ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Schools through the Perspective of Students from Different Countries: The Case of Spain, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Turkey
Author: Dogus, Yurdagul
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Student Attitudes,School Attitudes,Elementary Secondary Education,Cultural Differences,School Role,Emotional Response,Value Judgment,Figurative Language,Positive Attitudes,Negative Attitudes,Psychological Patterns

This research was carried out to determine the perceptions of schools of students studying in five European Union countries (Spain, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania) and the candidate country Turkey. In the study, the data were obtained through the student opinion form created by the researchers and analyzed by content analysis. In the study, it was determined that most of the students had a positive perception towards the school and described the school with positive concepts, metaphors, emotions, and values. Students with a positive perception of school have described school with the concepts of learning, friendship, future, development, entertainment, life, responsibility; positive emotions such as success, happiness, trust, pleasure, interest, love, joy, and respect; value expressions such as helpfulness, friendship, empathy; and with the house, family, home metaphors. It has also been understood that some of the students (13%) have a negative perception of school, they do not like school, and they continue to school because it is compulsory. It was among the findings of the research that the students with a negative perception of school have described school by metaphors expressing physical and emotional discomfort such as boredom, suffering, headache, burnout; and metaphors emphasizing the restriction of freedom such as prison, captivity, and watch tower. In addition, it has been determined that students with negative perceptions have individual and organizational reasons for these perceptions. In the research, it was concluded that there are common meanings in students' perceptions of school in different countries towards the school, and no matter what language they speak, the students describe the school with similar thoughts and feelings. In this direction, suggestions have been made to increase the awareness of executives and policymakers about students' perceptions of school, to consider the interests and needs of students in the physical design of schools, to implement support programs that will enable students to develop a positive perception of the school, and to conduct longitudinal studies examining the reasons for these perceptions of students with negative perceptions.
A Comparison of the Effects of the Integration Sequence of Interactive Simulation on Pre-Service Science Teachers&apos; Scientific Explanation of Buffer Solutions
Author: Jantrasee, Romklao
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preservice Teachers,Science Education,Scientific Concepts,Concept Formation,Chemistry,Simulation,Science Process Skills,Science Teachers,Teaching Methods,Instructional Effectiveness,Conventional Instruction,Comparative Analysis,Science Activities

The purpose of this study was to find out the influence of the integration sequence of interactive simulation on the construction of the scientific explanation of buffer solutions. This study was conducted with 30 pre-service science teachers. The control group was randomly assigned to study with lecture first and then interactive simulation-based inquiry learning, and the experimental group was randomly assigned to study with interactive simulation-based inquiry learning and lecture respectively. The finding showed that after the posttest there was no statistically significant difference between the control and experimental groups. This suggests that the sequence of interactive simulation during inquiry activities in the chemistry classroom does not affect the construction of the scientific explanation. However, the mean score between the pretest and posttest in the control group shows a statistically significant difference. This study yields productive information regarding the role of interactive simulation providing clear evidence to scaffold pre-service science teachers in learning the abstract concept.
The EFL Learners&apos; Lens on Online Teaching Speaking and Its Effective Teachers at Islamic Higher Education
Author: Iftanti, Erna
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Online Courses,Speech Communication,Teaching Methods,Undergraduate Students,Student Attitudes,Language Teachers,Teacher Effectiveness,Internet,Access to Education,Computer Software,Virtual Classrooms,Preferences,Learning Motivation,Educational Benefits,Foreign Countries,Skill Development,Interpersonal Relationship

Learning language skills such as speaking, which is emphasized by practicing a lot, should also adjust to the online learning platform. This paper is then intended to portray how EFL learners perceive online learning to learn and improve their speaking skills. The study was done by administering an online questionnaire survey to forty-six students of UIN Sayyid Ali Rahmatullah Tulungagung who attended Speaking for Daily Interaction Subject. This study revealed that Google meet is the most helpful learning application for online speaking classes, but attending offline classroom meetings is preferable to improve their speaking skills. Although there are some challenges, such as feeling insecure, less social contact with practicing speaking, and a bad internet connection, they claim that their skills of using a daily expression in English are getting improved through using appropriate online learning applications taught by an effective teacher. The portrait of the effective teacher of speaking was also ferreted out. These findings are pedagogically implemented to conduct an effective online speaking class. Yet, because this study was conducted with a small scope of respondents, then future researchers are suggested to include a wider scope of respondents in order to contribute to the finding of this research.
A Review of Studies about Four-Tier Diagnostic Tests in Physics Education
Author: Önder Çelikkanli, Nuray
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Science Education,Physics,Scientific Concepts,Misconceptions,Diagnostic Tests,Knowledge Level,Evaluation Research,Test Construction,Foreign Countries,Educational Research

The aim of this research was to conduct a review of studies using four-tier tests to detect misconceptions in physics education. Fifty-eight studies whose main purpose was to develop a four-tier misconception test and eleven studies whose purpose was to determine learners' misconceptions using a four-tier diagnostic test without test development process in physics education between 2010 and 2022 inclusive with respect to their publication type, the publication year, the number of authors, and number of pages and whether the test was modified or not. General test information such as the physics topic that it examined, the number of misconceptions which were targeted, misconception criteria, validity, and reliability techniques and the number of items were also collected. Indonesia is the country where most of the studies were carried out. Surprisingly, it is found that there is no common agreement about misconception criteria in the studies. Also, it is seen that some important information about test development stages was not specified in many studies.
Subject-Language Perspectives on Multilingual Students Learning in Science
Author: Jakobsson, Anders
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Multilingualism,Second Language Learning,Science Instruction,Scientific Concepts,Concept Formation,Small Group Instruction,Science Experiments,Vocabulary Development,Dialogs (Language),Language Usage,Language Processing,Language of Instruction,Learning Processes,Learning Activities,Elementary School Students,Foreign Countries,Institutional Characteristics,Immigrants,Student Characteristics,Scaffolding (Teaching Technique),Classroom Communication

In this study, we have explored the ways in which small-group work in science can contribute to strengthen multilingual students' subject language and conceptual development when working with language-oriented classroom activities in primary classrooms. The aim is to determine whether it is possible to identify factors in interactions in small-group work that strengthen and facilitate the students' language development. We have focused on how students orally formulate themselves when describing observations, hypotheses, and explanations of certain scientific experiments on the properties of air. An important starting point has been that students' successive development of a subject-specific language is crucial for their conceptual development and understanding. The analyses of the dialogues have made it possible to study how individual students gradually develop their way of expressing themselves by taking over others' expressions and word choices and making their own. The analysis also shows that these dialogical situations are crucial for all students to develop their language use in science, primarily through probing a more precise way of expressing themselves and putting their scientific ideas and thoughts into words. An important conclusion is that students should be offered opportunities and space to develop their subject language register in science and that this is important for all students, but crucial for those for whom the language of instruction is a second language.
The Difficulties in Geometry: A Quantitative Analysis Based on Results of Mathematics Competitions in Italy
Author: Facciaroni, Lorenzo
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Geometry,Competition,Foreign Countries,Mathematics Education,High School Students,Difficulty Level

This paper focuses on the difficulties encountered by Italian students in performing geometry tasks. A quantitative analysis, aimed at understanding the extent of the phenomenon, is carried out using the results of district competitions from the year 2018 to 2020, comparing the scores obtained in geometry questions with those in other areas of Olympic mathematics. In addition, the answers given by the students to a questionnaire administered at the end of the 2020 district competition are analyzed in order to better understand possible motivations behind the phenomenon in question. The results obtained need further confirmation through future research on the topic but represent clear trends worthy of further investigation.
Article Review: Integration of Science, Technology, Entrepreneurship in Learning Science through Bibliometric Analysis
Author: Jumini, Sri
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Science Education,STEM Education,Science and Society,Technology Integration,Entrepreneurship,Interdisciplinary Approach,Educational Research,Citation Analysis,Trend Analysis,Educational Trends

Today, science is often regarded as a discipline that is more theoretical and less applicable. It is not clear how science works in society. The problems examined in this literature review are how the development of research on the integration of science, technology, and entrepreneurship in science learning in addition to how bibliometric networks and learning research trends integrate science, technology, and entrepreneurship. The search for articles using the Publish or Perish software was carried out on December 18, 2020. The data generated was in the form of metadata extracted from Google Scholar and Scopus through the API key, with the keyword science learning, STS, STEM, STEAM, and entrepreneurship from 2015-2020. As the result, 851 article was downloaded with their metadata which is stored in ris and tidied up in the delay. The data that has been obtained is excluded from proceedings, theses, book chapters, modules, theses, reports, and comments. Visualization with VOSviewer is carried out in three visualizations, namely network, overlay, and density. The results of the analysis show that the dominant topics are educational technology and environmental science. Research trends in 2020 are PjBL, entrepreneurship, and STEM. The less researched topics are the relationship between learning outcomes and entrepreneurship, and science technology.
The Role of Metaphors in Interpreting Students&apos; Difficulties in Operating with Percentages: A Mixed Method Study Based on Large Scale Assessment
Author: Giberti, Chiara
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematical Concepts,Foreign Countries,Measurement,Grade 10,High School Students,Standardized Tests,Mathematics Skills,Student Reaction,Student Adjustment

The issue of students' difficulties in processing operations with percentages has been addressed in several international research studies from a qualitative perspective. In this study, we analyze students' difficulties on this topic, focusing on the transition from middle school to high school with a mixed methods research design. We focus on students' responses in a specific task belonging to the Italian large-scale assessment analyzed through the Rasch model, and we deepen the task analysis thanks to interviews, which enlightened image schemas and metaphors underlying students' reasoning. From the qualitative point of view, the Rasch model shows that students' difficulties in dealing with percentages is a macrophenomenon that involves the higher levels of competences. From the qualitative point of view, the metaphoric approach outlines the image schemas that foster the correct conceptualization of percentage and those that hinder their correct learning and can be one of the possible causes of the emerging aforementioned macrophenomenon.
Assessing Greek Pre-Service Primary Teachers&apos; Scientific Literacy
Author: Stylos, Georgios
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Scientific Literacy,Preservice Teachers,Elementary School Teachers,Foreign Countries,Knowledge Level,Beliefs,Gender Differences,High School Students,Course Selection (Students),Undergraduate Students,Test Validity,Test Reliability

In a modern yet demanding society, scientific literacy (SL) is an essential skill that enables the individual to explain, understand and discuss issues related to science, health, and the environment. The purpose of this research study is to validate the Scientific Literacy Assessment (SLA) tool in the Greek language and investigate the level of SL of 362 Greek pre-service primary school teachers. Reliability and validity were examined using exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient, and a statistical analysis was performed to verify the factor structure of the two components of SLA. The results revealed that the level of demonstrated knowledge (SLA-D1) was moderate while motivational beliefs about learning science were satisfactory (SLA-MB). In terms of demographic factors such as gender, high school course specialization and undergraduate year, the results demonstrated an effect on SLA scores. Recommendations for further research in primary teacher preparation programs are presented.
Establishing a Physics Concept Inventory Using Computer Marked Free-Response Questions
Author: Parker, Mark A. J.
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Test Construction,Scientific Concepts,Physics,Test Reliability,Concept Formation,Undergraduate Students,High School Students,Test Theory,Scoring,Difficulty Level,Test Items,Interrater Reliability,Computer Assisted Testing

The study covers the development and testing of the alternative mechanics survey (AMS), a modified force concept inventory (FCI), which used automatically marked free-response questions. Data were collected over a period of three academic years from 611 participants who were taking physics classes at high school and university level. A total of 8,091 question responses were gathered to develop and test the AMS. The AMS questions were tested for reliability using classical test theory (CTT). The AMS computer marking rules were tested for reliability using inter-rater reliability (IRR). Findings from the CTT and IRR studies demonstrated that the AMS questions and marking rules were overall reliable. Therefore, the AMS was established as a physics concept inventory which uses automatically-marked, free-response questions. The approach used to develop and test the AMS could be used in further attempts to develop concept inventories which make use of automatically-marked, free-response questions.
Psychometric Properties of Health Literacy Measure for Adolescents (HELMA) and Predictors of Health Literacy among Youth from Malaysia and Sri Lanka
Author: Vashe, Asha
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Health Behavior,Multiple Literacies,Late Adolescents,Well Being,Knowledge Level,Psychometrics,Medical Students,Premedical Students,Foreign Countries,Access to Information,Information Sources,Information Needs,Age Differences,Health Personnel,Measures (Individuals)

Health literacy is critical for individual empowerment because it affects how people obtain health information and use it in ways that benefit their health. Healthcare practitioners frequently lack adequate training in health literacy principles. The present study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Health Literacy Measure for Adolescents (HELMA) instrument to assess the health literacy and the predictors of health literacy among youth from Malaysia and Sri Lanka studying at a medical institution. Following ethics clearance, students aged between 18-24 years enrolled in semesters I through V were approached. Following informed consent, using convenience sampling/complete enumeration, i.e., all students were invited to participate. Overall, 315 participants provided complete data. Cronbach's alpha for the HELMA instrument was 0.74. Based on factor loading, Access, Reading, and Self-efficacy were combined under the sub-domain 'Approach.' Health literacy was highest in the domain of 'Numeracy' followed by 'Understanding' and 'Approach'. Lower health literacy was observed among younger students and those in lower semesters while having a health worker in the family significantly improved health literacy among participants. Our findings support the use of the HELMA instrument to assess youth health literacy.
Beyond Functionality: Building Critical Digital Teaching Competence among Future Primary Education Teachers
Author: Castañeda, Linda
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Electronic Learning,Teacher Competencies,Elementary School Teachers,Digital Literacy,Teaching Methods,Foreign Countries,Preservice Teachers,Technology Uses in Education

Digital literacy has moved away from its traditional instrumental conception, to be nourished by critical perspectives that have been increasingly adopted in all areas of the analysis of technology and education. The importance of generating educational models that contribute to the emancipation of people in a post-digital and highly complex world is an increasingly evident challenge. However, it is still difficult to find concrete examples of pedagogical strategies specifically devised to foster digital literacy in line with this much needed emerging critical lens. This paper presents a case study of a set of learning experiences integrated into a compulsory module for students in the 1st year of a degree in education sciences, which leads to the qualification required to teach at primary schools in Spain. The results highlight the importance of providing students with learning opportunities conceived to help them become future teachers ready to have a transversal impact on education for the emancipation of people in the post-digital world, rather than simply training them as operators who use technology to enhance skills.
Enhancing Reading Capability of Young Thai Students with Augmented Reality Technology: Design-Based Research
Author: Nasongkhla, Jaitip
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Reading Ability,Foreign Countries,Computer Simulation,Elementary School Students,Reading Skills,Vocabulary Development,Reading Comprehension

The Thai language, which is part of the Indo-Iranian language family, carries on rituals and local knowledge that have been passed down from generation to generation. The Thai National Statistics Office found that 10% of elementary school students in Thailand cannot read. This means that 90% of elementary school students in Thailand can read. The numbers disagree with a report from an international assessment agency that said young Thai students' reading skills were the 50th best out of 65 countries. So, it is still hard for young Thai people to read well. The main goals of this research are to: (i) make an augmented reality platform that will help students improve their reading skills and (ii) figure out how well the platform works. This study uses a method called &quot;research design&quot; (R&amp;D) to look at how students feel about an educational product or method that was designed and then used. Research and development can be thought of as going through three different stages (research phase, development phase, and implementation phase). According to the results, the picture word inductive model (PWIM) strategy was put into place because the professionals said it should be. The most popular method of teaching was called &quot;precision teaching.&quot; Reading out loud and reading the same thing over and over were two ways that vocabulary was taught. According to the results of the experiment, the students' scores after finishing the reading are higher than their scores after the first reading. As part of the second part of the study, reading comprehension skills were tested. The students have also gotten a lot better at understanding what they read as a whole.
Influences of Subjective Norms on Teachers&apos; Intention to Use Social Media in Working
Author: Tran, Huong Thi Thu
Date: 2023-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Social Media,Intention,Foreign Countries,Teacher Attitudes,Anxiety,Technology Uses in Education,Social Influences,Elementary School Teachers,Secondary School Teachers

This study investigates factors affecting teachers' intention to use the Zalo app--a social media with impressive users in Vietnam in recent years. The extended technology acceptance model (TAM) involves subjective norms (SNs) (colleagues, managers, students, and parents) and anxiety as the precursors of user attitude and intention to use as well as perceived ease of use (PEOU) and perceived usefulness (PU) as the key variables in TAM was employed. 1,105 teachers in Vietnam took part in the online survey. The study employed the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to analyze the quantitative data and the relationship among factors. The findings show that colleagues have no impact on PU, and managers have an insignificant influence on PEOU. In contrast, students and their parents positively influence teachers' PEOU and usefulness. Moreover, managers can increase teachers' anxiety levels, whereas students' connection decreases anxiety. These variables accounted for 79.6% of the variance in users' adoption. The results confirm the impact of SNs on teachers' intention to use the Zalo app in working. This is the study on issues in Vietnam related to social media used at institutional level--a no way back solution in the new educational context of the modern society.