ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Academic Achievement at the University of Maiduguri: A Survey of Teaching-Learning Environment
Author: Jiboyewa, D. A.
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Academic Achievement,Educational Environment,College Students,College Faculty,Teacher Characteristics,Student Characteristics,Institutional Characteristics,Questionnaires,Likert Scales,Teacher Surveys,Student Surveys,Student Attitudes,Check Lists

This study assessed the teaching-learning environment at the University of Maiduguri. The study used survey design. The population comprised of the 77 academic departments in the eleven faculties at the University of Maiduguri. A total of 29 departments were randomly and proportionally drawn from the 77 departments. The smallest sample (21 percent) was drawn from the College of Medical Sciences having the largest number of departments. The second level of sampling was for respondents. Average of 20 lecturers per department was estimated targeting 50 percent of them. A norm of 20 students for each of the departments was used. Results shows that among others institutional contribution to the quality of teaching learning environment is 51 percent; individual contribution is 53 percent; lecturers contribution is 55 percent. The study concludes that the overall quality of the environment for teaching and learning at University of Maiduguri is sub-standard. Thus the study recommends among others that the University management should be committed to planned intervention to bring about the required changes.
Classroom Assessment Preference of Indonesian Junior High School Teachers in English as Foreign Language Classes
Author: Saefurrohman
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preferences,Student Evaluation,Evaluation Methods,Junior High Schools,Secondary School Teachers,Classroom Techniques,English (Second Language),English Instruction,Questionnaires,Mixed Methods Research,Classroom Observation Techniques,Interviews,Educational Practices,Qualitative Research,Statistical Analysis,Foreign Countries

This study was conducted using a mix method design with 24 Indonesian junior high school English teachers as respondents who completed the questionnaire on classroom assessment practices. Six respondents participated in an interview and observation to further clarify their practices on classroom assessment. The study found that an Indonesian Junior High School English Teachers main purpose of classroom assessment was assessment &quot;for&quot; learning as the first preference. It was then followed by the classroom assessment of learning. And the last purpose was classroom assessment as learning. The most frequently used of classroom assessment &quot;for&quot; learning for Indonesian English Junior High School teachers was to group their students for instruction purposes in the class. The most frequently used &quot;of&quot; classroom assessment of learning among Indonesian teachers was to determine the final grades for students and to provide information to the central administration.
Analysis of the Reasons of Teaching Controversial Issues on Public Policy to the Senior High School Students
Author: Suryanto
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: High School Students,Controversial Issues (Course Content),Public Policy,Teacher Attitudes,Civics,Teaching Methods,Secondary School Teachers,Questionnaires,Basic Skills,Relevance (Education),Student Attitudes,Learning Activities,Foreign Countries

The aims of this research are to get a description about the condition of civics teaching and learning process in senior high schools, and to describe the reasons of integrating the teaching of controversial issues on public policy into civics instructional materials. This descriptive research uses questionnaire to collect the data, and the subjects of the research are thirty students and eight teachers from three different schools with different categories. The data then analyzed using descriptive quantitative technique with percentage scoring. It can be found that the teachers and the students admitted that it is important to integrate the materials about controversial issues on public policy into the civics lesson. In spite of contextualism reasons, it is also hoped that this integration will elevate the students' ability. Through the use of these materials, teachers can develop their knowledge about public policy, basic knowledge about its orientation, perception, emotion, communication, attitude and belief, and the skills to analyze the issues of public policy.
Regenerating Technical and Vocational Education for Sustainable Youth Empowerment in Nigeria
Author: Ogbuanya, Tessy
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Technical Education,Vocational Education,Student Empowerment,Sustainability,Skill Development,Job Skills,Competency Based Education,Career Development,Employment Potential,Curriculum Development

Technical and Vocational Education as enshrined in the Nigeria National Policy on Education is used as a comprehensive term referring to those aspects of the educational process involving, in addition to general education, the study of technologies and related sciences and the acquisition of practical skills, attitudes, understanding and knowledge relating to occupations in various sectors of economic and social life. Therefore, in order to cope with the requirements of a sustainable youth empowerment challenges in Nigeria, vocational and technical education should be re-engineered, re-assessed and made compatible with the needs of the society. There is also the need to expand the discipline to accommodate other occupational and professional areas of interest.
Effects of an E-Learning Module on Students' Attitudes in an Electronics Class
Author: Getuno, Daniel M.
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Learning Modules,Student Attitudes,Electronics,Electronic Learning,Quasiexperimental Design,Control Groups,Experimental Groups,Questionnaires,Attitude Measures,Teaching Methods,Intermode Differences,Instructional Effectiveness,Conventional Instruction,Pretests Posttests,College Students,Foreign Countries

Research has shown that students exhibit negative attitudes towards Electronics especially when they are taught using the conventional method. This is in addition to poor instructional methods that do not promote individualization of instruction or make learning interesting. The purpose of this study was to design an e-learning module in &quot;Transistors&quot;--a topic in the Electronics course--and determine its effects on students' attitudes in Kenyan Polytechnics. The Solomon-three quasi-experimental, non-equivalent control group research design was used for the study. A sample consisting of 103 first year Electronic Engineering students from three Polytechnics were randomly assigned to three groups; one experimental, E and two controls; C[subscript 1] and C[subscript 2]. A self-administered Students' Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ) with a calculated Cronbach-alpha reliability coefficient of 0.88 was used for data collection. The data was analysed using t-tests and the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) statistical test at an alpha level of significance of 0.05. The results of the t-test revealed that the differences in gain from pre-test to post-test between groups E and C[subscript 1] were significant in favour of group E. Further results using ANCOVA revealed that there were statistically significant differences in post-test scores for students' attitudes between groups E and C[subscript 2] in favour of group E. This showed that the presence of a pre-test had a significant effect on students' attitude towards the topic being taught irrespective of whether they were taught using the e-learning module or the conventional method. The findings of the study shall be useful to Electronics students and lecturers, curriculum developers, e-learning practitioners and educational policy makers in Kenya.
The Role of Female Teachers in Activating Effective Teaching Skills and Methods among High School Students from the Teachers' Perspective--Najran, KSA
Author: Wahsheh, Rula
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Women Faculty,Females,Teacher Role,Instructional Effectiveness,Teaching Skills,High School Students,Teacher Attitudes,Foreign Countries,Questionnaires,Teaching Methods,Barriers,Secondary School Teachers,High Schools,Teacher Characteristics,Teacher Effectiveness,Statistical Analysis

The study aimed to identify the role of female teachers in activating effective teaching skills and methods among high school students from the teachers' perspective--Najran, KSA. The researcher used the descriptive analytical approach. Instrument of the study is a questionnaire with (76) items distributing to (3) domains: the first domain is effective teaching skills, the second one is teaching methods, and the third one is the obstacles limiting female teachers' role of activating effective teaching skills and methods. The questionnaire was distributed to a sample consisting of (614) female high school teachers at Najran Region. Results of the study indicated that there are some regulations limiting the work of teachers, and female teachers are very concerned about the participation and collaboration of all students in the different class activities. The female teachers were able to improve and develop their teaching methods according to the assessment results. Results showed also that female teachers are able to encourage students to prepare for daily school work; teachers were able to identify the difficulty levels in teaching the curriculum and that teachers are always smiling and energetic. In light of these results, the study recommended the need for developing daily plans for each lesson, to pose various class questions to students, and to engage teachers in training programs proper to the content of the lesson.
The Problem of Separate Faith-Based Schooling in a Pluralist Society (A Philosophico-Religious Analysis of Separatist and Isolationist Ideologies of Learning)
Author: Nwanaju, Isidore U.
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Philosophy,Empathy,Psychological Patterns,Religious Education,Cultural Pluralism,Religious Cultural Groups,Teaching Methods,Cultural Awareness,Foreign Countries,Intergroup Relations,Intercultural Communication,Religious Factors,Private Schools,Public Schools,Educational Practices

Every society craves naturally to live in communion and understanding with the persons and the groups found in it. This is also in line with the aphorism that man is a &quot;being-with-others&quot;, as against the separatist and segregationist opinion of each person living &quot;for-itself&quot;. Whereas the first denotes man as altruistic and outreaching, the latter sees man as selfish and isolated from others around him. To live in communion with others means exercising a high sense of understanding (verstehen) and empathy for his environment. On the contrary, it is entails indifference and apathy. To understand others can be manifested in the effort any government or any society makes to establish institutions of learning which either integrate the citizens or segregate them leading to divisions and separatist tendencies. Religious institutions can be the clearest examples of such integrative tendencies or separatist ideologies. In a pluri-religious and diverse cultural society like Nigeria, it is most pertinent to seek avenues for enhancing empathy and mutual understanding between each other, which in this paper would be analysed as a pedagogical problem.
The Effect of Arabism of Romanic Alphabets on the Development of 9th Grade English as a Foreign Language Students' Writing Skills at Secondary School Level
Author: Zuhair, Ahmad
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Semitic Languages,Alphabets,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Secondary School Students,Males,English (Second Language),Sentence Structure,Vocabulary Development,Writing Skills,Grade 9,Romanization,Written Language,Questionnaires,Student Attitudes,Foreign Countries

This paper aims at investigating the effect of Arabization of Romanic Alphabets on the development of 9th Grade English as a Foreign Language students' composition writing skills at secondary school level. This experimental study includes 25 secondary school students in their 9th Grade in which English is taught as a foreign language at Al-Husainieh Secondary School for boys. The finding of this study indicates that students usually tend to write and compose English language sentences through Romanizing Arabic letters. This may be related to different reasons such as their weakness in writing and lack of awareness about specific aspect of sentence structures and lack of vocabulary deposit, but even good students tend to use the Romanic alphabets in writing. This study recommends that students should be familiar with the meaning of English words.
The Use of Metaphorical Connotation of Inanimate Objects to Describe People by Speakers of Jordanian Arabic: A Pragmatic Study
Author: Al Soudi, Layth
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Semitic Languages,Language Variation,Language Research,Pragmatics,Foreign Countries,Figurative Language,Form Classes (Languages),Graduate Students,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,English Literature,Semi Structured Interviews,Language Usage,Culture Conflict,Cultural Differences,Student Attitudes,Check Lists

This paper aims to investigate the use of connotations of inanimate objects to describe people by speakers of Jordanian Arabic. Its main goal is to analyze the positive and negative connotative meanings of inanimate object used to describe people in Jordan. Besides, the contribution of gender in making connotative meanings. The study provides a metaphorical principle to suit most of the metaphorical utterances in Jordanian Arabic dialect. This qualitative research includes 8 participants doing their postgraduate program in English language and literature at the Department of English Language and Literature at Mu'tah University for the academic year 2015/2016. The sample of the study were selected randomly. The researcher used two research instruments: textual analysis and semi-structured interviews. The data were analysed using descriptive analysis of the text and by looking at themes that emerge in the interview. The findings of this research showed that speakers of Jordanian Arabic are very much likely to use positive connotations more than negative ones to describe people. This study recommends that more research be conducted in this area in order to take connotative meanings into consideration to overcome cultural chock.
The New Paradigm of Ethnic Minority Educational Research: Mixed Methods Research
Author: Jing, Dong-ge
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Educational Research,Mixed Methods Research,Minority Groups,Ethnic Groups,Models,Research Problems,Research Methodology

Qualitative research and quantitative research have their own advantages, so mixed use both to improve scientific research. Too many Chinese Ethnic Minority Educational Research in qualitative research, and few use quantitative research, leading the results with many subjective factors. The reason is that selecting ethnic minority educational research paradigm is based on the subject property-oriented, rather than a problem-oriented research, and the selection of ethnic minority educational research paradigms was too concern about minority culture, ignored its educational attribute. Mixed methods research as the &quot;third methodological movement&quot;, it can not only integrate the advantages of qualitative research and quantitative research, and enhance the consciousness of problem-oriented of researchers, but also to improve the science of ethnic minority educational research and promote the development of this discipline.
The Influence of Neutral Gender Words on Translating Job Titles from English Language into Arabic Language
Author: Mubaideen, Taghreed
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Translation,Semitic Languages,Check Lists,Interviews,Difficulty Level,Sentence Structure,Form Classes (Languages),Applied Linguistics,Foreign Countries,Graduate Students,Language Usage,Employment,English Literature,Qualitative Research,Student Attitudes,Gender Differences

This paper aims at investigating the influence of neutral gender words on translating job titles from English language into Arabic Language. This qualitative research includes 20 postgraduate students doing their M.A in Applied Linguistics at the Department of English Language and Literature at Mu'tah University for the academic year 2015/2016. The sample of the study was selected randomly. The researcher used two research instruments; checklist and interview. The findings of this research showed that neutral gender words influence the process of translation in which translators face difficulties when translating them. That is, they encounter difficult problem concluding their meanings unless used in a context, text or followed by a pronoun. This research recommends that translators should consider such words' category and be aware of their usage. Also, this study recommends that further future research be conducted in this area to overcome problems in English as a foreign translation, particularly in a Jordanian context.
Influence of Cultural Belief and Values on Secondary School Students' Understanding of Atmospheric Related Physics Concepts
Author: Bello, Theodora Olufunke
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Secondary School Students,Cultural Influences,Beliefs,Values,Physics,Scientific Concepts,Information Sources,Questionnaires,Misconceptions,Achievement Tests,Weather,Concept Teaching,Student Attitudes,Scientific Literacy,Familiarity,Knowledge Level,Foreign Countries

The study identified the different cultural concepts that secondary school students' believe in and determined the belief and idea of students about the cultural concepts. It also investigated students' source of information about the cultural concepts and determined the influence of these cultural believes on students' academic performance in Physics. The study employed the use of descriptive survey research design. The sample consisted of 940 secondary school students who were randomly selected from 25 public and private secondary schools in the southwestern region of Nigeria using stratified and simple random techniques. The instruments used for data collection are questionnaires titled &quot;Cultural Belief and Atmospheric-related Physics Concepts Questionnaire&quot; (CBAPCQ) and &quot;Cultural Belief Misconceptions in Physics Achievement Test&quot; (CBMPAT). Data collected were analyzed using inferential and descriptive statistics. Result revealed that among the different cultural concepts held by students, high percentage of them believe that rain falling and sun shining means lion is giving birth. Also, majority of the students claimed that the different beliefs of students about the cultural concepts were superstition and lies. The study identified students' major source of information about the cultural concepts to be grandparents, parents and story books. Also, it was found that cultural beliefs of students have negative influence on the academic performance of students in Physics. The study concluded that students held different misconceptions about cultural belief and values which they take into classroom. It therefore recommends that science teachers should intensify on the teaching of scientific concepts that give better explanation to most of these concepts.
Between School Factors and Teacher Factors: What Inhibits Malaysian Science Teachers from Using ICT?
Author: Ahmad, Tunku Badariah Tunku
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Science Teachers,Technology Uses in Education,Barriers,Performance Factors,Secondary School Teachers,Teacher Surveys,Questionnaires,Likert Scales,Factor Analysis,Use Studies,Correlation,Teacher Attitudes

Despite the Malaysian government's efforts to increase the use of ICT in school, teachers' uptake of the technology remains slow and dismal. In this study, teachers' perceptions of the barriers that inhibited their use of ICT in the science classroom were explored. One hundred and fifty-one (N = 151) science teachers from selected secondary schools in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor took part in the survey. Teachers' perceptions of the barriers were captured using a self-developed questionnaire consisting of 27 Likert-type items. The questionnaires were administered with the help of school principals. Principal components analysis (PCA) with Promax rotation extracted four underlying dimensions of barriers to ICT use, namely teachers' self-handicapping thoughts, school support, attitude toward ICT use, and negative beliefs about ICT use. Three of these factors were teacher related. Self-handicapping thoughts emerged as the largest inhibitor, explaining about 38.2% of teachers' lack of ICT utilization in the science classroom. The results corroborated previous findings that teacher factors tend to outweigh school factors in hampering teachers' uptake of technology.
Developing Socio-Cultural Scaffolding Model to Elicit Learners's Speech Production
Author: Englishtina, Inti
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique),Models,Bilingual Students,Kindergarten,Child Language,Speech Communication,Speech Skills,Foreign Countries,Needs Assessment,English (Second Language),Questionnaires,Scores,Pretests Posttests,Scoring Rubrics,Preschool Teachers,Instructional Effectiveness

This study is concerned with developing scaffolding model to elicit bilingual kindergarten children's English speech production. It is aimed at describing what the teachers need in eliciting their students' speech production; how a scaffolding model should be developed to elicit the children's speech production; and how effective is the scaffolding model in eliciting the children's speech production. The objects of the study are teachers and students of kindergarten at &quot;Mondial School&quot; Semarang. Preliminary research was conducted to describe what the teachers need to elicit their students' speech production. Referring to the need analysis, a scaffolding model was developed to elicit the children's speech production. To explain the effectiveness of the model a try out was carried out on the model developed. Based on the result of the try out, a final model was developed. The findings of the preliminary research suggest that &quot;Mondial School&quot; kindergarten teachers need a scaffolding model to elicit their students' speech production. Referring to the findings a scaffolding model based on speech functions proposed by Celce-Murcia et al. (1997) was developed. To explain the effectiveness of the model the developed initial model was tried out. Based on the result of the try out the final scaffolding model was developed. This study concludes that kindergarten teachers of &quot;Mondial School&quot; need a scaffolding model to elicit their children's English speech production. Based on the need analysis, a Socio-cultural Scaffolding Model was developed. Referring to the result of the try out steps it is reasonable to argue that this product of Scaffolding Model is effective in eliciting English speech production of kindergarten students of &quot;Mondial School&quot;.