ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Views of the Sports Audience Who Received Sports Education about the Sports Organizations Postponed Due to COVID-19
Author: Bingöl, Sükrü
Date: 2020-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Athletics,Team Sports,COVID-19,Pandemics,Scheduling,Recreational Activities,Age Differences,Recreational Facilities,Health Behavior,Disease Control,Adults

This research was conducted in order to determine the views of the sports audience who received sports education about the sports organizations postponed due to COVID-19 regarding the postponement. The method of this research, which is a descriptive research, is a scanning model and it was conducted with the questionnaire technique. The questionnaire form developed by the researcher was applied to the research group online and 812 feedbacks were received. The analysis of the data was evaluated in the licensed SPSS 21 package program and descriptive statistics were used in the study. As a result of the research, the majority of the participants stated that they could not think of a life without sports and that they could go to the stadium and sports halls to watch the matches after the postponement was over. In the study, it was determined that the individuals over the age of 61 do not think of going to the gym after delay. It has been concluded that the fact that COVID-19 is more effective, especially on elderly individuals, negatively affects the status of individuals of this age to go to the sports halls or sports organizations.
An Assessment on Puritan and Hedonist Work Ethics of Elite Student Athletes
Author: Dal, Suzan
Date: 2020-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Work Ethic,Student Athletes,High Achievement,Student Attitudes,College Students,High School Students,Late Adolescents,Athletics,Gender Differences,Moral Values,Social Values,Foreign Countries

The study aims to determine and evaluate elite student athletes' attitudes toward puritan and hedonist work ethics. The study group consisted of 729 athletes at university and high school levels (female n = 276, male n = 453). &quot;From Puritanism to Hedonism: New Ethics of Working Questionnaire (PH-NEWQ)&quot; was used as the study's data collection tool. According to the study findings, elite student athletes generally adopted puritan work ethics rather than hedonistic tendencies. In this sense, national athletes and team athletes had puritan work ethics. However, female athletes and individual athletes had a hedonistic mindset. Thus, it is recommended to plan the educational lives of elite athletes by considering the puritan values in elite sports.
Aspects of Differentiation in Teacher Education: Exploring Student Teachers&apos; Experiences
Author: Kokkinos, Theodoros
Date: 2020-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Teachers,Student Experience,Teaching Methods,Foreign Countries,Preservice Teacher Education,Instructional Development,Individualized Instruction,Preservice Teachers,Time Management

It is well accepted that not only the ability but also the positive disposition of teachers towards various teaching practices (including differentiated teaching) can be largely traced back to their initial education and training. Therefore, the beliefs and experiences of future teachers for planning and implementing differentiated teaching activities are worth exploring. Based on the above, the purpose of the current study is to explore the beliefs and experiences of future teachers in differentiated teaching. The participants (N = 142) were undergraduate students of a Greek university, who, during a six-month compulsory practical course, planned and implemented in schools a two-hour differentiated course. In particular, the difficulties they encountered in planning and implementing differentiated teaching were investigated, as well as the positive way in which they considered it to contribute to their teaching profile. Data were collected through the participants' responses to the course's open-ended evaluation form. Data were analyzed by two independent raters using qualitative analysis. Main findings have shown that the participants encountered difficulties in planning appropriate teaching activities based on the students' learning readiness, while challenges have emerged during teaching related mainly to class management. The participants believe, however, that the whole process has contributed significantly to their teaching skills as well as their motivation for using differentiated teaching and for teaching in general.
Beliefs of Preschool Teacher Candidates about the Nature of Science
Author: Özyilmaz, Güzin
Date: 2020-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Beliefs,Preservice Teachers,Scientific Principles,Science Education,Preschool Education,Young Children,Scientific Literacy,Misconceptions,Student Characteristics,Gender Differences,Undergraduate Study,Foreign Countries

The aim of science education is to enable children to become &quot;science-literate.&quot; Science literacy is defined as taking responsibility for and making decisions about situations requiring scientific understanding and having sufficient knowledge, skills, attitudes and understanding of values to put their decisions into practice. Revealing teachers' beliefs can help to understand the types of experiences presented by teachers in their classrooms. Inadequate understandings and misbeliefs of teachers shape the first perceptions of children about the NOS when they are formally introduced with science education in their early childhood. Most of the studies were also performed with science teachers and there have been few studies conducted with preschool teachers. Therefore, the present study was directed towards determining NOS beliefs of preschool teacher candidates. To achieve this aim, Nature of Science Beliefs Scale (NOSBS), developed by Özcan and Turgut (2014), was administered to the preschool teacher candidates studying in Preschool Education Department of Buca Education Faculty at Dokuz Eylül University in the spring semester of the 2018-2019 academic year. In the study, the NOS beliefs of the teacher candidates were found to be acceptable in general. While the findings of this study are consistent with those revealed in several relevant studies in the literature.
Dimensions of Narcissism in Athletes in Universities
Author: Gezer, Engin
Date: 2020-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Students,College Athletics,Team Sports,Personality Traits,Personality Problems,Self Concept,Student Characteristics,Gender Differences,Age Differences,Intellectual Disciplines,Foreign Countries,Family Structure

This study aims to discover the levels of narcissism among university students, who are actively involved in sports, in order to reveal the differences between narcissism levels and sociodemographic variables. A total of 611 athletes participated in the study, of whom 236 were females (38.6%) and were males 375 (61.4%). They all have actively participated in individual and team sports that were organized by the Turkish University Sports Federation. For the purpose of determining the narcissism levels of the athletes, the &quot;Narcissistic Personality Inventory&quot;, which was developed by Ames et al. (2006) and adapted into Turkish by Atay (2009), was used. The scale consisted of 16 items representing 6 dimensions &quot;exhibitionism&quot;, &quot;superiority&quot;, &quot;authority&quot;, &quot;entitlement&quot;, &quot;self-sufficiency&quot;, and &quot;exploitativeness&quot;. The study data were analysed by utilizing IBM SPSS Statistics v22 package software was used. To reveal whether the data had a normal distribution, a single-sample &quot;Kolmogorov-Smirnov&quot; test was conducted and it was discovered that the data did not distribute a normal distribution. Following these initial evaluation, it was decided to use the non-parametric test methods. In the comparison of narcissism levels of athletes with demographic variables, the &quot;Mann Whitney U Test&quot; was conducted for two-sample comparisons while &quot;Kruskal Wallis-H Test&quot; was conducted for comparisons between three and/or more samples. Additionally, the &quot;Mann Whitney U test&quot; was conducted to determine the groups with significant differences. The level of significance was regarded as p &lt; 0.05. In conclusion, it was observed that the mean total scores of athletes in the &quot;Narcissistic Personality Inventory&quot; was 7.11 ± 3.26. When the relationships between the narcissism levels and demographic variables of athletes were examined, significant differences were observed between the narcissistic tendencies of athletes and the variables of gender, age, and department of education. Finally, when the literature was examined, it was seen that the athletes in the sample had an acceptable level of narcissism.
Epistemological Beliefs of Preservice Social Studies Teachers
Author: Baydar, Askin
Date: 2020-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Epistemology,Beliefs,Preservice Teachers,Social Studies,Teaching Styles,Gender Differences,Individual Differences,Foreign Countries

Epistemological beliefs are an individual's personal beliefs about what knowledge, knowing, and learning are. These beliefs are important for pre-service teachers since they may affect their teaching styles in the classrooms. This study aims to determine if the pre-service teachers' undergraduate education affects their epistemological beliefs comparing the epistemological beliefs of the first and the fourth grade students at the Department of Social Studies Education in a state university in terms of their epistemological beliefs. The data were analyzed using independent groups t-test to compare the scores of pre-service social studies teachers in the sub-dimensions of the epistemological beliefs questionnaire (belief that learning depends on effort, belief that learning depends on skills, and belief in a single truth) in terms of their gender and grade level. The results of the study show that, except for the third dimension of the questionnaire, the fourth graders have more sophisticated beliefs than the first graders. There is no statistically significant difference between male and female pre-service teachers regarding their epistemological beliefs.
Examining the Relationship between Self-Efficacy and Aggression Levels of Students Interested in Weightlifting Sports
Author: Öktem, Tuncay
Date: 2020-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Aggression,Self Efficacy,Athletics,Correlation,Foreign Countries,Athletes,Gender Differences,Educational Attainment,Place of Residence,Family Environment,Parent Background,Verbal Communication,Psychological Patterns,College Students

This study aims to examine the relationship between aggression levels and self-efficacy of students interested in weightlifting sport. Descriptive and screening research model was used in this study, which assesses the relationship between aggression levels and self-efficacy of students interested in weightlifting sport. The Aggression Questionnaire which was developed by Buss and Perry (1992) and whose validity and reliability study of the Turkish form conducted by Madran (2012) was used in the study as well as the Scale of Self-efficacy which was developed by Riggs et al. (1994), and adapted into Turkish by Öcel (2002). The results of the study show that there is a negative and low-level relationship between the participants' self-efficacy and physical aggression scores (r = -0.112, p &lt; 0.05). In this context, it can be concluded that when participants' self-efficacy level increases, their physical aggression level decreases.
Attitudes of the Academics in Sports Sciences towards Distance Education
Author: Bingöl, Sükrü
Date: 2020-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Distance Education,Teacher Attitudes,Physical Education,COVID-19,Pandemics,Foreign Countries,College Faculty,Gender Differences,Individual Differences

The aim of this research is to determine the attitudes of academics who teach in the field of sports sciences towards distance education. This is a descriptive research. The universe of the research consists of the sports academics who participated in the distance education in the Covid-19 period in the 2019-2020 academic year. In the study, 351 academics were reached within the scope of convenience sampling method. The questionnaire forms were prepared, distributed and collected online, taking into account the Covid-19 process. In the study, personal information form and attitude scale towards distance education developed by Agir (2007) were used to collect data. The SPSS 21 package program was used to analyze the data in the study. When the descriptive statistics regarding the attitude towards distance education are examined, the mean of the advantages of the education subscale is determined as 37.15 ± 11.04, the mean of the limitations of education subscale is determined as 18.61 ± 7.08 and the mean of the overall scale is determined as 55.76 ± 13.79.
Method in the Teaching of Tennis Coach
Author: Yanar, Senol
Date: 2020-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Athletic Coaches,Teaching Methods,Racquet Sports,Instructional Effectiveness,Preferences,Game Based Learning

This research aims to guide coaches in determining the preferences of coaches regarding teaching methods by demonstrating the effects of different teaching methods in tennis in teaching. Working groups were created, and the subjects who participated in these groups were composed of female students who had never played tennis before and studied in different departments of the university. As a data collection tool, the measurements were done three times and the difference between them was detected by administering a test (ITN) that determines the regulated tennis levels for sedentary. The only sample t-test was used at 0.05 severity as to whether the sample mass represented the main mass equally and homogeneously. Accordingly, it was determined that the sample mass represents the main mass equally and homogeneously. A 0.05 severity associated sample t-test was used to test differences within groups. An independent sample t-test was used because the data showed normal distribution to test the difference between groups. As a result, although there has been an improvement in both teaching methods according to the initial levels, it has been determined that the modern tennis teaching method is faster and more effective under the results in teaching. Coaches used both the modern tennis teaching method and classical tennis teaching method, while the teaching method should be reviewed in terms of what method to use in teaching. Following these results, coaches are advised to do their work in this direction by adopting game-based tennis teachings.
Having the &apos;Immersion Talk&apos; with Young Language Learners
Author: Borey, Valerie Magna
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Immersion Programs,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Teaching Methods,Program Descriptions,Elementary School Students,Native Language,Classroom Communication,Preschool Education,Bilingual Education Programs

This article expands upon teacher guidelines for an &quot;immersion talk&quot; originally developed by B. Hegstad (2012), entitled, &quot;What is Immersion, and How Can I Be Successful in That Environment?,&quot; to share with the larger language community in hopes that the suggestions will encourage teachers to help their learners successfully engage with immersion and encourage young language learners in programs across the country to dig in and keep going. The document is a strategy-based outline used in Concordia Language Villages' Language Discovery Programs, with conversation starters for orienting pre-school and elementary-aged students to the language immersion environment.
A Comparative Study of the Inclusive Education Policy in Vietnam and Malaysia: Proposed Solutions for Sustainable Development Education in Vietnam
Author: Linh, Pham Hoang Tu
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Inclusion,Educational Policy,Comparative Education,Sustainable Development,Students with Disabilities,Foreign Countries,Educational Development,Civil Rights,Elementary Secondary Education

The main aim of this study is to analyse and compare the policies of inclusive education for handicapped people in general, and children with disabilities in particular. It focused on inclusive education for children with disabilities in Vietnam and Malaysia. The study has also highlighted the challenges and issues of inclusive education for children with disabilities in Vietnam and has compared with Malaysia. It has eventually proposed the solutions to the sustainable development of inclusive education for children with disabilities in Vietnam.
Exploring Teachers&apos; Perceptions on Schools&apos; Openness to Change in Omani &amp; Saudi Public Schools
Author: Sywelem, Mohamed M. Ghoneim
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Attitudes,Educational Change,Organizational Change,Public Schools,Elementary School Teachers,Middle School Teachers,High School Teachers,Principals,Administrator Attitudes,Gender Differences,Cultural Context,Arabs,Foreign Countries

The purpose of this study is to determine schools' openness to change (SOC) in the Sultanate of Oman &amp; Saudi Arabia based on the views of public school teachers. The study implements a quantitative approach using the Faculty Change Orientation Scale (FCOS) developed by Smith &amp; Hoy (2007). A sample of (719) subjects is selected during 2018-2019 school years. The data is analyzed through descriptive statistics, t-test, and ANOVA. The research concluded that Saudi and Omani teachers showed high positive perceptions regarding the degree of principal openness to change (POC) and Teacher openness to change (TOC); nevertheless there were no significant differences between Saudi and Omani teachers in SOC; in addition there were significant differences between male and female teachers in favor of female teachers, finally there were significant differences among elementary, middle, and high schools in favor of elementary schools. The current study contributes to the field of school change management in the Arab Gulf States culture, especially in providing insights of teachers from two different Arab Gulf States.
Homework, Projects and Presentations: How Can Parents Help?
Author: Mellgren, Millie Park
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Immersion Programs,Elementary Secondary Education,Second Language Learning,Parent Participation,Parent Role,Family Environment,English (Second Language),Recreational Reading,Homework,Time Factors (Learning),Comprehension,Organization

The following article is an adapted and abridged excerpt from The Language Immersion Life: A Guide for Families by Millie Park Mellgren (2017). This book features answers to the most common questions Dr. Mellgren was asked as an elementary immersion principal. The volume features commentary and data gleaned from surveys given to hundreds of former students, parents and educators. This input combined with Dr. Mellgren's years of immersion experience, creates a comprehensive guide offering insight on selecting an immersion program and navigating through the K-12 immersion years with success. While most of the quotes from survey participants have been deleted from this excerpt, that additional commentary can be found in the full text.
Teaching Academic Writing in Higher Education
Author: Campbell, Madelaine
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Writing Instruction,Academic Language,Higher Education,Graduate Students,Foreign Students,Barriers,English for Special Purposes,Second Language Learning,Scaffolding (Teaching Technique),Literary Genres,Rhetoric,Adults

Academic writing is one of the most complex tasks students encounter in university. Both domestic and international students struggle with academic writing; however, international students also face language barriers and are unfamiliar with western academic writing genres. Since many instructors don't know how to instruct academic writing as a process, the fields of Rhetorical Genre studies (RGS), and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) provide theoretical frameworks that can be applied pedagogically in order to teach academic writing effectively in any university classroom. This paper also contains a pedagogical method for applying these concepts into a writing classroom designed for ESL graduate students. It is a method that can be used in any writing program to teach both international and domestic students.
Metaphorical Perceptions of the Secondary School Students Regarding the Concept of Soil
Author: Yazici, Sibel
Date: 2020-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Attitudes,Grade 7,Middle School Students,Figurative Language,Conservation (Environment),Soil Science,Sustainable Development,Social Studies,Foreign Countries,Social Values,Concept Formation

The importance of the soil being a source for human existence and sustaining life has caused to the wide meaning to the soil. The aim of this study is to analyze the metaphorical perceptions of middle school students about the concept of soil within the social studies program. The participants of the study are secondary school students selected through purposeful sampling. Phenomenology, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. In the study the perceptions of the participants about the concept of soil and the meaning they attributed to this concept were analysed to reveal. The data of the study were collected through the statements such as &quot;Soil is like .... Because…&quot;. 89 secondary students have produced 36 metaphors about the concept of soil. Frequent metaphors produced by students include: human, life, being living, homeland, mother and heart. Metaphors are grouped by considering the subject-source relationship, and as a result, two categories and two sub-categories emerge. Soil, a living being for students is perceived in terms of the source of life and productivity. Soil is associated with both social and science subjects at this point. Soil perceived as a value is considered both a national-spiritual value and an economic value.