ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Egypt: Challenges and Recommendations
Author: Elhadi, Ayman
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Inclusion,Students with Disabilities,Regular and Special Education Relationship,Barriers,Teacher Education,Teacher Competencies,Access to Education,Knowledge Level,Teacher Education Programs,Special Education Teachers,Faculty Development,Educational Policy,Student Needs,Equal Education,Elementary Secondary Education,Vocational Education,Agency Cooperation

The study aimed to examine challenges to the inclusion of Students with Disabilities (PWDs) in mainstream education in Egypt. A mixed method approach was used to collect data from various sources. First, statistical information was retrieved from the Ministry of Education (MoE). Secondly, Ministerial Decrees were examined. Thirdly, semi-structured interviews with specialists in the field of special education in Egypt (N=12) were conducted to explore the major issues that emerged from this study. Results revealed challenges facing the inclusion of PWDs in Egypt, such as a lack of in- &amp; pre-service training of teachers, limitations of construction and preparation, lack of coordination among ministries, limited programs for students with certain disabilities, and lack of awareness in the community and the family. The study concluded that the successful inclusion of PWDs in mainstream schools in Egypt requires, first, that universities consider inclusive education when training special education teachers; secondly, that professional development of teachers on inclusive education requirements is conducted, new policies are adopted, and school facilities are constructed with the needs of PWDs in mind; and thirdly, that the inclusion of PWDs not be limited to individuals with certain disabilities but must include students regardless of their type of disability.
Examination of Preservice Teachers&apos; Views on Peer Learning
Author: Ipek, Jale
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Peer Teaching,Preservice Teachers,Student Satisfaction,Computer Science Education,Programming Languages,Training Methods,Program Effectiveness,Web Sites,Educational Technology,Constructivism (Learning),Public Colleges

This study aimed to examine the preservice teachers' views on the process after entering Code.org and block-based programming (Scratch) training programs, which are carried out by the peer learning method. The study group of the research consists of 41 preservice teachers at the Computer Education and Instructional Technologies departments of a state university and took the Special Teaching Methods 2 course in the spring semester of the 2017-2018 academic year. Considering the criteria determined by the researcher, 7 preservice teachers were selected as educators. As students, 34 preservice teachers participated in the study. In this study, a qualitative research method was used to determine the opinions of preservice teachers on the Code.org and Scratch training programs, which are carried out by the peer learning method. As a data collection tool, the opinion form for the Code.org training programs, the structure of opinion determination on the Scratch training programs, and the personal information form were used. The total duration of the study consists of eight weeks. Data from the preservice teachers were collected weekly using data collection tools and a content analysis technique used in the analysis of the data. At the end of the study, the opinions of the preservice teachers on the study conducted with the peer learning method were determined. It can be said that preservice teacher generally has positive views on peer learning and are satisfied with the peer learning method.
Imagineering Learning with Logical Problem Solving
Author: Kanoknitanunt, Pongsakorn
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Methods,Imagination,Logical Thinking,Problem Solving,Problem Based Learning,Computation,Thinking Skills

This study aimed at developing an imagineering learning process model with logical solutions by using documentary research and relevant experts' viewpoints with regard to the process of Imagineering Learning--problem-based learning (PBL) involving logical and computational thinking. The data were then synthesized in order to find the relationship of learning theory to achieve an Imagineering Learning process by solving logic problems. The analysis of related documents and research revealed that the Imagineering Learning process involving logical problem solving consisted of 6 important steps as follows: 1) the problem-solving stage, 2) the problem-solving design stage, 3) the innovation development stage, 4) the innovation presentation, 5) the innovation improvement stage, 6) the evaluation stage. The aforementioned learning process can also result in the development of students' innovative skills, and encouraging learners to develop such skills. The emphasis in terms of the Imagineering process is to create inspiration for the imagination of things that do not yet occur. The process then continues with innovation development by using the PBL process in which students learn solution thinking, focusing on logically-prioritizing problems and their causes and effects. This creates structural and systematic learning through practice, so that students can develop the ability to seek knowledge and develop problem-solving abilities.
Interrogating the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry in Nigerian Private Universities: Matters Arising
Author: Nkiko, Mojisola O.
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Chemistry,Science Instruction,College Science,Private Colleges,Student Interests,Barriers,Enrollment Rate,Intervention,College Admission,Educational Environment,Tutoring,Educational Technology,Problem Based Learning,Student Centered Learning,College Faculty,Faculty Development,Quality Assurance

The indispensability and vast career possibilities associated with Chemistry notwithstanding, there is a palpable growing decline enrollment in Chemistry in Nigerian universities, particularly the private universities. The paper interrogated the teaching and learning of Chemistry in Nigerian private universities with a view to re-awakening the students' interest for effective mastery of the subject. It relied on secondary sources and critical analysis and found out that major inhibiting factors include: Students' faulty foundation in Chemistry, syndrome of area of concentration, absence of competitiveness in the admission process, poor attitude of students and lecturers as well as the ambience for effective scholarship. The paper concluded that the current downturn in the students enrolment in Chemistry and the seemingly poor interest in the subject portend sufficient threat to the future of Chemistry, chemical-related industries and the replacement of ageing Chemistry lecturers in Nigeria. It recommended the following strategies to mitigate the vicious cycle: targeted tutorial system, adoption of digital modes of teaching and learning, problem-based learning, capacity building initiatives for Chemistry lecturers, quality assurance mechanism, overhauling science education at the primary and secondary school levels, need-based assessment and provision of quality materials as well as adequate funding.
Competence of Neurotypical Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Author: Sengül Erdem, Hatice
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Autism,Pervasive Developmental Disorders,Siblings,Competence,Interpersonal Relationship,Academic Achievement,Children,Adolescents,Gender Differences,Birth Order,Mothers,Age Differences,Child Behavior,Foreign Countries,Student Participation,Recreational Activities,Leisure Time

In present study, the school, social and activities competencies of neurotypical siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD-NTDsibs) were examined. A total of 146 children, including 66 ASD-NTDsibs and 80 children both themselves and their siblings are neurotypical (NTC-NTDsibs), participated in the study, which was designed in the correlational survey model. The data were collected via mothers using part 1 of CBCL / 6-18, which measures competence. In the analysis of the data, competence levels of ASD-NTDsibs were evaluated as normal/ borderline/clinical according to the norms of the scale using the raw scores obtained from the scale and the T scores obtained by using the profiles, and the competence levels were examined according to demographic variables and compared with the competence levels of NTC-NTDsibs. According to the research results, significant differences favour the comparison group regarding school, social and activities sub-fields and total competence levels between the study and comparison groups. ASD-NTDsibs demonstrated a normal level of competence in the school and social sub-fields, clinical level of competence in subfield activities, and total competence. There was no significant difference between competence of ASD-NTDsibs and demographic variables, except that the sisters showed a high school performance level. Research findings were discussed within the framework of parents' ability to provide limited resources to their neurotypical children, broader autism phenotype (BAP) characteristics and demographic variables. As a result of the research, it can be said that ASD-NTDsibs have low competence and should be supported in school, social and activities fields.
Emotional Expressivity, Loneliness and Hopelessness Relationship in Adolescents
Author: Akkus Çutuk, Zeynep
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Affective Behavior,Behavior Change,Social Isolation,Emotional Response,Psychological Patterns,Adolescents,High School Students,Affective Measures,Correlation,Predictor Variables

In this study, the model developed to investigate the relationship between emotional expressivity, loneliness and hopelessness was tested in adolescents. The sample of this study consisted of 288 high school students, 180 of whom were women and 108 of whom were men. Data were obtained using the Berkeley Expressivity Questionnaire (BEQ), The Short-form of the UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS8) and the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS). Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the data. The findings obtained in this study showed that there was a negative and meaningful relationship between emotional expression and loneliness and hopelessness in adolescents, emotional expression predicted loneliness and hopelessness, and there was a positive and meaningful relationship between loneliness and hopelessness and loneliness predicts hopelessness.
Pathways to Teacher Leadership among English as Foreign Language Teachers in Nepal&apos;s Public Schools
Author: Neupane, Bharat Prasad
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Leadership,Teacher Attitudes,Language Teachers,English (Second Language),Public Schools,Professional Development,Teacher Competencies,Communication Skills,Communities of Practice,Teacher Collaboration,Reflection,Transformational Leadership,Social Networks,Foreign Countries

Studies on teacher leadership have stressed the need for democratic and motivating environment in school, professional development opportunities, reflection and peer observation, and learning environment as preconditions for leadership development. However, teachers are deprived of such professional development scenarios in the context of Nepal. Despite this, some of the teachers have performed exceptionally well in Nepal. Hence, this qualitative study analyzed the lived experience of three English language teachers from Nepal employing activity theory envisioned by Engestrom as a research lens to explore their professional development journey. The study discovered that to become a successful teacher leader, communication and instructional competence is must because it provides visibility of prospective teacher leaders among colleagues and the wider community initially. Further, reflection and sharing among colleagues, we found, were instrumental in the development process of teacher leaders. This article reveals that leadership is the manifestation of co-construction of an individual in a complex ecosystem of learning communities and hence the notion of leadership is emergent and fluid.
Teacher Education in the Time of COVID: Recommendations for Praxis
Author: Smith, Jess
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: COVID-19,Pandemics,School Closing,Online Courses,Educational Technology,Faculty Development,Field Experience Programs,Teaching Methods,Interpersonal Relationship

The current health crisis has brought into relief the gap in teacher training regarding online teaching and effective online pedagogies. To address this issue moving forward, the author recommends online field experience in teacher education, effective professional development to that end for in-service teachers, and intentional work on building social connectedness in existing online classroom environments.
Text and Context: Classroom as a Site of Contention
Author: Bhowmik, Pratusha
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Fiction,Graduate Students,History,Novels,Social Problems,Reader Text Relationship,Context Effect

This article presents pedagogical reflections on the experience of teaching fiction about the partition of India with Pakistan and Bangladesh and its long-lasting effects on local communities, especially along the borders. It shows how the long drawn out political movement for identity and territory, including the violence and social divisions it perpetuates, plays out in the classroom where students affected by the vestigial effects of partition encounter literature as a lived history. Using teaching strategies in this condition as a case in point, the article argues that the literature classroom can become a site of recovery and renewal, conflict and negotiation, and memory and uncovering of silenced history. The broader implications of this pedagogy for literary interpretation and classroom engagement with larger issues are further discussed.
Turning into the Wind: COVID-19 as a Catalyst for Creativity in Higher Education
Author: Welkener, Michele M.
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: COVID-19,Pandemics,Higher Education,Barriers,Creativity,Online Courses,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education

In this short essay, the author addresses challenges facing higher education in the COVID-19 era and how creativity may serve to transform its future.
An Intervention to Enhance the Supervision of Health Science Students Who Struggle during Work Placements
Author: Brewer, Margo
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Health Sciences,Allied Health Occupations Education,Supervision,Supervisory Methods,Foreign Countries,Work Experience Programs,Experiential Learning,Performance,Workshops,Training,Low Achievement,Standards,Program Effectiveness,College Faculty,College Students,Attitudes,Interpersonal Relationship,Supervisor Supervisee Relationship

Supervisors are often reluctant to make an adverse assessment of the student's performance during work placements, which leads to a phenomenon known as &quot;failure to fail&quot;. This Australian study evaluated resources designed to enhance the management of students who fail to meet the required standard of performance during work placements. Staff from a range of health disciplines evaluated the training program comprised of a half-day workshop and written guide using a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. Staff reported renewed confidence in working with underperforming students, increased comfort with failing students who did not reach the required standards. The Staff Guide was seen as useful with all students undertaking work placements, not just underperforming students. The Student Guide was perceived as relevant to the student experience. The findings of this research are important to university educators engaged with work placements, work placement supervisors, and students who undertake work placements.
How to Train Physical Education Teacher to Detect Physical and Social Adaptation Criteria and to Use Them in Education Activity
Author: Bystritskaya, Elena Vitalyevna
Date: 2021-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Physical Education Teachers,Elementary School Teachers,Elementary Education,Life Style,Health Promotion,Physical Education,Secondary Education,Student Needs,Student Adjustment,Health Behavior,Teacher Education,Knowledge Level

The problem of primary to secondary school transition is common extremely acute for all teachers. The role of physical education teacher in its solution has several features. One of them is necessity of preserving not only physical health, but also psychological comfort and fixing healthy lifestyle habits. The goal of this article is to determine the health culture forming criteria for primary school pupil and to find the most effective methods of teaching physical education students to use them in school educational process. As a result of research primary school pupil's health culture components and their functions in adaptation to secondary school process were determined. Also a complex of common and special criteria was presented. This one allows to young physical education teachers to draw individual plans for comfortable adaptation of their pupils to new realities of educational process in secondary school.
Individual Model of Psychological Health in Educational Process Subjects in Distance Learning Conditions
Author: Akhmedova, Elmira Magomedgadzhievna
Date: 2021-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Mental Health,College Students,School Personnel,Distance Education,COVID-19,Pandemics,School Closing,Age Differences,Stress Variables,Anxiety,Stress Management,Individual Characteristics

The article examines the problem of studying the individual model of psychological health of the students and employees of the Moscow International Academy (MIA). The goal is to explore the specific characteristics of personal psychological health in MIA students and employees. The implementation of the research program required the researcher to be ready and able to interact in the field of mental and psychological health of the individual, knowledge of age, individual psychological characteristics of the respondents to develop a research program, the ability to conduct psychodiagnostic work, the ability to analyze their own activities in order to optimize it, as well as to be creative solving the assigned tasks. Authors used the methodology &quot;Individual model of psychological health&quot; by A.V. Kozlov. The method &quot;Individual model of psychological health&quot; was developed in 2014 in the course of psychosemantic analysis of the concept by students of the phenomenon of psychological health. Based on the data acquired, it can be concluded that the hypothesis on the influence of self-isolation on the model of psychological health in various age groups is partially confirmed as older study participants face difficulties with life prospects and experience stress when planning their future. Students also demonstrate low development levels in some components of the model explained by the general level of personality development in the intellectual and spiritual aspects.
Applying Explainable Artificial Intelligence to Develop a Model for Predicting the Supply and Demand of Teachers by Region
Author: Lee, Youngho
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Artificial Intelligence,Models,Prediction,Teacher Supply and Demand,Geographic Regions,Economic Factors,Teacher Student Ratio

Among various methods to improve educational conditions, efforts are being made to reduce the number of students per teacher. However, for policy decisions it is necessary to reflect multiple factors such as changes in the number of students over time and local requirements. Time-series analysis-based statistical models have been used as a method to inform policy decisions. However, the existing statistical models are linear and the accuracy of their predictions is inferior. Also, since there are both internal and external factors that influence the number of students and thus the prediction of the number of required teachers, it is necessary to develop a model that reflects this. Therefore, in this study, an artificial intelligence model based on machine learning was developed using the XGBoost technique, and feature importance, partial dependence plot, and Shap Value were used to increase the model's explanatory potential. The model showed a performance of less than 0.03 RMSE, and it was confirmed that among several factors the economically active population had the most significant effect on the number of teachers. Through this study, it was possible to examine the applicability of an artificial intelligence model with improved explanatory possibilities in predicting the number of teachers.
Investigating the Effect of Customers&apos; Education Level on Loyalty and Trust (Case Study: Alborz Province Export Bank)
Author: Sohrabi, Shahla
Date: 2021-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Consumer Economics,Banking,Trust (Psychology),Foreign Countries,Participation,Satisfaction,Educational Attainment

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of customer participation on customer loyalty with the mediating role of trust by considering the effect of literacy level. This research is descriptive-survey in terms of data collection method and applied in terms of purpose. The statistical population of the present study included all customers with different levels of literacy in Bank Saderat. Using Cochran's formula, the sample size required for the study was 196 people. The collection tool in this study was a questionnaire of Chen et al. The reliability of these questionnaires was confirmed using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Amos23 software was used to analyze the collected data. The results showed that customer participation has a significant impact on customer loyalty. In addition, as the level of literacy of customers increases, their level of cooperation and trust increases or decreases. Trust also plays a mediating role in customer engagement, which affects customer loyalty.
Enhancing English Language Vocabulary Learning among Indigenous Learners through Google Translate
Author: Ting, Fang Kai
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Vocabulary Development,Indigenous Populations,Translation,Telecommunications,Handheld Devices,Educational Technology,Computer Oriented Programs,Language Proficiency,Foreign Countries,Program Effectiveness,Elementary School Students,Rural Schools

The emergence of new technologies has brought massive changes to teaching and learning processes. In recent years, mobile phones have evolved into effective teaching tools; when used practically, they could improve learning outcomes. The potential of mobile phones as a learning platform has led to a proliferation of research into their effectiveness. This paper aims to examine the effectiveness of the Google Translate mobile application (hereinafter &quot;app&quot;) in improving indigenous learners' English language vocabulary. Fifteen Iban participants with low English language proficiency from rural schools were chosen through purposive sampling. The data were collected by comparing scores in the pre-test and post-test. In addition, the data were triangulated through structured interviews. Key findings indicated that almost all participants achieved high scores in the post-test. The interviews also revealed that all participants affirmed that Google Translate supports their English language proficiency, and only one participant was unsure of its effectiveness. Thus, the findings of this study imply that Google Translate could be an effective teaching tool to enhance learners' English language vocabulary. Future research could examine the effectiveness of the app in teaching vocabulary in different contexts.