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Survival Strategies of International Undergraduate Students at a Public Research Midwestern University in the United States: A Case Study
Author: Tsevi, Linda
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Qualitative Research,Undergraduate Students,Foreign Students,Case Studies,Research Universities,Academic Persistence,Academic Achievement,Semi Structured Interviews,Barriers,Coping,Family Influence,Peer Influence,Extracurricular Activities,Student Needs,English Language Learners,Student Experience,Asians,Foreign Countries,Cultural Differences,Psychological Patterns,Student Personnel Services,Academic Support Services

In this qualitative study, I explored the strategies that international undergraduate students at a public research Midwestern university in the United States employ to persist and survive their educational transition to achieve academic excellence. Using Tinto's (1987) theory of persistence as the theoretical framework, this paper employed a case study method. Five undergraduate international students were interviewed via semi-structured in-depth interviews. The findings indicated that students experienced both academic and non-academic challenges. Strategies adopted included involvement in out-of-classroom activities and dependence on family and friends. Recommendations include requiring academic counsellors and university administrators to devise curriculum and programs to assist international students. Further, the teaching faculty should reach out to students who have English language challenges.
Understanding the Relationship between Self-Construals, Self-Esteem, Social Support, and the Sociocultural Adaptation of African Students in Northern Cyprus
Author: Tchoh, Bennett K.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Students,Self Esteem,Self Concept,Social Support Groups,Cultural Differences,Student Adjustment,Acculturation,Predictor Variables,Hypothesis Testing,Foreign Countries,Questionnaires,Turkish,Language Proficiency,Likert Scales,Interaction,Self Concept Measures,Statistical Analysis,Student Attitudes

In this study, we explored the relationship between self-construals, self-esteem, social support, and the sociocultural adaptation of African students in Northern Cyprus. Based on the responses received from 112 students from Sub-Saharan Africa studying in Northern Cyprus, the results indicated that only the interdependent self-construal and social support predicted sociocultural adaptation. This study highlights the importance of social support and relatedness for international students from Sub-Saharan Africa studying in Northern Cyprus.
Early Career Outcomes of International Bachelor&apos;s Degree Recipients from U.S. Institutions: The Role of International Status and Region of Origin
Author: Jian, Xiushan
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Students,Bachelors Degrees,Outcomes of Education,Job Satisfaction,Salary Wage Differentials,Education Work Relationship,Socioeconomic Influences,Graduate Surveys,National Surveys,Predictor Variables,Statistical Analysis,Demography,Educational Experience,Labor Market,Geographic Location,Employment Potential

Based on neo-racism theory and human capital theory, this study examined whether international bachelor's degree recipients who graduated from U.S. institutions have significant early career outcome differences compared to domestic bachelor's degree recipients in terms of major-job match, annual earnings, and job satisfaction. Recognizing the significant differences in language, culture, and socio-economic conditions among immigrants from different countries of origin, this study further explored possible differences in career outcomes of international bachelor's degree recipients by regions of origin. The findings of this study suggest that international degree recipients have gained labor market parity in major-job match as well as salary and job satisfaction with their domestic counterparts, all things being equal. Further, this study found evidence that region of origin plays an important role in shaping international bachelor's degree recipients' major-job match and annual earnings. The policy implications for postsecondary institutions and the U.S. as a society are discussed.
Ecological Dynamics Model and Ecopedagogy-Based Outdoor Experiential Education
Author: Okur-Berberoglu, Emel
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Outdoor Education,Experiential Learning,Environmental Education,Behavior Change,Cognitive Structures,Affective Behavior,Models,Inservice Teacher Education,Training Methods,Mixed Methods Research,Diaries,Behavior Rating Scales,Participant Observation,Meetings,Transcripts (Written Records),Graduate Students,Foreign Countries

Environmental awareness is evaluated related to cognitive and affective areas so it might be considered one of the important points in order to predict environmental behavioural change. One of the behavioural change models is ecological dynamics model (EDM) and this model's characteristics overlap with ecopedagogy-based outdoor experiential education (EOEE) and the titles of Agenda 21. The aim of this study is to examine the efficiency of an EOEE program intended for in-service teachers on environmental awareness and to evaluate EDM within EOEE. Mixed methodology was used and the data were collected by an environmental awareness scale, participants' diaries, non-participant observation, and meeting documents. The study found that the participants developed environmental awareness and tended to have holistic perspective at the end of the education. It is come up with that holistic perspective may be added to the EDM and this model can be checked out by mathematical models such as structural equation modelling.
A Qualitative Phenomenological Study of Emotional and Cultural Intelligence of International Students in the United States of America
Author: Thompson, Rohan
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Qualitative Research,Phenomenology,Emotional Intelligence,Cultural Awareness,Foreign Students,Social Integration,Interviews,Private Colleges,Student Adjustment,Cultural Differences,College Students,Coping,College Environment,Ethnic Stereotypes

This phenomenological study examined the role of emotional and cultural intelligence in the social integration of international students. The study included nine participants who were selected using purposeful sampling. The researcher used five main interview questions to guide the data-collection process. The questions were designed to help determine both whether the participant appeared to be competent in cultural and emotional intelligence, and how that competence then contributed to his or her social integration. The study findings revealed that emotional and cultural intelligence played an important role in enabling international students to integrate socially. This article seeks to offer a deeper understanding of the social integration challenges of international students, contribute to the existing knowledge, and offer suggestions for future research.
Investigation of Pre-Service Classroom Teachers&apos; Environmental Awareness and Attitudes
Author: Çokçaliskan, Halil
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Environmental Education,Preservice Teachers,Student Teacher Attitudes,Gender Differences,Cohort Analysis,Group Membership,Attitude Measures,Likert Scales,Knowledge Level,Familiarity,Predictor Variables,Student Surveys,Correlation,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis,Goodness of Fit

The purpose of the current study is to determine the pre-service classroom teachers' environmental awareness and attitudes and to elicit the relationship between their awareness levels and attitudes in terms of gender, grade level and state of membership to an environmental organization. The study was designed according to relational survey model. The study group of the current research is comprised of the pre-service classroom teachers attending two universities located in the Aegean Region in 2015-2016 school year. &quot;Environmental Awareness Scale (EAWS)&quot; developed by Okur (2012) and &quot;Environmental Attitude Scale (EATS) were used to collect data. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS 20 program package by using descriptive statistics and Pearson coefficient. As a result of the analyses, it was found that the pre-service classroom teachers' environmental awareness levels and attitudes are high; there is a positive and medium correlation between their awareness levels and attitudes. Moreover, it was found that environmental awareness can predict 27% of environmental attitude. In light of these findings, it can be suggested that within the courses given throughout the undergraduate education, pre-service classroom teachers should be informed about environmental issues and encouraged to participate in environmentally-oriented social and cultural activities.
Building a Community of Learners in and outside the Classroom
Author: Laverick, Erin Knoche
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Communities of Practice,First Year Seminars,College Students,Undergraduate Students,Foreign Students,Student Adjustment

Learning Communities (LCs) and First-Year Seminars (FYS) are common support systems for college students. This article explores the use of such systems with undergraduate international students in their first semester of study as a means to help them better acclimate to campus life and rigorous classroom expectations.
Self-Efficacy Beliefs on Integrating Sustainability into Profession and Daily Life: In the Words of University Students
Author: Demirci, Sinem
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Self Efficacy,Beliefs,Sustainability,College Students,Integrated Activities,Sustainable Development,Higher Education,Mixed Methods Research,Knowledge Level,Concept Teaching,Likert Scales,Daily Living Skills,Student Attitudes,Foreign Countries

Integrating sustainable development into higher education is essential to reach a sustainable future; accompanied with level of knowledge, increasing level of motivation of university students is also crucial since motivation affects their ways of sustainable behaviour. Therefore, this study aimed to explore university students' reflections about their level of knowledge on sustainability and their ways of integrating sustainability principles into their profession and daily life. Thus, we attempted to investigate university students' level of self-efficacy beliefs on integrating sustainability into their profession and daily life after completing a sustainability course. However, since there is no specific instrument to evaluate university students' self-efficacy beliefs on this subject, we adapted the instrument (originally developed by Enochs &amp; Riggs, 1990) to determine university students' self-efficacy beliefs on integrating sustainability into profession and daily life and used the instrument to explore our research questions. Besides, we used students' essays and self-reports in order to evaluate their conceptions on sustainability. The implementation was realised with 113 university students studying at a state university in Ankara, Turkey). According to the exploratory factor analysis results, two dimensions emerged as Daily Life Efficacy and Profession Efficacy to integrate sustainability. The results showed that university students who attended the sustainability course have relatively high personal self-efficacy beliefs towards integrating sustainability into their daily life. Nevertheless, although they reported that they have enough background knowledge on sustainability and have high self-efficacy, evaluations of the students' essays on the definition of sustainability showed that they do not hold a holistic understanding.
Environmental Ethics Awareness of Teachers
Author: Karakaya, Ferhat
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Environmental Education,Environmental Standards,Ethics,Familiarity,Knowledge Level,Science Teachers,Predictor Variables,Biology,Statistical Significance,Educational Attainment,Tenure,Gender Differences,Institutional Characteristics,Academic Achievement,Likert Scales,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis

The purpose of the present research is to determine science teachers' and biology teachers' awareness levels of environmental ethics in relation to different variables. The &quot;Environmental Ethics Awareness Scale&quot; developed by Özer and Keles (2016) was used in the research. The research is consisted of 237 people, including 130 science teachers and 107 biology teachers working in different school of Turkey. Independent t test, one way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Kruskal-Wallis analysis and Tukey significance test were used to determine the statistical significance of the obtained data in the research using relational screening model. According to research findings; it is understood that education level, graduation achievement, on the tenure of office and the having environment lesson does not make a meaningful difference for science teachers and biology teachers. However, gender and the institution that worked were significant differences (p&lt;0.05) in the environmental awareness of science teachers.
Theses Written about Environmental Education: Turkey--The Czech Republic Comparison
Author: Can, Sendil
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Environmental Education,Content Analysis,Theses,Sampling,Program Descriptions,Bibliometrics,Comparative Education,Incidence,Qualitative Research

The purpose of this study is to compare the theses written on environmental education in Turkey and in the Czech-Republic. Within the scope of this study, which is conducted by using document analysis, the theses written in Turkey and the Czech-Republic about environmental education in 2007-2013 were compared in terms of year of issue, the type of the sampling and the type of the program in which the thesis is completed. The findings revealed that in 2007-2013, there are totally 130 theses written in Turkey and 49 theses written in the Czech-Republic. While the samplings of the theses written in Turkey mostly consist of pre-service teachers, the samplings of the theses completed in the Czech-Republic are comprised of elementary and high school students. Finally, it was determined that most of the theses in both of the countries were written in the departments affiliated to elementary school education.
Basic Learning of Form
Author: i Serrano, Magda Mària
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Architectural Education,Architecture,Design,Teaching Methods,Active Learning,Instructional Effectiveness,Group Discussion,Cooperation,Learning Processes,Diaries,Freehand Drawing,Construction (Process),Lecture Method,Photography,Foreign Countries,Higher Education

&quot;Form is 'what', Design is 'how'&quot; (Kahn, 1960). Learning about the formal universe and the wide range of possibilities it offers should be one of the purposes of the early subjects in architectural studies. This article aims to explain the contents of a first course of architectural design and demonstrate how, using a methodology based on precise theoretical-practical tools and an active pedagogical dynamic, results are obtained that, on average, are very satisfactory. It shows that in twelve weeks' time, students have acquired the tools they need to approach any design problem from its form.
Designing from Cinema: Film as Trigger of the Creative Process in Architecture
Author: Bergera, Iñaki
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Case Studies,Films,Teaching Methods,Documentaries,Design,Assignments,Architectural Education,Architecture,Creativity,Realism,College Students

The present paper examines, in a case study format, the use of films, short films and audiovisual documentaries as reasoning and references for design assignments during the first years of an architectural degree course. The aim of this fruitful and comparable experience is not so much to study and verify the well-known synergies between film and architecture, but to emphasize the methodological importance of endowing students in their first experience of design projects with realistic and feasible support--through visual references--that can increase their awareness of the desire for realism to which every project aspires. Project simulacrum finds an ally in the realistic fiction present in film. The association between film and architecture is thus placed at the service of learning and design methodology, as a means, not as an end.
Dualities in Architectural Training: The Architecture School of Valencia (1968-1975)
Author: Domingo-Calabuig, Débora
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Architectural Education,Case Studies,Educational History,Primary Sources,Comparative Analysis,Educational Change,Teaching Methods,Foreign Countries

The school of Valencia was a singular case study in the architectural training in Spain towards the end of the 60s. Like in Madrid, Barcelona, and Seville, the school also participated in the bustling political and social context, but while in these schools the curriculum of 1964 was extended until 1975, in Valencia the creation of the Instituto Politécnico Superior was the opportunity to launch an experimental curriculum introducing notable changes. Beginning in 1969, the new architecture students of Valencia shared a classroom and subjects' contents with students from 3 other degrees (Industrial Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Agricultural Engineering) and underwent continuous evaluations following a semester calendar. The architecture school of Valencia thus became a dual organism since the previous plan coexisted with the new one, but each was taught in different venues, isolated from one another. This work puts in parallel both curricula, both university environments and the teaching practices received by both group of students and tries to reconstruct the first years of history of the architecture school of Valencia thanks to testimonies and the few existing documentary sources. In addition, a critical assessment of the results is developed which is compared to the recent reflections and changes that have been occurring in the teaching of architecture.
From Theory to Practice: Five Years of Urban Regeneration Workshops
Author: Bambó-Naya, Raimundo
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Theory Practice Relationship,Urban Renewal,Workshops,Educational History,Graduate Students,Experiential Learning,Architecture,Architectural Education,Foreign Countries,Innovation,Neighborhoods,Citizen Participation

The starting point of our urbanism courses in the master's degree programme is to take a broad, comprehensive local and global look at the urban reality of our environment from a comparative and historical perspective. The aim is to apply a learning-by-doing approach. The paper is structured in two parts. The first explores theory- and design-based approaches considered by architects and urban designers to improve the urbanity of our cities and neighbourhoods. The second presents the experience of five academic years of &quot;Integrated Urban and Landscape Design,&quot; a subject in the framework of the Master's Degree Programme in Architecture taught at the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Zaragoza. It addresses urban regeneration interventions in vulnerable areas of the consolidated city with innovative approaches. The aim is to explore innovation in the academic field considering user participation. The workshop methodology is explained in detail, with more attention paid to the process followed than to the specific results of the workshop. The paper explains the four stages of the process: preliminary phase and selection of the study area; analysis and diagnosis phase; proposal phase, in which work is performed jointly with a vision of action in the entire neighbourhood; and presentation phase of the results to residents. Finally, some future challenges of this workshop are outlined.
The JIDA Conference: Teaching Practice as Research
Author: Bardí-Milà, Berta
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Workshops,Educational Innovation,Architectural Education,Conferences (Gatherings),Educational Improvement,Educational Practices,Educational Research

The Workshop on Educational Innovation in Architecture (JIDA) promotes reflection and debate among the faculty of the different schools of architecture. The communications presented in the five editions held so far (2013-2017) can be considered a &quot;living archive&quot; of the teaching practices of more than thirty Spanish and twenty foreign universities. This material is extremely helpful for improving the education of architects and to lay the foundations for research into the instructional scenario in this discipline. With this purpose in mind, work is being done on a constellation of terms related to pedagogical practices, which is intended to conceptualize the diversity of strategies and methodologies presented these years at the conference. This sample of teaching experiences is a base upon which to consider the current situation of schools of architecture and to ask ourselves: what will training be like for architects 20 years from now?
Development of an Ecoliteracy Scale Intended for Adults and Testing an Alternative Model by Structural Equation Modelling
Author: Okur-Berberoglu, Emel
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Literacy,Structural Equation Models,Sustainability,Life Style,Interpersonal Competence,Measures (Individuals),Ecology,Emotional Intelligence,Conservation (Environment),Adults,Models,Goodness of Fit,Factor Analysis,Statistical Analysis,Consumer Science,Likert Scales

Ecoliteracy is to understand and internalise sustainable ecological relationship in the nature and to transfer this sustainable lifestyle to daily life despite the fact that ecoliteracy does not have only one and unique definition. However, it is difficult to measure ecoliteracy due to it being a complex concept. There are many subsets of ecoliteracy. One of the the aim of this study is therefore to develop an ecoliteracy scale intended for adults which is based on ecological intelligence, social intelligence, emotional intelligence, economy and green consumer behaviour. The other aim of the study is to test an alternative model among these subsets. According to this model economy, emotional and social intelligences are subsets of ecological intelligence. Ecological intelligence has directly link to green consumer behaviours at the second stage of the model. All the goodness of fit values are at an acceptable level according to the explanatory and confirmatory factor analysis. The results are Cronbach alpha: 0.78; KMO: 0.830; X[superscript 2]/df: 4.09; RMSEA: 0.087; SRMR: 0.0783; GFI, AGFI, IFI, and CFI = 0.80. There are 20 items within the scale.