ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Extent of Implementation of Minimum Standards of Basic Education for the Realisation of the Second Millennium Development Goal in Bayelsa State
Author: Ogochukwu, Emeka
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Elementary Education,Elementary School Teachers,Questionnaires,Public Schools,Private Schools,Program Implementation,Teacher Surveys,Standards,Educational Resources

The study was carried out in Salga Education Zone of Bayelsa State specifically to determine the extent of implementation of the minimum standards for basic education in order to ensure the realization of the second millennium development goal. The study adopted the descriptive research design. The population of the study comprised of all the 1,566 teachers of both public and private primary schools from the 102 public and private primary schools in the zone. A sample size of 198 teachers from the 28 public and private primary schools was randomly selected. A questionnaire was used as the main instrument for data collection. Two research questions and one null hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation while the null hypothesis was analyzed using t-test statistic. Results show that both public and private primary schools are lagging in the strict implementation of stipulated minimum standards for basic education Hence, realization of the second MDG is still an illusion. Findings also indicate that the so-called inadequate resources (both qualified manpower and facilities/equipment) have also contributed to poor implementation of the minimum standards for basic education thereby resulting to the failure of Universal Basic Education programmes in achieving its goals/objectives. It was therefore recommended that the private school-owners as well as Government agencies such as the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and the Local Government Education Authorities (LGEAs) should ensure that resources (both human and school-facilities/equipment) are adequately provided for schools in order to enable them implement the stipulated minimum standards for the full realization of UBE objectives. Also, SUBEB should initiate regular termly supervision and monitoring programmes to ensure strict compliance of primary schools with the minimum standards of basic education.
Identifying the Barriers upon Development of Virtual Education in Engineering Majors (Case Study: The University of Isfahan)
Author: Nikoonezhad, Sepideh
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Engineering Education,Barriers,Case Studies,Mixed Methods Research,Electronic Learning,Questionnaires,Interviews,Department Heads,Administrators,College Faculty

The present study aims at investigating barriers upon development of virtual education in engineering majors at the University of Isfahan. The study has applied a mixed method (qualitative and quantitative) and its population consists all of the department members of the technical and engineering majors at the University of Isfahan including 125 persons, the department heads of the engineering majors and selected managers and experts in charge of virtual education and information technology of the University of Isfahan including 17 persons. 8 of these 17 persons were interviewed purposefully. Also, 95 of 125 were selected as the sample by using Cochran formula and Morgan Table and by applying a researcher-made questionnaire the barriers upon development of virtual education were investigated from the professors' viewpoints. The findings resulted from interview by categorizing method and the results of the questionnaires were analyzed by statistical analysis and SPSS software. The results of the study indicated that the barriers upon development of engineering education could be divided into three parts including physical, human resources, and organizational conditions. Among the barriers in the physical area, we can mention shortcomings in technical and software infrastructures, shortage in laboratories and workshops, in humanistic area there are weaknesses of interactions between professors and students, low ability of the professors in using software, and in the area of organizational conditions, we can refer to decision-making focus on the virtual section, organizational separation of the virtual education from educational departments and weakness of the interaction between the virtual section and faculties and engineering departments of the university.
Gender Disparities in Sciences: The Question of Parental Influence on Children's Self-Concept and Utility-Value
Author: Makwinya, Noel M.
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Gender Differences,Parent Influence,Self Concept,Sciences,Likert Scales,Secondary School Students,Scientific Attitudes,Parents,Foreign Countries,Questionnaires

Self-concept and utility-values are thought to influence differences in choices, participation and performance in schools-careers between students of different genders and ages. This study was investigating existence of gender differences in such constructs regarding science. Further, the study investigated whether development of such constructs is still influenced by how children feel their parents perceive them in relation to sciences. Using a 30-item, Likert-type questionnaire, data were collected from a random sample of 184 second and third graders. Results showed that, students' self perceptions and those of parents regarding science are positively related. Further, self-concept and utility-values were higher among boys than girls. Based on the result, it was concluded that, parents' gender-based perceptions regarding science that are still communicated at home might be the reason for the development of children's gender-based self-perceptions regarding sciences.
Principals' and Teachers' Use of Conflict Management Strategies on Secondary Students' Conflict Resolution in Rivers State-Nigeria
Author: Kalagbor, Levi Doe
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Principals,Secondary School Teachers,Conflict Resolution,Secondary School Students,Questionnaires

The study was designed to identify the principals' and teachers' level of utilization of conflict management strategies: integrating, dominating, compromising and avoiding strategies on secondary students' conflict resolution and their related implications in the internal school administration. Four research questions and four hypotheses addressed the study. The instrument used for the generation of data was the Secondary Students and Conflict Management Strategies Questionnaire (SECONSQ). A sample of 7 principals and 147 teachers were randomly selected from a target population of 14 principals and 294 teachers in Government Junior Secondary Schools in Port Harcourt Local Government Area of Rivers State. Tables were constructed, frequency counts, percentage and means computed to provide answers to the research questions. The results revealed that the principals uses the integrating and compromising strategies more frequently than the teachers; the teachers level in the use of avoiding strategies is higher than that of the principals, and teachers tends to overlook to a large extent the use of dominating strategies in the management of students' conflict. Based on these findings the paper concluded that school managers are beginning to understand the legal implications associated in their administrative duties bordering on students' management. It was thus recommended that, relevant institutional frameworks should be appropriately put in place to enable the principals and teachers further appreciate the emerging ideas and innovations concerning students' conflicts management in schools.
The Relationship between Shia and Protests in Sight of Madlong and Halm
Author: Bahrami, Hamzeh Ali
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Activism,Islam,Middle Eastern Studies,Leadership Role

The study scrutinizes the relationship between Shia and protest in the era ending in the time of Imam Asgari [Peace be upon him]. Two high-cited orientalists, Madlong and Halm, are considered in this reviewing study and it is similarly but with different deductions inferred from both that the role of Imam in social protests is confirmed. A continuous identified history is given by Madlong for Imam Shia, at least after Imam Jafar Sadegh [P.B.U.H]. He believes that Imam Jurisprudence had completely illuminated the basic concepts of this gilder (Shia) such as Imamat (pontificate) itself. He generally claims a leadership role for Imam in all the aspects of the society including protest. But Halm thinks the main identification of Imam Shia has been recognized in the beginning of the Short Occultation and not before that. Hence the relationship between Shia and protest could not be relevant to Imam Asgari or his ancestors. However, it is possible to look at the topic for all of Imams separately.
Physical Education Teacher Attitudes towards the Effectiveness of Sport Activities in Northern-East Badia
Author: Al-Oun, Ismael Sood
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Physical Education,Physical Education Teachers,Teacher Attitudes,Questionnaires,Athletics,Predictor Variables,Gender Differences,Teaching Experience,Validity,Reliability,Self Concept,Teacher Competencies,Statistical Distributions,Secondary School Teachers,Secondary School Students,Program Effectiveness

The purpose of this study is to investigate physical education teacher attitudes towards the effectiveness of sport activities in north-east Badia. The study population consisted of all teachers of physical education who are studying curriculum of physical education in schools affiliated to the Directorate of Education of the brigade desert north-east. Due to the small size of the study population has been taken in full has been numbered (158) teachers who are studying education curriculum sports, has they distributed questionnaires and retrieved them researcher (104) form a percentage of (65.8%) of the study, for the purposes of the study, the researcher using the questionnaire as the Chairperson of the data collection. The questionnaire of two parts: the first, and include personal information about the study sample, such as race and stage of teaching experience, and the second consists of 16 items distributed on two areas, namely: (classroom management, personal competence) describe each paragraph, including trends teachers of physical education toward the effectiveness of sports activities, and after data collection and discharge have been processed using statistical methods and descriptive and analytical occasion. The study showed the following results: the trends of teachers of physical education to the effectiveness of sports activities in the desert north-east (medium) where the arithmetic average of the responses of the sample (3.57: 5.00), and their attitudes toward the effectiveness of classroom management in sports activities (medium) with a mean (3.40: 5.00), and their attitudes toward the effectiveness of personal competence (high) with a mean (3.75: 5.00), and the lack of statistically significant differences attributable to the variables of gender and stage of teaching experience, and the existence of differences in favor of the stage, teaching in favor of secondary schools in the area (personal competence), and in the light the results of this study, the researcher recommended a number of recommendations.
State and the Low Cost Housing for the Poor: Fall of Bashentek Rehabilitation Project (BRP) in Dhaka City--Bangladesh
Author: Hussain, Rasel
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Housing,Slums,Foreign Countries,Program Descriptions,Poverty,Urban Areas,Government Role,Costs,Qualitative Research,Case Studies,Observation

In the era of neoliberalism now the people especially the lower income group of people is suffering a lot for the scarcity of housing. After migrating from the rural areas for a better life they discovered themselves in the slum like areas of the city as they are not capable to afford housing in the influential areas of the city due to higher rent. Although the government takes initiative to remove the housing scarcity of the lower segment of the people but at the end that is after the completion of the housing the flat has been distributed towards the politically powerful and wealthy persons instead to submit those flats to the slum dwellers. This is the case that has been taking place exactly in the case of Bashantek Rehabilitation Project (BRP) a low cost housing program for the poor initiated by the government of Bangladesh. The real situation is that the real slum dwellers were disposed in the name of low cost housing. Now the flat owner is the politically powerful elite and the wealthy personnel. And throughout this project the slum dwellers have become the victim of dual burden like disposed from the land and lost the money that has been transferred to the project personnel to get the flat at the same time.
Teachers in Politics: Impact of Political Party Membership on Teachers' Freedom and Stability. The Case of Nigste-Saba High School, Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia
Author: Siyum, Berihu Asgele
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Academic Freedom,Political Attitudes,High Schools,Secondary School Teachers,Census Figures,Politics,Educational Environment,Teacher Promotion,Faculty Development,Political Issues,Teacher Salaries,Group Membership,Educational Quality,Job Security,Foreign Countries,Teacher Attitudes,Questionnaires,Costs,Qualitative Research,Statistical Analysis

This study attempted to explore the main influences of politics on teacher's academic freedom and on the independence of academic institutions. The general objective of this study was assessing the impact of political party membership among teachers on their freedom in the study area. Nigste Saba is a model high school which is selected purposefully from the total three high schools in Adwa town. The study explored the influence difference made on the teachers who are members of the ruling political party and non-members. Moreover, it explored the influence of the woreda on the school and teachers' academic freedom by using census method (86 teacher respondents). The study finds that majority (62.2 percent) of teachers in the school are not members to any political party since they hate politics. But they are obliged to join the ruling party directly or indirectly. The majority of the teachers (68.9 percent) agreed that members of the ruling party get priority in getting benefits from the school. The school is turned into a center of politics instead of academics. Moreover, the main influences made on teachers who are not members of the ruling party are: intimidated by the school director, intimidated by the woreda educational office, neglected from training, victimized during promotion, transferred and other service related issues, delayed documents in transferring from one to another work place and exposed to lack of transparency. Furthermore, the members of the ruling party also have influences such as expending more time to political issues, de-motivated to teach accurately and loose freedom. All these cause teachers to hate their profession in the school. In addition, the study finds that on average one teacher who is member of the ruling party is paid up to 3 percent of their monthly salary to the party. In general, there is treatment difference between teachers who are members to the ruling party and those who are not. Moreover, political interference in the affairs of an educational institution destroys teachers' freedom and education quality. Freeing schools from political intervention to do their academic issues independently can sustain academic freedom and quality of education. Furthermore, the discrimination between members of the ruling party and nonmembers should be avoided.
Teaching Research Methodologies to Professionally Oriented Honors Students
Author: Levinson, Julie
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Research Methodology,Courses,Honors Curriculum,Undergraduate Students,College Instruction,Professional Education,Student Research

The benefits of encouraging undergraduate students to pursue independent research have been well documented (Craney; Guterman; Hathaway et al.; Ishiyama; Kremer and Bringle; Volkwein and Carbone). Introducing students to research processes and protocols is always a challenge, particularly for students enrolled in professionally oriented, discipline-specific colleges: so called &quot;specialty schools.&quot; In these colleges, preparing students to do high-level research is complicated by the nature and priorities of the students as well as by the particularities of the curriculum, which is invariably more restricted in scope than that of a conventional liberal arts college. Undergraduate specialty school students tend to be highly focused on preparing for their careers, and few plan to go on to research-oriented graduate programs. Nevertheless, specialty schools typically include many liberal arts requirements in their curricula in order to give students a well-rounded undergraduate education. The challenges for the faculty working with specialty school honors students include preparing them for substantive scholarly work in a discipline in which they possibly have had little grounding, fostering a scholarly subculture in colleges that are oriented more toward pre-professional training than scholarly pursuits, and efficiently introducing basic research methodologies and scholarly protocols to students working in a wide range of disciplines outside their area of specialization. Based on the authors' own stewardship of the honors program at Babson College, as well as on interviews with honors program directors at a variety of specialty colleges, they suggest some of the approaches and pitfalls of guiding students through honors research in areas outside of their immediate disciplinary focus.
Improving the Quality of Assessment Grading Tools in Master of Education Courses: A Comparative Case Study in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Author: Christie, Michael
Date: 2015-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Comparative Analysis,Case Studies,Educational Quality,Educational Improvement,Grading,Evaluation Research,Criterion Referenced Tests,Scoring Rubrics,Masters Programs,Interviews,Delphi Technique,Student Motivation,Research Tools,Check Lists,Comparative Education,Teacher Attitudes,Student Attitudes,Evaluation Methods,Foreign Countries

This study compares the use and efficacy of assessment grading tools within postgraduate education courses in a regional Australian university and a regional university in the US. Specifically, we investigate how the quality of postgraduate education courses can be improved through the use of assessment rubrics or criterion referenced assessment sheets (CRA sheets). The researchers used a critical review of rubrics from Master of Education courses, interviews and a modified form of the Delphi method to investigate how one can assure the quality of assessment grading tools and their effects on student motivation and learning. The research resulted in the development of a checklist, in the form of a set of questions, that lecturers should ask themselves before writing rubrics or CRA sheets. The paper demonstrates how assessment grading tools might be researched, developed, applied and constantly improved in order to advance the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Persistent Classroom Management Training Needs of Experienced Teachers
Author: Stough, Laura M.
Date: 2015-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Classroom Techniques,Teacher Education,Experienced Teachers,Special Education Teachers,Teacher Surveys,Teacher Effectiveness,Faculty Development,Statistical Analysis,Intervention,Training,Student Behavior,Disabilities,Behavior Problems,Likert Scales,Behavior Modification,Teacher Attitudes

Experienced special education teachers (n = 62) were surveyed on their professional preparation to become effective classroom managers. Despite having received extensive preservice training, over 83% of the sample reported being underprepared in classroom management and behavioral interventions. No statistically significant difference was found with respect to the type of classroom management theoretical approach used to train these teachers. Of those (74.2%) who received classroom management training post-graduation, the majority (64%) reported needing still further training in dealing with student behavior. Specific training desired was in whole-class management strategies, as well as in managing behaviors of students with disabilities. Results suggest that teachers' training needs in classroom management may persist throughout their professional careers, even following intensive preservice training.
Millennial Perspectives and Priorities
Author: Therrell, James A.
Date: 2015-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Attitudes,Preferences,Needs Assessment,Student Interests,Teaching Methods,Learning Strategies,Undergraduate Students,Mixed Methods Research,Online Surveys,Focus Groups,Interviews,Teacher Behavior,Caring,Motivation Techniques,Evaluation Methods,Active Learning,Curriculum Design,Generational Differences

Through prioritizing student voice, this study investigated the perspectives of millennial students in relation to their preferences and priorities for how they desired to experience teaching and learning. While not experts, our assumption was that undergraduate students, because of their relatively long experience as students, would be closely in touch with how they preferred to learn. Employing a mixed method study, randomly selected students (n = 291 of a total N = 2,993) completed a brief online survey, and we followed with qualitative focus groups and individual interviews in order to confirm the quantitative data and deepen our understanding of the student perspective. Findings pointed toward particular student preferences and priorities for: teacher behaviors such as caring, passion, and enthusiasm, the communication of clear expectations, course alignment between course content taught and tests, a desire for more real-world examples and applications, and active learning opportunities, all of which, in turn, were generally linked by students to their improved attention, intensity of focus, and ability to engage both in the classroom and during homework.
The Road to Redemption: Reclaiming the Value in Assessment Retention Exams
Author: Stohlman, Trey
Date: 2015-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Alternative Assessment,Retention (Psychology),Program Evaluation,Program Effectiveness,Course Objectives,Behavioral Objectives,Objective Tests,Test Construction,Teacher Participation,Accountability,Data Analysis,Educational Practices,Testing Problems,Testing Programs,Outcome Measures,College Programs

A good assessment plan combines many direct and indirect measures to validate the collected data. One often controversial assessment measure comes in the form of retention exams. Although assessment retention exams may come with faults, others advocate for their inclusion in program assessment. Objective-based tests may offer insight to instructors about course objectives that students comprehend well and other concepts that need more attention. This research shows that using retention exams as an assessment measure can generate useful and meaningful data for both the students and the program. Students can learn strengths and weaknesses based on scores. Faculty and programs can learn where gaps may exist within the program. But, whenever a program decides to use retention exams as an assessment tool, faculty members need to be included in the process. Discussions about content need to occur constantly. Exams need to consistently reflect current standards and student learning objectives. And faculty need to stay involved in the process to know exactly where any inconsistencies may lie within their courses, and how they contribute to the students' overall experience within the program.