ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Stereoscopic Three-Dimensional Images on Vocabulary Learning
Author: Kaplan-Rakowski, Regina
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Visual Aids,Vocabulary,Recall (Psychology),Retention (Psychology),Second Language Instruction,Polish,Instructional Effectiveness,College Students

Vocabulary is crucial for language learning. Therefore, searching for the most effective methods to master vocabulary is an important quest. This study investigated the effect of stereoscopic three-dimensional (S3D) images on recall and retention of foreign language vocabulary. S3D images, frequently used in virtual reality visualizations, are highly realistic and differ from non-stereoscopic three-dimensional (NS3D) images in that they provide an impression of depth. In this within-subject study, American subjects (N = 82) were exposed to 16 Polish words accompanied by corresponding images. Half of these images were in NS3D format, and half were in S3D format. The vocabulary was counterbalanced throughout four randomly distributed versions of the experiment. Quantitative data were drawn from immediately administered and one-week-delayed productive and receptive vocabulary tests. Qualitative data were gathered through background questionnaires and follow-up surveys, which included a mixture of open-ended and Likert scale questions. Two-tailed, paired t-tests showed no significant difference on vocabulary recall and retention of test scores for words represented with NS3D and S3D images. Post hoc tests revealed that lower performance on S3D images occurred only for those subgroups of subjects who exhibited discomfort or lack of experience with S3D technology, or both.
The Experiences of Pre-Service Science Teachers in Educational Content Development Using Web 2.0 Tools
Author: Gursoy, Gulden
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Web 2.0 Technologies,Preservice Teachers,Preservice Teacher Education,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Course Content,Curriculum Development,Teacher Attitudes,Barriers,Self Efficacy,Student Satisfaction,Language Skills,Technological Literacy

The present study aimed to improve the experiences of pre-service science teachers in content development using Web 2.0 tools and to determine the effects of these experiences on their self-efficacy beliefs in content development via Web 2.0 tools. The present study was conducted with a mixed design that included empirical and phenomenological methods. Forty-two pre-service science teachers participated in the study. During the implementation, pre-service teachers developed content using Web 2.0 tools such as Kahoot, Quizizz, Powtoon, Emaze, MindMeister and Toondoo and shared the content with the class using Edmodo. &quot;Self-Efficacy Belief Scale on Fast Content Development via Web 2.0&quot; was used as pre- and post-tests. Findings demonstrated that pre-service teachers' self-efficacy beliefs and all sub-dimensions of content development via Web 2.0 tools improved as a result of the implementation. The views of them were grouped under seven themes; prejudice, satisfaction, awareness, fun, infrastructure problems, language problems and tool problems. Additionally, when the mean of item responses were examined, it was seen that the highest one was about preparing worksheet self-efficacy belief. Furthermore, it was determined that pre-service teachers were happy to participate in the implementation, recognized ways to integrate technology in their fields, and had fun while developing content.
Education Governance and Privatization in Portugal: Media Coverage on Public and Private Education
Author: Antunes, Fátima
Date: 2019-10-14
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Governance,Access to Education,Foreign Countries,Educational Change,Educational Policy,Privatization,Private Schools,Ideology,Mass Media,News Reporting,Economic Factors,Contracts,Government Role,Equal Education,Disadvantaged,Policy Analysis,Public Education,Educational Trends,Elementary Secondary Education

This paper aims to discuss recent changes in Portugal's education policy. Portugal offers an interesting scenario to study the different ways the economic crisis has brought new opportunities to strengthen the privatization agenda. We specifically focus on media coverage and the contractualization of education services with private schools through 'association contracts'. In the 1980s the Portuguese State through these contracts financed private schools to operate in areas where the public offering was insufficient, thereby ensuring the public access to education and preventing marginalization. Nowadays, however, these contracts are seen as an ideological banner both for and against education privatization. We present an empirical study based on documental analysis of 180 news articles published in the Portuguese media on the changes in the contractualization of education services. The results show two main audiences sustaining distinct societal projects, comprised of a variety of actors, who are either for or against 'association contracts'. The actors justify their positions based on their understanding of the State's role in providing education, the policies involving the right to education and decreasing inequalities.
Marginalisation in Education Systems: The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Failure Discourse around the Italian Education System
Author: de Freitas, Rogério Gonçalves
Date: 2019-10-14
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Discourse Analysis,Neoliberalism,Global Approach,Foreign Countries,Achievement Tests,International Assessment,Secondary School Students,Governance,Disadvantaged,Social Class,Privatization,Teacher Attitudes,Reputation,Academic Achievement,Academic Failure,Psychological Patterns,Classification,Educational Quality

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) created the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) as a political actor in global education through a logic of governance by numbers (Grek, 2009). This article discusses how PISA has became a major showcase for the OECD as an assessment tool par excellence while also producing marginalisation discourses. By approaching neoliberal globalisation and its aim at restoring the transnational capitalist class' power over the &quot;dangerous&quot; classes (Harvey, 2005; Holman, 2006; Van Apeldoorn, 2001; Van der Pijl, 2010), this article analyses how school privatisation has grown in the Italian system over the last few years in the face of the PISA discourse (Bertozzi &amp; Graziano, 2004). Building on document research and reports by Italian teachers, it traces how PISA's pressure over the Italian school system has produced a twofold marginalizing effect. The first effect is the periodical disclosure of PISA rankings to distinguish successful from failed education systems. In fact, recent PISA results have placed the Italian system as a failed, technologically retarded system compared to those of high-performance countries. The second effect is the burst of neoliberal feelings among teachers, who report both stigma and guilt.
The Effect of 4+1 Planned Writing and Evaluation Model on Developing Writing Skills and Writing Self-Sufficiency Levels of Learners of Turkish as a Foreign Language
Author: Bagci, Hasan
Date: 2019-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Turkish,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Language Skills,Skill Development,Writing Processes,Transfer of Training,Writing Skills,Writing Instruction,Native Language,Written Language,Language Classification,Pretests Posttests,Self Efficacy,Foreign Countries,Student Attitudes

Language is the most basic tool for communication. There are four basic areas of skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Each skill has a special importance in itself. Therefore, development of all skills will be beneficial for individuals. Writing skill is separated from other skills in that it has permanency. With writing, knowledge transfer could be realized through ages. People used the writing skill at points where oral expression was insufficient. Although writing skill is so important, it is the most challenging skill. This shows that writing skills should be developed with new methods in which students will be more active, rather than with traditional methods. The traditional method gives importance to the product that is produced at the end of the writing process instead of the writing process. However, this method prevents the development of writing skills in students. Nowadays, new methods have emerged out of the traditional method, and these methods gave importance to the process, not to the product. One of the methods that prioritize the process is the 4 + 1 Planned Writing Model. This model aims at the development of the student's writing skills and the active participation of the students in the process. When the fact that even the students whose native language is Turkish have difficulties in writing is considered, it is obvious that writing skill will become even more difficult for students who learn Turkish as a foreign language. These students' alphabets may be different and this may force them to improve their writing skills according to other skills. In these respects, it will be easier for those who learn Turkish as a foreign language to develop their writing skills with 4 + 1 Planned Writing Model. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of 4 + 1 Planned Writing Model on the development of writing skills and writing self-sufficiency levels of students. The participants of the study, in which the pre-test post-test empirical model was used, were 12 students who learnt Turkish as a foreign language. The study lasted 10 weeks. In the study, the data related to the development status of students' writing skills were obtained by evaluating the texts written by the students at the beginning and at the end of the study. The data related to the writing self-efficiency were collected by the Writing Self-Efficacy Scale. The statistical analysis of the data was made by SPSS 21.000.
Private Encroachment through Crisis-Making: The Privatization of Education for Refugees
Author: Le, Hang M.
Date: 2019-10-14
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Crisis Management,Privatization,Commercialization,Refugees,Private Sector,Educational Innovation,Public Sector,Government Role,Educational Policy,Social Values,Position Papers,Children,Adolescents,Access to Education,Foreign Countries,Educational Finance,Elementary Secondary Education,Partnerships in Education,Social Problems,International Organizations

How has education for refugees been shaped by broader dynamics of educational privatization? This paper argues that the invoking of the 'refugee crisis' narrative has been a crucial force in facilitating the privatization of this sector. The urgency of crisis helps to naturalize private actors' participation in refugees' education as equal partners to host governments, multilateral agencies, and civil society. Consistent with Stephen Ball's (2012) distinction between privatization in and of education, the privatization of refugee education also advances through two dimensions: the creation of a new space -- a new 'market' -- for private actors, and the infusion of market and business principles such as 'innovation' into all aspects of education. The crisis narrative has created a new 'horizon of taken-for-granted' (Hall, 1993), where it is simply natural that private actors must participate in the assumption of the traditional responsibilities of the state in providing education for refugees.
&quot;A Problem They Don&apos;t Even Know Exists&quot;: Inequality, Poverty, and Invisible Discourses in Teach First New Zealand
Author: Oldham, Sam
Date: 2019-10-14
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Poverty,At Risk Students,Underachievement,Faculty Development,Teacher Education,Consciousness Raising,Program Effectiveness,Equal Education,Academic Achievement,Socioeconomic Status,Pacific Islanders,Minority Groups,Disproportionate Representation,Achievement Gap,Disadvantaged Youth,Beliefs,Student Needs,Experience,Teacher Attitudes

This research draws on qualitative data collected in Aotearoa New Zealand over a sixmonth period to examine the ways in which participants in Teach First New Zealand (TFNZ), an affiliate of Teach for All, discuss issues of poverty and educational underachievement in their teaching contexts. Findings from this study suggest that broad discursive patterns tended to prevail among TFNZ participants interviewed. In discussing issues of poverty and educational underachievement, participants privileged personal responsibility, individual agency, and social mobility as explanatory frameworks. Participants tended to perceive individuals, families, and communities as responsible for their socioeconomic disadvantage, and few were able to articulate more complex understandings. We found that TFNZ participants had little or no direct experience with poverty or educational inequity prior to entering the scheme and had limited understandings of these phenomena. Despite this, participants shared an almost universal belief that education was the primary means by which disadvantage could be overcome, privileging individualist conceptions of complex social phenomena. As Teach for All expands globally, there is need for empirical work documenting how participants articulate their mission of addressing inequity, how these understandings translate into practice, and the ways in which implicit and explicit educational discourses shape their perspectives on students and communities. This work has added importance as Teach for All actors continue to encourage the movement of alumni into policy and leadership.
&quot;Glocalisation&quot; Doctrine in the Israeli Public Education System: A Contextual Analysis of a Policy-Making Process
Author: Dvir, Yuval
Date: 2019-10-14
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Public Education,Educational Policy,Policy Formation,Educational Development,Global Approach,Politics of Education,Equal Education,Citizen Participation,Participative Decision Making,Compliance (Legal),Models,Educational Change

In 2016, the Israeli Ministry of Education (MoE) issued a policy document recommending six new doctrines for pedagogical development at schools. Amid those is 'Glocalism', aimed at addressing the global/local mix within the schooling system. Given the lack of a declared internationalization policy in Israel and its highly nationalistic curricula, this direction may constitute a first attempt by the MoE to internationalize school curricula. Public participation, including third-sector organizations actors, constituted a fundamental element in the development of this policy. Examining why this is, and what impact it had on how internationalization was conceived of is critical in this era of pluri-scalar policy-making. Our findings highlight the crucial role played by various non-governmental actors in this process. We also reveal that certain voices were in effect silenced -- whether from marginalized constituencies or those suggesting directions contradicting the MoE's intentions. The policy offers a vague definition for 'Glocalism', which appears to eliminate possibilities for marginalizing those communities who feel most challenged by this policy move. Yet, this open-endness in the conceptualization of internationalization is likely to further increase current inequalities within the education system. We argue that such public participation processes can therefore easily become pseudo-participatory, marginalizing and excluding particular constituents.
Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Digital Games: A Research on Teacher Candidates
Author: Sarigoz, Okan
Date: 2019-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Computer Simulation,Simulated Environment,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Video Games,Preservice Teacher Education,Preservice Teachers,Student Attitudes,Foreign Countries,Gender Differences,Value Judgment

Virtual reality, although it is in the real world, is a three-dimensional simulation model that brings users to a different environment with computer-generated graphics, video and audio, and enables communication with the media. Virtual reality is the imitation of the physical structure from a real world or an imaginary world in a computer-generated environment. Augmented reality is the combination of the real world with the virtual world, the creation of enriched environments using virtual objects, the combination of physical reality and digital holograms, or the creation of a virtual world suitable for the purpose by using digital products. The aim of this study is to determine the opinions of teacher candidates studying in the faculty of education in terms of augmented reality, virtual reality and digital games depending on some demographic variables. The working group of the study consisted of teacher candidates studying in different departments of the Faculty of Education of Mustafa Kemal University in 2018-2019 Academic Year. Mixed model and General survey model were used in the study. In order to determine the opinions of teacher candidates, Using Digital Educational Plays Scale was used as a data collection tool. As a result of the research, there was no statistically significant difference between the opinions of the teacher candidates about the use of digital educational games in terms of the affective component, perceived usefulness, perceived control and the scale generally in terms of the scale, however, however, it has been concluded that there is a difference in favor of women in sub-dimension of affective components. In addition, in the research, teacher candidates were not afraid to use computer, but they were afraid of playing computer games.
Detecting the Opinions of the Secondary School Administrators Regarding the Use of Mobile Technologies for Educational Purposes
Author: Ira, Nejat
Date: 2019-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Secondary Schools,Administrator Attitudes,Telecommunications,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Teaching Methods,Communication Strategies,Information Dissemination,Foreign Countries

The goal of this research is to detect the opinions of secondary school administrators regarding the use of mobile technologies for educational purposes. 15 secondary school administrators form the participants of this research. The data of the research are collected in the fall semester of the 2017-2018 educational year. The work is designed through the qualitative research model. The personal information form and the semi-structured interview form are prepared by the researcher while collecting the data. The data obtained have been resolved by using the content analysis method. According to the obtained findings from this research; secondary school administrators have expressed that they use mobile learning in their teaching practices &quot;in need of momentary information&quot;, &quot;momentary communication&quot;, and &quot;in the transfer of the audiovisual data used in the courses to the smart board&quot;. The administrators have expressed that while choosing the mobile technologies they take into account the content of the course and the features of the action which is going to take place during the course. It has been stated that with the use of mobile tools for educational purposes, there has been seen positive changes in the teaching activities and that the courses has started continuing more effectively and efficiently, and that they benefit from the audiovisual materials more during the course, and that by moving away from the traditional teaching method the student starts learning more active and enjoys.
Determining the Effect of Cooperative Learning and Models on the Conceptual Understanding of the Chemical Reactions
Author: Okumus, Seda
Date: 2019-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cooperative Learning,Chemistry,Science Education,Preservice Teacher Education,Preservice Teachers,Science Laboratories,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Models,Scientific Concepts,Science Instruction,Science Teachers,College Freshmen,Foreign Countries

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of cooperative learning and models on the conceptual understanding of the chemical reactions. The sample of study was comprised of 71 preservice science teachers from the first grade of science teacher education program. Quasi-experimental method with pre-and post-test of quantitative research was used. This study was carried out at General Chemistry Laboratory I course and was applied to two experimental and one control group. At the first experimental group (CMG, n=25), cooperative learning and models were implemented together, and cooperative learning was implemented on the second group (COG, n=23). On the other hand, there was no intervention on the control group (CG, n=23), in which traditional laboratory model was used. To collect data, Chemical Reactions Concept Test (CRCT) was utilized. It was found that cooperative learning with models increased the conceptual understanding about chemical reactions in this study.
A Comparative Research on Proving: The Case of Prospective Mathematics Teachers
Author: Oflaz, Gülçin
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematics Teachers,Mathematics Instruction,Validity,Mathematical Logic,Preservice Teacher Education,Preservice Teachers,Mathematics Skills,Foreign Countries,Geometric Concepts

It is of critical importance, in particular, for mathematics teachers who will teach future generations to understand and do mathematical proofs. It is important to determine future teachers' beliefs about and difficulties with proofs because their knowledge of this issue affects their teaching. This study aims to determine and compare the proof schemes of prospective mathematics teachers from two state universities, one in Turkey and the other in Spain. The case study was conducted within this study. The participants were 51 prospective teachers at their second year from the department of teaching mathematics education at Huelva University in Spain and 45 prospective teachers from the department of teaching mathematics education at Cumhuriyet University in Turkey. The Proof Test consisted of four questions about proofs for parallelograms. Semi-structured interviews were subsequently conducted to investigate the prospective teachers' responses in-depth. The findings suggest that prospective teachers from Turkey and Spain indicated affinity in proving. The majority of the prospective mathematics teachers were either unable to complete the proof or completed the proof in an inaccurate way.
On Academic Identification of College English Teacher in Terms of Discipline in Chinese Higher Education
Author: Zhen, Zeng
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Faculty,Language Teachers,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,English (Second Language),Self Concept,Higher Education,Efficiency,Foreign Countries,Nonmajors,Accreditation (Institutions),Professional Identity,Faculty Development,Teacher Qualifications,Intellectual Disciplines,Educational Attainment,Educational Quality

The paper looked into faculty of Chinese College English (CE) (or CE faculty on the paper), a great proportion of teachers teaching English for all non-English majors in higher education institutions, through analysis of CE faculty recruitment process, symbiosis of researching and teaching in their performances, as well as their restrained professional development in China higher education. It's demonstrated that disciplinary identity on campus is the premise of being successfully fulfillment of the function of teaching and learning in higher education; CE faculty are supposed to effectively perform their duty in line with their professionals defined and developed by the discipline they are trained by. It's discussed that for securing and protecting the efficiency and academic status of CE and CE faculty, there should be a accrediting process for CE the course accreditation and for CE faculty with academically educational program awarding degree, which is guaranteed for CE being recognized a important and legalized academic activity serving Chinese higher education as its very first design.