ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Investigation of Technology Integration Knowledge of Science Teachers: A Case Study
Author: Tanik Önal, Nagihan
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Technology Integration,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Technological Literacy,Science Teachers,Foreign Countries,Teacher Attitudes,Teacher Education

The distance education process, which was passed with the COVID-19 pandemic, once again demonstrated the importance of teachers' technology knowledge. In this direction, the purpose of this study is to examine the science teachers' knowledge of technology integration into their lessons. In this context, the participants' knowledge of technologies that can be used in science education was examined and their ability to use these technologies in their lessons, as well as their ideas about the necessity of technology integration into science education. The research was a qualitative study with a multiple holistic case study design. Participants were determined by criterion sampling method, and 16 science teachers from six different schools in the city center of Nigde province participated in the study. The data were collected in 2019-2020 academic year via a semi-structured teacher interview form, and a classroom observation form. As a result of the research, it was revealed that teachers thought that different technology applications should be included in science lessons by taking into account the subject and learner characteristics, but in the observation, Science teachers who participated in the study did not actually go beyond using computers and projectors. In order to find a solution to this situation, teachers think that it may be beneficial to include applied courses on technology integration to science courses in undergraduate education, to be able to choose courses from other departments to learn technology integration in undergraduate education, and to provide practical and in-service training in small groups by experts from universities.
Classroom Teachers&apos; Awareness of Their Civil and Professional Rights and Freedoms in Context of Educational Law Literacy
Author: Hareket, Erdem
Date: 2021-01-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Elementary School Teachers,Civil Rights,Educational Legislation,Case Studies,Teacher Attitudes,Content Analysis,Knowledge Level,Teaching (Occupation),Profiles,Freedom,Fringe Benefits,Foreign Countries,Teacher Rights

This research was carried out with the aim of determining the awareness of the primary school teachers towards the rights of the owners in context of educational law literacy. The research group consists of 428 primary school teachers who work in schools in the city center of Kirikkale and determined using the criterion sampling technique. The research is designed in accordance with the qualitative research approach and has a holistic single case study design. In the process of obtaining research data, the questionnaire form and the semi-structured interview form were used. The analysis of the research data was carried out using the content analysis method. As a result of the research, it was concluded that primary school teachers have less awareness about the rights based on teaching professions. In addition, it has been observed that teachers do not have enough discrimination awareness about the rights they have due to the basic human rights and teaching profession. So we can say that research findings shows that teachers' educational law literacy profiles are not expected and should be improved. In the research, it has been concluded that teachers need professional law-related education and education of human rights. As a result of the research, these findings have been discussed from various perspectives and some suggestions which are based on reality have been put forward.
Pre-School Education Audit in the World and Turkey
Author: Çakir, Turan
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preschool Education,Audits (Verification),Program Effectiveness,Program Evaluation,Foreign Countries,Comparative Education,Educational Practices,Governance,Accreditation (Institutions)

Preschool education is an education process that prepares children for primary education, provides the training and upbringing conditions in the home and also aims to remove the inequalities in terms of language and society in the early period. The audit is to evaluate learning and all the factors that affect learning and also prepare the environment and conditions for effective learning. The purpose of this research was to develop a comprehensive point of view for preschool education audit in the world and our country. Document analysis that is one of the qualitative research methods were utilized in this paper as the method. The documents related to the systems in France, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Russia, China, Israel, America, Saudi Arabia, Japan, India Jordan, Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Kosovo and Turkey were researched out within the scope of this study.
Suggestions for Sustainable Mathematics Teaching: Storytelling of Elementary School Mathematics Topics
Author: Dogan, Adem
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematics Instruction,Elementary School Mathematics,Sustainability,Teaching Methods,Story Telling,Preservice Teachers,Foreign Countries,Mathematical Concepts,Concept Formation

In the age of change, rapid changes occur in the education and teaching process as in every field. The changes have brought new insights and practices to the mathematics teaching process, just like any other lesson. One of these changes is teaching with storytelling method. Learning with this method can be envisaged to warrant a more permanent, fun and sustainable structure. The stories always have a significant place for the educational process of children from past to present due to their vital texture. Recently, using stories in mathematics teaching has been considered as a fairly new understanding since the effective mathematics teaching process and academic success in mathematics are a quest that has been going on for many years. This quest has been the main driving force in the emergence of different applications. In this regard, this study aims to examine how the pre-service classroom teachers can transfer elementary school mathematics topics to students through stories for sustainable academic and life skills. Having a qualitative research design, the study employed a phenomenological design. The pre-service teachers were asked to turn a topic they chose from the elementary school mathematics curriculum into a story in accordance with the grade level. The participants consisted of 94 pre-service teachers studying at classroom teaching department. Based upon the results obtained from the stories, the stories written by the pre-service classroom were noted to cover all learning domains and sub-learning domains. 94 stories were identified to include each of the 229 objectives available in the Elementary School Mathematics Curriculum.
Pedagogical Pattern of Running a Course on Secondary School Students&apos; Achievement in Waves
Author: Nkwo, Nkwo Inyang
Date: 2021-03-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Methods,Secondary School Students,Academic Achievement,Instructional Effectiveness,Physics,Scientific Concepts,Gender Differences,Foreign Countries

This study investigated the comparative effectiveness of pedagogical pattern of running a course and talk-chalk methods on senior secondary school students' achievement in waves. It is triggered by reports of persistent students' low achievement in physics contributed largely by students' poor performance in waves-related items. It adopted the quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group design. Three research questions and hypotheses guided the study. There were 216 students who participated in the study. Physics Achievement Test (PAT) containing 50 multiple-choice researcher-developed items were used as instrument for data collection. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while ANCOVA was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Results showed that: the pedagogical pattern of running a course method was superior method in fostering students' achievement in waves; female students achieved higher than male students using pedagogical pattern of running a course strategy to teach waves; and there was no significant interaction effect of teaching methods and gender on students' achievement in waves. From the findings, it was recommended that the pedagogical pattern of running a course strategy should be used in teaching physics in secondary school education system and in training of teachers.
Religiosity, Religious Coping and Psychological Distress among Muslim University Students in Malaysia
Author: Abdul Rashid, Mohd Hazreen
Date: 2021-03-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Religious Factors,Anxiety,Depression (Psychology),Stress Variables,Mental Health,Symptoms (Individual Disorders),Severity (of Disability),Coping,Undergraduate Students,Late Adolescents,Muslims,Incidence,Correlation,Gender Differences,Age Differences,Foreign Countries

High demands of academic life and social changes caused relatively high prevalence of psychological distress among university students compared to the general population. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of psychological distress among university students and to examine the factors associated with them. This was cross sectional study involving 467 Bachelor degree students from various faculties in Universiti Teknologi MARA. Participants were assessed using the Brief Religious Coping Scale (Brief RCOPE), the Hatta Islamic Religiosity Index 1996 (HIRS96) and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS 21). This study highlighted relatively high prevalence of depression, anxiety, and stress among the students of UiTM Shah Alam. We also found consistent significant association between negative religious coping with both anxiety and depressive symptoms. Consistent with the earlier studies done among Muslim samples, the positive religious coping is not significantly associated with better psychological outcomes although only small effect was observed towards the depressive symptoms.
Opinions of Graduate Students about Distance Education in the Period of COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Kutlu, Burcu
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Attitudes,Graduate Students,Distance Education,COVID-19,Pandemics,Computer Mediated Communication,Synchronous Communication,Asynchronous Communication,Instructional Effectiveness,Foreign Countries

Graduate Schools provide formal education. Their functions for providing students with scientific research methods, technics and procedures are of great importance for the scientific developments and discoveries globally. However, because of the COVID-19 virus emerged from the Republic of China in 2019, schools and universities across the world had to switch their educational practices to distance education. Likewise, Graduate Schools switched to distance education in practice. The advancement of technology gives the opportunity to continue education by distance education method during the pandemic period. In the research, it was aimed to analyze the results in detail by obtaining the opinions of the students about the implementations of distance education (their efficiency, application). The study adopted general survey model based on qualitative data. The participants were composed of 15 graduate students, and they were selected via convenience sampling model. The data were collected using a semi-structured Google interview form, and analyzed via coding model of the qualitative data analysis. The results showed that students faced internet access problems, they had difficulties understanding the system offered by their university. Some of the courses were offered synchronously but many others asynchronously. In the study it was recommended that necessary infrastructure should be set up and update should constantly be conducted for any possible similar pandemics in the future. [Note: The page range (743-755) shown on the PDF is incorrect. The correct page range for this article should be p743-756. The following article begins on page 756.]
Organizational Policy in Schools and the Relation between Herzberg&apos;s Double Factor Hygiene Motivation Theory
Author: Toytok, Esef Hakan
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Elementary School Teachers,Secondary School Teachers,Teacher Attitudes,Foreign Countries,School Policy,Public School Teachers,Teacher Motivation,Administrator Behavior,Teacher Behavior,Gender Differences,Teacher Promotion,Teacher Administrator Relationship,Peer Relationship,Work Environment,Teacher Salaries

The aim of the research is to determine the relationship between perception of teachers working in primary, secondary and high schools in the city centre of Siirt regarding organizational policy and their perception of Herzberg Double Factor Theory work motivation. The research was conducted with relational screening model. The population of the research consisted of 2051 teachers who worked in the public schools in Siirt Province during 2017-2018 academic year. The participants of the research was composed of 522 teachers who were selected by simple random sampling method. According to the findings obtained with the research, it was seen that perception of teachers was moderate in the organizational policy perception sub-dimension; it was moderate in the work motivation hygiene sub-dimension while it was high in the motivation subdimension. A significant difference was determined in the behaviour of the superiors and colleagues dimension of organizational policy perception according to the gender and self-interest, in the behaviour of the superiors and colleagues' sub-dimensions according to the branch independent variable and Herzberg Double Factor work motivation hygiene sub-dimension according to the branch independent variable. A negative, low-level significant relation was found between self-interest, doing what it takes to be promoted and behaviour of the superiors and colleagues sub-dimensions which were the sub-dimension of perception of teachers related to organizational policy and Herzberg double factor work motivation hygiene and motivation sub-dimensions while a positive and medium-level significant relation was found between organization policies and their applications which were other sub-dimensions of organizational policy perception and Herzberg double factor work motivation hygiene and motivation sub-dimensions.
Post Pandemic Education: Distance Education to Artificial Intelligence Based Education
Author: Seren, Mehmet
Date: 2021-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: COVID-19,Pandemics,Distance Education,Artificial Intelligence,Computer Assisted Instruction,Electronic Learning,Computer Simulation,Educational Benefits,Instructional Effectiveness

The concept of distance education has become even more substantial in the days when humanity is having difficult times with pandemic. Besides, there is an idea that education will have transformed when the life after pandemic starts. Aim of this research is to discuss artificial intelligence-supported or artificial intelligence-based education, which is a type of distance education and to contribute to people's manifesting different perspectives on education, which has differentiated under emergency cases such as pandemics or natural disasters and in technological advances as well. To reveal methods that can contribute to increase efficiency of distance education is aimed within the scope of the research. Whether the human education may be left to machines or not, and what kind of situations will be encountered is discussed within the scope of the research. Results indicate that such a system is used is artificial intelligence-based education should be discussed in depth by stakeholders in all areas and should be arranged for the benefit of human beings.
Evaluating Students&apos; Final Text Production in Polyphonic Critical Literacy Practices: Combining Appraisal Theory with Qualitative Data Sources
Author: Sipitanos, Konstantinos
Date: 2021-01-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Junior High School Students,Student Evaluation,Critical Literacy,Writing Evaluation,Evaluation Methods,Discourse Analysis,Discourse Communities

Critical literacy practices have moved their interest from Freirean binary analyses (e.g. oppressor versus oppressed) to more complex perspectives, where in a text the author/speaker is (dis) aligned with different discourse communities. Despite the fact that these teaching practices that are based in multiple discources are gaining attention, little work has been done on the assessment of the teaching practices. During the last decades, the literacy activities researches have focused on the teacher-student interactions and the teacher talks (asking questions, types of questions), neglecting the final text production, which is also a significant factor in the evaluation of literacy practices. In this paper, after the implementation of polyphonic literacy practices in a rural junior high school in Crete, Greece, the teacher-researcher assessed the final student written products using the Appraisal Theory. Further qualitative methodological data gathering sources enhanced the identification of the contextual factors that can explain in depth the discourses the students (re)produced in their texts. These findings suggest that Appraisal Theory combined with such methodological choices, where the context is identified, is more supportive in the evaluation of these complex critical literacy practices and provides the teacher and students fruitful feedback concerning critical literacy awareness.
Undergraduates Entrepreneurial Intention: Holistic Determinants Matter
Author: Kowang, Tan Owee
Date: 2021-03-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Intention,Undergraduate Students,Entrepreneurship,Student Attitudes,Unemployment,Educational Policy,Barriers,Holistic Approach,Behavior Theories,Personality Traits,Teaching Methods,State Universities,Foreign Countries,Correlation,College Faculty

The role of entrepreneurship in job creation and unemployment reduction is well established by prior studies. Hence, one of the ways to address the unemployment issue among young graduates in Malaysia is to explore how entrepreneurial intention could be embraced into the broader context of the country's education system. Empirical research found that prior studies on entrepreneurship education in Malaysia tends to focus on reviewing educational policies, issue and challenges. The concept of the entrepreneurial intention determinants beyond entrepreneurial education remains ambiguous. Hence, this study advances the discussion in entrepreneurship education by reviewing determinants for entrepreneurial intention from holistic perspective by integrating Model of Personality Traits and the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Five determinants for entrepreneurial intention are identified from literature review, which are entrepreneurship attitude, subjective norm, behavior control, entrepreneurship education and personality traits. The study is quantitative based, 360 questionnaires were distributed to the undergraduates from three faculties of a public university in Malaysia, with 199 responded. Data was analyzed via Pearson correlation and ANOVA analysis. Finding from the study suggested all the five entrepreneurial determinants are significantly correlated with entrepreneurial intention, and there is no significant difference on entrepreneurial intention based on faculty. However, one of the remarkable finding is Entrepreneurship Education is viewed as determinant with the lowest correlation coefficient with entrepreneurial intention. The implication of this finding is perhaps the content of entrepreneurial education shall emphasize on cultivating students' entrepreneurial attitude, behavioral and personality rather than the theoretical part of entrepreneurial and entrepreneurship.
Validating the Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Quality of Malaysian ECCE Instrument
Author: Ahmad, Hishamuddin
Date: 2021-03-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Measures (Individuals),Teacher Evaluation,Preschool Teachers,Kindergarten,Early Childhood Education,Psychometrics,Item Response Theory,Educational Quality,Construct Validity,Test Reliability

Several instruments that measure the teaching, learning, and assessment quality have been developed and published. However, a psychometrically sound instrument to measure teaching, learning, and assessment quality in early childhood care and education that suitable for the Malaysian context needs to be validated. Therefore, this study aimed to validate on teaching, learning, and assessment quality in early childhood care and education instrument, which contains 68 items. The sample comprised 3,498, selected by stratified random sampling from a population of all Malaysian kindergarten teachers. Data were analyzed based on the Polytomous Item Response Theory (IRT) using the Xcalibre software. Samejima's Graded Rating Model (SRGM) was found to be the fit model with the data. Unidimensionality assumption and local independence were tested using the exploratory factor analysis and were fulfilled. The instrument's reliability was overall very good ([alpha]=0.966) and the construct validity was also fairly fulfilled with the value of 58.17% total variance explained. Therefore, this instrument is suggested to be used as fairly to measure the quality of Malaysian early childhood care and education among teachers so that appropriate follow-up actions can be implemented towards the betterment of early childhood education quality.
Burnout Experience of Secondary and Preparatory School Teachers in West Gojjam and Awi Zone in Amhara Regional State
Author: Wulolign, Anteneh
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Burnout,Fatigue (Biology),Emotional Response,Achievement,Secondary School Teachers,Stress Variables,Teacher Characteristics,Gender Differences,Age Differences,Teaching Load,Conflict,Intention,Faculty Mobility,Incidence,Correlation,Foreign Countries,Measures (Individuals)

The purpose of the study was to assess Burnout experience of secondary and preparatory school teachers in West Gojjam and Awi Zones in Amhara regional state. Participants of the study were selected by simple random sampling technique. The study employed cross-sectional survey design method to answer the proposed research objectives regarding burnout experience by secondary school and preparatory school teachers. The primary data collection tool for the study was questionnaire. The level of burnout was assessed using standardized questionnaire, and these standardized questionnaires were adopted from the original English version Maslch burnout inventory Human service Survey to assess the level of burnout. The descriptive statistics on the mean scores of the three dimensions of burnout indicated that teachers were experiencing high levels of burnout in all the three dimensions of burnout. The independent samples t-test result showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the two groups (male and female) in EE and PA burnout levels (t= 1.35, df = 286, p =0.176 &gt;0.05) and (t= -1.007, df = 286, p =0.315 &gt;0.05).