ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Misplaced Modifier: Honors Students and Honors Education
Author: Etheridge, Brian C.
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Honors Curriculum,Privatization,Paying for College,Commercialization,Educational Practices,Educational Policy,Reader Response,Debate

The challenge posed by for-profit educators to the existing system is a real one that is not likely to go away any time soon and is, in fact, likely to intensify. Brian Etheridge describes Gary Bell's essay as a thoughtful exegesis on how we came to this point. He roots his narrative in the explosion of the profit motive, citing several instances of privatization in other industries here and in other countries. Bell understandably laments that the wave of privatization has made its way to the shores of honors education, and he spends considerable time dissecting the argument of start-ups like American Honors. In calling attention to these issues, he has done a useful service to the honors community. In this article Etheridge writes that he also harbors many of Bell's predispositions, and shares his belief in the transformative power of higher education, however in the spirit of a good historical debate, Etheridge argues that he would frame the narrative differently and as a result diagnose the problem and solution differently as well.
Honors and the Completion Agenda: Identifying and Duplicating Student Success
Author: Trucker, Jay
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Success,Honors Curriculum,Longitudinal Studies,Academic Persistence,Graduation Rate,College Transfer Students,Transfer Rates (College),Focus Groups,Student Records,Sampling,Partnerships in Education,Institutional Characteristics,Student Characteristics,Interaction,College Programs,Introductory Courses,Community Colleges,Two Year College Students,Two Year Colleges

Longitudinal studies that track student persistence each semester serve as the primary measurement of an institution's success or failure. These studies take place at the institutional and state-wide levels as well as nationally through grant-based organizations such as Complete College America. At the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), where the author serves as both faculty member and honors program director, these studies consistently reveal low college-wide retention and graduation rates. According to Maryland's state-wide longitudinal approach, even after discarding the statistics of students who attempt fewer than eighteen credits, barely two of five CCBC degree-seeking students graduate or transfer within four years (CCBC, &quot;accountability report&quot;). Accordingly, discussion of success rates often strikes a tone somewhere between apologetic and mournful. An occasional collective lapse into hopelessness is not without just cause. The goal of this research has been to find ways of offering honors education to a wider range of CCBC's general population particularly the majority of its population that needs some form of developmental training--in order to make honors a scalable program that can assist the college in increasing its success rates, most notably transfer and graduation rates. By identifying commonalities among students who began their coursework in developmental education and later became members of the honors program, the author hopes to recommend policies that can help a larger subset of community college students gain access to honors and thrive there.
Development of a Course Sequence for an Interdisciplinary Curriculum
Author: Ali, Muhammad
Date: 2012-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Curriculum Development,Interdisciplinary Approach,Sequential Approach,Undergraduate Study,Science Curriculum,Biological Sciences,Computer Science Education,Alignment (Education),Course Descriptions,Information Science

Interdisciplinary curriculum development is challenging in the sense that materials from more than one discipline have to be integrated in a seamless manner. A faculty member has to develop expertise in multiple disciplines in order to teach an interdisciplinary course, or the course has to be team-taught. Both approaches are difficult to implement. There are administrative issues, such as proportional posting of expenditures across departmental budgets for the courses taught collaboratively, or courses with students from multiple departments. This paper describes the development and teaching of a sequence of bioinformatics related interdisciplinary courses for incorporation into undergraduate biology curricula. Three courses were developed with collaboration between the Departments of Biology and Computer Science at Tuskegee University. Each course contains contents from different subjects, traditionally considered to be virtually independent of each other. The courses have contents from biology, computer science, statistics, mathematics and biochemistry. The first two courses, Introduction to Bioscience Computing and Biological Algorithms &amp; Data Structures, cover the computing and computer science fundamentals necessary for the informed use of bioinformatics tools. The third is an introductory course in bioinformatics. The focus was on teaching the effective use of bioinformatics tools, as compared to development of bioinformatics tools which is more relevant at the graduate level. Administrative issues encountered are also discussed. This work was supported by a NSF HBCU-UP grant.
Using Iceland as a Model for Interdisciplinary Honors Study
Author: Andersen, Kim
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Interdisciplinary Approach,Honors Curriculum,Models,Educational History,Course Descriptions,Course Content,Participant Satisfaction,Academic Achievement,Geographic Regions,Field Trips,Cultural Education,Environmental Education,Genetics,Economics Education,Physical Geography,Student Participation,Student Evaluation,College Programs

Interdisciplinary approaches do not merely satisfy an abstract longing; in post-educational life--especially in a secular, Western, post-modern culture--young people must confront complex issues that transcend any one discipline. Educational systems accordingly have a duty to offer frameworks for understanding this complexity that go beyond any single discipline. In this sense, interdisciplinarity promises a very practical tool kit. Washington State University Honors College has developed a productive interdisciplinary model geographically centered on Iceland and incorporating four academic angles, or disciplines. Kim Andersen and Gary Thorgaard have taught this upper-division honors course, Interdisciplinary Iceland, three times (in the fall of 2010, 2011, 2012) with an average of twenty-five students. In addition, a faculty-led trip to Iceland during the summer of 2012 (also involving Norway) provided valuable experience. In hopes that their course might serve as a practical model for others honors programs, they describe how the course came about, the content areas of the course, the student accomplishments and reactions, and the benefits and complexities of their particular model.
Role of Iraqi Higher Education Institutes in Handling National/International Environmental and Health Challenges
Author: Al-Maliky, Salam J. Bash
Date: 2012-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,College Role,Health Education,Health Promotion,Environmental Education,Radiation,Pollution,Educational History,Comparative Education,Case Studies,Context Effect,Weapons,Foreign Countries

Huge environmental and health crises such as the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions during the military activities against Iraq and the required responses are amongst the fields that Iraqi higher education institutions (HEIs) may have a crucial role. Similar international cases, such as Agent Orange (Vietnam), Three Mile Island (USA) and Chernobyl (Ukraine) were discussed, pointing out the consequences of participation/non participation of such institutions. Liberation of academic and research curriculums and programs from the strict controls of governmental authorities, and general modernization campaign for courses offered by the relevant institutions were found essential to define and meet the modern challenges and changes, via the adoption of national/international interaction and expertise exchange with similar institutes. An effective communication and information sharing system would be an important corner stone in any mutual cooperative effort; either inside HEIs community or between them and the relevant entities.
Collaborative Design: Building Task-Specific Rubrics in the Honors Classroom
Author: Rosenow, Ce
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Honors Curriculum,Scoring Rubrics,Classroom Techniques,Task Analysis,Teaching Methods,Educational Practices,Critical Thinking,College English

As someone who values collaboration with her students, supports students' ownership of their own learning, and looks for opportunities to increase their critical learning skills, Ce Rosenow finds many benefits to using task-specific rubrics that evolve from class discussion. She explains that this process is ideal for honors students because of their high level of engagement, motivation, and intellectual capability, and that it is especially useful in the two-year college where students are often grappling with what it means to be a college student as well as what it means to be in honors. She concludes that generating task-specific rubrics with her students becomes a means for learning at the beginning of an assignment and not just during assessment at the end; it encourages students to move beyond the idea that everyone evaluates achievement in the same way or that assessment is entirely relative based on the instructor; it affords clarity and transparency about assignments; it increases students' ownership of their learning; and finally it creates more collaboration in the classroom. Rather than providing means to &quot;measure students based on preconceived expectations&quot; or limiting student creativity, rubrics in this process become a tool for enhancing learning and empowering students.
Campus Life for International Students: Exploring Students' Perceptions of Quality Learning Environment at a Private University in Malaysia
Author: Seng, Ernest Lim Kok
Date: 2012-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Foreign Students,Student Attitudes,College Students,Educational Environment,Educational Quality,College Environment,Student Experience,Private Colleges,Interviews,Qualitative Research,Student Characteristics,Demography,Social Life

The number of international students enrolling at higher learning institutions in Malaysia is increasing each year. However, the quality of learning environment is not always easy to measure, particularly for private universities which are not financially aided by the government, where the learning environment is characterized by their physical construct, quality of staff and academic atmosphere. There have been numerical quantitative researches on the perceptions of university quality learning environment but it is argued that a qualitative approach would add to existing knowledge by providing deeper insights, and from a different perspective. The purpose of the present study was to explore international students' perceptions of a private university through individual in-depth interviews. 15 international students from ten different countries were selected for this study. Various themes emerged from the interviews, some of which have not yet been uncovered in past research investigating learning environment. The findings provide evidence that students expressed their common expectations, concerns, and hopes for a quality university learning environment. This study also provides support for the employment of qualitative approach in the study of perception and quality learning environment.
Leading Teams of Higher Education Administrators: Integrating Goal Setting, Team Role, and Team Life Cycle Theories
Author: Posthuma, Richard
Date: 2012-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,Educational Administration,Integrated Activities,Teamwork,Group Dynamics,Goal Orientation,Strategic Planning,Leadership Styles,Models,Academic Achievement,Career Counseling,Technical Writing,Administrators,Role Perception,Alignment (Education),Program Implementation,Replication (Evaluation),Educational Theories

Leaders of higher education institutions can create top management teams of academic administrators to guide and improve their organizations. This study illustrates how the leadership of top management teams can be accomplished successfully through a combination of goal setting (Doran, 1981; Locke &amp; Latham, 1990), understanding of team roles (Belbin, 1999), and managing team life cycles (Tuckman, 1965; Tuckman &amp; Jensen, 1977). Using team goals, roles, and lifecycles, a model of higher education top management team leadership is derived. That model is compared to an actual case in which these concepts were successfully used to lead a group of academic administrators to the successful conclusion of jointly drafting a report that describes improvements in student academic and career advising.
Effective Foreign Language Teaching: Perceptions of Prospective English Language Teachers
Author: Demiroz, Hakan
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English (Second Language),Language Teachers,Second Language Instruction,English Teachers,Teacher Effectiveness,Foreign Countries,Preschool Teachers,Student Attitudes,Questionnaires,English Literature,Scores,School Schedules,Statistical Analysis,Student Surveys,Likert Scales,Student Characteristics,Gender Differences,Majors (Students)

Studies conducted so far have mainly focused on investigating the characteristics of effective foreign language teachers to understand the role of teacher effectiveness in the process of language learning, while there is scarcity of studies focusing on the perceptions of the characteristics of effective foreign language teaching of the students of Department of English Language Teaching (ELT) and Department of English Language and Literature (EL&amp;L) who are the major candidates of English language teaching profession in Turkey. Thus, this study aims to examine the perceptions of prospective English teachers with regard to their department and demographic variables. Effective Teacher Questionnaire [10] was used to obtain data from ELT (n = 212) and EL&amp;L (n = 192) students. The t test results indicated that there was a significant difference between ELT students' and EL&amp;L students' perceptions of an effective foreign language teacher with regard to the mean scores in favor of the former. Also, the t test results indicated that there was a significant difference between daytime students and night-time students with regard to the mean scores. In the light of the findings, some practical recommendations are provided.
Assessment of Communication Skills of Physical Education and Sport Students in Turkish Universities
Author: Aydin, Ali Dursun
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Communication Skills,College Students,Physical Education,Athletics,Likert Scales,Surveys,Statistical Analysis,Comparative Analysis,Interpersonal Communication,Questionnaires,Student Characteristics,Physical Education Teachers,Preservice Teachers

This study assessed the communication skills of the students studying in physical education and sports schools in various universities in Turkey. A total of 1,854 Physical Education and Sports students in five Turkish universities participated in the study. The instrument used to gather information for this study comprised the demographic information of participants and Communication Skills Assessment Scale (CSAS) composed of 25 items. The 5 point Likert-type scale was developed by Korkut in 1996 and did not include reverse expressive items, and its assessment was carried out by the sum of scores on all items. Görmüs et al. in 2003 determined the CSAS Cronbach's alpha value as 0.841 in their study they carried out with the participation of 187 participants. After being transferred to the computer environment, the obtained data were subjected to various statistical processes. Accordingly, distribution analysis of the data was carried out at first and in accordance with the result obtained, parametric statistical applications were initiated. Frequency analysis was used in the assessment of participants' demographic data, t-test was used for the determination of the relationship between gender and variables, one-way analysis of variance was used for the determination of relationship between school, department, grade and age groups with variables, and Tukey's test was used for the determination of the fact that from which group was the possible relationship resulted. According to the results, communication skills of the participants were at high level. According to the results obtained in the study, it was observed that, among the participants, 18 Mart University students (X = 75,262 ± 10,173) had lower averages on the basis of communication skills compared to the students of Firat University (X = 77,532 ± 10,670), Inönü (X = 80,946 ± 9,003) and Kafkas University (X = 77,501 ± 17,877). On the other hand, it was seen that Anadolu University students (X = 75,181 ± 10,321) had lower average of communication skills compared to the students of Firat, Inönü and Kafkas Universities, and Firat University students had lower averages compared to Inönü University students.
An Insight into a School's Readiness to Implement a CAPS Related Indigenous Knowledge Curriculum for Meteorological Sciences
Author: Riffel, Alvin Daniel
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Indigenous Knowledge,Culturally Relevant Education,Meteorology,Geography Instruction,Secondary School Science,Grade 9,Dialogs (Language),Persuasive Discourse,Teaching Methods,Models,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Mixed Methods Research,Scores,Pretests Posttests,Scientific Concepts,Comparative Analysis,Case Studies,Quasiexperimental Design,Intervention,Questionnaires

This paper looks at those aspects of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) that are socially and culturally relevant in South Africa for teaching meteorological science concepts in a grade 9 geography class room using dialogical argumentation as an instructional model (DAIM). Focusing on the Western Cape Province, and using a quasi-experimental research design model, the study employed both quantitative and qualitative (mixed methods) to collect data in a public secondary school in Cape Town, in the Western Cape Province. The study employed a dialogical instructional model (DAIM) with an experimental group of learners exposed to the DAIM intervention, and recorded differences like: responses to the DAIM method of teaching/learning; learner performance (scores in the post MLT test); depth of learners' understanding about weather/meteorological concepts; their perceptions/attitudes towards Geography--between this group and a control group which had no intervention. Learners from the two groups were exposed to a meteorological literacy test (MLT) evaluation before and after the DAIM intervention. The results from the two groups were then compared and analysed according to the two theoretical frameworks that underpin the study namely: Toulmin's Argumentation Pattern--TAP [46] and Contiguity Argumentation Theory--CAT [23].
Parent-Child Aesthetic Shared Reading with Young Children
Author: Chou, Mei-Ju
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Parent Child Relationship,Oral Reading,Picture Books,Childrens Literature,Story Reading,Aesthetics,Learning Processes,Child Development,Mothers,Preschool Children,Family Environment,Observation,Interviews,Program Effectiveness,Qualitative Research,Video Technology,Audio Equipment,Creativity,Foreign Countries,Parent Role

The participation of parents-shared reading with children is a topic that has generated a lot of attention among many researchers in the world. For the use of picture story books, which have caused positive impact on the child's learning process, has also been recommended as the best strategies to develop children's aesthetic ability. The purpose of the study aims to investigate the effectiveness of parent-child shared reading in developing children's learning; and to investigate the key virtues of parent-child shared learning that are critical in development of child's aesthetic abilities. Ten pairs of mother-child shared reading aesthetic wordless storybook in preschool and at home were observed and interviewed. The results show the positive effects of quality accompany time, environment setting up, and skills to scaffold children within parent-child shared reading. Finally, according to conclusion of this research, suggestions for relative practical application were proposed.
The Effectivity of Association Picture Media Application toward the Katakana Letter Reading Comprehension of Grade Ten Students of SMK (Vocational School) Manajemen Jakarta School Year 2010/2011
Author: Ningroem, Restoe
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Japanese,Second Language Instruction,Alphabets,Visual Aids,Association (Psychology),Reading Instruction,Reading Comprehension,Instructional Effectiveness,Statistical Analysis,Grade 10,Secondary School Students,Vocational Schools

The purpose of this research is to acknowledge the effectivity of using association picture media toward the students' &quot;katakana&quot; letter reading comprehension. The hypothesis proposed was the ability of students' &quot;katana&quot; letter reading skill that applies association pictures is more effective to compare if no such media is applied. The research was conducted to grade ten students of SMK Manajemen Jakarta school year 2010/2011. The research used experiment quasi method. The sample was taken from 50 students which consisted of 25 students as experimental class and 25 students as control class. The data collection technique used an instrument of &quot;katakana&quot; alphabet reading comprehension test. The requirement test of data analysis used in this research were Liliefors-test for normality and Fisher-test for homogeneity; it was revealed that the class was normal and homogenous. Hypothesis assessment used t-test which showed t count = 7,67 = 1,67 = t table that rejected H0. It is concluded from the research that association picture media is effective to increase student's comprehension in reading &quot;katakana&quot; letter.
Reading Habits of the Students with Bengali Medium Background at the English Medium Private Universities in Bangladesh
Author: Mirza, Md. Golam Hoshain
Date: 2012-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Reading Habits,English (Second Language),Private Colleges,Student Characteristics,Interviews,Qualitative Research,Statistical Analysis,College Students,Indo European Languages,Familiarity,Reading Motivation,Barriers,Change Strategies,Foreign Countries,Questionnaires

This paper investigates into the reading habits of the English medium private university students with Bengali medium background. It analyses the realities in the context, which are both nurturing the old and shaping new reading habits of the students. The data gathered by means of interview schedule have been analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The data shows that our students' reading habits--avoiding text books, memorizing ready-made things for exam purposes, very little reading in not only English but Bengali as well--do not change remarkably during their tertiary level of study at the private universities. Rather they are further solidified and nurtured by the teachers' supply of lecture notes, an acute lack of motivation for reading the study materials in English, and the negative backwash of the exam system. These causes of the undesirable reading habits can be removed only if all the teachers dealing with the students come forward and work together with the English teachers for a long period of time to achieve the aims.