ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Mathematics for Language, Language for Mathematics
Author: Prochazkova, Lenka Tejkalova
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematics,Mathematics Instruction,Foreign Countries,Integrated Activities,Learning Activities,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Teaching Methods,Preservice Teachers,Preservice Teacher Education,English (Second Language),College Students,Language of Instruction,Teacher Education,Language Teachers,Mathematics Teachers,Language Acquisition,Native Language,Teacher Education Programs

The author discusses the balance and mutual influence of the language of instruction and mathematics in the context of CLIL, Content and Language Integrated Learning. Different aspects of the relationship of language and Mathematics teaching and learning are discussed: the benefits of using a foreign language of instruction, as well as the advantages of using Mathematics as a tool to teach a foreign language. Based on research among pre-service teacher trainees, the author presents different approaches to CLIL-lesson planning, pointing out the focus of the teacher trainees on content and/or language and the development throughout the ongoing course of CLIL at the University, with respect to the different specializations of the teacher trainees.
The Mistakes and the Misconceptions of the Eighth Grade Students on the Subject of Angles
Author: Biber, Çagri
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Misconceptions,Grade 8,Foreign Countries,Middle School Students,Geometric Concepts,Mathematics Education,Mathematics Instruction,Geometry,Mathematical Concepts,Mathematics,Rote Learning,Test Items,Questioning Techniques

The purpose of this study was to determine the learning levels, mistakes, and misconceptions of the 8th grade students on the subject of &quot;angles in geometry&quot; as well as the possible reasons for these situations. Research sample consisted of 30 students attending the 8th grade of a middle school located in the central district of a northern province of Turkey during the 2012-2013 academic year. 4 open-ended questions were used in this study. Firstly, the answers given were divided into two: correct and incorrect. Then, incorrect answers were split into sub-categories and tabulated. According to the results of the study, (1) students paid attention to the physical appearances of geometric figures alone without taking into consideration their geometric properties; (2) although they detected some geometric properties of figures, they failed to associate these properties with other knowledge required for solution; (3) they generalized a property that was valid for only a specific condition over different situations; (4) and they did not fully comprehend the concept of parallelism on the subject of angles.
The Effect of Sportive and Cultural Activities on the Self-Esteem and Hope of the Children Who Have Tendency to Involve in a Crime
Author: Basaran, Zekiye
Date: 2016-07-23
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Self Esteem,Crime,Delinquency,Cultural Activities,Recreational Activities,Pretests Posttests,Observation,Self Concept Measures,Likert Scales,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Interest Inventories,Foreign Countries,Questionnaires,Statistical Analysis,Elementary Secondary Education

This study aimed to investigate the effects of sportive and cultural recreative activities on the hope and self-esteem of children who have tendency to involve in a crime. The sample of the research consists of 41 students aged between 8 and 14. The data was collected during the project called &quot;Our future is safe with sport.&quot; Personal information form, scale of hope in children, and Cooper Smith self-esteem inventory were used as the data collecting tools and were conducted both at the beginning and at the end of the project as pre-tests and post-tests. The program was performed two days a week and one and half hours a day. These activities were judo, table tennis, ice skating, gymnastics, and taekwondo. The children were also taken to different cities every two weeks. The research lasted eight weeks. The data was analyzed using SPSS 18.0 package programme. Descriptive statistic, paired samples t-test, and correlation were used to analyze the data (p&lt;0.05). It was observed at the end of the research that there was a numerical increase in the effect of these sportive and cultural activities on the children. However, this effect was observed to have less significant effect statistically. Yet, these children were observed to be showing better attitudes, communicating, solving a problem, taking responsibilities and attending their schools. It is recommended to do longer research for this kind of work.
Analyzing Musical Self-Esteem and Performance Anxiety Levels of Students Receiving Professional Music Education at Different Institutions in Turkey
Author: Otacioglu, Sena Gürsen
Date: 2016-07-23
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Self Esteem,Music Activities,Musical Composition,Anxiety,Professional Education,Theater Arts,Predictor Variables,Self Concept Measures,Undergraduate Students,Values,Age Differences,Gender Differences,Likert Scales,Cohort Analysis,Musical Instruments,Foreign Countries,Nonparametric Statistics,Statistical Analysis,Regression (Statistics)

The study was conducted to establish which variables cause the interrelations between musical self-esteem and performance-anxiety levels of students receiving professional music education at different institutions to vary. In relation to this framework, &quot;musical self-esteem&quot; and &quot;performance anxiety&quot; scores of students registered at the departments of music education, conservatories and music departments in Turkish faculties of fine arts were examined with respect to a set of variables. The population of the research consisted of 306 students from the first, second, third and fourth grades in the departments of Music Education affiliated to Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul University, Dogu Akdeniz University, Marmara University, Kocaeli University, Karadeniz Technical University, Dokuz Eylül University, On Sekiz Mart University and Uludag University during the fall term of the 2014 to 2015 academic year. In the study, we utilized the Turkish version of the &quot;Kenny Music Performance Anxiety&quot; inventory originated in 1979 by Schmitt to measure Musical Self-esteem levels and subsequently developed by Kenny (2004). One-way variance analysis, independent group t-test, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests were harnessed to analyze the variables of research data in terms of frequency (f), percentage (%), musical self-esteem and music performance anxiety inventory scores that varied with respect to variables such as (X-bar) and (sd) values, gender, age, university and individual instrument at school. In all these processes &quot;significance level 0.05&quot; was the agreed figure.
Investigating the Awareness and Knowledge of Secondary School Students about the Effects of Allergic Pollen on Human Health: A Case of Burdur Province
Author: Tuzlak, Kadir
Date: 2016-07-23
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Secondary School Students,Knowledge Level,Familiarity,Investigations,Public Health,Pollution,Pretests Posttests,Qualitative Research,Statistical Analysis,Grade 7,Grade 6,Questionnaires,Achievement Tests,Prevention,Etiology,Foreign Countries,Content Analysis

The overall objective of this study is to increase the awareness of secondary school students of the effects of pollen allergy on human health by mapping allergic pollens appearing in Burdur atmosphere. This study is a pre-test and post-test experimental design. Mix method is applied thus. Both qualitative and quantitative data are gathered. The sample of this study consists of students in 6th and 7th grades in Alpaslan Ali Can Secondary School, Burdur. Pre-treatment and post-treatment questionnaire and achievement test are administered in order to determine the effectiveness of the education seminar given on the effects of pollen allergy. According to the findings obtained from the analysis of the achievement test, cognitive awareness of the students about the effects of pollen allergy on human health is found to be higher. Post-treatment results obtained from the questionnaire show there is increase in awareness of the students about the importance of pollen allergies and how to take precautions.
Pre- and In-Service Preschool Teachers' Science Teaching Efficacy Beliefs
Author: Aslan, Durmus
Date: 2016-07-23
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Science Instruction,Beliefs,Teacher Attitudes,Student Teacher Attitudes,Preservice Teachers,Inservice Teacher Education,Self Efficacy,Self Concept Measures,Likert Scales,Majors (Students),Cohort Analysis,Teaching Experience,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis

In this study, pre- and in-service preschool teachers' science teaching efficacy beliefs were investigated. The sample included 100 pre-service (50 first grades and 50 last grades) and 73 in-service preschool teachers. As a data collection tool &quot;Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument&quot; was used. Findings indicated that in-service teachers had higher science teaching efficacy belief score than pre-service teachers. Also, last grade pre-service teachers had higher science teaching efficacy belief score than first grade pre-service teachers. Moreover, pre-service teachers who graduated from mathematics and science departments at high school had more science teaching efficacy belief score than those who graduated from literature and mathematics department. Finally, teachers who have teaching experience of more than 10 years had higher level of science teaching efficacy beliefs than those who have less teaching experience.
Learning Disabilities: Current Policy and Directions for Community Involvement among the Arab Community in Israel
Author: Jabareen-Taha, Samaher
Date: 2016-07-23
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Learning Disabilities,Community Involvement,Educational Policy,Etiology,Reading Difficulties,Writing Skills,Mathematics Skills,Arabs,Emotional Problems,Social Problems,Guidelines,Foreign Countries

This article seeks to identify and review the basic characteristics of learning disability which are specifically mentioned in the literature. In addition, the article intends to conduct a brief analysis on learning disability policy in Israel and the differentiation problems at the level of awareness among the Arab society in Israel. Despite the fact that during the past twenty years this field earned a significant progress in Israel, lags in awareness and educational policy between the Arab and the Jewish communities in Israel still rises. These lags could be attributed to different causes like parents awareness toward the effect of learning disabilities on the academic domain of the students. The article raises the question of the ways that programs of community involvement suggest for increasing awareness on behalf of parents and educators concerning learning disabilities. This intervention model is presented by a suggested ecological quarto-model as a recommended model toward intervention in the Arab community in Israel.
The Difficulties That the Undergraduate Students Face about Inner Product Space
Author: Burhanzade, Hülya
Date: 2016-07-23
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Undergraduate Students,Qualitative Research,Concept Teaching,Mathematics Education,Problem Solving,Mathematical Concepts,Mathematics Activities,Task Analysis,Foreign Countries

In this qualitative research, we studied difficulties that undergraduate students face while learning the concept of inner product space. Participants were 35 first-year mathematics students from Yildiz Technical University in the 2011 and 2012 academic years. We asked participants to solve 5 inner product space questions. Data were jointly analyzed by researchers. After evaluating the results, we grouped students' answers into &quot;right,&quot; &quot;wrong,&quot; or &quot;blank.&quot; The foremost difficulty that the students encountered while studying inner product spaces is that they could not understand the concept thoroughly and they did not know how to choose the elements of inner product spaces. Additionally, it was seen that because the students simply memorized the concepts instead of learning and understanding them they made conceptual and procedural errors.
Numerical Implementation of Indicators and Statistical Control Tools in Monitoring and Evaluating CACEI-ISO Indicators of Study Program in Industrial Process by Systematization
Author: Ayala, Gabriela Cota
Date: 2016-07-23
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Engineering Education,Accreditation (Institutions),College Programs,Universities,Quality Assurance,Educational Quality,Statistical Analysis,Educational Indicators,Program Evaluation

The research was conducted to determine if the study program of the career of industrial processes Technological University of Chihuahua, 1 year after that it was certified by CACEI, continues achieving the established indicators and ISO 9001: 2008, implementing quality tools, monitoring of essential indicators are determined, flow charts are developed and introduced to strengthen the quality management system, the website was designed to systematize finally implemented for each requirement primary control indicator and their respective metric to measure performance and determined that 17 indicators are being met extensively, five indicators were moderately satisfied and 3 indicators are not met, it has a 12% failure of the primary indicators measured during the study period 2014-2015.
Metaphor Perceptions of Pre-Service Teachers towards Mathematics and Mathematics Education in Preschool Education
Author: Keles, Oguz
Date: 2016-07-23
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Teacher Attitudes,Preservice Teachers,Figurative Language,Mathematics Education,Preschool Education,Mathematical Concepts,Qualitative Research,Questionnaires,Cluster Grouping,Foreign Countries

The aim of this study was to identify the thoughts of pre-service teachers, who play an important role in the early preschool experience of children in mathematics, towards the concepts of mathematics and education of mathematics with the help of metaphors. The study group of the research consists of a total of 227 pre-service teachers at the Department of Preschool Education, Faculty of Education, Cukurova University in the 2013-2014 academic years. The data of the study were collected by asking pre-service teachers to complete some sentences like &quot;do you think, education of math is like …. in the preschool education; because Math is like …; because….&quot;. The responses obtained from pre-service teachers were categorized by content analysis. As a result of the study, seven categories created by pre-service teachers towards the concepts of mathematics and education of mathematics are as follows: the source of life-itself, mathematics using skills of mental processes, math facilitating the fun learning, cumulative math facilitates life, complicated math difficult to learn and boring math. There are 223 metaphors in 112 types in this category. Considering the categories created, there are five positive and two negative categories. The rates of positive categories were calculated as 88.8%, while the rates of negative categories were 11.2%. This shows that pre-service teachers produce mostly positive metaphors about mathematics and education of math and they have positive beliefs. As a result of the research, the categories like the source of life-itself, mathematics using skills of mental processes and math facilitating the fun learning come to the forefront.
Multidisciplinary Approach for Curriculum Design of Professional Master's Program with Focusing on Solidary Economy in Oaxaca, Mex
Author: Margarita, Rasilla Cano
Date: 2016-07-23
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Interdisciplinary Approach,Curriculum Design,Masters Degrees,Program Administration,Human Resources,Sustainable Development,Models,Social Integration,Food Standards,Safety,Natural Resources,Water Quality,Social Problems,Environment,Foreign Countries,Geographic Regions,Program Descriptions

The IPN Oaxaca CIIDIR has a mission to train human resources to postgraduate level that contribute to sustainable regional development in the South-East of Mexico. This is a vulnerable region that boasts an important source of natural resources and a great social, economic and technological backwardness that is directly related to the educational aspect. A master's degree has been designed with three lines of work, taking into account the strengths of the CIIDIR-Oaxaca: Design and sustainable technologies to the building, Security and food safety, and water resources. The aim is to encourage the transfer of knowledge and technology, with methodologies that allow promoting the work of collaborative multi and interdisciplinary and linking with the professional sector. The curriculum design responds to the educational model of the IPN, this model is characterized as facilitator of professional skills and too responds to the model of social integration. The curriculum of the master degree in &quot;Project management for the solidary development&quot; was designed with vocational guidance in response to the shortcomings detected in the region about social and environmental problems, through relevant diagnosis and analysis. This program is included in the PNPC-CONACYTi. The starting point of this methodology is the social order and the context deals with the social, economic and environmental aspects. The training of graduate students has the focus of solidarity economy and sustainability as an alternative view and feature in the proposal of projects to manage.
What Changes Education? An Action Research to Overcome Barriers
Author: Eskicioglu, Yeser Eroglu
Date: 2016-07-23
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Action Research,Barriers,Educational Change,Adapted Physical Education,Focus Groups,Transcripts (Written Records),College Students,Pretests Posttests,Attitudes toward Disabilities,Familiarity,Foreign Countries,Qualitative Research,Participant Observation,Content Analysis

According to the National Disabled People Data Base within Ministry of Family and Social Policies (Özveri), there are 1.559.222 disabled people in Turkey. If this rate would be linked to the families of the disabled people, the number of people who spend time with disabled individuals would increase to 10 million. This number corresponds to 12.5% of the country's population. This requires sensitiveness from each individual because everyone is either a disabled person, related to a disabled person or a potential disabled person. In this case, the importance of information related to disabled people, acquired by the students in the highest institutions of the education system increases due to the fact that they are future teachers and potential managers. This research was conducted in Abant Izzet Baysal University, School of Physical Education and Sport in order to analyze and understand the effects of disability training on the students. Designed as an activity research, this study took 36 h for 12 weeks. The research was conducted with 15 voluntary students who took Physical Education and Sport for Disabled People and Sport for Disabled People classes. The data were gathered through focus group discussion and field notes. In the analysis of the data, both descriptive and content analyses were used. All of the operations were done by NVIVO 10 qualitative analysis program. Results showed that the students reached almost all phases of the cognitive domain outcomes by acquiring a level of information more advanced than the level they had at the beginning. Furthermore, especially the outcomes at the affective domain revealed that the students became more equipped in this respect.
Key Information-Problem Solving Skills to Learn in Secondary Education: A Qualitative, Multi-Case Study
Author: Argelagós, Esther
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Problem Solving,Qualitative Research,Secondary School Students,Guidelines,Case Studies,Information Seeking,Web Based Instruction,Teaching Methods,Statistical Analysis,Task Analysis,Instructional Design,Foreign Countries,Astronomy,Information Sources

Internet has become one of the most important information sources for students' personal and academic life. In addition, the World Wide Web is receiving increased attention in education because of its potential to support new forms of learning. However, using the information from the net for learning requires the development of a set of abilities such as searching and tackling information from the Internet to find solutions of a problem--this set of abilities is called Information-Problem Solving (IPS) skills. The main objectives of this study are the following three: first, to provide a detailed description about how secondary students solve an IPS task; second, to identify key IPS skills, sub-skills, and regulation activities that have more incidence upon students' success to solve a problem using digital information on the Web; and third, to use this information to draw educative guidelines to design web-based instructional process and foster IPS in secondary classrooms. In-depth analyses of quantitative and qualitative data of a multi-case study allowed us to identify distinctive patterns and sequences of IPS skills used by students to solve a task. Furthermore, IPS skills (defining the problem and search for information), sub-skills (specifying search terms and selecting results from a SERP), and regulation activities (orientation on the task, monitoring, and testing) were identified as key skills which have more incidence in students to solve successfully IPS tasks to learn curricular contents at school.
The Relationship between Dimensions of Forgiveness with Mental Health in Mothers of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Author: Nemati, Shahrooz
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mothers,Mental Health,Intellectual Disability,Developmental Disabilities,Psychological Patterns,Well Being,Mental Disorders,Correlation,Foreign Countries,Regression (Statistics),Questionnaires,Likert Scales,Altruism,Interpersonal Relationship

The aim of the current study was to predict mental health of the mothers of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities from the magnitude of their forgiveness. To fulfill the stated goal 88 mothers of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities by means of accessible sampling procedure, and Besharat mental health (2009) as well as Enright forgiveness inventories standardized by Ghobari Bonab et al. (2003) was given to them. Analysis of data using Pearson's correlation revealed that among mental health (psychological well-being and psychological distress) and all three dimensions of forgiveness a positive relation was found. In other words, individuals who were higher in forgiveness were more satisfied in their mental health. Multivariate regression also revealed that 23% of variations in psychological well-being by affective and cognation, and 20% of variations in psychological distress by cognation and behavioral component can be accounted by dimensions of their forgiveness. Theoretical implication and practical application of the findings have been delineated in the original paper.