ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Effects of Cardio-Pilates Exercise Program on Physical Characteristics of Females
Author: Sevimli, Dilek
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Physical Characteristics,Exercise,Females,Body Weight,Foreign Countries,Pretests Posttests,Statistical Analysis

Aim: This study aims to investigate the effects of four weeks cardio-Pilates exercise program on physical characteristics in females. Material and methods: The total 40 female participants were tested before and after four weeks regular exercise of 3 × 1 hr. sessions/week. Body height and weight, waist and hip circumferences, body fat percent and weight were measured. To test the differences, a paired t-test was used. Results: This study showed that cardio-Pilates exercise program significantly decreased body fat percent, body fat weight, waist and hip circumferences. Cohen's d calculations showed that four weeks exercise program had a significant moderate effect on body fat percent, body fat weight, waist and hip circumferences in females. Conclusion: Four weeks exercise program seems to be effective in decreasing the body fat and circumference values in females. It was concluded that the magnitude of training effect depends on the duration and intensity of the exercise program.
Examining the Mathematical Modeling Processes of Primary School 4th-Grade Students: Shopping Problem
Author: Ulu, Mustafa
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematical Models,Mathematics Instruction,Grade 4,Elementary School Students,Achievement Tests,Foreign Countries,International Assessment,Secondary School Students,Elementary School Mathematics,Numeracy,Problem Solving,Qualitative Research,Thinking Skills,Interviews

The purpose of this study is to identify primary school students' thinking processes within the mathematical modeling process and the challenges they encounter, if any. This is a basic qualitative research study conducted in a primary school in the city of Kütahya in the academic year of 2015-2016. The study group of the research was composed of 22 students at 4th-grade who were selected with criterion sampling which is a purposive sampling method. The study data were collected with the clinical interview method and reported using the content analysis. It was consequently found that the students constituted two groups as those who provided a realistic solution and those who could not. There were more students who could not provide a realistic solution. Those who could not provide a realistic solution tried to construct the mental representation of real situation through literal comprehension, which became insufficient in revealing the hidden situations involved in the problem text. Not noticing the hidden actions in the text led them to form a mathematical equation without structuring the problem and thus their solutions were unrealistic. Those who could provide realistic solutions, on the other hand, decided their operations within the context of the characters, time, place and relation between the events in the problem, which enabled the mental representation of the problem text to be critical reading and inferential comprehension focused as well as literal comprehension focused and thus allowed the students to reveal the hidden situations in the text. Accordingly, students posed new problems by gathering the required extra information according to these hidden situations and went for the real model. Thus, analyzing the problem situation in various contexts, students solved according to multiple conditions. It was also seen that students with realistic solutions utilized the validation process to determine the consistencies and inconsistencies of their solutions in real life context while those with unrealistic solutions utilized it to check their operations.
Pre-Service Teachers' Use of Turkish on the Internet
Author: Yilmaz, Muamber
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Turkish,Internet,Language Usage,Preservice Teachers,Elementary School Teachers,College Students,Statistical Analysis,Error Patterns,Phonetics,Vocabulary,Spelling,Grammar,Social Media

The aim of this study was to determine the situation of pre-service primary school teachers' use of Turkish on the internet. The research was conducted on 100 students studying at the department of Primary School Education of Mustafa Kemal University. The research was descriptive. Data of the study was obtained from the students' conversations in Facebook in the preceding month. Percentages were applied for the analysis of statistical operations. As a result of the study, the students' mistakes made while using Turkish on the internet were categorized into three groups which were phonetic features, vocabulary use, and spelling. Consequently, it was revealed that 62% of pre-service primary school teachers used undotted letters instead of Turkish letters, 83% of them did not use vowels, 58% of them made phone repetitions in stress-aimed words, and 50% of them wrote time affixes improperly.
Going Local: Priorities and Strategies for Municipal Leaders
Author: Hutchinson, Audrey M.
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Municipalities,Safety,Quality of Life,Needs Assessment,Public Schools,Educational Opportunities,Educational Change,Educational Administration,Partnerships in Education,Academic Achievement,Leadership Training,Capacity Building

Municipal officials know that education is tied to quality of life and public safety; cities are better off when more people are well-educated. Mayors across the country are dedicating staff to focus on key education issues--to work on partnerships between school districts, their colleges and universities, and to create multi-sector partnerships and collaboratives to support education. The National League of Cities (NLC) has been building the capacity of municipal leaders to be strong advocates for education, building stronger cities together. Mayors are focused on where they can intersect with the new administration's education agenda. The hope is that there are no major reductions in funding that supports school districts across the country as well as afterschool programs. The author believes the task of the NLC is to find ways to work with the new administration by sharing what they know and what they have seen that works in local communities, to try to use data, evidence and stories to influence decisions they are going to make and also to provide them with information, in terms of how cities are experiencing the education climate right now and what cities need.
Demands for School Leaders
Author: Bradley-Levine, Jill
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Graduate Study,Leadership Training,Teacher Leadership,Masters Programs,Leadership Qualities,Leadership Effectiveness,Transformational Leadership,Leadership Responsibility,Ethics,Qualitative Research,Critical Theory

This article examines the ways that graduate courses in teacher leadership influenced the ways that teachers described the nature of leadership and their role as educational leaders. Using Foster's (1989) four demands for school leaders as a theoretical framework, participants' perceptions are examined to determine how teachers synthesized their learning in the graduate courses they took with their work in schools. The findings suggest the importance of purposefully designed teacher leader preparation, as well as school contexts and cultures that support teacher leaders' practice of critical, transformative, educative, and ethical leadership (Foster, 1989).
Exploring the Influence of 21st Century Skills in a Dual Language Program: A Case Study
Author: Heinrichs, Christine R.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Case Studies,Bilingual Education Programs,Educational Change,Academic Standards,Interviews,Focus Groups,School Districts,Community Development,Leadership,Systems Approach,Second Language Learning,Native Language,English (Second Language),Spanish,Elementary School Students,Middle School Students,High School Students,Hispanic American Literature,Mexican Americans,Generalization,Parent Materials,Career Development,Daily Living Skills,Skill Development,Educational Cooperation,Educational Objectives

Preparing students as 21st century learners is a key reform in education. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills developed a framework that identifies outcomes needed for successful implementation of rigorous standards. The Dual Language (DL) program was identified as a structure for reform with systems and practices which can be used to prepare students for the 21st century. The purpose of this study was to explore the systems and practices within a DL program that support development of 21st century skills in a southern California school district at an elementary school, middle school, and high school. Data were collected through interviews, focus groups, and document review and were coded to reveal six themes. Themes pertaining to Research Question One were: systems that advanced 21st century skills, and structures for collaboration. Leadership, development of community, and shared beliefs were themes that were germane to Research Question Two.
At the Crossroads of Clinical Practice and Teacher Leadership: A Changing Paradigm for Professional Practice
Author: Sawyer, Richard D.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Elementary Secondary Education,Teacher Education Programs,High Schools,Doctoral Programs,Secondary School Teachers,College Faculty,Graduate Students,Creativity,Teaching Methods,Teaching Skills,Case Studies,Student Attitudes,Barriers,Surveys,Interviews,Coding,Teacher Attitudes,Teacher Leadership,Experiential Learning,Student Teaching

This paper examines the endemic separation between K-12 schools and colleges of education in teacher preparation. Specifically, we examine a new approach related to the promise of clinical practice--a clinical practice program that overlaps a public high school, a graduate-level teacher preparation program, and a professional practice doctoral program. In this program, clinical practitioners are public high school teachers as well as instructors in a teacher preparation program and doctoral students at the same university. In order to examine easily overlooked aspects of this arrangement, we draw from third-space theory to examine cultural practices within this program from the perspectives of the teaching interns and the clinical practitioners. We operationalized these phenomena by examining creativity in thinking, transformations in practice, and reflection/reflexivity. The clinical practitioners benefited from creating a laboratory of practice within which they learned from the teaching interns, the students preparing to become teachers. The interns benefited from a growth in adaptive expertise within a laboratory of practice and development of teacher professionalism grounded in practice.
Foundations as Change Agents: Developing Leadership and Infrastructure
Author: McGuire, Kent
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Change Agents,Leadership Training,Elections,Racial Relations,Regional Characteristics,Leadership,Political Attitudes,Political Issues,School Districts

In this article, the author highlights the post-election priorities of the Southern Education Foundation (SEF). Leadership is a big priority and the SEF is working with a different notion of leadership that has more to do with collective--as opposed to individual--actions, systemic change, and more focus on the issue of care and empathy. Leadership is one part of a bigger issue that needs attention: the building of infrastructures for progressive ideas and policies. There is not enough progressive infrastructure available. SEF is going to try to build theirs with the resources they can assemble.
A View from Academia: Creative Strategies for New Coalitions
Author: Wong, Kenneth
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Quality,Educational Change,Educational Strategies,Comparative Analysis,Partnerships in Education,Educational Cooperation,Child Development,Equal Education,Federal Programs

The federal government has a unique responsibility to address educational inequality and educational quality for all children. Regardless of how the new US Secretary of Education is going to redefine or reframe the federal education agenda, the author thinks all the stakeholders need to continue to focus on their work so that the federal government under the new leadership will continue to pay attention to schooling inequality, resource disparity, and teacher quality in high-needs communities. The author discusses rethinking relationships and strategies, such as the relationship between charter schools and traditional public schools and identifying the key stakeholders at the state level. He ends the article with a discussion of the strength of the &quot;children's agenda.&quot; He is hopeful it will remain vibrant, with US Senate races bringing in new women Senators and supportive governors and legislative leaders who have developed family and children's cabinets at the state level.
The Great Mini-Debate
Author: Benucci, Heather
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Debate,Persuasive Discourse,Class Activities,Classroom Techniques,Learner Engagement,Learning Activities,Public Speaking,Teamwork,Lesson Plans,Communication Skills

Debates remain popular in English language courses, and this activity gives students a low-stress opportunity to develop their speaking debating skills. This lesson plan is appropriate for upper intermediate or advanced students. Goals of the activity are to present an oral argument using evidence and use functional language related to agreeing, disagreeing, and showing contrasting opinions. Materials, preparation for the activity, and details of the procedure are described. Seven sample debate themes with suggested topic sets as well as an activity extension are provided.
Board Games in the Business Classroom: How to Play &quot;Business Decisions&quot;
Author: Clausen, Daniel
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Games,Business English,Active Learning,Teaching Methods,Learning Activities,Business Skills,Skill Development,Decision Making Skills

Games have long been a staple of active learning environments. They are a fantastic way to reduce anxiety, promote competition, and energize classrooms. Board games, in particular, can be very useful in building real-world skills in a fun and non-threatening environment. Therefore, the author uses them extensively for Business English classes and lessons. This article explains how to play a game called &quot;Business Decisions&quot; to help students develop their language and business acumen.
District Leadership: A Time for Activism and Coalitions
Author: Jewell-Sherman, Deborah
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Political Campaigns,Presidents,Educational Trends,Teacher Leadership,Leadership Qualities,Activism,Transformational Leadership,Best Practices,Partnerships in Education,Politics of Education,School Community Relationship,Educational Change,Resistance to Change,Social Change,Futures (of Society),Social Networks,Elections

The author has never been frightened by the possibility of a candidate winning, as she was at the possibility of Trump becoming president. And now that he is president-elect, she has grave concerns about this nation's children and our future. In this article, she states her belief that it is time to mobilize in significant ways at all levels--local, state, and federal, forming new alliances. She thinks that there's a new kind of courage that leaders are going to have to demonstrate, that goes above and beyond instruction, teaching and learning. Leaders are going to have to be instrumental in building cultures that provide schools as safe havens. And that sharing that knowledge of best practices has to become the norm, not an exception. She argues that we are going to have to figure out ways to build coalitions not just of the willing and among those who share a progressive agenda, but really find a way of building bridges with some elements of this new world order that we've inherited. Finally, the author says that she gains hope every day that she teaches and that she is looking forward to seeing the leaders that rise up to meet others.
Opinions of Some Nationals (North American, South Korean, Chinese, Indian, Turkish, and Latin American) on Some Concepts of Citizenship Education
Author: Faiz, Melike
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Citizenship Education,Fundamental Concepts,Qualitative Research,Semi Structured Interviews,Educational Attitudes,Volunteers,Cultural Differences,Social Responsibility,Morale,Comparative Education

Over years, the meaning of citizenship has changed. This change has occurred as a result of the 21st century the era of technology as well as changing social perception. Marshall [1] stated that citizenship as members of society and all of these have equal civil, political, social rights and duties. &quot;Citizenship education defined as any conscious or overt effort to develop students' knowledge of government, law and politics as those have evolved through history and presently operate in our society&quot; [2]. Social and moral responsibility is essential for effective citizenship education. Therefore, children should learn self-confidence and socially and morally responsible behavior both in and beyond the classroom, as well as both towards those in authority and among each other [3]. Another essential concept for effective citizenship education is volunteerism, the act or practice of doing volunteer work in community service. A volunteer is a person who does works without getting financial benefits. In addition, diversity is considered essential in citizenship education. Diversity is the acceptance, valorization and understanding of differences among people, such as age, class, ethnicity, race and sex [4]. The purpose of this research is, to investigate the participants' opinions on social and moral responsibilities, volunteerism and diversity. The study involves 28 participants of different nationalities which are namely Turks, North American, South Korean, Latin, Arabs, Chinese and Indian. The study adopts the qualitative research tradition. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed via descriptive analysis. It is seen that the participants were willing to be part of voluntary work. The participants stated that diversity is information exchange, a natural phenomenon in the world and variety means wealth and the participants generally felt responsible for a problem in the community they lived in and feel responsible about governmental issues.
Reflection on the Analytic Geometry Courses: The Geogebra Software and Its Effect on Creative Thinking
Author: Yildiz, Avni
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Computer Software,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Creative Thinking,Creativity,Teaching Methods,Mathematics Instruction,Mathematics Teachers,Preservice Teacher Education,Preservice Teachers,Semi Structured Interviews,Worksheets,Models,Mixed Methods Research,Creativity Tests,Elementary School Mathematics,Pretests Posttests,Interviews,Foreign Countries

Creativity has a significant role in individuals' lives. This research aims to examine the reflection of the learning process of analytic geometry concepts through GeoGebra software and its effect upon the development of preservice mathematics teachers' creative thinking skills. This effect is expected to make a significant contribution to the literature with the examination of creativity and its dimensions as well as the determination of GeoGebra's role. At this point, this study designed as a mixed method research. Vectors in R2 and R3 have been taught to the preservice mathematics teachers using the GeoGebra; moreover, at the beginning and at end of the implementation, the Torrance Creative Thinking Test (TCTT) has been conducted. The research group included a total of thirty preservice teachers. Research data has been collected through Torrance Creative Thinking Test Verbal A and Figural A forms, semi-structured interviews, worksheets and models created by the preservice teachers using the GeoGebra software. The qualitative and quantitative methods have been used for data analysis. Analyses have revealed that the use of the GeoGebra software has positive reflections on preservice teachers, and thus, a significant difference has been noted in favor of the post-test in all dimensions of creativity but one.
Investigating the Relationship between Organizational Dissent and Life Satisfaction
Author: Dagli, Abidin
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Public School Teachers,Elementary School Teachers,Primary Education,Dissent,Life Satisfaction,Measures (Individuals),Gender Differences,Union Members,Income,Statistical Analysis,Correlation

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between organizational dissent and life satisfaction perceptions of public primary school teachers. This research is a descriptive study in relational survey model. The sample consists of randomly chosen 200 primary school teachers who are working in Diyarbakir city center during the 2013-2014 academic year. &quot;Organizational Dissent Scale&quot; which is developed by Kassing (2000) and adapted from English to Turkish by Dagli (2015) and &quot;Life Satisfaction Scale&quot; developed by Diener, Emmons, Larsen and Griffin (1985) and adapted from English to Turkish by Dagli and Baysal (2016) were used for collecting data. As for the results of the research, it is found that according to the gender there is significant difference in the dimension of &quot;upward dissent&quot; and for the union membership, monthly income significant difference was found in &quot;lateral dissent&quot; dimension among the perceptions of teachers. Another finding of the study is that teachers are dissenting &quot;highly&quot; in &quot;upward&quot; and &quot;lateral&quot; dissent dimensions and there is a significant, low, negative relationship between teachers' dissent and life satisfaction perceptions [r = -0.181 (p = 0.010)].
Using Electronic Communication Tools in Online Group Activities to Develop Collaborative Learning Skills
Author: Khalil, Hanan
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Computer Mediated Communication,Synchronous Communication,Asynchronous Communication,Group Activities,Cooperative Learning,Skill Development,College Students,Schools of Education,Comparative Analysis,Web 2.0 Technologies,Check Lists,Outcomes of Education,Statistical Analysis

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of using synchronous and asynchronous communication tools in online group activities to develop collaborative learning skills. An experimental study was implemented on a sample of faculty of education students in Mansoura University. The sample was divided into two groups, a group studied using synchronous communication tools, and the other group studied using asynchronous communication tools. The findings highlighted the fact that electronic communication tools have an effect to develop collaborative skills. However, the researchers found that the synchronous communication tools are more useful than asynchronous communication tools for developing collaborative learning skills in online group activities. The implications of the findings offer support for using synchronous communication tools in online group activities to develop collaborative skills.