ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Natural History Dioramas: An Opportunity for Children to Observe Science in Action in a Moment of Time
Author: Gkouskou, Eirini
Date: 2017-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Observational Learning,Scientific Research,Museums,Pretests Posttests,Science Activities,Inquiry,Observation,Workshops,Interpersonal Communication,Teaching Methods,Heritage Education,Educational Experience,Educational Practices,Foreign Countries,Children

?he nature of scientific research goes beyond the learning of concepts and basic manipulation to the key factors of engaging students in identifying relevant evidence and reflecting on its interpretation. It is argued that young children have the ability to acquire viable, realistic concepts of the living world when involved in relevant activities (Tunnicliffe, 2000). Visiting a museum of natural history is an educational experience, which offers, children experiences that cannot be obtained within the classroom and research found that museums are excellent sources of cognitive experiences that complement and/or enrich the curriculum of formal education (Dillon et al., 2016). Dioramas have a specific context, which gives visitors the opportunity to be creative and have more learning opportunities when they engage with them (Achiam et al., 2014). This paper draws on data that were gathered at a natural history museum. These data were the spontaneous conversations of child visitors and a workshop with structured educational activities with a pre- and post-test research design, which provided the opportunity for children to observe science in action in a moment of time. These data focused on aspects of historical and experimental aspects of science in action shown in the positions and environments of the animals featured which may be identified in natural history dioramas.
Improvement and Evaluation of Copper Oxidation Experimental Procedure for the Introduction of the Law of Definite Proportion
Author: Yamashita, Shuichi
Date: 2017-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Science Instruction,Science Experiments,Scientific Concepts,Concept Formation,Foreign Countries,Science Laboratories,Laboratory Experiments,Grade 8,Secondary School Science,Questionnaires,Chemistry,Program Effectiveness

In science classes, students usually learn about the law of definite proportions by the oxidation of copper. However, common procedures usually do not lead to proper results. This leads to confusion among the students because their experimental results do not fit to the theoretical values. Therefore, we invented a new procedure for this experiment to improve the introduction of the law of definite proportions. The new procedure can also be done by the students, and it is done within 15 min and provides theoretical data written in the textbook. To evaluate this improved procedure, we let 8th year students (n = 133) do the copper oxidation experiment in the traditional and the improved way. The oxidation ratio doing the improved method was 98%, whereas the traditional way was only 55%. Students' individual feedback indicates that the new method might be able to improve the understanding of the law of definite proportions.
Examining the Effect of Co-Op Non-Employment and Rejection Sensitivity on Subjective Well-Being
Author: Cormier, Lauren
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cooperative Education,Well Being,Unemployment,Student Surveys,Undergraduate Students,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis,Emotional Response

A growing body of literature suggests the need to better understand the subjective well-being (SWB) of students enrolled in cooperative education (co-op) programs. Some co-op students will be unsuccessful in securing employment, yet there is a scarcity of existing quantitative research outlining the impact that this will have on students, particularly first work-term students who are engaging in the job-search process for the first time. Using an integrated framework of SWB, this paper seeks to address the negative effect of co-op unemployment on SWB and the potential moderating effect of students' rejection sensitivity. Two self-report surveys were analyzed (n = 82). These were taken before and after first work-term students were informed of their employment results. The results showed a significantly negative main effect on SWB after discovering they were not employed, compared to their employed peers. Rejection sensitivity was found to be a moderator of the effect. These findings imply that consideration should be given to ways to support this group of co-op students to ameliorate effects of non-employment on well-being.
Applying a Conceptual Model in Sport Sector Work- Integrated Learning Contexts
Author: Agnew, Deborah
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Field Experience Programs,Athletics,Interdisciplinary Approach,Models,Curriculum Design,Foreign Countries,Partnerships in Education,Undergraduate Study,College Programs,Case Studies,School Business Relationship

This paper applies a conceptual model for work-integrated learning (WIL) in a multidisciplinary sports degree program. Two examples of WIL in sport will be used to illustrate how the conceptual WIL model is being operationalized. The implications for practice are that curriculum design must recognize a highly flexible approach to the nature of placements and, as a result, emphasize the necessity to conduct a post-practicum debriefing to support the valuable learning and to continue the duty of care towards the student. We propose the expansion of Martin, Rees, and Edwards model to include both a partnership and debriefing component for sport WIL in Australia. This inclusion will not only provide a sustainable model for sport partnership WIL programs in Australia, but ensure that a focus on duty of care towards students is a core responsibility and moral obligation for universities and placement organizations.
Challenges Implementing Work-Integrated Learning in Human Resource Management University Courses
Author: Rook, Laura
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Undergraduate Study,Workplace Learning,Education Work Relationship,Human Resources,Personnel Management,Curriculum Implementation,Qualitative Research,Semi Structured Interviews,Educational Resources,Conflict,Stakeholders,Legal Problems,Ethics,Expectation,Program Development

The examination of work-integrated learning (WIL) programs in the undergraduate Human Resource Management (HRM) curriculum is an area under-represented in the Australian literature. This paper identifies the challenges faced in implementing WIL into the HRM undergraduate curriculum. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with 38 participants including academics, careers advisors, professionals and students from nine Australian universities. The findings show that a lack of resources, a clash of agendas, legal and ethical issues, expectations, the HRM profession and academic perspectives of WIL, are impacting on how WIL programs in HRM are being developed. Recommendations are made for the future development of WIL in HRM.
Differences in the Emotional Intelligence between Undergraduate Therapy and Business Students and the Population Norms
Author: Gribble, Nigel
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Emotional Intelligence,Undergraduate Students,Business Administration Education,Intellectual Disciplines,Experiential Learning,Student Surveys,Occupational Therapy,Physical Therapy,Speech Language Pathology,Allied Health Occupations Education,Problem Solving,Stress Management,Comparative Analysis,Self Actualization,Interpersonal Relationship,Self Control,Empathy,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis,Decision Making,Self Concept,Self Expression

Students occasionally experience difficulties during work-integrated learning and clinical placements. The authors reasoned that these placement difficulties might be related to the students' emotional intelligence (EI) being underdeveloped before they commence full-time clinical placements. A cross-sectional survey design was used to measure the EI of third-year undergraduate occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech pathology and second-year business students (n = 369). Results showed that over 40% of therapy students reported scores that are considered low or markedly low in the EI domains of independence, problem-solving and stress tolerance. The EI scores for therapy students that were significantly higher than the Australian EI norms were self-actualization, interpersonal relationships, empathy, and impulse control. The mean scores of business students were within the normal range for all EI domains. A recommendation of our study is to include strategies that develop EI throughout the therapy curriculum and when preparing students for clinical placements.
The Willingness to Prevent Obesity via Text Messaging among Low-Income African Americans Living in Single-Family Homes
Author: Wallace, Edward
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Obesity,Minority Groups,Prevention,Low Income,African Americans,Program Descriptions,Adults,Telecommunications,Handheld Devices,Focus Groups,Interviews,Recreational Facilities,Self Efficacy,Health Behavior,Decision Making,Health Education,Barriers

Background and Purpose: Racial and ethnic minority populations are disproportionally affected by obesity. Text messaging is a major feature of mobile phones and is popular because it allows people to receive information effectively, unobtrusively, and privately. However, the willingness to exercise and eat healthy to prevent obesity by receiving text messages is unclear. The purpose of this study is to examine low-income African Americans' willingness to prevent obesity by receiving mobile phone text messaging. Methods: We conducted focus group interviews to allow participants to share their own perceptions of their experiences using text messages. Researchers conducted five focus groups consisting of 30 participants. Focus group participants were recruited from the local Cincinnati Recreational Center where they were part of a 10-week sustainable obesity modification program. Participants were low-income African American adults between the ages of 31 and 34 years of age living in single family homes. Results: Low-income African American families were receptive to the idea of receiving text messages and willing to show some self-efficacy to prevent obesity. Conclusion: Since we live in a digital age where millions of people rely on their cell phones for information and send text messages daily, it is critical that we allow people the self-efficacy to make healthy decisions and have a positive healthy lifestyle. Text messaging has the potential of expanding the reach of obesity prevention in that cell phones are increasingly inexpensive, convenient, and accessible to low-income African Americans.
Community Health Workers in Health-Related Missouri Agencies: Role, Professional Development and Health Information Needs
Author: Visker, Joseph
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Community Health Services,Health Personnel,Staff Role,Professional Development,Information Needs,Public Health,Public Agencies,Questionnaires,Statistical Analysis

Community Health Workers (CHWs) serve an indispensable but oftten misunderstood and unrecognized role in public health. These individuals constitute the frontline of health care in many communities and are relied upon to provide an assortment of services. Unfortunately, the full extent to which CHWs are utilized is unknown and there is little information about their specific training needs. Further, extensive research on the common tasks performed by CHWs is limited. In order to better understand the specialized role of CHWs in public health, a statewide assessment of existing CHWs and those who employ CHWs was conducted in Missouri. A sample of 155 employed or volunteer CHWs and representatives from 36 health-related agencies completed a questionnaire assessing the professional roles of CHWs, as well as their perceived value in public health and professional development necessities. The results indicated that CHWs operate all over Missouri and commonly serve uninsured and low income populations by connecting people with needed health services. Participants cited diabetes, hypertension, nutrition, and physical activity as frequently addressed health concerns even though many have not been formally trained on these topics. Free and easily accessible educational materials will be needed to address the deficiencies in training among CHWs in the future.
Formation of Students&apos; Professional Self-Actualization in Modern Educational Environment
Author: Dmitrienko, Nadezhda A.
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Environment,Self Actualization,Professional Development,Observation,Questionnaires,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Student Surveys,Specialists,College Students,Foreign Countries,Semi Structured Interviews

The research relevance of the paper is determined by social demands in highly qualified specialists with abilities to professional growth. In this regard, the article is aimed at developing students' professional self-actualization in modern educational environment. The article presents authors' technology of developing students' consciousness indicating higher levels of students' professional selfactualization. Leading research methods are: theoretical analyses, induction and deduction, systematic and structural analysis, methods of indirect and direct pedagogic observation, expert evaluation and experimental testing (experimental questionnaires and review). Materials of the article are of practical value for teachers, students and people who are interested in practical ways of self-organizing personal and professional development in modern educational environment of technical university.
Buddhist Religious Education in the Context of Modern Russian Policy of Multicultural Education: A Case of the Republic of Buryatia
Author: Dorzhigushaeva, Oyuna
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Buddhism,Religious Education,Multicultural Education,Educational Policy,Cultural Differences,Cultural Pluralism,Educational History,Geographic Regions,Case Studies,Educational Development,Religion

The increase of ethnocultural and ethnoconfessional interactions in the context of modern cultural and religious diversity of Russia demands modernization of learning process according to the existing educational policy of multicultural education and defines the relevancy of the article. The purpose of the article is to analyze retrospectively the functioning of Buddhist religious education system in the Republic of Buryatia taking into account the multicultural component. The central methods in this research along with analysis, synthesis, abstraction, induction, deduction, generalization are the analysis of interactive documents and the method of case-study, an active problem-contextual analysis. The article briefly characterizes the main stages of Buddhist education development and the current religious situation in the Republic of Buryatia, reveals the peculiarities of introducing the subjects studying the basics of religious cultures and secular ethics in educational process, defines national and territorial characteristics of Buddhist education implementation in secular schools in the Republic of Buryatia, justifies its preventive educational potential for multicultural society. The study material can be useful for orientalist scholars and also both theorists and practitioners of general pedagogics, Buddhist and multicultural education.
Knowledge Management as an Approach to Learning and Instructing Sector University Students in Post-Soviet Professional Education
Author: Volegzhanina, Irina S.
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Knowledge Management,Professional Education,College Students,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Foreign Countries,Engineering Education,Business Administration Education,Academic Achievement,English for Special Purposes,Questionnaires,Student Surveys

The relevance of the study depends on addressing to the issue of knowledge management in learning and instructing students of post-Soviet sector universities. In this regard, the article is intended to reveal the nature of knowledge management approach compared to the knowledge-based one predominated in Soviet education. The flagship approach of this study is the systemic-activity approach to explain knowledge management advantages for learning and instructing social disciplines in sector universities. The relevant literature is reviewed to show evolution of approaches. It is stated that knowledge reflecting specificity of an industry may be defined as industry-oriented and can be represented by a new international web standard (ontology). To determine significant factors for knowledge absorption with the proposed approach an experiment was conducted. The results prove the didactic potential of ontologies, so the knowledge management approach is considered promising. This article may be of practical interest for professors of sector universities.
Improving Student Readiness to Overcome IT-Related Obstacles during Pedagogical Interaction in Post-Soviet Education
Author: Luchaninov, Dmitry
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: School Readiness,Educational Environment,Cognitive Development,Student Projects,Learning Activities,Learning Motivation,Technological Literacy,Technology Uses in Education,Barriers,Higher Education,Student Improvement,Interviews,Foreign Countries,College Students

The relevance of the study deals with the importance of improvement of student readiness to overcome IT-related obstacles in post-Soviet social studies education. In this regard, this paper aims at identifying the concept of pedagogical interaction in the information and educational environment and revealing the effective use of pedagogical interaction to improve student readiness to overcome IT-related obstacles. The leading research method used to solve the problem is teaching project, which allows an integrated treatment of methodology in developing student readiness to overcome IT-related obstacles. The paper presents such methods as creating positive motivation, arranging interactive educational cognitive and practical student activities and boosting the personal educational environment; it is shown that a distinctive feature of pedagogical interaction is the acquaintance of students with various elements of the information and educational environment, leading to the development of student readiness to overcome IT-related obstacles; it is found out that the use of pedagogical interaction in the information and educational environment ensures the purposefulness and efficiency of educational process; it is justified that using interactive means of information and educational environment in the context of arrangement of pedagogical interaction can enrich educational process, develop specific student skill that will definitely help them in future professional activities. The research materials are of practical value to the further expansion of functional and methodical aspects of using interactive media in the information and educational environment.
Social Informatics: Natural Tools for Students&apos; Information Training in the Conditions of Embodied and Mental Approaches Being Employed
Author: Barkhatova, Daria
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cognitive Processes,Teaching Methods,Computer Science Education,Psychological Patterns,Models,Information Literacy,Information Science,Foreign Countries,Information Sources,Course Descriptions,Higher Education

The relevance of the problem under study is due to the society's requirements for the quality information training of a personality which is oriented to forming the solid fundamental knowledge as well as to developing the cognitive capacities that are needed for solving mental tasks. With regard to this, the paper is aimed at finding out the opportunities of applying the natural tools in information training of students from the standpoints of embodied and mental approaches. The main idea of these is integrated studying of an object, beginning with learning it in an &quot;embodied&quot; way and finishing with abstract models formed in the human memory. The leading approach to the research is the integrated one taking into account the psychological and pedagogical, didactic and methodological constituents. It allows identifying the psychological and pedagogical conditions of application of natural tools as well as the possible ways of their use. The authors describe models of natural tools of computer science training in individual sections of the school course as the main results. The materials of the paper are of practical value in methods of teaching computer science to students at various stages of education.
Newest Web-Technologies for Studying and Diagnosing Individual Abilities of Learners
Author: Nikolaeva, Yuliya S.
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Technology,Technological Advancement,Technology Uses in Education,Educational Diagnosis,Ability Identification,Cognitive Ability,Memory,Attention,Information Processing,Reading Ability,Keyboarding (Data Entry),Courseware,Computer Software Reviews,Measurement Techniques,Higher Education,Foreign Countries

The relevance of the research is due to the need of taking into account the learners' cognitive characteristics in the educational process. Knowing the personal qualities of people is also important when choosing an occupation or employment. This is why the paper is aimed at describing the opportunities of the newest Web and mobile applications for studies and self-diagnostics of users based on the cloud technology of diagnosing the human individual and cognitive abilities. The leading approach to studying this problem is the projective and recursive strategy that allows viewing the problem of expert statistics accumulation and user diagnostic results analysis in an integrated way. The paper presents the developments in problem-solving computer environments for diagnosing human individual and integrated abilities. Grounds are given for diagnostics of the main human cognitive abilities: the scope of memory and attention; information processing, reading, typing speeds and others. The website for developing the new diagnostics and conducting studies can be accessed by everyone with any browser via http://selftest.ufoproger.ru. The website has been developed by the university students under the guidance of professor N.I. Pak. The materials of the paper are of practical value for teachers designing the educational process up to the learners' individual characteristics.