ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Exploring Competence Based Education (CBE) in Rural Secondary Schools in Tanzania: English Language Teachers' Conceptions and Experiences
Author: Lukindo, Jesse John
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Competency Based Education,Rural Schools,Secondary School Teachers,Language Teachers,English (Second Language),Knowledge Level,Teaching Methods,Barriers,Qualitative Research,Semi Structured Interviews,Evaluation Methods,Class Size,Time Factors (Learning),Educational Resources,Content Analysis

This study aimed at getting an insight on the implementation of Competence Based Education in Tanzania (CBE) in Tanzania. A study was conducted in Changchun, Jilin in China due to limited time the researcher had. The study was guided by the following research objective; specifically this study did the following; to assess the knowledge that rural secondary school teachers of English have on CBE, to explore the extent they use CBE in their day to day practice and to identify challenges that they encounter in the course of implementing CBE. Three research questions guided the study; what do rural secondary school teachers understand about CBE? To what extent do they use it in their day to day teaching practice? What are rural secondary school teachers' perceptions of the challenges in implementing CBE in English subject? The study employed a qualitative research design, semi-structured interview guide was used as a tool for data collection. It involved a study sample of three Tanzanian students. The findings revealed that teachers have knowledge of CBE and the mostly preferred teaching techniques are question and answers and occasionally lecturing. Others include problem solving and project development. However, it was revealed that no changes have been made in terms of assessments. Moreover, challenges of big class sizes, limited time and lack of teaching resources such as textbooks were seen as hindering the implementation process. It was recommended that there has to be a top-down approach in changes of the curriculum in order to adhere to the mandated education philosophy and the new teaching paradigm.
Self-Centered Management Skills and Knowledge Appropriation by Students in High Schools and Private Secondary Schools of the City of Maroua
Author: Oyono, Tadjuidje Michel
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Secondary School Students,Self Management,Minimum Competencies,Questionnaires,Interviews,Observation,Statistical Analysis,Correlation,Developmentally Appropriate Practices,Self Evaluation (Individuals),Skill Development,Affective Behavior,Interpersonal Relationship,Academic Ability,Student Surveys,Student Attitudes,Foreign Countries,Qualitative Research

Knowledge in its process of appropriation necessitates on the part of the learner, the mobilization of an efficient management strategy of adapted competencies. The present article in its problematic presents the theoretical perspective of Desaunay (1985) which estimates that three fundamental competences (relational, technical and affective) have to be mobilized by a learner. The methodology is the inductive-hypothetical-deductive one. The questionnaire, guided interview and observation were used to collected data from 250 students of Government bilingual high school and College Siddi Djaouro both of Maroua town (Cameroon). The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0 was used to analyze data. The Chi square test was also use to analyze data inferentially. From the study and the findings obtained, it could be concluded that there is a significant correlation between self-centered management of competences and the appropriateness of knowledge.
Iberian (South American) Model of Judicial Review: Toward Conceptual Framework
Author: Klishas, Andrey A.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Courts,Legislation,Constitutional Law,Administrative Organization,Comparative Analysis

The paper explores Latin American countries legislation with the view to identify specific features of South American model of judicial review. The research methodology rests on comparative approach to analyzing national constitutions' provisions and experts' interpretations thereof. The constitutional provisions of Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and Ecuador are taken as core examples to compare the relevant procedure with Anglo-Saxon and European models of judicial review. The paper underlines that within the traditional separation of powers (i.e. legislative, executive and judicial), each of the respective branches conducts supervision and review functions to a particular extent. The text covers some examples regarding the head of the state, the supreme legislative body activities in this respect, and goes further to explore the nature of the phenomenon under study, taking into account that the majority of Latin American countries supported the organizational structure of judiciary operating in line with the separation of powers and also grant their courts of general jurisdiction the right of review for constitutionality and legality. The comparative analysis of national constitutions' provisions and scholars' interpretations has led to a number of conclusive statements regarding distinctive features of constitutional supervision and judicial review procedure in the South American legal tradition.
Teacher Effectiveness as Correlate of Students' Cognitive Achievement at Upper Basic Education in Basic Technology
Author: Owoh, Titus M.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Effectiveness,Correlation,Academic Achievement,Technology Education,Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance,Foreign Countries,Hypothesis Testing,Data Analysis,Student Attitudes,Secondary School Students,Secondary School Teachers,Statistical Significance,Low Achievement

This study sought to find out the relationship between students perception of their teacher effectiveness and academic achievement in Basic Technology. Teacher's personality, teaching techniques/classroom management strategy and appearance, all integrate to make for teacher effectiveness. To carry out this research, two research questions and one null hypothesis guided the study. The design of the study is a correlational survey. The population for the study comprised the entire 823 two Upper Basic (UB) students of Basic Technology in Upper Basic schools in Udi LGA. While 442 (53.7%) students constituted the sample. Means, Pearson's product moment correlation statistics were used in analyzing the data, which were generated at two levels. Level one was the mean perception score and the second level was the student achievement score. Based on the analysis the following findings were made. There is a low mean perception of students of Basic Technology on their teacher effectiveness. There is positive relationship between their mean perception and their academic achievement. This relationship was found to be significant. Recommendations were made based on the findings among which is that teachers and their trainers should be further trained through workshops and seminars.
On College Formation of Future Lawyers' Professional Readiness to Work in Social Welfare Institutions
Author: Nikitina, Natalya Ivanovna
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Legal Education (Professions),Career Readiness,Welfare Services,Foreign Countries,Legal Aid,Comparative Analysis,Self Esteem,Job Skills,Rating Scales,Specialists,Personality Traits

In Russia today, more than ever, various social welfare institutions (Centers for social services, Social assistance centers for families and children, Rehabilitation centers for disabled children and their families, Centers for work with refugees and IDPs, Centers of medico-social rehabilitation of military men, etc.) require legal profile specialists, who are characterized by high professional culture and capable of effective advocacy. The article considers peculiarities of the lawyer's professional activity in social welfare institutions. It describes structural components, levels of formedness of the lawyer's professional readiness to work in social service. Didactic characteristics of the process of forming future lawyers' professional readiness to work in various types of social welfare institutions is given, and conditions providing efficiency of this process are experimentally proven.
The Development of Geometri Teaching Materials Based on Constructivism to Improve the Students' Mathematic Reasoning Ability through Cooperative Learing Jigsaw at the Class VIII of SMP Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan
Author: Dewi, Izwita
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Geometry,Mathematics Instruction,Constructivism (Learning),Mathematical Logic,Teaching Methods,Instructional Materials,Thinking Skills,Cooperative Learning,Questionnaires,Observation,Grade 8,Textbooks,Worksheets,Mathematics Tests,Mastery Learning

The purposes of this research were to know the validity, practicality, and effectivity of geometrical learning material based on the constructivism to Increase students' mathematic reasoning ability and increasing students' mathematic reasoning ability by using learning material at the grade VIII of SMP Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan. Type of the research was the development of research by using modification of the 4-D development models. The steps of this research were the defining step, designing step, developing step, and disseminating step. The experiment was done at the grade VIII students of SMP Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan. Result of the research Showed that: 1) The validity of geometrical learning material based on the constructivism to Increase students' mathematic reasoning ability at the grade VIII of SMP Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan was very valid, 2) practicality of geometrical learning material based on the constructivism to Increase students' mathematic reasoning ability at the grade VIII of SMP Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan was practical to be used, 3) geometrical learning material based on the constructivism to Increase students' mathematic reasoning ability at the grade VIII of SMP Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan was effective, and 4 ) increasing of students' mathematic reasoning ability by using geometrical learning material based on the constructivism at the grade VIII of SMP Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan was on the medium category.
The Effect of the Match between the Learning and Teaching Styles of Secondary School Mathematics Teachers on Students' Achievement
Author: Övez, Filiz Tuba Dikkartin
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Correlation,Cognitive Style,Teaching Styles,Secondary School Teachers,Mathematics Teachers,Secondary School Students,Mathematics Achievement,Teacher Effectiveness,Measures (Individuals),Multivariate Analysis

The purpose of this study is to investigate to what extent mathematics teachers teaching at secondary school 6, 7, and 8th grade students teach based on students' learning styles and to reveal how effective matching teachers' teaching styles with learners' learning styles in students' achievements is. As this research aims to reveal the case as it is, survey model was used in this study. This study was conducted on 700 secondary school students and 31 teachers who were teaching those students. The study was conducted in 2014-2015 education term at 9 schools which were randomly chosen from Balikesir Province Center. The data of the study was gathered from 31 secondary school mathematics teachers and 700 secondary school with the help of learning and teaching styles inventory scale. The results of this study reveal that teachers design the learning environments depending on their own learning styles and that there has been a close relationship between teachers' learning styles, students' learning styles and students' achievements in mathematics classes, that students' achievements increase when teaching is done based on their learning styles.
Factors Influencing Teachers in Engaging with University Outreach: Is It Just Cost?
Author: Glover, S. R.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Outreach Programs,Chemistry,Performance Factors,Influences,Science Fairs,Science Projects,Cost Effectiveness,Barriers,Teacher Participation,Semi Structured Interviews,Information Sources,Expectation,Educational Benefits,Relevance (Education),Secondary School Teachers,Science Course Improvement Projects,Foreign Countries

A chemistry outreach day event was offered, free-of-charge, to schools in the south west of England who do not normally engage with Bristol ChemLabS outreach events delivered at the University of Bristol. The participating teachers were interviewed to find out their expectations of the day in terms of helping their students or in helping the teachers, whether the &quot;free&quot; aspect, or not, triggered the application to the event and whether finance or other barriers normally prevented engagement in such events. The value versus cost of such outreach an event is discussed. While finance was the biggest issue for the majority of the interviewed teachers they recognised the value of the inspiration rather than subject knowledge acquisition for their students. The advantages for the teachers were seen as better motivated students and the likelihood of more students taking their subject at higher levels. Having attended such an event and observing the quality and impact on their students, teachers were more inclined to engage in the future whether there was a financial charge or not.
What Do Beginner Biology Teacher Candidates Know of Genetics and Genes?
Author: Oztas, Fulya
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Beginning Teachers,Preservice Teachers,Student Teacher Attitudes,Biology,Science Teachers,Genetics,Knowledge Level,Misconceptions,Prior Learning,Scientific Literacy,Scientific Concepts,Cytology,Information Transfer,Questionnaires

Misconceptions are a barrier to understanding biology hence, to promote meaningful learning, it is necessary to overcome these difficulties with the help of different instructional methods rather than traditional instructional methods. Therefore it could be very interesting to find out &quot;how students' prior knowledge of genetics affects genetic knowledge of pupils during class education?&quot; The preliminary investigations have been shown that usually the students have some difficulties in understanding the microscopic level of genetic topics: such as the fertilization process and its products, the genetic variation, the mitotic cell cycle, and the meiotic cell cycle. The findings of this study have been shown that students mostly have fragmented basic genetic knowledge at the beginning of the teaching process. They have basic understanding of DNA, genes and chromosomes, but lack detail. It could be interesting to work out if students' previous knowledge about genetic concepts education could affect their knowledge in genetics permanently.
Faculty Perceptions on Cheating in Exams in Undergraduate Engineering
Author: Madara, Diana Starovoytova
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cheating,Ethics,Teacher Attitudes,College Faculty,Questionnaires,Attribution Theory,Statistical Analysis,Student Behavior,Prevention,Plagiarism,Foreign Countries,Undergraduate Students,Engineering Education

Cheating in examinations transpires in every-country of the world, and it is a fraudulent-behavior that involves some-form of deception, in which a candidate's efforts, or the efforts of other-candidates, are altered; it has negative educational, social and psychological-effects. Even though cheating is widespread, it has been observed that some-faculties rarely-discuss rules and consequences of academic-dishonesty with their-students. The main objective of this-study is to comprehend, cheating-phenomena, on a deeper- level, by evaluating perception of the-trend from the faculty' perspective, so that ways could be proposed for preventing it from happening. This study is a fraction of a larger-research on cheating at the School of Engineering (SOE). The study-design used a descriptive-survey-approach and a document-analysis. A designed confidential self-report-questioner was used as the main-instrument for this study, with the sample-size of 25-subjects and response-rate of 84%. The tool was pre-tested to ensure its validity and reliability. The study focused on the Attribution-Theory and Constructivist-paradigm of research that view knowledge as socially-constructed from the context of cheating in examinations. The data collection-instrument was subjected to the statistical-analysis to determine its reliability via Cronbach's alpha-coefficient, and found high inter-item consistency (a &gt; 0.9). The results of the survey, where 81% of the respondents agreed that students frequently indulge in examination-malpractice, clearly revealed that cheating, indeed, is a significant-problem in the SOE. The challenge for the school is, therefore, to tailor effective-strategies to prevent cheating-opportunities, and to establish and enforce valuable-means of dealing with particular-patterns and types of cheating. Specific-recommendations on how to deal with cheating in examinations are also highlighted.
A Group Approach in a Community Empowerment: A Case Study of Waste Recycling Group in Jakarta
Author: Hadiyanti, Puji
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Recycling,Sanitation,Community Role,Empowerment,Sustainable Development,Qualitative Research,Case Studies,Interviews,Documentation,Observation,Community Programs,Training,Models

This study reviews a group approach in empowering the community through waste recycling activities related to the development of human resources in Jakarta. The specific objectives to be achieved are the wish to understand and find: (1) Conditions of waste recycling empowerment in Jakarta, (2) Mechanisms of a group approach in empowering communities in Jakarta, (3) Formulating hypothetical model of a group approach in community empowerment. Concepts and theories used are community empowerment and Education for Sustainability Development (ESD) as the grand theories. The supporting concepts and theories are logic models and dynamics. This study used a qualitative approach with the design of case studies towards groups of waste recycling. Data were collected by deep interviews, documentations and observation. Sources of the data were obtained from waste recycling group domiciled in Jakarta. Analysis of the data was done through the stages of the process of data reduction, data display, making conclusions. Results of the study are: (1) The waste recycling group in doing community empowerment does not carry out the selection phase of the region, (2) There has not been a mechanism of a group approach to the instrumental input which is an indicator of training curriculum and research yet, (3) A formulation of hypothetical model of the group approach in community empowerment.
Exploring Mathematics Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge in the Context of Knowledge of Students
Author: Aksu, Zeki
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematics Teachers,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Secondary School Mathematics,Misconceptions,Familiarity,Knowledge Level,Student Characteristics,Teacher Student Relationship,Error Correction,Student Centered Curriculum,Interviews,Qualitative Research

Functions are one of the basic topics taught in mathematics curriculum at Secondary school level requiring knowledge from the students' past, and uniting mathematical topics. Mathematics teachers have both their own learning experience of functions, as well as their own teaching experience, leading to the question of what level of student knowledge teachers have related to teaching functions. In this way thirteen mathematics teachers participated in this current research. The research investigated student knowledge determined to be part of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) by Shulman (1986) and accepted by a variety of researchers as a component of PCK. The teachers participating in the study may be counted as successful in knowing the preliminary knowledge of students and the difficulties and misconceptions experienced by students; however, they were identified to be deficient in terms of knowing how to correct the errors and misconceptions experienced. It also appeared that school type and experience were not important factors. These results have significant implications for developing teaching practices and professional development of teachers.
Implementation of Peer Tutoring Strategies in Teaching Students with ADHD: Teachers' Attitudes in Saudi Education
Author: Abaoud, Abdulrahman A.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Peer Teaching,Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,Teaching Methods,Correlation,Student Attitudes,Teacher Surveys,Barriers,Foreign Countries,Elementary Secondary Education,Teacher Characteristics

This study aimed to measured teachers' attitudes toward implementation of peer tutoring strategies in teaching students with ADHD in Saudi Arabia. The study moreover examined the relationship between teachers' attitudes of implementation of peer tutoring strategies and variables of demographic characteristics. Five hundred thirty eight teachers employed at public schools in Riyadh City responded to a survey questionnaire. The results of the study showed teachers realized the benefits of implementing a peer tutoring strategy, they considered there to be a lack in implementing this strategy, they were unsure of the barriers faced by teachers, and they supposed there to be teachers' needs. The study found significant differences in teachers' attitudes regarding teachers' gender, teaching position in schools, and previous teaching experience. No significant differences were found in the school level of teaching. Implications are discussed.