ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Supporting Latinx Youth Participation in Out-of-School Time Programs: A Research Synthesis
Author: Erbstein, Nancy
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Hispanic Americans,Youth,Participation,Youth Programs,Social Bias,Social Discrimination,Cultural Differences,Poverty,Ethnicity,Immigration,Partnerships in Education,Community Programs

Increasingly, leaders of youth-serving organizations voice concern about low Latinx participation (Borden et al., 2006), often recognizing that poor participation reflects a need to develop new capacities and inclusive practices (Perkins et al., 2007). The authors were asked to summarize the scholarship on Latinx participation in youth development programs and recommend ways to promote meaningful and sustained participation. This article presents key elements of this research synthesis. The goal of the paper is to help out-of-school time (OST) programs develop concrete, research-based, context-responsive approaches to improving Latinx participation. First, the authors elaborate on the importance of Latinx youth participation in OST activities and present the framework that guided their analysis of the literature. After outlining their methodology, they then summarize the key themes in the literature and articulate strategies for developing high-quality OST programs with sustained high Latinx participation. The conclusion poses questions for OST practitioners to facilitate critical reflection and thoughtful planning for inclusion of Latinx youth.
Challenges of Principal Succession -- Examining the Challenges of Hiring Internal vs. External Candidates
Author: Sabina, Lou L.
Date: 2018-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Principals,Personnel Selection,Personnel Needs,School Districts,Administrator Attitudes,Decision Making,School Personnel,Employment Qualifications,Teachers

As school districts face shortages of well-qualified and willing candidates to assume the role of school principal, the development of internal succession planning programs, along with the strategic use of external hires for school leadership positions is becoming more common. Based on a multi-year study of five (5) Central Florida school districts, this paper examines the benefits and tensions that district level administrator's face when selecting internal or external candidates for school based administrative positions. We begin with a brief review of the literature regarding internal vs. external hiring. Data from the field is examined thorough the lens of the intersection between the theoretical perspectives of Systems Theory and Person-Environment Fit Theory. Detailed descriptions of findings from the analysis of twenty-one interviews conducted in two of the most active districts involved in formal succession planning work is included along with identified challenges associated with internal vs. external hiring, including resentment from internal candidates when external hires occur, district administration willingness to hire externally, and the challenges associated with recognizing and understanding the culture and climate of a district as an external hire. Opportunities for district leaders are also presented including an examination of the values of new practices that come with external hires, external candidate perspectives on the existing climate and culture of the district or school, and building new networks associated with external hires. Finally, future implications for school districts and universities who prepare school leaders are discussed.
The Relationship between Performance Management Practices and Organizational Deviations in Schools
Author: Toytok, Esef Hakan
Date: 2018-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Correlation,Performance Based Assessment,Teacher Behavior,Foreign Countries,Teacher Administrator Relationship,Administrators,Public School Teachers,Elementary School Teachers,Middle School Teachers,High School Teachers,Teacher Attitudes

The purpose of this research is to describe how and in which way teachers' behaviors are affected in the organisational context with performance management practices. The sample of the research consists of 350 administrators and teachers working in the schools located in the city of Siirt in 2017-2018 academic year. The study is an example of the descriptive relational screening model. The data of the research were obtained by using &quot;Teacher/Manager Performance Management Rating Scale&quot; and &quot;Organizational Deviation Scale&quot; in Public and Private Primary Education Schools. The obtained data were converted into data sets with statistical program and appropriate analysis procedures were applied and interpreted after being tabulated. According to the results obtained from the research, it was found that there is a significant difference in the overall dimension and organizational dimension of the performance management practices, and in the overall dimension of the performance management practices according to the independent variable of school type. It can also be stated that there is a negative and moderately significant relationship between the performance management practices and the organizational deviation in the schools and that as the performances of the administrators and teachers in the schools increase, the level of organizational deviation behavior may decrease.
The Relationship between the Organizational Change Cynicism and Organizational Commitment of Teachers
Author: Helvaci, Mehmet Akif
Date: 2018-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Correlation,Organizational Change,Negative Attitudes,Employees,Foreign Countries,Elementary School Teachers,Primary Education,Elementary Education,Employee Attitudes

Organizational change cynicism is the situation that includes negative attitudes of the employees towards the changes in the organizations. Organizational commitment means the involvement of the employees into the organizations by being identified within the organizations. The aim of this study is to determine the organizational change cynicism levels and organizational commitment levels of teachers and to find out the correlation between the organizational change cynicism levels and organizational commitment levels of teacher. 352 primary and elementary school teachers working in Denizli took part in this study. According to the research results, the organizational change cynicism level of teachers is low, the organizational commitment level is high and the correlation between organizational change cynicism and organizational commitment is high. This study is a part of master thesis with the title &quot;Ögretmenlerde Örgütsel Degisim Sinizmi ve Örgütsel Baglilik Düzeyleri Arasindaki Iliski&quot; which was supported by Research Fund (2018/TP003) of Usak University.
Education of Children in the Area of Physical Actvities as a Foundation for Lifelong Sports
Author: Miklánková, Ludmila
Date: 2018-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preschool Children,Physical Education,Physical Activities,Lifelong Learning,Athletics,Psychomotor Skills,Motor Development,Parent Role,Student Motivation

The aim of the research was to analyse the level of movement skills in pre-school aged children in context of stimulation to physical activities at school and in the family background. The research group consisted of 62 pre-school aged children (28 boys, 37 girls) with average age 5,6 years. TGMD-2 test was used for the assessment of the quality of movement skills. Questionnaire ESPA was used for the assessment of the stimulation level to physical actvities of children. The level of pre-school children's movement skills was assessed in groups with different stimulation to physical activities. Among those groups was found statistical significant difference (p = 0,001). Children with high and above average stimulation to physical activity show higher level of managed movement skills. Due to low age of children, parents play significant role. The research results in pre-school children indicate positive importance of aimed stimulation to children's physical activity which creates quality basis for future lifelong sports. The data was obtained within the project GF_PdF_2018_006.
Academic Motivation and Academic Self-Efficacy of Prospective Teachers
Author: Titrek, Osman
Date: 2018-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Motivation,Self Efficacy,Preservice Teachers,Foreign Countries,Measures (Individuals),Learning Motivation,Correlation,Student Attitudes,Likert Scales

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between academic self-efficacy perception of prospective teachers and their academic motivation levels. The study was conducted on 322 prospective teachers (226 female and 96 male) who were in 3rd and 4th grades at Faculty of Education in Sakarya University during Spring term of 2017-2018 academic year. Data was collected through &quot;Academic Motivation Scale&quot; developed by Vallerand et al. (1992) and adapted into Turkish by Karagüven (2012) and &quot;Self-perception of Candidate Teachers on Teaching Proficiency Scale&quot; developed by Çakir, Erkus, and Kiliç (2004). SPSS 23 package program was used to analyze the data; percentage, frequency, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, independent samples t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Tukey HSD and Pearson Correlation test were used in the data analysis. The results of analyses indicated that academic self-efficacy perception levels of the prospective teachers were at desired level. However, their academic motivation levels were at middle level. The result of the analysis revealed that the prospective teachers who were female and taught at 4th grade had higher academic self-efficacy score whereas significant difference was not found in academic motivation levels in terms of gender and grade. On the other hand, there was a significant difference in both academic self-efficacy perception of the prospective teacher and their academic motivation levels in terms of department variables. Prospective teachers enrolled at the department of Preschool and Science Education had higher academic self-efficacy perception than those enrolled at the department of Computer Education and Instructional Technologies, English, Special Education, Social Science and Mathematics. Prospective teachers enrolled at the department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance and Science Education had higher academic motivation levels than English prospective teachers. Further, significant positive correlations were observed between academic motivation and academic self-efficacy of prospective teachers.
The Relationship between Teachers&apos; Perceptions of Emotional Labor and Teacher Burnout and Teachers&apos; Educational Level
Author: Zaretsky, Racheli
Date: 2019-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Teacher Burnout,Teacher Attitudes,Correlation,Emotional Response,Females,Women Faculty,Coping,Educational Attainment,Stress Management,Stress Variables,Elementary School Teachers,Secondary School Teachers

The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between teachers' perceptions of emotional labor, teacher burnout and teachers' educational levels. The research sample consisted of 170 female Haredi (religiously ultra-orthodox and observant) teachers working in schools throughout Israel. The data were collected using the Emotional Labor of Teaching Scale (TELTS) and Teacher Burnout Questionnaire, and a demographic questionnaire formulated for the present study. The data collected in the study were processed using SPSS software. The two research hypotheses, namely a) teachers characterized by lower levels of burnout will use the natural acting technique associated with emotional labor whereas teachers typified by higher level of burnout will utilize the surface acting or deep acting emotional labor techniques; and b) teachers with higher levels of education will tend to use the natural acting technique associated with emotional labor in contrast to teachers with lower levels of education who will tend to utilize the surface acting or deep acting emotional labor techniques, were analyzed by ANOVA and MANOVA procedures. The main findings indicated that both teachers' burnout levels and teachers' levels of education differentially affected the use of the specific emotional labor techniques (surface, deep or natural acting). The conclusion of this study is that various variables can influence teachers' use of techniques associated with emotional labor. Changes in such variables, such as teachers' level of burnout and level of education, may improve management of emotions in teaching and improve their well-being.
Teacher Candidates&apos; Anxieties Regarding Facebook Usage in Education
Author: Ramazanoglu, Mehmet
Date: 2018-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preservice Teachers,Anxiety,Social Media,Foreign Countries,Social Networks,Stress Variables,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education

The aim of this research is to determine the anxiety levels of teacher candidates regarding Facebook usage in education and analyse it according to various variables. In the research, descriptive survey model was used which is one of the quantitative research methods. The population of the research includes 184 teacher candidates who are receiving education in the Department of Computer and Instructional Technologies Education of Siirt University Faculty of Education in 2017-2018 academic year. Since the population is accessible, no attempt has been made for sampling. Facebook Usage Anxiety in Education (FUAE) scale was used as data collection inventory in the study. According to results obtained in the research; it was seen that the anxiety levels of teacher candidates were high while using Facebook, Facebook usage anxiety had no significant difference with respect to class and age independent variables; however, there was a meaningful difference with respect to gender independent variable.
Online Collaboration between Israeli Palestinian Arab and Jewish Students: Fear and Anxiety
Author: Ahmad, Manal Yazbak Abu
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,College Students,Jews,Arabs,Multicultural Education,Cooperative Learning,Intercollegiate Cooperation,Peer Relationship,Student Attitudes,Friendship,Fear,Anxiety,Online Courses,Cultural Awareness,Electronic Learning,Learner Engagement,Transformative Learning

This study examines Israeli Palestinian Arab and Jewish students from five education colleges in Israel. Students worked collaboratively through a yearly online intercollegiate program. The research includes qualitative analysis of openended questions and ongoing reflective journals as well as quantitative analysis of pre and post questionnaires. The qualitative results revealed that students' initial apprehension about working with people from the other culture diminished at the end of the course. This change was backed up by the results of the t-test (-4.38), which indicated that the perception of other participants in the group improved significantly among both Jewish and Israeli Palestinian Arab participants.
Perception - Attention - Memory Reaction Time of PE Teacher and Computer Teacher Candidates
Author: Karagün, Elif
Date: 2018-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Reaction Time,Perception,Attention,Memory,Physical Education Teachers,Preservice Teachers,Computer Science,Foreign Countries,Visual Perception,Auditory Perception

The purpose of the study is to determine the visual and auditory reaction time, perception, attention and memory levels of PE teacher candidates and computer teacher candidates. For this purpose, after giving necessary information to the teacher candidates of the Department of Physical Education and Sports and the candidates of Computer Teaching Department of Kocaeli University, 88 voluntary students, were applied Benton Perception, Attention-Memory test and Newtest 1000 which determined their visual and auditory reaction time. Data was analyzed by using SPSS 21.00 software. The Man Whitney U test was used for the comparison of the paired groups since the data in the normality analysis did not follow a normal distribution. As a result, it was found that computer teacher candidates had higher levels of attention-perception and memory scores than those of PE teacher candidates. PE teacher candidates were found to be faster to perceive auditory stimulus and give reactions.
Initiatives and New Trends towards STEM Education in Turkey
Author: Yilmaz, Adem
Date: 2018-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,STEM Education,Educational Trends,Educational Research,Research Methodology

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Education; Is an educational approach that many countries in the world have included in their curricula that allow learners to view the knowledge they learn in science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses, aiming at transforming theoretical knowledge into practice, product and innovative inventions. It is aimed to be able to adapt easily to the qualities of the business life thanks to these skills when the STEM trained individuals enter into the business world, as well as being an approach that is based on giving the skills of STEM education, production and invention. Within the scope of the study, attempts were made to investigate the initiatives and new trends of STEM education from 2010 until the day. Document analysis and thematic content analysis (meta-synthesis) method was used in the research process. Thematic content analysis; Analyze, synthesize and interpret the findings of more than one research on the same subject, with a critical point of view, in contrast to the theme or templates specified and raw data. During the research; Articles, theses, reports and reports which are reached from various sources in the national and international literature have been examined and a wide-scale resource has been created by considering every point related to the contents of the work. The results of the research were examined under various headings and a broad framework was established and recommendations were made.
Social Aspects of Learning: Sámi People in the Circumpolar North
Author: Laiti, Outi Kaarina
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Indigenous Populations,Indigenous Knowledge,Social Influences,Interaction,Cultural Influences,Teaching Methods,Foreign Countries,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Adolescents,Games,Programming,College Students,Language Usage

This article addresses how, in the Arctic regions, indigenous traditional educational approaches focus on the cultural background of the people and their social learning customs in today's context. The development of Arctic pedagogical approaches is discussed in light of experiences collected in Finnish Lapland in 2017 with the Sámi people. Particularly, the significance of social interactions in indigenous pedagogies is explored. We ask how social interactions benefit technologically enhanced learning in the Sámi cultural context. The findings suggest that social interactions have the potential for improving learning even when learning with and through information and communication technologies (ICTs).
Chorus Chiefs&apos; Views about Chorists&apos; Lifelong Learning Skills
Author: Kaynak, Tugçe
Date: 2018-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Singing,Older Adults,Social Development,Individual Development,Music Education,Lifelong Learning,Administrator Attitudes,Foreign Countries,Music Techniques

An individual with lifelong learning skills is always one step ahead. Individuals develop themselves in the branches of art people are interested in in order to be able to live and develop themselves in a social environment and in different cultural environments. Individuals develop themselves on individual instrument training or collective performance such as choral education in the types of music they are interested in. In the study, the opinions of 5 choirs were taken about the progress of the individuals who were between 55 and 70 years old. A semi-structured interview form has been applied to 5 choir chiefs to determine the effect of chorus work on the social and personal development processes of the chorus work that the chorists participated in this process. Each data obtained as a result of the interview is analyzed by content analysis method. Codes are converted into numerical values and are interpreted. As a result of the research, the positive effects of chorus workshops on social and personal development of the individuals were determined during the lifelong learning process.
The Relationship between Student Perceptions of School Effectiveness and Student Achievement: Implications for Educational Planning
Author: Johnson, Arvin D.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Attitudes,School Effectiveness,Correlation,Educational Planning,Mathematics Achievement,Reading Achievement,Middle School Students,Standardized Tests,Scores

This study was designed to examine relationships between student perceptions of school effectiveness and student achievement in mathematics and reading. Data were collected from over 350 middle school students in a large southeastern school district in the United States. The results revealed statistically significant correlations among the different student perceived aspects of school effectiveness. In addition, a statistically significant correlation between mathematics and reading achievement scores on standardized test was revealed. Data did not yield any statistically significant correlation between the student perceptions of school effectiveness and student achievement. These findings are contradictory to empirical research on school effectiveness and student achievement. Notwithstanding these contradictions, the results of the study provided a foundation for discussion of educational planning issues and implications for educational planning practices.
A Cross-National Analysis of Parent Involvement in Decision-Making: Germany, France and Turkey
Author: Gülcan, Murat Gürkan
Date: 2018-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Comparative Education,Parent Participation,Participative Decision Making,Inclusion,Barriers,Principals,Administrator Attitudes,Parent School Relationship,School Councils

Being a cross-national analysis, the aim of this study, which draws on data from school principals, is to evaluate parents' involvement in decision-making processes comparatively in Turkey, Germany and France, which are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and were included in the study in terms of some variables, such as data in Human Development Index (HDI) report 2016 and results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 reading skills, math and science literacy results' based on demographic, socio-economic, socio-cultural variables as well as achievements in education, population trends and parents' involvement in education. Phenomonology research design from qualitative research methods was used in this study. Data analyses relied on content analysis technique. School administrators from Turkey, Germany and France were included through criteria sampling method from purposeful sampling methods. Interview technique was employed in order to collect data through a semi-structured interview form. The findings of the study highlighted that all participants agree on the positive impact of parents' involvement in decision-making but there are some ambiguity how and what level parents must involve in decision-making processes. Some recommendations are made on how to improve involvement in decision-making process.