ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Quality of Life and Physical Activity among University Students
Author: Çiçek, Güner
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Quality of Life,Physical Activities,College Students,Questionnaires,Foreign Countries,Physical Activity Level,Body Composition,Statistical Analysis,Correlation,Comparative Analysis,Interviews

This study was to investigate the physical activity (PA) and quality of life (QoL) of sports department students (SDS) and other department students (ODS) attending university. A total of 300 university students participated in this study. 150 SDS (age; 20.67 ± 1.65 years) including 89 males and 61 females and 150 ODS (age; 19.45 ± 1.22 years) 56 males and 94 females. To determine the physical activity levels, International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) short and Quality of Life questionnaire-short form (WHOQOL-BREF) were applied. The weekly physical activity scores of SDS and ODS were 5386.24 ± 3528.47 MET-min/week and 1616.85 ± 1249.12 MET-min/week respectively and statistically difference was found (p&lt;0.001). QoL levels and physical, psychological, social relations and environmental parameters of SDS were found to be higher than ODS and statistically significant (p &lt;0.001). In comparison with the genders, the total average PA score of men was found as 4938.86 ± 3919.33 MET-minute/week while that of women was found as 2592.44 ± 2276.82 MET-minute/week. In the QoL parameters, only the social relations of men were higher than women, and a statistically significant difference was found (p &lt;0.001). In university students, it was found that as the PA scores increased, QoL levels also increased and there was a positive relationship between them. Students should be encouraged to do sport in their spare time to improve their QoL levels.
Replacing the Lab Manual with a Learning Management System in Physics Investigations for K-4 Pre-Service Teachers
Author: Sobolewski, Stanley
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Laboratory Manuals,Integrated Learning Systems,Physics,Elementary School Teachers,Preservice Teachers,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Student Teacher Attitudes,Comparative Analysis,Electronic Learning,Outcomes of Education

The traditional laboratory investigation uses a procedure written on paper; students then record their responses on a supplied data page or laboratory notebook. In an attempt to make this process more efficient, the use of a Learning Management System (in this case D2L) was used to present the material and collect student feedback. Each student had a University supplied laptop, read the procedure from the screen and submitted answers through D2L. As anticipated there was no change in content knowledge. However surprisingly, subjects felt the paper and pencil approach was easier to use than computer entry. In a subsequent study, the same population in the same course completed an on-line only lecture and lab course. We will discuss the student's reaction to this on-line class.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for Professional Teacher and Teacher Educator Development: A Case of TESSA MOOC in Kenya
Author: Wambugu, Patriciah W.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Online Courses,Teacher Educators,Foreign Countries,Faculty Development,Teacher Education,Teacher Effectiveness,Educational Quality,Information Technology

This study intends to present a bespoke teacher professional development MOOC designed by Teacher Education for Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) team that allows MOOCs to become a viable means offering cost-effective, quality professional teacher development. TESSA is a network of teachers and teacher educators, working to improve classroom teaching in Africa. TESSA MOOC is an innovative approach to capacity building for teacher educators and teachers across Africa. The study presents outputs of an evaluation of TESSA MOOC course undertaken by Kenyan teachers and teacher educators. The experiences of the participants were that the TESSA MOOC was a new but interesting, appealing and flexible course. In addition, the participants were able to learn from one another and what they learnt may impact on their pedagogical skills. Key challenges identified include difficulties in downloading of materials due to lack of internet connectivity and use of ICT phobia for learning. MOOCs represent an untapped potential for teacher professional development that can be a cost and resource effective means to deliver quality education to teachers and teacher educators. Therefore, the teachers and teacher educators may need to exploit this learner based TESSA MOOC to build capacity for teaching.
Mindfulness and Critical Thinking: Why Should Mindfulness Be the Foundation of the Educational Process?
Author: Škobalj, Eva
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Metacognition,Critical Thinking,Questioning Techniques,Teaching Methods,Observation,Self Evaluation (Individuals),Case Studies

Teaching critical thinking to pupils and students stands as one of the most crucial goals of education. The existing professional literature offers a wide range of definitions for critical thinking along with a variety of perspectives on the topic. The same can also be said of the approaches that a teacher should use to encourage pupils to think critically. Such a variety is undoubtedly desired as it opens up new questions and breeds the necessity for further inquiry. At the same time, it is vital that we constantly build upon and deepen the concept of critical thinking in accordance with modern day requirements and general development. Regardless of the universal consensus on what critical thinking is and how to approach it, it is necessary, at least to some extent, to develop a relatively conceptual consistency among teachers though it seems neither possible nor logical. This article deals with establishing the connection between critical thinking and mindfulness, which is presented as the foundation or condition upon which it is possible to develop critical thinking abilities. Numerous definitions of mindfulness from professional literature have been included for this very purpose as well as the many parallels between mindfulness and critical thinking. The article describes mindfulness, not as a new concept only appearing in the present day, but as a strategy reaching deep into the past all the way to, among others, ancient Greece. In the final phase of the article, mindfulness is outlined as a strategy that offers the power to build upon the critical thinking that we are familiar with today while also providing additional contemporary content.
Psychological Study on the Origin of Life, Death and Life after Death: Differences between Beliefs According to Age and Schooling
Author: Silva Bautista, Jesús
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Beliefs,Death,Age Differences,Foreign Countries,Educational Attainment,Religion,Evolution,Scientific Attitudes,Statistical Analysis

The present work proposes a psychological study via beliefs, about the origin of life, death, and life after death. Beliefs have played a decisive role in the development of humanity, from the primitive man who gave to the unknown divine forces, the judgments of the Holy Inquisition in the Medieval Age, the impact provoked by the conviction that the Earth was round on the belief of a flat Earth, and many other beliefs that sustain the behavior of the human being. In this context, the need arose to investigate the beliefs held by inhabitants of the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City towards the origin of life, death and life after death and with it, to know if there are differences in function of age and schooling; for this, the scale of Silva, Herrera and Corona was applied and with the purpose of obtaining the &quot;t&quot; of Student and ANOVAS the statistical package SPSS version 21 was used. The results show statistically significant differences between beliefs and sociodemographic variables age and schooling. Schooling: The more educated the population in general, the less likely they are to have religious beliefs. Age: The group of people between 35 and 45 years old are the ones who show a tendency to believe in scientific postulates about death, unlike those who are 60 years old and older.
Historical Trajectory of &quot;Kí Òla Mi Báa Lè Dára&quot; (That My Future May Be Bright): A Yoruba Philosophy of Engagement in Formal Education
Author: Akinmayowa, Akin-Otiko
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: African Culture,Role of Education,Educational Philosophy,Social Attitudes,Questionnaires,Adolescents,Attitude Measures,Foreign Countries,Educational History,Entrepreneurship,Value Judgment

Beliefs and practices are usually guided by philosophies or thought patterns is the case with the Yoruba who believe and regard formal education in high esteem. This high regard and the level of commitment shown to formal education is founded on &quot;Kí òla mi báa lè dára&quot; (that my future may be bright), a philosophy of educational engagement. This philosophy, over time, has gone through three different phases: the popular phase, the unpopular phase and current phase of review. During the popular phase, the attitude of the Yoruba was mostly towards formal educational engagement. They believed without doubt that formal education was the most effective means to a guaranteed bright future. During the second phase, which is the unpopular phase, the philosophy had lost its appeal because it failed to blend theory with practice. Experience showed that formal education is not the most assured means to a guaranteed future. The current phase, which is the third phase, is a stage of re-examining the philosophy thereby making formal education more appealing to youths. This paper examines &quot;Kí òla mi báa lè dára&quot; as a basis for explaining the early focus on formal education among the Yoruba, and how this philosophy has determined the attitude of the Yoruba towards formal education. To buttress existing literature, a questionnaire was administered and data collected from 300 randomly selected youths between the age of 12 and 18. The questionnaires sought to know the role that formal education had played in ensuring a bright future. The paper concluded that formal education is currently no longer perceived as the key factor to achieving a bright future among youths. It also identified ways of improving on &quot;Kí òla mi báa lè dára&quot; as a philosophy of engagement in formal education.
Physical Education and Sports in the Reports of Foreigner Education Experts Coming to Turkey in the Period of Republic (1923-1960)
Author: Yildiz, Mehmet
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Physical Education,Athletics,Expertise,Educational History,Educational Change,Qualitative Research,International Programs,International Cooperation

Different applications have been initiated for the restructuring of the Turkish education System, with the proclamation of the Republic and 123 training experts have been invited to Turkey between the years 1923-1960 in this regard. 19 people have been requested to prepare the report in relation with their fields of specialization among the foreign education experts arriving in Turkey between these dates; however, these experts have produced reports that include the whole of the Turkish education system. This situation has also led to superficial assessment of some issues that need to be addressed specially. The physical education and sports field, which is one of these areas, is handled very superficially in the expert reports, even they have seen to be affected from the reports carried out before themselves and their reports are in the situational dimension rather than functionality. As there is no adequate development in the field of physical education and sports within the reformed education system, the Republic of Turkey has taken measures to bring foreign physical education and sports experts to Turkey through government agencies such as Turkey Training Community Alliance (TTCA), Turkish Sports Authority, the General Directorate of Physical Education and to develop this field in modern sense.
The Effect of Academic Involvement and School Climate as Perceived by Gifted Students in Terms of Talent, Creativity, and Motivation in Science
Author: Akkanat, Çigdem
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Environment,Academically Gifted,Talent,Creativity,Student Motivation,Science Instruction,Multiple Regression Analysis,Foreign Countries,Parent Participation,Parent Student Relationship,Teacher Student Relationship,Student Attitudes,Factor Analysis,Statistical Analysis

When drawing up the educational conditions offered to gifted students, it is important to be aware of their characteristics and to reveal the variables affecting their learning processes. Even though there are institutions in many countries that provide services for gifted individuals, there are relatively few studies on how students assess the climate in these institutions and how the institutional climate influences the learning process. Therefore, we investigated the influence of motivation, talent, and creativity levels of students attending Science and Arts Centers, an educational institution in Turkey for gifted students, regarding science classes, the role of academic involvement and parent and teacher support, and the school climate as perceived by students. In this context, 997 gifted students selected through stratified sampling provided the data for the study. When parental and teacher support and school climate perceived by gifted students are considered together, this significantly predicts the students' motivation toward science, their levels of scientific creativity, and science talents. The findings of this study were examined considering the current literature, and the limitations of the study and suggestions for future research are presented.
The Effect of Smoking on the Physical Fitness of Elderly Male Subjects
Author: Eroglu, Hüseyin
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Smoking,Physical Fitness,Older Adults,Males,Aging (Individuals),Physical Activities,Correlation,Age Groups,Comparative Analysis,Statistical Analysis

Introduction: This study was conducted to analyze the effect of the smoking habit on the physical fitness of elderly male subjects. Material and Method: The study was conducted on 849 (age 68.7 ± 6.1 years, height 169.4 ± 6.4 cm, 76.4 ± 11.00 kg) elderly male volunteers who could independently perform their daily activities and did not suffer from any health problems. These subjects were divided into three groups as smokers (n = 239), smoking quitters (n = 285) and non-smokers (n=325). In this study, &quot;Senior Fitness Test&quot; (SFT) protocols comprising of six tests were used to determine the lower and upper extremity strength, flexibility, dynamic balance, coordination and aerobic endurance. The data analysis was performed based on the age groups of participants, and the significance of differences between groups, i.e. &quot;smokers (S)-non-smokers (NS)&quot;, &quot;smokers (S)-smoking quitters (SQ)&quot; and &quot;non-smokers (NS)-smoking quitters (SQ)&quot;, were determined using &quot;Independent Samples T&quot; test. Findings: The data analysis suggests that non-smokers of all ages had higher physical fitness performance scores compared to smokers, which was a statistically significant finding (p&lt;0.05). Conclusion: It was found out that non-smoking elderly male subjects had higher physical fitness level compared to smoking elderly male subjects in all tests.
The Effect of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Based Training Programs Used in Astronomy Classes on the Success Levels of Science Teacher Candidates
Author: Sensoy, Onder
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Technological Literacy,Astronomy,Science Teachers,Pretests Posttests,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Quasiexperimental Design,Science Instruction,Educational Practices,Knowledge Level,Technology Integration,Technology Uses in Education,Grade 4,Elementary School Science,Preservice Teachers,Foreign Countries

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) based educational practices in astronomy lectures on prospective science teachers' success levels. The study was conducted on 4th-grade prospective science teachers of a public university and lasted for 14 weeks. In the study, quasi-experimental method and pre-test post-test control group experimental design were employed. The study was conducted in 2015-2016 Academic Year, in the Astronomy Course. In total, 72 students (control group = 35, experimental group = 37) participated in the study. &quot;Astronomy Success Test&quot; was used as data collection tool. The KR-20 reliability coefficient of the test was calculated as 0.81. During the research process, the instruction was carried out by following the current Astronomy Course Curriculum in both groups. In addition to this, in the instruction process of the experimental group TPCK based educational practices were applied. In the research, it was determined that an improvement has occurred in success levels at a significant level of the students in the experimental group. In addition, it was also determined that the post-test astronomy success scores of the students in the experimental group are significantly higher than the scores of the students in the control group.
A Corpus Investigation on the Journal of Social Sciences of the Turkic World
Author: Yilmaz, Isa
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Periodicals,Social Sciences,Turkish,Word Frequency,Natural Language Processing,Bibliometrics,Bibliographies

In recent years, a rapid development in computer technologies has been witnessed and feasibility of data access has been increased. In today's world, restoring documents, or data in general, and transferring them to interested parties are ordinary tasks. The amount of restored documents has also increased expeditiously and this development has required new technologies to emerge for building knowledge from large data sets. Basic applications of text mining include gathering and processing text to extract information that embodies raw data. Thus, basic text mining applications can help researchers to reach valuable knowledge from a mass of documents. This study investigated academic articles published in &quot;bilig&quot; (&quot;Journal of Social Sciences of the Turkic World&quot;) between 1996 and 2017 to find the frequencies of words and letters used in academic Turkish. Basic text mining of 4,850,817 words in 19437 pages from 81 &quot;bilig&quot; issues was completed using a natural language processing library, Zemberek and a programming language, R.
Spiritual Expressions&apos; Prediction of Mindfulness: The Case of Prospective Teachers
Author: Yalçin, S. Barbaros
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preservice Teachers,Foreign Countries,Undergraduate Students,Prediction,Phenomenology,Religious Factors,Correlation,Religion,Test Validity,Test Reliability,Perception,Metacognition,Attention Control,Factor Analysis,Likert Scales,Statistical Analysis

The purpose of this research is to determine whether prospective teachers' spiritual expressions have predicted their mindfulness. The research was conducted in relational screening model. The study group consisted of 411 students (81.2%) females and 94 (18.6%) males, totally 505 undergraduate students who are studying in the last year and who participated in teaching practice. For data collection procedure, the Mindful Awareness Scale, developed by Brown and Ryan was used. Turkish validity and reliability of the scale was studied by Özyesil, Arslan, Kesici and Deniz and the Spiritual Expression Scale (SES), developed by Macdonald. This scale was studied in Turkish with Turkish validity and reliability by Sahin and Baloglu. The results indicate that there is a positive meaningful relationship at nominal level between the mindfulness and the spiritual expression orientation with the religiosity sub-dimension and the spiritual cognitive orientation subscale; a negative meaningful relationship at nominal level between experiential phenomenological sub-dimensions; a positive meaningful relationship at moderate level between the existential well-being sub-dimensions. However, there is no meaningful relationship between mindfulness and paranormal beliefs sub-dimensions. As a result, it is seen that existential well-being sub-dimension of spiritual expression inventory predicts mindfulness.
The Development of Science Student Worksheet Based on Education for Environmental Sustainable Development to Enhance Scientific Literacy
Author: Ekantini, Anita
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Worksheets,Environmental Education,Science Education,Sustainable Development,Scientific Literacy,Energy,Validity,Instructional Effectiveness,Junior High School Students,Instructional Design,Questionnaires,Tests,Observation,Scores,Qualitative Research,Statistical Analysis

Indonesia is a country that has abundant renewable energy sources, one of which is hydropower that can be utilized as an alternative energy source. However, fossil energy remains as major supplier of energy needs in all sectors of activity. The Education for Environmental Sustainable Development (EESD) approach can be applied in science education to prepare learners with environmental knowledge, especially energy, so students can participate actively in solving various energy issues in the environment. EESD is suitable to be trained to students using the science student worksheet. The objectives of this research were: (1) to develop EESD-based science student worksheet that is theoretically valid and (2) to know the effectiveness of the science student worksheet that is developed to increase scientific literacy. This research used the 4-D Thiagarajan development model which includes Define, Design, Develop, and Disseminate stages. The findings of this study indicated that the science student worksheet with EESD approach were: (1) theoretically valid according to validator with value A (very good category), and (2) effective to increase student scientific literacy.