ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Examining Teaching Styles of Academicians Employed in Faculties of Sports Sciences
Author: Namli, Sevinç
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Styles,College Faculty,Foreign Countries,Expertise,Physical Education,Gender Differences,Academic Rank (Professional),Departments,Athletics

The aim of this study is to determine teaching styles of faculty members employed in several universities in Turkey. To that end, 105 faculty members employed in Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, Atatürk University, Erzurum Technical University, Bartin University, Sakarya University, Adiyaman University, Karamanoglu Mehmet Bey University and Gazi University participated in the study. In this study, Grasha's Teaching Styles Inventory was used as the data collection tool. In the analysis of data, t-test, One-Way ANOVA and correlation analysis were utilized as well as mean and standard deviation values. Results of the study revealed that teaching styles of the faculty members did not differ by gender. In the analyses conducted with respect to academic title, a statistically significant difference was found between those with title of lecturer and associate professor and those with title of professor in terms of expert style and personal style sub-dimensions. Considering teaching styles, expert, authoritarian and personal styles were found to be high; facilitator and delegator styles were found to be moderate among faculty members.
Humility in Turkish University Student Athletes and Non-Athletes
Author: Tingaz, Emre Ozan
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Personality Traits,Student Athletes,College Students,Gender Differences,Age Differences,Public Colleges,Athletics,Young Adults,Physical Education Teachers,Elementary School Teachers,Departments,Altruism

The main purpose of the current research is to examine the humility of university student athletes and non-athletes. In addition, it has been another focus of whether the humility differ according to gender, age, department and monthly expenditure. Furthermore, the humility of the athlete students according to their sports type, sports years and the best athletic scores was investigated. In the present study, two different public universities from Istanbul and Ankara, aged between 18, 23 (Mage = 20.49 years SD = 1.35), 54.3% (n = 222) were female and 45.7% (n = 187) were male, a total of four hundred nine athlete and non-athlete students were included through convenience sampling. The instrument selected for the study was the Humility Scale which has been developed by Elliott (2010) and adapted to Turkish by Sariçam et al. (2012). The total score and subdimensions of humility in the present study did not differ significantly by gender, age, monthly expenditure, athletic status (athletes or non-athletes), sport type (team or individual sports) and sport year. On the other hand, in the sub-dimension of focus on others, it was found that the students in the primary teaching department had significantly higher scores than the physical education and sports teacher students. In modest self-assessment sub-scale, the average score of athletes who have the best athletic score in a Turkey competition higher than athletes who have the best athletic score in a regional competition.
Reasons for Choosing the Profession of Teacher
Author: Keçici, Sayime Erben
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Career Choice,Teaching (Occupation),College Freshmen,Student Teachers,Student Teacher Attitudes,Job Security,Student Motivation

The teaching profession is an attractive career prospect for many prospective students, and the number of first-year students is rising continuously. Therefore, the aim of this qualitative work was to highlight the reasons for the choice of studies for first semester teacher students of the Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitat Ahmet Kelesoglu Faculty of Education with the help of the problematic interview. Three male and three female teaching students were interviewed. No subjects were given, as the main motive for the work was to determine the reasons for the choice of the teacher training course. The interest in job security or civil servant status is the strongest motive for students to begin teacher training, followed by the desire to educate and work with children and young people. Furthermore, it emerged from the interviews that the desire to impart knowledge is not so much scientific and technical knowledge as the imparting of values and ideals.
The Effect of Parents&apos; Attention on the Technology Usage of Children between the Ages of Four and Six
Author: Biber, Kazim
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Young Children,Attention,Parent Child Relationship,Kindergarten,Mothers,Fathers,Computer Use,Handheld Devices,Correlation,Parent Attitudes,Behavior Development

The aim of the study was to determine the technology usage characteristics of children between the ages of 4-6 and to determine whether these characteristics differ according to parental attention. This research is a relational screening model. The study group of the research consists of 117 children and their parents aged 4-6 years who attend independent kindergartens and kindergartens at elementary schools in Karesi and Altieylül districts of Balikesir province in 2018- 2019 academic year. As data collection tool, &quot;Personal Information Form&quot; that includes demographics of children and their parents prepared by researchers, &quot;Technology Use Questionnaire of Preschool Children of 4-6 Years&quot; prepared by researchers, and &quot;Parental Attention for Children Scale&quot; that was developed by Campbell et al. (1986) and adapted by Sucuoglu et al. (2015) in order to determine parental attention for children were used. Descriptive analyses were performed, scale reliability was calculated, distribution of data was examined, and difference tests were applied depending on the distribution. In addition, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) post-hoc tests and independent samples t-test were used. In the Parental Attention for Children Scale, while there was a linear relationship between the mother and father forms and its sub-dimensions; there was a linear relationship between the level of &quot;Attention for Control&quot;, a the sub-dimension of father form, and survey questions. Despite the high interest in control, it was observed that children's use of technology was high.
Views of Parents Regarding the Services Provided to the Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Author: Ilik, Serife Senay
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Parent Attitudes,Health Services,Students with Disabilities,Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,Elementary School Students,Foreign Countries,Drug Therapy,Social Development,Parent Education,Special Education,Parent Aspiration

This study adopted a descriptive survey method to investigate the views of parents on education and healthcare services provided to the children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and help them explain their views in their own words. The sample was composed of 25 parents of children diagnosed with ADHD, who were attending primary schools in Konya city center. A semi-structured interview form was used for parent interviews. The data were analysed through content analysis. The results revealed that according to the parents' views, the service provided to the children mostly included either healthcare or education services, but a very little number of children received both services. The great majority of the families stated that the medicines that their children were prescribed increased their attention; however, negatively affected their social development. The parents expressed their opinion that a training programme for parents should be arranged and multimodal interventions should be provided.
The Effect of Ethnobotanic Activities on Learning Performance of Pre-Service Teachers about Plants&apos; Classification
Author: Yangin, Selami
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Plants (Botany),Classification,Preservice Teachers,Teaching Methods,Science Instruction,Biology,Foreign Countries,Science Activities,Cultural Influences,Preservice Teacher Education

This study analyses the effectiveness of ethnobotanic activities on learning performance of pre-service teachers about plants' classification. The research design was a quasi-experimental model. The results of the study revealed that the experimental group in which ethnobotanical activities were carried out was more successful for answers given to the interview form. On the other hand, there was no difference between the groups in multiple-choice questions. In other words, ethnobotanical practices have developed the subjective views of the students so they could have more comprehensive knowledge of the plants. These results suggest that ethnobotanic activities encourage pre-service teachers to think and talk through how to solve more open-ended problems that require making connections between analytical and practical components. This study also suggests the need to rethink how we teach botany to pre-service teachers, and how to help them learn the content better and establish more accurate conceptions of the biology content.
According to Whom, Who Is Who?: Perceptions Regarding Cultural, Educational Diversity and Othering (Amsterdam, the Netherlands Example)
Author: Yaman-Ortas, Banu
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Migrants,Cultural Pluralism,Diversity,Adjustment (to Environment),Social Attitudes,Social Bias,Family Attitudes,Ethnic Groups,Social Integration,Cultural Differences,Intergroup Relations

This study has been carried out with the families who migrated from Turkey and settled in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which has an intense cultural and educational diversity. Finding the answer to the question &quot;According to whom; who is who?&quot; constitutes the fundamental ground of this research. However, this research has also been carried out in order to comprehend the points of view that have changed or have not changed between the past and the present and to scrutinize the reasons for such points of view. Moreover, another main objective is to form a comparative opinion about the situations that the settled migrant families in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and their children have encountered regarding the &quot;other&quot; concept, based on cases in their experiences, with regard to the adaptation concept. Content analysis, which is a qualitative research technique, was used during the research, whereas relevant persons have been contacted by means of the snowball sampling technique. In accordance with the obtained opinions and with the results derived from sample experiences, there surely exist differences in experiences in terms of adaptation and the marginalization-othering concept between those who migrated in the past and those migrating in the present day. Those sample experiences are discussed directly and the comments have been made by considering negative and positive concepts together.
A Comparison between the Fifth Grade Intensive English Language Curriculum and the Fifth Grade English Language Curriculum: Students&apos; Achievement in Speaking
Author: Kaya, Suat
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Elementary School Students,Grade 5,Second Language Learning,English (Second Language),English Curriculum,Curriculum Evaluation,Communicative Competence (Languages),Speech Skills,Achievement Tests,Failure

It is aimed, in this study, to compare the achievement level of the students taught with the fifth grade intensive English language curriculum (IELC) and the ones taught with the fifth grade English language curriculum (ELC) in terms of their speaking skills. With this aim, it is also intended to find out the failure behind the students' speaking skills. Sequential explanatory strategy, which is one of the mixed-methods research designs, was used for this study as the aim was to further explain the quantitative findings. There were two groups of participants in this study. The first group included 64 fifth grade students selected from two different schools though simple random sampling, while the second group consisted of the five teachers teaching the fifth grade IELC. Two instruments developed by the researcher were utilized to collect data. The first instrument was an achievement test developed to measure students' success in speaking skills, while the second instrument was a semi-structured interview schedule developed to collect data from the teachers implementing the fifth grade IELC. The quantitative data collected through the achievement test were analyzed with descriptive statistics including means and standard deviations and inferential statistics through independent samples t-test which was used to compare the two groups of students' achievement levels, while the qualitative data gathered through the semi-structured interviews were analyzed with content analysis. The findings indicated that only one objective was attained by the students, the results of independent samples t-test indicated that there was not a significant difference in the achievement levels of the students taught with the fifth grade IELC and the ones taught with the fifth grade ELC. The reasons behind this failure was found to be resulting from teacher-related, student-related, and Ministry of National Education (MoNE)-related factors referring to implementation problems rather than curriculum design.
A Comparison of Score Equating Conducted Using Haebara and Stocking Lord Method for Polytomous
Author: Setiawan, Risky
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Equated Scores,Evaluation Methods,Evaluation Criteria,Test Items,Measurement Techniques,Difficulty Level,Scoring,Data Collection,Questionnaires

The purposes of this research are: 1) to compare two equalizing tests conducted with Hebara and Stocking Lord method; 2) to describe the characteristics of each equalizing test method using windows' IRTEQ program. This research employs a participatory approach as the data are collected through questionnaires based on the National Examination Administration of 2018. The samples are classified into group A and group B respectively by 449 and 502 respondents. This paper discusses how to equalize shared items using the anchor method with a set of instruments in the forms of 35 questionnaire items and 6 shared items. In addition, the researcher also uses PARSCALE to estimate each respondent's skills and each item's characteristics. The shared items are eventually equalized using IRTEQ program. The results show that there is a significant difference between those conducted using Haebara method (0.592) which produces bigger mean-sigma value and Stocking &amp; Lord (0.00213). Thus, the results show that the shared testing items may improve respondents' discrimination and increase the difficulty level (parameter b). Due to the availability of shared items, it is good and appropriate to equalize two different tests on different theta skills.
The Influence of Time Management Behaviours before Starting General Physics Laboratory-I Experiments on Academic Achievement in the Course
Author: Erdemir, Mustafa
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Time Management,Physics,Science Laboratories,Science Experiments,Academic Achievement,Preservice Teachers,Correlation,Instructional Materials,Student Behavior

The purpose of this study is to determine the time management behaviours before starting experiments in the laboratory environment and to find out whether such behaviours are influential on academic achievement in the laboratory course. Nine pre-service science teachers were observed for 9-11 minutes per week before starting experiments for 6 weeks. The findings were obtained through analysis of observation records and the time management behaviours before starting experiments by two domain experts. The pre-service teachers reading experiment leaflets prior to experiments were found to have a higher academic achievement level compared to those not reading them. In addition, a positive relationship was identified between academic achievement and the time management behaviour involving having textbooks, lecture notes and other sources about subjects present before experiments. Getting tools and materials before experiments, organising experiment desks, cooperation with groupmates and having experiment leaflets present were also found to influence academic achievement.
Responsibility Development as Academic Integrity Tool for Translation and Public Administration Students
Author: Nesterova, Olha
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Responsibility,Integrity,Translation,Public Administration Education,Ethics,English for Special Purposes,Information Literacy,Consciousness Raising,Foreign Countries,Undergraduate Students,Learning Modules

This paper deals with the development of students' responsibility as a tool of academic integrity and it aims to develop the way of improvement of students' responsibility of dealing with information and consider the results of its implementation. The study involved theoretical analysis and experimental activity. The research data were collected using the special questionnaire for study responsibility in dealing with information. The authors suggest the development of a module covering ethics of dealing with information to be included in the courses within students' curriculum. The experimental activity of such courses implementation resulted in the improvement of levels of students' responsibility. The experimental data obtained during the implementation of two module topics into the courses of English for Specific Purposes and Practice of Translation from the First Foreign Language enabled the authors to admit their efficiency for the development of responsibility and academic integrity.
Self-Esteem of High School Students: A Structural Equation Modelling Analysis
Author: Atmaca,Taner
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Self Esteem,High School Students,Correlation,Stress Variables,Parent Influence,Anxiety,Student Evaluation,Foreign Countries,Experimental Schools,High Achievement,Academic Achievement,Self Concept Measures

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of the parents' success pressure, academic stress and fear of negative evaluation on high school students' self-esteem. The relationships between self-esteem and parent's pressure for academic success, fear of negative evaluation and academic stress on high school students were investigated employing structural equation modelling. The data were collected from 499 students studying at an Anatolian high school in Duzce province with purposeful sampling method. The characteristic of this school is a project school with successful students who get the highest score in the High School Entrance Examination. The result demonstrates that parental pressure for academic achievement on students and associated academic stress increase students' fear of being evaluated negatively at school, which in turn affects students' self-esteem. The fear of negative evaluation is a partial mediator between parental pressure and self-esteem, and full mediation between academic stress and self-esteem.
A Survey on the Use of Humanoid Robots in Primary Education: Prospects, Research Challenges and Future Research Directions
Author: Tuna, Gurkan
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Technology Uses in Education,Robotics,Elementary Education,Man Machine Systems,Technology Integration,Assistive Technology,Interaction,Problem Solving,Student Motivation,Learner Engagement,Feedback (Response)

In parallel with the significant and exciting advancements in robot technologies, the use of humanoid robots to support teaching strategies and learning goals has become a popular topic. Different from the traditional instructional or learning tools, humanoid robots can exhibit mobile behaviours and numerous repetitions and are very helpful to the students in developing problem-solving and collaboration abilities. Presently, the roles of humanoid robots in classrooms fall into four main categories: learning materials, learning companions, teaching assistants and communication mediators to support group learning, respectively. With the humanoid appearance, anthropomorphism, interaction, flexibility, repeatability and digital data representation, humanoid robots have great potential to be useful especially in preschool and primary school education. In this paper, limitations and challenges of the use of humanoid robots as teaching assistants are presented in addition to exploring the relationship between humanoid robots and performance in learning.
The Current State of the Art in STEM Research: A Systematic Review Study
Author: Bozkurt, Aras
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: State of the Art Reviews,STEM Education,Educational Research,Educational Trends,Scholarship,Statistical Analysis,Research Methodology,Evidence Based Practice,Curriculum Development,Higher Education,Gender Issues,Student Centered Learning,Program Effectiveness,Research Needs,Learning Analytics

In the 21st century, when the knowledge-based economy is steering improvement and development, STEM education has gained increasing momentum and importance. This study aims to identify the current trends in STEM education, and also explores and identifies research trends and patterns in articles published between 2014 and 2016 on STEM education through a systematic review study. The research findings indicate that interest in STEM education in scholarly venues has witnessed a marked increase since 2014, with researchers preferring mostly quantitative, conceptual/descriptive, qualitative, mixed and practice-based research methods. In contrast, no interest is currently being shown in data mining and analytical methodologies. The patterns being in STEM education are identified as follows: (1) the scope of the STEM education, (2) the need for a new curriculum for the STEM in higher education, (3) gender studies in STEM education and (4) the need for student-centred future studies on the effectiveness of STEM education.
When Educators Come Together to Speak about Well-Being: An Invitation to Talk
Author: Simmons, Marlon
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Attitudes,Well Being,Educational Environment,Self Management,Foreign Countries,Resilience (Psychology),Teacher Persistence,Elementary School Teachers,Secondary School Teachers

Contingent on multiple variants, educators' well-being is becoming a concern regarding quality of life in and out of schools. Our qualitative case study aimed to understand how educators negotiate well-being through ever-increasing complexities in schooling environments and incommensurable lifeworld realities. Findings include material relevant to (1) the cultural politics of well-being; (2) relationality of/with well-being; (3) the need for self-care; and (4) ways of being and doing well-being in context. Conclusions discuss how to support educators in creating and fostering well-being for themselves individually, and within collective and institutional levels.