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Integration of Syrian Refugees and Turkish Students by Non-Formal Education Activities
Author: Küçüksüleymanoglu, Rüyam
Date: 2018-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Refugees,Nonformal Education,Student Attitudes,Interpersonal Relationship,Educational Environment,Elementary School Students,Secondary School Students,Migration,Second Language Learning,Coping,Conflict Resolution,Social Support Groups,Friendship,Activities

While 80 percent of Syrian refugee children living in camps have chance to attend formal education, only small number of children are attending Turkish schools. The purpose of this research is to investigate the opinions of the Syrian refugee children before and after non formal education (NFE) activities about refugees' integration at school. For this purpose, certain activities were created and organized by the researcher. The research was conducted in the selected public school with 73 Syrian children and lasted for 28 weeks. Semi-structured interview and observation methods were used in this study. The data were analysed using content analysis. The findings obtained from the study have been organized into 3 main themes. These themes are &quot;language&quot;, &quot;coping and resolving conflict&quot; and &quot;joining a group and sustaining friendship&quot;. As a result of the study, it has been determined that Syrian children can cope with the problems they are experiencing and integrate into the school life and Turkish students being more helpful and tolerant towards the refugees are influenced by non formal education activities conducted in school. It is hoped that it will be a good example for each school in designing educational programs for Syrian refugee children with NFE activities.
Orientation to Happiness as Predictor of University Students&apos; Engagement
Author: Durón-Ramos, Maria Fernanda
Date: 2018-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Psychological Patterns,Predictor Variables,College Students,Learner Engagement,Foreign Countries,Academic Achievement,Well Being

There is empirical evidence for a close link between positive personal components and students' engagement in academic activities. Personal well-being is a construct that can be studied from a variety of angles. Recent studies point to the relevance of orientation to happiness examining three types of well-being. The main objective of this study was to test the relationship that orientation to happiness has with university students' engagement at a public institution in northern Mexico. A stratified probabilistic sample of 266 students was employed. The internal consistency of the scales was analyzed using the SPSS package and a model of structural equations in the EQS program. Results indicated direct and significant relationship between the orientation to happiness and the students' engagement. This supports the importance of promoting positive factors in students to improve their academic and personal development.
Logo Counseling for Low Spiritual Self-Esteem among College Students
Author: Engel, Jacob Daan
Date: 2018-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Counseling Techniques,Self Esteem,College Students,School Counseling,Spiritual Development,Metacognition,Foreign Countries,Self Concept,Responsibility,Integrity

The purpose of this research was to examine logo counseling model in improving low spiritual self-esteem problem for college students. This research used descriptive method and quasi-experiment method with a non-equivalent pre-test-post-test control group design. The results then analyzed from the statistical significance and the practical significance. The result showed that logo counseling model could improve low spiritual self-esteem among college students, indicated by statistical significance of t[subscript count (43.851)] &gt; t[subscript table] (2.144) and &quot;N-gain&quot; of the experimental group (0.75) &gt; &quot;N-gain&quot; of the control group (0.15) and practical significance of positive attitude, behavior and value changes. Recommendation also given for related agencies to implement logo counseling model in training program and for further research by related experts in the field.
Do Mobile Technology in the Classroom Really Improve Learning Outcomes?
Author: Zaheer, Shazia
Date: 2018-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Telecommunications,Handheld Devices,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Undergraduate Students,Foreign Countries,Teaching Methods,Computer Oriented Programs,Distance Education,Older Adults,Adult Education

This article aims to outline different pedagogical strategies with applications (apps) in the classroom. Every year the use of mobile devices like tablets and smartphones increases. At the same time, applications are being developed to meet this demand. It is therefore essential that educators investigate their use as a motivational technological medium that can possibly be used in the classroom. Apps can be used both as a source of information as well as a tool for creating material. Thus, this article will present the results of a study applying teaching strategies in different contexts. It therefore highlights the importance of mobile learning as a viable alternative in the classroom. In order to do so, there was a multiple case study in the undergraduate pedagogy program and a digital inclusion course for seniors, both offered in the first semester of 2017 at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Educational applications and examples of teaching strategies using apps were created in these classes. Educational applications offer the possibility to bring innovations to teaching practices, as well as new forms of communication, interaction and authorship, thus contributing to the process of teaching and learning.
Practical Review and Evaluation on Parenting Education
Author: Araneta-Merin, Jewish
Date: 2018-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Parent Education,Parent Child Relationship,Community Services,Foreign Countries,Community Development,Evidence Based Practice,Program Evaluation,Program Effectiveness,Teacher Education Programs

Parenting Education aims to reinforce families and increase parenting practices. This study intended to evaluate the efficiency of the delivery of the Parenting Education Platform and its value in attaining the program purposes tailored to address specific needs, organized parent-child undertakings, and accessed community services and supports in helping the parents. The valuation of this is to assess the bearing of the extension program for the parents and children. The study utilized Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), a defensible community focused expansion, and constructs pertaining to the assets that are previously initiated in the communal and assemblies parents, learners, relations, and societies working together in building a strong impact of their assets not deliberating on their needs. The results revealed that the parenting education have a great charge to deliver program which is useful and effective. These pointed out to the conclusion that the program is stranded in research, extension, publication and instruction gauged with experiential educations finest achieve the roles as the extension service of the agency.
Winning the War on State-Sponsored Propaganda: Results from an Impact Study of a Ukrainian News Media and Information Literacy Program
Author: Murrock, Erin
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Propaganda,News Media,Media Literacy,Information Literacy,Program Effectiveness,Adult Education,Adult Programs,Locus of Control

From 2015-2016, IREX implemented a media literacy training program called Learn to Discern (L2D) that trained Ukrainian citizens to critically assess news media messages and identify misinformation. In 2017, IREX conducted a quasi-experimental impact evaluation in a stratified random sample of L2D participants and a control group (n=412) matched for gender, age, region and education levels. A news literacy assessment was administered under two scenarios: an objective news article and a disinformation-based news article that included a series of questions to assess media analysis skills, knowledge of the news media environment and Media Locus of Control. Results show statistically significant higher levels of news analysis skills and knowledge of the news media environment for L2D participants, controlling for geographic region, education level, age, and gender. The results also found that news media behaviors acquired during the training persisted over a year following the training. In both groups, those who had a better ability to correctly identify disinformation also had better knowledge of how news media works, and slightly greater sense of control (assessed as Media Locus of Control) over their media choices. Future news media literacy programs should balance identifying and evaluating objective news stories and disinformation to ensure individuals are truly media literate in today's news media environment.
The Influence of Powtoon-Assisted Group to Group Exchange and Powtoon-Assisted Talking Chips Learning Models in Primary Schools
Author: Buchori, Achmad
Date: 2018-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Elementary School Students,Grade 6,Elementary School Mathematics,Creative Thinking,Teaching Methods,Mathematics Instruction,Technology Uses in Education,Instructional Effectiveness,Conventional Instruction,Foreign Countries

The element of creativity in learning mathematics in elementary school is lack of attention. Whereas, in solving the mathematic problem, creative thinking and ideas are needed in formulating and solving mathematical models of mathematic problems. Creative thoughts and ideas will emerge and develop if the process of learning mathematics in the classroom uses appropriate learning approach. The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of students' mathematical creative thinking ability on PowtoonAssisted Group to Group Exchange and Talking Chips learning models to students' creative thinking ability. This research is a correlative quantitative research. The population was all the sixth grade students of Pedurungan Tengah 1 State Primary School in Semarang. The samples were class VI C (experiment 1), VI D (experiment 2), and VI B (control). The data were obtained from a post-test with open-ended answers. The analysis result of Anava test indicated that there was a difference on the mean of students' creative thinking ability in those three classes. Based on the Scheffe Test calculation, students' mathematical creative thinking ability with GGE model was better than the class with conventional learning model. Another result of Scheffe Test calculation indicated that students' mathematical creative thinking ability with Talking Chips model was better than the class with conventional learning. In addition, the Simple Linear Regression equation in both classes with GGE and Talking Chips models resulted in positive value equation. It could be concluded that Powtoon-Assisted Group to Group Exchange and Talking Chips learning models have a positive influence on students' creative thinking ability.
Fake or Visual Trickery? Understanding the Quantitative Visual Rhetoric in the News
Author: Mehta, Rohit
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Rhetoric,News Media,Visual Aids,Political Attitudes,Elections,Deception,Design

In online and video/television spaces, news media discourses incorporate multimodal design as a discursive move capable of steering meaning toward desirable implications. Around the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, while polarized news outlets made their positionality on the candidates obvious, more neutral or central news outlets revealed their preferences through subtle multimodal design choices. One of these design choices is using a quantitative visual rhetoric: persuasive multimodal moves that draw on quantification through visual, spatial, and textual manipulation--involving the choice of data representation, visual images, and illustrations, (im)balance between numeric and alphabetic texts, and general quantitative narrative. This quantitative visual rhetoric helps news outlets manipulate facts without lying with words, leaving the onus of misinterpretation on the readers/viewers. In this article, using examples from five types of media outlets--far-left, left-leaning, central, right-leaning, and far-right--we share examples of design choices we found through multimodal analysis of their quantitative visual rhetoric during the 2016 elections. We share implications for media literacy education and civic engagement.
Examination of Stress States and Lifestyle Habits of Academic and Administrative Personnel Holding Office at Universities
Author: Var, Levent
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Stress Variables,Smoking,Life Style,Exercise,Work Environment,Administrator Attitudes,College Administration,Health Behavior,Physical Activities,Drinking,Foreign Countries

The purpose of this research is to examine the relation between the stresses and some lifestyle habits of academic and administrative personnel holding office at Ahi Evran University. 368 personnel in total as being 252 academic and 116 administrative personnel working holding office at Ahi Evran University had participated in this study. In the study, &quot;Health - Exercise and Physical Activity Consciousness Level&quot; questionnaire, developed by Dolasir Tuncel and Tuncel (2009), had been used as data collection tool. SPSS 22,0 packaged software had been used in the statistical analysis of data obtained, and the results had been evaluated at significance level of p&lt;0,05. As the result of the research, by the comparison of states of regular exercise and being stressful among the academic and administrative personnel, significance had been determined at a level of 0.000 (p&lt;0.001) for regular exercise, and of 0.021 (p&lt;0.05) for being stressful. Moreover, when the relation among frequent tension, stressful workplace environment, alcohol consumption, regular exercise and smoking of academic and administrative personnel, a relation at high level in positive direction had been determined between frequent tension and stressful workplace environment (r=,723, p&lt;0.001), a relation at very low level in positive direction had been determined between frequent tension and alcohol consumption (r=,124, p&lt;0.001), and a relation at low level in positive direction had been determined between smoking and alcohol consumption (r=,422, p&lt;0.001). Thus, it is being observed that the stress states of academic and administrative personnel holding office at Ahi Evran University are being affected depending on the workplace environment, and that the alcohol consumption of the personnel is increasing as the cigarette consumption increases.
Media Literacy and Climate Change in a Post-Truth Society
Author: Damico, James S.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Climate,Media Literacy,Preservice Teachers,Reliability,Ecology,Linguistics,Student Attitudes

In this article we draw from ecolingusitics and a civic media literacy framework to consider what happened when three pairs of preservice teachers with different academic backgrounds and climate change beliefs jointly evaluated the reliability of two media sources that make opposing arguments about climate change. An ecolinguistics perspective attends to the environmental impact of the &quot;stories-we-live-by&quot; and a civic media literacy lens highlights the centrality of dialogue and deliberation along with critical reading when evaluating the reliability of information sources about complex socioscientific topics like climate change. Our findings highlight the ways the three pairs of preservice teachers considered three aspects of reliability: provenance, purpose, and content. Findings also point to three reliability stories that the preservice teachers drew on as they evaluated the two media sources: (1) having the &quot;other side&quot; represented, (2) wanting more information or evidence to support an argument, and (3) acknowledging one's own identity and perspectives.
Parents&apos; Roles in Overcoming Elementary Students&apos; Learning Difficulties
Author: Maryani, Ika
Date: 2018-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Parent Role,Elementary School Students,Grade 5,Learning Problems,Elementary School Teachers,Student Attitudes,Student Behavior,Emotional Response,Tutoring,Parent Child Relationship,Parents as Teachers,Parent Teacher Cooperation,Foreign Countries

This research aims to identify learning problems and the parents'roles in overcoming learning difficulties of 5th-grade students of Muhammadiyah Karangturi Elementary School, Bantul, Yogyakarta. Research participants were six students with learning difficulties, six parents, and four teachers. Selection of subjects used purposive sampling technique. Research object was the parents' roles in overcoming students' learning difficulties. This research was a qualitative research with data collection techniques in the form of observation, interviews, and documentation. Data analysis technique was the interactive model (data collection, data reduction, data models, and drawing conclusions). Triangulation is used as a method of data validation. The results showed that the problems experienced by students with learning difficulties in Muhammadiyah Karangturi Elementary School were lower than average learning outcomes, slow understanding, and lack of reasonable attitudes, behavior, and emotional symptoms during the learning process. The parents' roles in overcoming students' learning difficulties included: finding tutoring institutions for children, accompanying children when coming and going home from school, being good listeners, accompanying learning activities at home, taking children on the first day of school, meeting with teachers through parents association, and present at the distribution of learning outcomes report card.
The Complexity of Learning to Teach News Media in Social Studies Education
Author: Schmeichel, Mardi
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Methods,Media Literacy,Social Studies,Teacher Education,Preservice Teachers,Intervention,Teacher Certification,News Reporting,Anxiety,Barriers

This research reports on data generated through an initial teacher certification program for secondary social studies teachers that introduced a specific and program-spanning focus on news media literacy. Growing out of the urgent need for pedagogies that address and promote critical engagement with the kinds of news media sources upon which civic decisions are made, our project follows teacher candidates from their initial certification coursework through the culminating student teaching semester. Our work with teacher candidates over this time was explicitly intended to intervene in and develop teacher candidates' understandings of news media literacy, its place in social studies education, and related pedagogies. However, what resulted, and what we present throughout this paper, was also an intervention in our own understandings of the significant constraints and complexities of addressing these issues in teacher education.
The Effects of Using Representations in Elementary Mathematics: Meta-Analysis of Research
Author: Sokolowski, Andrzej
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematics Instruction,Elementary School Mathematics,Mathematical Concepts,Concept Formation,Visualization,Teaching Methods,Mathematics Achievement,Effect Size

The current study provides a meta-analysis of global research on using representations to support the learning of mathematics in Pre-K through Grade 5. A total of 13 primary studies encompassing 1,941 subjects was analyzed. The weighted mean effect size for the 13 studies was reported to be ES = 0.53 (SE = 0.05). A 95% confidence interval around the overall mean -- C[subscript lower] = 0.42 and C[subscript upper] = 0.63 -- proved its statistical significance and its relative precision. The calculated effect size signifies strong, robust support for the use of representations in Pre-K through Grade 5 mathematics classes and highlights the importance of providing students with opportunities to construct and explore transitioning between various forms of representations. Moderator analysis revealed differences among the effects due to a different type of representation, grade levels, and concepts taught. A synthesis of moderator effects allowed for a formulation of a general way of applying representations that produces maximum learning effects and that the teachers can adopt in their school practice. While the effect sizes provided a means of determining the most effective ways of applying representations, questions about how to develop students' transitioning from one representation to another remain unsolved. A further discussion of the impact of the study findings beyond the boundaries of elementary mathematics classrooms follows.
Teaching Them before We Teach: The Effectiveness of Conducting Classroom Experiments before Teaching the Underlying Theory
Author: Li, Raymond
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Experiments,Class Activities,Theory Practice Relationship,Decision Making,Instructional Effectiveness,Mastery Learning,Prior Learning,Economics Education,Experiential Learning,College Students,Majors (Students),Foreign Countries,Outcomes of Education,Student Improvement,Academic Achievement

This study examines the effectiveness of classroom experiments conducted before the relevant theories were taught. The experiments were used to provide students with first-hand experience of decision-making under various rivalry settings and to demonstrate several key predictions of oligopoly models. Statistical methods were used to analyze the effectiveness of these experiments in helping students master the concepts covered by the experiments. In general, students had a positive experience in the process and they found the experiments useful in stimulating their interest and helping improve their understanding of the relevant theories. Statistically, students who took part in the experiments performed significantly better in an exam question on oligopoly markets.
IMT Skills of the Pre-Service Teachers in Cebu City
Author: Boholano, Helen B.
Date: 2018-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Information Literacy,Media Literacy,Technological Literacy,Preservice Teachers,Technology Uses in Education,Educational Strategies,Information Technology

Information, media and technology is an essential skill in the 21st century. The development of the country relies on the people. The preservice teachers are task to mold the 21st century learners. The purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze the information, media and technology skills in the 21st century of the preservice teachers in the different Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Cebu City. Findings revealed that the preservice teachers possessed very IMT good skills. There are three themes formulated regarding the effects of new digital technologies in the 21st century instruction. Making taking and learning more convenient with the use of technology, the 21st century role of modern technology in teaching and learning and using technology as tool in research are essential in the 21st century undertakings. Thus, ICTs have been very useful in the teaching-learning process and it has been the modernize way of education which caught the interest of everybody. The effective use of technology enables the preservice teachers to facilitate and adjust their instructional strategies to optimize students' learning.