ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Relationship between Education, Personal and Social Competences and Quality of Life of Adult Family Caregivers
Author: Santos, Ana
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Correlation,Educational Attainment,Quality of Life,Caregivers,Adults,Disabilities,Intellectual Disability,Clinical Diagnosis,Interpersonal Competence,Lifelong Learning,Family Relationship,Gender Differences,Individual Development,Foreign Countries

Increasingly, lifelong learning is of growing importance and it refers to the constant experiences and needs of individuals adapting to the development of their personal and social skills in relation to the contexts and circumstances in which they are inserted. For this, one of the primary requirements to be able to enjoy a high Quality of Life. For the family, the diagnosis of disability in children is a particularly significant time consuming energy and mobilizing physical and economic resources, imposing itself as an important event inducing stress. It is an exploratory study with a quantitative data approach. The data analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics (version 25) software. This study has as main objectives (1) to evaluate the QoL of Family Caregivers of Adults with Disability or Intellectual Disability, by identifying the domains and facets of the WHOQOL-Bref most affected; (2) to study the measure of association between some variables related to the care delivery and QoL of Family Caregivers; (3) to evaluate the differences in the indicators of QoL between genders and (4) to evaluate the relationship between the wear associated with the caring of the Family Caregivers and their QoL. N=30 aged 20-57. Instruments: Sociodemographic and Care Rendering Data Sheet, WHOQOL-Bref QoL Scale, and Caregiver's Scale of Attrition. As results this study reveals that the WHOQOL-Bref domains are not significantly affected. It was also verified that there is a negative association between the objective and subjective burnout and the QoL of the Family Caregivers. The scale of personal growth, however, is negatively related to QoL. This study points to the importance of leadership investing in Family Caregivers in the sense of their personal growth and development of social skills.
School Principals&apos; Instructional Feedback to Teachers: Teachers&apos; Views
Author: Balyer, Aydin
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Principals,Feedback (Response),Teacher Administrator Relationship,Teacher Supervision,Public School Teachers,Content Analysis,Educational Improvement,Foreign Countries,Teacher Attitudes,Elementary School Teachers,High School Teachers

The purpose of this study was to discover school administrators' principals' instructional feedback during their supervision tasks regarding classroom observation. The research was carried out with a qualitative research design and a semi-structured interview technique was administered to collect the data. The data were analyzed with content analysis technique. The participants were 23 public school teachers working in Istanbul, Adiyaman and Sanliurfa provinces in Turkey in 2018-2019 school year. They were determined with purposive sampling technique. Results reveal that school principals show poor competency in supervision work and perform the classroom supervision task once a year as a necessity of the formal procedure. Comparing to educational supervisors, results show that school principals may be more useful because they know the teacher and know the general operation of the school. Results also demonstrate that teachers do not benefit from the feedback given by the school principals, because they are claimed to give general suggestions. It is therefore incumbent on administrators to learn how to supervise teachers to support schoolwide instructional improvement. School principals should recognize how their own position within the supervisory system influences the feedback they provide to teachers.
Developing an Adaptation Test for Students to Daily Life about the Unit &quot;Systems and Health in Our Body&quot;
Author: Tutar, Miyase
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Test Construction,Grade 6,Human Body,Health Education,Test Validity,Test Reliability,Science Education,Test Items,Foreign Countries

This study is aimed to develop an adaptation test to determine the adaptation level of the 6th grade students about the concepts and topics to their daily life included in the unit ''Systems and Health in Our Body''. The test items were prepared by considering the reasons of the problems that they can encounter in their daily life about the subject and the concepts. The test was reduced to 27 items depending on the opinions of the experts and the period that the students given to answer the items. The final application was conducted with 48 students after the necessary corrections were done. The evaluation of the test items was performed as an answer key and grading rubric were formed. In this study, Pearson correlation coefficient and the comparison of means theory was used to determine the scoring reliability among scorers.
A Comparative of Finger Tapping Test Scores Elite Athletes, Art, Foreign Languages and Computer-Instructional Technology Students
Author: Sahin, Senay
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Comparative Analysis,Psychomotor Skills,Athletes,Correlation,Executive Function,Tests,Scores,Art Education,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Computer Science Education,Team Sports,College Students,Foreign Countries

Fine motor skill is ability to control and coordinate the small muscles in the hand for precise movements. Fine motor skill have been associated with several other cognitive abilities, including processing speed executive functions and scholastic skills. Fine motor skill in the early years have also been shown to predict later academic achievement, especially in reading and mathematics and to predict underachievement in able students at school. In this aspect our objective in this study was to compare finger tapping test scores between students of art, foreign languages, computer-instructional technologies and elite athletes. A significant difference was found between elite athletes and all groups in finger tapping test scores. Elite athletes performed more finger taps than other groups in the same period. In conclusion, the more importance of fine motor skill in terms of sporting success also explains the difference of the finger tapping test performances between the groups.
Enthusiastic Academic and Support Service Staff as an Agent for Change: A Case Study Based on a Project in African Higher Education Institutes
Author: Haaranen, Ari
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Case Studies,Change Agents,Electronic Learning,Library Services,Teaching Methods,Faculty Development,Educational Change,Technology Integration,Content Analysis,Higher Education,College Faculty,Public Health,Educational Improvement,Strategic Planning,Educational Development,Staff Development,Cooperation,Cultural Differences,Management Systems,Electronic Publishing,Video Technology,Partnerships in Education,Universities,Institutional Characteristics,Foreign Countries

The aim of this case study was to evaluate whether there had been educational changes and if so, in which phases of implementation and institutionalization in three African higher education institutions. The changes were evaluated from the point-of-view of trainees in the field of e-learning and library services during the project conducted in 2013-2015. Written texts and visual material were analysed using qualitative content analysis. The enthusiasm and mutual pedagogical understanding of the academic and support service staff were the key factors promoting the changes in the integration of e-learning and modern library services into everyday practices in these higher education institutions. The provision of suitable training and pedagogic skills to the academics and the support service staff made it possible dovetail these concepts to suit their home institution and provide them with a common language and value base that supported student learning.
Effect of Traditional Methods in Teaching English on Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis Study
Author: San, Ismail
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English Instruction,Conventional Instruction,Instructional Effectiveness,Academic Achievement,English (Second Language),Foreign Countries,Vocabulary Development,Speech Skills,Reading Skills,Writing Skills,Masters Theses,Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this meta-analysis study is to determine the overall effect size of the traditional methods on academic achievement in the experimental studies on teaching English. For this purpose, the data were collected from the master's and doctoral thesis carried out in Turkey. The aim of meta-analysis is to compare and combine the results of studies on a subject. 10 doctoral and 40 master's theses between the years 2005-2018, meeting the inclusion criteria, were included in the study. Results show that traditional methods have large effect d=0,98 [0,83; 1,12] on English academic success. This result means traditional methods increases academic success in teaching English. But this result doesn't mean that traditional method is more successful than modern approaches.
Designing Questions for Research Design and Design Research in e-Learning
Author: Cronje, Johannes C.
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Research Design,Research Methodology,Educational Research,Electronic Learning,Research Problems,Models,Instructional Design

This paper presents a model for developing research questions that are aligned to research aims for research design in e-learning. The model is proposed as a solution to the on-going problem of heterogeneity of research problems. The model is based on Burrell and Morgan's four social paradigms, and integrates four research aims, namely, explore, explain, develop and describe; four design positions, namely, formalist, populist, functionalist and conventionist; and four pursuits of (hu)mankind, namely, virtue, value, power and knowledge. Four of Roode's (1993) research questions are mapped onto each of the consolidated paradigms. The feasibility of the model was tested against eight papers in previous issues of this journal. Two questions drove the study: what are the paradigms in which the selected articles can be classified, and how are these paradigms aligned to the research aims and research questions? The model was found to be useful in aligning the implied research aims and research questions of the selected papers. The model is proposed as a useful tool for supervisors and novice researchers to assist with the development of integrated research aims and research questions. Further research will include the development of generic question stems that can be used as the first few words of the questions that correspond to each aim.
Learning Model Development of &quot;Teams-Games-Tournaments (TGT)&quot; in Learning German Vocabulary (&quot;Wortschatz&quot;) for Senior High School Students in Makassar
Author: Usman, Misnawaty
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: German,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Vocabulary Development,Worksheets,Educational Games,Textbooks,Models,Teaching Methods,Teaching Guides,Cooperative Learning,Foreign Countries,Student Attitudes,Science Education,Instructional Design,High School Students,Competition

The purpose of this study was to develop a learning model of &quot;Teams-Games-Tournaments (TGT)&quot; in learning German vocabulary (&quot;Wortschatz&quot;). Specifically the study aims: (a) to find out the validity, practicality, and effectiveness of German vocabulary learning to improve students' vocabulary mastery; (b) to find out the effectiveness Teams-Games-Tournaments (TGT) learning model for German vocabulary learning. The subjects of this study were teachers and students of class XI at SMA 11 Makassar. The data were collected via implementation of learning model sheet, questionnaire, and test. Learning model development of this study was examined in terms of validity and effectiveness. Learning model development was designed using 4-d procedures; defining stage, design stage, development stage, and disseminate stage. The result showed that learning model of &quot;Teams-Games-Tournaments (TGT)&quot; in learning German vocabulary (&quot;Wortschatz&quot;) was valid, practical and effective. The validity of this model was; learning implementation plans (3.86), textbooks (3.58), student's worksheets (3.78), and teachers' handbook (3.84). By using t- test formula where t[subscript h] (10,128) &gt; t[subscript t] (2,002) with alpha level (a) 0,05, showed the learning model of Teams-Games-Tournaments (TGT) was effective in learning German vocabulary.
Lifelong Learning Competencies among Undergraduate First Year and Final Year Midwifery-Nursing Students
Author: Örs, Mukaddes
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Lifelong Learning,College Freshmen,College Seniors,Obstetrics,Nursing Students,Foreign Countries,Competence,Student Characteristics

The aim of this research is to determine the lifelong learning competence of undergraduate first year and final year midwifery-nursing students. A quantitative research methodology was employed. The population of the study consists of a total of 375 students attending of department of midwifery (n=106) and nursing department (n= 269) in 2017-2018 academic year. Lifelong Learning Competence Scale developed was used for data collection. In the data analysis, descriptive statistics were applied. Results indicated that the midwifery and nursing students' lifelong learning competence scale and scale sub-dimensions scores are high level. As a result of the Mann Whitney U test, it was put forward that there was statistically significant differences in level of decision-making competencies based on department variable (Mdn= 3.59, U=1694.5, P &lt;0.05). As a results of Mann Whitney U test, which was made to compare the self-management subscale scores of 1st and final year students, there was a statistically significant difference in self-management competencies subscale of students according to grade level (Mdn= 3.85, U= 2567, &lt;0.05).
Sustainability and Healthy Habits in School: Eating and Physical Activity
Author: Ramos, Sara
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Eating Habits,Dietetics,Computer Software,Obesity,Public Health,Intervention,Prevention,Identification,Elementary School Students,Body Composition,Physical Activities,Electronic Equipment,Health Behavior,Lifelong Learning,Student Attitudes,Health Education,Foreign Countries

Obesity in childhood has become a major global public health concern. Its considerable increase in the last decades took the World Health Organization (WHO) to regard this fact as one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century. Diagnosing, intervening and, above all, preventing obesity in the early stages of life becomes urgent and justified by the innumerable health complications found in adults. It is expected and fundamental that schools provide practices in order to promote good health habits, given opportunity to the students keeping them for their future life according a lifelong education. This research was carried with 15 students, aged 6 to 7 years old. Their body mass index (BMI) was calculated, we held a questionnaire about their eating habits related to the Mediterranean Diet (MD) and the significance of healthy eating and physical activity (PA) practicing was discussed. We measured their PA using accelerometers. Data were analyzed with specific software and some of them were discussed bases on qualitative analysis. The results of this study showed improvements in the PA of the participants after intervention, it is also demonstrate that is possible promote health behaviours in articulation with other areas of knowledge.
Examination of the Relationship between Organizational Resilience and Organizational Sustainability at Higher Education Institution
Author: Sezen-Gültekin, Gözde
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,Organizational Culture,Sustainability,Institutional Characteristics,Foreign Countries,College Faculty,Cultural Influences,Social Influences,Economic Factors,College Administration

As organizational environments become increasingly complex, uncertain and unpredictable, organizations face more crises and are forced to maintain their resilience in these circumstances. In spite of these situations, organizations that maintain their resilience try to secure their organizational sustainability by taking their existence one step further. According to the UNDP report, organizations can create a sustainable dynamic if they can make individuals and communities more resilient. Then it is obviously seen that organizational resilience and organizational sustainability concepts are related to each other. For this reason, the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between organizational resilience and organizational sustainability at educational organizations based on the opinion of academicians. In this respect, the study was designed with a relational screening model which is one of the quantitative research methods. The sample of the study consisted of the 322 academicians who worked at a state university in Turkey and were selected by the maximum diversity method. As the data collection tools, Organizational Resilience Scale and Organizational Sustainability Scale were used. After correlation analysis, it was occurred that organizational resilience had a high positive relationship with the overall dimensions of organizational sustainability, and the sub-dimensions of social sustainability and administrative sustainability. In addition, organizational resilience had also a moderate positive relationship with the sub-dimensions of environmental sustainability; cultural sustainability and economic sustainability. In this case, it was seen that the results obtained in the study were supported by other studies in the literature.
Teacher Perceptions on Managerial Role Behaviors of School Principles
Author: Çelebi, Nurhayat
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Attitudes,Administrator Role,Principals,Secondary School Teachers,High Schools,Public Schools,Foreign Countries

Duties and responsibilities of managers in a school to increase the quality of education are often discussed among the trainers. The aim of this research was to reveal the perceptions of the teachers at public high schools on the managerial role and behaviors of school administrators. The research was a descriptive study in the screening model. The study group of the research had 276 teachers working in the official high schools in the districts of Bakirköy and Avcilar in Istanbul. The measuring instrument used in the research was a 30-item Likert-type measuring instrument developed by the researchers. The Cronbach's Alpha coefficient of the scale was 0.914. T-test and one-way ANOVA were administered to the independent groups. According to the results of these factor analyses, teachers' perceptions about administrators' managerial role behaviors were gathered under four sub-dimensions as &quot;administrator's role and strategies, education-training programs, assessment of teaching and supporting teacher&quot;. The findings revealed that the item 'school principals encourage their participation in professional meetings for the training of teachers&quot; had the highest (X-bar =3.13), and the item &quot;efforts to contribute to improving the quality of education in teaching&quot; had the lowest average scores (X-bar =2.15). The results of the research also showed that managerial leadership role in education curricula was emphasized but leadership qualities such as rewarding, motivation, cooperation, quality, success related to learning teaching process were weak.
Perception of Professional Social Support as a Predictor of Burnout Level of Pre-School Teachers
Author: Tornuk, Nuray
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preschool Teachers,Teacher Burnout,Predictor Variables,Foreign Countries,Teacher Attitudes,Social Support Groups,Collegiality,Teacher Administrator Relationship,Teacher Student Relationship,School Culture,Principals,Family Relationship

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between perception of pre-school teachers' professional social support and burnout levels. The model of this research is the relational screening model included in the quantitative research model. The participants of the study were 297 pre-school teachers working in official schools of the Ministry of National Education in Tekirdag in 2017-2018 academic year. The data were collected by burnout scale, teacher professional social support scale and participant information form. According to the data, there was a statistically significant negative correlation between burnout and all sub-dimensions of social support scale. In addition, professional social support perceptions of preschool teachers were found to be a significant predictor of burnout levels.
Self-Regulated Lifelong Learning in Law Using LinkedIn
Author: Sia, Chin Chin
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Metacognition,Web Sites,Social Networks,Law Students,Reflection,Undergraduate Students,Profiles,Innovation,Task Analysis,Social Capital,Cooperation,Peer Relationship,Employers,Employment Opportunities,Lifelong Learning,Foreign Countries

In tertiary legal education, self-regulated learning is demonstrated through active goal-directed, self-control of behaviour, motivation, and cognition for assessment tasks by an individual learner. Self-regulated learning involves a recursive cycle, involving three phases: forethought, performance and reflection. Through the creation of LinkedIn undergraduate e-profiles through the assessed task, the students are trained to be self-regulated learners. The effectiveness of LinkedIn in achieving the aim of self-regulated learning will be evaluated and demonstrated. In addition, professional networks help educate students who hold uninformed views of the workforce they are about to join. Networking is an essential part of building capital, and online social media tools, such as LinkedIn, is a suitable resource. This paper shows one innovative method for encouraging law students to be self-regulated learner in shaping their presence in the professional world by using LinkedIn. Their profiles with the necessary skills will be their foundation to venture into the real legal world.
A Study on Relationship between Emotional Maturity and Teaching Competency of Prospective Teachers
Author: Srinivasan, R.
Date: 2019-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Emotional Intelligence,Teacher Competencies,Preservice Teachers,Gender Differences,Foreign Countries,Institutional Characteristics,Teacher Education Programs,Measures (Individuals)

The present study seeks to measure the relationship between emotional maturity and teaching competency of prospective teachers. The Emotional Maturity Scale (EMS) developed and standardised by Dr Yashvir Singh, and Dr Mahesh Bhargava revalidated by the investigator in 2019 and Teaching Competency Scale (TCS) constructed and standardised and validated by the investigator in 2019 for prospective teachers. The investigator has been used to collect the data from the sample of 650 prospective teachers studying in Coimbatore, Nilgiris and Tirupur district of Tamilnadu, India. The findings of the study expose that there is no significant difference in emotional maturity of excepted teachers with regard to gender, there is no significant difference in teaching competency of prospective teachers with respect to gender, there is no significant difference between the mean scores in the emotional wisdom with the type of college and there is no significant difference between the mean scores in the teaching competency with kind of college.