ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Teacher Implementation of Cooperative Learning in Indonesia: A Multiple Case Study
Author: Karmina, Sari
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Cooperative Learning,Program Implementation,Teaching Methods,Faculty Development,Educational Innovation,Cultural Influences,Barriers,Student Centered Learning,Teacher Attitudes,Secondary School Teachers

The current study, a part of a bigger study, explored how teachers in Indonesia implemented cooperative learning (CL) in their distinct contexts. This multiple case study design used a qualitative interpretative approach. Following semi-structured interviews with 18 teachers who had attended CL professional development and used CL in their classrooms, four were purposefully selected as cases of teachers. Classroom observations, post classroom observation interviews, and field notes were employed to investigate the implementation of CL. The data were analysed using Miles, Huberman and Saldaña's framework. Five themes were generated from cross-case analysis: &quot;implementation of CL principles,&quot; &quot;a lack of CL structures,&quot; &quot;a greater need of group orientation,&quot; &quot;group composition,&quot; and &quot;informal CL.&quot; The findings indicate that when an innovative pedagogical practice such as CL is implemented in a culture different from the one in which it was constructed, unique contexts both enable and disrupt the successful implementation of CL. This study proposes that further research attention must be given to understanding the challenges faced by teachers shifting away from direct teaching to student-centred pedagogies such as CL.
Foreign Language Learning Gamification Using Virtual Reality--A Systematic Review of Empirical Research
Author: Pinto, Rafael Darque
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Research Reports,Computer Games,Computer Simulation,Elementary Secondary Education,English (Second Language),Teaching Methods,Game Based Learning,Technology Integration,German,Usability,Bibliometrics,Learning Strategies,Second Languages

Virtual reality has shown to have great potential as an educational tool when it comes to new learning methods. With the growth and dissemination of this technology, there is a massive opportunity for teachers to add this technology to their methods of teaching a second/foreign language, since students keep showing a growing interest in new technologies. This systematic review of empirical research aims at understanding whether the use of gaming strategies in virtual reality is beneficial for the learning of a second/foreign language or not. Results show that more than half of the articles proved that virtual reality technologies with gaming strategies can be used to learn a foreign language. It was also found that &quot;learning&quot; was the most evaluated dependent variable among the chosen records, augmented reality was the leading technology used, primary education and lower secondary was the most researched school stages, and the most used language to evaluate the use of gamified technology was by far the English language. Given the lack of directed investigation, it is recommended to use these technologies to support second language learning and not entirely replace traditional approaches. A research agenda is also proposed by the authors.
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Teaching Mathematics and Students&apos; Knowledge, Skills, and Grades
Author: Pócsová, Jana
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: COVID-19,Pandemics,School Closing,Mathematics Instruction,Distance Education,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Program Effectiveness,Foreign Countries,Integrated Learning Systems,College Mathematics,Grades (Scholastic),Student Attitudes

As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic and measures to secure public health, many processes have moved to the online space. The educational process is not an exception. Our main goal, which is presented in this article, was to re-design the educational process from face-to-face to distance learning in the Mathematics 1 course at the Technical University of Košice. This article describes our approach to teaching, observations, and experience. This case study examines three factors: Firstly, the impact of distance education on overall assessments of students. Using descriptive statistics, the results of student evaluations were compared from the overall assessments for the last six academic years. It was found that distance learning does not affect excellent students and eliminates the number of students who do not pass. Secondly, the participation of students during online lessons, and thirdly, the use of electronic materials. The questionnaire survey and the data from the learning management system Moodle were used to examine the second and third factors. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the questionnaire survey data (frequencies, percentages and averages). An exploratory factor analysis was performed in order to assess the underlying key concepts regarding student evaluation of the teaching process. The exploratory factor analysis confirmed that this questionnaire followed the four key concepts.
Psychosocial Obstacles in Young Children Argumentative Interactions
Author: Convertini, Josephine
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preschool Children,Kindergarten,Persuasive Discourse,Problem Solving,Task Analysis,Interpersonal Communication,Cooperative Learning,Foreign Countries,Design,Self Efficacy

Argumentation is an important aspect in the field of education because of its impact on learning processes. At the same time, argumentation is a complex activity in terms of cognitive, relational, emotional and social dynamics. In this paper, I investigate and I describe possible difficulties encountered by children during the argumentative process. The study involves 25 preschool children at a kindergarten engaged in three building tasks. The tasks were video-recorded and the argumentative discussions transcribed. For the aim of this paper, I analyze how argumentation are distributed among participants. I select interactions in which participants apparently do not argue or there are differences in the degree of argumentative participation between participants of the same group. I analyze these interactions and moments of impasse in the argumentative steps. The findings show how the simplicity of solving the task (e.g., when children do not encounter any problem in completing the activity) and the children's self-perception of their competences in solving the task may have an impact on argumentation activities. Moreover, this perception is co-constructed by children within the interaction. The study contributes to the line of research on designing argumentation and highlights the role of the adult in managing children's interactions.
Using Padlet to Enable Online Collaborative Mediation and Scaffolding in a Statistics Course
Author: Sætra, Henrik Skaug
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Technology,Computer Mediated Communication,Cooperative Learning,Scaffolding (Teaching Technique),Statistics Education,Foreign Countries,Introductory Courses,Teaching Methods,Economics Education,College Students

Students often perceive statistics as a difficult subject, and it is frequently named as one of the primary causes of high dropout rates in economics educations in Norway. In order to support the learning process in statistics courses, and in order to make the courses more flexible, the author experimented with the use of Padlet in two different student groups taking an introductory course in statistics for economists. The purpose was to overcome the difficulty of engendering social engagement and activity and fostering effective mediation, scaffolding and collaborative learning in large student groups scheduled for traditional lectures in large auditoriums. The author's experiences and the students' evaluations of the model is presented here, along with the theoretical justification of the use of Padlet and the context in which it was tested. The results show that computer-supported collaborative learning can be an effective supplement or alternative to traditional study groups for those that either prefer this or cannot take part in regular study groups. The students used Padlet actively, and a majority of the students reported that it was a significant or highly significant factor in their learning process.
Student-Centered Online Teaching Practices in Theoretical Mechanics
Author: Sun, Haibin
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Centered Learning,Electronic Learning,Mechanics (Physics),COVID-19,Pandemics,Instructional Effectiveness,Teaching Methods,Technology Integration,Theory Practice Relationship,Ideology,Ethical Instruction,Formative Evaluation,Learning Motivation,Independent Study,Foreign Countries,Undergraduate Students

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a serious impact on education at all levels and types, and the education system, including colleges and universities, has been forced to respond by a sudden shift to online teaching. Successful online teaching requires careful thinking, planning, and technical and human support from teachers. Based on the reflection on the offline classroom teaching of theoretical mechanics for many years and the online teaching practice of first half of 2020, the author summarizes effective strategies for implementing online teaching of theoretical mechanics. We prepared the theoretical mechanical lessons through a &quot;student-centered&quot; approach, such as preparing teaching materials, students and teaching methods. These teaching strategies include (i) Adopting live-stream teaching as the main teaching method, (ii) Applying electronic blackboard to online deductions, (iii) Linking theory to practice for better understanding of knowledge, (iv) Integrating curriculum content in ideological and moral education, (v) Conducting formative assessment to supervise and motivate online learning. The implementation of these online teaching strategies has effectively promoted the development of students' independent learning ability.
Disciplinary Culture and Effective Teaching: A Cultural Anthropological Study
Author: Movahhed, Saeid Safaei
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Effectiveness,Intellectual Disciplines,College Faculty,School Culture,Teacher Attitudes,Differences

During the last couple of decades, many researchers have been trying to explicate &quot;effective teaching&quot; in higher education. As a result, when one searches the term, a vast amount of papers and research reports pop up in the literature, involving lists of attributes and competencies of effective teachers. But the impressive point is that &quot;effectiveness&quot; has been viewed mostly from a technical vantage point and disciplinary differences have not received proportionate attention. At the same time, some sociologists of science began to view disciplines as tribes and territories who own their exclusive norms, rituals, and values. Hence, this research aims at investigating effective teaching in higher education within the framework of disciplinary culture. Methodologically, the research may be deemed as interpretive ethnography as it aims at representing emically how members of disciplinary cultures perceive and interpret effective teaching. Hence, based on Tony Becher classification of disciplines into civil and rural, two postgraduate classes were selected, namely from Pure Mathematics (involving 15 students to represent civil disciplines) and Education Studies (involving 18 students to represent rural disciplines). To collect data, the researcher deployed non-participant observation for a full semester and informal interviews were also conducted at regular intervals. The field notes and interview protocols were analyzed thematically to produce meaningful categories for results representation. As credibility was of great concern in the research, three strategies were used for this purpose namely member check, peer debriefing and prolonged engagement. Based on the interpretations, members of rural disciplines evaluate teaching as effective when it focuses on classic texts, cares about human and social issues, approaches laymen jargons, emphasizes understanding, appreciates variety of teaching strategies and learning styles, holds a critical stance towards cultural issues, and takes on a lenient approach in marking. On the other side, members of civil disciplines evaluate teaching as effective when it focuses on updated resources, is content-oriented, approaches professional terminology, emphasizes practicality, and takes on a tough stance on marking.
Enhancing Student Interest to Promote Learning in Science: The Case of the Concept of Energy
Author: Toli, Georgia
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Science Interests,Junior High School Students,Concept Teaching,Concept Formation,Energy,Physics,Science Achievement,Hands on Science,Experiments,Computer Simulation,Cooperative Learning,Discussion (Teaching Technique),Foreign Countries,Public Schools

This paper presents an intervention aiming to promote students' learning by enhancing their interest in the concept of energy. Junior high school students' learning and interest is evaluated after engaging in activities on work and energy. The intervention integrated hands-on and simulated experiments included a structured series of guided investigative tasks and whole-class discussions. The intervention was delivered to an experimental group consisting of 110 junior high school students. The control group consisted of 96 students of the same grade level, where students were taught about energy in the traditional sense, i.e., via the standard textbook. Written tests were then handed to all students to assess their learning outcomes. The results showed that the learning outcomes of students in the experimental group were significantly better than those of students in the control group. A notable increase in interest from students in the experimental group compared to that of the control group was also observed. Findings also showed a significant positive correlation between interest and academic achievement. This study reconfirms that enhancing interest could lead to better learning outcomes and its evidence-based methodology can be equally applied when introducing students to other difficult concepts of science.
An Examination of Historical Literacy Perceptions of Social Studies Preservice Teachers in Terms of Various Variables
Author: Akhan, Osman
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: History Instruction,Student Attitudes,Social Studies,Preservice Teachers,Multiple Literacies,Predictor Variables,Foreign Countries,Educational Attainment

The aim of this study is to determine the historical literacy perception levels of social studies preservice teachers and to examine them in terms of various variables. In this framework, the survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the research. The sample of this study consisted of 134 social studies preservice teachers studying at the faculty of education of a state university in the 2019-2020 academic year. The data in the study were collected with the &quot;Historical Literacy Perception Scale&quot; developed by Uluçay (2019), after obtaining the necessary permissions. The data obtained from the scale were analyzed using the statistical package program. Considering the results obtained from the study, it was concluded that the social studies preservice teachers in the sample had high levels of historical literacy perception. In addition, their perception levels increased according to the variables of mother's education level and frequency of watching historical movies. On the other hand, their perceptions did not change/differ according to the variables such as grade level, gender, father's education level, tendency to read history books, to follow historical publications and competence of the teachers. Considering the results of the research in general, it can be said that the preservice teachers benefited sufficiently from their university and pre-university education in terms of historical literacy skills.
COVID-19 Lockdown Education: The Importance of Structure in a Suddenly Changed Learning Environment
Author: Lauret, Dirk
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: COVID-19,Pandemics,Educational Environment,Electronic Learning,Secondary School Students,Early Adolescents,Student Attitudes,Teacher Attitudes,Instructional Effectiveness,Course Organization,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Technological Literacy,Board of Education Role,Public Schools,Foreign Countries

In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, which resulted in global lockdowns. As a result, education could no longer be provided in its current form and was therefore provided online. This study discusses the consequences of online instruction in secondary education and how students perceived this new way of learning. Specifically, this research focuses on how online education was facilitated, how this differs from regular education and how students and teachers experienced these practices. In this study, qualitative and quantitative data were collected from teachers and students. Our findings revealed that the students were missing a proper structure in the lessons. There was a decline in the understanding and enjoyment by students in all courses. This study also shows that the variety of instructional strategies that the teachers used increased during the lockdown period. However, teachers were lacking in other aspects that define good instruction. Moreover, teacher data demonstrate that the teachers needed guidance from the schoolboard. It is remarkable that the schoolboard plays a key role in improving this situation. This research suggests that if the schoolboard provides guidelines on planning education, teachers could focus more on other aspects of a good instruction.
Doing Critical Language Teaching through Tasks: Insights from the Brazilian Context
Author: Farias, Priscila Fabiane
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Methods,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Foreign Countries,Critical Theory,Elementary School Students,High School Students,Diaries,Teacher Researchers,Comparative Analysis,Needs Assessment,Social Change,Dialogs (Language),Task Analysis,Linguistic Input,Metalinguistics,Gender Differences,Video Technology,English (Second Language)

Although Brazilian governmental documents have conceived language teaching from a critical perspective, the recent scenario points to a backlash towards critical perspectives on teaching, which have been socially perceived as indoctrination. Since we understand critical pedagogy in additional language classrooms as a necessary emancipatory perspective, this article aims at discussing possibilities for promoting critical language development. More specifically, it draws on two doctoral studies in which teacher-researchers implemented critical task cycles that aimed at promoting critical language development by fostering elementary and high school students' reflections on gender issues. In both studies, tasks were developed to promote learners' communicative and critical development following task-based principles. The comparison of the results, derived from the analysis of learners' interactions during implementation, responses to questionnaires and interviews, and of the teacher-researchers' self-report diaries, revealed not only the feasibility of teaching critically through tasks, but also the positive role of: (1) A critical needs-analysis in designing and implementing critical tasks; (2) the use of critical dialogue for fostering knowledge co-construction; (3) the development of final projects to challenge common-sense discourses. These findings indicate, thus, relevant principles for teaching critically through tasks, emphasizing possibilities and challenges for promoting social transformation.
Program Specific Effects of a Semester Abroad on the Likelihood of Pursuing a PhD
Author: Urgelles, Laura
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Program Effectiveness,Study Abroad,Prediction,Doctoral Degrees,Foreign Countries,College Students,Intention,Majors (Students),Student Mobility

The present paper provides an analysis of the impact of a semester abroad during university studies on a students' likelihood of pursuing a PhD. I use a sample of 66 812 German university students and analyze the program-specific subsamples. Propensity score matching reveals that business students who go abroad during their studies have higher intentions to pursue a PhD than their non-mobile peers. The findings are robust across matching estimators. In addition, I find positive and significant effects for cultural and social studies, whereas the effects for medical and law students are insignificant. When splitting the sample at the median grade, a semester abroad has a significant positive impact on below-median grade natural sciences students' PhD decision. In contrast, for engineering students there is a positive and significant effect of a semester abroad only for above-median performers. I build on existing findings concerning the existence of a positive correlation between mobility and the intention to pursue a PhD.
Sensorization of Things Intelligent Technology for Sport Science to Develop an Athlete&apos;s Physical Potential
Author: Sattaburuth, Chanita
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Athletics,Athletes,Safety,Risk Management,Data Collection,Exercise Physiology,Measurement Equipment,Human Body

Sports can build both strength and be fun at the same time. When it comes to a professional athlete's victory, the winner will enhance his reputation and can earn a great deal of money. The problem that athletes frequently encounter is traumas, which can happen in games or during training. Today, the technology is very advanced and modernized. Innovations and perceptual devices can be created to monitor, measure, analyze and evaluate data from the information received from the introduction of an intelligent system of evaluation and prediction in terms of safety and risk prevention with regard to athletes, by collecting heart rate data, blood oxygen measurement, air density around the athletes' body, body temperature and a temperature in the sports training room. This is the point of view and vision of a sports industry leaders, who perceive the opportunity and advantage associated with the competition and training of both amateur and professional athletes, to develop the athlete's physical potential to achieve international excellence. The study of intelligent sensor technology that is used to support devices that work on the guidelines of Internet of Things (IoT) leading to the development of real time data collecting applications. These are used to process or interpret physiological knowledge for an analysis of results and for the prediction of incoming results. It was found that using intelligent sensing technology which are two main groups of detection and measurement: First, human body function sensing and second, measurement to environment around the body or object, and explained to detail in this article.