ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Implementing Inclusive Education in Early Childhood Settings: The Interplay and Impact of Exclusion, Teacher Qualities, and Professional Development in Ghana
Author: Ackah-Jnr, Francis R.
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Inclusion,Early Childhood Education,Early Childhood Teachers,Teacher Effectiveness,Teacher Characteristics,Young Children,Students with Disabilities,Professional Development,Foreign Countries,Teacher Student Relationship,Teacher Attitudes

Inclusive education (IE) in the early years enhances young children's learning, socialization, and development; yet, children with disability are one group that is often isolated, excluded, or marginalized in early childhood education. This paper examines jointly the perceived exclusion practices, teacher qualities, and professional development and the interplay and impact of these factors on effective inclusive early childhood education. Drawing on data collected from individual interviews with teachers and headteachers in a large early childhood and school setting in Ghana, findings of this qualitative study indicate the exclusion practices of teachers. The findings suggest that resistance to IE limits learning, engagement, and social opportunities for children, especially those with disability. The findings also identify that effective teacher qualities and professional development enhance the provision of quality inclusive early childhood education. The study reinforces the need for improved support for teachers and to make sure that they are placed at the center of IE policy and practice.
The Effect of Mindfulness Techniques on Teacher Resilience as Moderated by Conscientiousness
Author: Harris, Aundrea T.
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Metacognition,Stress Management,Resilience (Psychology),Personality Traits,Teacher Burnout,High School Teachers,Burnout,Measures (Individuals)

Burnout continues to be apparent among teachers and often leads to increased health care costs, absenteeism, and turnover rates. Burnout stems from unmanaged stress, which is the result of teachers' response to challenges in the workplace. The purpose of this cross-sectional design study was to examine the relationship between mindfulness techniques and resilience in high school teachers. An additional purpose was to examine whether the personality trait and conscientiousness moderate the relationship between mindfulness techniques and resilience. The frameworks for this study were based on the self-awareness, -regulation, and - transcendence (S-ART) framework, the theory of planned behavior, and the concepts of resilience and job burnout. Four surveys were used to gather data from 133 high school teachers to understand the relationship between mindfulness techniques and resilience as well as how conscientiousness moderates the relationship. Multiple regression analysis was used to analyze the data. This study found a significant relationship between mindfulness techniques and resilience in high school teachers. Additionally, this study found that conscientiousness does not significantly moderate the relationship between mindfulness techniques and resilience in high school teachers. These results might be used to create a professional development tool for teachers to help them learn how to increase the quality of classroom interactions and their resilience through the use of mindfulness techniques. The outcome may be a more positive social and academic environment for students as well as teachers, based on the encouraged use of mindfulness techniques.
Decomposition of the Financial Capability Construct: A Structural Model of Debt Knowledge, Skills, Confidence, Attitudes, and Behavior
Author: Bialowolski, Piotr
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Money Management,Self Efficacy,Adults,Correlation,Knowledge Level,Debt (Financial),Behavior Patterns,Foreign Countries,Telephone Surveys,Age Differences,Gender Differences,Family Income,Economics Education,Participant Characteristics

Based on a nationally representative sample of adult Poles (N = 1,004), we examined structural relationships between financial knowledge, skills, confidence, attitudes, and behavior in debt-domain. We found that financial confidence--at least regarding debt-related issues--is tied to debt attitudes and behavior beyond the extent to which the attitudes and behaviors are linked to objective debt knowledge. Moreover, the relationship between objective knowledge and confidence turned out to be insignificant in our study. These findings suggest that confidence should be used as a separate marker of financial capability. Having established that skills correlate with behavior and attitudes differently than objective knowledge, we argue also to include them separately in financial capability measurements.
The Influence of Selected Variables on Lower Secondary School Students&apos; Concepts about Diseases
Author: Fancovicova, Jana
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Secondary School Students,Concept Formation,Diseases,Foreign Countries,Microbiology,Predictor Variables,Gender Differences

Children's concept of biological phenomena differs from scientific thought in many aspects. The revelation of wrong concepts contributes to better education, especially when that information is described in a specific field of science. Not only children, but also adults often use anthropomorphic and theological explanations to express their ideas, which confirm their lack of understanding of biological phenomena. A great deal of research has proved retaining of children's misconceptions in the fields of zoology and botany. How accurate, however, are their ideas about organisms of a microscopic size? The aim of the research was to find out the influence of selected factors (perceived vulnerability, grade, gender and type of group) on concepts about diseases among lower secondary school students. The research sample consisted of 400 students of lower secondary education from Slovakia. Data were collected through Likert type questionnaires. The correlation was found between perceived vulnerability to diseases, age and concepts about diseases. The statistically significant difference in the results between boys and girls was not confirmed. The higher impact should be aimed at their importance for humans and nature for a better understanding of this concept.
Couple Perceptions as Mediators between Family Economic Strain and Marital Quality: Evidence from Longitudinal Dyadic Data
Author: Ross, Donald Bruce
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Economic Climate,Stress Variables,Marriage,Financial Problems,Family Work Relationship,Conflict,Family Characteristics,Family Environment,Marital Satisfaction

The deleterious nature of U.S. economic recessions over the last several decades highlight a need to investigate the role of family economic strain on families. The current study explored the impact of family economic strain on marital quality and marital stability through dyadic associations of marital support and work-family conflict of 370 married couples over a 12-year period (1989-2001) through an actor-partner interdependence model, encompassing two major U.S. recessions. Guided by family stress and coping theory, findings are consistent with past research indicating the negative impact of family economic strain on marital quality and marital stability; however, this impact may be mitigated through the mediation of positive perceptions of marital support and work-family conflict. Implications suggest financial counselors should consider the lasting influence of economic strain on families, and how the psychosocial resources of martial support and managing work-family conflict may promote relationship quality and stability.
The Relation between Teachers&apos; Attitudes towards Renewable Energy Sources and Critical Thinking Dispositions
Author: Guven, Gokhan
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Energy,Energy Conservation,Critical Thinking,Attitude Measures,Preservice Teachers,Student Attitudes,Metacognition

In this research, it was aimed to explore the relation between attitude towards renewable energy sources and critical thinking disposition. For this purpose, relational survey model was used in the research. The research group consisted of 468 prospective teachers studying in faculty of education in a public university in the fall semester of 2018-2019 academic year. Renewable Energy Sources Attitude Scale in order to evaluate prospective teachers' attitudes towards renewable energy sources, and Critical Thinking Disposition Scale for evaluating critical thinking dispositions were used. In the research, the relation between the data set for attitude towards renewable energy sources comprising of variables which are application request, importance of education, country interest, environmental awareness and investments and the data set for critical thinking disposition comprising of variables which are metacognition, flexibility, systematicity, tenacity-patience, open-mindedness by the canonical analysis. As a result of the canonical correlation analysis, a significant relation was found between the attitudes towards renewable energy sources and the critical thinking dispositions and it was found that the common variance shared between the data sets was 22.23%.
Factors Associated with the Ownership of Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs): Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior
Author: Magwegwe, Frank M.
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Behavior Theories,Money Management,Retirement,Models,Psychological Patterns,Path Analysis,Positive Attitudes,Social Behavior,Behavior Standards,Computation,Financial Needs,Fringe Benefits,Prediction,Employment,Ownership,National Surveys,Planning

Despite the importance of retirement savings, many individuals retire with lack of adequate retirement savings. While calculating retirement savings needs was found to enhance retirement savings, little is known about what underlies this enhancement. Applying the theory of planned behavior (TPB), we developed a model in which psychological factors influence the calculation of retirement savings needs, which in turn influences the ownership of individual retirement accounts. Path analysis was used to test our model with data from the 2015 National Financial Capability Study. The results showed that favorable attitudes, strong social norms, and perceived behavioral control are associated with calculating retirement savings needs. Also, calculating retirement savings needs as well as perceived behavioral control and having an employer-based retirement plan, in turn, contributed to the prediction of individual retirement account ownership. Our results suggest it is important to understand he psychological factors behind calculating retirement savings needs and to make it easy for individuals to calculate those needs.
Transitioning to College: Experiences of Successful First-Generation College Students
Author: Ricks, Jonathan R.
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: First Generation College Students,African American Students,Student Adjustment,College Seniors,Black Colleges,Public Colleges,Emotional Response,Anxiety,Academic Support Services,Student Personnel Services,Social Support Groups,Social Capital,Cultural Capital,Academic Achievement,Academic Persistence

This qualitative study explored the high school to college transition experiences of ten successful firstgeneration college students (FGCS). Participants were college seniors at an historically black university in the United States. A generic qualitative research design was used, including in-depth, semi-structured interviews to collect and analyze data. Participants reported that the transition experience led to confusion with academic and financial procedures, various emotions including anxiety and fear, the realization that they had deficits in academic skills, and the receipt of support from family members and others. Cultural and social capital appeared to play key roles in their success. Student affairs professionals are encouraged to explore targeted, individualized strategies that meet the needs of FGCS as they transition to college.
A Systematic Review of the Research Papers on Chemistry-Focused Socio-Scientific Issues
Author: Çalik, Muammer
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Chemistry,Science Education,Science and Society,Educational Research,Relevance (Education),Models,Scientific Concepts,Pollution,Energy,Industry,Manufacturing,Elementary School Students,Secondary School Students,Undergraduate Students

Although chemistry-focused socio-scientific issues support the 'relevance' model of chemistry education, the related literature has lacked any systematic review handling them together. For this reason, this research aimed to thematically synthesize the research papers on chemistry-focused socio scientific issues (SSI) from 2008 to 2020 and inferentially evaluate them in terms of the relevance model of chemistry education. After searching international and national well-known databases through relevant keyword patterns (e.g., Pattern 1: socio-scientific issues and chemistry education), 65 research papers were apparent for the systematic review. Then, the authors generated primary and secondary codes for the research papers and then inferentially marked their 'relevance' components. The systematic review indicated variation of research areas (e.g., relevance model of chemistry education) and dominant research foci for different themes (e.g., competencies and related variables for the theme 'aims'; pollution, energy, industry and fabrication-based problems for the theme 'SSI'; organic compounds for the theme 'chemistry concepts'). Further, it revealed that the research papers on chemistry-focused SSI had some shortcomings at handling all components of the relevance model in a balanced way. The current research suggests professionally training teachers about how to integrate chemistry-focused SSI and the relevance model into school chemistry.
Financial Advice, Plan Choice, and Retirement Plan Satisfaction
Author: Ryan, Michael P.
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Risk,Money Management,Retirement,Retirement Benefits,Planning,Decision Making,College Faculty,Teacher Attitudes,Correlation,Expertise,Universities,Comparative Analysis,Marital Status,Age Groups,Income,Gender Differences,Tenure,Knowledge Level,Likert Scales

Most private sector employees have access to defined contribution retirement plans while public sector employees often may choose defined benefit or defined contribution plans. This research utilized a survey of faculty to analyze retirement plan satisfaction. Advice from a financial planner was positively associated with satisfaction with portability. Retirement plan knowledge was negatively associated with satisfaction with the decision period. Selection of a defined benefit plan was positively related to four aspects of satisfaction and negatively related to regret. Financial planners assisting individuals who face such choices should acknowledge the decision's challenges and evaluate the client's level of retirement planning knowledge. Focusing on long-term goals and the client's investment and mobility risk tolerance may be helpful, especially after market corrections.
Educational Efficiency and Students&apos; Involvement of Teaching Approach Based on Game-Based Student Response System
Author: Radulovic, Branka
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Instructional Effectiveness,Game Based Learning,Teaching Methods,Audience Response Systems,Physics,Learner Engagement,Secondary School Students,Cognitive Processes,Difficulty Level,Foreign Countries,Thinking Skills

Modern approaches in Physics classes which involve the game-based student response system (GSRS) have been in use for a while, but their educational efficiency and students' involvement have not been examined. Therefore, this research's main aim was to determine the educational efficiency and students' involvement of GSRS and to assess their effect on scientific reasoning. The values of educational efficiency and students' involvement were calculated based on students' achievement and perceived mental effort. To determine these values, a pedagogical experiment with parallel groups was applied. The research was conducted on a sample of 172 secondary school students, and included material related to direct currents. The results point to positive and higher values of the educational efficiency and students' involvement for GSRS approach than the conventional approach. It means that GSRS approach causes lower mental effort, letting more space generate in the working memory to perceive and process new information. The results also show a positive effect of GSRS on higher students' engagement during the class and scientific reasoning. The obtained results undoubtedly indicate the positive effect of GSRS on the students' performance. Therefore, GSRS approach should be used often in the classroom.
Financial Attitudes and Charitable Giving
Author: Enete, Shane
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Money Management,Attitudes,Private Financial Support,Donors,Consumer Economics,Planning,Behavior,Predictor Variables

Why do people give away their money? Charitable giving has traditionally been modeled using socioeconomic (i.e., age, income, education) and psychographic variables (i.e., self-esteem, guilt, pity). However, given that charitable giving is, inherently, a financial activity, would financial variables with a psychographic element (i.e., financial attitudinal variables) have the ability to improve the prediction of giving behavior? Using the 2016 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), we found that higher risk tolerance, higher subjective financial knowledge, longer financial time horizon, and access to emergency funds from friends/relatives all were positively associated with charitable giving. The results of this study help broaden the potential information set for financial counselors, marketers, nonprofit organizations, or policymakers when understanding a client's intention to charitably give and identifying potential donors beyond traditional socioeconomic and psychographic variables.
Constructing Core Teaching Competency Indicators for Secondary School Science Teachers in China
Author: Ye, Jianqiang
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Competencies,Secondary School Teachers,Science Teachers,Foreign Countries,Content Validity,Standards,Pedagogical Content Knowledge

Science teachers play a key role in successfully implementing science education reforms and providing all students with meaningful science learning opportunities. Therefore, what core teaching competencies do science teachers need to have in their practice? This study uses fuzzy Delphi technique and Analytic Hierarchy Process to approach the above problems. Experts from Chinese universities, secondary schools and educational research institutions were invited to participate in two rounds of Delphi process. The research results show that the four domains of core teaching competencies of science teachers and their 21 competencies have high content validity. Additionally, it can be concluded that the weights of core competencies of making learning objectives, raising pedagogical questions, stimulating learning motivation and analyzing course content ranked high, while the weights of core competencies of using information technology and multimedia, evaluating practical work, and presenting research results have received less attention. It is believed that the results of this study can enlighten the education reform of science teachers and promote the professional development of pre-service/ in-service science teachers.
Strategy to Improve English Vocabulary Achievement during COVID-19 Epidemic. Does Quizizz Help?
Author: Huei, Law Szee
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Learning Strategies,Vocabulary Development,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Second Language Learning,Instructional Effectiveness,Educational Technology,Electronic Learning,Elementary School Students,Grade 4,STEM Education,Rural Schools,COVID-19,Pandemics,Student Attitudes,Foreign Countries

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education is being increasingly recognized as needing vital emphasis at a national level. To enhance learning in Science and Mathematics, the repertoire of vocabularies plays a significant role. As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues its spread across the world, people's vocabulary learning has been limited. Responding to this situation with appropriate awareness, e-learning is being applied to teach the English language. The intent of this study is to utilize Quizizz to enhance the vocabulary achievement among primary English as Second Language (ESL) pupils in rural schools. The study's research employed mixed methods with purposive sampling of 13 participants. The research site was a rural school located 60km from the nearest town. The data were collected both pre and post-test as designed by the researcher and Likert scale questionnaire. The data was analyzed using appropriate quantitative analysis. To shed more light on the implementation, a thematic analysis by use of a semi-structured interview was conducted. The study finds that 10 out of 13 participants have shown an increase in their post-test of filling in the blank scoring test. The data is strengthened by a moderately high mean score of a Likert scale questionnaire. Furthermore, the participants highlighted that the Quizizz's leaderboard matched their favored learning style. In this way, this feature tends to evoke a positive learning atmosphere. Thus, it can be concluded that Quizizz could enhance vocabulary achievement among primary English as Secondary Language (ESL) pupils in rural schools.
Using Memes in the Language Classroom
Author: Kayali, Nurda Karadeniz
Date: 2021-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Visual Aids,Humor,Second Language Learning,English (Second Language),Vocabulary Development,Recall (Psychology),Foreign Countries,College Students

Teaching vocabulary is a big challenge for teachers, and also a huge difficulty for students is to remember the vocabulary items. The main purpose of this study is to create an enjoyable learning and teaching environment to help students revise certain vocabulary items and make students have fun by being creative. In that, memes are trendy phenomena which are both entertaining and creative way of expressing one's feelings on one topic. In this study, memes were used for vocabulary revision. To see its effect on vocabulary recall, a quiz was conducted before and after the experiment. To determine its effect on students' opinions, a feedback form was also applied after the experiment. The results show that the use of memes affected the vocabulary recall of the Medicine students positively. Therefore, they could be used as one of the strategies to create an innovative learning and teaching process.