ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
The Relationship between Teachers' Democratic Classroom Management Attitudes and Students' Critical Thinking Dispositions
Author: Turabik, Tugba
Date: 2016-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Classroom Techniques,Teacher Attitudes,Democratic Values,Critical Thinking,Personality Traits,High School Students,Correlation,Regression (Statistics),Likert Scales,Student Attitudes,Gender Differences,Foreign Countries,Factor Analysis,Statistical Analysis

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between democratic classroom management attitudes of teachers and critical thinking dispositions of students. The study group consisted of 530 students from public high schools located in Altindag district of the province of Ankara. The data was collected with the use of &quot;Democratic Classroom Management Scale&quot; developed by Demirtas (2004) and &quot;Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory&quot; developed by Akbiyik (2002) during the spring term of 2013-2014 academic year. The data were analyzed by conducting t test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation and simple linear regression analysis. In the study it was observed that students' views about teachers' democratic classroom management attitudes were at moderate level and their critical thinking dispositions were at high level. Furthermore, it was concluded that students' views regarding teachers' democratic classroom management attitudes and their critical thinking varied according to different variables. In the study, it was found that there was a low, positive and statistically significant relationship between the democratic classroom management attitudes of teachers and the critical thinking disposition of students. In addition, it was also founded that democratic classroom management attitudes of teachers was a significant predictor of the critical thinking disposition of students.
Parents' Views on the Use of Technology in the Early Childhood Period
Author: Ekici, Fatma Yasar
Date: 2016-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Parent Attitudes,Technology Uses in Education,Early Childhood Education,Parent Surveys,Preschool Education,Gender Differences,Socioeconomic Status,Institutional Characteristics,Age Differences,Family Size,Family Income,Likert Scales,Computer Attitudes,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis,Nonparametric Statistics

The main aim of this research is to examine parents' views on technology use in the early childhood period. Survey method was used in this research. The research population consists of the parents, whose children go to the pre-school education institutions in Istanbul province. The research sample consists of 477 parents chosen by the random sampling method, who have children who go to 9 different pre-school education institutions in the 2015-2016 spring semester, 3 of these schools being state schools and 6 private schools. The &quot;Personal Information Form&quot; developed by the researcher and the &quot;Parents' Views on the Use of Technology by Children in the Pre-School Period Scale&quot; developed by Kilinç were used in the data collection. Data collected for the study were analysed using SPSS 20 program. At the end of the research, it was found out that parents' views on the use of technology in the early childhood period differ significantly by the gender of the children, the gender of parents, the type of the school children attend and the level of income, while parents' views on the use of technology in the early childhood period do not differ significantly by the working status of the mothers, the age of the children and the number of children parents have.
Content Analysis of Master Theses and Dissertations Based on Action Research
Author: Durak, Gürhan
Date: 2016-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Content Analysis,Masters Theses,Action Research,Doctoral Dissertations,Trend Analysis,Bibliometrics,Metadata,Intellectual Disciplines,Data Collection,Participant Characteristics,Predictor Variables,Institutional Characteristics,Foreign Countries,Qualitative Research,Research Methodology

Action Research (AR) is becoming popular in the field of education, and according to literature, it could be stated that AR studies have positive influence on practice in education. The present study aims at conducting content analysis of action research (AR) master theses and doctoral dissertations submitted at the level of Turkish higher education. A total of 10 master theses and 18 doctoral dissertations were analyzed to determine their action research type, keywords, theoretical framework, academic discipline, test and analysis, data collection tools, participants, variables and research interest and leader institutions. Furthermore, the action research purposes of these theses and dissertations were analyzed with qualitative methods. In this respect, the present study is thought to be significant in that by reviewing the action research theses/dissertations, it helps clarify the current status of the action research field in Turkey and determine the research trends in this area. As a result, more than half (57%) of theses/dissertations were determined to fall into the &quot;Technical/scientific/collaborative&quot; type. Besides, in relation to theoretical frameworks, &quot;constructivism&quot; was found to be dominant in the theses/dissertations analyzed. Interview and participant observation notes were the most popular data collection tools. Lastly, according to their statements of purpose, the theses/dissertations could be gathered under 3 themes: &quot;development&quot;, &quot;actualization&quot;, and &quot;application&quot;.
The Effect of Process Oriented Writing Activities on the Achievement and Attitude of the Preservice Primary School Teachers: An Example of Mixed Method Study
Author: Özenç, Emine Gül
Date: 2016-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Writing Exercises,Process Approach (Writing),Preservice Teachers,Elementary School Curriculum,Student Teacher Attitudes,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Attitude Change,Academic Achievement,Learning Activities,Mixed Methods Research,Pretests Posttests,Opinions,Turkish,Attitude Measures,Structured Interviews,Correlation,Foreign Countries

The purpose of this study is to find out whether process oriented writing exercises/activities have any effect on the achievement and attitude of preservice teachers as well as to set forth the opinions of primary preservice teachers on process oriented writing approach. In the research one classroom was designated as experimental group (N = 35) while another was determined as control group (N = 35) for the study which took 11 weeks to conclude. The results show that process oriented writing exercises were highly influential in terms of improving achievement and attitude of preservice primary school teachers. Besides, preservice teachers told important opinions about these activities.
School Staff Perceptions of Factors Influencing Participation in a Whole-of-School Initiative in an Indigenous Community
Author: Kulinna, Pamela Hodges
Date: 2016-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Attitudes,Teacher Surveys,Health Education,Statistical Analysis,School Personnel,Interviews,Educational Change,Educational Policy,Faculty Development,Health Promotion,Intervention,Indigenous Populations,Elementary Secondary Education,Obesity,Diabetes,Diseases,School Districts

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers' perspectives on factors influencing their involvement in a Whole-of-School initiative. Methods: A survey was administered to participating teachers/school personnel (N = 81) and 30 of the teachers/school personnel also participated in mostly individual interviews. The survey was informed by Lohrmann's Ecological Model of Coordinated School Health Programs focusing on individual, interpersonal, community, organisation and policy factors. Category mean values were calculated for the survey data (along with t tests to explore differences by participant role in the schools), and interview data were analysed via analytic induction using several trustworthiness measures. Findings: Findings revealed that all survey categories ranked 3.5 or higher on a 5-point scale and there were significant differences by participant role. Interview data provided specific examples of each of the school health ecology factors. Conclusion: Results provide support for the model Whole-of-School programme efforts, insights into teacher and school personnel involvement and resistance to a school health change initiative. The project may serve as a model for other schools/districts interested in Whole-of-School health programming. The transformation that took place is especially important in this Indigenous community with significant health concerns.
Evaluation of English Textbooks in Terms of Textuality Standards
Author: Ocak, Gürbüz
Date: 2016-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Textbooks,Textbook Evaluation,Textbook Content,Scoring Rubrics,Statistical Analysis,Grade 9,Foreign Countries,Test Construction,English

Putting a number of sentences together in order to build a text, the sentences must comply with the criteria such as cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability, contextualization, informativeness and intertextuality. The text should bear these criteria in order to fulfil the intended communicative features. Therefore, in this study, it is aimed to develop &quot;The Text Evaluation Rubric&quot; and to evaluate the texts in the 9th grade English textbooks by means of this rubric. For this purpose, relevant literature has been searched and a rubric with seven dimensions and including textuality criteria has been prepared. To ensure the content validity of the rubric, experts have been consulted. The weighted Kappa Coefficient was examined for reliability. In terms of dimensions of the rubric, the reliability value of Cohesion dimension is 0.596; that of Coherence dimension is 0.917; that of Intentionality is 0.882; that of Acceptability is 0.851; that of Contextualization is 0.948; that of Informativeness is 0.875 and that of Intertextuality is 0.880. Moreover, the validity of rubric is provided by inspection of content, structure and extent. These results show that &quot;The Text Evaluation Rubric&quot; developed to evaluate the texts is a reliable and valid rubric. This rubric can be an alternative tool to evaluate the texts being in high school English textbooks.
Free Radical Pathology of the Body in the Long-Term Period under Combined Exposure to Gamma Radiation and Emotional Stress in the Experiment
Author: Ilderbayeva, Gulzhan O.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Radiation,Emotional Response,Stress Variables,Metabolism,Physiology,Animals,Anatomy

We have studied the intensity of free radical and antioxidant processes in organs (liver, spleen, thymus, lymph nodes of the small intestine, and adrenal glands) and cells (lymphocytes) in the long-term period after combined exposure to a sublethal dose of ?-radiation (6 Gy) and emotional stress. Combined exposure was followed by accumulation of LPO CD and MDA (conjugated dienes and malonic dialdehyde) products in homogenates of the studied organs. To achieve the goal set, experiments were conducted on 40 outbred white mature male rats randomized into groups. The results of the study indicate major changes in lipid peroxidation and antioxidant system under emotional and radiation stress. Ionizing radiation has a dominating role under combined emotional and radiation aftereffect. This resulted in inhibition of antioxidant protection enzymes and development of dual-oxidative stress in experimental animals. Impaired functional relationships of catalytic redox system of glutathione accompanied by inhibiting orientation of changes in activity of glutathione-dependent enzymes, and prolonged tension of the links of antioxidant system can eventually lead to a decrease in antioxidant status of the body, which indicates the need for the development of advanced methods for adaptive correction.
Kazakhstan and Russia: Experience and Prospects of Transfrontier Cooperation (1991-2015)
Author: Issabayev, Nurlan Zh.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,International Relations,International Cooperation,Political Issues,Barriers,Economic Factors,Legislation

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan had to re-build their bilateral relations, and today this process continues. Both countries face up to a number of objective difficulties, such as crisis and the need to develop new foreign and domestic policy doctrines. Nevertheless, several bilateral agreements show the governments' desire to establish closer co-operation and to look for new integration method. Cross-border cooperation presents one of these methods. This paper deals with specific features of interterritorial and cross-border cooperation between border regions of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation, basic problems of cross-border cooperation in these regions. The authors identified the most important areas of further cross-border and interregional cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia. Relevant legal documents show intense cooperation development between the countries; this is confirmed by the participation of Kazakhstan and Russia in a number of international organizations, in particular, SCO, CIS, and the Customs Union. Development of cross-border cooperation presents a new stage in bilateral relations. Currently, the main difficulties that hinder such cooperation include inadequate legal framework, which requires improvement in order to meet the requirements of bilateral relations, the need to extend state funding, as well as the need to attract foreign investment.
Regulation of the Debt Sustainability of the Russian Economy
Author: Seleznev, Alexander Z.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Debt (Financial),Sustainability,Statistical Analysis,Foreign Countries,State Regulation,Financial Audits,Corporations,Expenditures,Economic Climate,Sanctions

The relevance of the investigating problem is caused by the need to reduce the total aggregated amount of debt in Russian economy in conditions of crisis and the strengthening of external anti-Russian sanctions. In this context, the purpose of this article is to identify measures aimed to regulate debt sustainability of the Russian economy using indicators characterizing the effectiveness of state regulation of internal and external debt. The leading method of research of this problem is a statistical analysis of the external debt that allows to consider this issue, as the process of changing the debt sustainability indicators, as well as the audit of the total amount of debt in the economy. Results: It was concluded that the traditional financing expenditure of the federal budget commitment is reduced by structural changes of the state debt policy in conditions of decreasing dependence on exports of energy resources; showed a trend of relative decline of public external debt, while the growth of corporate; concluded that the possibility of optimizing the debt burden on the economy remain under-utilized; confirmed the feasibility of using the proposed indicators of debt sustainability.
The Effects of a Class-Wide Behavior Intervention for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Author: Weeden, Marc
Date: 2016-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Intervention,Emotional Disturbances,Behavior Disorders,General Education,Spelling,Teacher Student Relationship,Reinforcement,Teaching Methods,Special Education,Elementary School Students,Urban Schools,Self Contained Classrooms,Goal Orientation,Student Behavior,Reading Instruction,Attention,Classroom Techniques

Class-wide interventions have strong empirical support for improving behavior in general education classes but are rarely tested in special education classes. The present study examined the effects of the Class-wide Function-related Intervention Team (CW-FIT) program, a group contingency intervention, on the on-task behavior of six elementary school children with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) in a self-contained, urban classroom. Using an ABAB design with brief withdrawals of the independent variable, the class-wide component of CW-FIT was implemented during a 20-min reading and spelling period 1-3 days per week. Procedures included teaching attending skills, setting a goal and awarding points for appropriate behavior, and providing differential reinforcement. Implementing the class-wide component of CW-FIT resulted in increased on-task behavior for students with EBD, with concomitant increases in teacher praise and reductions in teacher reprimands.
Development of Training Skills in Students as the Precondition for Educational Competencies
Author: Medeshova, Aigul
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Educational Methods,Competence,Training,Skill Development,Student Development,Student Characteristics,Knowledge Level,Expertise

Assimilation of educational content aimed at gaining competence requires changes in the educational process. Education should improve personal qualities of students while teaching new material. In the developed countries, teaching and learning process aims at the development of practical skills. In the developing states, such as Kazakhstan, educational modernization continues and implies student-centered learning. This article deals with the development of educational competencies through active approach to the content of modern Kazakhstani education, research opinions on student training skills and interconnection between personal skills and competence of students. Assimilation of educational content by the students presents a complex process. Because of this process, students expand their knowledge, develop their abilities and skills and thus competence is formed through the development of relevant knowledge and skills.
Possibilities of Extracurricular Activities in the Student's Spiritual and Moral Formation
Author: Sadykova, Saule A.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Spiritual Development,Extracurricular Activities,Religious Factors,Foreign Countries,Moral Development,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Personality Development,Ethics,Human Relations

With the purpose of substantiating pedagogical terms of the student's spiritually-moral becoming it is necessary to expose possibilities of extracurricular activities during this process. Its intrinsic characteristics are described as a factor of the student's spiritually-moral becoming. The main idea of the article is to reveal possibilities of extracurricular activities in spiritual and moral student's formation. Extracurricular activities possess a certain set of opportunities in spiritual and moral formation of the student's identity as it (a) integrated in the contents and technologies, and provides mutual enrichment of spiritual ethical standards of the subject; (b) issues use of humanitarian technologies, initiation of a reflection of own activity of the subject on the basis of responsibility, conscience, honesty, mutual understanding, and mercy; (c) promotes inclusion of substantial aspects of spiritual and moral formation of the personality at the level of the subjects mastered by the student. The revealed opportunities allow to improve the process of spiritual and moral formation of the student taking into account requirements of modern science and practice. [Note: The issue number (4) shown on the PDF is incorrect. The correct citation is v11 n17.]
&quot;Blame&quot; Concept in Phraseology: Cognitive-Semantic Aspect (Based on the French Language)
Author: Zalavina, Tatyana Y.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Semantics,French,Phrase Structure,Psycholinguistics,Criticism,Correlation,Definitions

Phraseology is one of the basic and most important objects of study in cognitive linguistics. The article deals with verbal fixed phrases in their correlation with the cognitive structure of knowledge--a concept. The used definitional analysis method to identify the basic notions of the conceptual content of the concept of blame and basic representative lexical units of the analyzed concept. They also applied component analysis method to identify the semantic features of French phraseological units, containing the concept of blame, as well as to analyze the relatedness of phraseological units to the studied concept. The methods revealed that basic understanding of the &quot;blame&quot; concept demonstrates the direct relationship of this concept with the action. Therefore, it is presented mainly in verbal phrase ologisms. Based on the used methods, the researchers identified a set of basic representative lexical units of the analyzed concept: a reprimand, reproach, criticism, disapproval. Component analysis of verbal phraseological units (204 units) within the concept of blame made it possible to identify the lexical sets, reflecting the denotative situation and denotative cause of the blame process: &quot;Body Parts&quot;, &quot;Food&quot;, &quot;Flora and fauna&quot;, &quot;Household units&quot;.
Economic Liberalization and Its Impact on Human Development: A Comparative Analysis of Turkey and Azerbaijan
Author: Gulaliyev, Mayis G.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Human Capital,Comparative Analysis,Foreign Countries,Global Approach,Economic Development,Research Methodology,Intervention,Political Attitudes,Economic Research,Social Systems

The aim of the article is to study the nature of liberalization as a specific economic process, which is formed and developed under the influence of the changing conditions of the globalization and integration processes in the society, as well as to identify the characteristic differences in the processes of liberalization of Turkey and Azerbaijan economies (using the method of comparative analysis of these countries' development indices). The objectives of this study: the characterization of the liberalization process as a specific economic process; a comparative analysis of the Turkey and Azerbaijan economic development conditions; the improvement of the theoretical justification of influence the process of economic liberalization on the development of society. The article presents the comparative analysis of the Turkey and Azerbaijan economic development conditions by using new research method as index of leftness (rightness) of economy. It was revealed that the Azerbaijan economy compared with the economy of Turkey is using more &quot;right&quot; methods of economy regulation. The Turkish economy is more prone to fluctuations in the studied parameters, at the same time, a main way of Turkish economy development is the direction towards increased liberalization, while the simultaneous growth of indicators of the human development. In this context, the Azerbaijani economy is more liberalized and less regulated.