ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Organizational Silence in Sports Employees
Author: Bastug, Gulsum
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Organizational Climate,Organizational Culture,Employee Attitudes,Trust (Psychology),Job Satisfaction,Statistical Analysis,Comparative Analysis,Work Environment,Gender Differences,Marital Status,Age Groups,Likert Scales,Questionnaires

Organizational silence can be defined as a way of behaviour belonging to men and women employees in the organization exhibited without reflecting their feelings, ideas, concerns and suggestions related with their workplaces, works for which they are responsible or other activities of the organization. In the period of organizational silence, silence, in other words, decision of not talking clearly about problems and subjects, is an important subject to be laid emphasis on when it is considered that it prevents organizational learning, decreases revealing of different ideas within the organization, prevents innovativeness and creativeness. In this regard, the purpose of this study was to investigate the sports employees, according to some variable of organizational behavior silence. Sports expert and trainers participated in the research, who were employed in Mugla and Antalya Provincial Directorate of Youth Welfare. 52.8% (67 people) of sports employees participated in the research were male whereas 47.2% (60 people) were female. &quot;Organizational Silence Scale&quot; developed by Cakici (2008) and adapted by Soycan (2010) was used. The data obtained from the scale in the research were analyzed by means of SPSS 21.0 statistical software program. In the research, frequency analysis to compare the groups and t-test (gender, marital status, age groups) as well as ANOVA tests to investigate the differences between groups were used. Consequently, a significant difference was found between the perception of organizational silence in sports employees and gender variable. It was determined that values of organizational silence sub-dimensions of female employees such as administrative and organizational causes, subjects related with work, lack of experience, isolation and fair of damnification in relations were higher than those of male employees. Female sports employees indicated organizational silence behaviour more. Depending on the findings of the research, it was suggested for the directors of Youth Welfares to form a participant culture in their institutions, to encourage their female sports employees to talk clearly and to increase the frequency of interviews with them.
A Case Study of Two Groups of Elementary Prospective Teachers' Experiences in Distinct Mathematics Content Courses
Author: Auslander, Susan Swars
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Case Studies,Mathematics Instruction,Preservice Teachers,Surveys,Career Choice,Elementary School Teachers,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Student Attitudes,Teacher Education Programs,Learning Activities,Teaching Methods,Likert Scales,Measures (Individuals),Self Efficacy,Teacher Effectiveness,Interviews

This multiple case study examined two groups of elementary prospective teachers (n=12) completing distinct mathematics content courses. Data were collected via two belief surveys, one content knowledge assessment, and individual interviews. The findings revealed differences in specialized content knowledge and mathematical beliefs between the two groups upon completion of the teacher preparation program. Also, they characterized their experiences with knowing, learning, and teaching mathematics during the courses in dissimilar ways. The findings offer insights into course content, pedagogical approaches, and learning activities that prompted motivation, learning, and change. Notably, elementary prospective teachers understanding the applicability of the mathematics they are learning to their chosen career path is paramount.
Empathy Research and Teacher Preparation: Benefits and Obstacles
Author: Bouton, Bobette
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Empathy,Teacher Education,Preservice Teachers,Teacher Education Programs,Psychological Needs,Elementary Secondary Education,Elementary School Students,Elementary School Teachers,Secondary School Teachers,Secondary School Students

Teacher preparation is critical in cultivating good teachers, but more importantly in helping teachers learn how to meet the academic and emotional needs of preK-12 students. Teaching and training the socio-emotional trait of empathy is an important skill for pre-service teachers to develop. However, due to the multiple definitions, fields of study, and purposes of researching empathy, complications arise with measuring, researching and training empathy. This paper discusses each of the difficulties that surround the research of empathy, but also makes a strong case for the need to overcome the obstacles in order to benefit from empathy training for both preservice teachers and students alike.
A Problem-Based Learning Approach to Teacher Training: Findings after Program Redesign
Author: Caukin, Nancy
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Problem Based Learning,Teacher Education,Preservice Teachers,Self Efficacy,Teacher Education Programs,Nonparametric Statistics,Statistical Analysis,Performance Based Assessment,Program Effectiveness,Research Design,Scores,Comparative Analysis,Teaching Methods,Student Teaching,Teacher Effectiveness

This study reports on Residency I, the first semester of a yearlong residency that utilizes problem-based learning scenarios, combined with field work, that covers both content and context and is meant to positively impact teacher candidates' self-efficacy as well as their actual efficacy as measured by scores on the edTPA. This quantitative research study takes place over two semesters with two sets of students and compares edTPA scores and self-efficacy scores of teacher candidates in the old program and teacher candidates in new program. Implications for teaching, learning, and teacher preparation are reported as results of the problem-based learning curriculum.
Encouraging Family Involvement through Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Author: Goodman, Kela
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Methods,Culturally Relevant Education,Family Involvement,Teacher Education Programs,Preservice Teachers,Bilingual Students,Low Income Groups,At Risk Persons,Preschool Children,Child Development,High School Students,Service Learning,Interviews,Partnerships in Education,Home Visits

The purpose of this article is to describe one teacher education program's experience using an integrated approach to provide preservice teachers with both knowledge of and experience with diverse cultures. Included are three important components within this program that strive to assist preservice teachers as they develop an understanding of different cultures and working with families. First, we discuss research in parent/family relationships (Allen, 2007, 2010; Epstein &amp; Sanders, 2006) and culturally relevant pedagogy (Gay, 2000; Villages &amp; Lucas, 2002). Second, we provide descriptions of five instructional strategies that preservice teachers implement. Third, we offer strategies for supporting emerging bilingual students.
Make Us Question, Think, Reflect and Understand: Secondary Students' Beliefs and Attitudes towards the Inclusion of LGBTQ Themed Literature in the English Classroom
Author: Greathouse, Paula
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Homosexuality,Sexual Identity,Sex Role,Sexual Orientation,Social Bias,Social Attitudes,Gender Issues,Student Attitudes,Beliefs,Secondary School Students,English Curriculum,English Instruction,English Teachers,Reading Materials,Adolescent Attitudes,Adolescents

There are innumerable subcultures within American society, all of which come to interact within the walls of a school and all of which should be recognized and valued by the classroom teacher. This article shares secondary students' beliefs and attitudes about reading and studying lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or questioning (LGBTQ) literature in the secondary English classroom. Students share their perspectives on why teachers exclude LGBTQ literature and offer advice to teachers on the inclusion of this genre in their curriculum.
Pre-Service Science Teachers' Perception of the Principles of Scientific Research
Author: Can, Sendil
Date: 2016-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preservice Teachers,Science Teachers,Teacher Attitudes,Scientific Research,Foreign Countries,College Science,Science Instruction,Science Education,Teaching Methods,Surveys,Correlation,Statistical Analysis,Publications

The purpose of the current study employing the survey method is to determine the pre-service science teachers' perceptions of the principles of scientific research and to investigate the effects of gender, grade level and the state of following scientific publications on their perceptions. The sampling of the current research is comprised of 125 pre-service science teachers attending the Department of Science Teaching in Mugla Sitki Koçman University in the spring term of 2014-2015 academic year. As the data collection instruments, Information Form to elicit the demographic characteristics of the pre-service teachers and five-point Likert type &quot;Scale of Scientific Research Principles&quot; developed by Campell, Abd-Hamid and Chapman in 2010 and adapted to Turkish by Tatar, Feyzioglu, Buldur and Aydogdu (2014) were employed. Frequencies and percentages were calculated for their perceptions of the principles of scientific research, t-test was run to test whether the pre-service teachers' perceptions vary significantly depending on gender and grade level variables and one-way variance analysis was used to test whether their perceptions vary significantly depending on their state of following scientific publications. At the end of the study, it was found that the pre-service teachers' perception levels of the principles of scientific research are high, their perceptions of the principles of scientific research vary significantly depending on gender variable in favor of male participants; however, their grade level and state of following scientific publications do not have significant effect on their perceptions.
Classifying Values by Categories
Author: Gündüz, Mevlüt
Date: 2016-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Classification,Values,Qualitative Research,Research Methodology,Foreign Countries,Semi Structured Interviews,Values Education,Surveys,Preservice Teachers,Elementary School Students,Test Items,Questioning Techniques,Content Analysis,Teacher Attitudes,Comparative Analysis,College Students,Elementary School Teachers,Extraversion Introversion

The aim of this study is to make a new classification regarding the fact that the current classifications may change constantly because of values? gaining a different dimension and importance every single day. In this research descriptive research, which was used frequently in qualitative research methods, was preferred. This research was conducted with the participation of 1394 participants. These participants are 350 teachers working in Isparta provience, 190 students studying at Suleyman Demirel University Education Faculty, 454 candidate teachers who graduated and studying for the exam of KPSS and 400 primary school students in the 2014/2015 education years. All of the data in the research were obtained through &quot;Semi-Structured Interview Form&quot; prepared by the researcher consisting of open-ended questions. Four expert opinions were asked for in order to ensure the reliability of the research. In comparisons the numbers of consensus and disagreement the reliability of studies was calculated by using Miles and Huberman formula (Reliability = consensus /consensus+disagreement) and 91%. Agreement has been reached. According to the findings obtained, religious, personal, national, knowledge-based and universal values were grouped under introversive values in accordance with participants? opinions. The remaining communal, humanistic, familial, social, and environmental values were treated as extroversive values. When it was compared with the other researches religious, personal,,national, universal, humanistic, social, and environmental values were seen as common.
Eighth Grade Students Conceptions of How Engineers Use Math and Science in the Field of Engineering: A Comparison of Two Cohorts
Author: Farland-Smith, Donna
Date: 2016-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Grade 8,Student Attitudes,Engineering,Comparative Analysis,Middle School Students,STEM Education,Science Curriculum,Scientists,Sex Stereotypes,Illustrations,Portraiture,Science Education,Freehand Drawing,Technical Occupations,Gender Differences,Mathematics Education

Over the last fifteen years, engineering has made its way into science curriculum at all levels, elementary, middle, and high school. A need to analyze students' perception the field of engineering is warranted. Previous techniques for studying representations of scientists and build on what researchers in the science field have learned from researching images of scientists. The purpose of the study was to compare two eighth grade cohorts' conceptions of engineers through the use of multiple drawings and a rubric. Half of the students were enrolled in an iSTEM Cohort and received instruction focusing on engineering while the other half of the students in this study were enrolled in a traditional cohort and received instruction via a traditional approach to science in the eighth grade. Data analysis involved two phases of eighth grade students in two cohorts, iSTEM and traditional (N = 146). The first phase was a content analysis of the actions and artifacts of engineers at work based on the work of Capobianco, Diefes-Dux, Mena, and Weller (2011). In the second phase, illustrations were analyzed using the Draw-An-Engineer-At-Work-Test Rubric DAEWT (Thomas et al., 2016). A two-tailed, independent sample t-test was used to compare illustrations from each group. It was discovered that more themes of engineering emerged from students in the iSTEM Cohort than the traditionally taught students. Data revealed a significant difference (p&lt;0.05) in the portrayal of the use of science as related to the work of an engineer and the field of engineering with the iSTEM Cohort when compared with traditionally taught eighth grade students. The Draw-An-Engineer-at-Work Test when evaluated with the Draw-An-Engineer-at-Work Rubric provides researchers many visualizations of students' conceptions of how engineers use math and science in their work and can help educators understand students' conceptions concerning the engineering field.
Development of Social Media Addiction Test (SMAT17)
Author: Esgi, Necmi
Date: 2016-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Social Media,Test Reliability,Test Validity,Addictive Behavior,Psychometrics,College Students,Factor Analysis,Factor Structure,Mass Media Use,Test Construction,Behavioral Science Research,Likert Scales,Foreign Countries,Maximum Likelihood Statistics,Goodness of Fit,Statistical Analysis

The aim of this study was to develop a test for assessing individuals' social media addiction; and conducting a reliability and validity study of this scale. Sample for this study was composed of 285 college students between the ages of 18 and 25. Reliability coefficients Cronbach's alpha value was 0.94 and Spearman Brown value was 0.91 for our sample. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted to assess construct validity, and confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to assess the validity of the resulted factor structure. 17 items was grouped under 4 factors. Reliability and validity analysis results were in the expected ranges.
Getting a Foot in the Door: Helping Education Students &quot;Kick It&quot; during Interviews
Author: Huss, Robyn
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Role Playing,Simulation,Preservice Teacher Education,Preservice Teachers,Administrator Education,Employment Interviews,Career Readiness,Learning Experience,Capacity Building,Feedback (Response),Best Practices,Participant Satisfaction,Training Methods,Interviews,Surveys,Likert Scales,Scoring Rubrics

The college of education involved in this study has programs for preservice teachers and educational leadership candidates. Each spring these groups participate in a hiring simulation, when aspiring leaders interview aspiring teachers through role-play in a mock setting. This endeavor provides a simulated hiring environment designed to better prepare students for real-world job interviews. The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of the experience on degree-seeking preservice teachers and administrators. This paper reviews the preparation for the event, the process, and feedback from participant surveys; results indicate this is a profitable activity for both groups.
Validation of a Turkish Version of the Profiles of Organizational Influence Strategies
Author: Cetin, Saadet Kuru
Date: 2016-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Program Validation,Profiles,Organizational Culture,Organizational Climate,Influences,Test Reliability,Test Validity,Factor Analysis,Factor Structure,Friendship,Assertiveness,Power Structure,Sanctions,Cooperation,Secondary School Teachers,Social Control,Social Behavior

Influencing others is at the heart of the management process. Managers use the influencing process for the purposes of controlling workers, using limited sources, implementing organizational change, breaking down the resistance of workers to this change, and enhancing the performance of workers of different from the managers' backgrounds. This study was carried out on data from two distinct samples (n = 361, n = 284) by an adaptation of the &quot;Profiles of Organizational Influence Strategies (POIS): Influencing Your Manager (Form M)&quot; and &quot;Profiles of Organizational Influence Strategies (POIS): Influencing Your Subordinates (Form S)&quot;, developed by Kipnis and Schmidt (1999) to Turkish culture and findings about the adaptation's validity and reliability values. In the first sample analyses, the results of the study indicated that the scale had high construct validity and internal consistency coefficients. These six factors were termed as: &quot;Friendliness&quot;, &quot;Reason&quot;, &quot;Bargain&quot;, &quot;Assertiveness&quot;, &quot;Higher Authority&quot; and &quot;Coalition&quot;. In the second sample analyses, it was found that the scale has a factor structure not much different from the original factor structure. In the data analysis, seven factors are determined by Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to determine whether these factors are composed of a consistent structure or not. The results of the study indicated that the scale had high construct validity and internal consistency coefficients. These seven factors were called: &quot;Friendliness&quot;, &quot;Reason&quot; &quot;Bargain&quot;, &quot;Assertiveness&quot;, &quot;Higher Authority&quot;, &quot;Sanctions&quot; and &quot;Coalition&quot;.
The Effect of Language Teaching Methods on Academic Success in Turkey
Author: Ökmen, Burcu
Date: 2016-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Second Language Instruction,English (Second Language),Grade 8,Foreign Countries,Language Teachers,Teacher Surveys,Statistical Analysis,Secondary School Teachers,Correlation,Teaching Methods,Language Tests,Scores,Factor Analysis

The aim of this research is to observe the effect of language teaching methods on students' TEOG foreign language exams, the exam which is necessary to pass from secondary school to high school, administered by the Ministry of Education. The research sample consisted of 95 English teachers who taught in secondary schools in Duzce in 2013-2014, and the average scores of 8th grades students' TEOG English exams. It was conducted using the survey method and quantitative data were used. A language teaching methods scale developed by the researcher was implemented to define which methods English teachers use. It was found that there was a meaningful and positive relationship between methods and success. Also, there was a statistically significant difference in students' TEOG foreign language exam scores, depending on the language teaching method used by English teachers.
Professional Learning Communities: An Effective Mechanism for the Successful Implementation and Sustainability of Response to Intervention
Author: Mundschenk, Nancy A.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Communities of Practice,Success,Sustainability,Response to Intervention,Program Implementation,Educational Change,Integrated Activities,Alignment (Education),Teacher Leadership,Program Design,Barriers,Likert Scales,Teacher Surveys,Participant Satisfaction,Faculty Development,Educational Strategies

Models of response to intervention (RtI) are being widely implemented in schools across the country in order to increase effective teaching and remove barriers to student learning. The implementation of RtI is greatly facilitated when teachers and staff see themselves as a professional learning community (PLC). This article begins with an examination of the essential features of these two mechanisms and their compatibility, presents the results of survey data from 84 members of RtI Leadership Teams who participated in PLC sessions, and provides recommendations for integrating these two mechanisms to build school capacity and ensure sustainability of educational change.
Cooperation between Business and Academia in Germany--A Critical Analysis of New Trends in Designing Integrated Study Programs Based on E-Learning
Author: Parlow, Holger
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cooperation,School Business Relationship,Criticism,Foreign Countries,Electronic Learning,Cooperative Learning,Partnerships in Education,Higher Education,Integrated Curriculum,Program Implementation,Workplace Learning,Vocational Education

The university system in Germany is currently undergoing profound changes. In order to strengthen their competitive position, private universities of applied sciences are increasingly offering integrated study programs which combine profound academic education with practical on-the-job training in a company. Private businesses highly appreciate these dual-systems of studies as they meet their demand for well-qualified, experienced junior staff. Some companies strive to build up close relationships with academic institutions in order to influence and shape the design of study programs at least to a certain degree. In the course of this development, opportunities are discussed to move the places where students are doing their studies away from the university campus to the students' workplace in the company. Study programs following this idea can only be implemented by making use of a broad range of e-learning tools being available. E-learning makes it possible to transfer academic education into a virtual context, e.g. by providing access to virtual seminars via Live-E-learning at the workplace. E-learning lectures are integrated into the normal working day of the student--reducing the time a student is absent from the workplace. The regular and systematic change between periods of academic education at the university and periods of practical work in the company - which has been typical for study programs following the dual-system - is giving way to a completely new form of business-integrating university studies. This article is going to discuss different issues of this development. As an example, a study program which has been designed in close cooperation between a large German corporation in the telecommunication industry and a German university of applied sciences will be described. Based on this example, advantages and disadvantages for all parties involved will be analyzed.