ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Verbs Associated with the Time Focused Adverbs in Turkish Course Books
Author: Çelik, Tugba
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Verbs,Form Classes (Languages),Turkish,Textbook Content,Textbook Evaluation,Grade 5,Grade 6,Grade 7,Grade 8,Time Perspective,Incidence,Language Usage

Time adverbs are represented by words or phrases more than morphemes in Turkish. Many studies in the literature have revealed that the frequency of the usage of adverbs of time is higher than the frequency of the usage of other adverbs by Turkish speakers of all ages. In this study, by using path/connection analysis method, the usage frequency of time adverbials in Turkish course books and which verbs these adverbs are associated with, is brought into focus. For this purpose, all the texts in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade Turkish course books were examined. At the end of the study, it was seen that the time adverbials in the Turkish coursebooks are mostly associated to the stative verb &quot;to be&quot;. In Turkish course books, time shows a frequency order from the general to the specific. The adverbs &quot;year&quot; and &quot;time&quot; are used more frequently than the adverbs such as &quot;month&quot; and &quot;week&quot;. The fact that &quot;second&quot; and &quot;minute&quot; are used so rarely in comparison to &quot;hour&quot; also supports the view that the texts in these books have a general sense of time.
Satisfaction of Parents about the Provision of Special Education Facilities for Their Children with Cerebral Palsied
Author: Naveed, Qazi Muhammad
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Parent Attitudes,Cerebral Palsy,Special Education,Educational Facilities,Transportation,Foreign Countries,Interviews,Questionnaires,Academic Achievement,Vocational Education,Elementary School Students,Teacher Education,Special Education Teachers,Statistical Analysis

Education is obligatory part of children's socialization. Currently in Pakistan, parents are paying a great attention on the education of their children with special needs as it was neglected in past decades. The study was piloted to identify the parents' satisfaction regarding their children with special need's academic performance, available facilities at school campuses and in future, their expectations from their children with special needs. This study was conducted in special education institutions of district Faisalabad and in total, eighty five face to face parents' interviews were completed with the help of a well-structured questionnaire. Mostly respondent's children were studied at primary level. The majority of the respondents almost (94%) were satisfied with their children's academic performance and the facilities that were available at school campuses like: trained teachers, transport facilities (74%), caregivers while more than half of the parents were not satisfied with the provision of vocational trainings at school.
Learning Assessment in Tertiary Business Education with Revised Taxonomy
Author: Hossain, Md. Shajjad
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Taxonomy,Business Administration Education,Private Colleges,Computer Software,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis,Thinking Skills,College Students,Student Evaluation,Trend Analysis,Educational Trends,College Faculty,Teacher Attitudes

The goal of this study was to evaluate the assessment criteria of learning in tertiary education of Bangladesh. The study was aimed at identifying percentage of questions during learning assessment of business graduates following cognitive levels of Bloom's in revised Taxonomy and to test whether there was any significant difference in the assessment procedure of different semesters. It was also intended to justify the proportion between higher order learning and lower level learning assessment in tertiary education. It was a descriptive research using secondary sources of data in the form of printed questions. Around 350 printed questions of different semesters in the sample business department of a private university in Bangladesh have been analyzed. Microsoft Office Excel 2007 package has been used as a tool of descriptive statistics and calculating Chi-Square Test value. The results reveal that the grand mean percentage in Apply level is the highest (26.10%) and Create level shows the lowest (2.80%). Chi-square test shows that the questions in different semesters are consistent as critical value is higher than the calculated value. Besides, grand mean percentage in higher order learning level (59.04%) is fairly greater than lower level (40.96%) which represents moderated upward trend. Consequently, the study indicates that the performance of the sample business department in assessment of learning of the students following revised Taxonomy is fairly satisfactory and recommends that emphasize should be given more on higher order learning levels. The results of the study would help the higher education &amp; research authorities especially in Bangladesh with the relevant scenario of assessment trend in business education and take necessary steps in facilitating academic excellence.
Assessment of Factor Affecting Institutional Performance: The Case of Wolaita Sodo University
Author: Shibru, Sintayehu
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Institutional Evaluation,Leadership,Higher Education,Administrators,Work Experience,Professional Development,Learning Activities,Communities of Practice,Regression (Statistics),Statistical Distributions,Questionnaires,Interviews,Universities,Statistical Analysis

The purpose of this study is to explore factors that affect institutional performance of Wolaita Sodo University. The study has identified middle level manager's perceptions toward institutional performance to indicate the key factors that seem to affect the performance of the university. Data were collected using structured questionnaires and interview. The collected data were analyzed using simple quantitative analysis. The finding of the study revealed that factors that influencing the institutional performance are leadership experience, academic rank of the managers, applied policy and procedures, making professional learning community and ensuring efficient financial management and accountability. Finally, recommendations were forwarded based on the major finding in order to improve Institutional performance like as officials should updates its policies and procedures through participation of the whole community, professional pathways should include professional learning priorities, financial resource allocation and distribution should be made to each unit in accordance with aligned work and activities, accessing training regarding educational leadership and promoting the staff to engaged in research and community service and publish on reputable journals.
Does Reading-While-Listening Enhance Students' Reading Fluency? Preliminary Results from School Experiments in Rural Uganda
Author: Friedland, Aaron
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Rural Areas,Reading Fluency,Foreign Countries,Educational Objectives,Audio Equipment,Books,Elementary School Students,Grade 3,Listening Comprehension,Intervention,Teaching Methods,Reading Instruction,Pretests Posttests,Statistical Analysis,Instructional Effectiveness

Although studies on the effects of Reading While Listening (RWL) to audiobooks on students' reading fluency is limited, the available emerging literature consistently demonstrates its favourable contribution to improve reading fluency. Since improving fluency is an important instructional goal of primary schools, understanding the role of RWL to audiobooks in improving reading fluency is essential. The goal of the study was to assess the impact of RWL to audiobooks on reading fluency. To achieve this goal, we conducted a randomized controlled experiment using forty six students enrolled in grade 3 at Hadassa Primary School in rural Mbale, Uganda. The significance of the study underscores the current inefficiencies within classrooms globally and the ease with which simple interventions can be implemented to improve fluency. Limitations of the study are discussed.
According to the Opinions of Teachers of Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities: What Are the Sexual Problems of Students with Special Education Needs? How Should Sexual Education Be Provided for Them?
Author: Girgin-Büyükbayraktar, Çagla
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Intellectual Disability,Sexuality,Special Education,Sex Education,Qualitative Research,Special Education Teachers,Special Schools,Foreign Countries,Gender Issues,Barriers,Social Behavior,Semi Structured Interviews,Teacher Competencies

The purpose of this research is to determine what sexual problems that individuals with special educations needs have and how to provide sexual education for these students, depending on the opinions of the teachers of mentally handicapped individuals. The qualitative research technique was employed in this research. Purposeful sampling method was used for the research. In the research, teachers who have worked at a special education institution for at least five years were included. Particularly those teachers having certain expertise in observing sexual problems and providing exact education related to these issues as a result of their 5 year-experience in institutions that they have worked were selected for the study population of the research. The study population of the research consisted of the teachers of mentally handicapped individuals working in Konya province. The study population consisted of 25 teachers. Eighteen of the teachers were female, seven of them were male. Working year experiences of the teachers ranged between 1-15 years. Semi-structured interview method was used to collect the data in the research. The data which were collected through the interview were analyzed using the content analysis technique. Themes were determined while interpreting the data. Categories for each theme were prepared. According to the results obtained through the content analysis of the data which were collected from the semi-structured interview form applied in the research, individuals with special education needs often apply to teachers about problems such as masturbation, marriage, adolescence problems and controlling sexual urges. The teachers report that they inform about general hygiene, problems encountered in adolescence period, dressing and behaving in accordance with gender characteristics. They emphasize that it is important to carefully monitor and know the individual, use clear and understandable words and provide sexual education by someone of the same gender while providing sexual education for individuals with special education needs. About the problems while providing sexual education for the handicapped individuals, the teachers overemphasize issues such as difficulty of quitting a learned behavior by handicapped individuals, not knowing how to behave in public and closing themselves off, behaving shy.
An Investigation of the Relationship between Preservice Science Teachers' Epistemological Beliefs about the Nature of Science and Their Self-Efficacy Perceptions
Author: Zorlu, Yusuf
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Epistemology,Beliefs,Preservice Teachers,Preservice Teacher Education,Scientific Principles,Self Efficacy,Student Teacher Attitudes,Questionnaires,Rating Scales,Science Education,Regression (Statistics),Foreign Countries,Likert Scales,Statistical Analysis

This study aims to investigate the relationship between preservice science teachers' epistemological beliefs about the nature of science (NOS) and their science learning self-efficacy perceptions by adapting a science learning self-efficacy scale for use in Turkey. This study is model as &quot;Relational Survey&quot;. A total of 125 preservice teachers (65 sophomores and 60 seniors) from a science education department of educational faculty in a state university participated in the study. Science Learning Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (SLSEQ) and The Scientific Epistemological Beliefs Scale (SEBS) was used data collection. This study, considering the scale adapted into Turkish by Alpaslan and Isik (2016), readapted the self-efficacy scale developed by Lin and Tsai (2013) for use in the field of science education. The scale has 5 factors and 28 items. The preservice science education teachers are thought to have high perception levels based on their scores on the SLSEQ and its factors. The results of SEBS show that the preservice science teachers had a positivist understanding of science. The results on the SEBS and the SLSEQ show that there is a positive linear relationship between the scores on the two scales, and the scores on the SLSEQ predict and explain 23% of the SEBS scores.
Inference Instruction to Support Reading Comprehension for Elementary Students with Learning Disabilities
Author: Hall, Colby
Date: 2017-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Reading Comprehension,Learning Disabilities,Elementary School Students,Inferences,Teaching Methods,Reading Skills,Reading Strategies,Reading Improvement,Reading Difficulties,Teaching Guides

Making inferences during reading is a critical standards-based skill and is important for reading comprehension. This article supports the improvement of reading comprehension for students with learning disabilities (LD) in upper elementary grades by reviewing what is currently known about inference instruction for students with LD and providing detailed suggestions and a five-step process for teaching students to make text-connecting and knowledge-based inferences while reading. By bolstering this key reading comprehension skill in the upper elementary grades, teachers can better prepare students for the increased reading comprehension demands of middle school.
Pupils' Understanding of Food Concept: The Assessment of Children's Preconceptions Ideas about Food
Author: Oztas, Fulya
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Scientific Concepts,Questionnaires,Secondary School Students,Food,Student Attitudes,Scientific Literacy,Concept Teaching,Misconceptions,Student Surveys,Foreign Countries

This paper explains students' ideas about food as a scientific concept that a questionnaire was administered to 40 secondary level students. The findings have been shown that in students' mind food was essential for living, growth and supplying energy. Also students could accept the idea of food could be in liquid form. Students' understanding of the biological concept of food was anthropocentric and not applied across living organisms in heterotrophs (animals) or autotrophs (plants) as a whole. Many students confused water food or not. Mostly water not accepted as a food because of it does not yield energy for organisms. It looks a vital point that to emphasizing food as any substance (in solid or liquid state), can obtainable energy during respiration during alive activity.
Graphical Models for Quasi-Experimental Designs
Author: Steiner, Peter M.
Date: 2017-03-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Graphs,Causal Models,Quasiexperimental Design,Randomized Controlled Trials,Regression (Statistics),Probability,Cutting Scores,Statistical Inference

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-experimental designs like regression discontinuity (RD) designs, instrumental variable (IV) designs, and matching and propensity score (PS) designs are frequently used for inferring causal effects. It is well known that the features of these designs facilitate the identification of a causal estimand and, thus, warrant a causal interpretation of the estimated effect. In this article, we discuss and compare the identifying assumptions of quasi-experiments using causal graphs. The increasing complexity of the causal graphs as one switches from an RCT to RD, IV, or PS designs reveals that the assumptions become stronger as the researcher's control over treatment selection diminishes. We introduce limiting graphs for the RD design and conditional graphs for the latent subgroups of compliers, always takers, and never takers of the IV design, and argue that the PS is a collider that offsets confounding bias via collider bias. [For a related paper, see ED567736.]
The Use of Eclectic Method in Teaching Turkish to Foreign Students
Author: Iscan, Adem
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Methods,Turkish,Foreign Students,Foreign Countries,Second Language Instruction,Vocabulary Development,Concept Mapping,Language of Instruction,Language Skills

Although there are debates in the post-method era, it is seen that the traditional methods used in teaching foreign languages continue to be used persistently in Turkey. It has been observed in the literature review that there is a method problem in foreign language teaching of Turkish; and studies have been conducted in limited number on the methods. The main purpose of this study is to present theoretical knowledge on the eclectic method considered as a method that could be used in teaching Turkish as a foreign language. The target group of this study consists of practitioners (teachers) and field experts (academicians). The practical studies conducted by the researchers on the eclectic method and the use of this method by the practitioners in Turkish lessons are considered as the contributions made to the field of teaching Turkish as a foreign language.
Exploring the Effect of Trauma Care Simulation on Undergraduate Critical Care Nursing Students' Attitude at a College of Nursing, in Jeddah--An Intervention Study
Author: El-Gamal, Seham
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Trauma,Patients,Undergraduate Students,Simulation,Crisis Intervention,Nursing Students,Nursing Education,Females,Pretests Posttests,Attitude Measures,Questionnaires,Student Attitudes,Teamwork,Leadership Role,Feedback (Response),Data Analysis

Background: Patient safety has become a priority and prerequisite for the provision for effective quality care. Simulation is seen as one method to ensure patient safety as this method allows for the attainment of skills and promotes the transference of these skills into safe clinical practice. Method: A pretest-posttest research design was used. 34 Female critical care students were conveniently sampled from the College of Nursing, Jeddah, at the King Saud bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences. Data collection occurred in three phases: first phase pre-simulation phase which included administering the KIDSIM Attitudes Questionnaire; second phase was the simulation on a trauma patient with hypovolemic shock; third phase was administering the KIDSIM Attitudes Questionnaire and Simulation Design Scale. Results: The majority of the students have positive attitudes in both pre and post simulation practice in relation to the relevance of simulation (with Mean + SD 4.3 + 0.6 pre &amp; 4.4 + 0.5 post) with no significant difference between pre- and post-simulation practice. Approximately two thirds of students were able to able to care for a trauma patients with hypovolemic shock. Student's feedback about the simulation practice highlights that the majority of students provided positive feedback regarding the simulation session attended. Discussion: One of the significant finding related to leadership provided during simulation was to ask non-response team members to leave when they are distracting. In addition, the results of this study revealed that within a team context, the roles on non-leading members of the team are just as important for good team functioning as the role of the leader. Limitations and Recommendations: Limitations include space triangulation with a small sample size. Recommendations for future research propose qualitative studies to address the phenomenon at hand especially within a Saudi Arabian context.
Instructional Technologies and Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers' Selection of Technology
Author: Akcay, Ahmet Oguz
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Methods,Preservice Teachers,Mathematics Teachers,Mathematics Instruction,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Literature Reviews,Calculators,Computer Uses in Education,Integrated Learning Systems,Computer Software,Multimedia Instruction,Technology Integration,Preschool Education,Early Childhood Education,Elementary Education,Middle Schools,High Schools

There are many available technologies that can assist future teachers to deliver instruction. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief review of literature identifying available technology tools in mathematics education and which technologies are selected by PSTs to design mathematics lesson activities. The most commonly used and available technology tools in mathematics education and the technological tools most frequently selected by PSTs are described, based on an analysis of 68 lesson activities. The result shows that PSTs selected technology activities based on an assigned topic and grade level.
Investigating the Effect of the Activities Based on Explanation Assisted REACT Strategy on Learning Impulse, Momentum and Collisions Topics
Author: Ültay, Eser
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preservice Teachers,Science Teachers,Preservice Teacher Education,Mixed Methods Research,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Scientific Concepts,Physics,Pretests Posttests,Intervention,Context Effect,Teaching Methods,Science Education,Concept Formation,Foreign Countries,College Freshmen

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of explanation assisted REACT strategy which was based on context-based learning approach on prospective science teachers' (PSTs) learning in impulse, momentum and collisions topics. The sequential explanatory strategy within mixed methods design was employed in this study. The first phase of the study in which quantitative data were collected represents the experimental aspect of the study, the second phase of the study in which qualitative data were gathered to support quantitative data represents the descriptive dimension. The study was carried out with 25 PSTs in the experimental and 25 in the control group. In this study, two-tier Impulse, Momentum and Collisions Concept Test (IMCCT) were used as a data collection tool. IMCCT which was consisted of 34 questions was administered as pretest before the intervention, posttest after the intervention and delayed test 9 weeks after the intervention. This study revealed that explanation assisted REACT strategy which was based on context-based learning approach was found more effective than the traditional teaching approach on impulse, momentum and collisions topic. Findings also showed that some of the alternative conceptions were significantly eliminated in the experimental group.