ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Engaging Second Language Writers in Freshman Composition: A Critical Approach
Author: Wilson, Jennifer S.
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Second Language Learning,Writing Instruction,Teaching Methods,Critical Literacy,English (Second Language),College Freshmen,Second Language Instruction,Writing Assignments,Communities of Practice,Student Attitudes,Cultural Awareness,Multilingualism,Language Usage,Power Structure

This article presents the case for using a critical literacy approach to enhance the freshman composition experience for second language writers. As our classrooms become more multilingual and multicultural with each passing semester, we need to move away from thinking of our ESL students as &quot;outliers&quot; and consider them as key participants with specialized linguistic and cultural needs &quot;and&quot; strengths. Using both published examples and her own experiences, the author illustrates how a critical approach can be advantageous to second language writers and offers ways such an approach might be implemented in actual practice.
Some Observations on Ethics and Environmental Education
Author: da Silva, Wellington Amancio
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Ethics,Environmental Education,Teaching Methods,Social Attitudes,Teacher Student Relationship,Sustainability,Postmodernism,Empathy

When we see from a critical point of view the social attitude in the context that is signed by the continual degradation of the environment and, consequently, of our ecosystem, this is urgent a proposal for a new mentality and a new same paradigm as a reference for the environment education. In this article, searching for present ideas and proposes to educational issues, especially in dynamic relationship between teachers and students; Autonomy often conditioned teacher whatever socio-environmental news and proposes that its same function as mediator of social and environmental education; and even the socio-environmentally seen by the focus of common sense in a postmodern society and technocratic; sustainable environment question established in capitalist needs of people rather than nature needs. These are some questions gathered to mark on Freire of Education and the book &quot;Pedagogy of the Land&quot; written by Gadotti. A bibliography is included.
The Level of Stress in Male and Female School Students
Author: Khan, Zamirullah
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Stress Variables,Secondary School Students,Adolescents,Parent Child Relationship,Expectation,Stress Management,Parent Role,Literature Reviews

This study aimed at the level of stress in male and female school students. For the purpose of the study the researcher randomly selected 64 school students aged between 14-18 years. To collect the data researcher used students stress scale (SSS) developed by Dr. Zaki Akhtar (2011). During collection of data researcher used means and method fit for this scale. The result of the study showed boys having much more stress in comparison to girls. The study concluded that school boys are more stressful than school girls.
Back to the Future: First-Year Writing in the Binghamton University Writing Initiative, State University of New York
Author: Kinney, Kelly
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Freshman Composition,Elective Courses,Writing Across the Curriculum,College Freshmen,Educational History,State Universities,College Programs

This essay seeks to explain the history that led to the establishment of First-Year Writing at Binghamton University, a program which offers a set of electives that complement discipline-specific and writing-across-the-curriculum courses while providing first-year students a common experience in and comprehensive introduction to college writing.
The Correlation between Teachers' Perceptions about Principal's Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Climate and Job Satisfaction of Teachers of State Senior High School in Gunungsitoli Nias, Indonesia
Author: Waruwu, Binahati
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Secondary School Teachers,High Schools,Teacher Attitudes,Job Satisfaction,Emotional Intelligence,Principals,Organizational Climate,Correlation,Regression (Statistics),Statistical Analysis

This study is aimed at finding out the significant correlation between: (1) teachers' perceptions about principal's emotional intelligence and job satisfaction of teachers, (2) organizational climate and job satisfaction of teachers, and (3) teachers' perceptions about principal's emotional intelligence and organizational climate and job satisfaction of teachers of State Senior High School in Gunungsitoli Nias. Techniques of data analysis used were description and inferential analysis correlation and regression analysis. The result showed that teachers' perceptions about principal's emotional intelligence, organizational climate, and job satisfaction of teachers were in the enough categories. There is significant correlation between teachers' perceptions about principal's emotional intelligence and job satisfaction of teachers, with correlation coefficient was 0.6482. There is significant correlation between organizational climate and job satisfaction of teachers, with correlation coefficient was 0.4920. And also, there is significant correlation between the teachers' perception about principal's emotional intelligence and organizational climate simultaneously and job satisfaction of teachers of State Senior High School in Gunungsitoli Nias, with correlation coefficient was 0.7570. The test was done by using level of significance at a = 0.05, df = 42.
The Web Surfer: What (Literacy) Skills Does It Take to Surf Anyway?
Author: Blackburn, Jessie
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Online Searching,Web Sites,Internet,Literacy,Research Skills,Technology Integration,Writing (Composition),Curriculum Development,Stereotypes,Critical Thinking,Critical Reading,Interviews,Feminism,Student Attitudes,Freshman Composition

This article looks closely at some of the lingering stereotypes that Composition Studies holds toward Web surfing and queries the resulting literacy hierarchy against our students' reading and writing practices that take place online. This article claims that while good progress has been made in the way of revising twenty-first century definitions of (digital) composing, the academy has yet to fully revisit its boundaries of legitimacy surrounding (digital) reading. Additionally, this article contests the academy's use of technology vis-à-vis email, Blackboard, or blogging as a placating attempt to integrate technology into the classroom without genuinely validating our students' dominant literacies or their digital lives. This article leans on the theories of feminist composition pedagogy as it calls for the field to decenter its authority and revise curricula to incorporate critical digital literacies.
Student's Plagiarisms in Higher Learning Institutions in the Era of Improved Internet Access: Case Study of Developing Countries
Author: Anney, Vicent Naano
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Plagiarism,Case Studies,Internet,Cheating,Focus Groups,Assignments,Universities,College Students,Writing Skills,Student Attitudes,Student Motivation,Computer Software,Writing Assignments,Foreign Countries,Qualitative Research

This study investigated students' plagiarism practices in Tanzania higher learning institutions by involving two universities-one public and one private university as a case study. The universities involved have honour code and policies for plagiarism detection however they do not employ software for checking students' plagiarism. The study employed qualitative research approach within the interpretive paradigm. The participants for the case study were purposively selected. Data were collected using focus group discussions and documents analysis (assignments, dissertations and proposal suspected for plagiarism). The findings indicated that plagiarism is a critical problem for the students in sampled universities as assignment submitted during the course of study contains a substantial text that was copied from other sources without acknowledging the original authors. Moreover, study findings also shows that most students had understanding that plagiarism is the academic dishonest, however, this has not stopped them plagiarizing. Factors such as the access of internet, shortage of books, student's laziness and poor academic writing skills played a key role in students' plagiarism at the two universities. Based on these results, the study recommends universities to have adequate resources in particular software for detecting plagiarism. In addition, lecturers/instructors to play their role effectively in educating students about the effects of plagiarism in academic works which to some extent will minimize the problem of direct copying and pasting other peoples' works without acknowledgment.
The Third Turn toward the Social: Nancy Welch's &quot;Living Room,&quot; Tony Scott's &quot;Dangerous Writing,&quot; and Rhetoric and Composition's Turn toward Grassroots Political Activism
Author: Kinney, Kelly
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Rhetoric,Writing (Composition),Activism,Political Attitudes,Writing Instruction,Politics of Education,Neoliberalism,Privatization,Citizen Participation,Social Systems,Working Class,Criticism,Literature Reviews

This review essay examines recent texts by Nancy Welch and Tony Scott, both of which use embodied activism as a starting point for their inquiries. Taken together, these works point to a distinct shift in composition studies' turn toward the social, one that calls on workers both within and outside the academy to actively engage in grassroots political struggle.
The Cultural Encounters Model: Incorporating Campus Events into the Honors Curriculum
Author: Pfrehm, James
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Honors Curriculum,Advanced Placement,College Students,School Culture,Seminars,Student School Relationship,Web 2.0 Technologies,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Student Evaluation,Attendance,Electronic Publishing,Student Attitudes,Program Effectiveness

Honors students are, almost by definition, committed to excellence. As a result, they tend to be overextended (Guzy). They also &quot;tend to be more eager, exploratory, and experienced than their non-honors counterparts&quot; (Achterberg 77). They typically take a full load of coursework while at the same time juggling clubs, learning communities, governance bodies, athletics, music, theater activities, and community service (Long and Lange 2002). One also assumes that they cultivate a social life and perhaps hold down a part-time job. Such a conspiracy of curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular realities can make it difficult for honors students to engage fully in the cultural resources available to them on a college campus. To provide opportunity and encouragement for honors students to experience Ithaca College's unique culture and identity, the authors have developed an honors seminar called &quot;Cultural Encounters with Ithaca.&quot; In this course, which is described in this article, students identify, publicize, attend, discuss, and reflect on a number of campus events. Ultimately, they come away with a deeper understanding of their college's culture and identity as well as a feeling of connection to the campus community. The authors offer the details of this seminar as a potential low-cost, high-impact model for other honors programs to incorporate into their curriculum the rich mix of cultural events available on most campuses.
Relationships of Causal Attributions and Academic Attainment among Colleges of Education Students in North-Western Nigeria
Author: Sambo, Aminu
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Attribution Theory,Educational Attainment,Correlation,Grade Point Average,Measures (Individuals),Foreign Countries,Questionnaires,Teacher Education Programs,Learning Activities,Validity,Reliability,Statistical Analysis

This study investigated the relationship of causal attributions and academic attainment of Colleges of Education students in north-west geo-political zone of Nigeria. The study was based on the hypothesis that there is no significant relationship between causal attributions academic attainment of students. The questionnaire on Academic Causal Attribution Scale (ACAS) were administered to 389 students (300 level) drawn from eight (8) Colleges of Education. Furthermore, students' Grade Point Average (GPA) was used as measures of academic attainment. Thus, Pearson Product Moment Correlation was employed to determine the degree of relationship of the said variables.. Thus, the findings revealed that there were no significant correlations identified among the causal attributions factors and academic attainment of students except with external attribution of failure in which significant correlation was established with academic attainment. The study therefore, recommends that students should not be reprimanded due to the failure in examination instead; they should be encouraged to put more efforts and they should be involved in teaching and learning activities in a bid to encourage them so that they will record success in their future academic pursuit and as well minimize shifting blame for their failure consistently to external factors.
Unifying Program Goals: Developing and Implementing a Writing and Rhetoric Major at Oakland University
Author: Ostergaard, Lori
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Writing (Composition),Rhetoric,Majors (Students),Politics of Education,Educational History,Curriculum Implementation,Curriculum Development,College Programs,Program Descriptions,Program Development,Institutional Mission,Freshman Composition

In this critical program profile, the authors provide an analysis of the historical, political, theoretical, and practical circumstances that influenced the development of Oakland University's undergraduate major in writing and rhetoric. Through an analysis of the developmental process and the major itself, this article explores many separate, yet interconnected issues. These include the development and naming of a department of writing and rhetoric, the impact the major has had on the first-year writing program, the theoretical and practical structure of the three-track major, as well as the institutional impact the program has had.
Responding to Disaster with a Service Learning Project for Honors Students
Author: Yoder, Stephen A.
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Honors Curriculum,Service Learning,Natural Disasters,Undergraduate Students,Business Schools,Program Descriptions,Outcomes of Education,Strategic Planning,Student Projects,Human Services,Educational Cooperation,Empathy,Student Recruitment

On Thursday, April 27, 2011, one of the worst natural disasters in the history of Alabama struck in the form of ferocious tornadoes touching down in various parts of the state. The dollar amount of the property damage was in the billions. Lives were lost and thousands of survivors' lives were seriously and in many cases forever disrupted. A few days later, the dean from the school of business that is part of a larger university, dropped by the author's office unannounced to tell him that the university's president had just called to tell him that unnamed donors had agreed to give money to the university so that the school of business could help the survivors. This article is a summary of the program that developed as the school strove to provide help to the survivors, along with some lessons learned that might be helpful to others considering a service learning experience for honors students. The author believe's that the program demonstrated that a somewhat impromptu response to a disaster can be an effective service learning experience in an honors program.
Evaluating the Male and Female Students' Welcome of the Cultural-Art Plans
Author: Eshaghian, Masomeh
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,High School Students,Student Attitudes,Questionnaires,Cultural Activities,Art Activities,Gender Differences,Statistical Analysis,Tutors,Teacher Attitudes,Likert Scales

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the welcome of culture-art plans in the high schools of Khomeyni Shahr City from perspectives of the educational coaches and students in the 2013. The present study is a descriptive-survey research. The statistical population of this study includes the educational coaches and students participating in the culture-art plans in the city of Khomeyni Shahr in the 2013. The population consists of 2175 students and 44 coaches. In order to select the sample members, a stratified sampling method was used. A sample of 314 students and 39 coaches was selected. In order to investigate the validity of questionnaire, both face and content validities were investigated and confirmed. In order to measure the reliability of questionnaire, Cronbachs' Alpha Coefficient of questionnaire was measured. The coefficient was 0.96 for our questionnaire. The research data were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of the main hypothesis revealed that the students evaluate the culture-art plans moderately. In addition, the findings showed that the educational coaches evaluate the plans appropriately. The result of the first hypothesis showed that the students and coaches evaluate the degree of realization of culture-art plans more than moderate level. Based on the result of the second hypothesis, students evaluate the contents of cultural-art plans less than moderate level. Finally, our findings showed that coaches evaluate the contents of culture-art plans more than moderate level.
Ways of Research: The Status of the Traditional Research Paper Assignment in First-Year Writing/Composition Courses
Author: Hood, Carra Leah
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Research Papers (Students),Freshman Composition,Administrator Surveys,Administrators,Public Colleges,Private Colleges,Educational Trends

I created my Exploratory Survey on the Status of the Research Paper Assignment in First-year Writing/Composition Courses to learn whether the traditional research paper remained as common an assignment in 2009 as it had been in the past. My survey updates results from two previous surveys on the status of this assignment. Ambrose N. Manning's survey, conducted in 1961, found that 83% of colleges and universities in the United States included the traditional research paper assignment in first-year writing/composition curricula. James E. Ford and Dennis R. Perry's 1982 survey concluded that 78.11% of the colleges and universities that required first-year writing/composition courses included the assignment, a decline of 5%. My survey results indicate that in 2009, at survey respondents' schools, only 6% of research assignments in first-year writing/composition courses are traditional research paper assignments, a decline of 72% since 1982, while 94% are alternative ones. This shift appears to reflect trends in scholarship as well as changes in assessment practices, structure of first-year writing/composition programs, and technologies for writing, researching, and teaching.
Evaluation of the Knowledge and Misconceptions of Science Teacher Candidates in Turkey Regarding the Greenhouse Effect through the Use of Drawings
Author: Aksan, Zeynep
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Preservice Teachers,Science Teachers,Knowledge Level,Misconceptions,Climate,Freehand Drawing

The aim of this study was to identify, through the use drawings, the knowledge and misconceptions of science teacher candidates regarding the greenhouse effect, and to thereby categorize their level of knowledge on this subject. The study was conducted with a group of 327 science teacher candidates. In this study, science teacher candidates were asked to demonstrate their knowledge of the greenhouse effect by answering questions in writing and through the use of drawings. The answers to the study questions were also evaluated through a descriptive analysis. Based on the study results, it was observed that students erroneously associated the greenhouse effect with the thinning of the ozone layer, with greenhouses used in agriculture, with air pollution, with acid rain, and with global warming.
Leadership Styles of Lecturer's Technical and Vocational in Teaching and Learning
Author: Razak, Nur Afifah Binti Abdul
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Leadership Styles,Technical Education,College Faculty,Statistical Analysis,College Students,Questionnaires,Foreign Countries

Leadership style is a way of using the power of a leader held as a tool to influence the students and to achieve the objectives in the classroom and affect the election approaches in teaching and learning process. The purpose of this research is to study the style of lecturer's leadership in UTHM Technical and Vocational (TVeT). The study focuses on leadership styles used by lecturers during the process of teaching and learning. The design of this study is quantitative and use of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 21). This study was undertaken to investigate the effects of leadership style among students in Technical and Vocational at University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. Descriptive study carried out to evaluate lecturer leadership. The study sample consisted of 186 Technical and Vocational student. Data were analyzed using frequency, mean and standard deviation. The findings of this study show leadership styles chosen by the students are in the process of democratic leadership style of teaching and learning. As a conclusion, lecturer effective leadership style can produce excellent students and quality. Hopefully, the results of this study can help all parties, especially lecturers in improving leadership style used during the process of teaching and learning.