ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
An IT Start-Up Meets a Conglomerate -- The Integration Challenge
Author: Ghosh, Biswadip
Date: 2022-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Information Technology,Entrepreneurship,Organizational Change,Business,Computer Software,Institutional Mission,Automation,Change Strategies,Consultation Programs,Stakeholders,Conflict,Organizational Development

This case is a narrative of the acquisition of HIRA, a healthcare IT startup, by Conversant, a large global consulting powerhouse from a few years back. The clash of two different company cultures, their conflicting business strategies, different IT infrastructures, and very different customer sets created significant challenges in their integration after the acquisition. The case requires the reader to analyze the initial backlash from multiple stakeholders and then to formulate an integration project and systems architecture to successfully support the aligned business goals. The strategic vision of the merger provides an articulation of the ideal state of resource usage (human and technology) and a context for decision-making to select joint strategic initiatives to implement in order to achieve the desired integration successfully. When HIRA was acquired by Conversant, a global conglomerate with significant offshore personnel, a service area of HIRA needed to be automated to improve their business profitability. This was more easily conceptualized and realized when HIRA leaders applied metrics to their information technology service management processes. This complex integration project could only succeed through the active participation and leadership of both companies and by carefully addressing their conflicting strategies, policies, cultures, technology and human resources.
Bracketology: Predicting Winners from Music March Madness
Author: Mentzer, Kevin
Date: 2022-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Prediction,Competition,Music,Data Analysis,Computer Science Education,Social Media,Programming Languages,Learning Activities

Organizations are keenly interested in data gathering from websites where discussions of products and brands occur. This increasingly means that programmers need an understanding of how to work with website application programming interfaces (APIs) for data acquisition. In this hands-on lab activity, students will learn how to gather data from several prominent websites using APIs and then build predictive models using that data. Unlike popular challenges on competition sites such as Kaggle where challenges often supply the data, this project emphasizes the data acquisition step of the analytics lifecycle. Working with data from Spotify, YouTube, and Twitter, students will fill out a music based March Madness bracket to predict the winner of the annual Locura De Marzo, a popular middle and high school Spanish competition. By becoming familiar with the data available from each site, through the analysis of the JSON formatted data returned by the APIs, students will be able to explore which features of a song might lend themselves to higher voting by high school students in order to build better prediction models.
Recognizing the Position and Validity of Science in Understanding Religion: The Perspectives of Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas and Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy
Author: Shamsaei, Maryam
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Religion,Religious Factors,Scientific Research,Islam,Muslims,Correlation,Beliefs,Validity,Science and Society,Western Civilization,Scientific Attitudes,Philosophy,Authors

Recognizing the position and validity of science in understanding religion has led to very diverse algorithms in the Islamic world. It must be admitted that before the fourteenth century, there were no views on the confrontation of or separation of the realm of science and religion. Although after the nineteenth century, the advent of modernist discourse in the Islamic world's cultural, social, and political programs and methods set the grounds for a dialectic path on the connection between religion and science. In this regard, Muslim thinkers have given distinct responses to Western modernization, such as agreeing, rejecting, or transforming this claim according to Islamic attitudes. This article seeks to conduct a theoretical interpretation and investigation of the foundations and arguments of two Muslim thinkers, Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas and Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy with &quot;functionalism&quot; and &quot;symbolism&quot; approaches to science. These two thinkers have paid special attention to religion, science, and modern technology, while they have different fundamental views on the relationship between science and religion.
The 4-D Model on the Development of English Learning Materials for Islamic Education Learners
Author: Syam, Andi Tenrisanna
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Material Development,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,English (Second Language),Islam,Teaching Methods,Religious Factors,Textbook Preparation,Muslims,Cultural Traits,Religious Education,English for Special Purposes,Student Attitudes,Teacher Attitudes,Foreign Countries,Models,Learning Processes,Language Proficiency,Religious Colleges,College Students,College Faculty

English for Islamic Studies is taught as the general subject in the State Islamic Institute of Palopo. Therefore, the researchers aimed to develop valid English materials for learners of the Islamic education study program. The researchers applied the 4-D model by Thiagarajan et al. It consists of four stages namely, defining, designing, developing and disseminating. There were 68 learners who answered a questionnaire for needing analysis, 23 learners involved in the field tryout, and three lecturers assessed and reviewed the product. Questionnaires and field notes were used as the research instruments. The obtained data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The researchers created English materials in the form of a textbook in which it consists of ten units. The topics are 5 pillars of Islam, 6 pillars of faith, daily life of a Muslim, Islamic figure, ulul azmi, Amal Ma'ruf Nahi Munkar, halal and haram, Islamic education in Indonesia, Muslim generation, and religious moderation. The data gathered during the trial period revealed that the textbook was suitable to learning process, met the learners' needs, and it was well-received by the learners. They were engaged, motivated, and excited to complete the activities outlined in the textbook. Therefore, the textbook can be used by lecturers and learners in Indonesia as a learning medium.
The Strategy of Mudir in Reducing Religious Intergroup Bias in Lhoksukon, Aceh, Indonesia
Author: Surya, Dedy
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Intergroup Relations,Religion,Islam,Social Bias,Religious Schools,Conflict,Stereotypes,Consciousness Raising,Leadership Responsibility,Religious Cultural Groups

Intergroup relations, especially between religiously affiliated groups, have always been a discussion that attracts the attention of scholars. However, research that highlights the efforts and processes of harmonisation between groups is still very limited to study, especially with regard to educational settings. By providing a different perspective on the discussion of most scholars, this article photographs the success of mudir (leader of Islamic educational institutions) in maintaining the existence of modern pesantren amid in-group favouritism biased traditional Islamic society in Lhoksukon, Aceh, Indonesia. By using a case-study approach, this study traced and collected data through in-depth interviews with several informants such as mudir, pesantren teachers, Imum Chik (religious leaders), and residents around Dayah Terpadu Al-Muslimun Lhoksukon, Aceh, Indonesia. The results of this study show that the conformity initiated by mudir, especially in symbols owned by the surrounding community, is able to reduce conflict between groups. In addition, mudir also involves figures with religious authority to be catalysts for harmony. The study also argues that intergroup biases in religious segmentation can be minimised by re-evaluating to find similarities in social identities between groups.
30 Years of United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Germany
Author: Boutiuc-Kaiser, Alina
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Children,Childrens Rights,International Law,Treaties,Minority Groups,Immigrants,Refugees,Early Childhood Education,COVID-19,Pandemics,Secondary Education,Higher Education,Vocational Education

Thirty years have passed since Germany ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and is now on the verge of incorporating it into its Basic Law. This article takes a closer look at recent developments in strengthening children's rights in Germany, focusing on vulnerable children and youth, such as members of the Romani minority, and their educational development. While some improvements have been made in education, the COVID-19 pandemic brought new dimensions into play and exacerbated their vulnerability.
Analysis of the Seminar of Creative Music Exercises
Author: Fekete, Anikó
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Seminars,Creativity,Music Activities,Music Education,Foreign Countries,Assignments,Music Teachers,Teacher Attitudes,Secondary School Teachers

During the research entitled &quot;Teaching Creative Music,&quot; the focus is on getting to know creative music, which is becoming more and more widespread in Hungary, however using it, but still takes up little space in our music education, and its impact in high school and university environments is limited. The Kodaly Concept contains a number of well-established practices also Laszlo Sary's collection of &quot;Creative Music Exercises&quot; (Sary, 1999), mainly evoking Christian Wolff and John Cage, evoking the work of Stockhausen, also works well, but there is no teaching aid for the secondary school classes (9-12) based on different combinations of systematic vocal and rhythmic tasks -- although in the 2017 NAT [&quot;National Curriculum&quot;], creative music activity as a reproduction is included as a requirement among the development tasks. There is also less experience among those pursuing higher music studies in terms of methodological preparation at the national level. We believe that much more student-based assignments should be used in high school singing and music education so that their classroom motivation and musical creativity can develop further, and their subject-related knowledge deepen. We are interested in the &quot;rehabilitation&quot; of this field, as there are a lot of opportunities in the creative music exercises, during which repetitive activity and musical creativity are essential, and Odena and Welch have already studied the latter (Odena-Welch, 2007). Music pedagogical research supports the need to study the field, as high school students are undermotivated in their lessons and their musical creativity is not sufficiently exploited (Deliege-Wiggins, 2006). In this article, we would like to explore an analysis of some of the practices of a creative music course over a semester in terms of how student activity and creativity changed during the 9 hours of the practice (measured with 3 groups per week). For all of this, we also use elements of Teachout and McKoy's model, who examined music teacher attributes in terms of teacher success and failure.
Effect of ICT Use, Parental Support and Student Hindering on Science Achievement: Evidence from PISA 2018
Author: Atasoy, Ramazan
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Parent Influence,Barriers,Science Achievement,Computer Use,Leisure Time,Family Influence,Gender Differences,Cultural Differences,Socioeconomic Status,Secondary School Students

We aimed to examine the effect of ICT use, parental support and student hindering on science achievement in Turkey, USA and South Korea with using PISA 2018 data. PISA is one of the biggest international assessment study aiming comparison of students' academic capabilities in science, mathematics and reading among participant countries. For this purpose, we classified variables related to student-ICT use out of school for leisure, ICT use in classroom, perceived family support, students' hindering behaviors, gender and ESCS on student achievement- as (i) student level and (ii) school level. Approximately 710.000 students representing nearly 32 million students from 79 participating countries completed the PISA 2018 assessment in all over the world. Number of participants were 6890 in 186 schools for Turkey, 4838 in 164 schools for USA and 6650 in 188 schools for South Korea. We used a two-level hierarchical linear model (HLM) to determine the effect of parents' emotional support, student hindering behavior, ICT use in classroom and ICT use out of school for leisure on science achievement. Two students' background variables (gender and economic, social and cultural status) were controlled for student levels. Two level HLM results indicated that gender of the students has a significant effect on science achievement in Turkey but no significant effect in USA and South Korea. Additionally, family socio-economic status had a significant positive effect on students' science achievement in all three counties. We also found that in all three countries, family support had a positive influence on science achievement. Results indicated that student-hindering behavior had a negative effect on science achievement for all three countries. In USA, an increase in ICT usage had a very strong negative effect on science achievement. On the contrary, ICT usage out of school for leisure had a positive effect on science achievement in Turkey. There was no significant effect in South Korea.
Examination of the Relationship between Digital Literacy and Lifelong Learning Tendencies of Primary School Teachers
Author: Sulak, Süleyman Erkam
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Technological Literacy,Lifelong Learning,Elementary School Teachers,Individual Differences,Foreign Countries,Gender Differences

This research aims to examine the relationship between primary school teachers' digital literacy and lifelong learning tendencies. The research sample consists of 153 primary school teachers who were determined via convenience sampling among purposive sampling methods and voluntarily participated in the study. The participants were serving in the province of Ordu, Turkey. Data collection tools used in the study were Personal Information Form, Digital Literacy Scale, and Lifelong Learning Tendency Scale (LLTS). In the analysis of the collected data, Kolmogorov Smirnov and Shapiro Wilk tests, unrelated samples t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Tukey and Games Howell test, Kruskal Wallis, and Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Analysis were used. Research findings demonstrated that the digital literacy of primary school teachers is at the &quot;good&quot; level and lifelong learning tendencies at the &quot;strongly agree&quot; level. Primary school teachers' digital literacy does not differ by the variables of gender and educational status; yet differs significantly by age, seniority, and in-service training. Lifelong learning tendencies differ significantly in favor of women by gender; do not differ according to age, seniority, education level, and in-service training. In addition, a moderately positive correlation was found between the digital literacy and lifelong learning tendencies of primary school teachers.
Formative Learning Assessment with Online Quizzing: Comparing Target Performance Grade and Best Performance Grade Approaches
Author: Lubrick, Mark
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Formative Evaluation,Computer Assisted Testing,Multiple Choice Tests,Introductory Courses,Marketing,Performance,Grades (Scholastic),Scores,Integrated Learning Systems,College Students,Student Evaluation,Academic Achievement,Summative Evaluation

Background: Using online low stakes MCQ quizzing as a formative learning method is common in many introductory courses; allowing for rapid student feedback. Purposes: A comparative study of two different approaches for administering low stakes multiple choice quizzes as tools to enhance formative learning in a large-lecture introductory marketing course was undertaken. Methodology/Approach: The sample population was 490 students drawn from two separate cohorts (Fall, n=172; and Winter, n=318). Both cohorts were subjected to 8 sets of quizzes. The Fall cohort's quizzes were scored on the basis of a best performance grade (BPG) while the Winter cohort's were scored employing a target performance grade system (TPG). Learning related outcomes measured included: overall course percentage grades, scores on midterm and final examinations, performance on an alternative exercise, practice exam performance, class participation activity, and time spent on the learning management system (LMS). ANCOVA and MANCOVA analyses were undertaken to compare the two treatments using major, university experience, number of weekly course meetings, number of hours on the LMS, and class participation as covariates. Findings: The results indicated that the TPG cohort performed better than the BPG cohort on the final examination and overall course grades. The results were statistically significant. They also had higher first attempt scores on weekly quizzes, though not all results were significant. Discussion: The findings indicate that online quizzing scored using a &quot;Targeted Performance Grade&quot; approach is a more beneficial motivation for formative learning than scoring with a &quot;Best Performance Grade&quot; approach.
Children&apos;s Rights in European Education. Dilemmas, Challenges and Implementation Regarding Roma Children in Selected European Countries--An Introduction
Author: Óhidy, Andrea
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Childrens Rights,Access to Education,Civil Rights,Minority Groups,Decision Making,Parent Rights,Teacher Rights,Children,Foreign Countries,Treaties,International Law,Barriers,Personal Autonomy,Competence,Conflict Resolution,Correlation,Equal Education,Educational Opportunities,School Law,Moral Values,Educational Policy,Social Discrimination

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) recently had its 30th anniversary. Emerging from the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, it has since become the most ratified international human rights treaty ever. Most European countries ratified it and are thus obliged to ensure the implementation of children's rights in practice. Operationalizing the UNCRC raises practical, conceptual and ethical issues. For example, questions arise concerning children and young people's competence to make autonomous decisions in different social domains, especially in education. There are also debates about children's involvement in dispute resolution and the extent to which rights must always be associated with redress in order to make them meaningful. Clearly, the relationship between the rights of children and young people on the one hand and those of parents and teachers on the other are particularly salient. In addition, challenges may arise in relation to children from the Roma-minority in educational institutions. Article 28 (1) of the UNCRC stresses that &quot;States Parties recognize the right of the child to education, and with a view to achieving this right progressively and on the basis of equal opportunity&quot;. Nonetheless, Roma students frequently experience multiple forms of discrimination in educational institutions which amplify their existing disadvantage. Across Europe, there have been different rates of progress in terms of incorporating aspects of the UNCRC into domestic law and put them into practice in schools and other education institutions, and in many cases Roma children have yet to experience the benefits of enhanced children's rights.
From the Bureaucratic Model to the Bureaucratic Model: The Post-Socialist Development of the Hungarian Higher Education
Author: Polónyi, István
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Higher Education,Educational Development,Social Systems,Administrative Organization,College Administration,Models,Economic Factors,Centralization,Universities,Accreditation (Institutions)

The authors analyze the development of the Hungarian higher education system after the political transition of 1989/90. Higher education in Hungary as well as in all post-socialist countries has made a special path. It followed the development of higher education in other parts of Europe, though in a delayed and transformed, not infrequently distorted form. The authors first describe the development of higher education in other part of Europe. They start in the 'association model', evolve through an 'association-bureaucratic' model and arrive to a 'business model'. The evolution of Hungarian higher education is the reverse. It starts from a bureaucratic model, then touches the association-business model and returns to the bureaucratic model. The authors review the legal transformations behind higher educational development, dealing with some elements of this transformation (accreditation, post-socialist managerialism). The peculiarity of the Hungarian managerialism is that it was created by those who socialized in the course of the planned economy, often in government or party offices. They and their followers were the ones who introduced the post-socialist bureaucratic university model as well. They do not believe in market coordination as they grew up under or recall the fake market conditions of state socialism, thus they only rely on central control.
Gamification Design to Increase Motivation in Online Learning Environments: A Systematic Review
Author: Ertan, Kübra
Date: 2022-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Gamification,Student Motivation,Electronic Learning,Educational Environment,Literature Reviews

Lack of learner motivation is one of the problems that can be encountered in online learning settings. Gamification can be offered as a possible solution to the motivational problems in online learning environments. In this regard, this study aims to give a general idea of gamification studies focusing on motivation in online learning and to provide practical suggestions on designing gamification. In order to access relevant studies, Web of Science Core Collection database was reviewed. In total, 90 articles in SSCI index journals have been systematically analyzed and 10 of them meeting the inclusion criteria were reviewed in detail. While one of those studies revealed no significant effect of gamification on motivation, the rest of them showed that gamification is effective in fostering students' motivation. This review provides a general overview about the effect of gamification on motivation and suggestions for future implications such as including badges or points to show competence, using competitive and collaborative elements together, preparing different types of leaderboards, providing students with immediate and automated feedback, giving students challenges suitable for their skills, developing adaptive gamification systems for different learner needs, and eliminating technical problems.