ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Slovenian Tourism Curricula Analysis
Author: Mušic, Katarina
Date: 2015-03-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Tourism,Curriculum,Undergraduate Study,Skill Development,Job Skills,Program Content,Business Administration Education

Advances are required in the Slovenian tourism education system in order to successfully cope with current and future issues and achieve balanced development. This research is focused on Slovenian undergraduate educational programmes in Tourism. We analysed the contents of the programmes, appointed relevant skill sets and later analysed the representation of said skill groups through the programmes' taught skills. We then compared the mean representation of skills and skill sets to those skills considered a requirement by Slovenian tourism. In addition, a comparison with more general theories of balanced tourism education was made. The evidence suggests that Slovenian undergraduate tourism education programmes are relatively well-equipped for serving the staffing needs of Slovenian tourism, however they still lack the fundamental balance between vocational, academic and transferrable skills in order to achieve theoretically ideal forms of tourism education programmes.
Gender Difference in Rural Urban Education in Nepal
Author: Panthhe, Kamal Prasad
Date: 2015-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Gender Differences,Rural Education,Urban Education,Access to Education,Educational Attainment,Rural Urban Differences,Age Differences,Geographic Location,Literacy,Socioeconomic Influences,Heads of Households,Parent Influence

Using Nepal Living Standard Survey (NLSS 2003/04), this paper attempts to explore find the differences in education between men and women in urban and rural Nepal. Result shows that the urban populations have higher education compared to rural. Average years of schooling in urban Nepal were more than two times for both men and women; the gap in years of schooling between men and women is smaller in urban area compared to rural. In both rural and urban areas, the differences in education between men and women were smaller among the younger age group while it was higher for the older age groups. Probit model shows that the gender and location (urban/rural) area are significant determinants of schooling.
The Synchronization of Human Dimension Factors in Determining Military Command Climate
Author: Inderjit, S.
Date: 2014-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Military Personnel,Military Training,Readiness,Psychological Patterns,Morale,Organizational Culture

Military combat readiness has well-established procedures for gauging the preparedness of units for deployed combat operations. Such readiness evaluations typically include assessments of unit level tactical proficiency, equipment serviceability checks, manning levels, audits of logistic stocks and supply processes, and reviews of each unit member's individual readiness status. This health diagnosis prescribed as command climate looks only at the tangible quantitative factors which can be predetermined prior to combat duties. The intangible human dimension factor encompasses the morale, physical, and cognitive components of soldier, leader, and organizational development and performance. This is essential to raise, prepare, and employ the military in full spectrum operations which are not measured to complement the combat readiness factors. Despite recognition by military leaders throughout history that the human dimensions of capability are crucial to operational effectiveness, formal assessments of the psychological aspects of readiness appear to be the exception rather than the norm in today's military forces. Technology can provide the tools and avenues by which wars are fought but it is the individual soldier on the battlefield facing life and death who remains a constant. This paper looks at the literature on the synchronization on all the human dimension factors to complement the combat readiness to establish the combat command climate of a military organization. The paper promulgated that there is a need for quantitative assessment through questionnaires in all the human dimension factors which must be tabulated to individuals in organizations which includes a scoring worksheet to indicate the level of readiness both combat and human dimension readiness before being deployed for military combat duties.
Visual Working Memory - Gender and Age Differences
Author: Amundsen, Marie-Lisbet
Date: 2014-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Short Term Memory,Visual Perception,Cognitive Processes,Learning Processes,Gender Differences,Age Differences,Foreign Countries,Grade 1,Grade 3,Grade 5,Grade 7,Grade 9,Elementary School Students,Secondary School Students

The visual working memory forms the basis for cognitive processes in learning, and it is therefore of interest to gain greater insight into gender and age differences in visual working memory among pupils. In this study, we wanted to see if there are differences between children in first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth grade in Norwegian schools when it comes to issues of visual working memory. The sample consisted of 458 students, 233 females and 225 males. We wanted to see if there is gender differences in visual working memory, and if there are differences in working memory effects for students in different grades. We also wanted to see how repetition and practice have an effect on visual working memory. There were no significant between-gender differences. Students in fifth grade scored better on visual working memory than students in seventh grade when they were presented with 20 percent fewer symbols. This indicates that reducing the number of factors to be remembered increases learning effect. The results from this study support earlier studies that have demonstrated that visual working memory increases with age. There was a clear learning effect related to number of repetitions for students of all ages.
Keeping Our Students Safe during Crisis
Author: Embury, Dusty Columbia
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Crisis Management,School Safety,Child Safety,Students with Disabilities,Student Needs,Severe Disabilities,Natural Disasters,Violence,Weapons,Safety Education,Planning

As educators and parents of children with disabilities, we recognize that students with significant disabilities benefit from research-based strategies to support the development of academic and social learning. We regularly use systematic instruction and behavior supports to provide day-to-day instruction, yet this same detailed planning is not always carried through to support these students in preparation for school crises. Whether a student with a significant disability is in a weather-related event such as a tornado or a larger crisis such as a school shooting, she or he likely needs intensive instruction with research-based strategies in order to survive. In this article, we discuss the critical issue of systematically inquiring about the specific needs of students with significant disabilities as they pertain to staying safe in school crises and introduce why and how to write an Individual Emergency and Lockdown Plan (IELP) for these students.
Trauma Informed Practice: Increasing Awareness for Pre-Service School Counselors
Author: Hollingsworth, Mary Ann
Date: 2019-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Counselor Training,Trauma,Action Research,Graduate Students,School Counseling,School Counselors,Mental Health Workers,Program Descriptions,Resilience (Psychology),Student Attitudes,Substance Abuse,Addictive Behavior,Natural Disasters,War,Child Abuse,Sexual Abuse,Disabilities,Family Violence,Volunteers,Counseling Techniques,Intervention

Life challenges and traumas come in many forms and the capacity to bounce back, adapt, and move on to a new normal also comes in many forms. This study examined some common life challenges and trauma experiences and how persons in these have reacted and grown past the experiences. The study also used action research to provide graduate student counselors insight on facets of trauma that they could help with in service as counselors.The study was conducted by 102 school counseling and clinical mental health counseling students in a graduate level Lifespan Development course with volunteers selected by them to share through interview impact of challenges and resilience formation in the challenge areas of Substance Addiction; Habit Addiction; Disabilities; Natural Disaster Trauma; Combat Trauma; Other Individual Trauma such as a House Fire, Domestic Violence, Child Sexual Abuse, or Severe Accident; Community Event; Couple Event; Family Event; or School Event. The volunteers shared description of the life challenge or trauma; whole person reactions to the event from immediate to current reaction (at least a year post-event); life factors pre-event that may have contributed to the occurrence of the event or compounded recovery from the event; and life factors both pre- and post-event that helped with recovery from the event. The graduate students then synthesized answers to frame potential pathways to explore further for enhancement of resilience building with future clients and students and to support students in recovery and healing from trauma experiences while in their schools.
Chronic Poverty: The Implications of Bullying, Trauma, and the Education of the Poverty-Stricken Population
Author: Johnson, Kevin
Date: 2019-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Poverty,Bullying,Trauma,Individual Development,Minority Group Students,Achievement Gap,Disadvantaged Environment,At Risk Persons,Behavior Modification,Stereotypes,Teacher Role,Counselor Role,Victims,Correlation,Student Welfare,Children,Adolescents,Family Relationship

Chronic poverty is a worldwide epidemic, and communities must take a proactive approach to assist the poor by extending a hand to lift them up and not hold them down. Tribulations are part of life, but are some afflictions self-imposed, escalated, or reinforced by living in deprived contextual environments. Poverty-stricken people experience more trauma throughout their lifetime; they are less educated than their counterpart, causing them to become targets in school, increasing their chances of being bullied and demoralized. Bullying is not a rite of passage, and it has lifelong effects that reveal itself in adulthood by strengthening generational curses, oppressing families and communities, expanding the educational gap, and reinforcing the cycle of chronic poverty. The research depicted in this article explores the correlation between poverty, human development, trauma, pedagogical implications, and bullying, characterizing the detrimental ramifications in adulthood. The paper analyzes bully symptomology, the etiology of traumatic experiences, and how the consequences of chronic poverty affect human development that expands the educational gap between minorities and white students. Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy is an effective empirically-based treatment modality to combat the symptoms of post-traumatic stress. School systems must do a better job of educating traumatized children living in poverty. The research ventures to explain chronic poverty's role in human development, traumatology, and education, taking an inclusive approach to providing solutions to create a cultural shift that will change the contextual environment and propel people to become self-sufficient, more educated, and equipped to break the generational curse of chronic poverty.
Facilitation of Student Resilience through Educator Development of Critical Conscience
Author: Rochester, Pamela R.
Date: 2019-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Resilience (Psychology),Critical Theory,Consciousness Raising,Trauma,Advocacy,Preservice Teachers,Experiential Learning,Graduate Study,Teacher Education,World Views,Cultural Awareness,At Risk Persons,Teacher Student Relationship

Exposure to chronic trauma such as lifestyles of poverty, events of natural disaster, and acts of violence on individuals or groups continues to happen for educators and their students -- if not via personal experience, via media-informed awareness. Critical conscience as increased awareness, understanding, and desire for advocacy is increased through experiential learning of pre-service educators as they engage in the lives of student populations they serve. A graduate course in work with multicultural populations routinely includes immersion experiences of pre-service educators in a population of students they teach and other than their own population. Selected student experiences and subsequent reflections were examined for results with relevance to application in amelioration of risks and promotion of resilience with chronic trauma. The study resulted in student reports of increased critical conscience. Based on literature reviews for the study, this enhanced critical conscience contributes to educator preparation for greater efficacy with intervention for amelioration of trauma impact and promotion of resilience development with future students whom they will teach.
Changes in Cultural Attitudes and Beliefs of Female University Students in the United Arab Emirates
Author: Sonleitner, Nancy
Date: 2014-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Students,Females,Attitude Change,Foreign Countries,Expectation,Family Relationship,Friendship,Beliefs,Educational Attainment,Mass Media Effects,Single Sex Schools,Public Colleges,Personal Autonomy,Role of Education,Sex Role,Cultural Influences,Employment

Until recently college education for women in the United Arab Emirates was not considered to be an important investment, since girls were expected to stop schooling after graduation from high school, get married, and begin a family. Since becoming a nation in the past 30 plus years, however, the Emirati government has been working to ensure that all Emirates are educated through elementary school, and have launched a program to provide Emirati women a college education. While the recognized function of education is to provide information about the world, one unintentional result is that attitudes are liberalized. This study examines 104 Emirate female college students' perceptions of changes in attitudes, and expectations for their futures. A questionnaire was developed specifically for the study. Results show that attitudes about family relationships and friendships are undergoing change, as well as expectations for future employment.
Evaluating the Command Climate in Military Units
Author: Ananthan, S.
Date: 2014-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Military Personnel,Military Training,Organizational Culture,Morale,Test Construction,Test Validity,Test Reliability,Group Unity,Motivation,Attitude Measures,Job Satisfaction,Leadership,Foreign Countries

Military units are principally concerned with training and preparing for operations when they are not deployed on missions. During these periods when they are predominantly stationed in barracks, they are also occupied with a host of administrative and domestic tasks assigned by their higher formation. Despite the varied nature of day-to-day activities, heads of these units or commanders have the challenge of ensuring a suitable organisational climate (referred to as command climate) as this would inevitably contribute towards operational effectiveness.Unlike organisational climate, command climate is impacted by variables peculiar to military units. Existing literature indicates various psychological dimensions of operational effectiveness that includes morale, group cohesion, confidence in leadership and job satisfaction. These variables have to be further verified through a systematic process i.e. scouring existing literature and conducting in-depth interviews with experienced commanders. Underlying theories impacting the various constructs will be identified to provide the necessary grounding. Subsequently,these intangible factors will be empirically measured. This research has its main objective of developing and validating a reliable and easy to use measurement tool, which would eventually enable military unit commanders to evaluate command climate as and when required.Higher formations will also be able to determine the ability of units to perform in the event they are deployed to undertake missions under stressful conditions.
Perceptions of Online versus Face-to-Face Learning of Educational Leadership Graduate Students
Author: Harris, Paulette
Date: 2014-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Graduate Students,Leadership Training,Instructional Leadership,Student Attitudes,Online Courses,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Conventional Instruction,Delivery Systems

A descriptive study was conducted using a researcher-created survey of students (N=10) enrolled in online M.Ed. courses in Educational Leadership during the fall of 2012. The purpose or this study was to determine student perceptions of learning in an online setting versus a traditional setting. Key findings of the study indicate that because of ease of use, convenience, and flexibility online courses do not detract from learning vis-à-vis courses delivered under a traditional format. For program development, future researchers could continue our exploration of ease of use, convenience, and flexibility in educational leadership courses.
Mathematical Modeling Using Semantic Networks for Teaching
Author: Hernandez, Manuel Gonzalez
Date: 2014-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematical Models,Semantics,Networks,Natural Sciences,Social Sciences,Network Analysis,Teaching Methods,Mathematics Instruction

The purpose of this paper is to show an alternative to teach how people can do mathematical modeling of natural sciences such as physics, biology, earth science, meteorology and engineering disciplines like computer science, artificial intelligence, but also social sciences such as economics, psychology, sociology and political science using semantic networks in order to get a graphical view of the relationships between the components of the problem to be modeled. The main idea is to use the semantic networks to perform the connection between the components involved in the modeling with the concepts, operators and all the possible characteristics of the objects in the processes'events in a fragment of reality for the problem being solved. Mathematical modeling using semantic networks should be apparently more obvious in the sense that the relationship of different components of the system to the model will be more evident. Semantic networks can help better to understand how the modeling of a physical phenomenon of engineering or other knowledge domain, it can be carry out more easily, because the semantic network clearly describes the relationships of objects and concepts of the phenomenon or problem to be modeling.
The Full Circle: Case Teaching and Writing in Business Courses
Author: Apaydin, Marina
Date: 2014-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Undergraduate Students,Business Administration Education,Case Method (Teaching Technique),Instructional Materials,Material Development,Student Developed Materials,Student Attitudes,Writing Assignments,Writing for Publication,Outcomes of Education

While including case studies as part of the curriculum is widespread in business education in North America, and to a lesser extent, in Europe; in the emerging economies this instructional approach is still novel. Furthermore, case writing, has been traditionally the realm of the instructors, and sometimes graduate students -- even in the most developed educational institutions. In this paper I present a &quot;full-circle&quot; approach to case teaching and writing whereby undergraduate students are involved in all parts of the case experience. The paper presents a specific theoretically grounded methodological framework, and describes the results of its successful implementation at the American University of Cairo and the American University of Beirut during the period 2010-2014. Overall, 17 cases accompanied by teaching notes co-authored by students were published by Ivey Publishing, Pearson, McGraw-Hill and peer reviewed academic journals. Involving students in creating educational materials for their peers has proven to be a novel and rewarding experience for all parties involved.
Integrated Student Group Presentation in Teaching Developmental Mathematics Courses
Author: Li, Qingxia
Date: 2014-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematics Instruction,Remedial Mathematics,Developmental Studies Programs,College Students,Black Colleges,Mathematical Concepts,Concept Formation,Instructional Effectiveness,Grades (Scholastic),Grade Point Average,Calculus

The purpose of this study is to examine whether there is a difference in students' understanding of the core concepts in Pre-calculus after integrating student group presentations into teaching versus the teacher-led traditional classroom setting. The results of the analysis indicated that student group presentations do increase student retention and success rate, the number of students obtaining an A, and the final exam average. The model of integrating group presentation in teaching developmental mathematics courses should be adapted.
Impact of Innovative Learning Environment Based on Research Activities on Secondary School Students&apos; Attitude towards Research and Their Self-Efficacy
Author: Al-Ghanim, Kaltham A.
Date: 2014-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Secondary School Students,Student Attitudes,Student Research,Research Skills,Self Efficacy,Learning Strategies,Scientific Attitudes,Career Choice,Attitude Change,Instructional Innovation,Learning Motivation,Foreign Countries,Active Learning,Cooperative Learning,Problem Solving

Advanced and free learning environment coupled with the creative learning activities is assumed to be a motivational variable. In the present study, we applied an innovative learning strategy involving students in order to achieve positive impact on their attitude towards science, desire to learn science and future career choices. The study experiment was focused on enhancing the research skills of the students; apply knowledge for solving real world problems, positively changing the students' attitude towards science, raising students' self-efficacy and enhance positivism toward science related subjects. This research assumes that if the attitude and perception of post-secondary students is changed and made positive about science, then they might choose to study related science subjects forexample, mathematics, engineering and science at university level studies. Therefore, it will also impact students' career choices after university studies and they might enter scientific careers. Our study focused on evaluating various changes in the attitude, desire and self-efficacy of participating students when traditional instruction is replaced through the innovative learning environment. A total of 120 students participated in our experiment where researchers assisted students to experience hands on different research activities. Pre and posttest were used to evaluate the change in students' attitude and desire towards science, knowledge and self-efficacy. The study results have shown that significant changes in the performance of students' for-example, student noticed positive attitude towards their own research abilities, desire to learn science, self-efficacy, learning and career choices. However, results did not show any differences based on gender as such.