ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
English Language Learners&apos; Strategy Use and Self-Efficacy Beliefs in English Language Learning
Author: Shi, Hong
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English Language Learners,Learning Strategies,Self Efficacy,College Students,Student Surveys,Reading Comprehension,Metacognition,Memory,Scaffolding (Teaching Technique),Mastery Learning,Language Proficiency,Questionnaires,Scores,Statistical Analysis

This study examined self-efficacy and language strategy use of college-level English Language Learners (ELLs) at a southeastern university in the United States. It analyzed the relationship between self-efficacy and strategy use. An English Language Learning Survey was used to collect data from 198 college-level ELLs. Participants had positive self-efficacy toward their English learning and the most often used strategies were compensation, social and metacognitive strategies. Self-efficacy was positively correlated with cognitive, compensation, memory, metacognitive, and social strategy. The study suggested that teachers provide scaffolding for ELLs through strategy instruction. Teachers can teach self-regulated learning strategies and focus on ELLs' improvement and mastery of content to enhance their self-efficacy, language proficiency and learning autonomy required for their academic courses learning.
Cultural Identification, Acculturation, and Academic Experience Abroad: A Case of a Joint Faculty-Led Short-Term Study Abroad Program
Author: Lee, Jeongyi
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Identification (Psychology),Acculturation,Study Abroad,Student Experience,Statistical Analysis,Measures (Individuals),Ethnicity,Cultural Influences,Foreign Countries,College Students,Questionnaires,Pretests Posttests,Racial Identification,Correlation

The number of students expanding their academic programs to include learning experiences abroad has been steadily increasing over the past two decades. This study investigates the cultural identification of short-term study abroad participants and its influence on their acculturation process. By means of a widely used acculturation scale, it was found that there were statistically significant effects of cultural experiences on cultural identification, specifically decreases in cultural identification scores. Implications from this study suggest a deeper understanding of students' ethnic identifications can be helpful in developing study abroad programs that promote the goals of student awareness, cultural sensitivity, and global competence.
&quot;It&apos;s Kinda Weird&quot;: Hybrid Identities in the International Undergraduate Community
Author: Adewale, Titilola
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Undergraduate Students,Student Experience,Identification (Psychology),Cultural Differences,Mixed Methods Research,Global Approach,International Education,Student Adjustment,Student Attitudes,Semi Structured Interviews,Naturalistic Observation,College Choice,Student Characteristics,Intergroup Relations,Social Integration,Social Networks,Foreign Students

With benefits international students bring to campus, universities have adopted aggressive recruitment practices and increased institutional support for their retention and positive college engagement (Hegarty, 2014). Due to globalization, increasing numbers of international students enter college with multiple cultural/national affiliations (Gomes, Berry, Alzougool, &amp; Chang, 2014). Yet, little is known about these complex identities and how they shape students' experiences in U.S. higher education. Using Schlossberg's Transition Theory, the article leverages interview data to theorize hybrid national/cultural identities of five &quot;international&quot; undergraduate students at a private university on the Eastern seaboard. Although the institution used passport information to categorize student nationality, participants chose to self-identify less categorically. Our discussion recommends dialogue around international students' identity constructs to thoughtfully affirm hybridity.
Positioning the Researcher in the Studies of International Student Identities
Author: Hsieh, Jasper Kun-Ting
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Students,English (Second Language),Language of Instruction,Identification (Psychology),Student Characteristics,Cultural Pluralism,Epistemology,Educational Theories,Research Methodology,Theory of Mind,Social Capital,Advantaged,Educational Researchers

Previous studies on international students have helped identify issues that explain these students' intercultural identities in relation to the learning in English-medium contexts. Scholarly attention has attached importance to the 'results' or the 'process' of the identity movements in the context of international education. Little attention has been paid to the conversations on the epistemology and theoretical framework that educational researchers have been using. This study is a response to Dervin's plea (2011) for a change for the qualitative studies on international students' interculturality. With a Post-structuralist Bourdieuian thinking, I demonstrated how analyzing and providing the researcher's positionality enhance the understanding towards the unspoken data and its analysis especially for the studies on international students' identities.
Pondering the Future of Basic Education. Developing, Reforming and Finding a Balance
Author: Rinkinen, Aija
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Change,Educational Development,Alignment (Education),National Curriculum,Core Curriculum,Change Strategies,Elementary Secondary Education,Foreign Countries

Aija Riniken, senior ministerial advisor, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, shares her perspective on the future of basic education. She writes that her perspective is mainly from Finland's point of view because she has worked on many different levels of education in Finland and has witnessed many changes throughout the years. Here Riniken writes that with this article she is reaching wider with her ponderings because internationalization and cooperation between countries is an important and continually increasing aspect of education. She believes that many issues are common between countries, and all nations have a lot to learn from one another.
The Curriculum Process--Case Turku in Finland
Author: Soukainen, Ulla
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Early Childhood Education,Educational History,Program Content,Curriculum Development,Educational Practices

In Finnish early childhood education and care, many changes have been occurring in recent years (Figure 1). The Day Care Act was drafted in 1973, and things largely remained the same until 2015. On August 1, 2015, the new law, the Act on Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), came into force. But before that, some small changes had occurred, which ultimately led to the reform of the law. In 2009, the Minister of Health and Social Services and the Minister of Education appointed liquidators to find out what arrangements should be done. Many municipalities had already transferred ECEC from health and social services to the education sector, and this was also recommended in the statement. It concludes that the management of day care should be transferred as a whole from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health to the Ministry of Culture and Education. This was done in 2013. In 2015, due to the new law, the term &quot;day care&quot; became &quot;early childhood education and care&quot; because services were allocated to support children's development, not simply to provide a service to enable the children's guardians to work. In addition to the change to the law, attention was also paid to the development of content. The national core curriculum for pre-primary education was renewed in 2014. Pre-primary education providers had to prepare and adopt the local curriculum on August 1, 2016 (Finnish National Agency for Education, 2017b). At the same time, at the national level, the core curriculum for early childhood education and care was prepared with stakeholders. As stated on the Finnish National Agency for Education's (2016a) website: &quot;The municipality, joint municipal authority or other service provider shall prepare and adopt a local curriculum compliant with this core curriculum at the latest on August 1, 2017&quot; (Regulation 39/011/2016, 2.1).
A Study of Primary School Teachers&apos; and Turkish Language Teachers&apos; Anxiety about Tablet PC Assisted Teaching
Author: Öztürk, Ergün
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Elementary School Teachers,Language Teachers,Computer Attitudes,Anxiety,Computer Assisted Instruction,Handheld Devices,Attitude Measures,Comparative Analysis,Gender Differences,Factor Analysis,Statistical Significance,Statistical Analysis

Many educational institutions use a number of technologies in classrooms to promote the effectiveness of learning activities. In recent years, tablet PCs have become the primary of these technologies. Tablet PCs in particular play an important role in increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the process of learning and teaching. In order to reveal this effect of tablet PCs on learning-teaching and to ensure that tablet PCs are used effectively by teachers, development of favorable attitudes by teachers towards computers and elimination of anxiety about using these devices are of utmost importance. The purpose of this study is to determine primary school and Turkish teachers' anxiety level about using tablet PCs in the process of learning and teaching. To this end, the anxiety scale for tablet PC assisted teaching developed by the researcher was administrated to the teachers. In order to determine the teachers' anxiety level about using tablet PC in teaching, cross-sectional survey technique was used in the research. According to the results of the research, Turkish teachers' anxiety level about teaching with tablet PC was found to be higher than that of primary school teachers. Also, in both branches of teaching, females have higher anxiety level about teaching with tablet PC than males. The findings of the research suggest that teachers should be provided with adequate training in using tablet PCs and integration of tablet PCs into educational activities, and that the technical infrastructure should be arranged accordingly.
The Level of High-Order Thinking and Its Relation to Quality of Life among Students at Ajloun University College
Author: Al Rabadi, Wail Minwer
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Thinking Skills,Quality of Life,Foreign Countries,Correlation,College Students,Test Reliability,Test Validity,Student Attitudes,Gender Differences,Statistical Analysis

The study was designed to identify the effect of high-order thinking on the quality of life among Ajloun University students. The study used the associative method. The randomly selected sample consisted of 147 students from Ajloun University College. The study used two tools: The two measures were applied to the sample of the current study after extracting the psychometric properties of the two scales in terms of validity and reliability. The results indicated that the high-order thinking among the students was moderate. The students also achieved a medium degree according to the quality of life scale. There was a statistically significant correlation between both the high-order thinking and the quality of life. There were statistically significant differences in quality of life and the level of high-order thinking due to gender variable in favor of males and academic specialization in favor of students of scientific colleges, the study recommended the need for further research and studies on the relationship between quality of life and other variables such as self-efficacy, self-learning, and other variables, and to train students in skills that raise their high-order thinking skills because of their close relationship with quality of life and training programs and semi-empirical studies to improve students' perception of level of life and its quality and satisfaction.
A Research Study on Identifying the Correlation between Fourth Graders&apos; Attitudes and Behaviors toward the Environment
Author: Hasiloglu, Mehmet Akif
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Correlation,Grade 4,Student Attitudes,Case Studies,Elementary School Students,Foreign Countries,Attitude Measures,Environmental Education,Environment,Student Behavior,Qualitative Research,Statistical Analysis,Observation

This study aims to examine the degree to which scores received by fourth graders in Turkey on the environmental attitudes scale is reflected in their environmental awareness (with respect to practice, behaviors), and to identify the correlation between attitudes and behaviors. Case study design was used to collect data in the study. Observation and questionnaire techniques were used as the data collection instruments. The sample of the study consisted of 15 students selected among the fourth graders attending elementary schools in Agri province of Turkey in the 2015-2016 academic year. The Attitudes Toward the Environment Scale (ATES), developed by Yasaroglu (2012), was used to measure students' attitudes toward the environment. The reliability of the scale was examined by Yasaroglu (2012) using Cronbach's alpha internal consistency coefficient, which is reported to be 0.84. Observations were made to measure students' environmental awareness by using the video recording technique. On the other hand, Spearman's Correlation analysis was used for data analysis. The relationship between students' scores on the attitude scale and their scores for environmental awareness, assigned on the basis of the observations made, was found weak, as indicated by the correlation between the two (Spearman's rho (r) = 0,075). An important finding was that even though students received satisfactory scores on the ATES scale, a sizable number of them failed to reflect these attitudes in their practices or behaviors, which would indicate environmental awareness.
Developing Scale for Determining the Social Participation Skills for Children and Analyzing Its Psychometric Characteristics
Author: Samanci, Osman
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Psychometrics,Interpersonal Relationship,Test Reliability,Test Validity,Skill Analysis,Interpersonal Competence,Elementary School Students,Student Surveys,Factor Analysis,Factor Structure,Interviews,Likert Scales,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis

The purpose of this research is to conduct validity and reliability studies of the Scale for the Determining Social Participation for Children, developed to measure social participation skills of children aged 7-10 years. During the development of the scale, pilot schemes, validity analyzes, and reliability analyzes were conducted. In this context, the research was carried out with a total of 472 elementary school students in the ages of 7-10 years using the descriptive survey model. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed to examine the factor structure of the scale and it was determined that the scale had a structure consisting of 16 items and one dimension and that this model had a good level of model fit. In order to examine the reliability of the scale, internal consistency and split-half reliability analyzes were performed and it was found that the scale had sufficient reliability. It can be said that the Scale for the Determining Social Participation for Children is a reliable and valid measurement tool that can be used to measure the social participation skills of students aged 7-10 years.
Young People&apos;s Opinions on Rural Sweden
Author: Boström, Lena
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Rural Areas,Futures (of Society),Foreign Countries,Academic Achievement,Online Surveys,Student Attitudes,Rural to Urban Migration,Municipalities,Gender Differences,Employment,Educational Attainment,Relocation,School Role,Decision Making,High School Students,Geographic Regions,Statistical Analysis,Regression (Statistics)

This study focus on adolescents motivations about remaining in rural areas in the Mid Sweden Region, a part of Sweden with decreasing school performance scores and high out-migration. The study is based on 1,500 young people's responses to a Web-based survey within the framework of a regional school development project. The research questions focused on: whether youths were going to stay there or move the future in urban or rural areas, influences, and the future choices and differences among genders, regions, and age groups. The empirical data are processed with statistical analysis. The study confirms previous research on young people's relocations from rural areas; jobs and education are important motives, and the most prone to move are women. What is new knowledge is that lessons about the region's importance have a positive, significant effect on individuals' plans to remain in their home municipality. This can and should be highlighted in local, regional, and national politics, but more importantly in school discourses. Since school plays a role in students' thinking and future choices, a larger formation effort could be of great value for norms and regional political standpoints. The study has relevance to the international terms of similar geographical areas.
Vocational Adjustment Level of Employees at Irbid University College
Author: Al-Momani, Mufadi
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Vocational Adjustment,Statistical Analysis,Measurement,College Faculty,Income,Work Environment,Peer Relationship,Gender Differences,Work Experience,Employee Attitudes,Correlation,Questionnaires,Teacher Attitudes,Teacher Administrator Relationship,Emotional Adjustment,Foreign Countries

The current study aimed to detect the vocational adjustment level of employees at Irbid University College, and to achieve this goal the study tool; vocational adjustment measurement was developed by the researcher and implemented, after confirming its constancy, stability, and truthfulness, which consist of (36) paragraphs spreading over four dimensions (The reality of work climate, physical income, relationship with co-workers, and relationship with management) on the study populations which consist of (141) employees, and the respondents of (121) of those were subject to the statistical analysis. The study results showed the overall vocational adjustment level of employees at Irbid University College to be medium, where all the dimensions came at medium level, in the order (The reality of working climate, physical income, relationship with coworkers, and relationship with management). The study results also showed the existence of statistically significant difference at level (a = 0.05) between the two arithmetic means of study sample member estimates on all dimensions of vocational adjustment measurement, and on it all together, due to the sex variable, and in favor of males, and the existence of statistically significant difference at level (a = 0.05) between the two arithmetic means of study sample member estimates on all dimensions of vocational adjustment measurement, and on it all together, due to the years of experience variable, and in favor of employees with years of experience of (10 years or more), and also the non-existence of statistically significant difference at level (a = 0.05) between the two arithmetic means of study sample member estimates on all dimensions of vocational adjustment measurement, and on it all together, due to the interaction between the two variables of sex and years of experience.
The Relationship between Teacher Autonomy Support and the Attitude and Anxiety toward Mathematics Course
Author: Erdik, Cengiz
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Correlation,Mathematics Anxiety,Personal Autonomy,Student Attitudes,Mathematics Instruction,Teaching Methods,Mathematics Teachers,Teacher Student Relationship,Measures (Individuals),Statistical Analysis,Gender Differences,Middle School Students,Grade 7,Grade 9,Foreign Countries

The purpose of the present research is to determine the correlation between attitude and anxiety of seventh and eighth grade students toward mathematics course and behaviors of mathematics teachers to support and exhibit learner autonomy toward mathematics course. The population of the research was consisted of 1.563 students and 35 mathematics teachers from 22 schools. Research data was collected by means of Learner Autonomy Support Scale and Mathematics Course Attitude and Anxiety Scale. Conclusively, it was revealed that eighth grade students were more anxious, their anxiety levels and attitudes differed according to their success levels, and that they did not exhibit statistically significant difference according to their genders and teachers' genders. It was determined that there is no statistically significant correlation between level of teachers' support for learner autonomy and students' anxiety and attitude levels toward mathematics course.
Determination of Pre-Service Teachers&apos; Awareness of Plants
Author: Çil, Emine
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preservice Teachers,Knowledge Level,Plants (Botany),Teacher Education Programs,Elementary School Teachers,Student Surveys,Student Teachers,Statistical Analysis,Foreign Countries,Questionnaires,Teaching Methods,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Content Analysis,Qualitative Research

Human beings do not usually recognize plants although they exist widely in their environment. This condition has been described as plant blindness in literature. The main purpose of this study is to examine pre-service elementary teachers' awareness of plants. Moreover, the study examined from which sources student-teachers gained knowledge about plants. This study was designed as a survey model. The data of the study were obtained from the questionnaire consisting of two open-ended questions. The study group of this research consisted of 308 student-teachers. The participants receive teacher training at a state university located in Turkey's Aegean coast. Frequencies and percentages were calculated for the data analysis. The results of this study revealed that pre-service elementary teachers have got symptoms of plant blindness. The source of knowledge for plants is not usually formal science education. In addition to this, the results of this study suggest that student-teachers have a tendency to form aliveness concept with animistic and anthropocentric perspectives. In the light of these results, it is highlighted that there is a need to support pre-service elementary teachers' awareness of plants to prevent young children's plant blindness. [This study was presented at the 15th International Primary Teacher Education Symposuim in Mugla Sitki Koçman University, Turkey between 11-14 May, 2016.]