ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Kahoot in Maritime English Teaching: Its Impact on Nautical Science Cadet&apos;s Oral Reproduction and Vocabulary
Author: Sartini, Sri
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Games,Educational Technology,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Marine Education,Speech Communication,Vocabulary,Action Research,Participatory Research,English for Special Purposes,Foreign Countries,Articulation (Speech),Game Based Learning,Higher Education

This type of research was Participatory Action Research using the Denzin and Lincoln (2005) model which consists of the Kahoot pre-action cycle and post-action cycle. This study aimed to examine the use of Kahoot Platform in Maritime English learning. It improved the speaking skill of nautical science cadets by the increasing number of maritime vocabularies as an indication. The results of this study described that the use of Kahoot quiz made learning experienced in the classroom very interactive, interesting, and effective, because of the two cycles carried out increased from the beginning of the cycle to the next cycle marked by the increasing number of correct answers done by the cadets. Thus, their vocabulary mastery increased as well. Kahoot not only increased vocabularies that supported cadet's speaking skill initiated by the correct oral reproduction, but also increased cadet's enthusiasm in learning Maritime English. In conclusion, the use of online gamification-based Kahoot quiz toward nautical science cadets at Sekolah Tinggi Maritim Yogyakarta had a significant impact on vocabulary mastery for effective communication skills.
Single Parenting and Emotional Development of Primary School Students as Viewed by Nigerian Primary School Teachers
Author: Adegboyega, Lateef Omotosho
Date: 2019-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: One Parent Family,Emotional Development,Elementary School Students,Elementary School Teachers,Teacher Attitudes,Foreign Countries,Self Esteem,Psychological Needs,Teacher Student Relationship,Child Rearing,Social Isolation,Peer Relationship,Counselor Role,School Counselors

This research investigated the influence of single parenting on emotional development of primary school students as viewed by Nigerian primary school teachers. A descriptive survey designed was adopted to draw 200 primary school teachers. One research question was raised and three null hypotheses were respectively postulated to guide the research at 0.05 level of significance. In addition, data analysis was done using t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Furthermore, the findings revealed that low self-esteem was the most influencing emotional development of primary school students in Ilorin metropolis. The findings also revealed that there was no significant difference in the influence of single parenting on the emotional development of primary school students in terms of gender and qualification. It is recommended that teachers of students from single parents should be more sensitive to their emotional needs and always be ready to assist them. Moreover, counsellors should collaborate with teachers and parents to minimize the negative influence of single parenting. Teachers are suggested to be more sensitive and willing to assist students whenever they have problems at home. Single parents are suggested to provide more quality time with their children to avoid them performing negative behaviors. Parents are suggested to maintain stable home by living together to enhance their children emotional development.
The Benefits of Integrating Video Making in a Speaking Class
Author: Riyanto, Edi Dwi
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Video Technology,Integrated Curriculum,College Freshmen,Foreign Countries,Learning Processes,Instructional Improvement,Speech Communication,Student Attitudes,Assignments,Language Skills,Speech Skills,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction

Integrated teaching has been advocated and implemented for decades. Lately it has been accelerated by the development of video making. This study aims to investigate the benefits of integrating video making in a speaking class of the 29 first semester students of a public university in Surabaya, East Java Province, Indonesia. It employed action research which was done to improve the quality of the teaching and learning process of the class. The data were collected through direct observation in the classroom, video reviews, and survey. The findings showed that the integration of video making in a speaking class gave benefits to students in the form of four components i.e. social, language and literary, psychological, and technical. The class has been successful in integrating the video making in a speaking class which means that the integration may be applied again in the same class in the future or for a wider scope with similar conditions or settings.
Sociocultural Factors That Impact the Health Status, Quality of Life, and Academic Achievement of International Graduate Students: A Literature Review
Author: Vakkai, Roseline Jindori Yunusa
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Graduate Students,Foreign Students,Student Welfare,Quality of Life,Academic Achievement,Social Influences,Cultural Influences,Educational Research,Stress Variables,Acculturation,Social Support Groups,Student School Relationship,Student Adjustment,Age Differences,Language Proficiency,Access to Health Care,Financial Problems,Physical Health,Mental Health

This literature review explores the sociocultural experiences of international graduate students in universities in the United States. In addition to the typical challenges faced by students going to universities in America, international graduate students undergo extra stress. Research has shown that students face issues such as negotiating the U.S. health care system, the pressures of competency in American English, balancing financial concerns, social connectivity, and anxiety due to isolation from family and friends. These factors place students at risk for developing health problems. Significant findings have indicated that institutions and students' age play important roles in impacting students' successful adjusting experiences even though the struggle for acculturation is a personal task. We organized our analysis and discussion around how to help graduate students to obtain sociocultural support and concluded with some suggestions on ways to address inadequacies within the institutional systems to make the schools welcoming for international students.
Indonesian Students&apos; Anxiety to Write in English as a Foreign Language across Gender and Educational Levels
Author: Mulyono, Herri
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Writing Apprehension,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Gender Differences,Individual Differences,Secondary School Students,College Students,Student Behavior,Positive Attitudes,Writing Skills,Skill Development,Student Experience

This survey explored the level and types of anxiety expressed by Indonesia students in writing in English as a foreign language anxiety across gender and educational levels. To this end, 221 foreign language (FL) students from three levels of educations, i.e. lower-secondary school, upper-secondary school and university, were surveyed on voluntary basis where they were asked to complete 22 items of a Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) questionnaire. Two statistical analyses, Rasch Analysis and ANOVA, were performed to examine the quantitative data. The findings showed that all students experienced writing anxiety in FL learning, many experiencing a moderate level of anxiety. Furthermore, students' writing anxiety was not influenced by gender and educational levels. Indeed, students across all education levels reported experiencing somatic anxiety, avoidance behaviour and cognitive anxiety, with avoidance behaviour being the most common form of anxiety. In conclusion, it is recommended that helping students to develop a positive perception of their FL writing is crucial in addition to helping them develop their writing skills.
Locus of Control: Teachers&apos; Neglected Attribute towards Students&apos; Achievement Scores in Facing Diverse Socioeconomic Status
Author: Ul Hassan, Mehboob
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Locus of Control,Teacher Attitudes,Secondary School Teachers,Secondary School Students,Academic Achievement,Scores,Socioeconomic Status,Foreign Countries,Teacher Influence

Irony of humans' resiliencies to grasp life achievements has been remaining one of the important debates since long ago. Controversy prolongs when few report it destiny, whereas remaining claim individual's endless effort. Origin of social learning theory stoppage caused entire debate and declared that teachers' psychological attribute; locus of control is a key construct that actively affects students' success / failure. Present research was conducted to explore the effect of teachers' locus of control on students' achievement scores in facing diverse socioeconomic status enrolled in public sector secondary schools of District Kasur; Punjab-Province. Researchers followed quantitative research adopting ex-post-facto design to investigate a burning dilemma on the sample of conveniently selected 1100 respondents. After ensuring ethical considerations from the respondents, researchers collected data from teachers through administering Rose and Medway (1981) Teacher Locus of Control Scale after obtaining unfettered and unrestricted permissions from the authors. Researchers obtained students' achievement scores and their family socioeconomic status from parents, teachers and head teachers respectively. Researchers' pilot tested scale on the sample of 100 respondents to confirm Cronbach's Alpha reliability statistics is .850. Results of regression analysis reported that teachers' locus of control has affected 66%, teachers' demographic variables 84.30% and parental socioeconomic status have affected 74.70% of students' achievement scores. Research recommends that Govt. provide in-service training to secondary school teachers on their neglected psychological attribute; locus of control that confirms worth-seeing importance in obtaining students' achievement scores and grants monthly stipend to passed ninth grade students having 85% marks in annual examinations focusing their parental socioeconomic status.
Students&apos; Attitudes to Selected Subjects in Secondary Economic Education
Author: Berková, Katerina
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Secondary School Students,Student Attitudes,Economics Education,Foreign Countries,Intellectual Disciplines,Economics,Accounting,Mathematics,Native Language,Student Motivation,Difficulty Level,Student Interests

Students' motivation is one of the key factors that determine their school success. It is closely linked to their attitudes toward individual school subjects. This research analyzes four crucial dimensions of students' subject-related attitudes (practical importance, difficulty, popularity and curriculum contents attractiveness) in the secondary economic education in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the international context. The research focused on the four dimensions of students' attitudes (n = 573) toward four major school subjects (economics, accounting, mathematics and the mother tongue) at business academies. It analyzes the data from the questionnaires using the Spearman Correlation Coefficient, the non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test and the modification of Tukey's method for multiple comparisons. The results show that the popularity of a school subject significantly correlates with its curriculum contents attractiveness and practical importance. However, the difficulty of school subjects did not influence their popularity in a negative way, which opens several questions for further research in the area.
An Activity Based on Inquiry Driven Science in Nature: Biodiversity Is under Threat at National Park!
Author: Sezen Vekli, Gülsah
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Science Activities,Active Learning,Inquiry,Outdoor Education,Biodiversity,Parks,Preservice Teachers,Field Trips,Plants (Botany),Secondary School Students,Grade 8,Problem Based Learning,Discovery Learning,Foreign Countries

The purpose of this study is to present an activity designed according to inquiry-based science approach and its implementation. The activity set up towards guided inquiry and was performed with participating 12 preservice science teachers and 24 eighth grade students. The activity started with a daily-life problem related to Yozgat Çamlik National Park. First, envelopes, presented as hidden documents signed by park chief, and a research kit were provided to learners. Then a nature trip was organized to identify species of plants listed in the distributed inventory. Learners expressed the problem (the national park's bio-diversity is decreasing) as a result of interpreting the data collected in a nature trip. Learners were asked to form hypotheses about factors effecting bio-diversity and determine investigation methods to test their hypotheses. At final, learners reported the results and research processes. The activity can be used both in science and biology courses.
Mathematical Literacy Proficiency Development Based on Content, Context, and Process
Author: Jailani, Jailani
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Numeracy,Mathematics Skills,Secondary School Students,Secondary School Mathematics,Foreign Countries,Achievement Tests,International Assessment,Mathematics Tests,Knowledge Level,Mathematics Achievement,Scores,Student Improvement,Achievement Gains

The literacy proficiency development is one of concerns in education generally, so is in mathematics education as well. The growth of literacy proficiency is one of the issues in education, because it is very important to problem solving skills in students' real life. This research aimed to describe the growth of lower secondary school and upper secondary school students' mathematical literacy proficiency in Yogyakarta Special Region province, Indonesia. Three mathematical literacy proficiency aspects were examined in the research, namely content, process and context. It was an exploratory descriptive research with cross-sectional type research design. The population was 1,001 lower secondary school and upper-secondary school students ranging between 13 and 16 years old. They were selected using the combination of stratified and the cluster random sampling technique. A test consisting of 30 items, was adopted from the existing PISA test items used to collect the data in the research. The main data analysis was conducted by estimating students' ability through the item-response theory approach. The results showed that the mathematical literacy proficiency of the students based on content, context, and process was still low. In the content and context domain, there was progress from 8th grade to 9th, from 9th grade to 10th grade. In the process domain, the development of students' abilities on formulate showed relatively the same results for 8th, 9th, and 10th were around 500, and in the employ and interpret process domain, there was a development of abilities from 8th to 9th, and from 9th to 10th grade.
Let&apos;s Form a Reflex Arc Model: A STEM Activity
Author: Kagnici, Aysegül
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: STEM Education,Learning Activities,Physiology,Science Instruction,Biology,Teaching Methods,Biochemistry,High School Students,Student Attitudes,Teacher Attitudes,Models,Grade 11,Worksheets,Learner Engagement,Foreign Countries

The purpose of this study is to introduce an activity which has been designed in accordance with Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) education within the scope of 5E learning model and to present the implementation steps of it. The activity plan is on the topics of Nerves, Hormones and Homeostasis in Human Physiology Unit in 11th grade biology curriculum. The activity was implemented with the participation of 49 students at a public high school. For the implementation of the activity, the students were divided into groups of five and they tried to complete the activity in four class hours. The participant students stated that they both learned and enjoyed learning while they were creating their model. Moreover, the teachers who implemented the activity stated that the equipment used in the activity is easy to access, which creates an advantage for the activity to be done in class.
An Activity Example Concerning Learning of Elements and Periodic Table
Author: Kara, Filiz
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Science Activities,Science Instruction,Instructional Effectiveness,Student Attitudes,Chemistry,Middle School Students,Grade 8,Public Schools,Foreign Countries,Student Projects,Science Achievement,Group Dynamics,Cooperative Learning,Competition

This study aims to introduce the &quot;Activity of Elements&quot; that was designed by the researcher and to investigate the effect of this activity on student performance about elements and periodic table. The research was carried out with 15 students in the 8th grade. The activity consists of two stages: project preparation and competition. In this article, the activity steps were explained, its effectiveness on the students' success was evaluated and the students' opinions about the activity were examined. It was determined that the students' performance increased on recognizing the groups and periods in the periodic table, and learning the names, symbols, atomic numbers, usage areas and place of the first 18 elements and commonly used elements in the periodic table. Moreover, the students expressed that they enjoyed the lesson and learned in fun during the activity and they stated that the most enjoyable stage was the competition stage.
Implementation of Mobile Learning Using a Social Network Platform: Facebook
Author: Chaka, John G.
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Social Media,Telecommunications,Handheld Devices,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,College Faculty,Teaching Methods,Program Effectiveness,Teacher Attitudes,Foreign Countries,Intention,Predictor Variables,Environmental Influences

This research set out to determine the use of a social networking platform, Facebook, as a medium for learning and teaching. Using a combination of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model, Information Systems (IS) success model and the educational use of Facebook theory, a conceptual framework was developed for implementation of mobile learning and teaching. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to determine a model for the implementation of mobile learning and teaching. A sample of 330 respondents was used in this research. The data were analysed using structural equation modelling. The aim was to determine to what extent mobile learning is acceptable to colleges of education in Nigeria. Lecturers from a federal college of education in Nigeria were used to test the implementation of mobile learning using Facebook as a medium of communication. Four courses were selected as part of the intervention programme. The research revealed that m-learning significantly improves the teaching and learning conditions in colleges of education, specifically by reducing the inadequacies of physical facilities, and by improving the reading culture and performance of students. The results further indicate that most of the stakeholders are satisfied with the benefits of m-learning and wish to continue using the Facebook and their mobile phones.
Economics Teachers&apos; Use of Topic Specific Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Teaching Market Dynamics
Author: Ogbonnaya, Ijeoma Chidinma
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Economics Education,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,High School Teachers,Difficulty Level,Concept Teaching,Foreign Countries,Public Schools,Demonstrations (Educational),Learning Activities,Logical Thinking,Supply and Demand

The poor learners' understanding of specific topic 'Market Dynamics' (MD) is a concern in South Africa secondary schools and so it is globally. Many researchers and education stakeholders in South Africa point to the need to use TS-PCK to improve learners' understanding of MD. This research aimed to examine economics teachers' teaching of Market Dynamics (MD) in order to understand how the teaching and learning of MD could be improved using topic Specific PCK. Using Mavhunga's TS-PCK as the theoretical framework. Two TS-PCK components were examined in the research namely, content knowledge (What is that makes a topic difficult to teach?) and representations were used to gain an in-depth understanding of teachers' use of TS-PCK in teaching MD. It was a descriptive case study design. Purposeful samples of three economics teachers of 10th, 11th and 12th grade were selected. A semi-structured interview consisting of 18 items was used to generate data for the research while a qualitative data analysis technique, namely thematic analysis was used to analyze the data generated. The results showed that the three economics teachers sampled for the research were able to use their TS-Content Knowledge adequately in different Content Knowledge domains to understand what makes a topic difficult to teach or learn. The result also showed that the participating teachers identified difficult areas that are challenging to teach in the topic of MD but were unable to explain and give cogent reasons why those areas were challenging for learners to understand. Further results on teachers' use of TS-PCK based on 'representations' revealed that the teachers effectively used analogies and examples in teaching market dynamics but struggled to find activities to illustrate some of the concepts of market dynamics. The research recommends that economics teachers should be provided with more structured opportunities to help develop their topic specific pedagogical content knowledge of the school level content as part of their professional development.
Self-Assessment on Communicative Competence of Students of Higher Education in Indonesia
Author: Yufrizal, Hery
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Self Evaluation (Individuals),Communicative Competence (Languages),Undergraduate Students,Foreign Countries,Second Language Learning,Performance Based Assessment,Speech Communication,Pronunciation,Performance Tests,Gender Differences

The objectives of this study are firstly to explore students' self-assessment on four language competence: linguistic, sociolinguistic competence, discourse competence, and strategic competences, secondly to find out whether there is any significant influence of students' length of language learning toward their self-assessment of communicative competences. The research was undertaken at undergraduate program at the university of Lampung. The results showed that communicative competence assessed by students has positive relationship to the score of their performance assessed by teachers. The current research succeeded in modifying students' self-assessment according to the communicative competence.