ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Effectiveness of Active Learning Strategy in Improving the Acoustic Awareness Skills and Understanding What Is Heard by the Basic Stage Students in Jordan
Author: Al-Odwan, Yaser
Date: 2016-10-23
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Active Learning,Learning Strategies,Acoustics,Listening Skills,Foreign Countries,Elementary School Students,Grade 3,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Comparative Analysis,Statistical Significance,Skill Development,Hypothesis Testing,Correlation,Statistical Analysis

This research aims to get acquainted with the effectiveness of the active learning strategy in improving the acoustic awareness skills and understanding what is heard by the basic stage students in Jordan by answering the two following questions: This research has been applied to a sample of 60 students from the basic third grade in Al-Ahnaf Ben Qais school in Amman, this school is purposefully selected because of the location being close to the researcher, and its administration and teachers cooperation with the researcher. Two branches were randomly selected, one experimental and the other is control, each branch consisted of 30 students. Referring to the theoretical literature and previous studies and the researcher experience, the researcher developed two tests to measure the acoustic awareness skills and understanding what heard skill is. It is clear from Table 1 that the mean of the experimental group individuals was up to 16.27 with standard deviation of 1.84, and for the control group, the mean was up to 12.23 with standard deviation of 2.58, to determine whether the difference between the means with statistically significance, t-test is performed for two independent samples, the results were presented in Table 2. It is clear from Table 2 that (t) statistical value was up to 4.04 which was significant at 0.05 level and less, and when reviewing the means, it became clear that the mean of the experimental group was up to 16.27, while the mean of the control group individuals was up to 12.23, this indicates that there is an effect on the experimental treatment in developing the level of understanding of what is heard.
Using Data-Informed Instruction to Drive Education: Keeping Catholic Education a Viable and Educationally Sound Option in Challenging Times
Author: Niemeyer, Kristen
Date: 2016-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Catholic Schools,Evidence Based Practice,Data Collection,Curriculum Based Assessment,Evaluation Utilization,Time Perspective,Formative Evaluation,Teacher Attitudes,Educational Practices,Educational Change

Teachers in Catholic schools are not immune from pressures to improve students' scores on high stakes tests, and standards-based education is not new to Catholic schools. Nationally, many public school systems have moved to implement Common Core State Standards (CCSS) or other similar standards. Assessment, in turn, has been tied to these standards. In many states, Catholic schools have the option as to whether to implement accepted state standards or to create standards of their own. The Committee on Catholic Education (CCE) gives each bishop the authority to lead the CCSS discussion at the local level and to eventually make a decision based on what is best for each individual diocese (2014). Regardless of implementation of government mandates, students graduating from Catholic schools will ultimately be held to the same standards and outcome-based measures when it comes to their graduates' ability to compete for post-secondary educational scholarships, national merits, and other accolades based in part on national standardized test scores. The academic achievement data provided by public school systems allow parents and others to see if their students meet grade level standards. Catholic schools then, must provide such data if they wish to measure themselves against those enrolled in the competing public and private schooling options. If Catholic schools are to remain a viable option in this ever-increasing competitive educational environment, teachers must become more comfortable collecting and analyzing data in an effort to help drive instruction and high levels of academic achievement. The collection of data to drive instruction is often referred to as data informed instruction (DII). The premise behind DII is to imbed data collection into daily classroom routines, use the data to make any necessary instructional plans or modifications, and to continuously monitor student performance to predict academic gains. When DII is used properly, it becomes an ongoing formative assessment. These formative assessments allow progress monitoring at the individual, class-wide and building levels, while providing an opportunity for teachers to adjust teaching strategies and make instructional modifications as needed (Sattler, 2001). This article outlines how Catholic schools can set up a professional development program that informs, educates, and gains buy-in from teachers surrounding the use of data-informed instruction in Catholic classrooms and across a diocese. The steps that are addressed include the need to change perceptions, inform teachers on how to collect and examine data (behavioral and educational), and end with ways to help make data collection and analysis an efficient component of daily routines.
A Formative Evaluation of Healthy Heroes: A Photo Comic Book-Social Cognitive Theory Based Obesity Prevention Program
Author: Branscum, Paul
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Eating Habits,Food,Cartoons,Social Cognition,Social Theories,Obesity,Prevention,Health Promotion,Popular Culture,Interviews,Parent Attitudes,School Personnel,Program Effectiveness,Student Participation,After School Programs,Technology Uses in Education,Educational Technology,Intervention,Children

Purpose: Low consumption of fruits and vegetables is often associated with poor diet quality, and childhood obesity. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility, and conduct a formative evaluation, of Healthy Heroes, an innovative, social cognitive theory-based program that uses child created photo-comic books to promote fruit and vegetable consumption. Methods: Healthy Heroes was implemented with a small sample of children (9-11 years old; n = 33) in a community after school setting. Parents (n = 12) and afterschool employees (n = 10) were also recruited to complete a one-on-one qualitative interview to discuss ways the program could be expanded for families and the community. Results: Children reported enjoying the process of creating photo-comic books, and experienced a significant increase in expectations to consume fruits and vegetables (p&lt;0.05). Parents and afterschool employees also reported favorable attitudes towards the program and provided insight into how the program could be enhanced, including using different outlets (such as the Facebook, email, and the afterschool program's website) to disseminate program information. Conclusions: This feasibility and formative evaluation demonstrated that a theory-based intervention using photo-comic books could have a favorable impact on psychosocial variables related to fruit and vegetable consumption. Recommendation: The Healthy Heroes program can be implemented as a stand-alone, health education intervention, at a low cost, and little effort by public health educators. However, to impact obesity related behaviors, and weight status, environmental and policy efforts should be implemented in tandem.
A Study of Psychological Readiness of Parents to Educate Children in a Foster Family
Author: Dolgova, V. I.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Parent Attitudes,Foster Care,Readiness,Child Rearing,Psychological Patterns,Questionnaires,Personality Measures,Family Relationship,Statistical Analysis,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Comparative Analysis

In the study methods to identify the main components of parents' psychological readiness for raising children in a substitute family were used. The survey was carried out during the study of the cognitive component. The emotional-volitional component is disclosed by using an MMPI questionnaire (abridged version) and techniques for determining the accentuation of personality traits (Leonhard K.). The analysis of the motivational-evaluative component has been conducted using a morphological test of life values (Sopov V.F., Karpushina L.V.). Indicators of the activity component are fixed by two methods--PARI (Schäfer E.S., Bell R.K.) and the analysis of family relationships (Eidemiller E.G., Yustitskis V.V.). The significance of the results obtained has been checked by mathematical statistical methods (factor analysis and statistical criterion for difference -- Student's t-test). In the experimental group statistically significant differences that confirm a positive impact of the research-experimental program on the level of formation of parents' psychological readiness for raising children in a substitute family have been indicated.
Contributions Emotional Intelligence on Cognitive Learning Result of Biology of Senior High School Students in Medan, Indonesia
Author: Pratama, Anggi Tias
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Emotional Intelligence,Correlation,Cognitive Processes,Biology,High School Students,Foreign Countries,Likert Scales,Regression (Statistics),Learning Processes,Secondary School Science,Questionnaires

Emotional intelligence is one of the factors affecting the success of students' learning results. Students having high emotional intelligence will be able to overcome the problems faced in school and in society. This research aims at investigating the correlation between emotional intelligence (EQ) and students' cognitive learning results of Biology and comparing the contribution of each indicator of EQ on the Biology cognitive learning results. This research was a correlational research. The samples in this research were 232 students of class X selected randomly from 7 schools. The results of this research show that there is a correlation between EQ and Biology cognitive learning results. EQ has a contribution on the learning results as much as 5.2%. The contribution of EQ indicator such as identifying self emotion was 0.01%, managing emotions was 0.05%, motivating ownselves was 0.60%, recognizing emotions in others was of 0.33%, keeping relationship was 4.25%. The information related to the correlation between EQ and biology learning results, as well as the contributions of each indicator related can be advantageous information for teachers to develop the students' EQ through the implementation of appropriate information learning strategies.
Characteristics of the Different Modes of Walking and Hiking Conditions to Optimize the Movement of Tourists in the Desert
Author: Imangulova, Tatiyana
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Tourism,Physical Activities,Recreational Activities,Climate,Science Instruction,Science Education,Body Weight,Movement Education,Metabolism,Exercise Physiology

The development of desert areas in the industrial and tourist and educational purposes related to the implementation of physical activity in extreme conditions. A complex set of hot climate causes the body deep adaptive adjustment, impact on health, human physical performance. Optimization of physical activity in hot climates is of particular importance for the tourists and military personnel, the specific activity of which is related to the foot movement with different masses carried goods on different terrain. The methodology is based on the analysis of the results of experimental studies of the optimum speed of movement of a person walking in a desert area, taking into account temperature and weight of cargo carried. The purpose of the study--assessment of the severity of muscle work, depending on the weight of transported cargo, the nature of the soil and the air temperature at the time of walking alone in a desert area. The paper presents experimental data to evaluate the severity of muscle work, depending on the weight of transported cargo, the nature of the soil and the air temperature at the time of walking alone in a desert area.
Communicative, Educational, Pedagogical Objectives and Planning in Russian Language Teaching
Author: Evtyugina, Alla A.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Russian,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Learning Processes,College Students,Educational Improvement,Educational Quality,Verbal Communication,Teaching Methods,Foreign Students,Foreign Countries,Reading Strategies,Communicative Competence (Languages)

The relevance of the problem stems from the necessity to distinctly plan educational process and set the goals for successful mastering of Russian language by foreign students in Russian higher educational institutions. The article is aimed at defining the foreign students' objectives for Russian language training, allowing them to get involved into the learning process and adapt to the society. The leading method to the study of this problem is a practical method allowing to consider it as a process of purposeful planning that favors the improvement of the quality of education and enables foreign students to intensify the study of the language. During the educational planning process, the article proposes to use the concept of interconnected training for the main types of verbal activity that allows to single out the skills and abilities needed to master the communicative competencies, specifying objectives and optimizing the learning process. The article may be useful for researchers who develop a methodology for teaching foreign students, and for teachers who teach Russian language and plan the training of foreigners who are interested in optimization of the learning process.
&quot;Green&quot; Logistics as an Instrument for Putting Together a New Model for Professional and Career-Broadening Training in Global Economic Space
Author: Dudin, Mikhail Nikolaevich
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Science Education,Labor Market,Scientific Concepts,Professional Training,Comparative Analysis,Higher Education,Economic Development,Global Approach

This paper looks into the key aspects of the shift in the instruction of logistics as a discipline from traditional to environmentally responsible practices. The authors examine the experience of the development of scientific-educational systems in the world's more advanced societies (the European Union and North America), as well as in the BRICS countries. The paper proposes specific ways to reform the model for professional and career-broadening education by reference to the amassed global experience. The authors draw the following major conclusions: (1) both today's scientific and business communities are oriented toward the shift to environmentally responsible development, which presupposes gradually renouncing the use of hydrocarbon energy resources, embracing the use of renewable technology and recycling, and ensuring social stability; (2) we are witnessing a change in the tenor of not only the strategic concept of the development of particular scientific and business areas but of the functional one as well. Thus, for instance, the domain of logistics services is currently being enriched with the concept of &quot;green logistics&quot;, which implies a need for relevant human resources specializing in the field. Many leading nations have already started transforming their education models, as a whole, and their methods for the instruction of logistics as a discipline, in particular, in specific alignment with the principles of environmental responsibility; (3) the education systems of certain world powers, including the Russian model for education, have not yet been fully adapted for shifting to &quot;green logistics&quot;, one of today's latest scientific paradigms. Among the major reasons behind this delay is the failure to properly reform the scientific-educational sector, as well as the state's excessive, and rarely effective, participation in the development of this area. To help remediate this situation, the authors propose a set of recommendations aimed at helping to put together a new model for professional and career-broadening training in keeping with the latest scientific concepts and the needs of the labor market.
Creating an Effective System of Education to Prepare Future Human Resources within the Context Provided by the Global Shift toward a &quot;Green Economy&quot;
Author: Dudin, Mikhail Nikolaevich
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Human Resources,Conservation (Environment),Sustainable Development,Conservation Education,Climate,Content Analysis,Educational Change,Social Change,Living Standards,Quality of Life,Foreign Countries

This article explores the major aspects of putting together effective national systems of education oriented toward providing academic instruction to the population and preparing future human resources for work within the economy in specific alignment with the concept of environmental responsibility (or that of &quot;green economy&quot;). The major conclusions drawn by the authors are: (1) this period in the development of modern civilization, characterized by our aggressive and wasteful exploitation of the Earth's natural resources, nearing its end, the major condition for our civilization to be able to physically go on is the shift to a &quot;green economy&quot;, a new global concept that implies being oriented toward ensuring social equality and the availability of resources and education on the basis that our anthropogenic and technogenic impact on the environment will not be aggressive; (2) national education and human resource preparation systems serve as a strategic basis that determines the specificity of national social-economic development. They ought to be transformed and enhanced, while working to forestall whatever catastrophic scenarios for the development of society and the economy there may be; (3) the global shift from resource-wasting to resource-effective development, predicated on knowledge and its creative utilization, will be possible via the harmonization of national systems of education and their transformation, involving a shift in the focus of learning from anthropocentrism to biocentrism and ecocentrism.
Humanities--The Basis of University Education
Author: Stepanskaya, T. M.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Humanities,Higher Education,College Graduates,Student Development,World Views,Acculturation,Universities,Departments,Scientists,Archaeology,Museums,Personality Theories,Art Education,Art Criticism

The article analyzes the role of humanities in forming the worldview of modern person in the system of higher education. It emphasizes the idea that a graduate of the higher education institute, and especially the university, should not only be an expert (a professional), but above all, a person of culture. Humanities as the basis of university education are considered in the article in a historical context and in the context of creation of educational institution in conditions of humanistic worldview formation. The authors refer to the historical experience of European and Russian universities, show the major periods of formation of the capital and the provincial Arts in the university educational space. The article emphasizes close relationship of the organization of the university humanities departments in the process of archaeological research and the development of museums and gallery movement. The article characterizes the contribution of Russian scientists in the formation of art disciplines teaching in educational institutions of Russia--A. G. Gabrichevsky, A. A. Fedorov-Davydov, E.N. Atsarkina, V. N. Lazarev, A. N. Savinova, N. V. Alpatov, Y. M. Lotman and others. The authors consider the concepts of &quot;contextual thinking&quot;, &quot;one-dimensional person&quot; and &quot;multi-dimensional person&quot;. The article presents domestic experience of art criticism development as a science in the system of higher education.
Development of Intellectual Activity in Solving Exponential Inequalities
Author: Alpyssov, Akan
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cognitive Processes,Mathematics Instruction,Achievement Tests,Elementary Secondary Education,International Assessment,Foreign Countries,Mathematics Achievement,Mathematics Tests,Secondary School Students,Educational Quality,Problem Solving,Mathematics Skills

The article describes the possibilities and the main directions of development of intellectual activity in teaching mathematics in school. The aims and specific features of application of international comparative TIMSS and PISA studies, as well as their results in the field of mathematics education in relation to the pupils in Kazakhstan are analyzed. We present some examples of solving exponential inequalities by the inverse operation method: in solving them it is possible to develop creativity and form the thinking logic of pupils.
Creation of a Unified Educational Space within a SLA University Classroom Using Cloud Storage and On-Line Applications
Author: Karabayeva, Kamilya Zhumartovna
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Higher Education,Teaching Methods,Computer Software,Information Technology,Technology Integration,Foreign Countries

In the present article the author gives evidence of effective application of cloud storage and on-line applications in the educational process of the higher education institution, as well as considers the problems and prospects of using cloud technologies in the educational process, when creating a unified educational space in the foreign language lessons at the linguistic university. Today there is a growing importance of cloud technology, which offers universities new opportunities to provide modern network technology-based applications, providing a high level of educational service. The pilot testing confirmed the didactic benefits of the cloud technologies: an intensive upgrading of learning content, the development of individual creative initiative, and self-organizational practice in the new educational environment. The novelty of this work is that the author suggests the use of cloud technologies in teaching foreign language (FL) at the higher educational institution in terms of using cloud platforms such as Google Apps Education Edition and Microsoft Live@edu, as well as Microsoft's cloud storage SkyDrive and AppleiCloud. The author suggests prospective lines for implementation of noted resources into the cloud technology-based educational process in both in-class learning and student self-study.
Importance of Plein-Air Practice in Professional Art Education
Author: Shokorova, Larisa Vladimirovna
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Art Education,Foreign Countries,Creativity,Outdoor Education,Visual Perception,Vocational Education,Creative Development,Professional Development,Creative Thinking,Memory

The article discusses the role and importance of plein-air practice in vocational training of art specialties' students. It analyzes the historical aspect of plein-air drawing in nature origin. It identifies psychophysiological characteristics of visual perception in fine and decorative art. It characterizes methods of artistic perception of reality and educational activity in the conditions of an open-air. It defines methods of creative work in professional and artistic activities, facilitating the development of integral perception and artistic-creative skills. It substantiates the complex of special tasks aimed at the acquisition and development of students' knowledge, abilities and skills of drawing outdoors. It describes the themes of work in plein-air. It comes up with pedagogical conditions of formation of professional skills of art specialties' students in plein-air art space.