicate. withahighincreaseineachindicatorofﬂuencyandelaboration
The Influence of Competition on Motivation to Fake in Employment Interviews

Abstract. Many applicants fake, or intentionally misrepresent information, in employment interviews. Recent theories of faking propose that applicants may fake more when there are situational cues that signal intense competition for the job. We tested this proposition by manipulating the number of competitors and selection ratio in selection scenarios, and assessed individuals’ faking intentions. We also examined whether Honesty-Humility moderated the relation between competition and faking intentions. Hypotheses were tested using a between-subjects study with 775 participants. Results show that faking intentions increased with few competitors and a small selection ratio. Honesty-Humility did not moderate the relation between competition and faking intentions. Findings support competition as a situational predictor of faking intentions, lending support to models of faking.
Characteristics of effective EFL teachers from the perspective of Turkish EFL learners

EFL teachers’ characteristics may change due to several factors including personality of teachers and the methods that they follow. This paper aimed to investigate the perceptions of young learners about the characteristics of effective English language teachers. In this respect, 100 students were delivered Turkish version of an inventory that developed by Yu-Hsin (1999). It consisted of three different parts regarding personal, professional, and pedagogical qualities. The results indicated that an effective teacher is expected to be friendly who has accurate pronunciation and in addition to having effective classroom management skills. Moreover, the participants indicated that they expect EFL teachers to be enthusiastic about technological developments and visual materials may help them feel relaxed during lectures. Since the overall results highlight the importance of both pedagogical and personal qualities on becoming an effective teacher, those who have an ambition of becoming an effective teacher should be aware of them.
Naming Names: The Impact of Supreme Court Opinion Attribution on Citizen Assessment of Policy Outcomes

The manner in which political institutions convey their policy outcomes can have important implications for how the public views institutions’ policy decisions. This paper explores whether the way in which the U.S. Supreme Court communicates its policy decrees affects how favorably members of the public assess its decisions. Specifically, we investigate whether attributing a decision to the nation’s High Court or to an individual justice influences the public’s agreement with the Court’s rulings. Using an experimental design, we find that when a Supreme Court outcome is ascribed to the institution as a whole, rather than to a particular justice, people are more apt to agree with the policy decision. We also find that identifying the gender of the opinion author affects public agreement under certain conditions. Our findings have important implications for how public support for institutional policy-making operates, as well as the dynamics of how the Supreme Court manages to accumulate and maintain public goodwill.
Multicultural Personality Traits and Employee-Perceived Service Quality in the Hospitality Industry: The Mediating Role of Cross-Cultural Psychological Capital

Because of globalization, the accommodation sector is increasingly international in terms of both its customers and employees. To ensure sustainable competition, intercultural workplace relationships must be understood, supported, and developed. In this study, the effects of multicultural personality traits and cross-cultural positive psychological capital on employee perceived service quality were investigated. Data were obtained from 346 employees from different five-star hotels in Northern Cyprus. The data were analysed using structural equation modelling. Analyses results showed that the understanding and development of multicultural personality traits of employees from different cultures in the hospitality sector, which has a multicultural structure, positively affects the service quality and collective cross- cultural psychological capital directs this relationship mediates. The theoretical dimensions of these relationships are discussed and recommendations to help multicultural service sector management are introduced, to ensure sustainable growth. This study aims to provide valuable contributions to the existing literature by examining multicultural personality traits in the service sector and testing a mediational model.
Endogamy between ethnicity and religion. Marriage and boundary construction in Voyvodovo (Bulgaria), 1900–1950

ABSTRACT The article explores the concept of endogamy from the viewpoint of boundary construction in social anthropology. The author summarizes scholarly accounts of endogamy that conceptualize endogamy in terms of ethnicity, race, locality, or language. She argues that to determine an endogamous group, we should proceed from the actors´ point of view and ask what criteria the actors themselves consider as culturally meaningful. On the example of marriages of Czech- and Slovak-speaking Protestants in the Bulgarian village of Voyvodovo in 1900–1950 the author shows what these marriages and the actors´ perspective reveal about the character of the us/them boundary. The data are based on a long-term anthropological fieldwork using mainly participant observation, interviews and the genealogical method, along with the analysis of the local parish registers for the period 1900–1950. The inhabitants of the village that has been habitually represented a ‘compatriot village’ in the scholarly literature are depicted as constituting their identity more on religion than on shared ethnicity. The results of the research suggest that the villagers preferred people of the same religion as marriage partners, without any regard to their ethnicity or language. The author argues that the study of marriage rules should follow the same principles anthropologists have widely applied to the study of ethnicity: i.e. to focus on the differences people consider to be significant in constructing the boundaries between groups rather than to assume objective criteria delimiting endogamous groups.
Do workers act contentment?

This paper aims to identify the determine job satisfaction on employee for the continuity of business in the field of rental of workspace, and at same time to determine the effect of work discipline and work motivation on employee satisfaction. Data was collected via survey questionnaire from related literature to 70 respondents. The data analyzed using structural equation modeling via Smart PLS. The results showed a significantly positive between the work discipline on the job satisfaction, but not for the work motivation on the job satisfaction. Keywords : Job satisfaction, work discipline, work motivation, rental workspace, human resources DOI : 10.7176/JRDM/56-07 Publication date :June 30 th 2019
Exploring the association between perceived excessive daytime sleepiness in children and academic outcomes

Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in children has been associated with a number of problems. In contrast to adults who experience EDS and who may fall asleep or doze when in a monotonous or boring situation, children with EDS may present as hyperactive or poorly behaved. This community-based study aims to identify the prevalence of EDS in children from three perspectives: parent report, self-report, and teacher report. The study also explores the association between EDS and academic outcomes in children. The participants were 365 students (161 males) aged 4-12 years, their parents, and their teachers at a regional school. Academic outcomes were based on each student's school grades at the conclusion of the semester in which the community-based survey was administered. Using a cutoff score of 15 or greater on the PDSS, 113 (31%) students were identified by at least one respondent as displaying or experiencing EDS. EDS as observed by teachers using the PDSS was found to be associated with the student's academic outcomes, higher sleepiness scores being associated with poorer academic outcomes. Our findings suggest that the prevalence of EDS in a community setting may be higher than previously identified.
Conglomerates and Industry Distress

Focusing on economic distress episodes in an industry, we estimate the effect of conglomeration on resource allocation. Distressed segments have higher sales growth, higher cash flow, and higher expenditure on research and development than single-segment firms. This is especially true for segments with high past performance, for unrated firms, and in competitive industries. Single-segment firms increase cash holding, and the diversification discount reduces during industry distress. Firms with high past performance acquire their industry counterparts, and firms with low past performance exit the distressed industry. Industries more prone to distress have greater conglomeration. Overall, conglomeration enables segments to avoid financial constraints during industry distress. The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com. , Oxford University Press.
Text-based learning in EFL classrooms: Problems and strategies viewed from the sociocultural approach

Text-based Learning (TBL) has been extensively employed in EFL classrooms in Indonesia. The 2013 curriculum requires teachers to exploit the structure of various texts for communicative purposes. Similarly, in tertiary level, lecturers do the same thing for teaching reading, speaking, writing, and even listening. It is true that some literature offer the merits of using text-based learning [4 ] and [10]. However, we also need to listen to EFL teachers’ real practice, so when implementing it in our own classroom, we, teachers, can anticipate the problem and implement the text-based learning well. This paper is aimed at presenting EFL pre-service teachers’ problems and strategies in their first-time teaching English using Text-based learning viewed from the sociocultural approach. This study involved 10 studentteachers from Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana who were taking their microteaching class. The sources of data used were reflective journal, post-observation reflective writing, and critical-friendsgroup (CFG) reflective writing. Those sources are sociocultural mediational tools that facilitate student-respondents to discuss with their peers and teacher and then to reflect their problems and strategies used for better text-based learning. By so doing, the problems and strategies are not only individually developed but also socially developed through social interaction or what so-called the sociocultural approach. This study is useful for secondary school teachers, lecturers, student-teachers, and policymakers in planning and implementing text-based learning.
Effectiveness of A Training Program on Oral Performance Assessment: The Analysis of Tasks Using the Multifaceted Rasch Analysis

The current popularity of second/foreign language oral performance assessment has led to a growing interest in tasks as a tool for assessing language learners’ oral abilities. However, most oral assessment studies so far have investigated tasks separately; therefore, any possible relationship among them has remained unexplored. Twenty English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers rated the oral performances produced by 200 EFL learners before and after a rater training program using description, narration, summarizing, role-play, and exposition tasks. The findings demonstrated the usefulness of multifaceted Rasch measurement (MFRM) in detecting rater effects and demonstrating the consistency and variability in rater behavior aiming to evaluate the quality of rating. The outcomes indicated that test difficulty identification is complex, difficult, and at the same time multidimensional. On the other hand test takers’ ability is a more determining factor in their score variation than other intervening variables. The outcomes displayed no relationship between task difficulty and raters’ interrater reliability measures. The findings suggest that tasks have various effects on oral performance assessment tests and most importantly, performance conditions in estimating the oral ability of test takers. Since various groups of raters have biases to different tasks in use, the findings indicated that training programs can reduce raters’ biases and increase their consistency measures. The findings imply that decision makers had better not be concerned about raters’ expertise in oral assessment, whereas they should establish better rater training programs for raters to increase assessment reliability.
Conceptual Framework: The Mediating Effect of Self-Efficacy in the Relationships of Self-Leadership, Knowledge Sharing, and Innovative Work Behaviour

There are substantial empirical evidences on the influence of self-efficacy towards organisational performance. However, the mediating effect of self-efficacy in the relationships of self-leadership and knowledge sharing with innovative work behaviour, particularly in the educational context, remains inadequately explored. Addressing that, this study attempts to contribute in-depth insights on the factors that influence innovative work behaviour in the higher education institutions based on a proposed conceptual framework to promote innovative work behaviour among Malaysian academics.
Leveraging Emotional Engagement Techniques and Adult Learning Principles to Transform Safety Training

Siddharth Bhandari (PhD., Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering) Leveraging Emotional Engagement Techniques and Adult Learning Principles to Transform Safety Training Dissertation directed by Associated Professor Matthew Ryan Hallowell Safety training despite being the key measure to keeping workers safe within any occupational environment has not kept pace with the significant advancement in the fields of behavioral psychology and education. As a result, researchers have found that the pre-dated safety training techniques on construction sites fail in communicating information in a way that promotes long-term retention of knowledge among adult learners and they also end up generating a negative attitude towards safety among workers. Understanding the psychological antecedents to risk-taking behavior and utilizing prominent adult learning theories to revolutionize safety training could allow academics and practitioners to improve workers’ hazard recognition performance and risk assessment skills while promoting risk-averse behavior. This dissertation therefore aims to (1) test and validate the role of integral and incidental affective arousal in influencing key safety outcomes (hazard recognition performance, valuation of danger, and safety decisions); (2) use the findings to design a safety training program that generates targeted affective arousal but is also rooted in self-directed learning model to facilitate learning; (3) deliver the simulation-based multimedia training module as an intervention to construction workers in a quasi-field experiment to measure changes in affect and situational interest; and (4) apply multivariate statistics to validate if the training environment generated the desired emotional engagement and learning outcomes among workers. Analysis of the proposed conceptual model showed that the integral negative affective arousal increased perception of risk and promoted risk-averse decision-making in construction safety training context. The quasi-field experiment on 489 construction workers showed that the proposed safety training module generated context-driven negative emotions and also improved situational interest levels regarding safety training which is a primary precursor to learning. Moreover, these results were consistent across all relevant demographical groups common to construction sites in the United States. This work is the first
The Expectation Differences Among Stakeholders in the Financial Valuation Fitness of Auditors

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate if there is an expectation gap among accounting academics, accounting practitioners, and users of financial statements in the financial valuation fitness of auditors. Complex reporting standards and current market expectations have the potential to create differences between what third-party users consider to be the responsibilities of the auditor and what auditors believe to be their responsibilities in auditing fair value estimates. Design/methodology/approach – This study surveys the perceptions of accounting academics, accounting practitioners, and users of financial statements and the degree to which an expectation gap exists in the financial valuation fitness of auditors. Survey respondents chose from a five-point Likert scale ranging from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree. ” Findings – This paper proposes two hypotheses. The results for all nine survey items have provided significant evidence that there is a difference in the expectation of .