ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Advancing Entrepreneurship in an Elementary School: A Case Study
Author: Heilbrunn, Sibylle
Date: 2010-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Entrepreneurship,Elementary Schools,Experimental Schools,Case Studies,Foreign Countries,Organizational Culture,Educational Innovation,Principals,Administrator Behavior,Elementary School Students,Questionnaires,Structured Interviews

The aim of the paper is to introduce an experimental entrepreneurial elementary school in Israel. In addition to describing the organizational process of transformation from a conventional elementary school to an entrepreneurial school, the paper attempts to assess the impact of the process on teachers and pupils. The study investigates organizational culture, innovativeness of the school, the principal's proactivity and the entrepreneurial drive of pupils. The findings reveal that the interface of organizational culture fostering innovation, proactivity of the principal and a well defined project outline enables young pupils to learn about entrepreneurship, to learn to be entrepreneurial and to learn to become an entrepreneur. Since childhood and adolescence are the preferred periods in order to develop positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship and acquire basic knowledge on the issue, the presented case can provide a model for further educational undertakings fostering entrepreneurship in the future.
Corporate Culture and Employee Mentality Capital Agree with Influencing Factor Analysis
Author: Liu, Ying
Date: 2010-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Organizational Culture,Employee Attitudes,Psychological Characteristics,Surveys,Personality Theories,Correlation,Factor Analysis,Corporations,Interviews

In the enterprise development process, many companies put on the corporate culture and employee knowledge of psychological capital to stay in their respective functional areas, and can not really establish a humanistic ideas, nor will it recognize employees of psychological capital in the building of enterprise culture in the transmission and amendments to the role of corporate culture has led to the actual out of touch with employees, corporate culture can not achieve the desired results. Based on the corporate culture factors, staff factors affecting the psychological capital, define and analyze the introduction of corporate culture and employee fit the psychological factors of capital as an intermediary variable, and then study its outcome variables to explore the corporate culture and employee fit the relationship between psychological capital, build corporate culture and employee fit model of psychological capital. In this thesis, 10000 employees survey, empirical study found that employees in the corporate culture and fit the psychological capital, intermediate variables and outcome variables was significant positive correlation, based on empirical analysis of comments and suggestions.
The Effectiveness of Conflict Maps and the V-Shape Teaching Method in Science Conceptual Change among Eighth-Grade Students in Jordan
Author: Bawaneh, Ali Khalid Ali
Date: 2010-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Grade 8,Concept Formation,Energy,Foreign Countries,Instructional Effectiveness,Science Instruction,Computer Software,Teaching Methods,Multiple Choice Tests,Curriculum Development,Misconceptions,Workshops,Conflict,Maps,Test Validity

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effectiveness of Conflict Maps and the V-Shape method as teaching methods in bringing about conceptual change in science among primary eighth-grade students in Jordan. A randomly selected sample (N = 63) from the Bani Kenana region North of Jordan was randomly assigned to the two teaching methods (Conflict Maps, N = 31; V-Shape, N = 32). A conceptual multiple-choice test was developed to measure misconceptions regarding electric energy commonly held by eighth-grade students. The data gathered were statistically processed using SPSS software. The results indicated that both methods, Conflict Maps and the V-Shape method, were successful in bringing about conceptual changes in the students. At the same time, the results did not prove either method to be superior in facilitating conceptual shifts regarding electric energy in eighth-grade students. In light of earlier results, this study recommends that curriculum developers take into account teaching methods designed according to conceptual change models and organize training workshops for teachers to learn how to integrate Conflict Maps and the V-Shape method into their teaching. Furthermore, this study recommends that similar studies be conducted with various subjects.
Strategies for School Environmental Management in Nigerian Secondary Schools: A Case of Calabar, Nigeria
Author: Obong, Linus Beba
Date: 2010-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Secondary Schools,Facilities Management,School Maintenance,Horticulture,Educational Facilities,Sanitation,Statistical Analysis,Correlation,Study Habits,Reading Habits,Secondary School Students,Environmental Influences,Questionnaires

This paper on strategies for school environmental management in Nigerian secondary schools was carried out in Calabar, Nigeria. To guide the study three research questions were formulated. This was achieved through administration of structured questionnaires in three randomly sampled schools. Findings show regular grass clearing, sweeping of the school compound and painting, landscaping and planting of flowers, good drainage and refuse disposal are strategies adopted for managing the school environment. While lack of gardeners to keep the school compound clean, erosion, students and teachers not being responsive to environmental issues, difficulties to inculcate in students environmental values due to different home upbringing, lack of funds to procure working tools/implements and waste disposal challenges were some identified challenges in the school environmental management. Three hypotheses were put forward to be tested in the study: 1) There is no significant difference in strategies adopted in the management of school environment 2) Management of school environment has no significant effect on student study/reading habit 3) The challenges of managing school environment have no significant effect on the quality of school environment. Statistical results from tested hypotheses show significant relation and correlation in all. Result for hypothesis one shows that there is significant difference in strategies adopted in the management of school environment. Hypothesis two statistically proved that management of school environment has significant effect on students' study/reading habit; while the last stated hypothesis revealed that the challenges of managing school environment have significant effect on the quality of school environment. For enhanced and better school environment for sound academic exercise, school environmental management team (SEMT), fore-plan for drainage and waste disposal, school location consideration for new schools, employment of gardeners and cleaners, fumigation of schools, terminal orientation programmes, development of curriculum on environmental management, School inspection and competitions and awards were recommended.
The Use of Scaffolding Approach to Enhance Students' Engagement in Learning Structural Analysis
Author: Hardjito, Djwantoro
Date: 2010-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Engineering Education,Scaffolding (Teaching Technique),Learner Engagement,Structural Analysis (Science),College Instruction,Instructional Effectiveness,College Students

This paper presents a reflection on the use of Scaffolding Approach to engage Civil Engineering students in learning Structural Analysis subjects. In this approach, after listening to the lecture on background theory, students are provided with a series of practice problems, each one comes with the steps, formulas, hints, and tables needed to solve the problem. Gradually, with the growing confident to apply the method as a tool to analyze structures, the amount of help provided is reduced, until finally no help is provided at all. Using this approach, only the main background of theory is needed to be lectured. The application of the method to analyze various problems is learned by students themselves by doing the series of problems engineered with gradually-reduced supports. Students' engagement is greatly enhanced, as they are so much involved in the learning process.
Deepen the Teaching Reform of Operating System, Cultivate the Comprehensive Quality of Students
Author: Liu, Jianjun
Date: 2010-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Computer Science Education,Computer Software,Computer Simulation,Programming,Innovation,Technological Advancement,Teaching Methods

Operating system is the core course of the specialty of computer science and technology. To understand and master the operating system will directly affect students' further study on other courses. The course of operating system focuses more on theories. Its contents are more abstract and the knowledge system is more complicated. Therefore, combined with teaching practice, the author puts forward some opinions and ideas from two aspects, namely the theoretical teaching and the practical teaching, for the course reform and the development of operating system.
Multicultural Education
Author: Derderian-Aghajanian, Ani
Date: 2010-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Multicultural Education,Special Education,Disabilities,Race,Inclusion,Competence,Personal Autonomy,Cultural Differences,Educational Research

&quot;If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?&quot; (Albert Einstein). In &quot;Diversity Issues in Special Education: Theory, Research, and Practice&quot; I will define the diversity perspectives within the context of research, then I will develop an understanding and understand theory as it is related to research, and inform personal stance on the merits of various traditions and their use in multicultural education. Thus, I will consider numerous topics such as, social construction of disability, multicultural education, and race. Moreover, in this paper, I will address multicultural education as a knowledge production movement by discussing Rosenqvist's theories in inclusive and diverse special education classes and adopting the idea of the enhancement of competence and the extension of independence. The enhancement of competence, for example, needs recognition of what the child brings to school, accepting his/her skills, attitudes, ways of thinking and social and language experience. Similarly, the extension of independence concentrates on cultural differences. However, the idea of independence may vary in different cultures.
Professional Piano Education in Chinese Piano Music Culture
Author: Wang, Changkui
Date: 2010-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Music Education,Asian Culture,Music,Higher Education,Educational Theories,Educational Change,Educational Development

The development of Chinese piano music culture including professional piano education is based on the traditional culture of &quot;neutralization&quot;, and in the researches about the professional piano education in the 21st century, the research of the piano teaching in normal colleges is the most active one, and it is mainly centralized in the piano teaching reform, the teaching mode, the vamping, the teaching materials and teaching methods. In this article, above aspects are classified and analyzed, and the future development direction of the piano teaching research in higher normal colleges in the 21st century is discussed, and it should be studied more seriously.
An Overview of Talent Cultivation Models in Foreign Vocational Colleges
Author: Wang, Youhua
Date: 2010-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Talent Development,Vocational Education,Models,Differences,Vocational Schools,Postsecondary Education,Foreign Countries

A talent cultivation model refers to a model of the construction and operation of the cultivation process adopted by a school to achieve its cultivation objectives. Four models, with their differences and similarities, are introduced in this paper.
Arousing the College Students' Motivation in Speaking English through Role-Play
Author: Liu, Xu
Date: 2010-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Motivation,Role Playing,English (Second Language),Oral English,College Second Language Programs,College Freshmen,Language Tests,Class Activities,Observation,Questionnaires,Interviews,Foreign Countries

English as a tool of communication has been playing an important part in acquiring cultural, scientific and technical knowledge, for collecting worldwide information and carrying out international exchange and cooperation. Improving college students' oral English level has become more and more important. Based on Richard E. Mayer's theory of motivation and the advantages of role-play on the aspect of arousing the motivation of learning, this paper not only explores some of the theories of communicative teaching methods, but also proves the importance of the motivation of learning. Two kinds of English teaching activities for oral English class were designed which are oral English tests and role-play activity. The objective of this research is to arouse the college students' motivation in speaking English. And the project hypothesis is that using the activity of role-play is more effective in arousing the college students' motivation in speaking English than using oral English tests. The researcher divides the students who are the freshmen of Beijing City University into two groups--Target group and the Control group. And the researcher does the research by using observation notes, the questionnaire and the interview data collection methods. Through the four weeks research, it is proved that the students in the Target Group which use role-play activity become more interested in speaking English than the students in the Control Group which use oral English tests. So from the result of this research, we know that in our Chinese university, the teachers can use some communicative classroom activities such as role-play to arouse the students' motivation of English speaking. There are also some limitations of this research for example, because the sample size was small, the results might not be typical; and the time of the research was too short, so maybe there were some unstable data.
Dynamics and Potentiality of Postgraduate Students Regarding Lifelong Learning: A Greek Case
Author: Boutsiouki, Sofia
Date: 2010-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Graduate Students,Lifelong Learning,Student Surveys,Student Attitudes,Statistical Analysis,Qualitative Research,Factor Analysis

The purpose of this article is to contribute to a gradually expanding discussion on the role of lifelong learning in the personal and professional lives of individuals, as well as on the socioeconomic trends and practices in the global context. It presents the results of a survey carried out with a structured questionnaire on postgraduate students in social and economic sciences in a Greek university, in order to explore their views, perceptions and attitudes regarding lifelong learning; it also explores the way in which these factors guide their ideological commitment of lifelong learners, as well as their corresponding dynamics and potentiality. The definition of these determinants would significantly enable the effective implementation of lifelong learning by contributing to a wider range of interventions, varying from planning activities to eventually influencing the socioeconomic environment and transforming relevant national and supranational strategies
Study and Practice of the Cultivation of Mathematics Teaching Design Ability for Normal College Students
Author: Xu, Zhenhui
Date: 2010-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematics Education,College Mathematics,College Students,Instructional Design,Educational Change,Educational Strategies,Teaching Methods,Foreign Countries

With the development of the course reform of elementary education, the requirements that the classroom teaching should fully embody the new concept of education and inspire students to actively participate in classroom teaching are higher and higher, so high school teachers should have stronger teaching design ability. To make normal college students to be competent for the mathematics teachers of high school after they graduate, the cultivation of their classroom teaching design ability should be strengthened. The concrete strategies include following aspects, i.e. strengthening normal college students' learning of the learning theory and the teaching theory and establishing correct teaching concept, confirming the guiding ideas of mathematics classroom teaching deign under new course environment, confirming the contents of the mathematics classroom teaching design, apperceiving the mathematics classroom teaching design by various channels and modes, and instructing normal college students to study and discuss materials intensively, attempt design and practice, and summarize experiences.
Econometric Assessment of &quot;One Minute&quot; Paper as a Pedagogic Tool
Author: Das, Amaresh
Date: 2010-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Statistics,Teaching Methods,Statistical Significance,Regression (Statistics),Correlation,Grade Point Average,College Students,Control Groups,Experimental Groups,Comparative Analysis,Instructional Effectiveness,Spreadsheets,Student Attitudes,Feedback (Response),Tests,Equations (Mathematics),Validity,Economics

This paper makes an econometric testing of one-minute paper used as a tool to manage and assess instruction in my statistics class. One of our findings is that the one minute paper when I have tested it by using an OLS estimate in a controlled Vs experimental design framework is found to statistically significant and effective in enhancing students' knowledge. It is found to be equally effective when I have tested it by using a seemingly unrelated regression that allows the error terms to be correlated across separate but related regressions. This is irrespective of students' ability levels as is measured by GPA in both cases.
Historical Development of Secondary Education in Bangladesh: Colonial Period to 21st Century
Author: Rahman, Mustafizur
Date: 2010-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Educational History,Educational Development,Secondary Education,Educational Policy,Educational Change

In a world of global market competition, the secondary level education has become a part of basic education. Secondary schools are vested with the responsibility of imparting knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for individuals to fit into society and be able to contribute fruitfully to its development. This article analyses the development of secondary education in Bangladesh in different period of time, socio-political context. Therefore, a general overview of secondary education is provided which is followed by historical evolution of secondary education in the British and Pakistani rule over Bangladesh. In conjunction with primary and mass education, secondary education was revised with great emphasis on the development of an all-round individual, female education, the acquisition of quality education, and the inculcation of technical and science education. A good number of commissions and committee were formed in different time to make changes in educational arena. Following the recommendations, the system of educational administration has been decentralised to promote school-based management and teacher empowerment. Furthermore, the non-government schools have been always encouraged to play an active role in providing secondary level education. A new education policy for Bangladesh has been tabled in September, 2009 after restoration of democratic process. At secondary education level a broad-based change in educational objectives, structure and system, curriculum have been proposed which is under public scrutiny.
Enrollment Quota Control, Elite Selection and Access to Education in Rural China
Author: Zhao, Luan
Date: 2010-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Access to Education,Rural Education,Rural Areas,Resource Allocation,Surveys,Rural Youth,Supply and Demand,Family Influence,Social Influences,Quotas,Enrollment,Economically Disadvantaged,Selective Admission,Statistical Analysis,Family Characteristics,Parent Background,Educational Attainment,Socioeconomic Influences,Family Income,Employment Level,Social Class

In China, the access to education is determined by not only student's demand for schooling, but also the allocation of educational resources and the schools' selection of candidate students. Based on the data obtained from the rural life level and rural social assistance household surveys in four provinces in 2005, the demand-identified bivariate probit model is adopted to identify whether rural youths have the demand for schooling, distinguish between the students' demand for schooling and the selection of schools, and open out the influence and function of family and social backgrounds on rural youths to acquire the education above junior high school. The empirical research shows that both the deficiency of demand for schooling and the enrollment quota control are important obstacles to restrain the access to education, and the demand for schooling and the elite selection of school all obviously incline to the families and peoples with predominant social backgrounds. The policy implication of this research is that it is imperative under the situation to adopt measures such as improving the demand for schooling of the disadvantaged families and further loosening the enrollment quota control, but the former is more important.
Summary of Development as a Reflective Practitioner
Author: Quan, Hong
Date: 2010-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Reflective Teaching,Learning Theories,English Teachers,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Teacher Improvement,Learning Activities,College Faculty,College Second Language Programs

This paper is a summary which explores the effectiveness and evaluation of my development as a reflective practitioner. It focuses on development with two useful theories about learning and teaching. They are about deep learning &amp; surface learning and levels of teaching. Actually, when I put these theories to practice reflectively, the result shows positive outcomes, it can improve students' motivation and raise students' interest in studying English and help me developing in my profession.
What's Wrong with Current Chinese College English Assessment System? Reform or Not?
Author: Gao, Fen
Date: 2010-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,English (Second Language),College Second Language Programs,Educational Assessment,Educational Change,Problems

The author expounds the &quot;status quo&quot; of college English assessment system in China and objectively points out some major problems that have negative impacts on college English teaching and learning. On the basis of pros and cons towards the issue, the author intends to come up with some effective countermeasures, including converting the idea to further strengthen English teaching reform, to reform teaching method, to establish and conduct multi-level English teaching system, and most importantly to establish reasonable assessment and evaluation system.