ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Peer-Mediated Joint Attention Intervention in the Preschool Classroom
Author: Hansen, Sarah G.
Date: 2019-08-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preschool Education,Autism,Pervasive Developmental Disorders,Attention,Peer Influence,Peer Relationship,Rating Scales,Interpersonal Competence,Interpersonal Communication,Social Development

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities are at risk of isolation from same-aged peers. Furthermore, research indicates that even in inclusive settings, children with ASD benefit from targeted interventions and support. Among the social communication skills that are frequently absent in children with ASD is joint attention. Joint attention can be defined as shared engagement between two individuals on a third object or event and has been identified as potential pivotal skill for later development of age-appropriate social skills and communication. A growing body of literature documents effective intervention on joint attention skill for young children with ASD; however, few studies document the effects of an intervention mediated by a natural change agent. In the present study, independent concurrent multiple-baseline designs were used to evaluate the impact of a joint attention intervention combined with peer training on the response to joint attention (RJA) behaviors exhibited by seven preschoolers with ASD. Results indicated that RJA behaviors increased overall, the seven peers were able to carry out a simple intervention with fidelity, and that both bids from peers and responses to those bids increased following intervention. Limitations and opportunities for future research are discussed.
Preventing Reading Failure for First-Grade Students in an Urban School
Author: Telesman, Alana Oif
Date: 2019-08-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Grade 1,Elementary School Students,Urban Schools,African American Students,At Risk Students,Reading Difficulties,Oral Reading,Reading Fluency,Reading Comprehension,Correlation,Reading Programs,Computer Uses in Education,Educational Technology,Skill Development,Generalization,Emergent Literacy

This study sought to examine the effectiveness of Reading RACES (RR), a computer program designed to deliver a repeated reading intervention with culturally relevant passages. Specifically, this study examined the effects of RR on the oral reading fluency (ORF) and comprehension gains for first-grade learners in an urban setting and whether these gains would generalize to novel, generic passages. Five first-grade African American students at risk for reading failure were selected to participate in this study. Results indicated a functional relation between the use of RR and student gains in ORF and comprehension. All students who participated in this study demonstrated moderate to substantial gains on their ORF and comprehension on practiced passages. In addition, the data showed reading skills generalized to novel passages and maintained even 1 month following intervention. These findings extend the previous research base for RR. Limitations and future implications will be discussed.
Getting Ready for Generation Z Students -- Considerations on 3D Printing Curriculum
Author: Popescu, Diana
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Generational Differences,Printing,Engineering Education,College Faculty,Foreign Countries,Student Attitudes,Expectation,Prior Learning,Teaching Methods,Manufacturing,Cognitive Style,Vocational Schools,Graduate Students,Preferences,Curriculum Design

As there is a worldwide adoption of 3D printing (3DP) in many activity areas, formal education becomes mandatory for acquiring theoretical knowledge and hands-on skills for an efficient use, for bringing real contributions to the development of this technology and its applications. Truly digitally natives, Gen Z students are now entering higher forms of education. They are trained by Gen X and early Gen Y professors who should be able to cope not only with students' different set of skills and mind-set, but also, in case of 3D printing, with the media overexposure of this technology and, consequently, with a tendency of fast acquiring shallow knowledge and being auto-sufficient with this. In this context, our research examines the challenges and implications raised by 3DP curriculum aspects, providing a series of considerations and analyses based on literature review and on a long experience of teaching this topic in an engineering environment. Results of a survey aimed to understand Gen Z Romanian students' expectations on learning and teaching 3DP are also presented. We agree the idea that teaching should be adapted to student prior knowledge, not being practical and efficient to customize it to student trait. In the same time, we consider that knowing new generation characteristics, learning habits and preferences, as a group, can definitely support teachers in choosing the right tools and methods so that to improve correct content delivery and to ensure that this content efficiently reaches audience.
Predominant Components of the Tutorial Action in University Students
Author: Guerrero-Ramírez, Julia
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,College Students,Student Attitudes,Student Development,Tutorial Programs

The research related to the practice of tutorial action in university students, aimed to determine the predominant component of tutorial, recognizing that tutorial in the university is gaining value and significance for the benefit of the students, as a support area, orientation and coverage during the educational procedure in its different academic, professional and personal dimensions. The study corresponds to the quantitative approach, deductive hypothetical and substantive method, non-experimental, cross-sectional or transactional and explanatory design, with a population of 2629 students whose representative sample was 335 participants. The results of the same showed that 67% of the students considered that the tutorial action they received was adequate, while 33%, also states that the predominant dimension was the academic development. It is concluded that the tutorial action did have a significant and predominant presence since it was considered as adequate within the development of university life in undergraduate students; situation that confirmed and revalued the attention to different needs and interests by the students responding to an education of integral development.
Level of Cognitive Biases of Representativeness and Confirmation in Psychology Students of Three Bío-Bío Universities
Author: Castro M., Alexandra
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Decision Making,Cognitive Processes,Bias,College Students,Psychology,Age Differences,Gender Differences,Thinking Skills,Logical Thinking,Psychologists

Cognitive biases are unreasonable ways of making decisions, often in a one-sided way. The objective of this research was to describe the level of representativeness and confirmation biases in Chilean psychology students, in order to know how this phenomenon occurs. The participants were 198 psychology students from three universities in southern Chile. The instrument was based on two cognitive tasks derived from Kanheman and Tversky. The data were analyzed through descriptive statistics and mean differences. The results indicate a high level of biases in the groups of students, in the two tasks evaluated; the representativeness bias presents differences among universities only in sub-task 1, as well as in task 2, related to confirmation bias. Likewise, there are differences in representation bias according to age and sex. The need to strengthen reasoning skills in the initial training of future psychologists, in order to improve skills related to decision making in the professional field is concluded.
Problem Based Learning (PBL) in the Development of Emotional Intelligence of University Students
Author: Luy-Montejo, Carlos
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Problem Based Learning,Emotional Intelligence,College Freshmen,Foreign Countries,Teaching Methods,Program Effectiveness,Active Learning,Emotional Development,Thinking Skills,Interpersonal Competence,Stress Management

This article deals with the effect of Problem Based Learning (PBL) in the development of the emotional intelligence of first-semester students in a private university in Lima. To achieve this purpose, an applied research was carried out, using the experimental method (quasi-experimental design), given that the independent variable (PBL) will be manipulated so that it produces an effect on the dependent variable (Emotional Intelligence), which will be measured. To do this, a sample of 48 students was taken; it was divided into two groups: one of control (24) and the other one experimental (24) of a total population of 1281 freshmen. For the collection of data, the Bar-On Emotional Intelligence Inventory (I-CE) test was used as a pretest. PBL methodology was then applied throughout 16 learning sessions to the experimental group, while the control group received traditional learning methodologies. The same Bar-on test was then used as posttest to conduct measures for both groups. The results showed that there was significant influence of the PBL in the development of the emotional intelligence of the students of study.
Competencies of Principals in Ensuring Sustainable Education: Teachers&apos; Views
Author: Semin, Fatma Köybasi
Date: 2019-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Elementary School Teachers,Secondary School Teachers,Teacher Attitudes,Teacher Administrator Relationship,Principals,Administrator Qualifications,Competence,Sustainability,Educational Objectives,Capacity Building,School Culture,Transformational Leadership,Ethics

This study aimed to reveal the opinions of teachers about the competencies of school administrators in order to ensure the sustainability of education in schools. It was a pneumology study designed with qualitative research method. The study group consists of fifteen teachers from schools located in five different educational zones across the center of Sivas, a city in Central Turkey. Study data were analyzed with content analysis to determine the factors that provide educational sustainability in schools. According to the results; solidarity and structured work characteristics among school administrators to fulfill the objectives of the school affect the adequacy of education in a positive way; while institutionalism and limiting of the capacity have an opposite effect. In relation to capacity building for taking the school culture to future, school administrators have a high opinion of opening up to the neighborhood besides school culture supply and demand. Lastly, for carrying the school into the future, teachers expect school leaders to exhibit behaviors with emphasis on specific themes as ethics, motivation, and awareness.
Application of &quot;The Nature of Science&quot; Box Event Examples to Middle School Seventh Grade Students
Author: Afacan, Özlem
Date: 2019-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Scientific Principles,Grade 7,Middle School Students,Science Activities,Science Instruction,Foreign Countries,Scientific and Technical Information,Secondary School Science,Scientists,Science Teachers,Student Attitudes

Previous study on the nature of science indicated that the use of activities is essential and important in the teaching of the nature of science subjects. The aim of the research is to develop alternative activities for helping students in the seventh grade of middle school develop their views on the nature of science and for better teaching the nature of science. In this study, four different activities suitable for middle school seventh class achievements which are also related to the nature of science were developed and worksheets related to those activities were prepared. The activities and worksheets were examined by two science education experts and necessary arrangements were made in line with their opinions. These events are called; &quot;mystery candle inbox&quot;, &quot;following trail&quot;, &quot;mystery in box&quot;, and &quot;Colorful lights&quot; activity. This study was designed according to case study settings from qualitative research methods. The research group consists of 27 students who are in the seventh grade of a middle school in Kirsehir. When the activities are being carried out, students filled in worksheets for each activity. The worksheets were analyzed by content analysis method. At the end of the research, it was determined that the designed and applied the nature of science activities have a positive effect on the development of the students' opinions about the nature of science.
With Great Privilege Comes Great Responsibility
Author: Dotter, Anne
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Advantaged,Honors Curriculum,Change Agents,Social Justice,Critical Thinking,Education Work Relationship,Cultural Awareness,Teacher Responsibility,College Faculty,Social History,Violence,Inclusion,Curriculum Enrichment

This essay contends that honors education should seize the opportunity to expose our students to the horrors of our society such as &quot;the violence against those among us with the least amount of power.&quot; We can affirm our curricular foundation (writing, reflection, and critical thinking) by supplementing it with histories of oppression in order to better equip our students with the tools necessary to become change agents. Such a shift in curricular content and pedagogies could engender changes in our institutional practices that model successful collaboration across races, cultures, and disciplines for our students, ultimately leading the way to a more just university. Our investment in our students' ability to take the lead in interrupting oppressive patterns, challenging the status quo, and becoming change agents will lead to a more just society.
From High Intellectual Ability to Genius: Profiles of Perfectionism
Author: Sastre-Riba, Sylvia
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Personality Traits,High Achievement,Intelligence,Academically Gifted,Cognitive Development,Standards,Correlation,Adolescents,Foreign Countries

The aim of the study was to understand the components associated with the types of perfectionism described as adaptive/healthy, maladaptive/unhealthy or non-perfectionism, which could offer positive or negative aspects to improve excellence and welfare, exploring the number and content of the latent perfectionism structure as a multidimensional construct in a sample of High Intellectual Abilities (HIA) students. Links with Positive and Negative perfectionism were also compared across perfectionism latent profiles. A total of n=137 HIA students, mean age 13.77 years (SD=1.99), participated in a survey. The Almost Perfect Scale Revised (APS-R) and Positive and Negative Perfectionism Scale-12 (PNPS-12) were used. Results obtained showed three latent classes (LC): 'Unhealthy' (LC1), 'Healthy' (LC2) and 'No perfectionism' (LC3). LC1 showed high scores on Discrepancy subscales but low in Order and High Standards. LC2 displayed higher scores on High Standards and Order. LC3 displayed lowest scores across all perfectionism facets. Statistically significant differences were found across latent profile in almost all perfectionism features. Different patterns of associations with Positive and Negative perfectionism were obtained across latent profiles. These findings address the latent structure of perfectionisms in HIA students and allow us to delimit, analyze, and understand the tentative latent profiles within the HIA arena.
Online News Recommendations Credibility: The Tie Is Mightier than the Source
Author: Samuel-Azran, Tal
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: News Reporting,Credibility,Information Sources,Social Influences,Users (Information),Information Seeking,Online Searching,News Media,Trust (Psychology),Sharing Behavior,Beliefs,Social Networks,Foreign Countries,Undergraduate Students,Private Colleges

In this paper, we wish to examine the perceived credibility of news items shared through Social Networking Sites (SNS) -- specifically, as a function of tie strength and perceived credibility of the media source from which the content originated. We utilized a between-subjects design. The Facebook account of each participant (N=217) was analyzed. Based on this analysis, our participants were shown a fictitious Facebook post that was presumably shared by one of their Facebook friends with whom they had either a strong social tie (experiment group), or a weak social tie (control group). All recipients were then asked about their perceptions regarding the news source (from which the item presumably originated), and their perception regarding the credibility of the presented item. Our findings indicate that the strength of the social tie between the sharer of the item and its recipient mediates the effect of the credibility perception regarding the news source, and the perceived item credibility, as well as the likelihood of searching for additional information regarding the topic presented in the shared item.
Value Literacy -- A New Model for Education of Character and Values
Author: Ergen, Gürkan
Date: 2019-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Values Education,Models,Multiple Literacies,Moral Values,Critical Thinking,Individual Development,Role of Education,Interpersonal Relationship,Human Dignity,Ethics

Life without interaction and communication cannot exist, neither without choices. In communication, firstly every source and then every message has a value; likewise, every choice humans are to make each and every second is a result of an e'value'tion. Because there exists no moment or field without 'value' and e'value'tion, they end up in a numerous value exchanges and e'value'tion processes occurring in numerous ways. Under all disagreements and conflicts lies the failure to perform a proper analysis of the value to be passed across in the exchange of value before us in particular and then this limitless value exchange process and the values governing our choices and the consequences thereof for ourselves and people around us. The primary concern of the present paper is to discuss the conceptualization of 'value literacy' as a learning model allowing for an analysis of this kind. This is an analytical study based on an exhaustive review of the literature related to literacy, values, and character education. By allowing for the construction of relationships with an elevated awareness and sensitivity concerning the values underlying interpersonal relationships, 'Value literacy' has a notable potential for the resolution of conflicts in these relationships and reasoning thereof worthy of human dignity and for its capacity to complete literacy types such as values education, character education, personality development, emotion management, ethics literacy.
The Effect of Drama Activities on Five-Year-Old Children&apos;s Social Skills
Author: Remziye, Ceylan
Date: 2019-06-23
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Drama,Teaching Methods,Interpersonal Competence,Skill Development,Social Development,Kindergarten,Program Effectiveness,Friendship,Emotional Response,Self Control,Academic Ability

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of drama activities on the social skills of five-year-old children. In this research, experimental design with pre-test/post-test control group was used. The sample group of the study consisted of 32 kindergarten five-year-old children in Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey in 2017-2018 academic year. After a random selection, 16 children (8 girls and 8 boys), were selected as the experimental group while the other 16 children (8 girls and 8 boys) were selected as the control group. In the study, General Information Form and Preschool Social Skills Assessment Scale (PSSAS) were used as data collection tools. A total of 24 drama activities were administered to the children in the experimental group three times a week for eight weeks. After the completion of the drama activities, the experimental and control groups were administered the same scale as posttest and four weeks later as a retention test for the experimental group. As a result of the study, a statistically significant difference was found between the pre-test/post-test total scores of social skills of the experimental and the control group in favor of the experimental group (p&lt;0.05).
Participatory Audiences in the European Public Service Media: Content Production and Copyright
Author: López-Cepeda, Ana-María
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Public Service,Mass Media,Audiovisual Aids,Social Media,Web Sites,Participation,Creativity,Social Values,Broadcast Industry

The interactivity and participation of the public in the media is not a novelty, but has increased significantly with the adaptation to the digital convergence process. The possibility for audiences to share content through social platforms or generating its own is raising new ethical and legal issues. In this context, the public service audiovisual media must be pioneer both in the introduction of new participatory experiences and in the debate on the behaviour of the media regarding the interaction with its users. The objective of this article is twofold: on the one hand, to approach the current scenario of participatory mechanisms present in the European public service audiovisual media; on the other hand, to determine how this media is solving the new problems generated by the increase in user interaction. The research on participatory mechanisms offered by public service media shows that social networks, blogs, and comment sections are the main tools for discursive participation, while the field of creative participation requires the exploitation of new innovation strategies. The main challenge arising from this situation is how to control the legality of user-generated content and how to manage the ownership of copyright according to social values represented in public service media.
Facebook and Virtual Communication. An Experimental Study in Higher Education Teachers
Author: Fajardo Vizquerra, Leydi Susan
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Social Media,College Faculty,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Training,Computer Mediated Communication,Interaction,College Students,Synchronous Communication,Asynchronous Communication,Foreign Countries,Faculty Development,Intervention

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of a Facebook training program in the virtual communication of university teachers. The importance of the theme developed is based on the fact that at present, for the process of interaction and communication between labor, academic, economic or social communities, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are being used, where all types of information flow through the available technological tools and social networks, and which is selected by the users, according to the stakeholder to which they belong; one of them is Facebook. The approach was quantitative, with quasi-experimental design, for which a sample of 140 university teachers was divided into two groups: control group with 60 teachers and the experimental group with 80 teachers. The results indicate that there is influence of the Facebook training program in the virtual communication of university teachers, as demonstrated by the statistical test (Mann-Whitney U = 155.500; Z = -1,084, Asymptotic (bilateral) significance 0.000&lt;0.05). This finding can help generate favorable opinions for its possible use of the Facebook platform for educational social interaction purposes.