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Undergraduates Attitudes towards Adopting a Flipped Learning Approach in Jordanian Universities: Empirical Study
Author: Milhem, Osamah Abdel Qader Bani
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Undergraduate Students,Flipped Classroom,Student Attitudes,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Teaching Methods,Barriers,Access to Computers,Program Effectiveness

The present study investigated the undergraduates' attitudes towards adopting a flipped learning approach in Jordanian universities. An analytical descriptive approach was adopted. The purposive sampling technique was used to choose a sample. This sample consists from 392 BA students. The researchers selected those students from the faculty of education at the University of Jordan. The forms of the questionnaire were distributed by hand. They were retrieved, but 4 ones have been excluded. The final sample consists from 388 BA students. The researchers concluded that the students show positive attitudes towards adopting this learning approach. They found that the flipped learning approach enables students to learn at their own pace and motivates them to learn. It was found that the flipped learning approach facilitates the process of taking notes and improves the students' comprehension of information. The researchers recommend enacting policies for encouraging faculty members at Jordanian universities to adopt a flipped instructional approach. They recommend using social media by faculty members at Jordanian universities when adopting a flipped instructional approach. That shall motivate students to learn.
Experts&apos; Model-Based Reasoning and Interdisciplinary Understanding of Carbon Cycling
Author: You, Hye Sun
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Ecology,Climate,Conservation (Environment),Interdisciplinary Approach,Sciences,Knowledge Level,Expertise,Science Curriculum,Global Approach,Scientific Concepts,Elementary Secondary Education,Science Instruction,Science Teachers,High School Teachers,College Faculty

The global carbon cycle (CC) is a key environmental literacy issue related to climate change, ocean acidification, and energy sustainability. Understanding the CC requires interdisciplinary knowledge informed by multiple science disciplines such as biology, chemistry, earth science, and physics. To examine the core principles and interdisciplinary nature of CC, we interviewed 10 experts from various science disciplines and asked them to create their own models of the carbon cycle. We utilized the data to identify emerging core concepts of CC and discover commonalities and differences across the experts' models in the context of interdisciplinary understanding. The concepts and interdisciplinarity were compared with those of CC-related topics in the U.S. Framework and Next Generation Science Standards. Most experts demonstrated a breadth of interdisciplinary knowledge based on their disciplinary backgrounds. The experts hold a wider set of ideas about CC than is present in the standards. Many topics not included in the standards could feasibly be added (e.g., the process of carbon sequestration into the ocean and rocks and CO2 emissions by volcanic activity). This study generates concrete recommendations for science standards to guide the revision of existing curricula or to guide the development of new interdisciplinary approaches to teaching global CC.
Examining the Benefits Associated with Implementing an Active Learning Classroom among Undergraduate Students
Author: Allsop, Jared
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Active Learning,Teaching Methods,Undergraduate Students,Lecture Method,Learner Engagement,Interpersonal Communication,Interaction,Classroom Environment,Student Satisfaction,Student Attitudes,Learning Processes

The last 35 years have shown a greater interest among higher education professionals to adapt the principles of active learning within the classroom. Active learning, an instructional approach that allows students the opportunity to participate in the process of learning, requires them to do something more than just passively receive instruction. Increased student engagement, participation, and learning have long been linked with active learning, but little is known about any additional benefits. The focus of this study was to identify and examine any additional benefits associated with active learning above and beyond those of increased engagement, participation, and learning. A sample of 45 undergraduate students were randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups: active learning or traditional lecture. Results indicate that in addition to engagement, participation, and learning, active learning also promotes increases in communication and interactivity, community and connectedness, satisfaction, and flexibility.
Examining the Digital Professor&apos;s Use of Technology and the Required Support
Author: Guilbaud, Thelma C.
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Teacher Attitudes,College Faculty,Teaching Methods,Technology Integration,Technological Literacy,Teacher Competencies,Faculty Development,Teacher Collaboration,College Role

This study explored faculty perceptions on the challenges and opportunities to engage and support digital natives, the new wave of students to include individuals who are now pursuing postsecondary education at colleges and universities across the country. The study also examined faculty perspectives on the kinds of support systems that they believe are most important to facilitate meaningful learning experiences in the classroom at a Southeastern University in the United States. Results indicate that institutions must have an enabling environment to help with greater integration and use of digital technology on campus. The data also showed there is need for strong operational support and tailored coaching to help faculty achieve desired learning outcomes in their assigned courses. Finally, the study found that a focus should be placed on creating a sense of a learning community among faculty and their peers to achieve the goal of sustained adoption and use of digital technology within a university.
Electronic Resources for Teaching Ukrainian as a Second Language
Author: Marchenko, Nataliia V.
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Methods,Educational Resources,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Ukrainian,Learning Processes,Phonetics,Spelling,Vocabulary Development,Grammar,Educational Technology,Critical Thinking,Foreign Students,Pronunciation Instruction,Student Motivation,Language Teachers,Speech Communication,Communicative Competence (Languages),Telecommunications,Handheld Devices,Comparative Analysis,Undergraduate Students,Foreign Countries,Dictionaries,Computer Assisted Instruction

The article analyzes the effective electronic resources used in teaching Ukrainian as a second language. The authors highlight informational, educational, and controlling resources. Using electronic resources in the Ukrainian language teaching and learning process facilitates the development of an active vocabulary and critical thinking of the international students, lexical and linguistic competence, intensive study of phonetics, spelling, grammatical features of the language, and the diversity of the educational process. The significant effect of these resources in learning a foreign language is related to digitization and how it has affected the modern young generation, who cannot imagine their lives without varieties of gadgets. Mobile applications, which can be downloaded to any device, are designed for students to learn the lexical minimum, develop the correct pronunciation, improve their spelling and vocabulary, and practice making sentences. At the same time, the use of electronic resources when studying Ukrainian as a second language requires the students to be thoroughly self-organized and motivated. They are programmed only to reproduce a certain lexical or grammatical field, have no student-teacher or student-student feedback, aimed at checking the level of knowledge assimilation at a certain stage. Electronic resources should be used, under the control of a teacher, as a simulator for mastering the lexical minimum and grammar. These resources cannot replace communicative situations and speech cases, during which students actively use vocabulary and master speech constructions, and thus acquire lexical competence.
Investigation of Metaphorical Perceptions of Preschool Teachers on the Concept of Language Development
Author: Bulut, Ayhan
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Figurative Language,Teacher Attitudes,Preschool Teachers,Preschool Children,Language Acquisition,Learning Processes,Public Schools,Foreign Countries

The aim of this study is to determine the mental images of preschool teachers' perceptions through metaphors about language development. Participating in the study was voluntary and a total of 110 preschool teachers participated in the study. The phenomenology design from the qualitative research designs was administrated in this study, aiming to specify the perceptions of preschool teachers on language development by means of metaphors. The obtained data were analyzed by content analysis technique. The metaphors developed by preschool teachers on language development were classified under 9 different categories. The category of language development based on labor and effort was represented by the following metaphors &quot;sapling, tree, baby, chick, crawl, seed, ant, industry, jigsaw, bird wing, marathon, swim&quot;. Based on this category, it may be argued that preschool teachers consider language development a long journey, which requires labor, effort, love, care, and support and having various difficulties and sensitivities in itself. The category of language development as an expression of eternity and depth was represented by the following metaphors: &quot;ocean, eternity, deep waters, iceberg, outer space, artwork&quot;. In addition, the metaphor of --ocean&quot; draws attention as the metaphor, developed most among all categories.
Investigation of the Organizational Commitment and Psychological Well-Being Levels of Academicians
Author: Yalçin, Sinan
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Faculty,Work Attitudes,Industrial Psychology,Organizational Climate,Job Satisfaction,Well Being,Psychological Needs,Correlation,Teacher Characteristics,Faculty College Relationship,Foreign Countries

In this research, which aims to investigate the organizational commitment and psychological well-being of academicians, the quantitative research method was employed. The research was designed in the relational screening model. The sample of the research consisted of 132 academicians at the Erzincan Binali Yildirim University located in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey in the 2018-2019 academic year. The research data were collected with the organizational commitment and psychological well-being scales. The data of the research were analyzed with the SPSS package program. The frequency, t-test, one-way (ANOVA) analysis, correlation and regression analysis were applied in the analysis of the data. According to the results reached in the study, the psychological well-being levels of the academicians were found to be high, their organizational commitment levels were at a moderate level. As it was analyzed in terms of the sub-dimensions of the organizational commitment, the emotional commitment of the academicians was found to be high, normative and the attendance commitment was at a moderate level. According to another result reached in the study, a positive significant relationship was encountered between the psychological well-being levels of the academicians and their organizational commitment levels. According to another result, the psychological well-being levels of the academicians were a significant predictor on the emotional and normative commitment, which are sub-dimensions of the organizational commitment, but was not a significant predictor of the attendance commitment.
Interactive Methods of the Formation of English-Language Communicative Competence for Future International Economists
Author: Struhanets, Lyubov
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English for Academic Purposes,Economics Education,Communicative Competence (Languages),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Foreign Countries,Global Approach,Assignments,Teaching Methods,Cultural Awareness,Creative Thinking,Cultural Pluralism,Distance Education,Barriers,Educational Benefits,Pandemics,COVID-19,Information Technology,Universities,Professional Education,Undergraduate Students,Business English

The paper elaborates the peculiarities of prospective international economists' competence formation. The research was aimed at the analysis of the formation of students' professional qualities within the context of globalization challenges. This study was carried out in 2018-2020. The research site is the West Ukrainian National University. The authors stressed on the need to select creative assignments for oral and written exercises to enhance students to apply the acquired knowledge and stimulate their mental activity via reviewing, projects preparation, text editing, and creative assignments. The authors specified the system of basic concepts. Based on the above, the authors substantiated the need to form professional communication skills, learn the professional language peculiarities, develop the language culture, creative thinking, and successful functioning of individuals in a multicultural environment. Additionally, the research identified a number of unsolved issues in teaching students. These are the need for a broad discussion on the benefits and disadvantages of distance learning, the rational use of ICT, specialized sets of trainings, methodological support system update, language didactics development, and organization of the educational process during the pandemic.
Self-Efficacy of Saudi English Majors after the Emergent Transition to Online Learning and Online Assessment during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Amri, Zeineb
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Self Efficacy,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Majors (Students),COVID-19,Pandemics,School Closing,Online Courses,Computer Assisted Testing,Correlation,Academic Achievement,Integrated Learning Systems,Technological Literacy,Readiness,College Students

This research explores the sense of self-efficacy among Saudi English majors at Jeddah University during the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced all schools in Saudi Arabia to suspend face-to-face learning and, instead, use the online Blackboard platform. The study's objectives are to determine Blackboard's effect on Saudi learners' self-efficacy beliefs, identify factors influencing these beliefs in the online context, and determine the relationship between self-efficacy beliefs and academic performance. Phone interviews, an online questionnaire, and online performance tests served as data collection instruments. The results indicate that urgent Blackboard use negatively affected the subjects' self-efficacy beliefs, and there is a positive, significant relationship between academic performance and perceived self-efficacy. Among other factors, familiarity with Blackboard, technical competence, and a readiness to embrace technology strongly influenced the students' self-efficacy beliefs. This paper also presents implications and pedagogical recommendations drawn from the results.
Predicting Success in a Statistics Course Geared toward Allied Health Students
Author: Lindsay, Keston G.
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Predictor Variables,Mathematics Achievement,Statistics Education,Allied Health Occupations Education,Undergraduate Students,Public Colleges,Student Characteristics,Ethnicity,Racial Differences,Majors (Students)

Statistics education is an important component of allied health education. Although success in statistics courses has been reported for students in fields such as business, nursing and psychology, there is a dearth of literature in students of other allied health science disciplines. As statistics is a gatekeeper course for many of these disciplines, understanding and addressing demographic predictors of success is a crucial step in helping to maintain a diverse healthcare workforce. In this study, ethnicity, gender, their interaction, age, and class format were used to predict 953 success outcomes in a retrospective dataset, with major being used as a random effect. Ethnicity alone predicted success, with students of other ethnicities having 0.6 times the odds of success as their Caucasian counterparts. As statistics is a potential gatekeeper course for success in health professions programs, academic instructors, administrators and other stakeholders should take steps to ascertain the incidence and nature of disparities in their settings, as it may play a role in maintaining a diverse healthcare workforce.
Examining the Health Outcomes and Happiness Levels That Result from Engaging in Physical Recreation: A Study on University Students
Author: Temel, Abdullah Sencer
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,College Students,Student Attitudes,Health,Psychological Patterns,Recreational Activities,Correlation,Physical Activities,Health Behavior,Income,Student Participation,Student Characteristics

This study aims to examine the relationship between university students' perceived health outcomes and happiness levels that result from engaging in recreational activities. The study evaluates this relationship using certain variables. The data were gathered from 652 students from various universities in Turkey. Appropriate sampling methods were used. The initial findings indicate that the highest score was obtained in the „improvement condition? of health outcomes among university students. It shows that they are more likely to engage with physical activities for health purposes. Furthermore, all sub-dimensions of PHORS and the happiness scale significantly differed according to income and active-passive participation variables. This study further demonstrates a significant positive relationship between perceived health outcomes sub-scales and happiness among the students.
Non-Profit Islamic Institutions and Quality Management Systems in Malaysia
Author: Mokhtar, Mohd Sadiq Mohd
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Quality Control,Foreign Countries,Islam,Religious Education,Research Reports,Nonprofit Organizations,Educational Quality,Western Civilization,Asian Culture,Standards

This paper presents a narrative review of arguments made by researchers regarding the applicability of western and Japanese quality management systems by non-profit Islamic institutions. This review approach was employed after undertaking a literature search for selected articles based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The focus of narrative reviews in this study is to identify common themes across researches regarding non-profit Islamic institutions and quality management systems in Malaysia that can then be used to identify commonalities and critical differences among included documents. Following electronic searches of Scopus and Google Scholar sites, nine studies on quality management systems related to non-profit Islamic institutions were identified and subjected to a detailed narrative literature review. Findings reveal that the quality management systems discussed by researchers vary and there are researchers who rejected the idea of implementing western and Japanese quality management systems and instead implemented the Islamic Quality Management system, which was developed in Malaysia. This study intends to contribute to the quality of management and non-profit institution management literature with the proposition of adopting quality management systems by the management of non-profit Islamic institutions.
Solving Hydrogen Atom Problem Using Spherical Polar Coordinates: A Qualitative Study
Author: Singh, Satya Pal
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Problem Solving,Quantum Mechanics,Mechanics (Physics),Science Instruction,College Science,Scientific Concepts,Concept Formation,Knowledge Level,Equations (Mathematics),Computer Software,Visual Aids,Visualization

Quantum mechanics has completed century since its genesis. Quantum mechanics is taught at various levels-starting from school and colleges to universities. Regression methods are introduced at under graduate and post graduate levels to solve Schrodinger equation for finding solutions of various trivial and non-trivial physical problems. The common problems, which students encounter at UG level are- particle in a box, potential step and barriers, harmonic oscillator and hydrogen atom. It has been observed that students lack clarity in solving and grasping the hydrogen atom problem. Two reasons can be accounted for this. It is perhaps a lengthy derivation and students, many times, are not well acquainted with the requisite knowledge of Spherical Polar Co-ordinate system. In this article, a brief review on the birth of quantum mechanics is presented judiciously discussing the contribution of Schrodinger, before solving the hydrogen atom problem. Readers are first introduced to spherical-polar coordinate system. The radial solutions, radial probability distribution functions, and hydrogen orbital, are plotted using Mathematica software v.12, for the sake of visualization and understanding.
Enhancing the Intercultural Competence Development of Prospective Music Teacher Education: A Case Study in Indonesia
Author: Gunara, Sandie
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Competencies,Competency Based Education,Multicultural Education,Cultural Awareness,Cultural Pluralism,Culture Conflict,Preservice Teacher Education,Preservice Teachers,Music Education,Internship Programs,Student Attitudes,Global Approach,Popular Culture,Foreign Countries

Music teacher education institutions in Indonesia are challenged to address their students' intercultural needs due to increasing interaction at the global level. Therefore, this research seeks to discover suitable formulation for teacher education institutions in Indonesia in implementing music teacher education and training to equip them with intercultural competence. This research employs case study design, in which the data were obtained using interview conducted in July and August 2020. This aims at obtaining concepts based on the need analysis of intercultural competence through processes, actions and interactions from the participants' perspective. The participants were students of Music Teacher Education Department of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The findings show that 1) the sensitivity to cultural diversity of music teacher candidates needs to be enhanced to expand the awareness of their own and other cultures; and 2) enhancing intercultural competence requires both theoretical and practical courses related to Indonesian identity and global culture. The findings are significant considering that every music teacher should have the same perception in teaching, which is in accordance with the diversity of Indonesian and world cultures.