ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Effects of a 7-Month Exercise Intervention Programme on the Psychosocial Adjustment and Decrease of Anxiety among Adolescents
Author: Kliziene, Irina
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Adolescents,Anxiety,Psychological Patterns,Student Adjustment,Exercise,Physical Activities,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Comparative Analysis,Physical Education,Communication Problems,Team Sports,Teaching Methods,Program Effectiveness,Self Esteem,Self Concept,Emotional Response,Peer Influence,Pretests Posttests,Randomized Controlled Trials,Questionnaires,Statistical Analysis,Secondary School Students,Foreign Countries

This study investigated the psychosocial adjustment and anxiety of adolescents during a 7-month exercise intervention programme. In addition, extensive research on the psychosocial adjustment of adolescents during intense physical activity was performed. The experimental group included adolescent girls (n = 110) and boys (n = 107) aged between 14 and 15 years while the control group included adolescent girls (n = 99) and boys (n = 112) of the same age group attending the same school. The girls and boys in the EG participated in modified physical education lessons two times a week. Once a month they received a theory class where they were taught about communication disorders of adolescents and ways of preventing them by means of physical activities. In practical classes, the girls and boys in the EG had sports and games (basketball, volleyball and football) as well as Pilates, enhancing physical abilities. The measurement of psychosocial adjustment included the modification method developed by Roger and Daimond. The measurement of anxiety, the methodology of Reynolds and Richmond. In summarising the results of the 7-month exercise intervention programme of enhancing psychosocial adjustment and its components (self-esteem, dominance, positive self-evaluation, emotional comfort, internality, and evaluation by others) and decrease in anxiety in physical education lessons, we can state that after the intervention there are certain tendencies towards improved psychosocial adjustment that assists in overcoming various critical situations.
New Image Qualities in Education: A Comparative Study
Author: Çankaya, Ibrahim
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Comparative Analysis,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis,Online Courses,Electronic Learning,Foreign Students,Access to Education,Research and Development,Student Mobility,Information Technology

The aim of this study is to compare Turkish and European Union Countries Educations in terms of the new image qualities such as data like access to online education, digital access, foreign languages learnt per pupil, research &amp; development investments, human resources employed in science and technology, the study opportunities offered to international students mobility and the scientific patents. It is a study in the descriptive scanning model. The data have been taken from the Eurostat, OECD and UNESCO databases. Qualities of Turkish Education is at a disadvantage in the face of European Union education qualities in terms of access to education, internet use, access to online education, R &amp; D investment rates, number of specialists working in the field of science and technology, part-time employment opportunities offered to international graduate students, foreign languages learnt per pupil, and scientific patents.
The Relationship between Leadership Styles (Autocratic and Democratic) of School Administrators and the Mobbing Teachers Suffer
Author: Peker, Sevinç
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Democratic Values,Leadership Styles,Teaching Conditions,Bullying,Predictor Variables,Foreign Countries,Administrator Role,Gender Issues,Barriers,Correlation,Teacher Persistence,Surveys,Statistical Analysis,Interpersonal Relationship

The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between democratic and autocratic leadership styles of school administrators and mobbing teachers experience as well as determining whether these leadership styles predict the mobbing level teachers suffer. The data in the study were collected from 395 primary school teachers (165 male and 230 female) in central districts of Mersin, Turkey. &quot;Mobbing Scale&quot; was used to determine what extent teachers suffer from mobbing and &quot;Leadership Style Scale&quot; to measure leadership style of school administrators. According to the analysis results, gender accounts for a significant diference in only &quot;interference in private life&quot; of all five dimensions of mobbing while seniority accounts for a significant difference in &quot;barriers about work and career&quot; and &quot;work commitment&quot; dimensions. There is a negative relationship between democratic leadership and all dimensions of mobbing except for work commitment while it is positive with autocratic leadership. Lastly, autocratic and democratic leadership styles of school administrators predict all dimensions of the mobbing teachers suffer except for work commitment.
Organizational and Pedagogical Conditions for the Development of Professional Competencies in the Technical Students&apos; Individual Work through the Example of Studying the Discipline &quot;Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics&quot;
Author: Guseinova, Elena E.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Competency Based Education,Hydraulics,Mechanics (Physics),Student Projects,Professional Training,Academic Standards,Questionnaires,Student Evaluation,Student Surveys,Observation,Statistical Analysis,Predictor Variables,Locus of Control,Educational Environment,Educational Theories,Science Experiments,Teaching Methods,Instructional Effectiveness,College Programs,Foreign Countries

The urgency of the given problem is caused by the necessity to develop an innovative education system capable of producing highly qualified specialists with a wide range of social and professional activities and broad-based abilities ready for individual operating innovative activities. The article is intended to searching for the ways of scientifically based organization of students' individual work which is one of the most up-to-date area of a pedagogical research (focus), contributing to the development of professional competencies and the optimization of higher technical education. The leading method of the given problem research is the pedagogical experiment, which makes it possible to identify, theoretically substantiate and experimentally test the organizational and pedagogical conditions for the development of professional competencies in the students' individual work. In this research students' individual work is considered as an important pedagogical subsystem of the educational process, built with regard to its essential characteristics on the competency based and learner-centered approaches; at the same time, organizational and pedagogical conditions are realized: subject-subject relations between the teacher and students are built up, the prolonged differential tasks are used in the educational process with their gradual complication from adaptive to developing and constructive in the process of studying the academic disciplines, the development of professional competencies is regularly monitored. The scientific and methodological materials presented in the article, used in the practice of professional education, ensure the development of professional competencies in the individual work of technical university students and streamline the workflow of the institutions of higher professional education improving the quality of education.
Psychometric Properties of the RMARS Scale in High School Students
Author: García-Santillán, Arturo
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,High School Students,Anxiety,Mathematics Anxiety,Rating Scales,Psychometrics,Test Reliability,Test Validity,Hypothesis Testing,Factor Analysis,Statistical Analysis,Mathematics Tests,Gender Differences

The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a structure of variables that allows us to understand the level of Anxiety towards Mathematics in high school students from the municipalities of Zacatal and Jamapa, Veracruz, Mexico. This was based on the seminal works of Richardson and Suinn [1972], who developed the Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (MARS) instrument with 98 items. This was later modified by Alexander and Martray [1989] to develop the Revised Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (RMARS) with only 25 items. For this study, the test was applied to a sample of 200 high school students of first, third and fifth semesters. The reliability of the test was a: 0.934 per item and 0.693 per dimension, which suggests acceptable validity and consistency in terms of what Hair, et al. point out [1979]. For the test of the H1 and H2 hypotheses, Exploratory Factor Analysis with extraction of the Principal Components and the Chi[superscript 2][subscript c]&gt; Chi[superscript 2][subscript t]&gt; statistic suggest that, as a whole, the dimensions of the RMARS scale explain mathematical anxiety. In addition, they indicate that anxiety towards mathematics classes is greater than anxiety towards exams and mathematical tasks; all this accounts for 74 % of the assimilable variance. For H3, the ANOVA test is used to show if there is a difference in means. The results suggest that there are no differences by Gender, Age, Or School Grade, although the MATHTEST dimension in Gender, showed differences in variances.
Organization and Carrying out the Educational Experiment and Statistical Analysis of Its Results in IHL
Author: Sidorov, Oleg V.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Statistical Analysis,Technology Education,Laboratory Equipment,Technology Uses in Education,Instructional Material Evaluation,Psychoeducational Methods,Educational Experiments,Task Analysis,College Students,Teaching Methods,Instructional Effectiveness,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Educational Testing,Protocol Analysis,Pretests Posttests,Educational Technology,Foreign Countries,Questionnaires,Test Validity

The article discusses the methodological approach to the technology of the educational experiment performance, the ways of the research data processing by means of research methods and methods of mathematical statistics. The article shows the integrated use of some effective approaches to the training of the students majoring in &quot;Technological education&quot;. The purpose of article is to check the efficiency of the created didactic support that helps to ground the students majoring in &quot;Technological education&quot; in the technologies of modern production at the university. It shows the features of introduction of the created didactic set of the hi-tech educational laboratory equipment based on digital technologies with program control into the educational process. The materials of the article can be useful to university lecturers, school teachers (teachers of Physics, Mathematics, Technology etc.) and students of teachers training and technical institutions, colleges, schools.
Faculty Support for Internationalization: The Case Study of a United States Based Private University
Author: Almeyda, Marta
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Faculty,Teacher Attitudes,Global Approach,Private Colleges,Case Studies,Small Colleges,Organizational Communication,Teacher Motivation,Incentives,College Administration,Teacher Surveys,Questionnaires,Statistical Analysis,Knowledge Level

Universities around the world are internationalizing themselves at a higher pace than even seen before. Faculty support is recognized as critical for the success of the internationalization mission. However, faculty motivation and commitment are often taken for granted; administrators direct most of their attention to tackling partnership issues and managing the external environment. This paper unravels certain critical issues associated with faculty support for internationalization in a small private university located in a US jurisdiction area. Data show that absence of an institutional structure for effective organizational communication would result in imperfect information about internationalization being circulated. Also, incentives like sabbaticals and paid leaves will help improve faculty motivation and thereby garner their support.
Public Education in the Russian Empire at the End of the 19th Century
Author: Shevchenko, Natal'ya A.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Public Education,Educational History,European History,Educational Improvement,Parochial Schools,Access to Education

The paper reviews primary education in the Russian Empire at the end of the 19th century. It focuses on describing the successes and shortcomings of the public education system, as well as identifying the causes of its poor efficiency. As a summary, the authors concluded that the government of the Russian Empire consolidated major efforts to improve public education since the mid-19th century. At the same time, it is important to note that the government was not only committed to educating the population, but it also prioritized the role of parochial schools in the process, which paid much more attention to the spiritual and moral component. This is why significant numbers of parochial schools were opened across the Russian Empire, and the institutions enjoyed funding from the state treasury. On the other hand, schools in the system of the Ministry of Public Education, as well as zemstvo (zemstvo--an elective council responsible for the local administration of a provincial district in czarist Russia) and city schools financed by these communities, grew at a much less marked rate. In general, by the end of the 19th century, Russia achieved the encouraging progress in public education, and the transition to universal education was only a matter of time.
Social Emotional Skills and Prosocial Behaviour among 15-16-Year-Old Adolescents
Author: Akelaitis, Arturas V.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Adolescents,Emotional Development,Social Development,Interpersonal Competence,Prosocial Behavior,Athletes,Questionnaires,Communication Skills,Athletics,Gender Differences,Foreign Countries,Measures (Individuals),Statistical Analysis,Secondary School Students,Comparative Analysis,Emotional Response,Altruism

The purpose of this study was to determine and compare social emotional skills and prosocial behaviour among 15-16-year-old adolescent athletes and non-athletes. The measures of social emotional skills and prosocial behaviour were evaluated using Schutte Self-Report Inventory, Self-control scale, Social Skills Rating System (Student form), Bulotaite and Gudzinskiene communication skills questionnaire, revised prosocial tendencies measure. The study results revealed that adolescent sport participation has influence on social skills and strongly links to athletes' prosocial behaviour. Emotional, social and prosocial behaviours have an effect on gender differences
Students&apos; Demographic, Academic Characteristics and Performance in Registered General Nursing Licensing Examination in Ghana
Author: Doe, Patience Fakornam
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Characteristics,Nursing Education,Grade Point Average,Sampling,Foreign Countries,Licensing Examinations (Professions),Check Lists,Statistical Analysis,Correlation,Gender Differences,Age Differences,College Housing,Student Recruitment,Tuition,Scores

The decreasing performance of student nurses in the professional licensure examinations (LE) in Ghana is a major concern to stakeholders, especially at a time when the nurse-patient ratio stands at 1: 1500. The study sought to determine the effect of students' demographic and academic characteristics on performance in the Registered General Nursing (RGN) LE. A descriptive retrospective study was conducted using a researcher designed checklist to review the administrative and academic records of 324 nursing students who wrote the RGN LE between 2007 and 2012. A stratified sampling method was used to select the participants for the study. Chi-square statistics were used to determine the effect of the predictors: demographic characteristics, entry grade and Final Grade Point Average (FGPA) on the dependent variable (LE performance). The study revealed a relationship between gender and LE performance, residential status, entry grade and students' FGPA at the college. However, no significant relationship was found between the age of participants, subject background at high school and LE outcomes. We conclude that students' socio-demographic and academic characteristics such as gender, campus residential status, entry grade and FGPA influence the outcome of the final LE of RGN students. Consequently, priority should be given to applicants with high pre-entry aggregate during recruitment and on campus accommodation should be provided for all trainee nurses. Furthermore, weak students with low FGPA should be given special tuition before they are registered for the final LE to improve their outcomes
Lies of the Reader: Disadvantages of the Sociological Research Methods for the Study of the Reading
Author: Tsvetkova, Milena I.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Reading Research,Research Methodology,Research Problems,Social Science Research,Foreign Countries,Secondary School Students,Surveys,Bias,Reading Attitudes

The research problems of this study are the difficulties in the explanation of the phenomenon of reading in its accelerated transformations by quantitative sociological methods, because of failure to comply with a number of factors: first, the social aspects of the purchase, consumption and possession of reading materials have not yet been reading; second, reading is both asocial and social activity; third, the reader is not social status, social class, social group or social role. Author's hypothesis: the most accessible and authoritative audience methods for study of the reading-sociological research methods, are unable to disclose the specifics of the reader and reading, they provide limited data only on the outer side of the reading activity, for its quantitative indicators but do not reach to the knowledge about the nature and the reasons both for the reading and not reading. The object of this study is the use of sociological research methods in the study of the reader and the reading. The purpose is to reveal the problems generated by the classical sociological research methods, which fed up the mainstream negativity towards the contemporary reading and hinder his objective knowledge. Methodology/approach: The study was conducted by critical analytical and synthetic approach, which involves a systematic review, comparative analysis of terminology and concepts and educational integrated research on the topic &quot;Does my microgroup read?&quot; among Bulgarians over 14 years (2003-2017). Findings: There have been found 15 disadvantages of the sociological methods of the study of reading, as a result of which, science can get a false picture of the reading situation of local and global level. These disadvantages are as follows: (1) research vs. survey, (2) sociological propaganda, (3) the effect of the crowd, (4) fear from the reader, (5) unrecognition of snobbery towards reading and the books, (6) connotations of the word &quot;reading&quot;, (7) literature vs. book, (8) the index &quot;free time&quot;, (9) reading in the consumer modality, (10) reading as demonstrative consumption, (11) undefined &quot;reader&quot;, (12) the respondent lie, (13) the respondent resistance, (14) the prejudice &quot;compulsory for reading&quot;, and (15) absence of axiological balance. As an alternative to the sociological methods for obtaining of objective results in the study of the reading and the readers is proposed the integrated approach between qualitative sociological methods and the methods of cognitive neuroscience and bibliopsychology.
Abilities of 4-7 Years Old Children to Provide Independent Explanations and Generalisations of Causality
Author: Daugirdiene, Ausra
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Young Children,Foreign Countries,Thinking Skills,Generalization,Age Groups,Preschool Children,Causal Models,Influences,Statistical Analysis,Qualitative Research

The understanding and generalisation of causality are important thinking abilities, as they form the basis for a person's activity. Researchers exploring these abilities do not have a unified opinion regarding the age of children when they develop causative understanding and its determinant factors (e.g. age, prior knowledge, the content of a task, etc.). The aim of the current research is to investigate the abilities of 4-7-year-old children to explain causative relations and independently generalise them. An original experiment using spatial figures of animals was chosen for the research. 66 preschool children participated in the research, each group being represented by 22 children (4-5-year old, 5-6-year old, and 6-7-year old respectively). The research results revealed that pre-school children (4-7-year old) are able to distinguish and explain causative relations. Besides, no difference was determined between the children's abilities to explain and generalise causalities in relation to age (4-5, 5-6, and 6-7). It is assumed that the children of different age understand causal structures in the same way when the spatial figures of animals, which are close and familiar to children, are used as simulation material in the research. The obtained results of the experiment are discussed in the context of the works of other researchers.