ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Simulated Apprenticeship for Pre-Service Filipino Teachers
Author: Medula, Cesar Turqueza
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Preservice Teachers,Preservice Teacher Education,Computer Simulation,Apprenticeships,Teaching Skills,Skill Development,Quasiexperimental Design,Practicums,College Seniors,Student Surveys,Likert Scales,Student Teacher Attitudes,Reflection,Focus Groups,Statistical Analysis,Pretests Posttests,Teaching Styles,Self Efficacy,Locus of Control

The delivery of teacher education courses often for the most part deal with the visible parts of knowledge, the &quot;know-what&quot;, which is often disconnected from the tacit knowledge, the &quot;know-how&quot;, required in authentic teaching environments. It could be argued that would-be teachers do undergo practice teaching as part of their preparations and before becoming licensed professionals but said experience could be very brief. Said transitory period of practice-teaching may not be enough to internalize the range of skills and strategies that the new teachers need in facing the rigors of the real classroom setting. The purpose of this empirical study is to explore the impact of simSchool, a computer-based classroom simulator to the pedagogical style and expertise of pre-service Filipino teachers. The study utilized a quasi-experimental design. Purposefully, the study involved thirty (30) randomly selected practicum teacher education senior students. Two Likert-type survey instruments were used in the study and qualitative data were as well collected through teaching reflections and focus group discussions to supplement the quantitative data. For the statistical analyses, descriptive statistics were determined, Paired-Samples t Tests was used to determine pre-post differences within groups and Cohen's d was used to determine effect sizes across measurement indices. Findings of the study revealed that simSchool enhanced the pedagogical style and proficiency of the pre-service teachers and interestingly could complement effectually the in-placed practicum course. These suggest the promising progressive impact of simSchool, if adapted, to the existing teacher education program.
Identifying Gatekeepers in Online Learning Networks
Author: Gursakal, Necmi
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Online Courses,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Large Group Instruction,Network Analysis,Social Networks,Information Management,Case Studies,Interpersonal Relationship,Graphs

The rise of the networked society has not only changed our perceptions but also the definitions, roles, processes and dynamics of online learning networks. From offline to online worlds, networks are everywhere and gatekeepers are an important entity in these networks. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to explore gatekeeping and gatekeepers in online learning networks. In this regard, it will examine the indicators of gatekeeping and gatekeepers, and gatekeepers' roles and functions in learning network formation processes. For the purposes of the research, the paper uses multiple-case design and examines three connectivist Massive Open Online Courses through social network analysis. The findings of the research indicate that betweenness centrality is an important indicator of gatekeeping and gatekeepers. Moreover, gatekeepers have an important role in learning network formation processes and their actions are one of the determiners of the network structure.
The Opinions of Nursing Students Regarding the First Implementation of Distance Education
Author: Ozturk, Deniz
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Nursing Education,Nursing Students,Distance Education,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Student Attitudes,Value Judgment,Foreign Countries,Student Surveys,Likert Scales,Scores,Statistical Analysis

With rapid developments being made in science and technology, there is also an increasing need for different educational methods. Distance education allows increased access to education and more flexibility for the students. This descriptive study was conducted to establish the opinions of nursing students about distance education being adopted for the first time. The study comprised 261 nursing students, who were applied a data collection form in class. Of these students, 55.6% stated that they had problems while taking courses through distance education, 83.1% stated that it was not beneficial, 90.8% stated that distance education could not be used for applied vocational courses. It was found the mean scale scores were lower for the students who thought that distance education was not beneficial, who would like to take these courses through formal education and who believed that the applied vocational courses could not be provided through distance education. The students had difficulties in accessing the internet during the courses. The students' attitudes towards distance education were at moderate level and the negative conditions adversely affected the students' opinions. In addition, the majority of the students thought that the vocational courses could not be made through distance education, and this is considered to be a positive finding.
What Does Research Tell Us about Trends in Dissertations on PBL?
Author: Erdogan, Tolga
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Doctoral Dissertations,Foreign Countries,Problem Based Learning,Content Analysis,Masters Theses,Meta Analysis,Constructivism (Learning),Research,Trend Analysis

The aim of this study is to investigate the research trends in dissertations on PBL from 2002 to 2015 in Turkey. For this purpose, the master's and doctorate dissertations in the National Thesis Database of Council of Higher Education (CoHE) were selected for rigorous content analysis. The analysis was utilized to classify the type of study, the learning domains, research methods, research designs, research domains, subject groups, group sizes, length of treatments and data collection instruments. For analysis purposes, frequencies and percentages were calculated for each category. Additionally, the results obtained in these dissertations were examined and reported separately with regards to cognitive, affective and conative domains. According to analysis results; science is the most favorable learning domain, quantitative methodology is more utilized as compared to qualitative and quantitative methods, cognition and affect followed by cognition only are the mostly utilized research domains, subject groups are predominantly at elementary education level and secondly from teacher education, studies preferred to have a group size of 41-80, the treatments on PBL research last mostly four to six weeks, and finally majority of the studies use achievement tests and attitude scales as instruments of measurement.
Relationship among Workplace Spirituality, Meaning in Life, and Psychological Well-Being of Teachers
Author: Liang, Jin-long
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Well Being,Work Environment,Religious Factors,Quality of Life,Job Satisfaction,Foreign Countries,Regression (Statistics),Elementary School Teachers,Secondary School Teachers,Sense of Community,Questionnaires,Statistical Analysis

This study set out to analyze the relationship among teachers' workplace spirituality, sense of meaning in life, and psychological well-being. Taking 610 teachers as its subjects, the study employed three scales: one to measure the subjects' sense of workplace spirituality, another to measure their sense of meaning in life, and a third to measure their sense of psychological well-being. These three scales were pretested and found to have good reliability and validity. The questionnaire data were analyzed using hierarchical regression in order to understand the explanatory power of the predictors (workplace spirituality and meaning in life) to dependent variable of psychological well-being. The results showed 62.70% explanatory power. According to the research findings, this study suggests that teachers should understand the importance of having workplace spirituality, of being psychologically sound and of feeling they have a meaningful life. Future studies may further explore the factors that influence teachers' sense of psychological well-being.
Variables That Can Affect Student Ratings of Their Professors
Author: Gotlieb, Jerry
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance,Predictor Variables,Attribution Theory,Grades (Scholastic),Academic Achievement,Student Satisfaction,Caring,Hypothesis Testing,Higher Education,Correlation,Student Attitudes,Response Style (Tests),Role Playing,College Students

Attribution theory was applied to help predict the results of an experiment that examined the effects of three independent variables on students' ratings of their professors. The dependent variables were students' perceptions of whether the professor caused the students' grades and student satisfaction with their professor. The results suggest that when students expected &quot;D&quot;s, many of those students were likely to believe that their professor was the cause of why students received &quot;D&quot;s. Conversely, when students expected to receive &quot;A&quot;s fewer students were likely to believe that the professor caused students' grades. This finding is consistent with the prediction of attribution theory. Another finding was that students were more satisfied with a caring professor who gave the students &quot;D&quot;s than they were with an uncaring professor who gave students &quot;A&quot;s. Additionally, the results indicated that there was an interaction effect of students' grades and the caring of the professor on student satisfaction with the professor.
Construction on Practical Talents Training Mode in Environmental Monitoring Curriculum
Author: Wang, Jing-Ping
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Talent Development,Environmental Education,Teaching Methods,Educational Change,Foreign Countries,College Students,Engineering Education

Environmental Monitoring is a basic and comprehensive course for students majoring in environmental sciences and engineering. Based on the characteristics of this course, a new teaching mode in application of practical talents training in Environmental Monitoring Curriculum teaching mode is proposed including the new scheme of training applied talents, the new practical curriculums of developing innovative ability, the diversified practice platform for training talents, the extracurricular innovation experiment , the diversified social practice, the teaching reform project and results summary. It shows that the new teaching mode can effectively improve students' ability in comprehension, operation, experiment, innovation and practice. This is a beneficial exploration for achieving the target of cultivating students with professional skills and quality.
Transitioning to the Real World through Problem-Based Learning: A Collaborative Approach to Teacher Preparation
Author: Barron, Lisa
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Problem Based Learning,Cooperative Learning,Problem Solving,Transfer of Training,Preservice Teachers,Preservice Teacher Education,Reading Instruction,Methods Courses

Problem-based learning (PBL) creates opportunities for authentic learning in teacher preparation programs. In addition to developing content knowledge and pedagogy, problem-based learning affords students the framework for a holistic, collaborative approach to solving several interconnected problems. As students move through the process of problem-solving, they take ownership of their learning and build self-confidence. This in-depth, guided learning opportunity with peers provides benefits beyond the university classroom and transfers directly into the real world. Students internalize problem-solving methods and are prepared to apply this knowledge not only in their classrooms, but in their personal lives as well.
Financial Management for Nonprofit Organizations: Uses and Applications in a Social Entrepreneurship Curriculum
Author: Broom, Lowell S.
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Money Management,Nonprofit Organizations,Entrepreneurship,College Students,Business Administration Education,Program Descriptions,Business Schools,Educational Philosophy,Curriculum Design,Student Educational Objectives,Course Content

Social Entrepreneurship (SE) programs have been expanding over the past decade. The emergence of this new discipline can be attributed to two overlapping factors. Students (particularly business students) have expressed an increased desire to blend values, ethics and social causes into their own vocations. At the same time, the nonprofit and public sectors are rapidly adopting the language, practices and paradigms of business. These two forces have set the stage for a rapid expansion of SE programs across US universities. A review of colleges and universities reveals more than 500 professors teaching courses related to SE. Additionally, over the past five years, the Dell Social Innovation Challenge has logged more than 15,000 student competitors from 105 countries. Despite its expansion, a core body of knowledge is not yet solidified for this emerging field. SE is still an interdisciplinary exercise; drawing from business, public policy, and the social sciences. Consequently, there is still enormous variation across universities in program goals, content coverage, and teaching methodology. Specialized academic conferences, new journals, and countless numbers of papers, are all attempting to define the boundaries of the discipline, standardize content coverage, and explore useful pedagogical tools to move the discipline forward. This paper contributes to this ongoing conversation by describing the SE program at Samford University's Brock School of Business. The first section of the paper offers a brief overview of the program including its philosophy and core elements. The second section describes in more detail one key piece of our curriculum, the Financial Management for Nonprofit Organizations course. This course was a more recent addition to our SE program. The paper concludes by summarizing the contributions of this course to the strategic goals of Samford's SE program.
Graduate Students' Perceptions of the Impact of the Alternative National English Course on the Improvement of Their English Language Learning and Their Learning Challenges at the University of Jordan
Author: Alkhawaldeh, Ahmad Mokbel
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Graduate Students,Student Attitudes,Outcomes of Education,Nontraditional Education,Second Language Learning,English (Second Language),Required Courses,Student Needs,Skill Development,Language Acquisition,Vocabulary Development,Grammar,Language Proficiency,Reading Skills,Writing Skills,Language Tests,Qualitative Research,Scores,Data Analysis,Course Evaluation

This qualitative study addressed the English language learning needs and challenges expressed by a sample of 22 postgraduate students from diversified faculties in the University of Jordan. These students were required to take the Alternative National English course. They wrote a self-report reflecting on their English language learning needs and challenges in the first semester, 2016. The majority of these students endorsed the high achievement attributed to the contribution of the above course. Among the challenges they encountered, according to them, encompassed the positive change they experienced in being familiar with new vocabularies, new grammatical rules and becoming more proficient in reading and writing skills. On the basis of these findings, the study recommended the incorporation and focusing on the gains students got from the course to be considered in the upcoming semesters. Also the students' challenges in learning English should be taken into consideration. The various needs expressed by the participants should be fulfilled by teachers who teach graduate English courses.
The &quot;You Owe Me!&quot; Mentality: A Student Entitlement Perception Paradox
Author: Schaefer, Thomas
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Students,Student Attitudes,Expectation,Misconceptions,Student Surveys,Scores,Statistical Analysis,Grading,Factor Analysis

College and University faculty members routinely share stories and anecdotes about students who appear to have an unrealistic expectation of entitlement when it comes to following the requirements and dictates of classroom and collegiate rigor (Gill, 2009; Lippman, Bulanda, Wagenaar, 2009; Roosevelt, 2009). Faculty stories and discussions include narratives about students who skip class (Glater, 2006); invest minimal effort into their studies (Greenberger, Lessard, Chuansheng, &amp; Farrugia, 2008); believe they should be treated as customers rather than as students (Ansburg, 2001; Benton, 2006; Lippman et al.; Snare, 1997); or believe that a quid pro quo relationship exists whereby tuition is a guaranteed purchase of good grades (Ansburg, 2001; Benton, 2006). The continuous regularity with which faculty members report events of student entitlement expectations coupled with the researchers own brushes with student entitlement issues and unreasonable student expectations begs the question as to whether such issues are anomalies or pervasive, ergo, the research quest to determine if students have unrealistic entitlement expectations began. The research question and premise of this research paper is: &quot;Do students have unrealistic academic entitlement expectations?&quot;
Assessing the Influence of Social Networking Material on Adolescents' Sexual Behavior in Kampala
Author: Nagaddya, Ritah
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Social Media,Adolescents,Sexuality,Foreign Countries,Influences,At Risk Persons,Telecommunications,Handheld Devices,Computer Mediated Communication,Social Networks,Gender Differences,Leisure Time,Parent Role,Questionnaires,Secondary School Students,Peer Influence,Advertising

Background: Social media has been used to promote risky sexual behavior in form of unsolicited photos, videos and text from peers and strangers that is not regulated by parents or guardians. Therefore, it's important to investigate the influence of social networking material on adolescents' sexual behavior in Ugandan in order to close the knowledge gap. Adolescents in Uganda may be at risk of indulging in risky sexual behavior if usage of social networking sites remains unrestricted. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among 280 randomly selected adolescents in Kampala between August and October 2016. Results: Majority (68.9%) of the respondents thought that messages, photos, videos with sexual content shared/posted on social networking sites, changed their sexual behavior. Variables that were found to significantly explain the effect of exposure of social network content on adolescent sexual behavior, among adolescents included: Gender (male) (OR 2.646, 95% CI 1.088-6.434, use of social networking sites during holidays (OR 2.581, 95% CI .836-7.965) and social sites being used for leisure activities (OR 4.516, 95% CI 1.232-16.548). Conclusion: Parents may need to restrict access and use sexual content especially pictures and videos available on social networking site among the adolescents.
The Global Links Program: Building Pedagogy in Social Entrepreneurship for Positive Impact in Iraq
Author: Dato-on, Mary Conway
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Entrepreneurship,Teaching Methods,Economic Development,Corporations,Program Descriptions,Females,Womens Education,Futures (of Society),Partnerships in Education,International Cooperation,Universities,Economics,Business Administration Education,Empowerment,Educational Opportunities,Efficiency,Masters Programs,Service Learning,Outcomes of Education,Graduate Students

In this paper we offer a model that seeks to develop an entrepreneurial ecosystem as a portfolio approach to economic development through ongoing partnerships vs. one-off initiatives that may serve as a prototype for economic development in transitional economies. The model, developed by Tupperware Brands, Rollins College, and the U.S. Department of State Secretary of Global Women's Issues, known as the Global Links Program, connects partners in the United States and Iraq and rests on the principle that by improving the status of women through application of social entrepreneurship--in education and practice--nations will build a stronger, more self-sufficient economic system. To demonstrate how Global Links creates a self-sustaining system of economic entrepreneurship we focus on the educational initiatives and pedagogical development that will be required for the larger system to function efficiently and effectively. We conclude with propositions and a discussion of potential future research.
An Analysis of Oppression and Health Education for Underserved Populations in the United States: The Issues of Acculturation, Patient-Provider Communication, and Health Education
Author: Weaver, Shannon
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Health Education,Acculturation,Health Services,Patients,Clinics,Disadvantaged,Power Structure,Physician Patient Relationship,Spanish Speaking,Clinical Diagnosis,Patient Education,Death,Prevention,Immigrants,Communication Problems

The oppression of underserved populations is pervasive throughout the history of the United States (U.S.), especially in health care. Brazilian educator Paulo Freire's controversial ideas about systems of power can be aptly applied to health care. This paper focuses specifically on arguably the most medically underserved group in the U.S. healthcare system, free clinic patients, and analyzes the effects oppression on acculturation and patient provider communication, and the potential of health education classes to reduce oppression and health disparities in this population. One way in which oppression materializes within the realm of medical and health education is through acculturation. Spanish-speaking free clinic patients are less satisfied with overall interpersonal communication at a free clinic than US born and non-US born English-speaking free clinic patients. Oppression can also be seen in patient-provider communication, specifically, around communicating diagnoses. It is vital for providers and educators to consistently and accurately educate their patients, and to ensure that patients fully understand their diagnoses before concluding an office visit. Reduction of national deaths through preventative health measures, such as health education programming, is an achievable goal. However, one concern in health education classes amongst underserved populations is the underlying power dynamic associated with individuals from a privileged background educating less privileged populations. Engaging health education participants through informal discussions rather than lectures is something that can be applied in future health-related educational settings. Further examining issues of acculturation, patient-provider communication, and health education classes would help answer Freire's pedagogical questions and improve health care services for free clinic patients and other underserved populations in the U.S.