ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Psychometric Properties of the Epistemological Development in Teaching Learning Questionnaire (EDTLQ): An Inventory to Measure Higher Order Epistemological Development
Author: Kjellström, Sofia
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Psychometrics,Epistemology,Questionnaires,Qualitative Research,Foreign Countries,Item Response Theory,Teaching Methods,Higher Education,Factor Analysis,Online Surveys,College Students,College Faculty,Statistical Analysis,Thinking Skills

Qualitative research supports a developmental dimension in views on teaching and learning, but there are currently no quantitative tools to measure the full range of this development. To address this, we developed the Epistemological Development in Teaching and Learning Questionnaire (EDTLQ). In the current study the psychometric properties of the EDTLQ were examined using a sample (N = 232) of teachers from a Swedish University. A confirmatory factor and Rasch analysis showed that the items of the EDTLQ form a unidimensional scale, implying a single latent variable (eg epistemological development). Item and person separation reliability showed satisfactory levels of fit indicating that the response alternatives differentiate appropriately. Endorsement of the statements reflected the preferred constructivist learning-teaching environment of the response group. The EDTLQ is innovative since is the first quantitative survey to measure unidimensional epistemological development and it has a potential to be used as an apt tool for teachers to monitor the development of students as well as to offer professional development opportunities to the teachers.
Reflecting on a Daughter's Bilingualism and disAbility Narratively
Author: Kim, Hyun Uk
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Daughters,Children,Bilingualism,Public Schools,Elementary School Students,Attitudes toward Disabilities,Social Attitudes,Social Bias,Personal Narratives,Adoption,Asians,Reflection,Educational Legislation,Federal Legislation,Disabilities,Equal Education,Student Placement,School Culture,Educational Change,Inclusion,Parent Child Relationship,Mothers,English Language Learners,Second Language Learning,Special Education,Gifted,Parent Teacher Conferences

This paper explores societal perceptions of a child's disability and bilingualism through the author's observations and reflections. Drawing from the observations of the child in different public schools in the United States, the author shares how the child has been viewed differently and similarly by school personnel. By reflecting on different perceptions of the bilingual child with a disability label, the author promotes least restrictive attitudes toward &quot;all&quot; in schools and society. [Note: Issue number displayed on the PDF (n1) is incorrect. This article was published in v13 n2.]
Development of a Scale for Measuring Teachers' Attitudes toward Students' Inappropriate Behaviour
Author: Malak, Md. Saiful
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Attitude Measures,Teacher Attitudes,Test Construction,Elementary School Teachers,Student Behavior,Behavior Problems,Test Validity,Test Reliability,Likert Scales,Factor Analysis,Aggression,Factor Structure,Goodness of Fit,Foreign Countries

This study aimed at developing a valid and reliable instrument for measuring attitudes of primary schoolteachers toward inappropriate student behaviour. A systematic approach was used to develop the scale. Results provide preliminary evidence that the new instrument (consisting of 13 items on a six-point Likert type scale) meets the standards for reliability. Factor analysis with varimax rotation identified two distinct factors: (1) unproductive behaviour, and (2) aggressive behaviour. The alpha reliability coefficient was found to be 0.91 for the total scale, and 0.92 and 0.75 for first and second subscales respectively. The factor structure was tested using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), which revealed that with a little modification, the identified model had a good fit for the data as all the key fit indices demonstrate highly accepted values including Goodness-of-Fit Index (GFI)&gt;0.95, Comparative Fit Index (CFI)&gt;0.96, and Root Mean Error of Approximation (RMSEA)&lt;0.05. [Note: Issue number displayed on the PDF (n1) is incorrect. This article was published in v13 n2.]
Transformation of a Traditional, Freshman Biology, Three-Semester Sequence, to a Two-Semester, Integrated Thematically Organized, and Team-Taught Course
Author: Soto, Julio G.
Date: 2016-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Freshmen,College Science,Biology,Team Teaching,Science Instruction,Student Surveys,Comparative Analysis,Research Projects,Problem Solving,College Faculty,Interviews,Focus Groups

Biology faculty at San José State University developed, piloted, implemented, and assessed a freshmen course sequence based on the macro-to micro-teaching approach that was team-taught, and organized around unifying themes. Content learning assessment drove the conceptual framework of our course sequence. Content student learning increased significantly in 12 of the categories examined using pre and post assessment instruments. Focus and individual student interviews revealed that students experienced a sense of ownership after completing two, five-week guided inquiry projects. Pass rate for the second semester class increased significantly from 55% to 85%. The percentage of underrepresented students passing the new sequence was higher than 72%, and was 86% at the end of the second year of full course sequence implementation.
Null Models for Everyone: A Two-Step Approach to Teaching Null Model Analysis of Biological Community Structure
Author: McCabe, Declan J.
Date: 2016-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Biology,Science Instruction,Comparative Analysis,Computer Software,Hands on Science,Computer Simulation,Computer Assisted Instruction,Ecology

Since being introduced by Connor and Simberloff in response to Diamond's assembly rules, null model analysis has been a controversial tool in community ecology. Despite being commonly used in the primary literature, null model analysis has not featured prominently in general textbooks. Complexity of approaches along with difficulty in interpreting results may reduce classroom application of this technique. Yet, readily available software makes this set of tools accessible to everyone from practitioners to educators. This exercise describes a hands-on approach that can be cheaply implemented with students as a stand-alone exercise or as a prelude to use of full-blown simulations in follow up lab sessions. Along with a detailed hands-on approach, we have provided a brief introduction to a computer-based approach. This paper includes a link to 294 data sets extracted from Patterson's Nestedness software and reformatted for use in EcoSim. These exercises demonstrate how to compare the observed number of checkerboard patterns in real community data to a frequency distribution of checkerboard patterns in randomized communities. The hands-on simulation uses fake data as a starting point and dozens of randomizations to produce a histogram. Computer-based simulations generate thousands of simulations to rapidly analyze real data sets. The results provide a springboard for discussion of the underpinnings of inferential science as applied to ecological communities.
The Use of &quot;Kryptolebias marmoratus&quot; Eggs as an Educational Tool for Embryology Education
Author: Genade, Tyrone
Date: 2016-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Embryology,Animals,Metabolism,Laboratory Equipment,Science Instruction,Biology,Cytology,Foreign Countries,College Students,College Science

Plastic embryological models lack the excitement of seeing real, live embryos. Chick embryos are often used to demonstrate embryological development and blood circulation to students but this necessitates the death of the organism. &quot;Kryptolebias marmoratus&quot; embryos are large and can be viewed by means of a light microscope without need to harm the organism. Eggs are easily obtained from captive fish; and are easy to display to students. Embryological features common to early human development are readily visible in the &quot;K. marmoratus&quot; embryos: early brain development, eye development, somites, limb buds, blood circulation and pigment cell migration. Embryos also twitch when exposed to light and the beating heart is readily viewable. Use of the embryos in a class room has proven rewarding, students marvel at observing embryological development and are more eager to consider the common embryology and evolution of chordates.
Web-Based Interactive Video Vignettes Create a Personalized Active Learning Classroom for Introducing Big Ideas in Introductory Biology
Author: Wright, L. Kate
Date: 2016-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Web Based Instruction,College Science,Vignettes,Active Learning,Introductory Courses,Biology,Learner Engagement,Student Attitudes,Instructional Materials,Hands on Science,Undergraduate Students,Prediction,Feedback (Response),Science Education,Interactive Video,Scientific Concepts,Electronic Learning,Teaching Methods

The typical &quot;flipped classroom&quot; delivers lecture material in video format to students outside of class in order to make space for active learning in class. But why give students passive material at all? We are developing a set of high-quality online educational materials that promote active, hands-on science learning to aid in teaching of core concepts for introductory biology at the college level. Interactive video vignettes (IVVs) incorporate evidence-based teaching strategies to address known areas of confusion for entering students. Each IVV includes a live-action scenario with undergraduates investigating a biological problem with a realistic experiment that users participate in. Through the course of each 10-20 minute video, users are required to make predictions, answer questions, collect data and draw conclusions. Branching and reflection of previous answers allows each user to have a personalized experience. Research into how students learn with these tools is being used to develop entire modules that will incorporate the IVV as a priming activity to be done as homework, along with suggested activities to be done in class that take the introduced concepts deeper and/or broader.
Understanding by Design: Mentored Implementation of Backward Design Methodology at the University Level
Author: Michael, Nancy A.
Date: 2016-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,College Faculty,Mentors,Methods,Curriculum Design,Curriculum Implementation,Professional Development,Comparative Analysis,Elementary School Teachers,Secondary School Teachers

Unless sought out by the individual, University and College faculty typically receive minimal, if any, pedagogical training as part of their career development. This perspectives essay first introduces pedagogical training for instructors in higher education by comparing it to the training required for primary and secondary school educators. Using this as a backdrop, it then discusses the stated goals of higher education and contrasts these goals with the type of preparation that is traditionally offered to future faculty during graduate and post-doctoral training, with emphasis given to the general lack of teaching mentorship and practical application. It goes on to describe a future faculty member's journey of seeking out higher education pedagogical training, and the process of implementing a student-centered course based on a backward design model, highlighting the importance of experienced mentorship in this process. This essay concludes with a reflection on the backward design process as a whole, the imagined difference in the quality of curriculum and implementation in the absence of mentorship, as well as a discussion about how this experience speaks to pedagogical preparation of higher education teachers in the United States.
The Writing Skill in the Contemporary Society: The Kenyan Perspective
Author: Okari, Florence Mokeira
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Writing Skills,Foreign Countries,Writing Instruction,Teaching Methods,Preschool Education,Elementary School Students,Punctuation,Grading,Writing Tests

This paper is an overview of the writing skill in the lower levels of learning in the contemporary society. The following areas of writing are highlighted: the writing programme and its goals, the basic methodology for writing tasks, broad groups of writing skills, the teaching of the writing skills in pre-primary and primary schools where controlled and guided composition writing are seen as the main types of composition and lastly the punctuation, testing and marking of written tasks.
The Use of Manipulatives in Mathematics Education
Author: Larbi, Ernest
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematics Education,Teaching Methods,Manipulative Materials,Junior High School Students,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Algebra,Conventional Instruction,Comparative Analysis,Mathematics Achievement,Pretests Posttests,Foreign Countries

The study was designed to investigate the efficacy of using algebra tile manipulatives in junior high school students' performance. The study sample comprised 56 students from two schools purposely selected from two towns within the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem municipality. The students were made up of two groups; the experimental and the control group. Each group was taught the same algebra units over a period of four weeks. However, the experimental group was taught using algebra tile manipulatives whilst the control group was taught using the conventional &quot;talk and chalk&quot; method. The instruments used for data collection were mathematics achievement pretest and posttest. Students' achievements on the posttest were analysed using percentages, mean, standard deviation and the independent t-test. The findings of the study were that, those who were taught through extensive use of algebra tiles performed significantly better. Thus the use of the algebra tiles proved very effective and promising approach to teaching and learning algebra, and that the tiles also improved students' thinking process as they solved problems in algebra. On the basis of these findings, it is recommended that algebra tiles should be used as a tool to introducing students to algebraic concepts.
Technology-Enhanced Pathology Education: Nigerian Medical Students Perspectives
Author: Vhriterhire, Raymond A.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Technology,Pathology,Teaching Methods,Medical Education,Student Attitudes,Medical Students,Student Surveys,Laboratory Equipment,Computer Assisted Instruction,Science Tests,Technology Integration,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis,Independent Study,Web Based Instruction

The delivery of pathology education traditionally through instructor centred didactic lectures, small group tutorials, and practical demonstrations using microscope glass slides, gross pot specimens and autopsy sessions, is paving way for electronic learner-centred methods. Successful adoption and implementation of rapidly advancing educational technologies in the resource-constrained environment obtainable in most of sub-Sahara Africa requires a comprehensive analysis of the learners' reflections on their use and effectiveness.Aims: This study aimed to evaluate the perspectives of medical students towards the ever advancing ways of teaching and learning pathology in Nigeria.Materials and methods: Fifty-five fourth year medical students randomly selected from two universities were given survey questionnaire. The questionnaires enquired into opinions of the students on the various aspects of the use of ICT in pathology education. Results: Studying with microscope mounted glass slides was considered by the majority (33, 60%) of the 55 respondents to be the most effective method of learning pathology and 24 (43.6%) favoured the projection of the glass slide on a large screen using a camera-mounted microscope. Twenty-seven (49.1%) preferred projected computer based digital microscope images. Twenty students (36.4%) disagreed with the use of internet-based images during practical classes. Prior distribution of digital images to students' hand-held devices days before classes was agreed to by 19 (34.5%) and strongly agreed to by 15 (27.3%) students. Annotated digital images, instead of glass slides, were favoured by 50, (91%) students. Self-study with webinars was not supported by 26, (47.2%) students. Eleven (20%) students strongly agree, 25 (45.5%) agree, eight (14.5) are undecided, and 10 (18.2%) disagree that the use of digital microscope images reduces microscope handling proficiency. The use of digital images instead of mounted glass slides during objective structured practical examination was supported by 20, (36.4%) students. Forty-seven (85.5%) reported interrupted classes due to faulty equipment. Conclusion: The challenge of developing ways for better delivery of pathology curriculum content to future doctors compels medical educators to explore easier ways of teaching and learning. This study has demonstrated that medical students in Nigeria favour technology enhanced learning and the integration of new teaching methods into already existing frameworks.
Toward a Collective Approach to Course Evaluation in Curriculum Development, A Contemporary Perspective
Author: Nyabero, Charles
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Curriculum Development,Course Evaluation,Decision Making,Evaluation Methods,Test Construction,Evaluation Utilization

The purpose of this article was to explore on how course evaluation, decision making process, the methodology of evaluation and various roles of evaluation interact in the process of curriculum development. In the process of this exploration, the characteristics the types of evaluation, purposes of course evaluation, methodology of evaluation, designing of course evaluation instruments and common uses for course evaluation data were highlighted. Finally a critique for course evaluation was done where various researches done on the same were discussed.
Trends and Issues in Educational Technology Research in Saudi Higher Education: A Meta-Analysis Review
Author: Alkraiji, Abdullah
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Technology,Foreign Countries,Higher Education,Meta Analysis,Information Technology,Research Methodology,Electronic Learning,Distance Education,Computer Assisted Instruction,Web Based Instruction,Web 2.0 Technologies,Integrated Learning Systems,Blended Learning,Cooperative Learning,Virtual Classrooms,Statistical Analysis,Qualitative Research,Technological Literacy,Quasiexperimental Design,Case Studies

As Information Technology expands, all industries and fields in Saudi Arabia are experiencing reduced costs and improvements in the efficiency and effectiveness of operations in various systems. This has positioned the higher education sector in Saudi Arabia as the land of opportunity in terms of educational technology and its ability to support the development of sustainable educational systems. However, scholars in the field in Saudi Arabia still lack sufficient academic scientific study surrounding the various trends and issues in educational technology research in Saudi higher education. Therefore, this study contributes to this gap in knowledge by aiming to evaluate the contents of previous relevant articles concerning educational technology within Saudi universities. The study reviews the trends (i.e. types of technology, target groups, the socio-technical research context, research theories and the research paradigm and methodology) and the various issues on which studies of educational technology have concentrated. Based on this, a total of 52 studies were reviewed. Thereafter, the study outlines limitations in the previous studies and accordingly puts forward various potential future directions and opportunities for research in this field, and some implications for theory.
Correlates of Mental Well-Being among Turkish Health Care Workers
Author: Ersanli, Ercümend
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Mental Health,Gender Differences,Age Differences,Marital Status,Surveys,Statistical Analysis,Well Being,Correlation,Health Personnel,Physicians,Nurses,Physical Therapy,Questionnaires

The aim of present study was to investigate whether the mental well-being of health care workers associated with gender, age and marital status. Data were collected from 115 health care workers (doctors, physiotherapist, nurses, etc.) from a Turkish Medical Research and Application Center. They completed a demographic information form and the Mental Well-being Scale. Independent samples t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used for data analyses. Results of current study showed that mental well-being levels of Turkish health care workers did not correlate with gender, age, or marital status. Future studies may investigate other psychological variables in order to more comprehensive understanding of mental well-being among health care workers.
Types of Bullying in the Senior High Schools in Ghana
Author: Antiri, Kwasi Otopa
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Bullying,High School Students,Interviews,Victims,Aggression,Verbal Communication,Computer Mediated Communication,Social Influences,Psychological Patterns,Student Behavior,Student Characteristics,Qualitative Research

The main objective of the study was to examine the types of bullying that were taking place in the senior high schools in Ghana. A multi-stage sampling procedure, comprising purposive, simple random and snowball sampling technique, was used in the selection of the sample. A total of 354 respondents were drawn six schools in Ashanti, Central and Northern Regions. The interview schedule was administered to three categories of respondents, these were bullies, victims of bullies and bystanders in bullying. The various types of bullying which were going on in the schools were; physical, social, verbal, cyber and psychological. Accordingly the study revealed that physical and verbal bullying were rampant in the various schools in the country. The study recommends the need for the schools to set up a system which will identify the various types and also stop the bullying in the schools. Students should be counselled and made aware of the harmful effects of bullying in the schools.
The Opinions of Music Education Students about 20th and 21st Centuries Classical Music: Uludag University Exemplification
Author: Sakin, Ajda Senol
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Music Education,Student Attitudes,Classical Music,Musical Composition,College Faculty,College Students,Music Teachers,Foreign Countries,Questionnaires,Questioning Techniques

The debates of music historians, composers, and performers on difficulties in understanding the 20th and 21st Centuries international classical music and the reasons have been ongoing for years. The opinions of music education students on this matter and their interests in music of these periods are a matter of curiosity. With this research, students' attitudes towards music of these periods were determined and suggestions were made in the direction of the obtained results. The target population of the study contains Uludag University Faculty of Education Music Education Department students and the research sample contains 117 students from the same department. A questionnaire consisting of open-ended and closed-ended questions was prepared in order to determine the opinions of music students about 20th and 21st century international classical music. From the results of the survey, it was deduced that Music Education Department students do not recognize enough about 20th and 21st Centuries composers, they rarely listen to these periods, but when the opportunity is created, they like to practice and listen to these periods.