ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Developing Competencies in a Mechanism Course Using a Project-Based Learning Methodology in a Multidisciplinary Environment
Author: Guajardo-Cuéllar, Alejandro
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Engineering,Engineering Education,Mechanics (Physics),Student Projects,Active Learning,Majors (Students),Interdisciplinary Approach,Competence,Teaching Methods,Instructional Effectiveness,Skill Development,Educational Innovation,Higher Education,Problem Based Learning,College Students,Foreign Countries

Design of Mechanism is a standard subject in Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering majors. Different methods and tools are used by lecturers to teach the subject. In this work, we investigate the impact on the competencies development by implementing a project-based learning methodology in a mechanism course. For this, we analyze the performance of students from two different groups. The first group is taught in a traditional fashion developing a final project just related to the discipline, and the second group is taught in a multidisciplinary context where the final goal is to develop a complex project where the mechanisms subject is one complementary subject with the others. The development of engineering competencies, declared for this course, is presented for both groups through the evaluation of different aspects; also, a survey of satisfaction from the students of both groups is presented. Overall, the results show that the multidisciplinary project-based learning method, having a nonacademic training partner as sponsor and solving a real nonacademic project, improves the development of competencies related to practical applications and increases the motivation and appreciation of the student towards the mechanism learning discipline.
School Organizational Culture and Leadership: Theoretical Trends and New Analytical Proposals
Author: Torres, Leonor L.
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Organizational Culture,Instructional Leadership,Educational Change,Educational Policy,School Administration,School Culture,Academic Achievement,Correlation,Trend Analysis,Heuristics,Comparative Analysis,Foreign Countries,Accountability,Competition,Interdisciplinary Approach,Models,Barriers,Educational Environment,Elementary Secondary Education

Various changes in the spheres of education policy and school management over recent decades have sparked a renewed interest in the issue of school culture and its potential to understand processes of leadership and academic performance. What are the contributions and potentialities of organizational culture for understanding school organizations and their leadership processes? This article has two goals: (i) to identify trends and theoretical particularities inherent to the major approaches to organizational culture, focusing on research carried out in the school setting; (ii) to debate the heuristic usefulness of a theoretical proposal for studying organizational culture in the school setting. The article presents a multidimensional analysis of school organizational culture, considering political, social and educational factors, aiming to capture the unique nature of school cultures and their links to processes of leadership and management. By linking these to different leadership perspectives, this model may inspire further comparative study of educational management in an international context. This approach demonstrates the need to tailor models for analysing organizational culture to the school environment, to achieve a deeper and more solid understanding of school life and leadership and management phenomena.
Socio-Emotional Competence and Self-Efficacy of Future Secondary School Teachers
Author: Carmen, Romero-García
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preservice Teachers,Secondary Education,Masters Programs,Self Efficacy,Social Emotional Learning,Self Concept Measures,Foreign Countries,Age Differences,Gender Differences,Teaching Experience

The assessment and development of teachers' socio-emotional competence has become a topic of interest in education. Within the classroom, this competence is demonstrated not only in teaching but also in student development. The present study addressed the relationship between socio-emotional competence and self-efficacy, as perceived by prospective secondary-school teachers (n = 285) studying for a master's degree in teacher training, and possible differences according to the socio-demographic characteristics of the sample. A descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional, survey-type method was followed. The instruments used were a previously validated socioemotional competence inventory, and an adapted version of the Teachers Self Efficacy Scale. The results showed an adequate level in most of the socio-emotional competencies studied and a high perception of self-efficacy, and both scales correlated positively. Higher levels of socioemotional competence were found in women and in teachers aged 40 to 50 with more teaching experience. The positive effect of experience in relation to self-efficacy being higher in women than in men was corroborated. We concluded that there is a need to develop the socio-emotional competence of trainee teachers to improve their teaching performance.
Impacts on Students&apos; Academic Performance Due to Emergency Transition to Remote Teaching during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Financial Engineering Course Case Study
Author: Nazempour, Rezvan
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: COVID-19,Pandemics,Academic Achievement,Undergraduate Students,Grade Point Average,School Closing,Online Courses,Distance Education,Mathematics,Engineering,Economics,In Person Learning,Instructional Effectiveness

The COVID-19 pandemic has enforced higher education institutions to adopt emergency remote teaching (ERT) as the substitution for traditional face-to-face (F2F) classes. A lot of concerns have been raised among education institutions, faculty, and students regarding the effectiveness of this sudden shift to online learning. This study aims to statistically investigate the impacts of such a transition on the academic performance of undergraduate students enrolled in the Financial Engineering course. A novel rank percentage measure is proposed and employed to compare the academic performance of around 500 students who attended the course during the four semesters, including the transitional disrupted semester by the pandemic, two consecutive online semesters, and the traditional face-to-face classroom. Our analysis emphasizes the significance of the differences between specific subgroups of the students. In particular, academically average to good students with cumulative GPAs greater than 2.90 have been negatively impacted by the transition to online learning, whereas the results for students with cumulative GPAs less than 2.90 are not very conclusive. Realizing the effects of such closures on the academic performance of students is considered important, since the results might have some merits for other courses and instructors. The template model can be transferred to other courses, and employed by the university administrators, specifically for developing policies in emergency circumstances that are not limited to pandemics.
Enablers and Difficulties in the Implementation of Gamification: A Case Study with Teachers
Author: Araújo, Inês
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Gamification,Educational Games,Game Based Learning,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Student Motivation,Faculty Development,Barriers,Program Effectiveness,Foreign Countries,Elementary Education,Early Adolescents,Teacher Attitudes

Although there is ample evidence that gamification can engage students in learning, it is less used than one would expect. This raises the question of the difficulties teachers face in planning and implementing gamification in their classes. What enables teachers' implementation of gamification? These questions were addressed through a case study, and data were collected along the four phases of a teachers' training course. The first phase approached the gamification concept, the Octalysis Framework, the types of gamification, and digital tools. The second phase focused on planning the gamification activity, the third one on implementing it with their students in school, and the fourth phase on sharing and reflecting on their experience. It was possible to identify enablers and difficulties that influenced the planning, such as personal background, time available, and technical conditions in the classroom. Most teachers opted for a platform with digital tools that allowed them to apply all the desired features to their gamified activities. The most complex gamified activities were related to the teacher's gaming experience, use of digital tools, and risk-taking.
Executive Functions, Motor Development, and Digital Games Applied to Elementary School Children: A Systematic Mapping Study
Author: Moron, Victória Branca
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Executive Function,Motor Development,Correlation,Video Games,Elementary School Students,Intervention,Program Effectiveness,Cognitive Development,Psychomotor Skills,Children,Child Development,Foreign Countries

Studies show that executive functions and motor development are associated with each other and with learning ability. A more technological lifestyle combined with digital culture should be considered a viable alternative to stimulate children's development. Therefore, this study aimed to present a systematic mapping of the literature involving executive functions, motor development, and the use of digital games in intervention programs for elementary school children from 6 to 11 years old. Four databases were researched: PubMed, Scielo, Science Direct, and SCOPUS, including publications between 2012 and March 2021. The initial results indicated 4881 records. After the selection process, 15 manuscripts that presented the central theme of the study were selected. The main results indicated that intervention strategies are rather heterogeneous. Most of the studies demonstrated efficient results after intervention protocols, many of them were conducted in Europe, and 46% occurred in a school environment. No research was identified involving technological solutions using executive functions, motor development, and digital games in an integrated manner. Hence, this constitutes a field of future scientific research.
Competency-Based Education as Curriculum and Assessment for Integrative Learning
Author: Marcotte, Kayla M.
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Competency Based Education,Evaluation Methods,Integrated Curriculum,Medical Education,Curriculum Development,Medical Students,Premedical Students

Integrative learning and competency-based education are both evolving as major themes in education. Integrative learning emphasizes that knowledge from different domains and contexts are brought together to enhance the learner's experience. The emphasis on integrated learning has sparked the development of integrative curriculum, which methodically brings knowledge and skills together in ways that reinforce learning. Competency-based medical education (CBME) is an educational method that assumes integrative learning by relying on defined competencies for learners to master during their education. CBME is an illustration of both integrated learning and integrated curricula. In CBME, learners progress through their program by demonstrating acquisition of competencies, which are often integrative statements in themselves. In integrative learning, the question of how to assess a learner's progress through their program remains a challenge. Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) are one tool utilized to assess learning in CBME. EPAs are defined, observable tasks that learners should be able to demonstrate upon entering their profession. Understanding EPAs and how they are used in CBME may provide a framework for assessing integrative learning in diverse educational contexts.
Computer Animation Education Online: A Tool to Teach Control Systems Engineering throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Patete, Anna
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Animation,Distance Education,Electronic Learning,COVID-19,Pandemics,Active Learning,Student Projects,College Students,Foreign Countries,Engineering Education,Teaching Methods

The world is changing, and university education must be able to adapt to it. New technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics are requiring tools such as simulation and process control to develop products and services. Thus, control systems engineering schools are adapting to new educational frameworks tailored to deploy promising and feasible new technologies. Herein, we have relied on computer animation-based education and its implementation as an online project-based strategy to attain the objectives and goals of the control systems engineering courses at University of Los Andes, Venezuela. The ControlAnimation library developed in Mathematica program in 2002 has been used as a tool to teach control systems engineering courses since 2008 and with greater prominence since 2020, when the stay-at-home orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic were enacted. Consequently, computer animation-based education has proven its feasibility as an online tool combined with project-based learning techniques, thus allowing students to interact with an animated control system by changing the mathematical model and the design parameters of control laws in a comfortable and somewhat playful way. This enabled new capabilities to study the dynamic behaviors of primordial control systems online. In addition, it allowed students to co-identify and relate in a more intuitive way to the mathematical models and control equations with the physical behavior of the real control systems.
A Systematic Review of Integrated Learning Definitions, Frameworks, and Practices in Recent Health Professions Education Literature
Author: Matinho, Davina
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Interdisciplinary Approach,Definitions,Allied Health Occupations Education,Medical Education,Learning Activities,Experiential Learning,Educational Theories,Design,Teaching Methods,Integrated Curriculum,Curriculum Development

International curricular redevelopment and quality improvement efforts include integration within and across disciplines as a focal point. Definitions and applications of the term 'integration' vary routinely in health professions education literature, weakening opportunities to enhance our educational practice through collaborative, interprofessional knowledge-sharing. This systematic review examined recent health professions education literature for reported definitions, theories or frameworks, and educational activities around integrated learning, education, curricula, or teaching. A total of 35 articles representing learners from 12 different health professions, between 2017 and 2021, were analyzed through a literature search of seven databases: PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, JSTOR, the Cochrane Library, LGBTQ + Life, and ERIC. Full-text retrieval and data extraction of the included studies were conducted. Of the 35 articles reviewed, 13 included explicit definitions of integration (an additional six alluded to a definition), 19 referred to an educational theory or framework used to guide integration design efforts, and 27 mentioned teaching methods by which integration was implemented. Misunderstanding what is meant by integrated, how others have planned for it, or how others have sought to bring it about practically, all threaten attempts to improve the cultivation of health professionals as integrated thinkers and holistic care providers.
Physical Education and Physical Activity Promotion: Lifestyle Sports as Meaningful Experiences
Author: Wintle, Jordan
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Physical Education,Physical Activity Level,Health Promotion,Athletics,Student Motivation,Foreign Countries,Student Experience

The value of embracing a physically active lifestyle has been well documented in recent times. However, despite this knowledge, physical activity levels in many western societies remain worryingly low in both adult and youth populations. Habit formation in youth is a key indicator of engagement in physical activity as an adult; therefore, maximising opportunities to develop motivation in young people is vitally important to increase the likelihood of maintaining physical activity habits as an adult. A key factor for the development of motivation is school-based physical education. This review considers the current landscape of physical education as a vehicle for physical activity promotion, and suggests that a change of approach that moves away from physical education focusing solely on sport techniques is long overdue. A culturally relevant curriculum that includes lifestyle sports, with a focus on mastery and enjoyment through a meaningful experiences approach, is proposed as a viable update to current practice.
Positive Creativity Is Principled Creativity
Author: Beghetto, Ronald A.
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Creativity,Psychology,Well Being,Intention,Culturally Relevant Education,Creative Teaching,Teaching Methods,Creative Activities,Evaluative Thinking,Ethics,Decision Making,Perspective Taking,Reflection

The purpose of this article is to introduce an action-oriented framework aimed at clarifying and promoting a principled approach to creativity in education. A principled approach to creativity refers to the design and implementation of positive creative educational endeavors, which are guided by a set of agreed-upon commitments aimed at making a positive contribution to the learning and lives of others. We open by discussing how our conception of a principled approach to creativity connects to positive creativity and how this approach can guide creative educational endeavors. More specifically, we discuss the opportunities and responsibilities associated with a principled approach to creativity, including how educators, students, and researchers can re-conceptualize creative opportunities, creative risk-taking, creative action, and the intended and unintended outcomes that result from promoting creative thought and action in and beyond the walls of schools and classrooms.
Students&apos; Perceptions and Experiences of Online Education in Pakistani Universities and Higher Education Institutes during COVID-19
Author: Iqba, Saad Arslan
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Student Attitudes,Student Experience,Online Courses,COVID-19,Pandemics,School Closing,Student Satisfaction,Distance Education,Barriers,Educational Quality,Educational Environment,College Students,Educational Resources

This study investigates the perceptions and experiences of students regarding the various aspects of online education while studying at the Pakistani Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) and universities that shifted to online modes of instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus of this study was to identify the level of satisfaction of students with the support being provided to them by their institutes and instructors; the use of different modes of communication and assessment methods; and their home study environment. It also explored the positively and negatively influencing factors affecting online education, as perceived by them. An online questionnaire-based cross-sectional survey research design was chosen for conducting this study. Data were collected from 707 respondents belonging to various Pakistani HEIs and universities and analyzed using the SPSS software. The results revealed a considerable dissatisfaction among the study population regarding online education being provided to them during the COVID pandemic. The participants raised concerns over the lack of institutional support and the quality of online instruction. Other issues raised included unsuitable study environments, unavailability of electricity, and connectivity issues. Overall, the majority of the students indicated that they would not like to opt for online classes in the future once the pandemic was over.
Discovering Entrepreneurship Competencies through Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education Students
Author: Sousa, Maria José
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Entrepreneurship,Competence,Problem Based Learning,Higher Education,Skill Development,Undergraduate Students,Human Resources,Information Technology,Bachelors Degrees,Time Management,Decision Making,Problem Solving,Responsibility,Communication Skills,Organizational Change,Teamwork

The increase in student engagement in the learning process has driven educators to use more dynamic pedagogical methodologies. Several studies have shown evidence of increased interest in learning when real-world problems are integrated into the learning environment. This paper presents the competencies developed by higher education students through application of the problem-based learning (PBL) methodology in higher education courses. The research begins with the identification of a set of competencies developed by higher education students in other studies developed and reported in the last five years and includes them in a survey to analyze the level of development of those competencies when problem-based learning is applied in university courses. To identify the competencies developed by applying the problem-based learning methodology, the research employed a document analysis and a survey of the students that participated in the experimental application. The research questions &quot;What are the competencies developed by students in problem-based learning?&quot; and &quot;Are the competencies identified by the students sufficiently learned in universities?&quot; guided the study. The competencies found by the students were identified through a questionnaire given as an online survey to 76 students. The key outcome of the research is the identification in the bachelor courses of the competencies perceived as essential by students participating in the application of PBL in terms of their advancement.
GIReSiMCo: A Learning Model to Scaffold Students&apos; Science Process Skills and Biology Cognitive Learning Outcomes
Author: Senisum, Maria
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique),Science Process Skills,Outcomes of Education,Biology,Cognitive Processes,Teaching Methods,Grade 11,High School Students

The discovery of new knowledge is inseparable from the process of determining whether that applies science process skills (SPS). Science process skills are essential for students to develop science. This study aimed to determine the effect of the GIReSiMCo (Guided Inquiry, Reading, Sharing, Mind Mapping, and Communication) learning model as a new guided inquiry on students' SPS and cognitive learning outcomes. A quasi-experimental research design was applied in biology classrooms at seven senior high schools for one semester. One hundred and twenty-six eleventh-grade students who were interested in mathematics and natural sciences were selected as the research sample. In this study, the application of the GIReSiMCo learning model was compared to that of a guided inquiry model, the Reading Mind Mapping Sharing (RMS) model, and traditional learning models. The two dependent variables are science process skills and cognitive learning outcomes. The data collection instrument for the two variables is in the form of an essay test. The reliability of the instrument test was 0.75 for cognitive learning outcomes, and 0.68 for SPS. The dependent variable data were analyzed using the ANCOVA test. The result showed that the GIReSiMCo learning model had a higher impact on students' cognitive performance and SPS, compared to the traditional learning models. In short, the GIReSiMCo learning model can enhance students' SPS and cognitive learning outcomes. The GIReSiMCo as a student-centered learning model is recommended in Biology learning.