ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
An Analysis of Teachers' Questioning Strategies
Author: Dös, Bülent
Date: 2016-11-23
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Questioning Techniques,Primary Education,Elementary School Teachers,Foreign Countries,Educational Quality,Teacher Effectiveness,Semi Structured Interviews,Questionnaires,Content Analysis,Mixed Methods Research,Teaching Methods,Creative Thinking,Convergent Thinking,Misconceptions,Classroom Communication,Cognitive Processes,Taxonomy,Correlation,Data Analysis

Questioning has been utilized as a critical assessment tool for centuries. It has been thought that there is a relationship between asking good questions and effective teaching. In order to analyze teachers' questioning strategies from various aspects, this study was conducted during the 2014-2015 academic year with 170 primary school teachers working in the schools located in the center of Gaziantep Province in Turkey. Data were collected through a semi-structured questionnaire prepared by the researchers, and were examined via content analysis. Explanatory mixed method design was used to analyze the research problem. The findings of this study revealed that: (1) Teachers asked divergent questions to draw attention and interest; (2) Teachers have misunderstanding of divergent and convergent questions; (3) Teachers mostly ask questions to entire class than individual; (4) Teachers asked most frequently questions aimed at uncovering operational knowledge and least frequently questions whose goal was to uncover metacognitive knowledge; (5) Teachers generally used probing questions, prolonged waiting time and did not ask vague questions; and (6) Teachers did not use questions as a punishment tool. This study revealed that asking good questions must be considered more important in pre-service education and teachers must be supported with in-service trainings to be more effective in asking questions.
Prospective Teachers' Conceptions of Teaching and Learning and Their Attitudes towards Multicultural Education
Author: Koç, Canan
Date: 2016-11-23
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preservice Teachers,Student Attitudes,Teacher Education Programs,Multicultural Education,Questionnaires,Gender Differences,Departments,Multiple Regression Analysis,Educational Attitudes,Prediction,Foreign Countries,Correlation

This study aims to analyze the conceptions of the senior students at the faculty of education along with their attitudes towards multicultural education according to gender and department variables, and to identify the degree to which their conception of teaching and learning predicts their attitudes towards multicultural education. A total of 278 prospective teachers, including 190 female and 88 male, who are attending the Faculty of Education of Cumhuriyet University participated in the study, which was conducted using a relational screening model. Data were collected using the Teacher Multicultural Attitude Survey (TMAS) and the Teaching and Learning Conceptions Questionnaire (TLCQ). Data obtained in the study was analyzed using One-Way ANOVA, Scheffe Test, and multiple regression analysis. According to the findings of these analyses, the prospective teachers' conceptions of teaching and learning, and their multicultural educational attitudes varied significantly depending on the variables of department and gender. The prospective teachers' conceptions of teaching and learning predicted their attitudes towards multicultural education at a significant level. The obtained results were discussed in the light of the relevant literature, and were made for future studies.
Competency-Based Education and Federal Student Aid
Author: Porter, Stephen R.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Competency Based Education,Federal Aid,Student Financial Aid,Federal Regulation,Federal Legislation,Finance Reform,Policy Analysis,Eligibility,Funding Formulas,College Students,College Programs,Paying for College,Need Analysis (Student Financial Aid)

Competency-based education is increasingly popular because of the flexibility it provides for students seeking a postsecondary credential. Current federal student aid, however, is geared toward supporting students in traditional, time-based degree programs. This paper discusses why current approaches to federal student aid are not supportive of competency-based degree programs and explores how federal statute and regulations could be changed, in ways that are not reliant on time and credit hours, to disburse aid to students while minimizing fraud.
Beyond Financial Need: Predictors of Student Loans and Student Loan Attitudes
Author: Norvilitis, Jill M.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Predictor Variables,Student Loan Programs,Student Attitudes,Program Attitudes,Debt (Financial),College Students,Psychological Characteristics,Locus of Control,Delay of Gratification,Social Status,Parent Influence,Need Analysis (Student Financial Aid),Student Surveys,Likert Scales,Paying for College,Regression (Statistics),Correlation

Although public concern about student loan debt has been increasing, little research has examined predictors of debt beyond financial need or demographic factors. The present study explored the role of several psychological and attitudinal variables in student loan debt among 189 college students. Results indicate that loan initiative and loan resignation attitudes predicted level of student loan debt. In addition, locus of control, delay of gratification, and social comparison are also related to loans and loan attitudes. Parental instruction marginally predicted loan attitudes, but not loan totals. Overall, these results suggest the need to consider non-need based factors when counseling students about accepting loans.
Which U.S. Households Use Education Loans?
Author: Hsu, Chungwen
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Loan Programs,Family Characteristics,Family Income,Parent Background,Debt (Financial),National Surveys,Predictor Variables,Statistical Surveys,Participant Characteristics,Higher Education,Regression (Statistics)

This empirical study uses the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to investigate the characteristics of households that hold at least one loan for educational expenses. The benefit of using household-level data is that a single household may have education loans for multiple people in the household, including the household head, spouse/partner, and children. In studies of the education loan debt of individuals, the true effect on households may be overlooked. The present results show that the respondent's age, respondent's marital status, having at least one dependent child under the age of 18, net worth, home ownership, stock ownership, being retired, being Hispanic, and being in the &quot;other&quot; race/ethnicity group each have a negative relationship with the likelihood of holding education loans. In contrast, the respondent's education, having at least one dependent child who is 18-25 years of age, being a female, and being non-Hispanic Black have a positive relationship with the likelihood of holding education loans.
ICT Teachers' Acceptance of &quot;Scratch&quot; as Algorithm Visualization Software
Author: Saltan, Fatih
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Computer Software,Visualization,Preservice Teachers,Information Technology,Statistical Analysis,Scores,Usability,Mixed Methods Research,State Universities,Teaching Methods,Thinking Skills,Information Science Education,Correlation,Questionnaires,Student Attitudes,Color,Layout (Publications),Programming,Gender Differences,High Schools,Learning Experience,Technological Literacy,Technology Education,Likert Scales,Foreign Countries

This study aims to investigate the acceptance of ICT teachers pertaining to the use of Scratch as an Algorithm Visualization (AV) software in terms of perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness. An embedded mixed method research design was used in the study, in which qualitative data were embedded in quantitative ones and used to explain the results. The data were collected from 214 pre-service ICT teachers studying in four large public universities. Data was gathered through a questionnaire adapted from David's Technology Acceptance Survey (1989) and through open-ended questions. T-test and Pearson correlation, as well as descriptive statistics, were used to analyze quantitative data and constant analysis techniques were used to analyze qualitative data. Both kinds of data were mixed and are presented in the results section. The results show that pre-service ICT teachers mainly have positive and similar Scratch acceptance scores in terms of usefulness and ease of use. The factors explaining participants' perceived usefulness are identified as visual interface (37%), pedagogy (36%), and computational thinking (27%). The majority of the participants also found Scratch to be easy to use. Pre-service ICT teachers explained that what makes AV software easy to use is color separation (40%), drag and drop (30%), and familiar interface (30%). Additionally, no significant difference between the acceptance scores of the participants was found in terms of gender, years of programming experience, programming background, and the high school they graduated from as indicators of programming experience. Results congruent with previous studies regarding Scratch were found by the current study.
A Trillion-Dollar Question: What Predicts Student Loan Delinquencies?
Author: Mezza, Alvaro
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Loan Programs,Debt (Financial),Loan Default,Loan Repayment,Predictor Variables,Student Records,Federal Aid,Enrollment Rate,Graduation Rate,Majors (Students),Institutional Characteristics,Credit (Finance),Credibility,Age Differences,Participant Characteristics,Multivariate Analysis,Educational Attainment,Statistical Data,Predictive Validity,Educational Policy,College Students,Grants

The recent significant increase in student loan delinquencies has generated interest in understanding the key factors predicting the non-performance of these loans. However, despite the large size of the student loan market, existing analyses have been limited by lack of data. This paper studies predictors of student loan delinquencies using a nationally representative panel data set that anonymously combines individual credit bureau records with Federal Pell Grant and federal student loan recipient information, records on college enrollment, graduation and major, and school characteristics. We show that borrower-level credit characteristics are important predictors of student loan delinquencies. In particular, credit scores of young borrowers are highly predictive of future student loan delinquencies, even when measured well before borrowers enter repayment. In marked contrast, our results point to only a limited power of student debt levels in predicting future student loan credit events. Our findings have potentially useful practical implications. For example, access to credit file information when borrowers exit school could help to more effectively target student loan borrowers who might benefit from enrolling in income-driven repayment or loan modification plans.
Metonymic-Based Metaphor--A Case Study on the Cognitive Interpretation of &quot;Heart&quot; in English and Chinese
Author: Qian, Li
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Case Studies,English,Figurative Language,Chinese,Contrastive Linguistics,Cultural Differences,Emotional Experience,Language Usage,Classification,Folk Culture,Language Research

English is particularly rich in both metonymic and metaphorical expressions making use of the concept &quot;heart&quot; to speak of emotional issues (Niemeier, 2000). It is not difficult to find a large number of Chinese linguistic expressions in terms of &quot;[Chinese characters omitted]&quot; (&quot;xin&quot;) (&quot;heart&quot;)&quot; to refer to emotion or other concepts. In the present study, under the categorization of &quot;heart&quot; by Niemeier (2000), we took some examples of &quot;heart&quot; in Chinese and gave a comparison between the metonymy-based conceptual metaphors in these two languages. This study found some positive evidence for the metonymic base for metaphors. In addition, there are some different interpretations of Chinese &quot;heart&quot; expressions due to the specific culture background.
A Comprehensive Wellness Program for Veterinary Medical Education: Design and Implementation at North Carolina State University
Author: Royal, Kenneth
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Veterinary Medical Education,Wellness,State Universities,Case Studies,Intellectual Development,Mental Health,Social Distance,Cultural Awareness,Physical Health,Medical Students,House Plan,Program Effectiveness

Research in veterinary medical education has illustrated the challenges students face with respect to mental and emotional wellness, lack of attention to physical health, and limited opportunities to meaningfully engage with persons from different backgrounds. In response, the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine has adopted a comprehensive wellness program available to all members of the college community. The wellness program is based on a &quot;house system&quot; learning community model and focuses on five broad outcome categories: intellectual growth; mental and emotional health; social distance reduction; cultural competence; and physical health. This case study paper describes the development and implementation of the model at this institution.
The Views of Teacher Candidates on Using Cloud Technologies in Education
Author: Korucu, Agah Tugrul
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Computer System Design,Computer Uses in Education,Student Teachers,Student Teacher Attitudes,Qualitative Research,Computer Science Education,Content Analysis,Foreign Countries

This study aims to describe the views of student IT teachers' and the factors which affect their priorities to use cloud services progressively. The study is conducted by qualitative research approach. The data obtained from the department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology students are collected by &quot;structured form for the use of cloud technologies.&quot; The data is analyzed by content analysis method. According to the findings, student teachers use cloud systems for file sharing and they do not use cloud systems because they do not need them or they do not know them mostly; cloud systems' main advantage is the flexibility of use independence from time and space and their main disadvantage are the security issues and the fact that they rely on the internet connection; cloud systems' main benefits for educational purposes are the flexibility and cost of use, and the fact that they support connection and collaboration between different users; participants think cloud services may have benefits on personal development of individuals' information literacy knowledge and can improve teaching skills and on connection and collaborative work with various people and finally student teachers are in the opinion that cloud services are more appropriate for application-project courses and both group and individuals' instruction. Due to cloud services' benefits on education, adopting them into education system is important to reach the developed education level. Therefore, teachers should be trained among those innovative technologies by IT teachers who are the core element for this process.
Abbreviation as a Reflection of Terms Variability in Language for Specific Purposes: Translational Features (Terminology Case Study in German, English, Kazakh, and Russia)
Author: Beisembayeva, Gulshat Z.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Languages for Special Purposes,Translation,Language Variation,Verbal Communication,Language Usage,Linguistics,Language Research,Memory,Case Studies,German,English,Russian,Turkic Languages

The range of modern dynamic social changes, globalization of world powers' economic cooperation, acceleration of technocratic processes have widespread impact on term systems' variability in language, in particular, on terminological variability for specific purposes. This globalized extra-linguistic factor provokes avalanche growth of terminology, acronyms and abbreviations. This became a natural condition of verbal communication not only in certain language space, but also in everyday speech. The lexiphanic technical and specific terms leading to maximizing abbreviations can be explained primarily by the &quot;principle of least effort&quot; or so-called &quot;the law for speech savings&quot;. Nearly each industry terminology is under a particular variation in a state of constant quantitative and qualitative changes. Variability, consequently, provokes corruptions in communication of the meaning of terms, namely, in their translation. The correct interpretation of terms, finding the only correct translation equivalents of a term in language for special purposes (LSP) are one of the central problems of modern terminology. The misinterpreted by a translator preformative factor. The article shows the main forms of abbreviations. The article can be a theoretical source for researches in the field of linguistics.
Analysis of Experimentation Results on University Graduates' Readiness Formation to Act in Extraordinary Situations
Author: Moloshavenko, Vera L.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Bachelors Degrees,College Graduates,Readiness,Simulated Environment,Emergency Programs,Industry,Fuels,Surveys,Statistical Analysis,Comparative Analysis

The article presents the experimentation on graduates' readiness formation to act in extraordinary situations conducted in the Tyumen Industrial University in training bachelors in &quot;Oil and Gas Business&quot;. The criteria of graduates' readiness formation to act in extraordinary situations are the following: practicability, validity, timeliness, feasibility, specificity. There are three levels of readiness to act in extraordinary situations: low, average, high. There were used method &quot;The Level of Subjective Control&quot; by J. Rotter, method for determining neuro-psychological stability and the risk of maladjustment in stress--&quot;Forecast&quot;, method of constriction measurement, method of identification and analysis of professionally important traits of a specialist in &quot;man-technique&quot; system as diagnostic instruments. In the experiment, there is developed a program of &quot;Preparing for action in extraordinary situations of technogenic nature&quot; focused on data of the region that includes the use of professional simulation in the learning process. There is a statistical analysis of experimentation results. The experimentation results demonstrate the effectiveness of developed program in university graduates' readiness formation to act in extraordinary situations.
Application Features of Language Acquisition Assessment System in Kazakhstan: KAZTEST
Author: Dinayeva, Bekzat B.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Official Languages,Social Influences,Political Influences,Language Usage,Language of Instruction,Documentation,Language Tests,History

The article deals with the analysis of peculiarities of language acquisition assessment system in Kazakhstan--KAZTEST. The author pays attention to the role of control as a way of assessment students' skills, habits and knowledge. In addition, author determined the place and functions of tests as a form of control. The author explores the specificity of testing in the educational system of Kazakhstan. KAZTEST system is the Kazakhstani system based on international standards. The KAZTEST system plays an important role in social and political life of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Its national peculiarities, advantages and disadvantages are determined in the present research. The background of KAZTEST formation and its role in society are under discussion in the framework of official language policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. However, besides Kazakhstan, the language policy problems are the inherent part of national policy in many multinational and multilingual countries.
Making Art Pedagogy in the System of Education in the Republic of Kazakhstan
Author: Almukhambetov, Berikzhan A.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Art Education,Ethnicity,Culture,Role of Education,Universities,Comparative Analysis

The article reveals the importance of art pedagogy, art pedagogy through understanding the history of Kazakh art. The paper provides definitions of potential art of Kazakhstan and its role in the educational system of the university. It describes the main purpose of art teaching through the formation of ethnic and cultural identity of the student focused on the artistic culture of Kazakhstan in relation to other cultures. The influence of the subject field of art pedagogy personality. We generalize the theory of reflection and domestic authors. Comparing the use of art pedagogy in practice in the modern educational system. The article presents the etymological analysis of the term &quot;art pedagogy&quot;, highlights the key approaches to the interpretation of this concept in the modern domestic pedagogy and provides a comparative analysis of its teaching with related terms (art therapy, art education, etc.). Scroll that these ideas in training and education, the principle of continuity of generations and traditions, including art, should play a key and fundamental role. To write this article was the disclosure of the understanding of art pedagogy in Kazakhstan. There exists studies of art pedagogy and scientific-methodical publications is extremely small, which creates the urgent need for meaningful disclosure of the term &quot;art pedagogy&quot;.
The Scientific Enlightenment System in Russia in the Early Twentieth Century as a Model for Popularizing Science
Author: Balashova, Yuliya B.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Educational History,Science Instruction,Science History,Public Opinion,Periodicals,Colleges,College Role,Politics of Education

This research reconstructs the traditions of scientific enlightenment in Russia. The turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was chosen as the most representative period. The modern age saw the establishment of the optimal model for advancing science in the global context and its crucial segment--Russian science. This period was characterized by significant scientific and sociopolitical changes. The level of education in Russia was extremely low; good education was accessible only to the upper class. Therefore, a program for popularizing science was launched. This research investigates the means and methods that were used to popularize science in Russia. In order to achieve the set goal, a set of complementary methods was used, including analysis, didactic method, and structural-functional analysis. The research also generalizes the experience of Russian and foreign experts in the subject at hand and applies the principles of historicism, systematicity, and dialectic unity of the historical and the logical. The main means of popularization of science were as follows: publication of popular-science periodicals, granting of considerable autonomy to higher educational institutions, and establishment of out-of-school institutions. During the soviet period, the popularization of science continued, but in the light of Marxism-Leninism, which included the launch of a state program for eliminating illiteracy.