ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Source Traits of Adolescents&apos; Personality as a Predictor of Their Academic Achievement: A Cross-Sectional Study
Author: Ali, Hakim
Date: 2018-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Personality Traits,Adolescents,Likert Scales,Academic Achievement,Predictor Variables,Case Studies,Foreign Countries,Secondary School Students,Grade 10,Intelligence,Emotional Development,Prosocial Behavior,Personal Autonomy,Achievement Tests,Factor Analysis,Emotional Intelligence,Correlation,Personality Measures

A bulk of research has been conducted to investigate the relationship of the personality traits of students with their academic achievement in international context. This area, however, has yet been rarely explored in the context of Pakistan. This cross-sectional survey study, therefore, investigated the degree to which selected primary source traits of the personality of students can serve as a predictor of their academic achievement at secondary school level in the context of Pakistan. Three hundred fifty seven (357) secondary school students (182 boys and 175 girls) attending class 10th participated in this study. A 43-item Likert 5-point trait scale, following the example of the items included in the ''Big Five Questionnaire -- Children version (BFQ-C)'' by Barbaranelli et al., (2003), was developed for measuring the eight selected primary source traits, namely: independence, intelligence, sociable, easy going, generous, friendly, emotionally stable, and dominance. Academic achievement of the representative sample of the students was measured on the basis of their annual examination results of class 9th. Collected data were analyzed and interpreted by applying descriptive and the inferential statistics as well as factor analysis. Values of regression analysis revealed that, among the eight primary source traits, &quot;Independence&quot;, &quot;Intelligence&quot; &quot;Emotionally stable&quot; and &quot;Friendly&quot; were the only factors that predicted students' academic achievement to some extent while the role of other four traits found to be minimal or negative in predicting academic achievement.
The Role of Vocational Education and Training in Palestine in Addressing Inequality and Promoting Human Development
Author: Hilal, Randa
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Role of Education,Vocational Education,Social Differences,Individual Development,Poverty,Well Being,Disadvantaged Youth,Females,Social Problems,Barriers,Labor Market

UNESCO's new emphasis on vocational education and training as transformative, and concerns in particular with equity and sustainable human development, has been strongly influenced by a recent literature on VET and human development that has a particular focus on the most marginalised, especially young women, and is concerned with how their aspirations, agency and achievement of wellbeing can be promoted in the face of wide-ranging structural obstacles. This article seeks to further develop that account through an even stronger emphasis on VET in the context of extreme poverty, inequality and marginalisation as faced in Palestine. VET in Palestine serves many of the poorest and most disenfranchised in Palestinian society in a context of profound structural obstacles to wellbeing achievement. Our analysis show a very positive story of how VET has helped highly disadvantaged young Palestinians, particularly young women, to make progress on their human development.
Challenges and Opportunities Associated with Supervising Graduate Students Enrolled in African Universities
Author: Bacwayo, K. E.
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Graduate Students,Supervisory Methods,Foreign Countries,Supervisors,Supervision,Mentors,Economic Development,Barriers,Educational Opportunities,Graduate School Faculty,Expectation

In a globalizing economy, education is key to competitiveness and economic growth. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is playing catch up in terms of investing in the human capital needed to participate effectively in the world economy. The Sub-Saharan region is currently engaged in what has been termed as a &quot;catch-up&quot; period as is reflected in rapid growth in investment in education at all levels, with an increased recognition over the last decade of the need for increased number of graduates at the tertiary level. This expansion has implications on the quality of training and research. Key among the factors that can help enhance quality is supervision. Currently, in many countries in SSA, graduate training and research is largely self-paid and students make significant sacrifices to obtain advanced degrees with the expectation that they would finish on time and secure lucrative careers. With this expectation, supervisors have an enormous task of ensuring quality mentoring. It is a privilege to hold a faculty position and supervise students; nonetheless, this comes with a great responsibility associated with great expectations from the students. The expectations are targeted to supervisors and the institutions of learning. Although there is still an imbalance on power relationships between supervisors and students, especially in developing countries, supervisors still need to understand and know the student expectations. This way, they can build professionally and healthy long lasting relationships than can spread beyond the supervision period. This paper discusses the issue of supervision, with a focus on different approaches to delivering quality supervision, students' needs and expectations, and how these can be addressed based on authors' experiences working at universities from a developing country perspective.
Entrepreneurial Behavior amongst Students of Community Colleges in Malaysia
Author: Hussain, Rasmuna
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Entrepreneurship,Student Behavior,Two Year College Students,Community Colleges,Program Evaluation,Academic Achievement,Business Skills,Skill Development,Student Attitudes,Career Planning,Occupational Aspiration,Goal Orientation,Problem Solving

The government has strategised initiatives to organize an education system that improve the training and skills quality wise, as well as enhancing the lifelong learning programs. In the field of education and training, interests and apprehensions on the entrepreneurship subject is the highlight of today's higher learning institutions. This study aims to measure the implementation of Basic Entrepreneurship Module (BEM), by using the Stufflebeam's CIPP Evaluation Model. The achievement level of entrepreneurial behaviors in terms of cognitive, non-cognitive, commercial skills and the early initiative is assessed as product evaluation. The strated sampling is used for a large scattered population in Malaysia. Data obtained from 105 students in the Business Accounting Certificate program from six community colleges. This study used questionnaires as research instrument. The questionnaires were then analyzed by using descriptive statistics method. Overall, the findings indicated that respondents agreed that the implementation of BEM has given impact to the product evaluation that consists the aspects of cognitive, non-cognitive, commercial skills and early initiative at the high levels.
Relationship between Co-Curricular Activities and Exam Performance: Mediating Role of Attendance
Author: Rathore, Kashif
Date: 2018-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Extracurricular Activities,Tests,Scores,Performance,Attendance,Foreign Countries,Grades (Scholastic),High School Students,Academic Achievement,Student Participation,Gender Differences

Benefits of co-curricular activities (CA) are numerous, including self-confidence, communication skills and good physical health. So far, little importance has been given to study the relationship of co-curricular activities and exam performance in Pakistan. Consequently students are living in an environment where they have little idea of how co-curricular activities affect their exam performance or grades. They only give importance to their studies in order to achieve higher grades in exam. This research study examined the role of co-curricular activities and exam performance of students at different levels of class attendance. Secondary data (co-curricular participation data, attendance of 10th class and grades in 10th class board exams) of 636 students through multistage purposive sampling was collected from thirty high schools of Lahore. Multiple regression analysis demonstrated that co-curricular activities have positive impact on student's exam performance. Sobel test of mediation showed that attendance partially mediated the association of involvement in cocurricular or non-classroom activities with exam performance. Participation in co-curricular activities improves class attendance of students which then play an important role in achieving high grades in exams. &quot;Independent sample t-test&quot; showed that students who were involved in co-curricular or nonclass room activities had better grades or exam performance from those students who were not part of these activities. When both male and female students participated in non-classroom activities then female students had higher average exam grades.
Teacher Perception of Parents&apos; Involvement in Their Children&apos;s Literacy and Their Reading Instructions in Kuwait EFL Primary School Classrooms
Author: Al-Fadley, Anaam
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Parent Participation,Teacher Attitudes,Elementary School Teachers,Elementary School Students,Literacy Education,Reading Instruction,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Foreign Countries,Language Teachers,Parent Background,Educational Attainment,Family Environment,Reading Skills

There is an increasing awareness of the benefits that accrue from parental involvement in a student's academic learning and of the impact that teachers have on programs regarding such parental involvement. This study seeks to investigate the views of the teachers working in Kuwait's public schools regarding the effectiveness of parental involvement in their children's learning of English as a foreign language (EFL) in primary school. Epstein's Overlapping Spheres of influence framework (2002), provides the conceptual framework to address the study questions. Data collection was driven by the case study methodology. The data were triangulated from: (1) face-to-face interviews with 33 English language teachers having at least 5 years' experience in teaching English in a primary school; (2) documental analysis of the teachers' backgrounds; and (3) observing and tracking the reading activities included in the Kuwaiti curriculum that is used in the EFL classroom. Data collected from the documents and from the face-to-face interviews were analyzed using (Maxwell, 1996) strategies for analyzing qualitative data as that it helped prevent confusion. Three main themes emerged from the data. First, teachers believed that parental involvement in their children's preparatory learning of a foreign language was valuable, although the level of parental involvement varied, depending on the locality and the educational level of the parents. Second, teachers offered various suggestions to promote the parents' home reading activities with their children. Third, the teachers were fully aware of the deficiency in the reading skills of the student's in Kuwait's public schools. However, they did have insights and suggestions to overcome such challenges.
Malaysia&apos;s Education Policies and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Author: Cheong, Kee-Cheok
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Educational Policy,Program Implementation,Educational Objectives,Nationalism,Access to Education,Affirmative Action,Group Unity,Social Stratification,Ethnic Diversity,Language of Instruction,Global Approach,Human Capital,International Education

Since gaining independence in 1957, the Federation of Malaya and now Malaysia has implemented education policies to broaden access, to unify an ethnically diverse population through a common curriculum and language, to enable the disadvantaged to catch up through affirmative action, and to build human capital as the country seeks to become an advanced country in the face of globalization. While some policies, such as enhancing access have achieved their objectives, others, such as unification and development of a national identity, have not. No less important are the unintended consequences of these policies. While some, like the expansion of private higher education and transnational higher education, have been a boon to Malaysian education, others, such as ethnic polarization in education, have been damaging. Some of these consequences, while unintended, have not been unexpected.
Effective Application of Local Teaching Aids for Cost Control in Learning Islamic Studies in Nasarawa State, Nigeria
Author: Sulaiman, Abdullahi Adamu
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Islam,Religious Education,Educational Quality,Educational Resources,Educational Finance,Costs,Instructional Materials,Teacher Role

Formal Islamic Education received tremendous boost with rapid increase in the number of Schools and Teachers in the recent past in Northern Nigeria generally and Nasarawa State specifically. Predictably, Pupils enrolment also incredibly expanded. This burst of Islamic educational activities brought in its marked changes, some positive, while others negative. Thus, the rapid increase in enrolment figures and the clamour for better and quality Islamic education by educationally conscious parents began to impose pressure on available resources. Loud grumblings started to manifest from members of the public about deterioration in the quality of Islamic education offered pupils in many Islamiyyah Schools. It is in view of the above that this paper attempts to explain the use of local teaching aids for cost control in learning Islamic Studies in Nasarawa State.
Global Issues of Higher Education with Special Reference to Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Segrera, Francisco López
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,Educational History,Foreign Policy,Neoliberalism,Reputation,Marketing,Quality Assurance,Private Colleges,Educational Quality,Community Colleges,Competition,Global Approach,Institutional Evaluation,Foreign Countries,Educational Trends,Trend Analysis

Higher education in Latin America has deep roots back to the Spanish colonisation in the Hispanic countries. In Brazil, a former Portuguese colony, this sector did not emerge until the nineteenth century and in the Anglophone Caribbean, not until the twentieth. Now in the twenty-first century throughout the region it is subject to the global reach of the neoliberal era with marketisation, quality assurance and international rankings playing very strong roles. The number of private higher education institutions has increased dramatically with problems attached for quality, which is extremely variable. New types of institution have emerged, for example the community colleges in the Anglophone Caribbean offering the first few years of undergraduate study even in small island nations. At the top of the scale there are still quality institutions, but they are locked into the global convention and competition of the international rankings and league tables. So the overall picture is of a higher education sector of unusual variety and variability.
Virtual Learning Environment: Exploring the Role of Teacher as a Central Factor
Author: Del Carmen, Ma.
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Electronic Learning,Online Courses,Teacher Role,Information Technology,Web Based Instruction,Student Centered Learning,Technology Uses in Education,Feedback (Response),Teacher Student Relationship,College Faculty,College Students,Blended Learning,Distance Education,Student Motivation

Online training permits or encourages a change in the teacher's role. It is in this sense that the objective of this paper was to analyze the implications of the application of an unconventional model to the teaching process, supported by Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and incorporating new methodological paradigms into the teaching-learning process for course presentation and management, encouraging students to change the role they have played to date, given their preliminary training process, which has been based, nearly always, on a traditional model. Using online courses to support the student-centered teaching-learning process involves knowing what features the online teacher must have and how teachers can help their students in their new role. On the other hand, it is important to employ the lessons learned by traditionalist teachers, because the latter can take advantage of their experience to teach in a better way by implementing the use of information and communications technologies.
Evaluating the Work of Singapore&apos;s Malay-Based Organisations in Raising the Educational Attainment of the Ethnic Community: A Continuing Analysis
Author: Juhari, Shamsuri
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Ethnic Groups,Minority Groups,Economic Development,Educational Attainment,Cultural Pluralism,Organizations (Groups),Low Achievement,Census Figures,Poverty,Disadvantaged,Resilience (Psychology),Family Characteristics,Program Development,Mentors,Learning Motivation,Activism,Social Integration,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Welfare Services,Achievement Gap,Student Adjustment,Elementary Secondary Education,Attendance,Educational Strategies

Statistics indicate that demographically, Singapore's minority Malay community, unlike the other ethnic groups in the small multicultural, multi-religious island-state, has yet to 'mature' and contribute fully to the country's economy. A subsequent argument is thus made on the need to ensure that learners from the community be developed in the best possible way so as to maximise their potential capacity and thus value-add to the nation's growth. A discussion on the various issues affecting Malay educational attainment is made as preface to the ensuing review of past programmes undertaken by local Malay organisations to improve the situation. The article will conclude by proposing further approaches to collectively raise the educational attainment of the ethnic group.
Predictors of the Drop in School Marks in Secondary School: Evidence for Effects of Students&apos; Socio-Demographic Background
Author: Klapproth, Florian
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Elementary School Students,Secondary School Students,Grades (Scholastic),Socioeconomic Influences,Gender Differences,Ethnicity,Competence,Predictor Variables,Vocational Education,Track System (Education),Foreign Countries,Student Adjustment,Educational Environment

Referring to the stage environment fit theory (Eccles and Midgley, 1989) we examined whether after the transition from Luxembourgish primary to secondary school students' school marks would drop. Actually, using latent growth curve modeling it was found that school marks deteriorated in their main school subjects German, French, and mathematics. The drop of school marks was larger in mathematics than in languages. Moreover, the drop of school marks was affected by various sociodemographic variables as the students' gender, their socio-economic background, and their ethnicity. This finding stimulates the assumption that certain subpopulations of students in Luxembourg receive different support in school, regardless of their academic competences. However, even students' competences were predictive of the development of their school marks. In the vocational track, high achievers were more likely to drop in school marks than low achievers. We presume that this result indicates a lack of academic challenges in the vocational track, which might eventually hinder better performing students in keeping their initial high achievement level.
A Radio Program: A Strategy to Develop Students&apos; Speaking and Citizenship Skills
Author: Jaime Osorio, María Fernanda
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Radio,Action Research,Teaching Methods,Program Descriptions,Speech Communication,Student Attitudes,Language Tests,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Foreign Countries,Programming (Broadcast),Oral Language,Language Proficiency,Learning Motivation,Teacher Student Relationship,Elementary School Students,Private Schools,Citizenship Education,Skill Development,Secondary School Students,Disadvantaged,Program Effectiveness

This article reports on an action-research study which examined the impact of a radio program as a strategy to develop the speaking skills of a mixed course at a private institution in Colombia. Hence, data were collected from 18 students through tests, surveys, field notes, and interviews. The results indicate that there is an important relationship between the recording, broadcast, and reflection on a radio program and the development of students' oral competence, their motivation for learning, the improvement of dialogue, and the coexistence of students.
The Decline in Science Students&apos; Enrolment in Nigerian Colleges of Education: Causes and Remedies
Author: Aina, Jacob Kola
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Enrollment,Science Instruction,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,College Science,College Students,Schools of Education,Governance,Teacher Education,Elementary Education,Secondary Education,Science Teachers

The article critically reviewed the decline in science students' enrolment in Nigerian Colleges of Education, causes and the solutions. The research evidence abounds that the students' enrolment for science education in the Nigeria colleges of education reduces every year. The causes for this drawback are the crux of this article. The Nigerian college of education is an institution saddled with the responsibility of training teachers for the primary and secondary schools. Nonetheless, the colleges had been criticised for lack of standards in its admission policy and also of qualified academic personnel. The reviewed literature indicates that there are many challenges confronting colleges of education in Nigeria. Some of these are teachers' inadequate pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), out-of-field teaching and low teachers self-efficacy. The paper however observed that this problem and others are the results of bad governance experiencing in the nation. Consequent upon these challenges, the students' enrolment in science education continues to decline every year unabated. The paper identified many causes of the students' enrolment among these are, the proliferation of private Colleges of Education, loss of interest by the students, lack of science equipment and many others. The paper suggested some recommendations to raise the standard of the Nigeria colleges of education and improve science education students' enrolment. Among these suggestions is the full government commitment to the funding of the Colleges of Education's academic programmes.