ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
&apos;Protein Synthesis Game&apos;: Utilizing Game-Based Approach for Improving Communicative Skills in A-Levels Biology Class
Author: Ramly, Mohd Adlan
Date: 2017-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Methods,Science Instruction,Biology,Scientific Concepts,Educational Games,Interpersonal Communication,Learner Engagement,Program Effectiveness,Foreign Countries,Skill Development,Listening Skills,Secondary School Science

This experimental paper seeks to elucidate the usage of the card game 'Protein Synthesis Game' as a student's learning tool in studying the Biology topic of protein synthesis during an A-Level course. A total of 24 experimental students in 3 induced groups and 24 controlled students in controlled groups were involved in the experiment which began with a pretest on the topic of Protein Synthesis, followed by the experimentation, and ended with a post-test administered after the incubation period. Results indicate that students have better facilitative communicative engagement in learning protein synthesis when playing the game as compared to studying the topic from a book. The data suggests that such communicative engagement may lead to a successful meaningful learning on the students' part.
The Relationship between Perceived Teachers&apos; Self-Disclosure and Out-of-Classroom Communication among Malaysian Undergraduates in a Private Institution of Higher Learning
Author: Singh, Aniljeet
Date: 2018-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Teacher Attitudes,Self Disclosure (Individuals),College Faculty,Teacher Student Relationship,Interpersonal Communication,Undergraduate Students,Private Colleges,Student Attitudes,Gender Differences,Age Differences

This quantitative study was conducted to determine whether a significant relationship exists between perceived teachers' self-disclosure and students' out of classroom communication with teachers in a Malaysian private institution of higher learning. A survey consisting of two questionnaires, namely the Perceived Teacher's Self-Disclosure scale designed by Cayanus and Martin (2008) as well as Knapp and Martin's (2002) Out-of-Classroom Communication Scale were collected from 144 final year undergraduates from a Malaysian private institution of higher learning. Using the SPSS, the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, independent-samples t-test and one-way between-groups ANOVA with post-hoc tests were used to analyze the data. The findings indicated a positive relationship between the dimensions of amount and relevance in perceived teachers' self-disclosure and students' out of classroom communication. There was no significant difference recorded between gender, with perceived teachers' self-disclosure and students' out of classroom communication. Besides, there was also no significant difference recorded between age, with perceived teachers' self-disclosure and students' out of classroom communication. The study concludes that Malaysian undergraduates' perceptions towards teachers' self-disclosure influences the out of classroom communication with teachers.
A Preliminary Study of Educational Leadership in the Rural Context in Malaysia
Author: Ching, Mary Yap Kain
Date: 2016-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Instructional Leadership,Rural Schools,Rural Education,Principals,Foreign Countries,Leadership Effectiveness,Elementary Schools,Administrator Effectiveness,Classroom Environment

The paper focused on the review of literature particularly in relation to rural education in the Malaysian context. This exposed the scarcity of research on effective leadership practices in rural context especially in Malaysia. This awareness is an impetus for future researchers to venture into this issue and subsequently contribute to the knowledge corpus of effective leadership practices in the rural context. The paper also put forth a review of a preliminary study conducted on an award winning Head Teacher as observed in a rural primary school in Sarawak who had elevated his school to a higher stratum by clinching an international award, the Commonwealth Education Good Practice Award. Unstructured observations and informal interviews had been conducted and the data collected had been analysed using open, axial and selective coding processes. The preliminary findings had been mapped onto five main settings namely human, interactional, physical, programme and emotional. The review of this preliminary study exemplified the value of investigating leadership practices particularly in their specific rural context as different contexts might entail different leadership practices.
Relationship between Life Satisfaction and Academic Achievement among Trainee Teachers
Author: Zakaria, Azyyati
Date: 2017-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Correlation,Life Satisfaction,Academic Achievement,Foreign Countries,Preservice Teachers,Preservice Teacher Education,High Achievement

Life satisfaction is a way a person evaluates his or her life and how he or she feels about where it is going in the future. This study was conducted to investigate the level of high achievers' life satisfaction, the domains of their life satisfaction and its relationship to their academic achievement. Based on the literature review, academic achievement is predicted to contribute significantly to high level of life satisfaction compared to other domains in life. Forty-five (45) high-achieving (those who obtained a CGPA of 3.50 to 3.99) students have participated in this study. This study is adapted from a research of Diener et al. (1985) on Extended Satisfaction with Life Scale (ESWLS). Four domain factors, namely social, self, physical and family were studied. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used in this study. The results showed that the high-achieving students showed a high level of life satisfaction in terms of family supports domains but moderate level of satisfaction on their appearance. Nevertheless, for various reasons, academic satisfaction is not a strong determinant of their life satisfaction.
Self-Regulating Functions of L1 Private Speech during Pre-University Collaborative L2 Reading
Author: Yaghobian, Farideh
Date: 2017-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Second Language Learning,Native Language,Inner Speech (Subvocal),Indo European Languages,English (Second Language),Language Role,Reading Processes,Cooperative Learning,Affective Behavior,Cognitive Processes,Foreign Countries,Language Usage,Sociocultural Patterns,Case Studies,Second Language Instruction,Peer Relationship,College Preparation

This article reports on a study of how L1 was used by Persian speaking Pre-university learners of English in their private speech while interacting as they were engaged in L2 reading. The study was conducted in a real classroom setting in an Iranian school with the objective of better understand the mediating and regulatory role of L1 private speech in L2 reading. The analysis reveals that learners produced L1 private speech while interacting collaboratively with peers in social context. It presents evidence that L1 was utilized in learners' self-talk as repetitions, affective utterances, pause fillers, self-directed questions and explanations, self-addressed negations, and self-addressed directives. This served learners cognitive and affective functions and assisted them to focus on the challenging part of the task and to maintain self-regulation. This study provided support for the theoretical orientation that views language not only as a means of communication but as a cognitive tool used to control one's mental activity. It is hoped to contribute to the body of knowledge on SLA and sociocultural perspective of language learning by illustrating evidence for a shift from being other-mediated or object mediated to guiding oneself and being self-mediated in the process of L2 classroom learning.
Beyond the Walls with Object-Based Learning
Author: Barnett, Cassandra
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Institutional Cooperation,Museums,School Libraries,Librarians,Secondary School Teachers,Teamwork,Librarian Teacher Cooperation,Teacher Collaboration,Interdisciplinary Approach,History Instruction,Art,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education

Everyone has an object that holds a special meaning. It is human nature to collect these objects and value the stories they tell. Entire buildings have been built just to hold and display such items. Museums not only house these objects but help us connect to the past and our culture as well as the culture of others. In the state of Arkansas, few people have access to museums, especially students. Because of distance, field trips are not always possible. This article discusses ways school librarians and other educators in Arkansas reached out to collaborate with institutions within their own state that house collections of historic art, artifacts, and documents to provide a museum experience to students. Drawing upon her experience and some initial conversations with partnering institutions, the author identifies two primary goals necessary to guide the building of a program. They are: (1) To create universal access to important information, resources, and cultural institutions; and (2) Foster and promote opportunities for a deeper understanding of social studies, history, art, civic engagement, and diplomacy. Now in the middle of their fourth year of the program, Arkansas has continued to tweak their model for object-based learning. Arkansas provides a five-day training session in the summer for forty classroom teachers and school librarians in grades seven through twelve. These educators, chosen through an application process, are divided into regional teams. Each team of five to seven members includes at least one school librarian, a fine arts teacher, a social studies teacher, and an English language arts teacher. Some of these teachers may work with special education students, English language learners, or gifted and talented learners. These teachers work throughout the school year creating and teaching units of study based on their curriculum, incorporating objects into the lessons, and leading students to a civic engagement project. During the training, the partner institutions use their expertise to teach educators how to use object based learning to bring history and art to life, and make learning more exciting and meaningful for students through objects, art, and primary resources. Each partner institution provides access to five digital versions of objects in their collections plus related resource material, totaling twenty objects from which to choose.
Higher Education Administration, and Leadership: Current Assumptions, Responsibilities, and Considerations
Author: Webber, Charles F.
Date: 2016-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,Educational Administration,College Administration,Administrator Responsibility,Leadership Responsibility,Educational Planning,Strategic Planning,Entrepreneurship,Decision Making,Evidence Based Practice,Educational Finance,Fund Raising,Curriculum Development,Marketing

This article profiles the evolving role of educational administrators and leaders in higher education. Four guiding assumptions for leaders are presented related to social impact, community engagement, labor market success, and institutional stability. Then, seven key administration and leadership responsibilities are described. They include planning, academic entrepreneurship, data-driven decision making, revenue generation, creating professional and academic pathways for learners, curriculum development, and business development and marketing. This is followed by a set of pragmatic considerations that higher education administrators and leaders may consider in their professional practices. The considerations provide a framework for interrogating leadership assumptions and responsibilities, a framework that can be applied to analyze additional responsibilities as they emerge in relation to the assumptions that accompany them. The considerations pose intended and unintended possibilities for leaders to use to inform decision making, maintain principled leadership practices, and to challenge unexamined beliefs and values
Communication Skills among Different Classroom Management Styles Teachers
Author: Hoon, Teoh Sian
Date: 2017-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Communication Skills,Classroom Techniques,Classroom Communication,Elementary School Teachers,Foreign Countries,Listening Skills,Gender Differences,Teaching Styles

The significance put in refining communication skills among teachers plays a central role in connecting students' various knowledge. With that, classroom management styles with good communication skills become a major focus in achieving fundamental educational aims. Unfortunately, communication skills and management styles for classroom learning are always seen as isolated components. Hence, this study aims to investigate the communication skills used among teachers with different classroom management styles in Malaysia primary schools. This study attempts to achieve four objectives; namely, to examine the teachers' level of communication skills in listening, ability to get message across, emotional management in the communication process, insight to the communication process and assertive communication; to investigate level of communication skills between male teacher and female teacher; to describe the percentages of the teachers with different classroom management styles; and to investigate the level of communication skills between different classroom management styles. This study employed the survey causal comparative research design that focuses on the quantitative approach. The respondents of this study were 70 primary school teachers who were randomly selected in the area of Perak, Malaysia. A questionnaire was administered in this survey with results showing that the teachers have their personal set of communication skills with different classroom management styles. Nevertheless, the analysis showed that there is no strong evidence that there is a significant difference in the communication skills based on gender. Results also revealed that there is a significant difference in communication skills between the two different categories of classroom management styles.
Jumping into the World of Virtual and Augmented Reality
Author: Johnson, Janine
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Computer Simulation,Simulated Environment,Educational Technology,Laboratories,School Libraries,Middle School Students,Technology Uses in Education

Whether you have a well-equipped Virtual Reality (VR) lab or are still questioning how to get started, you can be sure that virtual, augmented, and mixed-reality (VR, AR, and MR) experiences are not fads soon to fade away. In that case, then what better place than the school library to &quot;mess about&quot; with VR/AR/MR and expand learners' horizons while seamlessly incorporating the American Association of School Libraries (AASL) Shared Foundations of Collaborate, Explore, and Engage? This article describes the experiences with VR and AR at Scotts Ridge Middle School in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The author reports the potential provided by virtual reality experiences for expanded learning, and heightened engagement beyond what printed materials can provide. She writes that learners at Scotts Ridge, have journeyed through the canals of Venice; visited religious sites around the world; traveled to Senegal, France, and Vietnam; traveled through the human body; hovered over erupting volcanoes, and more. They've explored well beyond the walls of the school library. Through their experiences with VR, learners are making empathetic connections to the larger world and some students have also begun to create 360-degree content of their own.
Developing the Competence of Representing the Topography by Discrete Colour Bands Method
Author: Osaci-Costache, Gabriela
Date: 2018-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Geography Instruction,College Students,Cartography,Topography,Map Skills,Maps,Educational Technology,Computer Uses in Education,Computer Software,Geographic Information Systems,Color

The present study describes a teaching experiment aimed at the integrated development of competences at various study subjects. According to the curriculum, the students in Cartography at the Faculty of Geography (University of Bucharest) should learn how to make a hypsometric map by using the computer as early as the first semester of the 1st year of study. However, when using the software, they are not able to understand the interpolation algorithm lying &quot;behind&quot; the command. Besides, the teaching experience of the authors shows that most students use the various commands of the GIS software or computer-assisted cartography programs only because they exist, without considering the use of a particular command or algorithm. Although the hypsometric map is widely used, many cartographic representations of this kind contain errors that are derived from the superficial understanding of the basic concepts. Consequently, we made an experiment aimed at correlating a number of notions, concepts and procedures. Using the same basemap (a spot elevation map), the students were able to develop the competence of interpolating and manually drawing contour maps (during the Land Surveying class). Subsequently, once they understood these principles, they developed the competence of making a digital hypsometric map by using the tinting method, starting from spot elevations and not from contour lines (at Methods and Techniques of Cartographic Representation). The advantage was that the students were able to understand the fundamentals of a particular program algorithm, to apply the various procedures based on understanding them and to correlate their knowledge. All these are premises for creativity, for a correct use of procedures (irrespective of the involved topography) and for raising the quality of the geographic higher education.
Physical Activity Level among Women: Promoting Sports and Exercises across Demographic Determinants
Author: Malek, Marwa Abd
Date: 2017-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Physical Activity Level,Females,Athletics,Exercise,Demography,Marital Status,Occupations,Educational Attainment,Body Composition,Profiles,Professional Personnel,White Collar Occupations,Blue Collar Occupations,Self Employment,Unemployment,Homemakers,Students,Retirement,Dropouts,Obesity

The top ten killer diseases in Malaysia are largely associated with inactivity. In relation to that, Malaysia has come out with policies on prevention, control and management of non-communicable diseases (NCD) into the social, economic and environmental systems through various stakeholders. Thus, this study examined the level of physical activity (PA) among women with regards to demographic profiles, namely marital status, occupation, academic qualification and BMI. A sample of 390 women in Selangor was randomly selected. This research employed a quantitative method using a set of questionnaire adapted from International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) in order to obtain information from the respondents. Then, descriptive analysis was employed to obtain the frequency and percentage of PA level. ANOVA was also used to find out the difference in PA with regards to demographic profiles. This study revealed that women in Selangor were generally at low level of PA. In terms of marital status, single women were moderately participated in PA as compared to married and divorced women who participated in low PA. In terms of occupation, home maker, self-employed, white-collar and students participated moderately in PA. On the other hand, professionals and unemployed women participated in low PA. It was also found that school leavers and women with certificate participated at moderate level of PA, yet, women with degree and above as well as diploma were doing low PA. Women with extra body weight, normal body weight and less body weight were found to participate at high, moderate and low level of PA respectively. Besides, findings proved that academic qualification and BMI were highly associated with PA participation. However, marital status and occupation did not associate with PA participation.
Approaching Landscapes in Fine Arts, with Young Schoolchildren, through Flipped Classroom Strategy. Applications within the Context of eTwinning Projects
Author: Crisan, Gabriela Ileana
Date: 2018-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Homework,Art Expression,Painting (Visual Arts),Art Education,Plastics,Elementary School Students,Geography Instruction,Grade 2,Teaching Methods,Educational Technology

In the present study, we conducted analyses of artwork that represents elements from the natural and man-made environment and established their compliance with the real world. We also present a comparative approach of young schoolchildren's artwork, having the landscape and other environment elements as a main theme. The research took place throughout the 2015-2016 school year, on a representative sample of 20 pupils from Romania, participants in the eTwinning programme. We used the flipped classroom learning strategy in order to introduce the pupils to the Impressionist plastic art form of expression. The teaching experiment included five stages: initial testing, studying a tutorial at home, practicing painting techniques in the classroom, getting feedback from the teachers, and final assessment. We analysed the pupils' artwork from the point of view of framing in the plastic theme. We have taken into account the sub-criteria: to observe the norms of the artistic movement, the chosen technique, the type of chosen tool/material, and the manner of brush strokes.
Study on the Features of Geography/Sciences Interactive Multimedia Learning Activities (IMLA) in a Digital Textbook
Author: Ilovan, Oana-Ramona
Date: 2018-02-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Textbooks,Electronic Publishing,Geography Instruction,Elementary School Students,Grade 2,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Animation,Teaching Methods,Science Instruction,Photography,Visual Aids,Multimedia Instruction

The aim of our research was analysing the animated interactive multimedia learning activities (IMLA) with a Geography/Sciences contents, within the Mathematics and Environmental Exploration digital textbooks for the 2nd grade, edited by the CD PRESS Publishing House in 2014. We conceived an assessment grid focusing a series of features of the respective Geography/Sciences activities: animation type, clarity and relevance of the included images, unfolding speed of the images, manner of realising the unfolding (e.g. zooming), existence of marking (e.g. arrows) and the accordance between image and orally transmitted information (image-oral text simultaneity), information correctness, information load amount, information accessibility, didactic method used, number of tasks, stimulated cognitive processes, and activity duration.