ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
The Verhulst Model with Remedy and Its Application in Forecasting Quantity of Student Taking Entrance Examination to College
Author: Liu, Bin
Date: 2010-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,Foreign Countries,Mathematical Models,College Entrance Examinations,Prediction,Enrollment,Data Processing,Pattern Recognition

The Verhulst model can be used to forecast the sequence, which is characterized as non-monotone and fluctuant sequence or saturated S-form sequence. According to the situation of national enrollment scale of college, this paper forecasts the quantity of students taking entrance examination to college with a Verhulst model with remedy based on data mining theories, and by the above model, some countermeasures are developed to the higher education of Henan province in China. (Contains 3 tables and 2 figures.) [This paper was partly supported by Financial Program for Core Teacher of Henan's University.]
Perceptions of Elementary Teachers on the Instructional Leadership Role of School Principals
Author: Yavuz, Mustafa
Date: 2010-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Elementary School Teachers,Teacher Attitudes,Administrator Role,Instructional Leadership,Principals,Administrator Behavior,School Administration,Educational Environment,Teacher Administrator Relationship,Student Evaluation,Interviews,Foreign Countries

In this research, elementary school principals' instructional leadership behavior was evaluated based on the perceptions of elementary school teachers. The research is believed to contribute to the development of instructional leadership behavior of elementary school principals for the development of school organization. A &quot;semi-structured interview technique&quot;, one of the qualitative research methods in the literature was used in the research. The study group was made up of elementary school teachers working in Nigde, Turkey, during the 2008-2009 academic year. For the study sample, one teacher from each school was selected at random, resulting in group of twenty elementary school teachers. Based on the content analysis, five themes of instructional leadership behavior were found. These themes are: (1) determination of the school's purpose; (2) management of instruction; (3) evaluation of students; (4) support to teachers; and (5) creation of a regular learning-teaching environment. (Contains 1 table.)
The Study of Teachers' Task Values and Self-Efficacy on Their Commitment and Effectiveness for Technology-Instruction Integration
Author: Lin, Chia-jung Maigo
Date: 2010-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Self Efficacy,Multimedia Materials,Performance Technology,Behavior Theories,Elementary School Teachers,Teacher Motivation,Barriers,Educational Technology,Animation,Multimedia Instruction,Computer Assisted Instruction,Internet,Technology Integration,Correlation,Predictor Variables,Teacher Attitudes,Teaching Methods,Educational Policy,Questionnaires,Teacher Surveys

The city of Taipei has been considered as a leading role of information technology education in Taiwan. However, many questions have been waited to be answered. The purpose of this study was to investigate the current situations and problems of primary school teachers' technology-instruction integration. By implementing the approach of cognitive motivators and the human performance technology (HPT) theory, this study also investigated the relationships among teachers' cognitive motivators (self-efficacy and task values) and their commitment and effort on technology-instruction integration. The researchers delivered 2,952 questionnaires via Internet, e-mail and airmail in January 2008. Finally, 1,549 questionnaires replied back and turned out to be ok. The findings were described as below. The situation of &quot;high-tech schools, low-access technology&quot; also happened in Taipei primary schools. The time teachers devote to use technology into instruction is about 1-3 hour(s) per week and the level of technology implementation to use was low. Besides, teachers' self-efficacy and task values have impact on their commitment and effort on technology-instruction integration. Teachers' age and the length of teaching presented opposite correlations with their commitment and effort on technology-instruction integration. Teachers have huge difficulty on comprehending and designing computer-animation related multimedia materials to help students clear their abstract learning concept to concrete. In the future, they hope to take more workshops related with multimedia design principles, how to integrate technology with learning areas, and other multimedia related theories. (Contains 10 tables and 1 figure.)
Integrating Social Responsibility into an Entrepreneurship Education Program: A Case Study
Author: Maistry, Suriamurthee Moonsamy
Date: 2010-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Teachers,Discipline,Foreign Countries,Social Responsibility,Entrepreneurship,Ethics,Case Studies,Teacher Student Relationship,Preservice Teachers,Teacher Education,Service Learning,Values,Interviews,Questionnaires,Surveys,Focus Groups

Entrepreneurship education in South Africa is often presented as a neutral discipline. Yet fundamental to any entrepreneurship education program should be the integration of key issues, such as ethics, values and social responsibility. This paper reports on a study that set out to explore student teachers experiences of engaging in an entrepreneurship education program specially enhanced to create an awareness of the link between entrepreneurship and social responsibility. It argues that exposure to a program of this nature is a powerful means to dispel the myth that entrepreneurship is a neutral discipline and that such exposure creates useful avenues for student teachers to examine their own constructions and perceptions of entrepreneurship and social responsibility. This paper draws on data constructed in a qualitative research project that engaged the tenets of symbolic interactionism in order to understand how students experienced the program and to understand their changing perceptions.
A Cognitive-Situative Approach to Understand Motivation: Implications to Technology-Supported Education
Author: Li, Na
Date: 2010-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Research Methodology,Student Motivation,Educational Technology,Learning Motivation,Educational Research,Learning Theories,Cooperative Learning,Epistemology,Computer Assisted Instruction,Cognitive Processes,Instructional Design,Educational Theories

Technology-supported education has become increasingly important and popular. Although it has long been claimed that a technology-enhanced learning environment is often more motivating than its traditional counterpart, not too many inspiring empirical studies have been carried out. In this article, the traditional approach in the motivation research field and its limitations are reviewed, based on which, a new perspective on motivation, a cognitive-situative approach, emerges. It is argued that this new approach might be more applicable for understanding motivation in technology-supported education settings, thus possibly bringing more implications for pedagogical improvement. The authors also propose a new research methodology be taken for studying motivation from a cognitive-situative perspective.
Entrepreneurial Attributes among Postgraduate Students of a Pakistani University
Author: Ali, Akhtar
Date: 2010-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Entrepreneurship,Student Characteristics,Graduate Students,Self Efficacy,Efficiency,Foreign Countries,Questionnaires

This paper explores entrepreneurial attributes among the students of The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, a public sector Pakistani university. Multistage sampling was employed to maximize the representation. Five hundred and twenty one master's level students from thirty departments returned completed questionnaires. Three factors emerged: self efficacy, efficiency and commitment, and entrepreneurial inclinations. The majority of the students exhibited positive entrepreneurial attributes. However, there was no significant difference between negative and positive entrepreneurial attributes. There was no significant impact of demographic variables such as gender, parental income and profession on entrepreneurial attributes. Impact on practice and policy is discussed. &quot;Entrepreneurial attributes among postgraduate students&quot; questionnaire is appended. (Contains 2 tables.)
Higher Education in Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan after 9/11: Problems and Prospects
Author: Ahmad, Syed Hafeez
Date: 2010-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,Educational Change,Foreign Countries,Educational Facilities,Tribes,Access to Education,Terrorism,Political Issues,Politics of Education,Conflict,Educational Quality,School Security,Crime,Womens Education,War

The troubled state of affairs in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan portends serious repercussions and grave consequences, destined to affect education particularly higher education in the entire tribal belt. Ironically, no extensive study has been conducted, to investigate those dimensions of FATA higher education which have been adversely affected in the aftermath of 9/11. This exploratory study examines those areas which have been badly affected as a result of current turmoil. In fact, the higher education in FATA has its own peculiar dynamics. Inherently, the entire tribal region has very few well-maintained and properly equipped colleges. Lack of adequate educational facilities, multiplied poor security environment has aggravated the entire situation. Law and order situation in the region has undermined the already dilapidated monitoring mechanism of education department. This state of affairs provides breeding ground for extremist propensities and radical tendencies. In reality, very little attention has been devoted to reform the education system in tribal areas. The whole set up needs to be rehabilitated by taking recourse due to the proactive role of international community. The paper concludes with recommendations for policy makers besides offering new avenues for further research. (Contains 2 tables.)
Primary School Curriculum for Educable Mentally Retarded Children: A Turkish Case
Author: Demirel, Melek
Date: 2010-03-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Elementary School Students,Mental Retardation,Foreign Countries,Physical Environment,Language Skills,Elementary School Curriculum,Intelligence Quotient,Cognitive Ability,Memory,Imagination,Creativity,Curriculum Development,Skill Development,Social Development,Special Education

Educable mental retardation is a delay in acquiring basic reading, writing and counting skills emerging through late speaking and linguistic development along with social, emotional or behavioral problems. It is pointed out that such children have intelligence in the 45-74 range, and that they are incompetent in terms of language skills, perception power, memory capacity, imagination and creativeness. Primary school curriculum for educable mentally retarded children was adopted so as to implement beginning in 2001-2002 academic year. The curriculum was designed so as to apply in primary education schools where educable mentally retarded children attend or in private classes included in the body of primary education schools. It was designed in order for such children to improve their skills of understanding themselves, establishing positive social relations, adjusting to the social, technological and physical environment, and surviving independently. This current study is based on a qualitative method, and is focused on educable mentally retarded children who are at primary school age in Turkey. Having described the characteristics of such children, their needs are explained, the curriculum developed for such children is described, and teachers' views concerning the implementation of the curriculum are presented in this research.
Inclusive Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Author: Dizdarevic, Alma
Date: 2010-03-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Inclusive Schools,Negative Attitudes,Disabilities,Educational Change,Foreign Countries,Special Needs Students,Mainstreaming,Change Strategies,Educational Legislation,Regular and Special Education Relationship,Attitudes toward Disabilities,Student Rights,Stereotypes,Social Attitudes,Academic Standards,Educational Research

This paper describes the different challenges faced by all members of the local community who are directly or indirectly responsible for the educational reform regarding the process of inclusion in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Yugoslavia education system is regulated in canton legislature. Each canton has its own law on preschool, elementary school, high school and university education, with more than 30 laws covering the area of education. General and special education are separately regulated, thus violating the rights of children with special needs to be educated in the mainstream schools closest to their home. Negative attitudes, prejudices and stereotypes, educational standards non supportive for the inclusive education, lack of engagement of university facilities and negligence of scientifically based research are also considered in this study.
Special Education in Turkey
Author: Eres, Figen
Date: 2010-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Inclusive Schools,Disabilities,Foreign Countries,Special Education,Educational Quality,Equal Education,Access to Education,Consciousness Raising,Social Change,Educational Attainment,Mental Retardation,Hearing Impairments,Visual Impairments,Physical Disabilities,Chronic Illness,Emotional Disturbances,Behavior Problems

The quality and the prevalence of education are the major indicators of the development of a society. It is a kind of human right to every person living in the society to be educated in a sufficient way. The education of the disabled people, a social reality in Turkey, is not sufficiently carried out. This paper aims at the education of the disabled people in Turkey. In order to mention about the education of the disabled people, this paper also mentions about the general characteristics of the disabled. The service of special education has not reached all the disabled, and the disabled and their families are not aware of the importance of the education. Only 90 thousand out of over one million disabled children receive the education. Disabled children continue their training in five groups: the sight impaired, the hearing impaired, the orthopedic impaired, the mentally impaired and children with long-term illness. Raising awareness is very important for all of the Turkish people. So a social education is necessary in order to deal with this problem. (Contains 4 tables.) [An earlier version of this article was presented at the 12th International Conference: Inclusive Education in the Balkan Countries: Policy and Practice, June 25-27, 2009, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia.]
Applications of NLP Techniques to Computer-Assisted Authoring of Test Items for Elementary Chinese
Author: Liu, Chao-Lin
Date: 2010-03-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cloze Procedure,Listening Comprehension,Test Items,Foreign Countries,Natural Language Processing,Student Evaluation,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Test Construction,Computer Assisted Testing,Educational Technology,Internet,Computer Software,Mandarin Chinese,Programming

The authors report an implemented environment for computer-assisted authoring of test items and provide a brief discussion about the applications of NLP techniques for computer assisted language learning. Test items can serve as a tool for language learners to examine their competence in the target language. The authors apply techniques for natural language processing to help teachers prepare test items for elementary Chinese. Teachers can then compile the test items to form test sheets for formal examinations on the Internet. The system can record the results of the tests for post-test analysis of students' achievements so that teachers can gain insight into the distributions over students' competence levels and can adjust the teaching activities for the students who may need individualized care. At this moment, the system offers assistance for authoring test items for basic listening comprehension, cloze tests, incorrect-character identification, sentence reconstruction and usage of measure words. (Contains 5 figures and 1 footnote.) [Work reported in this paper was supported in part by the National Science Council and in part by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan.]
Cooperative Learning as a Correction and Grammar Revision Technique: Communicative Exchanges, Self-Correction Rates and Scores
Author: Servetti, Sara
Date: 2010-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cooperative Learning,Error Correction,Grammar,Secondary School Students,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Scores,Conventional Instruction,Instructional Effectiveness,Foreign Countries

This paper focuses on cooperative learning (CL) used as a correction and grammar revision technique and considers the data collected in six Italian parallel classes, three of which (sample classes) corrected mistakes and revised grammar through cooperative learning, while the other three (control classes) in a traditional way. All the classes involved in this study were in their first year of secondary school, and although most students had a level of English which was A2, they made a certain number of mistakes also in grammar topics like the present tense, which is the grammar topic under examination in this study. This paper analyses the sample students' communicative exchanges while they performed the error correction activity through CL, compares the self-correction rates reported by the two groups of students after the two types of correction and revision activities (traditional and through CL) and the students' scores in tests given to students one, four and eight weeks after the correction lessons. The aim of the study is establishing if the use of CL as a correction and grammar revision technique had a beneficial effect on the students who experienced it and in particular on the low achievers. (Contains 13 tables and 1 footnote.) [This paper was presented at the International Conference &quot;Intercultural Education: Paideia, Polity, Demoi&quot; (Athens, Greece, June 22-26, 2009).]
Projectpedagogy--Interpretations and Background Principles
Author: Farkas, Andras
Date: 2010-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational History,Learning Strategies,Educational Change,Learning Processes,Teaching Methods,Problem Based Learning,Educational Environment,Reflection,Evaluation,Feedback (Response)

Educational processes, methods and teaching-learning strategies based on activities, which are tangibly useful in real life have become of great concern since the appearance of reform-pedagogical approaches. The project method as a concept in educational history has undergone continuous changes and reinterpretations. This study aims at summarizing the most important characteristics of project pedagogy and reinforcing the justification of this very methodology in the 21st century on all levels of education having considered background principles. (Contains 2 tables.)
Are Canadian Adolescents Happy? A Gender-Based Analysis of a Nationally Representative Survey
Author: Weaver, Robert D.
Date: 2010-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Adolescents,Multivariate Analysis,Gender Differences,Psychological Patterns,Foreign Countries,Friendship,Family Relationship,Depression (Psychology),Social Support Groups,Neighborhoods,Child Health,Safety,Socioeconomic Influences,Parents,Educational Attainment,Academic Achievement

In this study, the authors analyzed data from a nationally representative survey of youth to study happiness amongst Canadian adolescents aged 12-17. Testing for differences in the level of happiness between female and male adolescents was conducted. Following this, multivariate analysis was employed to determine which factors were associated with adolescent happiness. The authors determined that the level of happiness appeared to vary between the genders, as the males reported a higher level of happiness than the females. However, the difference between the genders in terms of reported happiness was modest. The authors detected some gender differences in regards to determinants of happiness. The study's theoretical and practical implications are also considered. Two appendixes are included: (1) Youth reported scales; and (2) PMK [&quot;person most knowledgeable&quot;] reported scales. (Contains 4 tables.)
Job Skills: What Gender Are They?
Author: Kedraka, Katerina
Date: 2010-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: High School Graduates,Employment Qualifications,Adolescents,Self Control,Computer Literacy,Labor Market,Factor Analysis,Job Skills,Gender Differences,Foreign Countries,Stereotypes,Occupational Aspiration

The purpose of the research is to find out which job skills Greek graduate students of high school and their parents consider as important qualifications for the youngsters' entry into the active working life with regard to their gender. The sample, consisting of 215 graduate students of high school and their parents (210), evaluated the importance they think the examined job skills have for the students' future entry into the labor market and also the extend to which the youngsters possess these skills. Results have shown that there were significant differences between students' and their parents' opinions with regard to gender concerning job skills that are considered as important for finding a job. This was also confirmed by the factor analysis applied. Significant gender differences were also found concerning the degree to which teenagers possess the examined skills. In concluding, male young students and their fathers believe that skills related to self-management, self-discipline and the use of technological means are more important for finding a job, whilst female young students and their mothers outline a more positive and social profile, confirming typical and stereotypical attitudes and vocational choices. (Contains 5 footnotes, 4 figures, and 5 tables.)
Development of OA Abroad and Its Inspirations
Author: Bi, Jing
Date: 2010-03-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Quality Control,Internet,Access to Information,Metadata,Copyrights,Intellectual Property,Public Sector,Web Sites,Electronic Publishing

This study introduces the concept and characteristics of open access (OA), analyses the status quo and development of OA in foreign countries, and discusses its inspiration to its future development in China.
Group Work vs. Whole Class Activity
Author: Tanveer, Asma
Date: 2008-09-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: Classroom Techniques,Foreign Countries,Teaching Methods,Learning Strategies,Group Activities,Group Dynamics,Elementary Education,Holistic Approach

Group work has only been recently introduced in the education system of Pakistan but many primary teachers, especially in the public schools, are still not aware of how different kinds of strategies that is group work and whole class teaching facilitate learning among students. This paper aims to provide an overview of teaching strategies to determine which strategy of student organisation works best while performing different classroom tasks. As different students have different learning preferences, it is important for teachers to not only appreciate both these teaching strategies but to also distinguish between situations where each is best suited.