ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Suicide Ideation Associations with Attitudes toward Suicide, Quality of Life, and Attitudes toward Death and Dying among Chinese, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese High School Seniors
Author: Kay, Noy S.
Date: 2012-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Suicide,Psychological Patterns,Quality of Life,Correlation,Death,High School Seniors,Cross Cultural Studies,Cultural Differences,Asian Culture,Foreign Countries,Student Surveys,Student Attitudes,Attitude Measures,Depression (Psychology),Statistical Analysis,At Risk Persons,Questionnaires,Student Characteristics

Suicide of an individual could leave devastating consequences for family, friends, relatives, and society. Suicide could be considered a serious concern and issue to public health, especially among adolescents. The purpose of the study was to examine associations of suicide ideation with attitudes toward suicide (ATS), quality of life (QOL), and attitudes toward death and dying (ADD) in high school seniors. The participants were conveniently sampled and consisted of 1,247 high school senior students from China, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. The survey found that 21.7% of the Chinese, 20.9% of the Korean, 16.8% of the Thai, and 26.3% of the Vietnamese participants exhibited suicide ideation. The analysis revealed that student suicide ideation was significantly associated with ATS, QOL, and sustained elements of depression during the past 12 months in all four countries. In addition, there were statistically differences among the Chinese, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese students in QOL, ATS, and ADD. The analysis determined that there were certain predictive factors for suicide ideation in the participants. The impact of these findings could extend to professional roles within the school system including curricula and services. Administrators, faculty, or social workers could gain a better understanding of the current suicide ideation phenomenon and help raise awareness to reduce potential suicide attempts among high school students in these Asian countries.
How Motivation Influences Student Engagement: A Qualitative Case Study
Author: Saeed, Sitwat
Date: 2012-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Motivation,Learner Engagement,Qualitative Research,Case Studies,Student Participation,Incentives,Student Attitudes,Elementary School Students,Grade 5,Grade 6,Foreign Countries,Student Surveys,Group Activities,Teaching Methods

The authors use Ryan and Deci's (2000) Self-Determination Theory (SDT) to better understand how student motivation and engagement are linked combined with Schlechty's Student Engagement Continuum to analyse the impact of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on students' different engagement types. The study seeks to understand which type of motivation--intrinsic or extrinsic--is more closely aligned to authentic student engagement as identified by Schlechty (2002, 2011). A qualitative research framework was adopted and data was collected from one elementary school class. According to Ryan and Deci's SDT, the majority of students who indicated that their motivation type was either intrinsic or integrated regulated motivation also demonstrated that they were authentically engaged in their education (Schlechty, 2002, 2011). The students who preferred extrinsic motivation also showed ritual and retreatist forms of engagement and students demonstrating both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation showed authentic, ritual, retreatist and rebellious engagement. In line with findings by Zyngier (2008) in this particular study at least, when pedagogical reciprocity (Zyngier, 2011) was present, intrinsic motivation assisted authentic student engagement in learning, and that extrinsic motivation served to develop ritual engagement in students however, students who had both types of motivation showed different types of engagement in their learning.
Science Comic Strips
Author: Kim, Dae Hyun
Date: 2012-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Methods,Cartoons,Science Instruction,Scientists,College Students,Children,Web Sites,Publications,Humor,Foreign Countries

Science comic strips entitled Dr. Scifun were planned to promote science jobs and studies among professionals (scientists, graduate and undergraduate students) and children. To this end, the authors collected intriguing science stories as the basis of scenarios, and drew four-cut comic strips, first on paper and subsequently as computer files. Eighty three episodes of the cartoons in English are available on the homepage (anatomy.co.kr). The comics have been displayed in the on-line science magazine and the science museum in Korea. The reception has been positive. The comic strips help inform graduate students and young scientists of the appropriate philosophy for their devotion to science. As well the comics demonstrate the fascinating and meaningful activities of scientists to juveniles. It is anticipated that competition between comics created by different scientists will improve the quality of the publications, benefiting readers worldwide.
Do Students' Backgrounds in the Language of Instruction Influence Secondary School Academic Performance?
Author: Komba, Sotco Claudius
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Language of Instruction,Secondary Schools,Academic Achievement,Correlation,English (Second Language),African Languages,Comparative Analysis,Scores,Tests,Statistical Analysis,Computer Software,Statistical Significance

In Tanzania, two types of primary schools exist, based on the language of instruction used. These are English medium schools and Swahili medium schools. Students who complete their studies from both types of schools join secondary schools where the language of instruction is solely English. This study investigated the influence of students' backgrounds in the language of instruction on secondary school academic performance. The specific objectives of the study were two: First, to compare form one annual examinations results for students who had used English and those who had used Swahili as the medium of instruction at primary school level and, secondly, to compare the form two national examinations results for students who had used English and those who had used Swahili as the medium of instruction at primary school level. The study involved 524 students from eight secondary schools in Mbeya region. The data were collected through review of documents containing students' admission lists and examinations results. The analysis of the collected data was done using computer software, Statistical Package for Social Sciences, version 18, in which an independent samples t-test was conducted to test the hypotheses advanced for this study. The findings were as follows: First, students whose medium of instruction at primary school level was English, performed better in form one annual examinations than their counterparts who had used Swahili and the difference was statistically significant at p&lt;0.05, in a two-tailed test. Secondly, students who had used English as the medium of instruction at primary school level, performed better in form two national examinations than those who had used Swahili and the difference was also statistically significant at p&lt;0.05, in a two-tailed test. It was thus, concluded that the language of instruction used by students at primary school level influenced significantly students' academic performance at secondary school level.
Conception and Definition of the Democratization of Education
Author: Murati, Rabije
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Elementary School Students,Secondary School Students,Student Surveys,Questionnaires,Statistical Analysis,Student Attitudes,Democracy,Elementary Secondary Education

Republic of Macedonia at the moment with all the trends for reforms in the educational system, there are still shortcomings in this regard. The intention of Republic of Macedonia since independence, until today is the modernization and adjustment of the system of education to the European developed countries and their upbringing-educational systems. Democratization of education have got one fundamental request, and that is the respect for diversity. The subject of this survey are the aspects of democratization in the upbringing - education system in the Republic of Macedonia. The population of the survey is consisted of the students of primary and secondary schools. The sample survey includes pupils of primary and secondary schools in the cities of Tetovo, Gostivar, Skopje and Kumanovo. In the research survey are applied questionnaires intended for pupils in primary and secondary schools. The data from the survey are processed by a professional package for data processing SPSS (Statistical package for the social science). The database in this format allows application of statistical methods and techniques of descriptive statistics as well as methods and techniques of inferential statistics.
Aviation Accidents: CRM to Maintaining the Share of Airlines. Case Study on Accidents Airlines in China
Author: Alnuaimi, Qussay A. B.
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Accidents,Air Transportation,Case Studies,Risk Management,Costs,Accident Prevention,Insurance,Safety,Investment,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis,Economic Impact

We present Aviation Cost Risk management (CRM) methodology designed for Airlines Company, who needs to run projects beyond their normal. These airlines are critical to the survival of these organizations, such as the development and performance. The Aviation crisis can have considerable impact upon the value of the firm. Risk managers must focus special attention to their prevention and risk neutralization. Recently, demonstrated that large losses can have a very negative impact on shareholder wealth in an efficient stock market. This crisis shows that on the day that a loss occurred, returns of a negative. The goal of cost risk management (CRM) is to maximize shareholder wealth and protected airlines company, since it has been recently demonstrated that shareholder wealth can be negatively impacted by losses, risk management must be viewed in its relationship to the overall wealth of the company. The loss exposures become a critical financial management function, mostly in firms with considerable exposures to such losses.
The Extent of Practice of Distinguished Students at the Secondary Level of Exams Management Skills and Its Relationship to Some Variables
Author: Shaban, Zakariyya Shaban
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,High School Students,Test Wiseness,High Achievement,Gender Differences,Comparative Analysis,Public Schools,Statistical Analysis,Surveys,Likert Scales

The study aimed at identifying the extent of distinguished students' practice of the skills of exams management and their relationships of the variables of (sex and type of school) at the secondary stage. The descriptive approach was followed to investigate practice the level of the skills of exams management of the population of the study and its sample consisting of (96) male and female students in the first scientific secondary class in king Abdullah The Second school for Distinction at Irbid First Directorate, compared with (96) distinguished students at public school in the same directorate. The results showed that the practice level for the instrument as a whole was high, and there were statistically significant differences at (a = 0.05) that could be attributed to sex to the advantage of females and differences attributed to (school type) to the advantage of (public schools), and that there is a positive relationship with the collection.
Evaluating Effect of Students' Academic Achievement on Identified Difficult Concepts in Senior Secondary School Biology in Delta State
Author: Agboghoroma, Tim E.
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Secondary School Students,Academic Achievement,Scientific Concepts,Difficulty Level,Biology,Secondary School Science,Quasiexperimental Design,Pretests Posttests,Concept Mapping,Gender Differences,Rural Urban Differences,Conventional Instruction,Science Instruction,Scores

This study evaluated the effect of students' academic achievement on identified difficult concepts or topics in Senior Secondary School Biology in Delta State, Nigeria. The study was quasi-experimental and the design was a 2X2 factorial non-randomized pretest-posttest control group design. The sample was drawn from intact classes from four coeducational schools located in urban and rural centres in Delta Central Senatorial District. A total of 160 male and female students were used in the study. The sample were got using purposive sampling technique. The instrument for the study was designed by the researchers and tagged Biology Achievement Test (BAT). This was validated by experts and Kuder-Richardson formula 21 was used for the reliability estimate and this yielded 0.71 alpha. This was tested at 0.05 significant level. The methods used for evaluating the students was Concept-mapping and the Regular Teaching Methods, as experimental and control groups respectively. The results showed that students perceived some topics like Hereditary, Genetics, Ecology as difficult while it was found out that gender (male and female sex) and school location (urban and rural) had no effect on difficult concepts in Biology. Based on these, recommendations were made; such as innovative teaching strategies like concept mapping be used in our classrooms.
Learning Achievement Improvement Efforts Course Learn and Learning Using the Jigsaw Method and Card Media in STKIP PGRI Ngawi 2014/2015 Academic Year
Author: Haryono
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Preservice Teacher Education,Education Courses,Academic Achievement,Preservice Teachers,Cooperative Learning,Action Research,Mathematics Education,Instructional Effectiveness,Instructional Materials,Learning Theories,Learning Activities,Observation,Interviews,Questionnaires

Subject Teaching and Learning is a basic educational courses that must be taken by all student teachers. Class Action Research aims to improve student achievement Teaching and Learning course by applying Jigsaw and media cards. Research procedures using Classroom Action Research (CAR) with multiple cycles. Each cycle includes four phases: planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. Subjects were students of 3rd semester Mathematics Education courses STKIP PGRI Ngawi academic year 2014/2015 as many as 30 students. Data from the study: Pre completeness cycle increased 56.7% in the first cycle completed 63.3% increase in cycle II completed 73.3% and increased again in the third cycle completed 86.7%. Overall always an increase ranging from pre-cycle to the third cycle. It can be concluded that: Application of the Jigsaw Method and Cards Media can increase the activity and the achievement of students in Teaching and Learning course for students of 3rd semester Mathematics Education courses STKIP PGRI Ngawi academic year 2014/2015.
Homo Sapiens, All Too Homo Sapiens: Wise Man, All Too Human
Author: Ketcham, Amaris
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Interdisciplinary Approach,STEM Education,Humanities,Humanistic Education,World Views,Student Development,Content Area Writing,Content Area Reading,Undergraduate Study,Educational Practices,Honors Curriculum

The emphasis on STEM education should not be interpreted as an omen of the death of humanities; art, literature, history, and philosophy can inform and enlighten STEM studies if the walls of academic silos are broken down and taught in combination. Where the physical universe collides with the fanciful and flawed human experience of life, there is creative energy, be it in scientific research or creative writing. Both are meant to birth new knowledge, rouse questions, explore one's relationship with the world, employ the senses, test ideas, and better one's understanding of life and the human experience. The humanities can easily combine with other disciplines through applied speculation. A strategy to combine might be, for instance, to adapt the writing core to an interdisciplinary, experiential course that uses science as the lens through which students analyze and apply literary devices. Creating short stories based on scientific articles, they practice reading and understanding articles, conveying complex ideas, building conclusions in a way similar to a literature review, and extrapolating information to imagine implications. Just as young humanists can benefit from developing a greater understanding of science, so too can young scientists benefit from applying communications to science. One of the goals of an undergraduate education is to learn a discipline well enough to develop an educated worldview. A student should graduate with a way of understanding and analyzing the phenomena in their life and greater, global habitat. Different disciplines emphasize different ways of looking at the world: as an organism of power relationships, a set of outcomes dependent on historical precedence, a complex of interdependent systems, or the control of information through presentation.
World Wide Comparism of Technical and Vocational Education: Lessons for Nigerian Technical and Vocational Education Sector (I)
Author: Ayeni, Abiodun Olumide
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Vocational Education,Comparative Analysis,Comparative Education,Curriculum Evaluation,Training Methods,Testing Programs,Educational Finance,Motivation,Educational Methods,Educational Assessment

This paper compared technical/vocational education in: Germany, Australia, Finland, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, and Nigeria, and found that technical/vocational education was given proper attention in countries considered except Nigeria, where it was handled with laissez faire attitude. Set-Up of Technical/Vocational Schooling, Curriculum, Mode of Training and Conduct of Final Examination, Financing and Motivating Factor was the basis for comparison, and Nigeria lagged behind in these. Amongst the lessons for Nigeria's technical/vocational education sector are that her technical/vocational education sector be dual, while students should be appropriately motivated. Schools should collaborate with registered organizations (work-integrated learning) to train the students. The paper recommended that there should be national conference strictly on the status of technical/vocational education in Nigeria, so that necessary solutions could be proffered to the problems facing this part of the education sector. Finally, manufacturing organizations, etc. should be involved in the drafting of curriculum of the technical/vocational education in the country, while taking into consideration peculiarities of Nigeria as a sovereign nation.
Institutional Case-Based Study on the Effect of Research Methods on Project Work in the Curriculum of Mechanical Engineering Programmes in Ghanaian Polytechnics
Author: Baffour-Awuah, Emmanuel
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Engineering Education,College Curriculum,Student Projects,Research Methodology,Case Studies,College Students,Statistical Analysis,Correlation,Courses,Academic Achievement,Grades (Scholastic)

Preparing students for Project Work (PROJ 1 and PROJ 2) require them to go through Research Methods (RE) as part of the curriculum though it takes the centre stage of the entire preparation process. Knowledge of the relationships between the two could be a useful tool in improving the performance of students in the former. The purpose of the case study was therefore to assess the relationship between the two courses of Higher National Diploma (HND) Mechanical Engineering students in Cape Coast Polytechnic, Ghana, within a ten-year period from 2002 to 2011. Raw data of examination results of all 529 students comprising Plant Maintenance Engineering, 285; Automotive Engineering, 165; and Production Engineering, 79, on case-by-case basis was analyzed. The study was entirely quantitative employing frequencies, percentages, ratios and tables as descriptive tools for the analysis. The strength, direction and significance (?) of Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r) between the courses were determined utilizing SPSS, version 21 software. The ratios, in terms of positive significant correlation coefficients were found to be 11:7:13 for RE/PROJ 1; RE/PROJ 2; and PROJ1/PROJ 2 respectively; and 16:11:4 for Plant Maintenance, Automotive and Production Engineering respectively. Strength ranged between 0.117 and 0.869. The paper suggests that in reviewing the subject-curricula for the two courses, experts with professional background in curriculum design and structuring should be involved. Stakeholders such as the Ministry of Education (MoE), National Accreditation Board (NAB); The National Board for Professional and Technical Examination, (NABPTEX); the Polytechnic(s); and subject teachers should be included in the process.
Bangladeshi EFL Learners' Approach towards Learning English
Author: Fathema, Fawzia
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Grammar,Barriers,Indo European Languages

Bangladesh is a poverty stricken country with a huge population &quot;unemployed' in respect of the definition of Economics including both male and female. Government is striving hard to make the people well-equipped with necessary skills and learning in order that they can prove themselves fit for the upcoming challenges of the global economy and newer learning. Accordingly, Government emphasizes learning the English language and parents along with the learners are growing conscious but frequently, fall victim to problems in learning this foreign language. Despite being the inhabitants of a developing country, students dare not speak this language for fear of committing some mistakes rather to marshal it. Here, teachers, students and the teaching-process should co-operate actively with one another in order to attain the accomplished success.
The Influence of Transformational Leadership on the Level of TQM Implementation in the Higher Education Sector
Author: Argia, Hassan A. A.
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Transformational Leadership,Total Quality Management,Program Implementation,Higher Education,Foreign Countries,Literature Reviews,Qualitative Research,Questionnaires,Educational Practices,Influences,Factor Analysis,Multiple Regression Analysis,Correlation

This current research paper investigates the role of transformational leadership on impacting the level of TQM implementation in the higher education sector. In addition, TQM, as a management philosophy, can be implemented successfully only when incorporated into the prevailing learning organization and adequate understanding of transformational leadership. The understanding of the relationship between the two represents a useful starting point into gaining an insight of TQM implementation in the higher education institutes. In order to build a strong foundation for the current research pivotal relevant review of previous literatures was initiated. The review assisted the researcher in formulating the research objectives, questions, aims and framework. The quantitative and qualitative research methods were used to derive the relationship between the variables of the study. A total number of 500 lecturers were selected randomly in order to exemplify the questionnaire raised topics complex. The findings of the current research indicated that transformational leadership dimension have positive influences and significant towards the practices of TQM in the selected universities.