ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Management Strategies for Curbing the Prevalence of Plagiarism in Project Writing amongst Students of Imo State University Oweeri
Author: Emenalo, Florence Chizoba
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Incidence,Plagiarism,Undergraduate Students,Cheating,Research Skills,Researchers,Rating Scales,Scores,Statistical Analysis,Teaching Methods,Research Methodology,School Policy,Student Projects,Workshops,Prevention,Supervision,Writing (Composition)

Many undergraduate students copy a lot from other people's research project reports and many graduate students lack the capacity to carry out and report the research work required of them for graduation. This research ascertained the views of Science and Arts Education students on the causes of the problem, types, and the strategies the university adopts to solve the problem since it has been noted by scholars that science students are prone to plagiarism. This is done through a case study of Faculty of Education, Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria. A clustered proportionate random sample size of 200 drawn from the 500 Science and Arts based final year students of the Faculty was used for the study. Four and three research questions and hypotheses respectively were formulated. A 36 item researcher made four point rating scale of Strongly Agree (SA) Agree (A) Disagree (D) and Strongly Disagree (SD) was the instrument for data collection. Frequency tables, Mean scores with 2.50 decision point and t-test are the statistical tools used for the analysis of the data. The study revealed inadequate time, improper teaching of Research method, ignorance, absence of a university policy etc. as the causes of student project plagiarism, submission of project written by someone else, revising previously written project etc. are the commonly engaged types of plagiarism by students. It also found that University uses the teaching of research method, rules and regulations etc. to curb plagiarism while rejection of plagiarized project, publication of culprits names, workshops etc. are the preventive measures. Based on these, recommendations were made that plagiarism test should be run for finished projects, project workshop be mounted for students, proper and adequate teaching of Research method and project Supervision should be done by the lecturers.
Application of Selected Outcomes from PISA and PIAAC Researches to Czech Curriculum and Reading Education
Author: Chudy, Stefan
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,International Assessment,Outcomes of Education,Curriculum Development,Reading Strategies,High School Students,Learning Activities,Information Sources,Exit Examinations,Functional Literacy,Content Analysis,Curriculum Evaluation,Minimum Competencies,Educational Research,Educational Practices

This article deals with problematic fields which influence the level of reading strategies of fifteen to nineteen years old pupils (e.g. selected productive learning activities, work with diverse types of texts and information sources etc.). Moreover, the paper provides information about efficiency testing of pupils in selected reading strategies during entrance examination to high school and high school graduation exams. What is the connection between the trends in the Czech and foreign curriculum based upon the PISA and PIAAC outcome application? The aim of this paper is the reflection and analysis of key issues of the functional reading literacy, the methods employed were: content analysis of a selected part of the Czech curriculum, outcome comparison of international reading literacy researches PISA and PIAAC, reflection and analysis of approaches to test tasks for entrance examination to high school. This paper points out the complexity of curricular system, i.e. interdependence of primary, secondary and lifelong reading education.
A Cultural Hybridization Perspective: Emerging Academic Subculture among International Students from East Asia in U.S.
Author: Li, Jian
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Subcultures,Foreign Students,College Students,Asians,Knowledge Economy,Self Concept,Cultural Background,Coping,Teacher Student Relationship,College Faculty,Peer Relationship,North Americans,Cultural Context,Student Adjustment,Western Civilization,Asian Culture,Acculturation,Semi Structured Interviews,Student Attitudes

This research examines the emerging academic subculture of international students from East Asia in U.S. academics from the cultural hybridization perspective. In a knowledge-based economy, international education plays a pivotal role in the global educational environment. Advocacy of international student mobility is essential; international student mobility fundamentally increases academic culture flows and the transmission and incorporation of different global cultural identity, while simultaneously leading to the breakdown of individual cultural identity in a new cultural context. In addition, the international students can be a catalyst and may generate new academic subcultures in new academic environments. This process contributes to the cultural hybridization process worldwide. The purpose of this article is to provide a qualitative research study on specific features of the international students' academic subculture. The research study findings display that East Asian international students cope in a vastly different academic culture by forming their own peer academic subculture and limiting interactions with faculty members and domestic students. The study recommends further research in this area and also promoting an effective relationship between faculty and international students as well as international students with domestic students.
Investigation of the Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Teaching Science and Attitudes towards Teaching Profession of the Candidate Teachers
Author: Uyanik, Gökhan
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Self Efficacy,Preservice Teachers,Science Instruction,Student Attitudes,Elementary School Teachers,Foreign Countries,College Freshmen,College Seniors,Statistical Analysis,Probability,Student Surveys,Likert Scales

The aim of this study is to investigate the attitudes of the primary school teacher candidates towards teaching profession and self-efficacy beliefs in teaching science. The research was conducted with a survey model. The sample of the study consisted of 182 teacher candidates who were studying at the 2015-2016 spring term from Kastamonu University, at Faculty of Education in Elementary Teacher Training program at the first and fourth years of university level. Scale of Self-Efficacy Beliefs towards Science Teaching and Scale of Attitudes towards to Teaching Profession were used as data gathering tools. Independent t-testing and Pearson's Correlation Coefficients have been used in analyzing the data. According to findings, there was a significant difference between the freshman and senior students on the self-efficacy scaling related to teaching the science in favor of the senior students. In addition, it was also been discovered that there was also statistical difference in favor of the senior students compared to the freshman students on attitude scale towards to the teaching profession. It has also found that there was a statistical intermediate positive relationship between the self-efficacy of teaching the science and the attitudes towards teaching profession at the teacher candidates, who were studying at the first year of the university. However, it was discovered that there was a higher probability positive relationship between the self-efficacy beliefs and the attitudes to the teaching profession of teacher candidates, who were at the last year of the university.
Celebrating the Past and Transforming the Future
Author: Harvey, Carl A., II.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Library Associations,Professional Associations,Librarians,Library Services,School Libraries,Scholarships,Donors,Fund Raising,Financial Support,Leadership,Leaders

2016 celebrates the sixty-fifth anniversary of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) as a full-fledged division of the American Library Association (ALA). In this article, the author discusses celebrating the past and transforming the future. At the 2015 AASL National Conference the 65th Anniversary Giving Campaign was launched. The campaign that started at the 2015 conference will run through the 2017 AASL National Conference. During those two years, AASL will raise money as a way to celebrate the sixty-five-year history and use those funds to transform the future. The author presents the Student Bridge Scholarship and the AASL Induction Program, along with reasons to donate to support the scholarship and program.
Emotional Work in Preschool Teacher's Everyday Lives: A Theoretical Outline and Dialogue with Critical Pedagogy
Author: Chang, Yin-Kun
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preschool Teachers,Critical Theory,Social Influences,Social Change,Disadvantaged,Power Structure,Emotional Response,Intervention,Educational Policy,Educational Research,Psychological Patterns,Anthropology,Feminism,Sociology

This paper points out educational study is not only a pure macro-oriented focus such as analysis for policy and ideological formation; rather, it also must be in synchronicity with the actual socio-historical process and the baseline of everyday life in the micro level. Thus, this paper considers that emotional issues may be the good windows to inquire schoolteachers' everyday lives. First, this paper reviews relevant theories in multiple disciplines to systematically politicize emotions as an important site of educational research. Second, this paper emphasizes that to understand emotions are inscribed in culture and ideology, as &quot;embodied and situated.&quot; Finally, this paper's focus is not only on how social factors affect what schoolteacher feel, but also on how schoolteachers mobilize their feeling to creation a condition for social transformation. That is, the ultimate purpose is to answer &quot;can one explain the possibility of resistance from an oppressed position through emotion mobilization?&quot; and to build up this model--the emotional requirement for subversive action: &quot;structure of feeling&quot; is an important social condition for intervention from anger to joyful/hopeful commitment to social transformation.
The ABC's of Online Course Design According to Addie Model
Author: Durak, Gürhan
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Online Courses,Instructional Design,Programming Languages,Computer Science Education,Models,Design Requirements,Undergraduate Students,Distance Education,Evaluation Methods,Needs Assessment,Student Characteristics,Content Analysis,Computer Software Evaluation,Educational Environment,Student Educational Objectives,Course Content,Evaluation Criteria,Case Studies,Qualitative Research,Interviews

The purpose of this study was to design the course of Programming Languages-I online, which is given on face-to-face basis at undergraduate level. It is seen in literature that there is no detailed research on the preparation of a fully-online course directly based on an instructional design model. In this respect, depending on the ADDIE design model, the most popular instructional design models, an online course was adapted in phases. Each phase of the model and on the steps in each phase were explained. The preparation of this course given via DLP lasted approximately 500 hours. Following its preparation, the pilot application was carried out with the learners taking the course of Programming Languages during summer school period. The learners used DLP in all respects, and DLP was revised and the necessary changes were made in line with the learners' views and with the results of the usability test. The study revealed that it was important to analyze all the related areas in the analysis phase of an online course design and to make the necessary decisions in the phase of design. In the dimension of distance education evaluation, since there is no precise and reliable method, the traditional evaluation methods were favored within the scope of the product evaluation of this course taught via DLP. In addition, within the scope of the process evaluation, the learners' views were determined via weekly evaluations. Establishing interaction in online courses is important to prove the live structure of the system, and this situation will help learners perceive themselves to a part of the course.
Evaluation of Gifted and Talented Students' Reflective Thinking in Visual Arts Course
Author: Genç, Mehmet Ali
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Academically Gifted,Reflection,Thinking Skills,Visual Arts,Art Education,Qualitative Research,Quasiexperimental Design,Grade 3,Elementary School Students,Elementary School Teachers,Interviews,Questioning Techniques,Logical Thinking,Evaluation,Foreign Countries

The use of higher order thinking skills is necessary for the education of gifted and talented students in order to ensure that these students, who have development potential compared to their peers, use their capacities at maximum level. This study aims to present gifted and talented students' reflective thinking skills, one of the higher order thinking skills, in visual arts education. The study examines reflective thinking skills of gifted and talented students in a literature-assisted visual arts activity. The study adopts a qualitative approach and quasi-experimental design. The sample of the study consists of 12 students receiving education in the third grade. According to findings of the present study which uses teacher and student interview forms as data collection tools, the study concludes that students have demonstrated reflective thinking skills in the aspects of questioning, reasoning, and evaluation during the activity.
Learning Experiences of Young Artists with ASD in a University Enrichment Program
Author: Kuo, Ching-Chih
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Autism,Pervasive Developmental Disorders,Artists,Creativity,Art Therapy,Art Activities,Observation,Interviews,Portfolios (Background Materials),Program Effectiveness,Peer Relationship,Interaction,Comorbidity,Gifted,Adults,Intelligence Tests,Late Adolescents,Young Adults,Colleges

Assisting every student with special needs to give scope to their talents and to possess healthy personality and mature social skill that advance their careers at their working places is far from being easy. Within the domains of special education, students are placed in relative disadvantage when they bear cultural differences, and mental or physical disabilities. Their development situation should be given more attention from educators, as the disadvantages they bear might jeopardize the full actualization of their potentials. An enrichment program was started at a university for 5 young artists with ASD during 2012 to 2014, courses include: Creative Design, Art Creation, and Expressive Art Therapy. This paper introduced the artworks of the young artists, their learning attitudes and behavior change after engaged the enrichment program are analyzed by qualitative approach. Data was collected with portfolios, classroom observations and interviews. Among the five artists, three of them were interviewed on the topic of class experiences. Teachers' observations on the learning behaviors were also interviewed. Followings listed the main findings: 1. the learning attitudes became more positive and active wherever in or out schools/universities after joining the enrichment program; 2. the program opened the space to manifest creativity, 3. the outstanding performances indicated the artists realized their potentials, and 4. the young artists were more confident and showed less anxiety than before, the interaction among the peers increased through expressive art therapy course.
The Investigation of the Education Philosophy of the Education Faculty Students of Yuzuncu Yil University with the Q Method
Author: Zirhlioglu, Gürol
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Philosophy,Schools of Education,Qualitative Research,Sampling,Student Attitudes,Factor Analysis,Rating Scales,Preservice Teachers,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis,Q Methodology

Educational philosophy views that effect to the basic elements of education related to concept, principles, beliefs and attitude that being implemented in education. Educational philosophy adopted by the teacher candidates is important in their professional lives for attitude of the education. In this study, perennialism, essentialism, progressivism and reconstructionism that are the basic principles of the education philosophy were transformed into a variety of questions. These questions being with &quot;If I were a teacher&quot; and we tried to identify what the level of participation of the students to these questions is. The data used in this study was obtained from the students that they are studying in different departments in education faculty of Yuzuncu Yil University. Q method which aimed at measuring the viewpoints, ideas, beliefs, behaviors and inclinations of individuals was used in the analysis of data. This method investigates also differences within sampling with the factor analysis and in particularly, it is an ideal method of measuring of perception of raised against any case. In this study, there are 30 questions. For this reason, the +4, -4 scale was defined as a Q string to parse the views of students. This scale was designed from strong agree (+) to strong disagree (-).
The Comparison of Physical Education and Sports Lessons Applied in Education Systems of Turkey and Kosovo
Author: Hergüner, Gülten
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Physical Education,Athletics,Elementary Schools,Middle Schools,High Schools,Cross Cultural Studies,Cultural Differences,School Schedules,Comparative Analysis

This study was conducted in order to compare and determine the differences between the syllabuses, class hours, subject topics, contents and acquirements of Physical Education and Sports Lessons in primary, middle and high schools in Turkey and Kosovo. This is an international comparative education study in which the aim is to reveal the similarities and differences through the use of the descriptive and evaluative approach, which is generally used in comparative education studies. In the end of the examination, the programs related to Physical Education and Sports in Turkey were observed to be more extensive, multi optional and flexible, while in the case of activities, they were found to be more uncertain. The programs in Kosovo however, were noted as being open, orderly, clear and with a low amount of flexibility. While in the content in Turkey, attainments towards the cognitive and affective fields took a bigger part, it can be said that kinetically attainments are denser in Kosovo. Another fact is that the class hours of Physical Education and Sports are comparatively less than that of other courses. As a result; the fact that the program in Turkey includes more options and is more flexible provides advantages in generating solutions in regards to physical opportunities and material use, the inefficacy of class hours appears to be a disadvantage. On the other hand, kinetically attainments are limited due to the physical opportunities not being the same in all of the schools. In order to increase the mobility and applications of the courses in Turkey by paying attention to these specifications, prioritizing the physical opportunities for physical education and doing physical exercise, and increasing the amount of class hours can be suggested.
The Cognitive Structures of Turkish Pre-Service Teachers in Relation to the Concept of Light
Author: Sadoglu, Gunay Palic
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Preservice Teachers,Elementary School Teachers,Primary Education,Cognitive Structures,Science Teachers,Science Instruction,Scientific Concepts,Light,Associative Learning,Association Measures,Sentences,Qualitative Research,Validity,Reliability,Coding,Content Analysis

As learning is a product of the interaction between certain concepts which are already present within an individual's mind, it is becoming increasingly important to determine the cognitive structures in relation to these concepts which are present within the minds of students. It has been said that the word association test, which is a technique that discloses the cognitive structure, provides an opportunity to evaluate the structure of connections between the creations of knowledge within the minds of individuals. This also includes the question as to whether these connections are considered logical or not. The goal of this study is to examine the cognitive structures of primary school Turkish pre-service teachers in regards to the concept of light. This also happens to be one of the basic concepts of science, by means of the word association test. The sample group within this qualitative research study was comprised of 35 pre-service teachers, who were all in the process of studying at the 3rd grade in the Department of Primary Education. The sentences formed by each of the pre-service teachers in regards to the concept of light were evaluated in terms of the categories developed by Ozata-Yucel &amp; Ozkan (2015). Whilst the pre-service teachers generally associated the concept of light to the concepts of the sun, stars, light bulb, illumination, energy, light refraction, velocity of light, artificial light source, linear road, electricity, lamp and the moon, it was determined that the concept of light was to be related to the individual source and nature of light.
A Research about the Level of Using Language Teaching Methods and Its Effect on Some Variables: In Turkey
Author: Okmen, Burcu
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Methods,English Teachers,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Gender Differences,Tenure,Teacher Surveys,Statistical Analysis,Institutional Characteristics,Incidence,Secondary Schools,Foreign Countries

The aim of this research is to define language teaching methods used by English teachers in Turkey and their usage level and to define if the level of usage changes according to gender, seniority and graduated school types. The research group consisted of 95 English teachers who study in secondary school in Duzce in 2013-2014. Survey method was used and quantitative data were used. Language teaching methods scale developed by researcher was practiced to define which methods English teachers use. As a result, it was seen that teachers used Grammar Based Method at a high level and used Speaking Based Method at a low level. As a result of statistics, it was seen that methods changed according to gender, seniority and graduated school types.