ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Improving Early Childhood Emotional Intelligence through Traditional &quot;Balogo&quot; Games in Kindergartens
Author: Manda, Darman
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Kindergarten,Young Children,Emotional Intelligence,Skill Development,Games,Game Based Learning,Parent Background,Folk Culture

Emotional intelligence is a determinant of individual success. However, today's emotional intelligence is fading. Early childhood is the foundation for the development of individual potential and intelligence. Thus, the urgency needs to be taken special action. The focus of this research is to improve the emotional intelligence of early childhood through the traditional game &quot;Balogo&quot;. This research was conducted at Dharma Bahagia Kindergarten, Samarinda through an experimental design. The average N-Gain result in the experimental class in this study was 76% which was categorized as a high level, and the category of effectiveness level included in the effective or increasing category. This means that the treatment of traditional Balogo games has a fairly effective effect on improving early childhood emotional intelligence. Meanwhile, the average N-Gain result in the experimental class in this study was 16% which was categorized as low level, and the foe category of effectiveness level included in the ineffective/not increasing category. This means that if children are not given any treatment (control) it will not increase emotional intelligence based on the results of the pretest and posttest in early childhood.
Inadequate Grammatical Proficiency of B. Ed. English Majors: Claims and Confessions
Author: Poudel, Kamal Kumar
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Majors (Students),Grammar,Undergraduate Students,Faculty Development,Educational Quality,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Foreign Countries,Language Proficiency,Case Studies,Student Attitudes,Misconceptions,Language Tests,Teaching Methods,Attendance,Language Usage,Language Teachers,Barriers

Subjective critiques can often be heard about the quality of English language teaching and learning in higher education in Nepal -- both as being deteriorated and upgraded. This study stemming from the major finding of a previous one -- low grammatical proficiency of B. Ed. English majors studying at a community campus in Nepal -- was an attempt, as a case study, to explore the reasons perceived by the English majors themselves and their teachers as the participants. Focus group discussions were conducted separately with the different groups of participants. Discussed thematically in this article, the major reasons for this as perceived by the participants were the decreased sense of responsibility and misconceptions about the essence of the practical examinations, inappropriate instructional techniques -- specifically excessive lectures -- and students' poor English-base and absenteeism as a tendency. Likewise, some other reasons were students' insufficient exposure to English, their hesitation to produce English and a lack of professional development opportunities for the teachers. Low grammatical competence of the students and less favorable learning environment were also identified as being attributable to the problem. Finally we suggest that some common efforts of the students, the teachers and the institution are required to improve the situation.
Young Learners Preferences on Using Games and Songs for Learning English in EFL Context
Author: Budianto, Suhartawan
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Singing,Preferences,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,English (Second Language),Student Attitudes,Games,Teaching Methods,Elementary School Students,Grade 4,Foreign Countries

This study investigated young learner preference for using games and songs to learn English in the EFL context. Many ways have been found to assist young learners in acquiring English as a Foreign Language. The students' perceptions were taken from the questionnaire. The result showed that most students liked it better when the teachers used games and songs in teaching English in an EFL context. It is suggested that both games and songs can be utilized in teaching English to young learners in the EFL context.
International Students&apos; Sponsorships at University of Technology and Applied Sciences (UTAS), Rustaq, Oman: A Case Study
Author: Al Malki, Moza Abdullah
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Foreign Students,Student Recruitment,Marketing,Universities,Higher Education,International Organizations,Student Diversity,International Cooperation,Student Characteristics,Educational Quality,Public Agencies,Institutional Characteristics,Case Studies,Undergraduate Students,Business Administration Education,Information Science Education

The flow of knowledge resources among nations is interconnected with global political, economic and cultural relationships. One major component of academic interaction is the international exchange at the level of higher education. This paper outlines the existence of international students within the Omani Program for Cultural and Scientific Cooperation (OPCSC) at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences-AL-rustaq, College of Education and explores the merits of the program. Through group interview with nine international students, the study found that the currently enrolled students are from African states solely and were informed about OPCSC by word of mouth disseminated by the International Istiqama Organization, which liaisons between studying opportunities offered by the Ministry of Higher Education and willing international students, and through Omani delegates as well as friends. Therefore, this paper recommends branding the OPCSC and subjecting it to systematic policies and procedures, on the one hand, as well as diversification of international students' portfolio in order to raise the quality of higher education in Oman.
Teaching Critical Thinking and Voice in History Essays: A Spiderweb Tool
Author: Godsell, Sarah
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Critical Thinking,History Instruction,Essays,Preservice Teachers,Intervention,Teaching Methods,Evaluation Methods,Instructional Materials

Background: The history essay, and historical writing, are crucial forms of assessment in History throughout primary and high school education. This article draws from an autoethnography of teachings in a pre-service history teachers' school classroom. This article discusses obstacles students experience in conceptualising and writing the history essay. A tool is introduced to overcome these obstacles. Aim: This article presents a possible intervention in the form of a classroom tool. Setting: This classroom tool is presented in a pre-service history teachers classroom (tertiary). It is presented as a method to teach history in classrooms of senior phase (SP), intermediate phase (IP), and further education and training (FET) phase. Methods: This article uses a qualitative methodology that draws on autoethnography and reflective teaching methodology, allowing me to understand and analyse the processes taking place in my own classroom. This was authorised with an ethics protocol number (H18/10/10). Results: The observations from the case study class showed that the tool provided possibilities for understanding the mediation of knowledge used in an essay, in a way that facilitates critical thinking and voice. Conclusion: This tool provides a possible class intervention that can range from primary to high school. It allows teachers to understand what levels their students' thought need to operate on to teach essay and paragraph writing. Contribution: This spiderweb tool can be used directly in class to demonstrate how the different points of knowledge relate to each other in making an argument. This supports critical thinking and the development of voice.
The Role of Explicit Teaching of Reading Comprehension Strategies to an English as a Second Language Learner
Author: Elston, Andrea
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Direct Instruction,Reading Comprehension,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Foreign Countries,Reading Instruction,Reading Strategies,Elementary School Students,Self Esteem,Critical Thinking,Thinking Skills

Background: Reading comprehension is one of the most important skills a learner needs for academic achievement and is something which many South African learners lack. Studies suggest that explicit teaching of comprehension strategies has the potential to improve literacy. Aim: The aim of this article is to determine the role of explicit teaching of reading comprehension strategies to an English as a second language (ESL) learner. Setting: This study was conducted at a dual-medium quintile 5 primary school in the Western Cape. Quintile 5 are affluent schools (fee-paying schools) which receive less funding from the government. This is a single case study with a Grade 4 ESL learner. The medium of instruction was English. Methods: This is a qualitative interpretive study in which the researcher used an observation and interview schedules to collect data. Pre- and post-tests were conducted before and after the intervention programme (IP). Results: It was evident from the findings that the explicit teaching of three reading comprehension strategies and one-on-one interactions and guidance from the teacher enabled the learner, who is in Grade 4, to acquire critical thinking skills. The learner's literacy improved, which boosted her self-confidence. Conclusion: As the three reading comprehension strategies were constantly and explicitly taught throughout the IP, these collaborative, multitiered approaches began to develop the learner's habit of thinking in a higher-order manner. She began to develop a mindset of critical thinking, even in her second language.
Investigating Reading Comprehension Questions and Student-Generated Questions in Language Lessons in Terms of Level
Author: Isir, Eda
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Reading Comprehension,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Comparative Analysis,Turkish,Case Studies,Textbooks,Content Analysis,Questioning Techniques,Teacher Attitudes,Student Attitudes,Grade 7,Middle School Teachers,Middle School Students,Teacher Characteristics,Student Characteristics,Lesson Plans,Recall (Psychology),Critical Reading,Thinking Skills,Foreign Countries

Reading comprehension questions scaffold deeper comprehension, help students to analyze texts, improve students' thinking skills, and help them realize permanent and meaningful learning. By comparing reading comprehension questions used in Turkish lessons with student-generated comprehension questions in terms of level, this study aimed to determine question resources' capacity to affect students' questions. Using a multiplecase study research method, this study examined Turkish textbooks' reading comprehension questions, teachers' questions generated during lessons and teachers' questions produced for the text provided, and student-generated questions. Data were collected using the Demographic Information Form, Teacher In-Term Question Collection Form, Teacher Questions Collection Form, and Student Question Collection Form. In addition, textbooks were used as another data source. The data were analyzed using content analysis. The results revealed that the textbook questions were mainly of a low level require remembering and understanding information. Similar results were obtained for those teachers' questions. However, it was determined that the teachers' questions produced based on the texts were at a higher level than those produced during the lessons. Comparatively, it was also revealed that the rate of low-level questions produced by students was higher than those in textbooks and teacher questions. Furthermore, high-level critical questions were found to be limited in all resources. When students' questions and questions produced by other resources were compared, the closest relationship was found between the students' questions and questions produced by teachers during lessons.
Investigation of Some Anthropometric and Motoric Characteristics of Paramedic Students
Author: Ergin, Ridvan
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Allied Health Personnel,Allied Health Occupations Education,First Aid,Student Characteristics,Gender Differences,Muscular Strength,Human Body,Body Weight,Body Height,Body Composition,Foreign Countries,Age Differences

Aim: This research aimed to analyze the vocational adjustment of paramedic students in health sciences in terms of some anthropometric and motoric features. Material and Method: The research is a cross-sectional study, which is one of the quantitative research methods aimed at paramedic students. The study group consisted of 60 (n[subscript Male]=34, n[subscript Female]=110) first-year students (n[subscript Male]=16, n[subscript Female]=44; male: 19.63±1.36 years, female: 19.57±1.15 years) receiving education at Kirsehir Ahi Evran University (KAEU) Health Services Vocational School in the First and Emergency Aid Program who agreed to participate in the research voluntarily. To determine the descriptive statistics of the study group, gender and age variables were collected through the direct data collection method. After this process, required measurements, including somatotype measurements, were performed to determine the height, body weight (BW), hand grip strength (HGS), and arm mass values. After determining descriptive statistics, the Wilcoxon comparison test and Spearman correlation statistical test were performed, and the significance level was taken as p&lt;0.05. In addition, relevant ethical permissions were obtained for the research. Findings: In addition to some differences with reference to the gender variable (Table 2), several significant correlations between hand grip strength and upper extremity (Tables 3-5) were identified. Moreover, a highly significant positive correlation was found between relative arm force (RAF) and hand grip strength (r[subscript RAF-HGS] = 0.707; p&lt;0.001). When their somatotype structures were analyzed, male students were determined to have balanced ectomorph (1.77-1.96- 3.05), while female students had meso ectomorph (0.08-1.09-2.24) and overall (males &amp; females) had meso ectomorph component (0.53-1.32-2.46). Conclusion and Suggestions: It was observed that the height values of the students were below some minimum value criteria for occupations such as police work, while their body mass index (BMI) values were within the normal range. Although the results were close to sedentary health professionals in terms of HGS, they were at a lower level than those of athletes. It is obvious that the students had different somatotype components regarding athletes. Based on this research, the conduct of further qualitative research on field workers is recommended as well as introducing some certain physical competence criteria in the recruitment of paramedic students.
Investigation of the Relationship between Self-Perceptions of Fine Arts High School Students towards Their Instruments and Their Music Performance Anxiety
Author: Çalisir, Çagri
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: High School Students,Fine Arts,Self Concept,Musical Instruments,Performance,Anxiety,Gender Differences,Music Education,Student Characteristics,Foreign Countries

In the study, it was aimed to examine Fine Arts High School (FAHS) students' self-perceptions for their musical instruments and their music performance anxiety according to some variables. Also it was aimed to reveal the relationship between their self-perceptions for musical instrument and music performance anxiety. The sample of the research consisted of 273 music department students studying at Malatya Abdulkadir Eris FAHS, Konya Çimento FAHS, Balikesir T.C. Ziraat Bankasi FAHS and Ayvalik Sebahat-Cihan Sisman FAHS. The data for the research were obtained by using the &quot;Self-Perception Scale for A Musical Instrument&quot; and the &quot;Kenny Musical Performance Anxiety Scale&quot;. As a result of the study, it was determined that Ayvalik Sebahat-Cihan Sisman FAHS students had lower music performance anxiety than students of other schools. It was concluded that female students experienced more anxiety than male students. In addition, it was determined that as the duration of education increased, the level of self-perception for the musical instrument increased. A statistically significant negative weak correlation was found between self-perception for the musical instrument and musical performance anxiety values. In other words, it was concluded that as the students' self-perceptions for their musical instruments increased, their music performance anxiety decreased.
Traineeships in Greek Higher Education: The State of the Art and the Way Forward
Author: Koniaris, Vasileios
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Work Experience Programs,Higher Education,Trainees,Internship Programs,Universities,Partnerships in Education,Institutional Autonomy

The paper studies the establishment of work experience programs in the context of the Greek Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and connects it with the attempts to include Work-Based Learning (WBL) in the education system on a large scale. Emerging challenges caused by two significant recent changes in the Greek Higher Education landscape set the aim of this study. The integration of Technological Education Institutions in Higher Education Institutions and a significant financial change initiated by the new law which transfers the cost of compensation for traineeships to host institutions and not to Operational Programs. The paper presents the current state of the art in the Greek Higher Education and provides a detailed analysis of the existing barriers. The particular study acquires special interest in light of the intensification of the efforts made all over the world aiming to improve the organization and implementation of such interventions. Work experience programs offered by HEIs are required to be better adjusted to the special educational and labor market characteristics of each country and to become more effective. In Greece, the educational and the labor market policy framework recognizes the significant contribution of WBL in general and of traineeships in particular to the development of the appropriate professional knowledge and competences by higher education students. At the same time, traineeships can operate as a communication channel between educational institutions, businesses and social partners, which facilitates their multifaceted information exchanges. Considering, however, the operational autonomy that has been granted to HEIs in Greece, each University develops its own strategy as regards the connection between higher education studies and the labor market. The research presented in the paper constitutes a quantitative analysis of all the types of traineeships implemented by the Greek HEIs with special reference to certain axes, the optional or mandatory character of WBL, the awarded ECTS, similarities of WBL within the same scientific field in different HEIs, the possibility to undergo a WBL placement abroad.
The Relationship between Principals&apos; Technological Leadership Competence and School Effectiveness
Author: Minaz, Ögr. Üyesi Muhammet Baki
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Principals,Leadership Effectiveness,Technological Literacy,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Teacher Attitudes,Gender Differences,School Effectiveness,Administrator Characteristics,Foreign Countries,Computer Use

The study results revealed no statistically significant difference in teachers' perceptions of principals' technological leadership and school effectiveness in terms of teachers' gender, seniority, branch, working time at the current school, technological competence, and daily technology use. However, the findings showed a significant difference in the perceptions of technological leadership by age but not in the perceptions of school effectiveness. The analysis results revealed a strong or very strong correlation between the technological leadership and its sub-dimensions and the school effectiveness sub-dimensions. It was found that a positive increase in any sub-dimension of the technological leadership scale improved school effectiveness, and there was a significantly positive and very high relationship between school effectiveness and technological leadership. As technological leadership increased, so did school effectiveness. Accordingly, technological leadership explained 50.8% of the change in school effectiveness. Principals' technological leadership, mediated by teachers' technological literacy, affected teaching and school effectiveness.
Pre-Service Teachers&apos; Views on the Process of Designing Activities through Cartoons
Author: Uzun, Emine
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preservice Teachers,Science Teachers,Student Attitudes,Science Instruction,Design,Cartoons,Foreign Countries,Instructional Design,Teaching Methods,Science Activities,Science Process Skills,Thinking Skills,21st Century Skills

Cartoons are an effective alternative to create a rich learning environment that is visually and audibly equipped for students in an effective science education. It is of upmost significant for science teachers to possess the necessary knowledge, activity experience and equipment in order to carry out a qualified science teaching. Therefore, the pre-service science teachers, who will be trained in the specified direction, should hold a certain level of knowledge, skills and experience in preparing and implementing activities. In this regard, this study aims at revealing the pre-service science teachers' views on the process of designing activities through using cartoons. The study was carried out with 14 fourth grade pre-service science teachers studying at a state university in Turkey. The cartoon that the pre-service teachers were requested to use to design in-class activities during the implementation was determined as &quot;Ege and Gaga&quot; on the &quot;TRT Child&quot; channel. That this cartoon is related to education and science and includes science subjects has been effective in its selection. This study employed a case study design, one of the qualitative research methods, and the data were collected through a semi-structured interview form. Content analysis was used during data analysis. The results suggested that no pre-service teachers had encountered an activity prepared through using cartoons before. The participants also had positive views on the activity design process such as effective, interesting, enjoyable, concretizing knowledge and alternative technique. These activities, which are appropriate for the teaching and traditional classroom environments, are expected to enable students to access knowledge more easily with pleasure, and thus contributing to learning.
Purposes of Code-Switching in Turkish Preparatory Classes: An Action Research
Author: Amcalar, Mehmet Fatih
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Code Switching (Language),Turkish,Second Language Instruction,English (Second Language),Language Teachers,Teaching Methods,Action Research

Classroom interaction is a vital factor for teaching and learning second language. Numerous studies were conducted by researchers to shed a light on different aspects of this concept. Many different features of classroom interaction were dealt with researchers such as feedback, questioning, concept checking. Code-switching during the lesson is one of that features. It has been a widely debated topic for researchers. For this reason, the aim of this action research is to see the L1 amount and purposes in a preparatory class. Results indicated that 4/1 lesson time was spent with L1 and teacher used L1 for different purposes such as increasing motivation, increasing comprehension, humor, and building personal relationships.