ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Polish Immigrant Children in the UK: Catholic Education and Other Aspects of &quot;Migration Luck&quot;
Author: Sadownik, Alicja R.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Immigrants,Catholic Schools,Statistical Analysis,Labor Market,Interviews,Foreign Countries,Qualitative Research,Social Integration,Parent Attitudes,Teacher Aides,Teacher Attitudes,Cultural Capital,Immigration,Acculturation,Social Mobility,Social Status,Elementary School Students,Secondary School Students

After 2005, approximately two million Poles emigrated, choosing mostly Britain as their destination. Quantitative reports paint a picture of the typical Polish immigrant as a person between the ages of 31-39, who, with a vocational (or equivalent) education, is active on the labor market. This paper reports on a qualitative study of six typical Polish families in Nottingham and of the staff from two Catholic schools that the Polish children attend. The study aimed to reconstruct the typical, long-term adaption and integration strategies as seen from the perspective of the children's participation in education. The data comprise 12 overt interviews with Polish mothers/fathers/workers (six interviews) in Nottingham and with school staff (head teacher, special needs coordinator, teacher assistants) in two Catholic primary and secondary schools in Nottingham in the period of 2009-2013. Our results reveal the unusual &quot;luck&quot; experienced by the Polish children. This &quot;luck&quot; refers to the Catholic educational trajectories that are accidentally accessed thanks to the children having Catholic baptismal certificates in a non-Catholic country. These educational trajectories, in consideration of the parents' social status, would never have been experienced by these children in Poland. We call it luck, because, again, in consideration of the parents' cultural capital, it was not part of the wider immigration plan.
The Effects of Trait-Factor Theory Based Career Counseling Sessions on the Levels of Career Maturity and Indecision of High School Students
Author: Atli, Abdullah
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Career Counseling,High School Students,Career Choice,Pretests Posttests,Decision Making,Foreign Countries,Nonparametric Statistics,Student Attitudes,Vocational Maturity,Questionnaires,Interviews

The study aimed to research the effect of career counseling sessions based on trait-factor theory on the career maturity and career indecision levels of high school students. &quot;Single group pretest-posttest test design&quot;, one of the weaker test designs, was utilized in the study. The study was conducted with 57 students in Malatya city center high schools in 2014-2015 academic year. &quot;Career Maturity Scale&quot; and &quot;Career Decision Scale&quot; were used for data collection in the study. The analysis of the data was conducted using the parametric method, &quot;related samples t-test&quot; and the non-parametric method, &quot;Wilcoxon Signed Rank test.&quot; Findings of the study demonstrated that trait-factor theory based career counseling sessions were affective in improving the career maturity levels of the students, while lowering their career indecisiveness.
Relationship between Quality of Work Life and Work Alienation: Research on Teachers
Author: Çetinkanat, Ayse Canan
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Correlation,Quality of Working Life,Foreign Countries,Teacher Attitudes,Alienation,Elementary School Teachers,Work Attitudes,Measures (Individuals),Teacher Salaries,Professional Isolation,Statistical Analysis

The purpose of the study is examined primary school teachers' quality of work life and work alienation perceptions. The sample of the study was composed of teachers (N = 426) employed in Bolu province central and district state primary schools in 2010-2011 academic year. For data collection purposes, &quot;Personal Information Form&quot; was used to gather demographic information on the teachers, &quot;Quality of Work Life Scale&quot; developed by McDonald (2001) and adapted to Turkish by the researcher was used to determine perceptions related to quality of work life and &quot;Work Alienation Scale&quot; developed by Elma (2003) was utilized to determine alienation levels. Research results show that teachers displayed negative perceptions in salary and additional benefits and involvement and responsibility at work sub dimensions of Quality of Work Life scale while they had positive perceptions in the other sub dimensions. Arithmetic means regarding teachers' perceptions on work alienation show that teachers felt alienated from school followed by feelings of powerlessness, meaninglessness and isolation. In general, negative and significant relationships were detected between all Quality of Work Life sub dimensions and work alienation sub dimensions.
Semantic Differential as One of the Research Tools Suitable for Establishing the Attitudes of Pupils to Old Age and Seniors
Author: Divilová, Sona
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Attitudes,Older Adults,Aging (Individuals),Attitude Measures,Semantic Differential,Foreign Countries,Grade 6,Grade 9,Family Influence,School Role,Social Attitudes

The paper presents the results of the pre-research conducted under the project entitled &quot;Seniors in the Eyes of Children&quot;. The main objective of the project was to create and test a research tool in order to establish what the attitudes of pupils to old age and seniors were. Semantic differential was chosen for these purposes. Semantic differential serves to map attitudes, penetrates the deeper layers of thinking, and tries to understand the individual meanings of words and the feelings of respondents. The paper primarily deals with the semantic differential method, the preparation and implementation of the pre-research, the process of creation of the research tool, and the individual steps in the collection and evaluation of data.
Popular Culture, English Out-of-Class Activities, and Learner Autonomy among Highly Proficient Secondary Students in Hong Kong
Author: Chan, Hoi Wing
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Popular Culture,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Independent Study,Personal Autonomy,College Students,Foreign Countries,Language Proficiency,Extracurricular Activities,Secondary School Students,Case Studies,Qualitative Research,Semi Structured Interviews,Diaries,Academic Achievement,Achievement Gains,Correlation,Electronic Publishing,Student Attitudes,Films,Recreational Reading

This paper reports on how and why proficient learners of English in Hong Kong participated in popular culture, out-of-class activities, with an emphasis on their development of learner autonomy. Autonomy in language learning is defined as an individual's ability and responsibility to take charge of his or her own learning [1]. Out-of-class learning plays an important role in language learning and learner autonomy [2]. However, to most Hong Kong students, opportunities to learn English outside of classroom may not be obviously found but they do exist at a low cost, for example, popular culture like English movies, free English TV channels, online resources, social networking [2-4]. Most local learners seldom engaged in actual autonomous practices but they must seize the chances to practise the target language [5, 6]. Thus, the study aimed at exploring how students can make better use of popular culture, out-of-class learning and foster greater learner autonomy in the local context. Six highly proficient secondary school students who reported to have participated in out-of-class learning were selected to join this largely qualitative multiple-case study. By way of semi-structured interviews and language learning journals, the study found that the case participants mainly engaged in self-initiated, interest-driven out-of-class learning, through which they improved their school performance and started to internalize English learning for their personal purposes and develop learner autonomy. It is also suggested that out-of-class learning and school performance promoted the growth of each other. Teachers should recognize the use of interest-driven, popular culture out-of-class activities to further establish the link between out-of-class and classroom-based learning.
Identification the Relation between Active Basketball Classification Referees' Empathetic Tendencies and Their Problem Solving Abilities
Author: Karaçam, Aydin
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Team Sports,Judges,Classification,Empathy,Problem Solving,Foreign Countries,Likert Scales,Statistical Analysis,Correlation,Nonparametric Statistics,Scores,Educational Attainment,Gender Differences

This study aims to determine the relation between basketball classification referees' problem solving ability and empathetic tendencies. Research model of the study is relational screening model. Sampling of the study is constituted by 124 male and 18 female basketball classification referees who made active refereeing within Turkish Basketball Federation in 2015-2016 season. Personal information form, Problem Solving Inventory (PSI) which was developed by Heppner and Peterson [1] and Empathetic Tendency Scale (ETS) which was developed by Dökmen [2] were used as data collection tools. Data were analyzed by used SPSS Package Program. Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to determine relations between variables. Kruskal Wallis, T-test and Mann-Whitney U Test were used to analyze differences according to the variables such as gender, classification year, education and classification of basketball referees. A positive significant difference was determined between basketball referees' empathetic tendencies and problem solving abilities (r = 0.170, p &lt; 0.05). When educational level is considered, a significant difference was determined in empathy total scores in favor of master degree referees (U = 1041.50, p &lt; 0.05). Any significant difference was not found between basketball referees' problem solving abilities and total score of empathetic tendencies and their gender, classification year and classification variables. Again, any significant difference was not found between totals scores of problem solving ability and the variable of educational level.
A Longitudinal Study for Types and Changes of Students' Mathematical Disposition
Author: Lin, Su-Wei
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Longitudinal Studies,Mathematical Aptitude,Secondary School Mathematics,Grade 6,Grade 7,Grade 8,Mathematics Achievement,Secondary School Students,Self Management,Cooperative Learning,Mastery Learning,Learning Processes,Goal Orientation,Multivariate Analysis,Item Response Theory,Learner Engagement

Mathematical disposition could influence learning and performance, they usually determine how well students motivate themselves and persevere in the face of difficulties, and they influence the choices-making about coursework, and even educational and career paths. The aim of this study is to investigate the same students' mathematical disposition types and changes from 6th grade to 8th grade, and examine the relationship between mathematical disposition and mathematics achievement. The results showed that students' math disposition can be classified into three kinds of leaning orientation: give-up, peer-cooperative for mastery, and self-regulated for mastery. The students possessing the orientation of self-regulated for mastery perform best, followed by peer-cooperative for mastery, and give-up students perform weakest. The variance explained by the types of mathematical disposition in 6th grade is about 7%. While the students promoted to 8th grade, these three types of students still have the same pattern in mathematics achievement, the variance explained is about 5%. To examine the changes of mathematical disposition from 6th to 8th grade, there were three kinds of disposition change pattern: High and stable, moderate and stable, and decline. Only about 7.4% of students are the decline, most students' mathematical dispositions are quite stable across 3 years, especially the self-regulated for mastery and the peer-cooperative for mastery. This study proved the relationship between the students' mathematical disposition and achievement. This suggests that mathematics educators need to focus not just on the development of math knowledge and skills, but on the development of the mathematics disposition.
The Analysis of Certain Differences in Motor Skills of Sedentary Male Children in the 9-14 Age Group Based on the Biological Maturity
Author: Bayraktar, Isik
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Psychomotor Skills,Males,Children,Early Adolescents,Maturity (Individuals),Body Height,Body Weight,Muscular Strength,Physical Fitness,Age Differences,Life Style,Physical Activity Level,Scores,Statistical Analysis

The aim of this study consists of the analysis of certain differences in motor skills of male children who are sedentary and in the age group of 9-14, in relation to the biological maturity. 522 sedentary male children from various parts of Turkey participated in this study. Body height and body weight measurements were taken from the participants in order to determine their body mass indexes while finger grip strength, hand grip strength, standing long jump test, med ball throwing test, flexibility test (sit-reach), active jump test, anaerobic power test, 20 meter sprint, pro-agility test and 20 meter shuttle run tests were applied in order to determine certain motor skill levels of the participants. The motor skill levels of the participants were noticed to show significant differences generally based on the age groups (p&lt;0.05). The biological maturity levels of the participants were determined to be a factor which significantly affected the performances of the participants in aerobic durability, right and left hand grip strength, right and left finger grip strength, flexibility, med ball throwing, standing long jump and sargent jump (p&lt;0.05). On the other hand, the findings regarding the speed performances were observed to show conflicting results, therefore biological maturity was found not to be a determinant over the 20 meter speed performance. As a result, certain motor skill differences in relation with biological maturity were observed in the sedentary male students of the 9-14 age group. Therefore, it can be stated that in order to reach reliable results, considering the biological maturity levels of the students along with the obtained test scores in sports skills qualification tests can be beneficial.
Biology Education &amp; Health Education: A School Garden as a Location of Learning &amp; Well-Being
Author: Retzlaff-Fürst, Carolin
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Gardening,Well Being,Health Education,Teaching Methods,Student Attitudes,Preservice Teachers,Self Esteem,Foreign Countries,Physiology,Comparative Analysis,Elementary School Teachers,Secondary School Teachers,Interviews,Grade 11,Grade 12,Statistical Analysis,Seminars,Self Concept Measures

Children and adolescents spend a large part of their day at school. Physical and mental problems result from physical inactivity, sitting positions at work and &quot;indoor lifestyle&quot; (WHO 2004). Therefore, health education is a major topic in school. Biology classes (scholastic) can make an important contribution in this context. Health as a person's state is composed by physical, mental and social aspects (WHO 1946, Hurrelmann 2010). The presence of nature can have positive effects on all components of the (subjective) well-being of humans at all ages. The fact has already been well proved by science (Ulrich 1984; Health Council of the Netherlands 2004; Barton/Pretty 2010). In the scholastic context environment or gardens hold various functions as (special) places for the contact between humans and nature: They are areas for explorative learning, they provide manifold sources for interdisciplinary teaching, they are spots to generate skills and recovery and they are places for nutritional and environmental education (Blair 2009; Jäckel 2010). Generally, school gardens may take over a significant function in view of health education and wellness of children and adolescents. As a consequence, practical work and other activities in a school garden let the place become a point for physical agitation, relaxation and stress reduction. School garden classes and school garden practice in most of the cases are only held in the lower age groups of pupils (primary school). An analysis shall show that school gardens also could be employed for the health education in higher grades (11th and 12th grade). Representative a course of pre-study students (teacher students and/or prospective teachers) of the second semester were interviewed and tested in the educational garden of the University of Rostock about their subjective well-being. As a result, it was proved that garden activities have highly positive effects on self-esteem.
Perspectives of Elementary School Teachers on Outdoor Education
Author: Palavan, Ozcan
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Elementary School Teachers,Teacher Attitudes,Outdoor Education,Experiential Learning,Foreign Countries,Semi Structured Interviews,Qualitative Research,Grade 1,Grade 2,Grade 3,Grade 4,Attitude Measures,Knowledge Level

Outdoor education stands out as one of the methods to deliver the desired educational outcomes taking the needs of the students, teachers and the curricular objectives into consideration. Outdoor education focuses on experimental, hands-on learning in real-life environments through senses, e.g., through visual, auditory, and tactile means, improving students' learning and retention of knowledge as a result. Appropriate sites outside of the classroom and school environment are chosen as the setting for outdoor education. Students are assessed over their performances related to the experiments and applications via observations and reports. Generally speaking, outdoor education is not common in Turkey, whereas in specific, at the elementary level, outdoor education seems to be limited to certain social activities and field trips rendered within the scope of student clubs. As Pedretti [1] et al. concluded in their study, the efficiency of outdoor education depends on the teachers. Based on the said study, teachers should be allowed to collaborate with their colleagues to analyze existing outdoor education programs and develop programs of their own. On the other hand, only teachers that are aware of outdoor education ask for such opportunities from the administrative bodies. Therefore, in this study, Turkish classroom teachers' current awareness and perspectives on outdoor education were assessed via descriptive analysis. The specific study group chosen for the study consisted of the classroom teachers working in Sahinbey County of Gaziantep Province. As for collection of the relevant qualitative data, participants were interviewed using a semi-structured interviewing form.
Perception of Present and Vision of Future of Gifted Students
Author: Krneta, Docent Ljiljana
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Gifted,High School Students,Adolescents,Student Attitudes,Self Concept,Phenomenology,Psychological Patterns,Student Surveys,Statistical Significance,Time,Personality Traits,Holistic Approach,Educational Quality,Perception,Attitude Measures,Academic Achievement,Goal Orientation

Giftedness and talent are the focus of many professional and scientific debates. Starting from the phenomenological interpretation that emphasizes the perception of self and reflects the subjective experience of the present and the future, the author presents the attitude of the gifted and other students towards the psychological nature of self-awareness. This includes the emotions-values components of personality and relation towards self-awareness. The empirical and non-experimental research was conducted on a sample of 688 high school students (grammar, technical, art schools). The sample included students from various places, aged 15 to 18 years. The survey was conducted in order to examine the perception of the present and the vision of future of the gifted and other students, as determinants of self-awareness. The study results showed that there is a statistically significant difference in the perception of the present, between the gifted and other students. The gifted students appear to have gloomier perception of the present in relation to other students. In the perception of the vision of future between the gifted and other students, there were no statistically significant differences in their views of future. The results point to a great need for more empirical studies on the topic of giftedness in the region and more complex review of personality of giftedness using a holistic approach. At a time of global changes, which encompass all segments of society, inevitably raises the question of quality of education for the gifted and other students. These topics are very complex and require a serious pluralistic approach to different paradigms and theories, as well as empirical validation. Therefore, the issue of quality of education of gifted is an imperative and a challenge of the modern humanistic approach in education.
Effects of Swimming Training on Stress Levels of the Students Aged 11-13
Author: Köroglu, Mihraç
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Private Schools,Aquatic Sports,Physical Activities,Stress Variables,Pretests Posttests,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Comparative Analysis,Statistical Analysis,Physical Education,Instructional Effectiveness,Stress Management,Training

The purpose of this research was to determine the effects of the swimming training program on stress levels of the students ages 11-13. To this end, 60 students from Private Sahin School in the Sakarya city participated in the study voluntarily. 60 students were divided into two groups and each group was included 30 students. Stress Level Scale II developed by Leighton (1989) was used in the study for pretests and posttests. After preliminary testing, the experimental group students participated in the swimming training in two sessions, each lasting two hours for 8 weeks. Posttests for two groups were administered at the end of the swimming training program. The data obtained from the present study conducted with an experimental design method were analyzed using SPSS statistical software. T test was used in the study to compare the results between pre-posttests of the experimental group and pre-posttests of the control group in different groups (Pretest of the experimental group x Pretest of the control group/Posttest of the experimental group x Posttest of the control group). Also, paired Sample T test was used in the study to compare the results between pre-posttests of the experimental group and pre-posttests of the control group in the same groups (Pretest of the experimental group x Posttest of the experimental group / Pretest of the control group x Posttest of the control group). As a result of this study, there was a significant difference between pretest of the experimental group (39.03 ± 9.21) and posttest of the experimental group (31.20 ± 4.06). There was not a significant difference between pretest of the control group (36.43 ± 8.13) and posttest of the control group (40.56 ± 9.21). Research results showed that swimming training program was effective to reduce stress level of the students ages 11-13.