ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
The Thinking Styles of University Mathematics Students
Author: Moutsios-Rentzos, Andreas
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematics Education,College Students,Cognitive Style,Statistical Analysis,Preferences,Critical Thinking,Intellectual Freedom,Cohort Analysis,Undergraduate Students,Graduate Students,Self Disclosure (Individuals),Student Surveys,Correlation,Foreign Countries

In this paper, we focus on the relationship between studying university mathematics and the &quot;thinking styles&quot; of both undergraduate and postgraduate mathematics students. A cross-sectional quantitative study (N = 238) was conducted in a large Greek university, identifying the thinking styles of second, third and fourth year undergraduates, as well as those of students following a postgraduate degree in mathematics. The analysis revealed that the more experienced undergraduates and the postgraduates showed a stronger preference for originality and freedom in thinking, low degrees of structure, high levels of freedom and more complex information processing, combined with non-prioritised thinking. However, the postgraduates combine these preferences with a stronger preference for implementing rules and instructions. A discussion on these findings and on the factors that may account for them is presented.
Studying the Degree of Creativity of Preschool Children Drawings
Author: Dulama, Maria Eliza
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preschool Children,Creativity,Childrens Art,Freehand Drawing,Creative Activities,Creative Thinking,Art Activities,Art Education,Art Expression,Hypothesis Testing,Predictor Variables,Kindergarten,Case Studies,Observation,Scoring Rubrics,Formative Evaluation,Educational Experiments,Academic Achievement,Foreign Countries,Qualitative Research,Statistical Analysis

Our purpose is to offer children tasks so they can make drawings as diverse and different from each other whilst trying to avoid imitation. Achieving this goal involves the increase of children's creativity. The paper is theoretically based on the consideration of creativity as the ability to create &quot;something new, original, and in accordance with reality&quot; (Mihaela Roco, 2004; H. Jaoui, 1975; Al. Rosca, 1981; Margaret A. Boden, 1992). The study focuses on expressive creativity, characterized by spontaneity and unconditioned freedom of expression, skills, all highlighted by the children's drawings. &quot;The research hypothesis&quot; is that: If students are given new information on various opportunities for diversification of a model, they will create more original drawings. &quot;The independent variable&quot; is the task preschoolers are given to resolve. &quot;The dependent variable&quot; is represented by the results of preschool children. The research was conducted at high preparatory group. The test included specific contents of several areas, such as: mathematics, decorative drawing, and practical skills. Children were involved in four experimental situations for comparative purposes, so as to assess the progress registered from one activity to another. By analyzing the results obtained from the four tests, we note that all the children progressed. They accomplished original compositions, different from each other and from those of their colleagues, yet keeping certain common features. All children have the entire range of skills with which a person can produce new and original products, so their creativity is developed to a certain level; the experimental group includes more children who proved a certain level of performance in one or more tests, so there is no single child holding maximum creative potential; hence, each child has some &quot;patterns&quot; or models that he/she reproduces in many of his/her drawings, nevertheless accomplishing his/her original drawings; having the fact that, each child achieved both successful and less successful designs, we cannot establish an individual steady progress; the performance of the experimental group can be correlated with the number and quality of representations that they obtained during activities in kindergarten and elsewhere. In conclusion, at the end of the research we note that, if preschoolers are given new information regarding their opportunities to diversify a model, they will create more original drawings. The research is original because it proposes new experimental tests and evaluation grids.
Hybridization between Media Education and Visual Arts Education. Miyazaki's Cinema as a Revulsive
Author: Huerta, Ricard
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Art Education,Visual Arts,Film Study,Foreign Countries,Primary Education,Integrated Curriculum,Case Studies,Teacher Education,Creativity,Cartoons,Preferences,Questionnaires

In this article we suggest an approximation between media education and visual arts education. Teachers of Primary School interpret the media as a visual artefacts. But these visual artifacts can be analyzed from the education in visual arts. We can offer a suitable formation in the moment on training teachers (Clarembeaux, 2010; Huerta, 2005), but it is also necessary to move a notion of visual arts. Now, in Spain, visual arts education is far from the media images. We would incorporate the media education in the Primary School curriculum from the visual arts education (Hernández, 2000; Huerta, 2009). We focus this research on a case of student's group. They are university training teachers, and we verify their knowledge about cinema and media as a visual culture texts, promoting a major presence of media in visual arts, extending the field of action, and promoting the use of the cinema as a useful tool in the Primary School classes. We encourage teachers and students towards the critical and personal readings in media, reinforcing knowledge and analysis more than entertainment (Ambrós &amp; Breu, 2007; Fedorov, 2010). For the analysis of this situation we have chosen the movie &quot;Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea,&quot; a film by Hayao Miyazaki.
Personal Empirical Research Regarding Development of Moral Attitude of Romanian and Flemish Teenagers
Author: Blândul, Valentin Cosmin
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Adolescent Attitudes,Adolescents,Moral Values,Questionnaires,Measures (Individuals),Qualitative Research

The adolescence represents one of the most complex and unpredictable periods of human life. A teenager could be considered mature from physical, intellectual or moral point of view, but not from emotional one, because he is like a &quot;sponge&quot; able to absorb a lot of information, care and love. On the other hand, moral behaviour could be associated with social competence to establish a good relationship with others, to help them, to cooperate in a team and to have a positive attitude regarding general society. In the following paper, we will try to analyse the moral attitude of 182 Romanian teenagers and 210 Flemish ones regarding to different life situations. Our conclusions are that in spite of all intercultural differences, the majority of interviewed teenagers have an honest conduct and a respect for law and moral values.
Internet and Cell Phone Based Smoking Cessation Programs among Adolescents
Author: Mehta, Purvi
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Adolescents,Smoking,Health Behavior,Risk,Intervention,Telecommunications,Handheld Devices,Databases,Online Searching,Self Efficacy,Social Support Groups,Literature Reviews

Smoking cessation among adolescents is a salient public health issue, as it can prevent the adoption of risky health behaviors and reduce negative impacts on health. Self-efficacy, household and social support systems, and perceived benefits are some important cessation determinants. With the popular use of the Internet and cell phone usage among adolescents, smoking cessation programs are beginning to adopt these new delivery methods. The purpose of the study is to review interventions between 2005 and 2009 that used the Internet or cell phones for smoking cessation among 11 to 19 year olds. A systematic search of the CINAHL, ERIC, Google Scholar, and Medline databases was done. A total of 10 articles met the inclusion criteria. Interventions mainly used the Internet as a form of assistance to enhance the effectiveness of the program. One intervention used text messaging through cell phones. Self-efficacy, household and social support systems and perceived benefits were found to be significant predictors. Programs with multiple approaches, using the Internet as an adjunct were more effective than programs that solely relied on the Internet. Future research is needed to verify its success in cessation practices. Recommendations for future research are provided.
A Case Study into the Causes of School Dropout
Author: Chirtes, Gabriela
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Dropouts,Dropout Prevention,Student Adjustment,Case Studies,Foreign Countries,Attendance,Family Environment,Disabilities,Questionnaires,Drinking,Parent School Relationship

School dropout leads to failure in social integration, and as a result greatly diminishes a person's chances to achieve personal success in legally accepted fields of activity. The prevention and reduction of this phenomenon are extremely difficult to achieve due to the high complexity of its causes. Research that has been carried out into this problem leads to the conclusion that there has been an increase in the number of students facing school adjustment problems and it also attempts to answer the question whether there has been a real increase in the number of dropouts or if the situation should be put down to a series of very different and complex factors. A just identification and analysis of these factors would help reveal the action to be taken and eventually lead to a decrease and prevention of school dropout. Apart from the ineffectiveness of social policies in our country, a successful result of such an intervention would be the result of the joint efforts of a multi-curricular approach, involvement of social institutions and team work.
Children's Drawings--Resource for Development and Observation of Perception of Numbers of Children
Author: Pavlovicová, Gabriela
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Childrens Art,Freehand Drawing,Numeracy,Number Concepts,Kindergarten,Young Children,Concept Mapping,Art Activities

Children's drawings are one of the most appropriate approach to knowing children, their individuality and also their perceptions. Child is not always able to express their thoughts precisely, because their vocabulary is still incomplete and is gained just lately. In our paper we concentrate on drawing as a communication means, with which we can obtain primary numerical conceptions of children. We deal with observation of children's perceptions of number. We investigate process in which to numerical information the conceptions of numbers are assigned. The numerical information is word &quot;three&quot; and the child's drawing is used to mediate the numerical conceptions of children. The activity was realized with the children in the kindergarten. We analyzed draw children's conceptions of number 3 and created concept map from those drawings.
Developing Values for Secondary School Students through the Study of Art Objects
Author: Dulama, Maria Eliza
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Moral Values,Values Education,Secondary School Students,Aesthetics,Art Education,Art Products,Learning Activities,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Comparative Analysis,Fairy Tales,Story Reading,Hypothesis Testing,Ethics,Context Effect,Pretests Posttests,Foreign Countries,Observation,Student Attitudes,Social Attitudes

The paper begins with some issues related to aesthetics, aesthetic education, art and axiological education. The empirical research has the general assumption that secondary school students and youth have difficulties in selecting values. The objective of the research was three fold: to design, to organize and to carry learning activities from which students shall acquire educational values through the study of art objects. The exploratory research was conducted on a sample of 50 students (25 in experimental group and 25 in control group). The content sample included fairy-tales and short stories (&quot;Beauty and the Beast; The money earned&quot; by Alexandru Mitru) and artistic topics on several well-known art objects (The Endless Column, Table of Silence, The Gate of Kiss, Peles castle, Voronet monastery, and St. Michael's Cathedral from Cluj-Napoca). The tested hypothesis stated that &quot;if secondary school students are involved in learning contexts where they perceive, analyze and explain artistic objects then they develop aesthetic and ethic values.&quot; The learning context students were exposed to represents the independent variable and the outputs--the educational values themselves--represent the dependent variable. In order to test for the hypothesis we planned a formative didactic experiment. In order to test the hypothesis the pre-test/post-test design was used.
Examination of Mathematics Textbooks in Use in Hungarian Primary Schools in Romania
Author: Tünde, Baranyai
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Textbooks,Mathematics Instruction,Elementary Schools,Elementary School Mathematics,Textbook Content,Content Analysis,Surveys,Textbook Evaluation,Teacher Surveys,Hungarian,Language Usage,Mathematical Concepts,Teacher Competencies,Textbook Preparation

A good textbook must meet a number of pedagogical, psychological, scientific, esthetical, and other requirements. The presented research examines whether the mathematics textbooks in use in Hungarian primary schools in Romania meet those requirements. We used documentation, contents analysis and surveys as research methods. We examined the mathematics textbooks against requirements in appearance, style and language, editing, approach and contents material. Following contents analysis we can state as a positive result that the textbooks provide a great variety of problem solving tasks, while meeting the principle of progressivity. Nevertheless, they contain mathematical mistakes, scientific inaccuracies, are not in total agreement with the curriculum and their language is inappropriate. These findings are supported by the results of our survey. The hundred and two teachers asked in the survey gave a medium qualification to the primary school mathematics textbooks. The most often quoted flaws are the lack of differentiated, layered and task based teaching material, as well as the inappropriate language owed to bad translation of the textbooks originally written in Romanian.
Higher Romanian Education Post-Bologna: Required Changes, Instruments and Ethical Issues
Author: Petrisor, Alexandru-Ionut
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Social Change,Educational Change,Ethics,Efficiency,International Cooperation,Educational Cooperation,College Credits,Student Mobility,Higher Education,Teacher Effectiveness,Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance,Faculty Promotion,Scientific Research,Research Administration,College Faculty,Student Evaluation,Teacher Evaluation,Foreign Countries

In 1999 Romania became part of the Bologna process, focused on the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System, design to increase the compatibility of European universities, ensuring the mobility of students and professors in the context of re-orienting education to the formation of competences continuously adapted to market requirements. This model draws the new education system closer to American education. The paper analyzes the importance of evaluation, proposing solutions to increase teaching efficiency, and also the often negative influence of promotion criteria, based on their characteristic ethical aspects. The paper underlines the importance of continuous evaluation based on more requirements, resulting into a more correct assessment of performance, but also the evaluation of the efficiency of the course and instructor by the students, proposing its assignment to an independent structure to diminish the bias of results. The paper also analyses the importance of promotion criteria based on the scientific activity and management of research in the detriment of focusing on teaching. The implications relate to the fact that management of research does not measure teaching performance or the professional profile, while scientometric measurements of results have profound ethical consequences, leading to a distorted scientific behavior and neglected teaching duties.
How Mathematics Teachers Develop Their Pupils' Self-Regulated Learning Skills
Author: Marchis, Iuliana
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematics Teachers,Mathematics Instruction,Learning Strategies,Cognitive Style,Mathematics Skills,Problem Solving,Self Efficacy,Self Control,Teaching Methods,Foreign Countries,Teacher Surveys

Self-regulated learning skills are important in mathematical problem solving. The aim of the paper is to present a research on how mathematics teachers guide their pupils' mathematical problem-solving activities in order to increase self-regulation. 62 teachers have filled in a questionnaire developed for this research. The results are show that more than two third of the teachers promote the methods of understanding the problem; develop pupils' self-efficacy and self-control. But only one third of the teachers ask pupils to use different strategies for solving a problem; ask students to explain the solution to their colleagues. In case of unsuccessful problem solving only one third of the respondents ask pupils to present previous knowledge about the problem or/and recall and try different methods.
Levels of Media Competence: Russian Approach
Author: Fedorov, Alexander
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Media Literacy,Teaching Methods,Educational Objectives,Critical Thinking,Information Literacy,Foreign Countries,Definitions,Competence,Personality,Educational Principles,Mass Media,Journalism Education,Communications,Creativity,Theory Practice Relationship,Classification,Knowledge Level,Aesthetics

The author of this article arrives at the conclusion that media literacy/competence of personality is the sum total of the individual's motives, knowledge, skills, and abilities (indicators: motivation, contact, content, perception, interpretation/appraisal, activity, and creativity) to select, use, create, critically analyze, evaluate, and transfer media texts in various forms and genres and to analyze the complex processes of media functioning.
Some Aspects of Teaching Media Literacy to Preschool Children in Slovenia from a Perception Standpoint of Teachers and Parents
Author: Vodopivec, Jurka Lepicnik
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Media Literacy,Teaching Methods,Preschool Teachers,Preschool Education,Parent Attitudes,Teacher Attitudes,Teacher Competencies,Technological Literacy,Kindergarten,Questionnaires,Television Viewing,Case Studies,Statistical Analysis

This paper deals with media literacy as a multidimensional skill that parents and teachers possess. In this context we warn of the media-technical aspect of this skill and, within this aspect, of parents' and teachers' opinion on the presence of media in children's lives. Following that, the paper explores teachers' media-didactic competence as a component of educators' media literacy. In the empiric part we used two aspects of fostering media literacy. One is the media-technical competence of parents and educators, while the other is the media-didactic competence of educators. We found that both parents and teachers believe that media have a strong presence in everyday lives of pre-school children and that they play an important role in teaching pre-school children. Teachers are aware of the importance of early teaching with media, for media and about media with the purpose of developing children's media literacy, so they will not be afraid of media when they grow up.
The Importance of Acknowledging the Cultural Dimension in Mathematics Teaching and Learning Research
Author: Andrews, Paul
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Mathematics Instruction,Comparative Analysis,Curriculum Design,Educational Research,Cultural Influences,Models,Cultural Pluralism,Elementary Secondary Education

In this paper, which is in four parts, I make a plea to those involved in research into mathematics teaching and learning of the need to acknowledge, however their work is framed, that it will be located in a culture, not always visible to a reader, that should be made explicit. In the first part I examine three key models of culture and their significance for education. In the second I further highlight the impact of culture on what children are expected by critiquing various models of curriculum. The third part examines how culture informs the particularities of four European mathematics curricula, while the fourth part explores culturally located differences in mathematics teaching. In so doing a plea to researchers is framed: Culture permeates all aspects of educational endeavour and should be acknowledged more explicitly than it is.
Physical Activity, Exercise, and Nutrition Interventions for Weight Control in African American Women
Author: Asare, Matthew
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: African Americans,Females,Physical Activity Level,Exercise,Nutrition,Body Weight,Intervention,Literature Reviews,Social Cognition,Sample Size,Control Groups,Experimental Groups,Online Searching,Databases

The purpose of this paper was to review the physical activity, exercise, and nutrition related weight control interventions done with African American women that were published between 2006 and 2010 and suggest ways of enhancing these interventions. A total of 13 studies met the inclusion criteria. The review found significant results with regard to impact of intervention. Twelve of those studies revealed significant increase in physical activity and weight reduction behavior. In terms of use of theory in designing the interventions only five interventions used a theory. In three of those cases social cognitive theory was used. Appropriate sample size was found to be the major strength of most of the interventions. Six interventions used randomized controlled design. Recommendations for enhancing the effectiveness of physical activity interventions in African American women are presented.
E-Learning Education of Educational Technologies in Full-Time and Combined Studies
Author: Nagyová, Ingrid
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Educational Technology,Electronic Learning,College Students,Preservice Teachers,Models,Assignments

The article focuses on research in the area of Educational Technologies, mainly on the comparison of ways, methods and processes of education in full-time and combined studies. The work was undertaken in the Pedagogical Faculty, Ostrava University, Ostrava, Czech Republic. The fundamental presumptions and hypotheses that the work intended to verify concerned the presupposed increase of efficiency of students' learning, as well as opportunities to model the transition of students in a relevant way through an e-learning course. The main research method used was a pedagogical experiment that, following several years' analysis, took place in the winter term of the 2008/2009 school year. The important contribution is the methodology of generating Petri Nets that represent students' transition through an e-learning course. The models of real transition for students, through a course created by Petri Nets, confirmed the possibility to model tutorial processes in this way.