ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Spiritual Working Ethos as a Forming Foundation for Working Commitment and Perception of Employees Working Culture
Author: Harinoto
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Employee Attitudes,Work Environment,Ethics,Philosophy,Values,Beliefs,Spiritual Development,Foreign Countries,Employees,Social Exchange Theory,Organizational Culture,Religion,Religious Factors

This research is dealing with spiritual working ethos which is organizational behavior issues that become the critical concern to do since the literacy rate in Indonesia is still very low. Working ethos literacy became one of the problems of organizational behavior that required for both profit and non-profit organizations because it has a linkage with the attitude, personality, character and character of an employee to the organization to be more accountable. Working and spiritual ethos form of regulation that is ideal for the internalization associated with work commitments and the cultural perception of the employee. Therefore, building and developing human intellect also need mental intelligence and spirituality of humanity and the intelligence to answer the ultimate meaning of life. The process of habituation to this value system requires continuity of movement to deliver a good human formation as the basis for forming the superior character that is mentally healthy, honest, responsible, hard work, not overusing the authority easily and fear of sin.
Media Usage, Religiosity and Gender as Determinant of Performance in Chemistry Subject
Author: Oloyede, Ganiyat Kehinde
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Religious Factors,Gender Differences,Chemistry,Secondary School Students,Foreign Countries,Questionnaires,Science Achievement,Achievement Tests,Hypothesis Testing,Multiple Regression Analysis,Correlation,Predictor Variables,Printed Materials,Electronic Learning,Educational Resources,Mass Media

This research was designed to investigate the effect of media usage, religiosity and gender on performance in chemistry subject. This study employed survey research design. Two hundred participants (66 males and 134 females) drawn from public Senior Secondary Schools in Ibadan North Local Government Area, Oyo State constituted the study's sample. The instruments used to collect data included four structured questionnaires--Academic Performance Questionnaire in Chemistry (APQC) (a = 0.914), Media Questionnaire (MQ) (a = 0.792), Religiosity Questionnaire (RQ) (a = 0.735), and Gender Questionnaire (GQ) (a = 0.899). Chemistry Achievement Test (CHAT) was used to determine performance level and ability difference between male and female. Four research questions were answered and three hypotheses were tested at 0.05 Alpha level of significance. Data were analyzed using Pearson's Product Moment Correlation and Multiple Regression Analyses. The findings of this study showed that media (r = 0.119, df = 199, P&lt; 0.05) is a significant correlate of academic performance in chemistry while religiosity (r = 0.057, df = 199, P&gt; 0.05) and gender (r = 0.032, df = 199, P&gt; 0.05) are not. It was also revealed that the three independent variables (media, religiosity and gender) are not joint predictors of academic performance in chemistry (R = 0.125, R square = 0.016, p&lt;0.05). It was evident from the findings that media (beta = 0.112, 11.2%, t = 1.552, p&lt;0.05) had the highest significant contribution to academic performance in chemistry. The results also showed that there is no statistical difference in the ability of male (x = 3.89, SD = 1.609) and female (x = 4.01, SD = 1.573) even though 59.5% of the students scored less than 50 in Chemistry Achievement test. The study, therefore, concluded that media is a potent correlate and significant determinant of performance in public Senior Secondary Schools in Ibadan North Local Government Area, Oyo State, Nigeria while religiosity and gender are not.
Voices from the Field: &quot;Sounds Great, but I Don't Have Time!&quot; Helping Teachers Meet Their Goals and Needs with Media Literacy Education
Author: Scheibe, Cynthia
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Media Literacy,Staff Development,Student Educational Objectives,Curriculum Development,Class Activities,Assignments,Elementary Secondary Education,Higher Education,Educational Practices,Video Technology,Radio,Information Sources,Literacy Education

The growing time pressure that teachers face actually comes in two forms, both of which need to be resolved successfully in order for media literacy education to gain a real foothold in U.S. schools. First, teachers constantly face the challenge of trying to fit all of the content and engaging activities into the school day and school year, without having to give up other equally important--and often required--curriculum material. Second, whenever teachers decide to incorporate something new into their teaching, they face increased preparation time (at least initially); when the new approach includes special training or the use of new technologies, that increased prep time may be substantial. This is not just a problem for K-12 teachers; it is at least as much of a challenge-- perhaps more-- in undergraduate teacher education programs where most of the courses and content is mandated for certification. And conversely, because media literacy education is not taught in teacher education programs, most K-12 teachers do face increased prep time in learning how to incorporate it into their teaching. This article describes challenges that beset of Media literacy educators working in staff and curriculum development as they grapple with trying to find ways to solve this dilemma.
A Social History of Media, Technology and Schooling
Author: Domine, Vanessa
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Technology Uses in Education,Educational History,Social History,Media Literacy,Urban Teaching,Public School Teachers,Grade 7,Teaching Methods,Radio,Films,Reading Aloud to Others,Reading Materials,Educational Television,Computer Uses in Education,Internet,Influence of Technology,Educational Practices,Web 2.0 Technologies,Technological Literacy,Interviews

This article explores the literature in the intersecting fields of media, technology and schooling in the United States across the past two centuries. It organizes the research from a social-historical perspective through a fictionalized interview with an archetypal third-generation urban public school teacher. This topography illustrates the problems and possibilities that emerge from the chronic push for technology in schools. Of particular mention are the privileging of orality and literacy through the common school reader, the mechanization of schooling through teaching machines and television, and the transformative yet still untapped potential of computers and the internet.
&quot;Why Do I Slog through the Physics?&quot; Understanding High School Students' Difficulties in Learning Physics
Author: Ekici, Erhan
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,High School Students,Secondary School Science,Physics,Difficulty Level,Attitude Measures,Likert Scales,Factor Analysis,Factor Structure,Goodness of Fit,Student Attitudes,Scientific Attitudes,Models,Age Differences,Instructional Program Divisions,Science Achievement,Scores,Course Content

The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable instrument to assess why physics courses are perceived as one of the most difficult courses among high school students and to investigate the reasons why students have difficulty in learning physics through this scale. This study includes the development and validation studies of the Difficulty in Learning Physics (DiLP-S) Scale for High School Students. A draft scale study was applied to a group of 1021 high school students. At the end of the study, a scale consisting of 25 items (a = 0.921) was developed representing 52.372% of the total variance. Based on exploratory factor analysis, it has been observed that the scale was grouped under three factors and the factors were respectively, &quot;Teacher&quot; (ten items, a = 0.892), &quot;Content&quot; (ten items, a = 0.853) and &quot;Student&quot; (five items, a = 0.851). The values obtained from the results of Confirmatory Factor Analysis (Chi-Square = 720.53 (p = 0.00), df = 272, p-value = 0.00000; RMSEA = 0.064 and CFI = 0.97), put forward a good fit between the hypothesized theoretical model and the empirical data. According to results, students emphasize mostly the content of the physics course as a reason for perceiving it as difficult. Then, students, and lastly the teachers follow it. When the scale's score means are compared according to the students' class levels, it was found out that the 9th and the 11th grade students had more difficulty in learning the physics course than the 10th graders. When the students' academic success in the physics course and the scale scores were compared, there was not a significant difference. Namely, whether they are successful or not, the students perceive the physics course to be difficult.
Combining Marriage and Career: The Professional Adjustment of Marital Teachers
Author: Rizvi, Afroz Haider
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Marital Status,Adjustment (to Environment),Family Work Relationship,Foreign Countries,Elementary School Teachers,Secondary School Teachers,Teacher Attitudes,College Faculty,Vocational Education Teachers,Preschool Teachers,Statistical Analysis,Teacher Surveys

In the paper, the researcher attempted to assess Professional Adjustment status and level of teachers according to their marital status on a sample of 792 teachers. Teachers have been classified into two categories viz. married and unmarried. To evaluate the status of professional adjustment of teachers, a tool viz. &quot;Manual on Teachers Professional Adjustment&quot; was used which was prepared and standardized by the investigator. The reliability and validity of the tool were found 0.89 and 0.66 respectively. On the basis of percentile rank and professional adjustment scores, professional adjustment status of teachers have been classified into three levels viz. well-adjusted, average-adjusted low-adjusted. Analysis of data was done by t-test and ?[superscript 2] test through SPSS version 13.0 and Prism 3.0. This study reveals that there is no significant difference between professional adjustment of married and unmarried teachers. Even, professional adjustment levels of two groups are statistically significant. It clearly shows that marriage is not at all related with the career of teachers.
Educational Dissemination through Newspaper Daily
Author: Chowdhury, Sreeparna
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Information Dissemination,Newspapers,Educational Resources,Educational Media,Youth,Guidance,Content Analysis,Statistical Analysis,Journal Articles,Advertising,Educational Research,News Reporting,Informal Education,Hypothesis Testing,Instructional Materials

The formal sources of educational guidance remained no more sufficient to deal with the fast changing educational demands of the learners. Therefore, informal sources like media, especially low cost newspapers, may serve these demands. Newspapers are storehouse of current information and treasure of knowledge related to personal as well as social and local and global issues. According to a readership survey among the youth of India, conducted by NBT in 2009, a literate youth spends on an average 32 minutes on newspaper reading daily and about 63% read newspapers to gather news and information on current event and only 10% reading for entertainment. Knowing this youth demand, several dailies are bringing out educational supplements. Hence, the present study was planned to investigate educational dissemination through newspaper daily and its role in educational guidance. 28 days of circulations of the newspaper The Telegraph (Calcutta Edition), including the routine publication and all the supplements (Metro, T2, Sunday, Graphiti, Telekids and Career Graph) published during the month of February, 2013, constituted the sample for the present investigation. To collect the data content analysis method was used and a General Information Schedule (GIS) was developed for the research purpose. The data were analyzed using both Chi-Square and Percentage technique. Data analysis showed that the amount of both Non-Educational News and Non-Educational Ads were higher in percentage than Educational News and Educational Ads respectively. The amount of coverage of Educational News and Educational Ads also significantly differed and the latter was much higher in amount than the former. Further, the coverage given to different categories of educational news items also not equal or near to equal. The research concluded that The Telegraph (Calcutta Edition) is providing only a partial and unstructured educational guidance to the students which are neither comprehensive, nor regular. This research will create the scope for using newspaper as a tool of educational guidance and will help the newspaper publishers to review their existing content and to come up with necessary modifications.
A Critique of Selected Instructional Strategies in Higher Institutions in Nigeria
Author: Sangoleye, Solomon Adebayo
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Instructional Effectiveness,Teaching Methods,Team Teaching,Questioning Techniques,Higher Education,Lesson Observation Criteria,Best Practices,Teaching Models,Observation

Teaching is the heart of education. It involves the use of myriad of teaching methods, strategies and techniques. This paper critiques some of the instructional strategies used in higher institutions in Nigeria. Two of these instructional strategies (team teaching and questioning strategy) were identified. The &quot;what&quot;, &quot;how&quot;, &quot;when&quot; and &quot;why&quot; of these strategies and the report of observations of lecturers at work in University of Ibadan were examined. More importantly, the paper recommends that lecturers in faculties other than faculty of education should be exposed to workshop on teaching methodology and effective use of instructional strategies, adequate wait-time should be given while asking question, adoption of team teaching in various departments/faculties, among others.
Investigating the Relationship between Internet Addiction and Strengthening Students' Social Skills
Author: Karimzadeh, Nazanin
Date: 2015-08-10
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Internet,Addictive Behavior,Interpersonal Competence,Undergraduate Students,Questionnaires,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis,Correlation,Student Behavior

The present study is about &quot;Investigating the relationship between internet addictions and strengthening students' social skill reinforcement.&quot; One of the social elements in all cultures is social skill or ability to communicate with others effectively. One of the factors that affect this skill is addiction to Internet which has recently attracted the attention of many researchers and scientists. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between internet addictions and strengthening students' social skills. In this study, multi-stage cluster sampling was used. 345 undergraduate students of Islamic Azad University of Shahrekord were selected as sample population. The instruments used for the study were two questionnaires, one for Internet addiction and the other for students' social skills. The data collected in the study were analyzed using SPSS software and related tests. The results of the study indicate that there is a relationship between internet addictions variable and social skills variable.
Co-Educational Tutorial Classes and Their Significance on Gendered Test Scores of Wollo University Students: A Before-After Analyses
Author: Gidey, Mu'uz
Date: 2015-08-10
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Action Research,Teaching Methods,Scores,College Students,Gender Differences,Civics,Ethics,Program Effectiveness,Achievement Gains,Hypothesis Testing,Student Records,Observation,Statistical Analysis

This action research is carried out in a practical class room setting to devise an innovative way of administering tutorial classes to improve students' learning competence with particular reference to gendered test scores. A before-after test score analyses of mean and standard deviations along with t-statistical tests of hypotheses of second year Civics and Ethical Studies Students administering 18 hours tutorial classes had been carried out. The findings showed the hitherto upheld gender gap based view that the average female student scores lag behind their male counter parts. Test scores have improved significantly for female students than male after tutorial. The significance test as to whether tutorial classes have gendered correlates showed high pedigree, contrary to common expectations, towards female students indicating the need for rearticulating gender sensitivity to the needs of male students. The study has shown tutorial classes meant to improve students' test scores fall prey of committing unintentional error of feminizing tutorial programs; that in turn cause fallback of male students' scores; that made them fail to benefit from their comparative strengths. Thus, it is commendable to take note of both male and female students' needs not only to empower and enable them benefit from their learning weakness but also from their strengths: gendering tutorial programs inclusive of male students.
A Development of a Collaborative Blended Learning Model to Enhance Learning Achievement and Thinking Ability of Undergraduate Students at the Institute of Physical Education
Author: Kingpum, Peerasak
Date: 2015-08-10
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cooperative Learning,Blended Learning,Undergraduate Students,Physical Education,Thinking Skills,Models,Educational Objectives,Educational Principles,Teaching Methods,Learning Activities,Student Evaluation,Measurement Techniques,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Comparative Analysis,Foreign Countries,Technology Uses in Education,Conventional Instruction,Student Surveys,Questionnaires,Pretests Posttests

This research aimed to develop a model of a collaborative blended learning (CoBl) to develop learning achievement and thinking ability of undergraduate students in the Institute of Physical Education. The research is divided into three phases using the blended learning model via collaborative learning with thinking abilities approach as follows: Phase 1 consists of the development of the collaborative blended learning model; phase 2, the effects of implementing from the model to develop thinking abilities; phase 3, the presentation of the developed model to a group of experts for accepting the developed model. The findings showed that: there are four components in the model of collaborative blended learning namely principles, objectives, procedures and instructional activities, and measurement and evaluation. The instructional processes are divided into 3 phases, namely, preparation, learning management, and measurement and evaluation. The experimental group of students showed gains in learning achievement and thinking abilities as a whole and in each subscale from before learning with the developed model at the 0.05 level of significance. They showed greater learning achievement than the control group of students (p = 0.001). However, the two groups of these students did not statistically indicate different thinking abilities (p = 0.501). In addition, the students showed their opinions about learning with the developed model at the high agreed level. Also, the experts assessed the developed model at the most appropriate level.
Evaluation Primary School Students' Achievement of Objectives in English Lessons
Author: Erkan, Senem Seda Sahenk
Date: 2015-08-10
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Elementary School Students,Second Language Instruction,English (Second Language),Grade 4,Grade 5,Academic Achievement,Student Characteristics,Student Surveys,Gender Differences,Age Differences,Parent Background,Educational Attainment,Family Income,Language Usage,Likert Scales,Statistical Analysis,Nonparametric Statistics

The problem statement of this survey is &quot;How far are the specific objectives of English courses achieved by the primary students (4-5 grades) recently in Istanbul?&quot; &quot;Does the first stage state primary school students' achievement level of the specific English courses differ according to students' personal characteristics? Survey method was used in this study. Data collection instrument was a Personal Information Form with 6 items (gender, grade, mother's and father's education level, family income level, existence of a family member who can speak English) developed by Senem Seda Sahenk Erkan. &quot;Evaluation of Primary School Students' Achievement of Objectives in English Lessons&quot; was prepared by the researcher. A 5-point Likert-type scale [(1) Strongly Disagree (2) Disagree Slightly Agree (3) Slightly Agree (4) Agree (5) Strongly Agree] was used. This scale, which tests the specific objectives of the English courses that students study at the state primary school, included 30 items.
The Effect of Collaborative Learning and Self-Assessment on Self-Regulation
Author: Hatami, Ali
Date: 2015-08-10
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cooperative Learning,Metacognition,Geometry,Self Evaluation (Individuals),Teaching Methods,Learning Strategies,Questionnaires,Experimental Groups,Academic Achievement,Teaching Assistants,Achievement Tests,Cognitive Ability,Quasiexperimental Design,Pretests Posttests,High School Students,Females,Grade 11

In this study, the effects of teacher assistants' collaborative learning and learners' self-assessment on self-regulation and academic achievement at high levels have been investigated. Collaborative learning teaching method (Jigsaw and teacher assistant) is used for one group and the other group had also the same as well as learners' self-assessment for eight 90-min sessions. The study population included 75 persons who are divided into three groups of 25 subjects (two experimental groups and one control group). Using a learning techniques questionnaire and the motivated strategies for learning questionnaire (MSLQ) as well as a self-developed achievement test to measure the geometry in the lower and upper levels of the cognitive domain, it was revealed that &quot;cooperative learning and self-assessment&quot; have a positive effect on promoting learners' &quot;self-regulation&quot; knowledge for geometry course. Collaborative learning and self-assessment also have a positive impact on academic achievement at low land high levels of learners' cognitive domain.
Challenges in Implementation of Early Childhood Education in Nigeria: The Way Forward
Author: Akinrotimi, Adenike A.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Early Childhood Education,Program Implementation,Barriers,Preschool Education,Intervention,Teacher Competencies,Preschool Curriculum,Educational Resources,Faculty Development,Supervision,Teacher Student Ratio,Educational Finance

Early Childhood Education (ECE) comprises essential programmes and activities which are critical to holistic development, academic success and future achievements of children. ECE is recognised by the federal government of Nigeria as a foundational and essential programme that Nigerian children must experience. This is why the government has given highly rated attention to it through various interventions that include formulation of policy documents and network of relationships among different sectors. Unfortunately, various challenges are facing the implementation of ECE in Nigeria. This paper examines the challenges that are militating against this important early education in pre-primary schools. Some practical ways to overcome the challenges are provided.