ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Development of Critical Thinking in Doctoral Students in Education
Author: Nunez Lira, Luis Alberto
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Critical Thinking,Doctoral Students,Doctoral Programs,Research Skills,Thinking Skills,Cognitive Tests,Test Reliability,Inferences,Logical Thinking,Student Attitudes,Skill Development,Teaching Methods

Critical thinking in university studies is the cornerstone for the development of research processes at the doctoral level; it becomes the vector of this action, whose processes in the management of learning will require that the competencies understood are developed by teachers and students, for the achievement of the goals proposed by the actors involved. This is how the research had the purpose of measuring the critical thinking of university doctorate students whose methodology was quantitative, with a population of 150 students, which allowed, in the first place, to establish the reliability and the analysis of the construct of the instrument used (Watson-Glaser test) and whose results showed a reliability of 0.77, KMO of 0.757 with a bilateral significance of 0.000. Likewise, of the five dimensions or factors of the instrument, five have a positive impact on moderate levels (Nagelkerke's pseudo-R square of 0.574) excluding inference. The descriptive analysis established that 11.3% present critical thinking at the advanced level.
Pre-Service Primary Teachers&apos; Opinions on Team-Games-Tournaments
Author: Baydar, Askin
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Preservice Teachers,Elementary School Teachers,Student Attitudes,Teaching Methods,Program Effectiveness,Teamwork,Game Based Learning,Barriers,Cooperative Learning,Social Sciences,Self Esteem,Competition,Student Participation,Student Role,Skill Development

The aim of this study is to determine pre-service primary teachers' opinions regarding the implementation of teams-games-tournaments (TGT). For this purpose, the action research method, which is one of the qualitative research methods, was employed. The study group in the research consisted of 30 students who attended Artvin Çoruh University College of Education Elementary Education Department Primary School Teaching Program. Qualitative data was collected by interview forms with open-ended questions. With the answers the participants gave to the interview questions, they shared their opinions about advantages and disadvantages of the method and their suggestions about using the method in their future classes. Participants found positive interdependence and learning in heterogeneous groups, which are among the common features of cooperative learning, useful and necessary. Participants also stated the features of causing noise, making classroom management more difficult, sharing responsibility and rewards unfairly, and difficulty of implementing the method in crowded classes as disadvantages of the method.
Education History of Meskhetian (Ahiskaian) Turks: Tsarist Russia Period
Author: Goca Memmedli, Gülnara
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational History,Authoritarianism,Ethnic Groups,Social Change,Social Systems,Immigration,Cultural Background,Turkish,Language of Instruction,Geographic Regions,Rural Areas,Elementary School Students,Archives,Foreign Countries,Educational Change

When we talk about Meskhetian/Ahiskaian Turks, it is perceived that the Turkish community with a population of approximately 200 thousand existed in the Meskhetian/Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia, who was exiled from their ancestral lands to the Central Asian countries in 1944 by the Soviet government. Due to its settled position, Ahiskaian Turkishness has been a gateway between Anatolia and the Caucasus, in other words, between the regions and civilizations, as well as the unifying bridge of Anatolian and Azerbaijani Turks. After the exile, this position expanded further, and it also assumed the role of the cultural carrier of Central Asia, Anatolia, and Azerbaijan. Today about 150 thousand Meskhetian Turks live in Kazakhstan, 100 thousand in Turkey, 100 thousand in Azerbaijan, 100 thousand in the Russian Federation, 50 thousand in Kyrgyzstan, 15 thousand in Uzbekistan, 10 thousand in the United States, 10 thousand live in Ukraine and 1,500 in Georgia. As they live in different countries, Meskhetian Turks are defined as a trans-national community. It is known that Meskhetian Turks have a rich cultural heritage. The modern type of schooling process of this community has an important historical background. In the presented article, the schools that operated before the Turks' 1944 evacuation from the historical Meskhet-Javakheti region in south-west Georgia are investigated. At the end of the 19th century, the new type of credit schools gave education in the Turkish language and opened in the villages of the Turks inhabited by the Turks in the Akhaltsikhe District in the province of Tiflis in Tsarist Russia, is being studied. In this context, the activity history of the primary schools established in the villages of Atsquri and Okam in 1881, Khertvisi in 1885, Adigeni in 1895, Oshora, Tsnisi, and Varkhani in 1897, the content of education in these schools, the contributions of reformist teachers who lit the light of enlightenment in the Akhaltsikhe cultural region, information specific to students is presented. The study's subjective sources and materials are mainly related materials in the Central Historical Archives of the National Archive of Georgia in Tbilisi.
Impact of Emotional Style on Academic Goals in Pandemic Times
Author: Palacios Garay, Jessica Paola
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Emotional Response,Academic Achievement,Goal Orientation,Pandemics,COVID-19,College Students,Foreign Countries

The objective of the present study was to determine the incidence of university students' emotional style on the dimensions of academic goals (academic goals, learning goals, achievement goals and social reinforcement goals). For this study, 780 students of the fifth and sixth cycle of the Health Sciences School at a private university in Lima were chosen. In this quantitative study, of a substantive type, and a causal correlational cross-sectional non-experimental design, The Emotional Style Questionnaire (ESQ) was administered and for academic goals the questionnaire of the same name (CMA). The results evidenced the significant incidence of emotional style in the academic goals of university students with 72.1%; because the reason of plausibility of the logistic model (p&lt;0.05) fits well with the data (Deviation with p&lt;0.05).
Investigation and Analysis of the Status Quo of Normal University Students&apos; Teaching Internship--Taking Taishan University as an Example
Author: Liu, Tingting
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Teacher Interns,Internship Programs,College Students,Teaching Skills,Program Evaluation,Preservice Teacher Education,Self Evaluation (Individuals)

Teaching internship is an effective form of cooperation between university and primary and middle school. Teaching internship can promote the improvement of the teaching quality of internship primary and secondary schools, and also promote the integration of theoretical knowledge and practical experience by college students, and promote the professional development of college students. In order to grasp the situation pertaining to normal students' teaching internship, we conducted a questionnaire survey on a sample of normal students. The survey results show that the teaching effect of teaching internship is satisfactory, and through teaching internship, the teaching ability of normal students has also been developed, which has promoted the professional development of normal students.
Comparing the Views on Problem-Based Learning from Medical Education Students in Zhengzhou University in China and the University of Bristol in the UK
Author: Liu, Xiaoyin
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cross Cultural Studies,Medical Education,Medical Students,Problem Based Learning,Teaching Methods,Student Attitudes,Universities,Group Discussion,Foreign Countries,Educational Benefits,Student Motivation,Comparative Analysis

Problem-based learning (PBL), as a student-centred learning method, refers to students actively participating in a group scenario to solve open-end problems. This study aims to compare the students' attitudes on PBL in Zhengzhou University and the University of Bristol. This study adopts qualitative methods. By conducting semi-structured interviews with eight participants, four from Zhengzhou University and the others from the University of Bristol. Overall, the results of the study indicated that students from both two universities are overall satisfied with PBL because of its contribution to deeper understanding of medical knowledge and skill development and they all think that the quality of group discussion and the efficiency of PBL classes need to be improved. In terms of the different views from two universities, when it comes to the biggest benefit of PBL, students from Zhengzhou University are more likely to choose clinical thinking, while students from the University of Bristol are more satisfied with the deep understanding on medical knowledge. Unexpectedly, although Zhengzhou University has implemented PBL for fewer years than the University of Bristol, students are more satisfied with and motivated in PBL classes than those of the University of Bristol.
Integration of ICTS and Digital Skills in Times of the Pandemic COVID-19
Author: Manco-Chavez, Jose Antonio
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Information Technology,Technological Literacy,Pandemics,COVID-19,Case Studies,State Universities,Undergraduate Students,Student Attitudes,Teaching Methods,Educational Change,Distance Education,Foreign Countries,Technology Integration,Correlation,Online Courses,Engineering Education

In these times of global tragedy due to the pandemic that caused COVID-19, distance learning relies on the resources of the digital field, as well as on the management of ICT and the development of digital skills. Therefore, this research has been aimed at corroborating the existing links between the integration of ICT and digital skills pandemic times. A study with a quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional, correlational approach was developed. The sample consisted of 168 students from a public university in Lima, Peru. Two tools were adapted: 1) integration of ICT, 18 items and 2) digital skills, 30 items, with reliability coefficients by Cronbach's Alpha of 0.976 and 0.889, respectively. The questionnaires were developed and taken through Google forms. The results showed that the level of integration of ICT was high (89.9%) as well as digital skills (86.9%). Spearman's Rho correlation analysis concluded that there was a positive and high relationship between integration of ICT and digital skills (0.761, p &lt; 0.05). Finally, discussions were raised about the development of aspects related to ICT during the current pandemic.
Modern Development Strategy of Russian Education
Author: Mukhametzyanova, Flera Gabdulbarovna
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,Educational Development,Strategic Planning,Economic Development,Municipalities,Geographic Regions,Problem Solving,Barriers,Guidelines,Foreign Countries,Sustainable Development

In this paper, it was tried to consider the current state of normative support for the development of strategic planning documents in the field of Russian education. The strategy for the development of education (DoE), as an industry document of strategic planning, has not been adopted in the Russian Federation (RF) to date. The article attempts to generalize the developments in this area, considers several international documents and projects of strategies for the development of Russian education (DRE), national strategies focused on them. The analysis of regional strategy for the DoE, which is either component of strategies for socioeconomic development of the region, or separate concepts that are focused on municipal development strategies. Due to the lack of a strategic document at the Federal level, regional development concepts are mostly aimed at solving regional problems in the field of education, at a process approach, and, in fact, are not focused on solving breakthrough problems and taking into account all-Russian and global challenges. It is concluded that the Russian educational system cannot develop effectively in the course of planning only national projects that have their own time horizon; to solve this problem, a strategy for the DRE space is necessary, which can provide guidelines for the development of each educational organization.
The Effects of Speaking Activities on Brain Blood Flow: An NIRS Study
Author: Negishi, Junko
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Brain Hemisphere Functions,Speech Communication,Language Proficiency,Spectroscopy,Adults,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,English (Second Language),Task Analysis,Pictorial Stimuli,Learning Activities

This study explored appropriate speaking activities for speakers of different proficiency levels by measuring the changes in their brain blood flow with near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). Fifty adult speakers and learners of English of various proficiency levels participated in the study by undertaking four types of task: a single-speaker picture description, interview, and two paired interaction activities on an easy and a difficult topic. By objectively analyzing the collected data, the authors revealed which speaking activity facilitated brain activity, which speaking activity was suitable for which level of learner, and from which area of the brain it was possible to obtain activation data. In short, advanced language learners need to tackle more difficult tasks, while easy, patterned tasks such as the picture description and interview are more appropriate for elementary level learners. As for intermediate learners, their language learning is likely to be promoted through most of the activity types, except for the interactions on difficult topics, which were shown to decrease their brain blood flow.
Implementing the Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion Article Structure in Engineering Education Based on Problem-Based Learning
Author: Liso, Vincenzo
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Engineering Education,Teaching Methods,Problem Based Learning,Undergraduate Students,Graduate Students,Creative Thinking,Learning Processes,Writing (Composition),Research Reports,Text Structure,Problem Solving,Knowledge Management,Academic Language,Writing Processes

The organization of knowledge influences how effectively students learn, so that if the information is well structured and the knowledge acquisition process is carried out in a systemic way, one can more effectively retrieve pieces of knowledge. To tackle this problem a common document format used in academia, IMRaD (Introduction, Method, Results, and Discussion), can help students in natural science and engineering education to approach the problem of knowledge organization in a systemic way from the beginning of the learning process. In this study, we explore the use of the IMRaD format for students pursuing undergraduate and master's degrees as a tool for learning whilst making the project report more comprehensible for readers. The predefined document structure cannot be considered the solution to all learning issues and it should not limit the unpredictability, which is necessary during the creative thinking typical of the research environment.
Use of Project-Based Learning in Preparation of Education Managers: Case of Post-Soviet Azerbaijan
Author: Mammadova, Lala
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Active Learning,Student Projects,Masters Programs,College Faculty,Teacher Attitudes,Administrator Attitudes,Graduate Study,Job Skills,Competence,Administrator Education,Administrator Qualifications,Educational Administration

This study explores the implementation of Project-Based Learning (PBL) in Master of Education Management Programs in two Azerbaijani universities. The aim was to find out if the sample universities integrate projects into their programs using a systematic PBL model. Interviews with the faculty and administration were conducted and the curricula of programs were scrutinized to assess the level of the consistency in the subjects on offer. Although the courses in both programs are quite suitable for PBL integration, only in one of the sample universities was there evidence of extensive use of projects, albeit mainly in a single assignment level. The results show that Azerbaijani universities need to develop a well-structured PBL model adapted to the local context. The results of the interviews emphasize the crucial role of PBL in the acquisition of employable skills and competences in education management. Major limitations in the process of PBL implementation include a lack of awareness about PBL, inadequate organizational support in the form of staff trainings, the provision of facilities and negotiations with stakeholders.
The Problems That Impact the Quality of Project Management Courses Developed Following a Project-Based Learning Approach with the Support of Community Partners
Author: Arantes do Amaral, Joao Alberto
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Program Administration,Active Learning,Student Projects,Undergraduate Students,Service Learning,School Community Relationship,Educational Quality,Problems

This case study presents findings regarding the problems that impact the quality of a Project Elaboration and Management course, developed following a project-based learning approach. From 2014 to 2019, the course was taught 27 times, involving 596 undergraduate students from Federal University of Sao Paolo, Campus Osasco, Brazil. The research objective is to reveal the main problems encountered both in setting up and delivering the course, and to analyze their impacts on the quality of the course. Data was collected from the professor's notes, from correspondence between the professor, students, and other stakeholders, minutes of meetings between the professor and stakeholders, and from the students' reports about the projects. The data was analyzed following a qualitative systemic analysis, revealing the impacts of the identified problems on the course. The article concludes by presenting possible ways of reducing such problems.
Some Effects of Unstructured Outdoor Plays on a Child: A Case Study from New Zealand
Author: Okur-Berberoglu, Emel
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Outdoor Education,Play,Creativity,Self Esteem,Cognitive Development,Comparative Analysis,Foreign Countries,Educational Benefits,Preschool Children,Preschool Education,Educational Philosophy,Indigenous Knowledge

Outdoor education is one of the popular subjects in education recently and used synonymously with different concepts such as adventure education, nature education, museum education, recreation education or experiential education. It is also considered as complementary of mainstream education and a rich learning environment by the researchers. The literature mentions different positive outputs of outdoor plays. There are not many studies related to unstructured outdoor plays. The aim of this study is to determine some effects of unstructured outdoor plays on a child in New Zealand. Qualitative approach is used within a case study. The defined themes at the end of the study are observing, exploring, cognitive development, creativity and self-confidence. It is needed more experimental studies with control groups.
Theatre as a Teaching Resource to Work on Socio-Environmental Problems in Primary Education
Author: Moreno-Fernández, Olga
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Theater Arts,Teaching Methods,Social Problems,Elementary School Teachers,Teacher Attitudes,Foreign Countries,Environmental Education,Teacher Motivation,Barriers,Social Change

The theatre as a didactic resource in the educational field has a great pedagogical value. In recent years several educational experiences have been carried out in the classrooms where theatre has been used as a teaching-learning tool. An educational tool with great potential from which to work in the classroom on socio-environmental problems. The objective of this article is to make an approach to how primary education teachers understand that theatre favours the treatment of socio-environmental problems in the classroom in a motivating and practical way. Semi-structured interviews have been carried out with teachers who have already used theatre in their classrooms. The results have been structured on the basis of three categories: motivation and values, context and subjects, and difficulties. The potential of theatre in primary school is highlighted, with time and the number of students in the groups being the main difficulties in incorporating them into the classroom.
The Sustainable Scale of Earthquake Awareness, Development, Validity and Reliability Study
Author: Genç, Murat
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Natural Disasters,Test Construction,Test Validity,Test Reliability,College Students,Foreign Countries,Seismology,Emergency Programs,Readiness

The study group of this research, which is planned to develop the Sustainable Scale of Earthquake Awareness, consists of the students studying at Duzce University in the academic year 2018-2019. 276 volunteer individuals (213 females, 63 males) participated to the research group determined by random sampling method. For confirmatory factor analysis, 434 female and 129 male volunteer students participated. 839 students, 647 of them were females (77,12%) and 192 of them were males (22,88%), supported the study. As a result of the exploratory factor analysis which is completed after testing the suitability of the data for analysis, the scale was constituted of three sub-factors consisting of 22 items. The factors that make up the scale explain 46,393% of the variance. The sub-factors of the scale were named based on the knowledge about the earthquake. The suitability of the obtained model was 0.072 for RMSEA; 0.90 for NFI, 0,89 for GFI, 0.063 for RMR and 0.86 for AGFI. As a result of the reliability analysis, the internal consistency coefficient (Cronbach alpha) of the scale was determined as 0.884. It is thought that this developed scale will provide support as a tool for educational purposes. It is recommended to carry out different researches that can help to investigate the awareness level about the earthquake with different variables.
Investigating the Appropriateness and Validity of the Academic Motivation Scale-College Version for South African First-Year University Students
Author: Kapp, Adéle
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Test Validity,Student Motivation,Foreign Countries,College Freshmen,Test Reliability,Psychometrics,Factor Analysis

South African universities have one of the lowest graduation rates in the world, especially amongst first-year university students. South Africa's first-year university students are taxed with tremendous challenges. One of the most important amongst these challenges is considered to be academic motivation, which is strongly related to students' academic success. Despite this, to date, little work has been undertaken to source and validate a reliable instrument to measure students' academic motivation. This article is based on the proposition that there is a pressing need for a valid and reliable instrument that measures academic motivation and its effect on students' academic success. The psychometric properties of the Academic Motivation Scale-College version were examined for first-year university students. The findings are promising for using this scale to measure academic motivation of first-year university students.