ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
The Opinions of Primary School Teachers on Their Creative Thinking Skills
Author: Erdem, Ali Riza
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Opinions,Elementary School Teachers,Teacher Attitudes,Creative Thinking,Thinking Skills,Creativity,Foreign Countries,Grade 1,Grade 2,Grade 3,Grade 4

Purpose: This study aimed to identify the views of primary school teachers on their creative thinking skills. The following research questions were addressed based on the aim of the study: (1) What are the primary school teachers' views on their critical thinking skills? (2) Do primary school teachers' views on their creative thinking skills differ according to their gender, seniority in the profession, and educational level? Research Methods: In sampling distribution, the proportional sampling method was used and 421 classroom teachers took part in the study. The data were obtained through &quot;How Creative Are You?&quot; scale. In the analysis process, percentage and arithmetic means were used as parametric test, while Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis were used as non-parametric tests. Findings: As a result of the data analysis obtained from the scales which were administered to the primary school teachers, the level of creativity of the primary school teachers were below average. Elementary school teachers' views on their creativity levels were examined based on the variables of gender, professional seniority and educational level. The analyses revealed no statistically significant differences between primary school teachers' views on their creativity levels according to their gender, professional seniority and educational level.
The Use of a Visual Image to Promote Narrative Writing Ability and Creativity
Author: Listyani, Lydia
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Visual Aids,Story Telling,Writing (Composition),Writing Ability,Creativity,Cartoons,English (Second Language),College Students,Second Language Learning,Foreign Countries,Writing Instruction,Instructional Effectiveness,Student Attitudes

Purpose: Second language writing as an inherent part of ELT is no exception. One specific part of second language writing in which visual images can be used is narrative essay writing. Visual images, in this case, comic series and pictures, can be a very useful aid in stimulating students' ideas, creativity, as well as interest and ability in narrative essay writing. Students' writing activities in using pictures and comic strips are discussed in this study, including students' responses towards this particular topic, as well as the procedures of how these visual images are used. This study is therefore aimed at disclosing how pictures and comic strips, as forms of visual images, can be used to enhance students' narrative writing ability as well as creativity. In writing narrative essays with the help of visual images, students were helped in terms of generating ideas, developing logical and critical thinking, and improving reasoning skills. Research Methods: The design of this study was qualitative in nature. The participants were comprised of 19 Professional Narrative Writing students. The data for this research was taken from documents, that is, students' essays and journals which were written after the writing activities were done, interviews with two students, and students' scores. There were also pretests and post-tests given at the beginning and the end of the semester, but the scores were descriptively presented. Interviews with two students were also conducted to validate the findings. These students, whose essays were used as analyzed documents, were enrolled in the Professional Narrative Writing class of the English Language Education Program, the Faculty of Language and Arts (FLA), Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana (UKSW), Salatiga, Indonesia. The class was conducted in Semester I of the 2017-2018 academic year. The students were fourth-semester students. The &quot;Professional Narrative Writing&quot; course taught students how to be professional in writing narratives. Findings: The findings showed that pictures, as well as comic strips, were very useful in helping students to write narratives. They helped students generate ideas, delve into more creativity, as well as develop their imagination and motivation in writing, though some students experienced difficulties in some aspects like ideas, grammar, diction, and plot. Implications for Research and Practice: The results of the study hopefully can inspire other narrative writing lecturers all over the globe to maximize the use of visual images, including pictures and comic strips. These visual aids can enhance students' writing abilities as well as their creativity. Students taking writing courses can hopefully be motivated to write better narratives.
University Education and Creativity: An Assessment from Students&apos; Perspective
Author: Ehtiyar, Ruya
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Creativity,Student Attitudes,Creative Thinking,College Students,Higher Education,Foreign Countries,Universities

Problem Statement: This study consists of three main problems: first what university students understand from creativity, secondly what they conceptualize about creativity in university education, and finally their personal evaluations and recommendations about creativity in university education. Purpose of Study: The study aimed to find out the perceptions, assessments, comments, experiences and suggestions of a group of fourth year university students related to university education and creativity. Method: Designed as a qualitative research, phenomenological methodology was followed, data was collected using focus group interview and analyzed via thematic analysis. Findings: The results indicated that students found their university education mostly as uncreative, and experienced with limited number of creative practices during their education, and they thought that university education did not contribute to their creativity potential in general. Implications for Research and Practice: This study provided findings related to the meaning and evaluation of creativity as well as creative and uncreative practices, effect of university education on student's creativity potential, and recommendations for university education as it was perceived by university students. It is expected that this research will lead to a broader scale research with the basic data it supplies. The research related to university education and creativity is limited in Turkey, and this study supplies basic and important findings.
Effect of Cooperative Learning Supported by Reflective Thinking Activities on Students&apos; Critical Thinking Skills
Author: Erdogan, Fatma
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cooperative Learning,Reflection,Critical Thinking,Middle School Students,Grade 7,Mathematics Education,Thinking Skills,Cognitive Tests,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Foreign Countries

Purpose: It is assumed that cooperative work and critical thinking skills will come into prominence in 2020. In this context, the aim of this study is to examine the effect of cooperative learning supported by reflective thinking activities on seventh grade students' critical thinking skills during mathematics course. Method: In this study, a quasi-experimental model with pretest-posttest control group was applied. In the experimental group, cooperative learning method supported by reflective thinking activities was applied. In the control group, mathematics teaching was carried out in accordance with the curriculum of the mathematics course. The study group was composed of 70 seventh grade students. Cornell Critical Thinking Test, Level X was used as the data collection tool. Dependent and independent samples t-tests were used in data analysis, and ANCOVA was applied to determine the difference between the post-tests scores of the groups. Findings: In the study, when the pre-test scores of the experimental and control groups were checked, a significant difference was found between the corrected CCT-X post-test mean scores. This difference was found to be in favor of the experimental group. Based on this finding, cooperative learning supported by reflective thinking activities can be said to have a positive effect on students' critical thinking skills. Implications for Research and Practice: In future research, the effects of different reflective thinking strategies on critical thinking skills can be examined in cooperative learning environment, and their advantages and disadvantages can be discussed. Student's critical thinking skills can be analyzed by qualitative methods.
Student and School Level Variables Related to Elementary School Students&apos; Attitudes towards Science
Author: Hacieminoglu, Esme
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Elementary School Students,Student Attitudes,Scientific Attitudes,Attitude Measures,Educational Quality,Educational Resources,Learning Motivation,Extracurricular Activities,Student Characteristics

Purpose: In the literature, there are lots of quantitative studies regarding students' attitudes, and results of the studies revealed that students have negative attitudes towards science. Therefore, it is necessary to study the factors that predict the attitudes of the students towards science taking into account the factors at both the school and the student level. The purpose of this study was to investigate what school- and student-level factors are associated with student' attitudes towards science. Research Methods: The overall design of this study is mainly a cross-sectional survey and correlational. The convenience sampling method was used in this study and 2975 elementary students in different schools and cities of Turkey constituted the sample of this study. The Test of Science Related Attitude, Learning Approach Questionnaire, Achievement Motivation Questionnaire, School Background Questionnaire were used as data collection tools. Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) was selected as a modeling technique for data analyses. Findings: This study provides a general overview about students' attitudes towards science. The quality of school's educational resources, learning and motivational factors, factors related to student feelings and outside activities, and some student characteristics significantly contributed to the students' attitudes towards science. Implications for Research and Practice: Enriching science lessons with materials, increasing students' curiosity, making them learn by discovering and making them do experiments have potentials to contribute students' attitudes, and experimental research can be used to explore these effects. In order to examine the reasons why students like science or not in detail, qualitative studies should also be conducted.
Reliability of Essay Ratings: A Study on Generalizability Theory
Author: Atilgan, Hakan
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Essay Tests,Test Reliability,Interrater Reliability,Generalizability Theory,Student Evaluation,Writing Evaluation

Purpose: This study intended to examine the generalizability and reliability of essay ratings within the scope of the generalizability (G) theory. Specifically, the effect of raters on the generalizability and reliability of students' essay ratings was examined. Furthermore, variations of the generalizability and reliability coefficients with respect to the number of raters and optimal number of raters for obtaining optimal reliability of the rating of the writing ability of a student, which is considered to be an implicit trait as a whole and in its subdimensions of wording/writing, paragraph construction, and title selection, were determined. Research Methods: The student sample of the study comprised 443 students who were selected via random cluster sampling, and rater sample of this study comprised four Turkish teachers. All the essays written by the students in the sample were independently rated on a writing skill scale (WSS), which is an ordinal scale comprising 20 items, by four trained teachers. In this study, data analysis was performed using the multivariate p[superscript dot] x i[superscript open dot] x r[superscript dot] design of the G theory. Finding: In the G studies that were performed, variances of the rater (r) as well as item and rater (ixr) were low in all sub-dimensions; however, variance of the object of measurement and rater (pxr) was relatively high. The presence of trained raters increased the reliability of the ratings. Implications for Research and Practice: In the decision (D) study analyses of the original study conducted using four raters, the G and Phi coefficients for the combined measurement were observed to be 0.95 and 0.94, respectively. Further, the G and Phi coefficients were .91 and .90, respectively, for the alternative D studies that were conducted by two trained raters. Thus, rating of essays by two trained raters may be considered to be satisfactory.
Implementation of Cognitive Diagnosis Modeling Using the GDINA R Package
Author: Torre, Jimmy de la
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cognitive Measurement,Models,Computer Software,Testing,Test Items,Data Processing,Psychometrics,Computation,Goodness of Fit,Validity

Purpose: Well-designed assessment methodologies and various cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) to extract diagnostic information about examinees' individual strengths and weaknesses have been developed. Due to this novelty, as well as educational specialists' lack of familiarity with CDMs, their applications are not widespread. This article aims at presenting the fundamentals of CDM and demonstrating the various implementations using a freeware R package, namely, the GDINA. Present article explains the basics of CDM and provide sufficient details on the implementations so that it may guide novice researchers in CDM applications. Research Methods: The manuscript starts with presenting the CDM terminology, including input and output of a CDM analysis. The introduction section is followed by generalized deterministic noisy and gate model framework. A brief description of the package GDINA is also provided. Then, numerical examples on various CDM analyses are provided using the R package with a graphical user interface. The paper is concluded by some additional functions and concluding remarks. Results and Implications for Research and Practice: Although other software programs are also available, using the GDINA package offers users some flexibilities such as allowing estimation of a wide range of CDMs and allowing nonprogrammers to benefit from this package through the GUI. In addition to ordinary CDM analyses, GDINA package further allows users to apply model selection at the test- and item-level to make sure that the most appropriate CDM (i.e., CDM that best explains the attribute interactions in the item) is fitted to the response data. Furthermore, to identify possible item-attribute specification mistakes in the Q-matrix, implementation of an empirical Q-matrix validation method is available in the GDINA package. Lastly, this package offers various handy graphs, which can be very useful in emphasizing important information and comparing various parameters and/or statistics.
Impacts of Urban Institutions of Higher Education on the Community: A Social Approach
Author: Hung, Bui Phu
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Urban Universities,School Community Relationship,Foreign Countries,Sustainable Development,Holistic Approach,Quality of Life,Social Integration

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the effects of urban institutions of higher education on social sustainability of the community. Three urban colleges in Vietnam were involved in this study. Methods: Questionnaires and interviews were administered to 120 local residents and 1470 students and college employees (office and teaching staff) living in the nearby communities. In the interviews, the researcher made efforts to explore in-depth information by providing prompts in order to confirm, interpret and supplement the quantitative data collected from the questionnaires. Findings: All participants responded that the colleges contributed greatly to the social equity through rentals, food consumption, and other services available. However, though some local residents took a positive view of social diversity, others were conservative. The social cohesions took place in the community where its members were willing to welcome new cultures. Most local residents were not confident about community security when there were many new members. Noise and traffic also caused much concern to local residents. Implications for Research and Practice: It is suggested that local residents should distribute equital gains to physically and financially challenged people in the community. Other implications were given to researchers, policy makers, community members, and student tenants living around college. Further studies can take a holistic approach to sustainable development as a result of the effects of educational institutions. Researchers may also take into account more educational institutions of higher education in other contexts.
Assessment Scale of Academic Enablers: A Validity and Reliability Study
Author: Akbiyik, Melike
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,College Students,Measures (Individuals),Test Validity,Test Reliability,Competence,Study Skills,Communication Skills,Interpersonal Competence,Homework,Student Responsibility,Gender Differences,Scores,Academic Achievement

Purpose: This study aims to determine how university students evaluate the academic enablers they have acquired. To this end, the Assessment Scale of the Academic Enablers (ASAE) was developed and applied to 5,208 university students to test its validity and reliability. Research Methods: The study employed a quantitative research design during the data collection and the analysis phases. Findings: The ASAE consists of 20 items and three sub-factors: (i) learning competencies, (ii) communication and social competencies, and (iii) homework and responsibility competencies. Item-total correlations were found to vary from 0.44 to 0.70 and factor-loading values from 0.44 to 0.82. The three factors explain 51% of the total variance and the scale's reliability coefficient is 0.90. Results show that gender makes a significant difference in ASAE scores in favor of women. Also, the mean scores differed statistically depending on faculty. Particularly, students in the Faculty of Education obtained the highest scores in all factors; on the other hand students in the Faculty of Law earned mostly the lowest scores. Implications for Research and Practice: The results show that the ASAE is a valid and reliable measurement tool that universities in Turkey can use to evaluate their success in using academic enablers for increasing students' academic success.
Examining the Personality Traits and Empathetic Tendency Levels of Students of the Coaching Education Department
Author: Kaya, Kazim
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Personality Traits,Empathy,Athletic Coaches,Physical Education Teachers,Preservice Teachers,Foreign Countries,Student Characteristics,College Students

The objective of this study is to determine the personality traits and empathetic tendency levels of students of the coaching education department. In addition to that, the empathetic tendency levels of students of the coaching education department were compared according to some characteristics. The research was conducted as a survey model. 347 students participated in the research group, who were studying at Erciyes University Department of Coaching Education, Faculty of Sport Sciences in the 2018-2019 academic year. In the study, Personal Information Form, Ten-Item Personality Inventory and Empathetic Tendency Scale were used as the data collection tools. SPSS program was used for the analysis of the data. According to the results of the study, the &quot;compatible&quot; personality trait of students of the coaching education department came to the fore and their empathetic tendency levels were determined at &quot;medium level&quot;. Moreover, it was determined that there was statistically no significant difference in the empathetic tendency levels of students of the coaching education department concerning age, gender, academic grade, doing active sports, GPA, and sports branch.
Awareness Level and Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Pre-Service Primary School Teachers Regarding Syrian Students&apos; Education in Turkey
Author: Kubilay, Sevda
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Attitudes,Preservice Teachers,Self Efficacy,Beliefs,Elementary Education,Foreign Countries,Multicultural Education,Migration

The aim of this study is to reveal awareness level and self-efficacy beliefs of pre-service primary school teachers about the education of Syrian students in Turkey. In the research, 20 participants were determined on a voluntary basis among the senior students attending education faculty of a state university. The research was conducted with the focus group interview. Findings indicate that the participants are not aware of the current statistics and educational policies about Syrian students. However, they are aware of the problems that may be encountered in multicultural classrooms. As for the attitudes of participants towards Syrian students, it is revealed that some participants have positive attitudes towards Syrian students and emphasize the concepts of empathy and tolerance but some have negative attitudes. The vast majority of the participants do not feel themselves capable of carrying out educational activities in a multicultural environment. Similarly, they think that the faculties of education do not prepare teacher candidates in this respect. Consequently, it is important for pre-service teachers to have positive attitudes towards Syrian students. It is necessary to provide pre-service teachers with necessary pedagogical background to make them feel professionally competent in multicultural settings.
The Effect of Personality Characteristics of Students on Positive Perception Level: A Study to Hockey Super League Players
Author: Veysel, Temel
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Personality Traits,Student Characteristics,Student Attitudes,Team Sports,Foreign Countries,Females,Athletes,Correlation,Positive Attitudes,Extraversion Introversion,Neurosis,Personality Measures,Multivariate Analysis

The study was done in order to determine the effect of personality characteristics of students female athletes who participated in Hockey Super League competitions organized in Konya Province between the 15th and the 28th of April, 2018 upon their positive perception level. The study was consisted of 116 students female athletes who participated in hockey super league competitions (Average age= 18.21±2.98). In order to determine students athletes' personality levels; &quot;Eysenck Personality Inventory&quot; designed by Francis et al. (1992) and &quot;Positive Perception Scale&quot; adapted by Akin and Kaya (2015) for the Turkish language were used. For the analyses of the data; histogram technique was employed in order to find whether or not data followed a normal distribution and as a result, it was identified that all sub-dimensions of mental endurance and positive perception scale followed a normal distribution. Accordingly, t test and One-WayAnova tests were employed in order to explore basic differences and Canonical Correlation analyses were performed in order to find the effect between personality and positive perception levels. As a result; it was concluded that athletes demonstrated moderate level of personality and positive perception. It was seen that there was a moderate and significant correlation between sub-dimensions of Eysenck personality inventory and positive perception scale.