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Effect of Web 2.0 Gamification Tools on Listening Comprehension Skills in a Second Foreign Language German Course
Author: Yildirim, Latife
Date: 2023-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Web 2.0 Technologies,Gamification,Listening Comprehension,German,Second Language Instruction,Educational Technology,Grade 9,High School Students,Instructional Effectiveness,Foreign Countries

The purpose of this study is to investigate how gamification using Web 2.0 tools affects secondary school students' listening comprehension skills on a German second language course. The sub-purposes are to investigate the study's outputs, such as course interest and academic motivation. The design of the study was action research, which is one of the recognized methods of qualitative research. The participants of the study were 34 ninth-grade high school students (15 males, 19 females) aged 14 or 15 years old enrolled to a state-project school. Focus group interviews, both student and teachers' reflective journals, and an academic achievement test were utilized to assess the participant students' listening comprehension skills, and formed the data collection tools used to obtain detailed information about the research process. According to the findings of the study, the use of Web 2.0 tools enabled by way of the gamification method helped capture the students' attention and strengthen the steps taken to improve their language learning skills. Although the students' learning styles varied, one point of commonality was their use of gamification.
Sanctity of Digital Privacy and Personal Data during COVID-19: Are Youths Enough Digitally Literate to Deal with It?
Author: Ghosh, Swagata
Date: 2023-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Youth,Digital Literacy,Privacy,Data,Confidentiality,Computer Security,Information Security,COVID-19,Pandemics,Internet,Computer Use,Experience,Media Literacy,Time on Task

The COVID-19 pandemic has fast-tracked the development of digital applications and inspired everyone to adapt to the technologies to curb the spread of outbreak. As this crisis intensifies, the rapid usage of digital devices and apps has echoed the serious concerns about civil liberties, privacy, and data protection. Considering the situation, this research aimed to explore the internet using habits of the youths of West Bengal, a state in eastern India, during COVID-19. Besides, the paper explored their experiences of using various digital applications, the fundamental digital literacy and how safely they protect data from breaches. Thus, the paper presents the results by conducting an online survey among the youths in West Bengal. The result, from 215 participants, highlighted that the increased use of these digital applications has not matched the demand for digital privacy literacy among the young generation of the state. While this pandemic has raised their concerns over digital privacy and data protection, yet they do not undertake any strong protection mechanisms to safeguard them digitally. Besides, this paper suggests suitable plans to raise awareness among this generation and form a healthy digital citizenship with a proper regulatory framework as it is the need of the hour.
Dropout Intentions in Higher Education: Systematic Literature Review
Author: Véliz Palomino, José Carlos
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Dropouts,Intention,Undergraduate Students,Economic Factors,Research Reports,Predictor Variables,Periodicals,Bibliometrics,Researchers,Foreign Countries,Social Problems

College dropout proves to be a critical problem in undergraduate programs that directly affects students and the related community, due to direct economic losses and significant social costs. This article addresses a systematic review of the literature on predictors of student dropout intention in higher education, focusing on scientific production in Q1 and Q2 journals from 2018 to 2023, performing a bibliometric review and analyzing the available empirical and theoretical data on the phenomenon of college dropout intention and its affecting factors. The bibliometric results and those related to predictors of dropout intention introduced in previous studies are presented. The largest number of researchers studying this phenomenon are from Germany, however, the United Kingdom is the country with the largest number of publications. Previous research can be grouped into two categories: studies analyzing psychological factors of dropout intention and those related to academic and social integration.
E-Learning in Kuwait: Students&apos; Perspective
Author: AlShamali, Shaima
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,COVID-19,Pandemics,Educational Technology,Electronic Learning,School Closing,Online Courses,Student Attitudes,Preferences,In Person Learning,College Students,Student Characteristics,Middle School Students,High School Students,Distance Education

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has wreaked havoc on societies around the world and continues to do so and produced cataclysmic socio-economic challenges. This virus compelled countries to enact restrictive policies in order to combat, defend, and prevent against the spread of infection. In most nations, including Kuwait, a complete lockdown was imposed, with necessary measures taken to limit social gatherings, wear protective masks, and encourage social distancing. Businesses, organizations, and institutions have been forced to discover new avenues to survive and thrive by converting to remote operation using digital technology. Similarly, the epidemic has forced educational institutions to abandon conventional face-to-face instruction in favor of online digital learning. The goal of this study is to assess the online learning process in Kuwait from the perspective of students. In this regard, a survey questionnaire was designed and distributed to students throughout Kuwait; 830 students responded, with just 500 students with complete answers. In light of the dangerous and widespread of the harmful virus, analysis found that students consent to online learning. However, most prefer face-to-face instruction in a classroom setting.
Preconceptions of Happiness and Satisfaction: The Perspective of Children from Czech Primary Schools
Author: Pivarc, Jakub
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Elementary School Students,Student Attitudes,Psychological Patterns,Life Satisfaction,Measures (Individuals),Gender Differences,Prediction,Cloze Procedure,Parent Child Relationship,One Parent Family,Caregiver Child Relationship,Spiritual Development,Foreign Countries

The aim of this research was to determine what children aged 10-15 associate with happiness/ satisfaction as well as to analyse which factors are related to their feelings of happiness and their evaluation of life satisfaction. A total of 954 children attending Czech primary schools from various socio-cultural backgrounds were surveyed using the incomplete sentence method. The levels of both their happiness and satisfaction were measured using the Subjective Happiness Scale and Students' Life Satisfaction Scale. The results indicate that the children considered themselves relatively happy and satisfied, and they understood happiness/satisfaction in terms of the concept of eudaimonia (personal growth, achievement of school goals, etc.). Happiness/satisfaction were indicated at a significantly lower level if the children did not feel accepted by their caregivers, described themselves as 'melancholic', were raised in a single-parent family, or spent their childhood in institutional care. Further, as the children grew older, their happiness/satisfaction levels declined. Neither gender nor spirituality were found to predict happiness/satisfaction.
Towards Learner Performance Evaluation in iVR Learning Environments Using Eye-Tracking and Machine-Learning
Author: Serrano-Mamolar, Ana
Date: 2023-07-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Evaluation,Computer Simulation,Eye Movements,Technology Integration,Artificial Intelligence,Prediction,Accuracy,Game Based Learning,Learning Experience

At present, the use of eye-tracking data in immersive Virtual Reality (iVR) learning environments is set to become a powerful tool for maximizing learning outcomes, due to the low-intrusiveness of eye-tracking technology and its integration in commercial iVR Head Mounted Displays. However, the most suitable technologies for data processing should first be identified before their use in learning environments can be generalized. In this research, the use of machine-learning techniques is proposed for that purpose, evaluating their capabilities to classify the quality of the learning environment and to predict user learning performance. To do so, an iVR learning experience simulating the operation of a bridge crane was developed. Through this experience, the performance of 63 students was evaluated, both under optimum learning conditions and under stressful conditions. The final dataset included 25 features, mostly temporal series, with a dataset size of up to 50M data points. The results showed that different classifiers (KNN, SVM and Random Forest) provided the highest accuracy when predicting learning performance variations, while the accuracy of user learning performance was still far from optimized, opening a new line of future research. This study has the objective of serving as a baseline for future improvements to model accuracy using complex machine-learning techniques.
Parents&apos; Meta-Reflexivity Benefits Media Education of Children
Author: Golob, Tea
Date: 2023-07-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preschool Children,Media Education,Foreign Countries,Parent Participation,Media Literacy,Reflection,Computer Use

The paper explores the effects of the sociological concept of reflexivity to parents' media education of preschool children. It draws upon the recommendations of the American Academy of Paediatrics referring to the restrictions of screen exposure based on different age groups, coviewing and discussing media content. It applies a social survey on the Slovenian national sample of parents to (1) review their media education practices, (2) identify the factors affecting these practices through regression analyses and (3) use path analysis to provide an explanatory model of the factors affecting children's screen exposure. A Reflexivity Measurement Tool is applied to assess the parents' meta-reflexivity scores. The hypothesis that meta-reflexivity is one of the key factors affecting media education is confirmed. The results show differences in screen exposure between age groups and higher exposure of boys when compared to girls. Children of the divorced/separated parents are more exposed to screens. Setting restrictions is quite common but it is also the quality of media content and the interaction with children that matters. Meta-reflexivity not only decreases the quantity of screen exposure. but it also makes coviewing and discussing media content with children more likely. Moreover, the significance of parents as role models is confirmed.
Digital Empathy in Online Education: A Comparison Study between Portugal and Romania
Author: Duarte, Alexandre
Date: 2023-07-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Empathy,Online Courses,Cross Cultural Studies,Distance Education,Foreign Countries,Undergraduate Students,Student Attitudes,Communications,Gender Differences,Measures (Individuals),Computer Mediated Communication,Emotional Response,Educational Change,Peer Relationship,Teacher Student Relationship,Information Technology,Time Management

This study aims to present the extent to which online education influenced the level of empathy displayed by university students. The research relies on a self-evaluated applied survey in two European countries: Portugal and Romania. The participants in this research are 1,085 students enrolled in Communication Studies programs. The purpose of this study is to unfold the connection between gender, exposure to digital technology, empathy level according to the Basic Empathy Scale applied to young adults, and online education self-perception that involves the use of webcams. Empathy can have positive effects on students' satisfaction and increase students' outcomes. The shift from a physical environment to a digital one brought significant challenges that most students and teachers were not ready for. The digital environment influences how empathy is expressed. The present research found evidence of a relationship between exposure to technology usage, emotional contagion, and gender. This suggests that understanding the emotions of others might be inhibited during digital education. Also, the most relevant factor of empathy variation in online education is gender. The findings of the present research may contribute to the design of activities or programs that could foster empathy expression during online education for young adults.
Potentialities and Limitations of the Use of EEG Devices in Educational Contexts
Author: García-Monge, Alfonso
Date: 2023-07-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Brain Hemisphere Functions,Diagnostic Tests,Case Studies,Grade 3,Elementary School Students,Costs,Neurosciences,Educational Practices,Cognitive Processes,Measurement Equipment,Educational Environment

Wireless electroencephalography (EEG) devices allow for recordings in contexts outside the laboratory. However, many details must be considered for their use. In this research, using a case study with a group of third-grade primary school students, we aim to show some of the potentialities and limitations of research with these devices in educational settings. Several balances are apparent in the development of these experiences: between the interests and possibilities of the research teams and the educational communities; between the distortion of life in the classrooms and the opportunities for collaboration between academia and practice; and between the budget and the ease of preparing the equipment and the usefulness of the collected data. Among their potentialities is the knowledge that they allow access to different cognitive and emotional processes, and the learning opportunity represented by the links between researchers and educational communities. Life in the classrooms is interrupted by these types of experiences, but this can be a cost that facilitates more integrated future developments that benefit teaching and learning processes.
Exploring the Impact of Diversity Training on the Development and Application of Cultural Competence Skills in Higher Education Professionals
Author: Cabler, Kendra
Date: 2022-08-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Faculty,Cultural Awareness,Professional Development,Teacher Competencies,Diversity,Training,Program Effectiveness,Teacher Attitudes,Teacher Behavior,Intention,Inclusion,Interaction,Collegiality,Diversity (Faculty),Professional Identity,Career Development,Performance,Urban Schools,Consciousness Raising

This study explores how higher education professionals develop and demonstrate cultural competence in their professional roles. Through a mixed methods case-study approach, the study investigates how perceived levels of cultural competence in higher education professionals are shaped by participation in an extended diversity training program. Additionally, this study explores implications for individual career trajectories as a result of program completion and implementation of new learning. Study findings indicate that participants anticipate lasting effects from the training experience. The training introduced and ignited a reconfiguration of what it means to engage and work in spaces where institutional and organizational commitments are aligned with personal commitments. Following training, all participants expressed deep commitment to intentionally and actively cultivating a sense of belonging and inclusion in the workplace through shared language, shifts in policy, and more thoughtful interpersonal interactions with colleagues and peers.
Examining the Challenges Making Excellence Inclusive
Author: Clayton-Pedersen, Alma R.
Date: 2022-08-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Inclusion,Higher Education,Equal Education,Educational Quality,Minority Group Students,Educational Practices,Educational Change,Cultural Awareness

The term Inclusive Excellence (IE) is being applied to many efforts in higher education to address past exclusionary practices. IE is more than a term, it is a vision of what could be. It is a deliberate set of actions to ensure that all students, especially those who have historically been underserved by the fragmented attempts in higher education to address the disparities in student learning outcomes. Readers are expected to learn about strategies to genuinely make excellence inclusive to address existing inequities in education. [Note: The page range (18-24) shown on the PDF is incorrect. The correct page range is 23-31.]
Operationalizing Antiracism in Higher Education Community Engagement
Author: Smith, Stella L.
Date: 2022-08-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,Racism,School Community Relationship,Partnerships in Education,Stakeholders,Racial Discrimination,Equal Education,Cultural Pluralism,Student Diversity,Diversity (Faculty),Diversity (Institutional),Inclusion,Communities of Practice

Higher education must move beyond statements of solidarity towards action to support antiracist work at institutions. Although these statements of support are laudable, it can be challenging to successfully operationalize antiracism across all levels of an institution (individuals, activities/programs, courses, units, and entire institutions) and with all stakeholders (faculty, staff, students, and community partners). We suggest that community engagement is a key overlooked strategy and method for advancing antiracist agendas within institutions. Examples of how antiracist work actually manifests through community-university partnerships can help identify successful outcomes of antiracist practices and policies. This article will share findings from a series of dialogues engaging over 250 participants about the intersection of engagement and antiracism, and share a call to develop a set of metrics to assess and measure antiracism in higher education community engagement.
Collaborative Design of Audio-Visual Materials in Political Science and Administration
Author: Medero, Gema Sánchez
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Instructional Materials,Audiovisual Aids,Foreign Countries,Political Science,Public Administration,Decision Making,Cooperative Learning,Educational Games,Educational Innovation,Instructional Design,Active Learning,College Students,Student Satisfaction

The creation of educational audio-visual materials has recently become popular. It is an innovative and entertaining practice, which can reach millions of people through social networks and YouTube. For this reason, this specific was designed for students enrolled in the following three modules: The Spanish political system, public administration in Spain, and institutions and decision-making structures in both the of joint degrees in law and political science and in public management and economic sciences, as well as degrees in public management and degrees in political science. Educational audio-visual materials were co-designed and co-created to define a Municipal Council, its workings and its organization. This was a three phased experiment. In the first, under the supervision of teachers, students developed five videos showing how Municipal Councils work. This allowed university students to become involved in a collaborative learning activity through which they acquired a series of important skills for future use, in addition to reinforcing their learning by participating in creation of digital teaching material, and also establishing a new teaching methodology consisting of learning-by-doing. In the second, professors and students attended CEIP Severo Ochoa Primary School in Madrid showing videos and playing two practical games, thus promoting knowledge transfer. In the third, the teachers evaluated the impact of this activity and the degree of satisfaction of university and primary school students. The result was positive, because not only was an educational innovation successfully implemented, but also a large part of objectives were achieved.
Understanding Campus Space and Whiteness as Ontological Expansiveness
Author: Ratcliff, Joseph Holt
Date: 2022-08-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Predominantly White Institutions,Rural Schools,Urban Schools,Minority Serving Institutions,Rural Urban Differences,Males,College Students,Student Attitudes,White Students,Whites,Racial Attitudes,World Views,Racial Identification,Social Justice,Critical Race Theory

This paper discusses findings of a quantitative, causal-comparative study that sought to determine if a statistically significant difference existed between a rural predominantly white institution and an urban minority-serving institution in terms of their white American male students' perceptions of whiteness as ontological expansiveness. As the demographic makeup of the United States of America continues to become more diverse, so too are the colleges and universities that support students of all backgrounds. Given this shift and understanding the need for social justice awareness, it is important to grasp how white students understand and take part in this shift. The study found low effect sizes and statistically significant differences between the two institutions as assessed by the study instrument, finding minority-serving institutions' white American male students are slightly more accepting of their white racial identity and have a slightly higher affinity for social equality. Higher education institutions can utilize this data to improve campus-based student activism as a rejection of the assumptions of whiteness within the ivory tower. Thus, there is a pressing need for critical interrogations of whiteness in higher education.
Collaborative Learning and Skill Development for Educational Growth of Artificial Intelligence: A Systematic Review
Author: Mena-Guacas, Andres F.
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cooperative Learning,Skill Development,Artificial Intelligence,Educational Development,Educational Improvement,Computer Uses in Education,Educational Benefits,Barriers,Algorithms,Interaction,Thinking Skills,Communication Skills,Linguistics,Teamwork,Soft Skills

The diversity of topics in education makes it difficult for artificial intelligence (AI) to address them all in depth. Therefore, guiding to focus efforts on specific issues is essential. The analysis of competency development by fostering collaboration should be one of them because competencies are the way to validate that the educational exercise has been successful and because collaboration has proven to be one of the most effective strategies to improve performance outcomes. This systematic review analyzes the relationship between AI, competency development, and collaborative learning (CL). PRISMA methodology is used with data from the SCOPUS database. A total of 1,233 articles were found, and 30 passed the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The analysis of the selected articles identified three categories that deserve attention: the objects of study, the way of analyzing the results, and the types of AI that could be used. In this way, it has been possible to determine the relationship offered by the studies between skill development and CL and ideas about AI's contributions to this field. Overall, however, the data from this systematic review suggest that, although AI has great potential to improve education, it should be approached with caution. More research is needed to fully understand its impact and how best to apply this technology in the classroom, minimizing its drawbacks, which may be relevant, and making truly effective and productive use of it.