ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
The Creativity Lab: Interdisciplinary Creativity in Higher Education
Author: Griffith, Anna
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Creativity,Laboratories,Interdisciplinary Approach,Higher Education,21st Century Skills,Cooperative Learning,Teaching Methods,Game Based Learning,Models,Capacity Building,Innovation,Experiential Learning

This qualitative study explores how educators can foster creativity across disciplines through a conceptual framework for creative interdisciplinary collaboration. The article introduces the Creativity Lab process model, which generates collaboratively developed, multifaceted but cohesive project ideas. The author argues that while creativity and collaboration are recognized as important 21st-century skills, opportunities for learning the granular mechanics of creative interdisciplinary collaboration are not yet fully integrated into higher education. The process model addresses this and offers a practical way to foster creative confidence in participants, encourage pluralities and possibilities through gamification, and emphasize integration and cohesion of multiple perspectives in ideas. The article concludes that educational institutions have an opportunity to build the capacity of students and faculty to become skilled at creative collaborations across disciplines, and the Creativity Lab process model offers a specific approach to doing this.
Analysis of Peer Relationships in Korean Middle School Inquiry and Noninquiry Science Experiment Classes
Author: Kim, Dongryeul
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Peer Relationship,Middle School Students,Grade 6,Foreign Countries,Inquiry,Science Experiments,Friendship,Program Effectiveness,Science Education

This study intended to confirm differences in peer relations between inquisitive and noninquisitive experiment class through social network analysis. In this study, inquiry science experiment classes for 30 students and noninquiry science experiment classes for different 30 students in the chapter named ‚Animals and Energy? of the second year of Korean middle school were conducted by the same teacher and the same class (6th class), The peer relationship between classmates before and after class was compared and analyzed by using a social network analysis method. As a result of the study, it was found that the inquiry experiment class has higher tie density, average number of friends, and connection compared to the noninquiry experiment class. In other words, it could be evaluated that the inquiry experiment class has a positive effectiveness on the relationship of the companion rather than the noninquiry experiment class. In the results of analyzing the status of fellowship relations regarding the degree of being nominated by fellow students and the degree of perfect connection within the group, it was evaluated that the inquiry experiment class was more effectiveness in improving the ratings of members and forming a fully connected community compared to the noninquiry experiment class. In addition, from a point of view that the type of alienation pattern decreases a lot in inquiry experiment class compared to noninquiry experiment class, it could be evaluated that there is a high possibility that everyone participates in inquiry activities without alienated students in an experiment class.
Exploring University Students&apos; Creative Thinking through Digital Mind Maps
Author: Hidayati, Nurkhairo
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Students,Creative Thinking,Cognitive Mapping,Learning Strategies,Anatomy,Physiology,Foreign Countries,Scores,Computer Uses in Education

Creative thinking is an unorthodox way of thinking to produce fresh and new ideas. Creative thinking can be trained using innovative learning strategies. This study aimed to explore creative thinking aspects in the Digital Mind Maps (DMM) created by Universitas Islam Riau, Indonesia, students who were enrolled in Human Anatomy and Physiology course. A rubric containing four aspects of creative thinking, namely fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration. The result of the analysis showed that fluency obtained the highest score (95.64) of all aspects, and the lowest score was reported by elaboration (61.43). Findings from this study suggest that students' DMM can be used to determine their creative thinking level because DMM contains distinguished creative thinking details. Based on the results, it can be concluded that the participants' creative thinking has been properly developed. Therefore, it is advisable for lecturers to use DMM to monitor the development of their students' creative thinking.
High School Students&apos; Subjective Well-Being: The Role of Life Purpose and Academic Identity
Author: Sharma, Gitima
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: High School Students,Well Being,Student Attitudes,Self Concept,Wellness,Altruism,Predictor Variables,Factor Analysis

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships among high school students' subjective well-being, academic identity, and sense of purpose in life. Two hundred and thirty-four students participated in the study. Main analysis was focused on testing structural relationships among the measured variables. Findings showed that students with altruistic purpose reported a more central role of academic identity in their sense of self and, in turn, reported greater satisfaction and joy of learning. Thereby, findings suggested the importance of implementing educational and wellness-oriented approaches that could strengthen high school students' general sense of purpose in addition to altruistic purpose to promote their academic identity and subjective well-being. We have discussed this study's limitations, practical implications, and future research directions.
Modeling Development and Validation of Metaverse Attitude Scale
Author: Kirbas, Ömer
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Test Construction,Test Validity,Computer Simulation,Attitude Measures,Test Reliability,Student Attitudes,Secondary School Students,Factor Analysis,Foreign Countries,Public Schools

This study is an attempt to develop a reliable and valid measurement tool to measure secondary school students' attitudes towards metaverse use. Therefore, the study reported the analyses related to metaverse attitude scale (MVAS). The content validity of the scale was ensured by an expert's view, and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) designed according to the Technology Adaptation Model (TAM) were employed to ensure its construct validity. The structural equation model was used to reveal the relationship across the variables. EFA was carried out with the data obtained from 251 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade secondary school students enrolled in public schools in a city in northwest Turkey. The results of EFA confirmed a 22-item three-factor model. Then, the three-factor model obtained from EFA was cross-validated through the use of CFA that proposed a 21-item 3-factor model. The fit indices for CFA were found as 0.05 for RMSEA, 0.049 for SRMR, 0.889 for GFI, 0.871 for AGFI, 0.9146 for NFI, 0.965 for CFI, and 0.916 for RFI. Besides, the results affirmed the proposed 21-item three-factor model theoretically and statistically. Structural equation modeling was used to determine the relationship across variables. Accordingly, secondary school students were identified to have positive responses towards cognitive and affective fields related to the metaverse. However, they could not transform these responses into behavioral field. As a result, the metaverse may be used in education since it is likely to observe the independent variables such as perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and attitude towards use regarding the metaverse in secondary school students.
The Effects of Educational Robotics Activities on Students&apos; Attitudes towards STEM and ICT Courses
Author: Erol, Osman
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Robotics,Student Attitudes,Educational Technology,STEM Education,Middle School Students,Technology Uses in Education,Foreign Countries

This study aims to investigate the effect of robotics design with Arduino on students' attitudes towards ICT courses and STEM. In this context, robotics design activities with Arduino were conducted with an experimental group, while the current IT curriculum was applied to a control group. The study lasted for a period of 12 weeks and was conducted with 53 middle school students. The Information &amp; Communication Technologies Course Attitude Scale (ICTCAS) and STEM Attitude Scale (SAS) were used as data collection tools. The study's findings revealed that robotics design activities with Arduino increased the students' attitudes towards engineering and technology in the context of STEM and ICT courses. Additionally, the participating students supported the use of robotics activities in their ICT course, and they reportedly found the activities to be fun, interesting, different, difficult, complex, and time-consuming. During the first weeks of the study, the students were excited, very curious, interested, enthusiastic, worried, and hesitant to participate in the activities and avoided them. However, in the subsequent weeks, they gained practical experience related to the activities and took on a more active role in the class.
Examination of the Relationship between Mothers&apos; Couple Burnout and Children&apos;s Social Skills
Author: Sarikaya, Aysegül
Date: 2023-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Burnout,Mothers,Child Development,Social Development,Interpersonal Competence,Correlation,Self Control,Predictor Variables,Family Environment,Emotional Response,Child Behavior,Aggression,Elementary School Students,Foreign Countries,Coping,Interaction,Problem Solving,Planning,Marital Satisfaction

In this study, it has been tried to develop a different perspective in the literature by determining the reflection of couple burnout of mothers, which is examined as a problem between couples or a personal problem, on the social development of children. The study was designed in the relational survey model, one of the general survey models. In the study, the Social Skills Assessment Scale was used to measure the social skills of children, and the Couple Burnout Scale Short Form was used to measure the mother's burnout level. According to the findings, a significant negative relationship was found between the Social Skills Scale's sub-dimensions of Initiating and Maintaining Relationships, Aggressive Behaviors and Coping Skills with Impulses, Planning, Group Communication and Conducting a Job Skills, and Social Skills Scale Total Score and Couple Burnout. It has been observed that couple burnout of mothers negatively and significantly predicts children's social skills and sub-dimensions of social skills, such as initiating and maintaining relationships, coping with aggressive behaviors and impulses, planning, communication with the group and running a business. It was concluded that the couple burnout of the mothers negatively predicted the social skills of the children.
Thinking Like a Reader, Thinking Like a Writer: Shifting Stances in Digital Picture Book Creating
Author: Zuccaro, Emily
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Education Programs,Preservice Teachers,Electronic Books,Video Technology,Feedback (Response),Peer Evaluation,Writing (Composition),Reading,Writing Skills,Language Arts,Childrens Literature,Grammar,Punctuation,Authors,Reading Skills

This study highlights a cross-course collaboration around children's literature and grammar in one teacher preparation program. Pre-service teachers created digital picture books and video feedback for their peers in which they ultimately adopted shifting stances in thinking like readers and writers throughout their process. By situating reading and writing as reciprocal acts, pre-service teachers developed more nuanced understandings of authorship, audience, and language. Implications for this work suggest the power of creating learning opportunities for students and pre-service teachers that integrate--rather than silo--the varying strands of English language arts.
Misconceptions of 9th Grade Students about Numbers
Author: Çelen, Yeliz
Date: 2023-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Misconceptions,Grade 9,Number Concepts,Foreign Countries,Mathematics Instruction,Secondary School Students

Misconceptions occur as a result of learners' wrong beliefs and experiences, and because subsequent learning is built on these misconceptions, they cause new concepts to be learned incorrectly. Studies show that students have problems in making sense of many mathematical concepts in mathematics teaching processes and this situation can be encountered at different learning levels. In this study, it was tried to determine the misconceptions of 9th grade students on the subject of numbers, since the studies were carried out at the primary or university level and the students' basic knowledge about different number sets was formed in the 9th grade. This research is in the scanning model. In this study, qualitative and quantitative data analysis methods were used together, and the interview method was used to collect qualitative data. Open-ended questions prepared by the researcher were used to collect the quantitative data of the study. The sample of the research consists of 50 9th grade students studying in Ankara in the 9th grade and participating in the study on a voluntary basis through easy sampling. As a result of the research, it is seen that 9th grade students generally have misconceptions about the definitions and representations of irrational and rational numbers, students who have misconceptions see all the numbers given in the root as irrational numbers and have difficulty in showing these numbers on the number line.
Why Are We Whispering? Addressing Implicit Bias in K-12 Education
Author: Grays, Ashley
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Racism,Elementary Secondary Education,Equal Education,African American Students,Teacher Attitudes,Racial Attitudes,Elementary School Teachers,Secondary School Teachers,School Desegregation,Desegregation Litigation,Outcomes of Education

Efforts such as the &quot;Brown v. Board of Education&quot; (1954) have focused on providing an equitable education for Black students. However, educational inequality for marginalized and underrepresented students continues to persist. Education experiences for black students are impacted significantly by implicit bias. The purpose of this article is to discuss the impact of teachers' implicit bias on Black students in classrooms. The article concludes with research-based strategies for K-12 education to mitigate the effects of implicit bias by teaching educators how to identify their own implicit bias, building a supportive school culture, and co-learning opportunities.
Technology in Teacher Education: Preservice Teacher Comfort Level with Instructional Technology in a Stand-Alone Technology Course
Author: Zakrzewski, Jennifer
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preservice Teacher Education,Educational Technology,Technological Literacy,Technology Uses in Education,Preservice Teachers,Technology Integration,Student Attitudes

Instructional technology continues to be prevalent in research relating to classrooms. Much research states that there is a strong relationship between teacher comfort-level with technology and use of technology in the classroom. This study focuses on increasing comfort with instructional technology at the teacher education level in a stand-alone instructional technology course. Data for this study show significant results in increasing comfort with instructional technology from the beginning to the end of the course. In addition, preservice teachers were found to have a deeper understanding of the importance of technology integration and how it may benefit students.
Opinions of Teacher Candidates on the Special Education Course Conducted by Distance Education
Author: Kara, Dönay Nisa
Date: 2023-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preservice Teachers,Student Attitudes,Special Education,Student Satisfaction,Distance Education,Barriers,Educational Technology,Internet,Foreign Countries,In Person Learning,COVID-19,Pandemics

The aim of the study is to contribute to the field with the content of the course and the problems that the pre-service teachers have about the special education course, and the solutions for these problems. In the study, phenomenology, one of the qualitative research models, was used. The participants of the study are university students studying at a private university in the 2022-2023 academic year. In line with this scope, 45 pre-service teachers constituted the participants of the study. In the study, a semi-structured interview form created by the researcher was used to collect data. The opinions of the pre-service teachers were shown with the determined themes and sub-themes and quotations were made when necessary. As a result of the study, the majority of the participants claimed that they were satisfied with the special education course through distance education. They stated that they experienced difficulties due to internet connection problems of the special education course taken with distance education, and from this point of view, it can be concluded that distance education courses are not effective compared to face-to-face education. Another result of the study emphasized the importance of the participation of those who took the special education course with distance education. The participants stated that even if it is a distance education course, it is important to attend the course in terms of course success. The majority of the participants stated that they recommend the distance education system. From this point of view, the distance education system is important for those who work in a job. A limited part of the participants also emphasized that individuals have the practicality of using technological tools due to the opportunity to meet with technology. The participants also stated that they recommend distance education because it does not force individuals economically. In addition, another result obtained from the study was emphasized that students had difficulties in their education due to the lack of technology/material in distance education courses.
Teaching Literacy Leadership in Traditional and Online Eras
Author: Kelly, Ryan R.
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Leadership,Literacy,Program Effectiveness,Electronic Learning,Inservice Teacher Education,Conventional Instruction,Traditional Schools,Technology Uses in Education

Teaching literacy leadership in either a traditional or online era requires that candidates make strategic decisions, build bridges among colleagues, and select from a palate of available literacy coaching models that fits their school context and identified goals. This article explores a theoretical framework guiding literacy leadership, data-driven program examination or evaluation by candidates, and the outcomes of their professional development sessions or proposals. It ultimately arrives at conclusions that permeate literacy leadership, the specific impact these conclusions have on the teaching of its practice, and a discussion of dispositional qualities at the core of quality candidate preparation.
Preservice Teachers&apos; Self-Efficacy for Teaching Mathematics
Author: Byrd, Kelly O.
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preservice Teachers,Self Efficacy,Mathematics Instruction,Elementary School Teachers,Early Childhood Teachers,Expectation,Evaluation Methods,Self Concept Measures

The perception of self-efficacy introduced by Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory is defined as a person's view of their capacity to organize and carry out the activities necessary for success in a specific situation. The most effective mathematics teachers believe that they are a capable and important influence on their students' understanding of mathematics, which is known as having a high self-efficacy for teaching mathematics. As efficacy for teaching is more difficult to change after the teacher enters the classroom, attending to preservice teachers' mathematics self-efficacy is worthy of examination within the teacher preparation program. The purpose of this study was to determine elementary and early childhood preservice teachers' self-efficacy beliefs related to teaching mathematics. Elementary and early childhood preservice teachers' (n = 203) mathematics teaching efficacy beliefs, including personal mathematics teaching efficacy and mathematics teaching outcome expectations, were measured at the beginning of the semester prior to internship. Responses indicated that participants had strong personal mathematics teaching efficacy but only modest expectations of their ability to positively influence students' mathematical learning. Implications for practice and future research are shared.
&quot;PD in PJs&quot;: Building a Sustainable, Collaborative Professional Development Approach to Address Teachers&apos; Affective and Technological Needs
Author: Asim, Sumreen
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Faculty Development,Teacher Collaboration,Pandemics,COVID-19,Educational Change,Teacher Attitudes,Affective Behavior,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Pilot Projects,Wellness,Psychological Needs,Technological Literacy,High School Teachers,Middle School Teachers,Computer Mediated Communication,Family Environment,STEM Education,Science Teachers,Mathematics Teachers,Feedback (Response)

The pandemic changed how we viewed professional development. Our teachers reported needing support in the affective domain in addition to traditional professional development. To address this, we piloted Professional Development in Pajamas (&quot;PD in PJs&quot;) that focused on sharing peer-to-peer technological pedagogical knowledge and added &quot;wellness pedagogical knowledge&quot; that addressed teachers' affective wellness needs. This approach reflects a significant change in our understanding of useful professional learning. We share the structure of our approach in the hope that other educators and administrators may adapt it to support teacher and teacher candidates in a variety of post-pandemic contexts at their institutions.