Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Biological motion is stored independently from bound representation in working memory

ABSTRACT It has been suggested that biological motion has a storage buffer independent of that of basic visual information in working memory. However, as coherent biological motion requires binding information from both the dorsal and ventral pathways, it is possible that biological motion is a type of bound representation, and thus shares the same buffer as binding information. No study has investigated this hypothesis. We closed this gap by requiring participants to memorize a set of biological motion stimuli and colour-shape bindings concurrently. Critically, we fixed the load of one category while manipulating the load of the other. If biological motion and binding share a buffer, then working memory performance on the fixed-load category would be modulated by the memory load of the flexible-load category. In five experiments, we found that performance on the fixed-load category was not affected by the memory load of the other category, suggesting that biological motion and bound representation do not share the same buffer in working memory.
A controlled study on an instrument that couples active learning with technology: student video creation

Background: Active learning strategies and the use of technology in classes have been widely indicated to enhance learning. Although much has been discussed on these topics, few studies have addressed them with adequate experimental designs. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of a strategy coupling active learning methodology and technology –video lectures production by students – on the students’ learning in comparison with traditional approaches. Methods: To investigate the impact of video production on students’ learning, approximately half of one class of undergraduate students in a Pharmacy program attended traditional classes on one of its modules, while the other half was instructed to elaborate video lectures about the same content. We recorded their scores in two exams on the topic covered by the video lectures, one prior to intervention and the second after the intervention. We also recorded their score in a final exam at the end of the course, which covered all modules in the course, and applied a questionnaire to assess students’ perceptions about the applied methodology. Results: The average score of the students in the video group became 46% higher than the control group’s score. The score on the final exam at the end of the course showed no difference between groups. Most of the students reported that the video lectures they produced in class improved their academic performance. Conclusions: The video lecture production activity, a teaching instrument that relies on active learning and technology, was able to improve learning indicators of a group of randomly selected students in comparison with a control group of students who attended traditional expository classes given by an instructor.
A Mixed Research Synthesis of Literature on Teaching Qualitative Research Methods

This article surveys the literature from 1999 to 2013 on teaching qualitative research methods. One hundred thirteen articles fitted the inclusion criteria; 79 of these were by academics in the United States and Canada. Only 39 of the 113 were based on empirical research: from these, seven descriptive themes were distilled, of which the dominant ones are experiential learning and practice-based materials and workshops. The literature portrayed teaching qualitative research as providing experiential and practice-based learning opportunities for students that revealed its desirable pedagogical features. It further reported that when students engaged in learning experiences, they underwent paradigm shifts about qualitative research as well as personal transformations. Our study confirmed that there is a lack of a research-based approach to teaching qualitative methods and we recommend that more be done to contribute to its pedagogical culture particularly concerning methods used to evaluate instruction, innovative instructional methods, and approaches to assessment.
ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE AND TEACHER PEDAGOGIC COMPETENCE ON QUALITY OF SERVICES IN SMP

This study aims to determine the influence of Organization Climate and Teacher Pedagogic Competence School Quality Service in Public Junior High School District Kembangan in West Jakarta.This study is descriptive in the entire population of teachers in Public Junior High School in West Jakarta District of New Kebayoran as many as 7 State Primary School with a number of teachers is 347, elected by proportional random sampling, the number of 186 teachers. Data was collected using a questionnaire to measure the Organization Climate, Teachers and Achievement Motivation Teacher on School Quality Service.The results showed that: first, there are positive Influence of Total Quality Management to Principal Teacher School Quality Service is acceptable, it can be determined by t test calculations in which th> tt (40.38> 1.66). And based on the calculation formula product moment correlation coefficient can be determined path coefficients (p31 = 0.272) at α = 0.05, that rh> rt (0.948 > 0.148) means that it can be said that there are positive effects of TQM Head Teacher School Quality Service, by r213 = coefficient of determination of 0.8986. This means that 89.89% of the variation of Teacher School Quality Service (X3) are affected by TQM Principal (X1). Second, there is a positive influence on Achievement Motivation Teacher Teacher School Quality Service is acceptable, it can be determined by t test calculations in which th> tt (73.92> 1.66). Third, there is a positive influence Principal Total Quality Management (X1) of the Teacher Achievement Motivation (X2) can be accepted, it can be determined by t test calculations in which th> tt (32.31 > 1.66).
Pragmatical, Semantical, and Morpho-Syntactical Factors in the Development of Passives.

:4Experiment I required preschool and primary-school children to interpret plausible and plausibly reversible, 4.plausible but plausibly reversible, plausible but not plausibly reversibla active as well as passive sentences presented in a realistic or a fictitious instructional context. Complex patterns of responses were analyzed that illustrate the respective influences of semantic and syntactic factors in sentence comprehension and their evolution over time. Experiment II had another sample of preschool and primary school children interpret syntactically regular and anomalous passive sentences varying according to semantic type. When the aty. ,1~Avhc, formallmarks of passivity play a major role in sentence interpretation, the influence of the agentive preposition appears to be more important than that of the auxiliary and/or the past particiA view of the development of passive sentence comprehension ---"'is-c:fered that maces it Lhe evolutive product of a flexible set of interpretive strategies relating semantic and syntactic factors.
Multicultural Education and Approaches to Teacher Training

Turkey exposed to several mass immigration movements due to its location, is not a “transit country” anymore for immigrants, but a “target country”. Since the day that the migration flows have started, Turkey developed various policies regarding the education of immigrant children. And by the year 2016, these children have begun to be included in the Turkish education system. Research findings reveal that immigrant children face the number of challenges in their education life. These problems include communication and discrimination problems arising out of language and cultural differences. Many countries exposed to mass immigration movements in the world often use multicultural education approaches to solve the educational issues of newcomers. Therefore, comprehensive literature research is needed and that this research will be useful to see the subject as a whole. The findings of the study revealed that the three basic approaches to teacher education could be defined in six stages, each of which consists of two phases. The educators of teachers and policymakers can examine these approaches and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each of them based on their philosophical stances about multiculturalism.
Effects of Diversity on Knowledge Sharing and Creativity of Work Teams: Status Differential Among Members as a Facilitator

ABSTRACT We investigated a plausible intermediate process and a boundary condition that elaborates the diversity–team creativity relationship to address mixed findings on the relationship between diversity and creativity. Our analysis using multi-source data collected from 128 work groups showed that age diversity and functional background diversity had negative and positive effects, respectively, on knowledge sharing and subsequent team creativity. Moreover, the effects of the four diversity attributes (age, gender, functional background, and tenure) on knowledge sharing were all negative in groups with low status differential, whereas the same effects became significantly positive in groups with high status differential. This study demonstrates a mechanism through which group diversity facilitates team creativity based on the information processing view of diversity and the functional approach to social status.
Writing and Deafness: State of the Evidence and Implications for Research and Practice

Although reading and writing play equally important roles in the literacy development of deaf individuals, far more attention has been paid to reading than to writing in both research and practice. This is concerning as outcomes in writing have remained poor despite changes in communication philosophies (e.g., spoken and/or signed) and pedagogical approaches. Although there are indications of a positive shift as the context for deaf education has been transformed with advances in hearing technologies, challenges are ongoing. In order to better understand why deaf learners struggle to achieve age-appropriate outcomes in written language, the goal of this paper will be to take stock of the available research evidence in writing and deafness, and interpret it in light of both the Simple View of Writing (SVW), in which ideation or text generation is linked to oral language, and current models of the composing process. Based on this overview and analysis, implications and directions for future research and practice will be discussed.
Exploring the Relationship between Contextual Performance and Burnout in Healthcare Professionals

Contextual performance is assumed to be related to professionals’ quality of working life and health. This research aims to compare the levels of contextual performance at work in different hospital units, and to analyse the relationship between contextual performance and burnout syndrome. A total sample of 222 participants from a tertiary hospital took part in the study. Scores on contextual performance and burnout in five different hospital units were compared. The results showed that contextual performance is closely related with burnout. Also, results showed statistically significant differences in the degree of contextual performance at work by hospital unit. Overall, these results are significant for the development of health management strategies that promote contextual performance at work, thus improving the health and quality of work of health-care professionals.
Random-Walk and Efficiency Tests of Central European Equity Markets

The existence of weak‐form efficiency in the equity markets of the three main Central European transition economies (the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland) is examined for the period July 1995 through September 2000, using weekly Investable and Comprehensive indexes developed by the International Finance Corporation. Several different approaches are used. Univariate and multivariate tests provide some evidence that stock prices in these exchanges exhibit a random walk, which constitutes evidence for weakform efficiency. This differs in some cases from studies using data for the initial years of these markets. The variance ratio test (VR) of Lo and MacKinlay (1988) yields somewhat mixed results concerning the random‐walk properties of the indexes. A modelcomparison test compares forecasts from a NAIVE model with ARIMA and GARCH alternatives. Results from the model‐comparison approach are consistent in rejecting the random‐walk hypothesis for the three Central European equity markets.
School Clusters in Zimbabwe: What Issues Do Clusters Tackle?

Abstract The study sought to explore teachers’ views on the nature of issues handled in clusters and how such issues are important in curriculum improvement. The study adopted a descriptive survey approach in which a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches were utilised. It considered insights of teachers from schools in one educational district in Zimbabwe. Data were collected mainly through a semi-structured questionnaire administered on a conveniently selected sample of two hundred and forty-two teachers as well as interviews with a purposeful sample of ten teachers. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences statistical package version 17 was used to analyse the quantitative data. Qualitative data was analysed through content analysis and emerging key issues led to themes that guided analysis. It emerged from the study that school clusters handled mostly general administrative and peripheral teaching and learning issues that could not result in major curriculum improvements in schools. The study concludes that there were serious inadequacies in clusters in so far as dealing with issues that could result in curriculum improvement was concerned. The study recommends that school clusters be capacity-built to ensure that they are significant agents of curriculum innovations.
Building Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy (ESE): How Undergraduate Students Make Meaning of Their Entrepreneurial Experiences.

BUILDING ENTREPRENEURIAL SELF-EFFICACY (ESE): HOW UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS MAKE MEANING OF THEIR ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCES Amy Kurfist Old Dominion University, 2019 Director: Dr. Christopher R. Glass This qualitative, interview-based research study explores how undergraduate students at a single research university make meaning of their experiences in curricular and co-curricular university entrepreneurship programming. The study focuses on the developmental relationship between entrepreneurship education and feelings of entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) and how feelings of ESE relate to future entrepreneurial intentions. I explore three of Bandura’s (1977) predictors of self-efficacy: mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, and social persuasion interwoven with the six dimensions of ESE developed by De Noble, Jung, and Ehrlich (1999) to determine how undergraduate students make meaning of their entrepreneurial experiences. Through the analysis of data collected through semi-structured interviews, the findings of this study shed light on the answer to the timely question of how undergraduate students who are developing future entrepreneurial intentions relate to their experiences in university entrepreneurship programming. As De Noble et al. (1999) endorsed the ability of entrepreneurship coursework and training to nurture the self-efficacy among students, the results of this research study can be used to improve or augment the current services provided by Southern Research University or serve as a guide for other colleges that currently have or are looking to create similar programmatic offerings.
Exploring Serbian teachers’ motivation for teaching with the application of FIT-choice scale

Why choose to become a teacher in Serbia? There is no evidence about teachers? career choice motivation after the newly introduced changes of teacher education in Serbia. The authors examine motivations among (future) class and subject teachers (N=132) applying broadly implemented instrument with fine psychometrical characteristics - FIT-Choice (Factors Influencing Teaching Choice) questionnaire, with an additional factor - Subject. Teachers perceive as most influential factors: Subject, Intrinsic career value, Social utility factors, Perceived abilities and Prior teaching and learning experiences. They were followed by Job security and Time for family, both highly rated. Factors Job transferability and Social influence have ratings above the scale midpoint, while fall-back career was perceived as unimportant. The obtained hierarchy of career choice factors is concordant with the hiererchies obtained previously in Western European countries by FIT-Choice scale. In comparison with previous findings in Serbia, fall-back as a motive lost its significance. Relying on the results exploring the connection of teacher career choice motivation and the career characteristics, we should expect future teachers to be more devoted, more agile in their professional development with less attrition intensions, in comparison to the currently employed teachers, in case that social and economic conditions do not place constraints.
THE INFLUENCE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR TOWARDS OFFICER PERFORMANCE WITH THE ORGANIZATION AND RELIGIOSITY AS A MODERATING VARIABLE (STUDY ON THE EMPLOYEES OF THE EDUCATION AND CULTURE DEPARTMENT IN DEMAK)

Performance is always the problem faced by government organizations, so it is necessary to know the factors that affect the performance of employees. This research aims to test the influence of emotional intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior on employee performance with a moderated Climate organization and Religiosity in the service of education and culture of Demak Regency. This research uses a quantitative approach to Explanatory research. The population in this research is a Muslim employee perform duties in the service of education and culture of Kab. Demak and with a population of 117 people. The variable in this study consists of three free variables that is emotional intelligence (X 1), Organizational Climate (X 2), Religiosity (X 3) and two variable i.e. Organizational Citizenship Behavior (Y1) and the performance of the Employee (Y2). Data collection using a structured questionnaire tool is closed and the results of the data collection further analyzed by using Multiple Linear Regression equations model. The research results showed that significant positive Emotional effect on performance, Organizational Citizenship Behavior significant negative effect on performance, emotional intelligence a significant positive effect against the performance of employees, Organizational Climate strengthens the influence of emotional intelligence on employee performance, Religiosity weakens the influence of emotional intelligence to increased Employee Performance, strengthen the influence of Religiosity Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) against performance improvement Officer Office of education and culture of Demak Regency. Keyword: Employee Performance, Emotional Intelligence, Organization Climate, Religiosity, Organizational Citizenship Behavior.
Public Opinion and Regime Change

This is a report of the first joint, large-scale US-Soviet studies of public opinion to employ Western standards and methods of survey research. These studies shed light on deep-seated and continuing problems of institutional legitamacy, widespread economic discontent and surging nationalism, providing insight into the downfall of the USSR and the challenges now facing the former Soviet republics.
Design learning for tomorrow

Designed artefacts and solutions influence our lives and values, both from a personal and societal perspective. Designers, decision makers, investors and consumers hold different positions in the design process, but they all make choices that will influence our future visual and material culture. To promote sustainability and meet global challenges for the future, professional designers are dependent on critical consumers and a design literate general public. For this purpose design education is important for all. We propose that design education in general education represents both a foundation for professional design education and a vital requirement for developing the general public’s competence for informed decision making. Utgivelsesdata Tittel:Design learning for tomorrow : design education from kindergarten to PhD : booklet of the 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers : 14-17 May 2013, Oslo NorwaForfatter(e):Janne Reitan, Ingvild Digranes, Liv Merete NielsenSerie:HiOA rapportIssn:1892-9648Nr:2013 nr 6Utgiver:HiOAAvdeling/fakultet:TKDSider:243Pris:330,– ISBN-print:978-82-93208-38-9
The State of Our Unions: Exploring Relationship Quality among Dyadic Couple Homeowners

Abstract Relationship stability represents a major economic interest not only to Florida, but to every state in the nation. The cumulative expenses related to relationship dissolution (including litigation costs, foregone tax revenues, and federal assistance programs such as Medicaid, child welfare SCHIP, TANF, WIC and SNAP) are estimated to cost taxpayers billions annually. Overall detriments are also higher when considering longitudinal impacts of family instability on affected couples and children in terms of lost productivity and psychosocial impact. This study endeavors to better understand threats to family instability, relationship quality and contextual factors via data collected from a sample of Florida homeowners in three types of cohabiting relationships. Analysis shows that roughly 60% of the variability in relationship quality is accounted for by negative interaction and consensus scores. High measures of negative interaction among dyadic couples indicate that cohabiting relationships in Florida are significantly distressed. Implications for how residents of Florida and other states could benefit both economically and psychosocially from implementation of couple and relationship education (CRE) programs are discussed.
The Relationship between Teacher Experience and Teacher Attitude toward Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

This study examined the strength and direction of the relationship between teachers’ years of experience and their attitudes toward attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A correlational design was used with the predictor variable being teachers’ years of experience teaching at a K-12 public school. The criterion variable was teachers’ attitudes toward ADHD. Previous research indicated that students with ADHD perform lower than their typically developing peers, in part, because the behaviors that students with ADHD exhibit are difficult for teachers to manage. The added challenge of teaching students with ADHD has the potential to create negative perceptions toward students with ADHD and lower teacher self-efficacy about their ability to teach these students. The Scale of ADHD-Specific Attitudes (SASA) survey was sent to public school teachers in a Midwestern state. Data was collected during a two-week window, and the results were analyzed using the Pearson’s correlation coefficient to determine whether to accept or reject the null hypothesis. A convenience sample of 112 participants was used in this study. The results of the study indicated that teachers’ years of experience were positively correlated to teachers’ attitudes toward teaching students with ADHD; however, the findings were not significant. This information may be beneficial in determining future teacher education and training at the pre-service and in-service levels. Further research into teachers’ attitudes toward ADHD is suggested. Continued research related to how teacher experience and other demographic variables influence teacher attitudes toward ADHD would add to the body of literature.