ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
SoTL Evidence on Promotion and Tenure Vitas at a Research University
Author: Marcketti, Sara B.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Research Universities,Evidence,Tenure,Scholarship,Program Effectiveness,Productivity,Faculty Publishing,Faculty Promotion,Teacher Researchers,Educational Research,Institutional Characteristics,Resumes (Personal),School Statistics,Statistical Analysis

The development and adoption of promotion and tenure (P&amp;T) policies supporting scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) activities began in earnest at our large, Midwestern, land-grant university, over fifteen years ago. The purpose of this research was to present the results of a five year project collecting and analyzing the evidence of SoTL on P&amp;T vitas. Every occurrence of SoTL in peer-reviewed publications, presentations, and funded external and internal grants was counted. Of the 343 successful cases, there were 201 to associate professor and 142 to professor. Of these cases, 48% (n = 163) had at least one SoTL artifact included on their vitas. These results suggest SoTL is a meaningful form of scholarship performed by faculty, however, there is additional cultural change necessary for greater integration of SoTL in faculty work.
Teachers' Adoptation Level of Student Centered Education Approach
Author: Arseven, Zeynep
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Student Centered Learning,Elementary Secondary Education,Teacher Attitudes,Adoption (Ideas),Educational Change,Mixed Methods Research,Measures (Individuals),Semi Structured Interviews,Nonparametric Statistics,Educational Planning,Educational Assessment

The aim of this study is to identify how far the student centered education approach is applied in the primary, middle and high schools in Düzce. Explanatory design which is one type of mixed research methods and &quot;sequential mixed methods sampling&quot; were used in the study. 685 teachers constitute the research sample of the quantitative phase of the study and 13 teachers constitute the research sample of the qualitative phase of the study. The quantitative data were collected using &quot;Student Centered Education Scale&quot; and the qualitative data of the study were collected by semi-structured interview form. Mann Whitney U test was applied to determine if the level of adaptation of student centered education approach vary in terms of gender. Kruskal Wallis test was performed so as to see whether teachers' adaptation level of student centered education approach vary in terms of seniority and the type of school (primary, middle and high school) they work at. Qualitative data were analyzed by means of content analysis method. The quantitative findings of the study present that teachers' adaptation level of student centered education is &quot;high&quot; whereas the qualitative findings reveal that the teachers still adopt a teacher centered education in terms of &quot;Planning,&quot; &quot;Application&quot; and &quot;Assessment.&quot; The findings of the study reveal that teachers' adaptation level of student centered education is not significant in terms of gender and seniority; teachers' adaptation level of student centered education decreases from the primary school to high school, and the perception of teachers in terms of practicability of student centered education is not positive. Some suggestions were developed based on the result of the study.
Students' Perception of Causes and Effect of Teachers' Psychological Abuse in Senior Secondary Schools in Borno State, Nigeria
Author: Pur, Hamsatu Joseph
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Attitudes,Antisocial Behavior,Teacher Student Relationship,Gender Differences,Secondary School Teachers,Secondary School Students,Low Achievement,Language Usage,Workshops,Seminars,Conferences (Gatherings),Incidence,School Counselors,Counselor Role,Verbal Communication,Listening Skills,Teacher Behavior,Foreign Countries,Truancy,Student Surveys,Statistical Analysis,Child Abuse

This study was carried out on the students' perception of the causes and effect of teachers' psychological abuse in senior secondary schools in Borno State, Nigeria. Different forms of psychological abuse, perceptions, causes and effect of psychological abuse were discussed. The main objective of the study is to determine the perception of students on the cause and effect of psychological abuse. Two hypotheses were raised and analysed, and the first was concluded that, there was no significant difference between male and female students perception on the causes of psychological abuse, the second hypothesis also conclude that there was no significant difference between male and female students' perception on the effect of psychological abuse. It was revealed that students of senior secondary school in Borno State perceived causes of psychological abuse to be late coming, poor performance and the use of vulgar language by the teachers. It was therefore recommended that awareness programme such as workshops, seminars and conferences should be conducted by the stakeholders, for teachers, parents and students to enlighten them on dimensions of psychological abuses within the school context and home, and the effect of psychological abuse on students. School administrators should also set up body to check the prevalence of psychological abuse and possible control measures. The school counsellor should always educate the teachers and the students on the indicators of psychological abuse in schools. Teachers should develop effective verbal communication and good listening skills in the classrooms.
How Do Biology Teacher Candidates Know Particulate Movements &amp; Random Nature of Matter and Their Effects to Diffusion
Author: Oztas, Fulya
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Biology,Science Teachers,Science Instruction,Misconceptions,Scientific Concepts,Role,Energy,High School Students,Discussion,Correlation,Self Concept,Science Tests,Diagnostic Tests,Questionnaires,Student Attitudes,Scores,Foreign Countries,Concept Formation

The previous researches results seem to suggest that some aspects of learning of diffusion and osmosis concepts such as membranes, kinetic energy of matter, and elements of the particulate and random nature of matter could lead to misconceptions. The concept of diffusion is very common in science instruction, and understanding the concept is an important precursor to instruction in life science and physical science. The learning of concentration and tonicity processes of diffusion and osmosis, life forces influence on diffusion and osmosis, and random nature of matter were difficult learning for students. It appears that misconceptions may play a larger role students learn diffusion and osmosis concepts. What could be take place the active role of the student learning without misconceptions of diffusion and osmosis? It is possible suggest, students should actively engaged in constructing knowledge. During each phase of the learning, students should actively manipulating materials, recording data, or analyzing results. Students should encourage discussing findings in groups and with the class. The teacher acts as a facilitator via making connections between concepts. Students may debate and argue relationships between concepts and their contents this may provides paying their attention experiences with the concepts. Because of its importance of diffusion and osmosis, it may be beneficial to investigate misconceptions of high school students. The purpose of this study was to investigate students' understanding about scientifically acceptable content knowledge by exploring the relationship between knowledge of diffusion and osmosis and a student's confidence in their content knowledge following instruction.
Have University Sport Students Higher Scores Depression, Anxiety and Psychological Stress?
Author: Demirel, Havva
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,College Athletics,Athletes,Stress Variables,Anxiety,Correlation,College Students,Fear,Comparative Analysis,Physical Fitness,Body Weight,Exercise,Mental Health,Student Attitudes,Depression (Psychology),Careers,Symptoms (Individual Disorders),Statistical Analysis,Scores

Multiple studies have now shown that people who maintain appropriate body fitness, using judicious regimens of exercise and weight control, have the additional benefit of prolonged life. In fact, sport or exercise may be also expected to be helpful for psychological health. In the present study, depression, anxiety and psychological stress points in athlete university students in comparison with non-athlete university students were investigated. In the present study, athlete university students had higher depression, anxiety and psychological stress points compared to non-athlete university students. The possible causes the higher depression, anxiety and psychological stress scores in Turkish athlete university students compare to non-athlete university students may be due to the factors such as (1) the fear of occupational forthcoming; (2) ambiguousness in occupational career; and (3) physical or somatic stress associated with training programs of vigorous exercise.
International University Freshmen's Perceptions on Culturally Diverse Community and Internal Stakeholders' Tactics
Author: Atabekova, Anastasia A.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Freshmen,Student Attitudes,Cultural Pluralism,Foreign Students,Stakeholders,Foreign Countries,Campuses,Student Surveys,Multicultural Education,Learner Engagement,Online Surveys

The paper explores first-year students' feelings about international university campus. Increasing globalisation of education raises a number of issues related not only to internationally accepted standards of qualifications and degrees, curriculum development, faculty competences, but also to domestic and international students' tolerance, community building, etc. The research focuses on the first-year domestic and international students' attitudes to their own and other cultures, students' readiness to share their personal psychological environment with ??? representatives of other cultures. The study started with literature review and further used surveys for experimental analysis of students' perceptions on culturally diverse community. Most surveys engage current undergraduate and final year students, with no particular attention to those who have just enrolled. The present paper argues that the novice students' surveys could contribute to mapping potentially sensitive zones regarding novice students' engagement into the university multifaceted landscape. Respondents were asked about the reasons to choose the international university for studies, attitude to other cultures, readiness to accommodation with foreigners. The above survey helped to draft preliminary recommendations regarding ways and instruments for the university internal stakeholders to efficiently interact with domestic and international students to foster their social maturity within international university landscape and its multicultural environment.
Topic Mastery and Flow of Thought of Indonesian Students Learning Psycholingustics
Author: Indah, Rohmani Nur
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cognitive Processes,Mastery Learning,Psycholinguistics,Citations (References),Foreign Countries,Student Projects,Research Papers (Students),Student Evaluation,Teaching Methods,Instructional Improvement,Scoring Rubrics,Writing Skills,Critical Thinking,Grammar,Vocabulary,Language Usage,Writing Evaluation,Language Research,College Students

This study focuses on evaluating students' topic mastery and flow of thought in their Psycholinguistics project paper. Assessing these two aspects means a lot since it will be helpful as a planning tool to approach future better instruction. It was conducted with Indonesian students taking Psycholinguistics course at Humanities Faculty of UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang. The instrument used is scoring rubric of two sets to evaluate the two aspects; topic mastery and flow of thought. The finding shows that the students do not make the most of their writing skill to perform their topic mastery as they were lacking in using proper citation and rephrasing strategies. They need more practices to increase the quality of the project paper to perform a better critical thinking and originality. The flow of thought presented by the students in their project paper is influenced by the use of ineffective transition and lacking in applying writing format. However, presenting sufficient information details is not a problem to most of the students as the papers show the completeness of the information which can facilitate reader's understanding. On language use, most students have fair competence in using correct grammar and appropriate vocabulary.
Lifelong Professional Education in the Russian Federation: Personal Aspect
Author: Ibatova, Aygul Z.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Professional Education,Foreign Countries,Lifelong Learning,Professional Training,Developmental Continuity,Vocational Education,Individual Development,Professional Development,Higher Education

The article analyzes the problem of realization of the postulate of &quot;lifelong education&quot; in the field of professional education in Russia, and reveals its importance for the development of personality of a future specialist. A brief overview and the results of the implementation of this principle in the process of professional training of students of Shadrinsk State Pedagogical University, the Branch of the Industrial University of Tyumen, Bashkir State Pedagogical University are presented.
Sociology of the Future: Humanization of Sociological Thought
Author: Volkov, Yury Grigoryevich
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Sociology,Humanization,Foreign Countries,Social Change,Functional Behavioral Assessment

The study is founded on the author's comprehension of the methodological turn associated with the understanding of the future as social reality that is predetermined by social subjectness within the framework of creating the future in social practices of the creative class in Russian society. The authors of the study come to the conclusion that in order to investigate the future as social reality the frame of the structural analysis would be too narrow and would not reflect the focus on future in the life strategies of Russian citizens. The study develops theoretical and methodological construct which includes structure-activity and subject-activity aspects of the investigation of the future.
Formation of the Creativity of Students in the Context of the Education Informatization
Author: Ramankulov, Sherzod
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Creativity,Foreign Countries,Science Teachers,Physics,Science Education,Science Instruction,Creative Thinking,Information Technology,Computer Uses in Education,Computer Simulation,Science Experiments,Science Laboratories

Information and communication technologies are an effective means of formation of the creative potential of future physics teachers, as with their science-based application in the educational process at the university they allow fully activating learning activities of students, and provide conditions for their creative self-realization in the process of professional development. The article examines the scientific and methodological basis for the use of computer models, experiments and demonstrations, as well as virtual laboratory complexes in the formation of creative thinking of the future physics teachers. It is well known that the use of computer models of various physical processes and phenomena contributes to the effectiveness of students learning the physics course, and allows them to comprehend the mechanisms of physical phenomena and processes. In this regard nowadays the International Kazakh-Turkish University named after Yasawi K. A. pays great attention to the development of the technical base of information and telecommunication technologies in training of future physics teachers, and electronic resources for using them in teaching physics are being developed. Using computer models, experiments and demonstrations, one can compensate for the lack of equipment in the physical laboratory, and thus teach students to independently produce physical knowledge in the course of physical experiments involving virtual models, i.e. there is a real possibility of the formation of students' creative thinking and enhancing cognitive activity in physics, particularly in optics.
Evaluating Interactive Transect Area Assessments Hands-On Instruction for Natural Resource Undergraduate Students
Author: Unger, Daniel
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Natural Resources,Undergraduate Students,Geographic Information Systems,Teaching Methods,Statistical Analysis,Course Descriptions,Error Patterns,Accuracy,Measurement,Space Sciences,Active Learning,Academic Degrees

Undergraduate students pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Spatial Science degree at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU) receive instruction in the spatial sciences with a focus on hands-on applications. All undergraduate students take the course Introduction to Spatial Science which includes a comprehensive overview of spatial science incorporating a comparison of standard inexpensive area assessment techniques with high-end computer based area assessment methodologies. Students within this course were instructed how to assess the area of a surface feature on an aerial image with a ruler applying the transect method. Student's average Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) between a student's transect derived area and surveyed area was 0.45, 0.13, 0.07, and 0.02 acres for 5, 10, 15, and 20 transect lines, respectfully. An ANOVA analysis of area assessment and area error assessment indicated that mean area and mean absolute area error were statistically different between transect line groups. In addition, the accuracy of area measured increased significantly as the number of transect lines increased which: (1) indicates students receiving hands-on instruction in estimating area using the transect method can record accurate area measurements after only a limited 2 hour introduction; (2) reveals the accuracy of the transect method is not user dependent; (3) shows area accuracy increases as the number of transects increases; and, (4) validates the interactive hands-on instruction methodology employed at SFASU.
Images of Ideology: Social and Cognitive Sense
Author: Volkov, Yury Grigoryevich
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Ideology,Foreign Countries,Sociology,Creativity,Cognitive Processes,Social Cognition

It would be difficult to preserve the achievements of the civilization and to discuss the future of humanity beyond the structure of ideological knowledge. The objective vision of reality implies the involvement of ideological dimension into the structure of human thoughts and actions as a precondition for national, state, and cultural identity and for the movement toward the new humanistic social paradigm that would include the traditions of reasonableness, progress, and the capability to &quot;differentiate&quot; between reasonableness and instrumental rationality which, when mixed, make social reflection inadequate to the purposes of social creativity. To what extent are the images of ideology &quot;filled&quot; with social and cognitive tools? What do the images of ideology reflect: reality, knowledge or myth? The authors of this study aim to give answers to these and to other questions.
Maintaining Health and Safety at Workplace: Employee and Employer's Role in Ensuring a Safe Working Environment
Author: Jonathan, Grace Katunge
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Work Environment,Occupational Safety and Health,School Safety,Secondary School Teachers,Educational Equipment,Health,School Districts,Teacher Attitudes,Teacher Surveys,Administrator Attitudes,Educational Policy,Role,Assistant Principals,Questionnaires,Computer Software,Strategic Planning,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis,Teacher Characteristics,Administrator Characteristics

The concern for health and safety is legitimate in every context of human enterprise. In schools, for teaching staff's safety to be guaranteed, the equipment available should be properly maintained and installation for nonexistent ones done according to the health and safety policies. With a focus on Mbooni West district, this paper reports the findings of a survey which focused on the health and safety of teachers in secondary schools in the region. Many secondary school administrators do not consider teaching staff's involvement in recommending policies and procedures in curbing safety hazards. This makes it difficult for the teaching staff to take responsibility for their own safety. The study thus sought to establish teachers' perspectives on their role in ensuring health and safety workplaces in secondary schools. The study targeted all teachers and deputy principals working under Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and those working under the secondary schools' Board of Management (BOM). Although the study aimed survey principles, they were not available during the data collection period. The study was conducted using the descriptive research design. A questionnaire guide was used for data collection which was then analyzed by the use of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20. Frequency tables and charts were used for data presentation. From the findings, it emerged that majority of the teaching staff were not involved in the training programs that would equip them with safety skills in their workplace. Most of them were not involved in discussing safety policies in the workplace. This to a large extent jeopardized the safety of teachers at workplace affecting their preparedness on matters pertaining health hazards and thus their general performance. It is recommended that the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, in conjunction with the school administrations organize training programs for the teaching staff, involve teachers in discussion of safety policies to align them with the institutions strategic plans as far as Health and Safety at workplace is concerned.