ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Latent Profiles of Performance on Certification Testing: The Case of Special Education Teachers in Saudi Arabia
Author: Dimitrov, Dimiter M.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Special Education Teachers,Preservice Teachers,Teacher Competencies,Background,Teacher Characteristics,Gender Differences,Teacher Education,Specialization,Standards

This study investigates the performance of special education teacher candidates on key professional standards. Specifically, latent class analysis was used to identify latent (hidden) classes of teacher candidates based on their performance on professional standards measured by the &quot;Special Education Teacher Test&quot; for teacher certification in Saudi Arabia. The role of teachers' background variables in the formation of such latent classes was also examined. The results led to the retention of four latent profiles of teachers' performance on the targeted professional standards. Among other things, it was also found that the lowest performing latent class is dominated by males and teachers without professional training, whereas the highest performing latent class is dominated by females and teachers with professional training in special education. Implications for the practice and future research are discussed.
Relationship between Brain Hemisphericity and Non-Routine Problem Solving Skills of Prospective Teachers
Author: Yazgan, Yeliz
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Correlation,Brain,Brain Hemisphere Functions,Problem Solving,Preservice Teachers,Foreign Countries,Lateral Dominance,Mathematics Instruction,Thinking Skills,Mathematics Teachers,Elementary School Teachers,Achievement Tests

The present study aims at answering the question of whether there is any relationship between brain hemisphericity and non-routine problem solving skills of prospective teachers. One hundred twenty-three prospective teachers participated in the study. The Brain Hemisphericity Test and Non-routine Problem Solving Test were used to evaluate participants' brain dominance and achievement in solving non-routine problems. Spearman Rank Correlation Test results showed that there is no link between cerebral dominance and success in non-routine problem solving. This finding may imply that left- or right-brained students can be equally successful in non-routine problem solving. Besides, it can be encouraging to use non-routine problems in math teaching without any limitation in the sense of brain dominance.
Critical Practice Study of Nursing Evaluated by Teachers
Author: Shearer, Jessica
Date: 2018-08-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Nursing,Patients,Health Services,Nursing Education,Competence,Diseases,Role,College Faculty,Nurses,Novices,Specialists,Guidelines,Teacher Attitudes,Individual Needs,Measures (Individuals),Interdisciplinary Approach,Therapy,Intervention,Best Practices

Purpose: Competent nursing care is essential to positive patient outcomes and quality patient care. Graduate nurses begin practice as novices in knowledge and experience often entering an environment where patients have several disease processes complicating their care. A strong foundation of educational competencies prior to entering practice is vital for the development and growth of graduate nurses into the role of RN. The purpose of this study was to examine the use of the Nurse Competence Scale among nursing faculty. Method: Nursing faculty were surveyed to determine which competencies were a priority in nursing practice. The Nurse Competence Scale was used to identify and categorize nurse competences. Brenners novice to expert theoretical framework was used to apply findings to curricular programs. IRB approval was granted from each educational institution. SPSS statistical analysis was used to analyze survey results. Results: Among the categories of the Nurse Competence Scale, nursing faculty identified Acting appropriately in life-threatening situations in the Managing Situations section as most important to practice. In the category of Helping, Planning patient care according to individual needs was identified as most important. Additionally the nursing faculty surveyed rated Contributing to further development of multidisciplinary clinical paths in the Therapeutic Interventions category as the lowest. Conclusion: This study contributes to the discussion on nursing competence. Priorities for nursing faculty aligned with register nurses in practice. This study helps pair nursing education with practice in several ways including aligning current practice with education. Nurse Educators may use these findings to help join curricular outcomes with practice. Evaluating each item on the Nurse Competence Scale using the critical to practice scale provides insight to the necessary skills and knowledge needed to be competent in nursing. In addition the results may be compared to current practice guidelines to ensure best practice. Further research linking education and practice using nursing competence is needed.
Lessons Learned from a Distance Course: &quot;More Use Could Have Been Made of It&quot;
Author: Cánovas, Isabel Álvarez
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Online Courses,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Distance Education,Foreign Countries,Athletics,Student Attitudes,Program Effectiveness,Large Group Instruction,Postsecondary Education,College Students

This paper describes the on-line courses for sport technicians. It approaches them to show the virtues of this formative modality. In the Educational Spanish System, the sportive technician training is part of special teaching, and many of specialties are in transitional period. The final of this period concludes in the official recognition of the titles. It is, therefore, that it compares to post-compulsory studies, baccalaureate and vocational training, to check the evolution that has occurred in recent years. For this study, we have a data producing sample near to 100 students. They answered an ad-hoc questionnaire with two parts: one with quantitative data and the other with qualitative data. The main conclusions reached by the study are: the students have a very high degree of acceptance of the new technologies and a good opinion of the use of Moodle platform. These results are independents of the experience of distance learning. The majority of negative attitudes towards this course come from those students without experience in distance training. The problems are in the use that the teachers make of the platform because it hinders the flexibility of the course.
Relationships between LINUS Teachers&apos; Knowledge of Basic Language Constructs, Teaching Experience and Perceived Teaching Abilities
Author: Lin, Susanna Hong Poay
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Correlation,Foreign Countries,Teaching Experience,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,English Instruction,Elementary School Teachers,English Teachers,Reading Instruction,Literacy,Numeracy,Phonemic Awareness,Phonics,Morphology (Languages),Teacher Education

The purpose of this study was to examine LINUS teachers' knowledge of basic language constructs and the relationships between LINUS teachers' knowledge of basic language constructs, teaching experience and their perceived abilities to teach reading to LINUS students. 121 LINUS teachers teaching English literacy from 31 Johor Bahru national primary schools participated in this survey research study. Findings indicated that LINUS teachers scored a mean percentage of 61% on the total knowledge of basic language constructs. Teachers were strongest at phonological awareness items (82%), followed by phonemic awareness items (63%), morphology items (51%) and phonics items (46%). Results showed that LINUS teachers with 1-5 years of experience teaching English significantly predicted whether they gave higher ratings of perceived abilities to teach reading to LINUS students as compared to LINUS teachers with less than 1 year of experience teaching English (p = 0.04). However, as scores of total knowledge increase, LINUS teachers with less than 1 year of experience teaching English are more likely to give higher ratings of perceived abilities to teach reading to LINUS students than LINUS teachers with 1-5 years of experience teaching English (p = 0.03). The findings highlighted the importance of teacher content knowledge in increasing perceived teaching abilities as opposed to teaching experience per se. Future research should be done on more samples of LINUS teachers for more generalizable results.
Effect of Rhythmic Basketball Lessons on Visual Attention Ability and Lay-Up Skill in School Children Aged 9-10
Author: Tanir, Ayse
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Team Sports,Skill Development,Elementary School Students,Visual Perception,Attention,Physical Education,Foreign Countries,Color,Interference (Learning),Visual Stimuli,Reaction Time,Training,Teaching Methods

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of rhythm training in basketball on the lay-up skill and visual attention ability of 9-10-year-old school children. 56 primary school children (28 experimental groups and 28 control groups) receiving education in the Republic of Macedonia took part voluntarily in the study. At the beginning of the study, the Stroop Colour Test was applied to the students to evaluate their basketball lay-up skill and to measure their visual attention ability. With the experimental group, a total of 12 lessons of rhythmic basketball (1 hour a day, 2 days per week for 6 weeks) were applied, while the control group were given basketball lessons in the traditional way, and the post-tests were repeated. To test the score increases of the groups, the non-parametric Wilcoxon signed rank test was used, while for comparisons between the groups, the Mann-Whitney U test was utilised. Results show that in the post-tests for both groups (REG and TEG) in which the lay-up skill was taught by the rhythm and traditional methods respectively, the performances for both the lay-up skill and visual attention increased, with the exception of the attention error scores. When comparing the differences in the pre-test and post-test scores between the groups for their lay-up skill and visual attention abilities, a statistically significant difference in favour of the REG group was found. It is considered that the findings of this study may (1) lead to the acquisition of new teaching methods in developing lay-up skills and visual attention skills in basketball by which students can take pleasure from the activities, and (2) contribute to the implementation of new Physical Education teaching programmes.
Decision-Making Processes among Potential Dropouts in Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning
Author: Aarkrog, Vibe
Date: 2018-08-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Decision Making,Student Attitudes,Dropouts,At Risk Students,Vocational Education,Adult Education,Adult Students,Student Satisfaction,Attitude Change,Student Development,Foreign Countries,Academic Persistence,Student Motivation,Educational Environment

Context: Aiming at gaining knowledge about students' thoughts and actions in deciding to stay in or drop out of an educational programme, an empirical study was conducted on dropout among 18-24-year-old students in VET and basic general adult learning. Approach: In order to pursue this aim, the study combined two sets of data--weekly student surveys and interviews with these same students. While the surveys provide a weekly snapshot of the students' thoughts regarding the probability of them continuing in the programme, their satisfaction with the educational programme as a whole, the specific lessons they attend, and the atmosphere at the school, the interviews contribute with detailed descriptions of the students' thoughts on the same matters. Findings: Based on the students' answers over an eight-week period, it was possible to trace a graph illustrating changes in the students' attitudes. These graphs can be placed within four categories of development: the stable, the positive, the unstable, and the negative. The latter can furthermore be differentiated as reflecting a stable decline, a fluctuating decline, or a sudden decline. In the interviews, the aim was to elicit the individual students' thoughts and actions at the points when their graphs took a turn. Conclusions: The findings show that the students' thoughts and actions concern matters both inside and outside the school. Furthermore, seemingly trivial matters in the students' lives are shown to have a potentially decisive influence on the students' thoughts about staying in or dropping out of a programme. These findings confirm the importance of focusing on students' decision-making processes in research on dropout. However, further research is needed to increase understanding of processes leading to decisions to drop out of education, including the qualification of methods to capture these processes.
Examining Effect of Participating to Recreational Activities on Loneliness Level of Middle School Students
Author: Ekinci, Nurullah Emir
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Recreational Activities,Middle School Students,Psychological Patterns,Gender Differences,Marital Status,Parents,Foreign Countries,Affective Measures

The present study aimed to investigate middle school students' loneliness level according to participating in recreation activities, the way of participation in recreation activities, and the gender and marital status of the parents. The study sample consisted of voluntarily participated 330 students (184 females and 146 males). The easy sampling method preferred in the present study. The face-to-face survey method was used to collect the data. In the study 'UCLA Loneliness Scale' developed by Russell et al. [7] and adapted to Turkish by Demir [2] and a questionnaire form consisting of 4 questions developed by the researcher are used as data gathering tool. The data obtained for the research were first transferred to the computer and then analyzed by the SPSS program. The error margin level in the study was taken as p &lt; 0.05. The Cronbach alpha of the study was found to be 0.80. As a result, there were not any significant differences between loneliness level of participant and their gender (p&gt;0.05). But between the participant's loneliness level and participating in recreation activities, the way of participation in recreation activities and the marital status of the parents, there were statistically significant results (p&lt;0.05).
Exploring New Angles to Analyze Student Load Data
Author: Rouhi, Amir H.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Financial Aid,Higher Education,Performance Based Assessment,Comparative Analysis,Measurement Techniques,Trigonometry,Equations (Mathematics),Graduate Study,Undergraduate Study,Data Analysis,Foreign Countries

Over the past 25 years, performance measurement has gained salience in higher education, and with the explosion of structured data and the impact of business analytics and intelligence systems, there are new angles by which big volumes of data can be analyzed. Using traditional analytical approaches, pairs of reciprocal cohorts are considered as two separate discrete entities; therefore, basis of analysis are individual pairs of values, using statistical measures such as average, mean or median, of the total population. Missing in traditional approaches is a holistic performance measure in which the shape of the comparable cohorts is being compared to the overall cohort population (vector-based analysis). The purpose of this research is to examine shape analysis, using a Cosine similarity measure to distil new perspectives on performance measures in higher education. Cosine similarity measures the angle between the two vectors, regardless of the impact of their magnitude. Therefore, the more similar behavior of the two comparing entities can be interpreted as more similar orientation or smaller angle between the two vectors. The efficacy of the proposed method is experimented on the three Colleges of RMIT University from 2011 to 2016, and analyzes the shape of different cohorts. The current research also compared the performance of Cosine similarity with two other distance measures: Euclidean and Manhattan distance. The experimental results, using vector-based techniques, provide new insights to analyzing patterns of student load distribution and provide additional angles by orientation instead of magnitude / volume comparison.
The Prediction of Professional Success in Apprenticeship: The Role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities, of Interests and Personality
Author: Diedrich, Jennifer
Date: 2018-08-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Apprenticeships,Success,Prediction,Cognitive Ability,Personality Traits,Vocational Interests,Job Satisfaction,Predictor Variables,Intelligence,Competence,Employment Qualifications,Postsecondary Education,Foreign Countries,Motivation

Context: We addressed the issue of person-job-fit by focussing on both professional success and work satisfaction. Publications studying the predictive validity of (cognitive) ability, personality, or vocational interest alone have shown relationships with professional success or work satisfaction for each predictor separately. Nevertheless, these predictors have rarely been studied simultaneously. Methods: To this end we tested the incremental validity of abilities, traits, and interests in a sample from diverse occupations -- In 648 apprentices and students from five different branches (Food, Tech, People, Office, Craft) the (incremental) contributions of 3 intelligence factors (verbal, numerical, spatial), 3 alternative abilities (social-emotional, creative, practical), 4 conscientiousness facets, other big five factors (O, E, A, N), and of 14 professional interests were analysed regarding prediction of GPA in professional schools and school/job satisfaction. Results: Intelligence and conscientiousness were best predictors, followed by social-emotional competence and interests, whereas other traits provided marginal contributions. Predictors varied between branches, mostly following expectations. The test battery allowed a very good prediction of apprenticeship success (max. 37%), but for some branches prediction was considerably lower. Conclusion: Criteria for person-job-fit are not swappable, neither are the predictors. Professional success was mostly predicted by a different predictor set--namely ability and the personality dimension of conscientiousness--then satisfaction, which was mostly predicted by non-interest in a certain occupation. As a practical implication, we conclude that choosing the right candidate for a certain branch one needs to use a broad set of predictor variables. Besides cognitive ability also personality and vocational interests had predictive validity for an individuals person-job-fit.
Developing a Three-Level Framework for Building Information Modeling Education in Construction Management
Author: Huang, Yilei
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Information Technology,Construction Management,Models,Undergraduate Study,Buildings,Undergraduate Students

As Building Information Modeling (BIM) became the gold standard of the architecture, construction, and engineering industry, lack of skilled BIM professionals is considered one of the major challenges. While numerous studies have identified different approaches to introduce BIM in construction management (CM) programs, comprehensive frameworks have not been found. To bridge the gap, this paper proposes a three-level framework that provides a systematic coverage of BIM through the entire CM curriculum. The framework consists of a fundamentals level covering BIM contents in most CM subjects, an application level where BIM is applied to solve real-world problems, and an advanced level that focuses on the latest and advanced topics of BIM. The framework aligns most CM subjects to their respective BIM components and exposes CM students to BIM from entry to exit. This paper serves as a case study of how BIM education has been implemented in an undergraduate CM program.
Education and Career Choices: How the School Can Support Young People to Develop Knowledge and Decision-Making Skills
Author: Eriksson, Helena
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Research,Career Choice,Social Support Groups,Young Adults,Knowledge Level,Decision Making Skills,Foreign Countries,Labor Market,School Counselors

Contemporary society is characterized by rapid changes in the labor market, increased flow of information, and more opportunities to make choices in relation to education and career. Previous research has demonstrated how many young people in school don't think they get the support they need to make such choices. The overall aim of this article is to contribute to more in-depth knowledge of what kind of support and knowledge young adults describe as important in order to be able to make informed choices. This knowledge might help school to better support young people in acquiring the knowledge, skills, and attitudes in relation to their education and career choices. The article is based on interviews with 25-year-old men and women. 23 interviews were conducted. In sum, the analysis indicates that guidance activities that aims to contribute to knowledge about the labor market, programs and courses and requirements for different education programs would probably be perceived as more fruitful by the young adults if they are organized in a combination of different levels, i.e. both as group activities (exhibitions, general information/discussion) and individual activities (personal information/discussion). Further, the authors demonstrate that roles and expectations between pupils, teachers and guidance counselors should be discussed and clarified.
Analysis of Difference between the VO[subscript 2]max Values in Field and Laboratory Tests
Author: Gönülates, Süleyman
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,College Students,Laboratories,Tests,Exercise Physiology,Evaluation Methods,Athletes

Purpose of this study is to determine whether there is a difference between the VO[subscript 2]max values in field and laboratory test. 96 students, studying at the Sports Academy of Sports Sciences and Technology of the Pamukkale University, have participated to the study on voluntary basis. While during the field test, the 12-minutes Cooper test has been utilized, as determinant in the laboratory test the Bruce Treadmill test has been used. The data obtained in result of the applied tests were calculated using formula advised for the test. For the statistical analysis of the data, the IBM SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) 21.0 pack program has been used. In order to define the data distributions, an Identify in Statistics has been performed. For the comparison of two variables on the same group, the Paired Sample t-test has been used. Results have been submitted as average (X) and standard deviation (SS). The value P&lt;0,05 has been found to be significant. Consequently, a statistically significant difference has been determined between the Field test (Cooper) and Laboratory test (Bruce). And this shows that the VO[subscript 2]max value in the applications of the laboratory environment is higher than the VO[subscript 2]max value in the applications of the field test.