ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Many Lives of Women Rectors at Turkish Universities
Author: Ustun, Suzan
Date: 2017-08-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Women Administrators,Females,Higher Education,Educational Administration,Sex Role,Gender Discrimination,Disproportionate Representation,Qualitative Research,Administrator Attitudes,Barriers,Interviews,Self Esteem,Resistance to Change

Women at Turkish Universities do not have the same level of representation as rectors as they have academics at the higher education. It is vital to have women, as one of the genders which comprises the community, at the higher education management as rectors to ensure the gender equality in Turkey. As well as the traditional roles assigned to women in Turkey, the lack of legal arrangements and challenges based on gender discrimination faced by women might be the cause of the women's low representation in the higher education management. This study aims to explicate the experience of being a woman rector through qualitative data gathered from four rectors working at state and foundation universities in Turkey. The low representation of women in higher education management has been identified as a universal problem. It is obvious that woman academics in Turkish universities have low representation at the universities' top management. Following two themes were identified: Perspectives of Women Rectors Regarding Their Roles and Challenges Faced. These themes were revealed through the voices of women rectors in Turkey. Therefore, this study is expected to bring unique insights both for university administrators and policy makers in terms of raising an awareness for the role of women leaders.
Towards Analytics for Wholistic School Improvement: Hierarchical Process Modelling and Evidence Visualization
Author: Crick, Ruth Deakin
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Improvement,Holistic Approach,Data Collection,Data Analysis,Foreign Countries,Visualization,Evaluation Methods,Case Studies,Technology Uses in Education,Self Evaluation (Groups),Models,National Standards,Decision Making,Engineering Education,Leadership Role,Systems Approach,Computer Software,Transformative Learning,Measurement Techniques,Questionnaires,Interviews,College Students,College Faculty,Leaders

Central to the mission of most educational institutions is the task of preparing the next generation of citizens to contribute to society. Schools, colleges, and universities value a range of outcomes--e.g., problem solving, creativity, collaboration, citizenship, service to community--as well as academic outcomes in traditional subjects. Often referred to as &quot;wider outcomes,&quot; these are hard to quantify. While new kinds of monitoring technologies and public datasets expand the possibilities for quantifying these indices, we need ways to bring that data together to support sense-making and decision-making. Taking a systems perspective, the hierarchical process modelling (HPM) approach and the &quot;Perimeta&quot; visual analytic provides a dashboard that informs leadership decision-making with heterogeneous, often incomplete evidence. We report a prototype of Perimeta modelling from education, aggregating wider outcomes data across a network of schools, and calculating their cumulative contribution to key performance indicators, using the visual analytic of the Italian flag to make explicit not only the supporting evidence, but also the challenging evidence, as well as areas of uncertainty. We discuss the nature of the modelling decisions and implicit values involved in quantifying these kinds of educational outcomes.
An Investigation of the Relationship between Sportsmanship Behavior of Students in Physical Education Course and Their Respect Level
Author: Koç, Yakup
Date: 2017-08-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Physical Education,Sportsmanship,Student Behavior,High School Students,Foreign Countries,Comparative Analysis,Grade 9,Grade 11,Grade 10,Statistical Analysis,Negative Attitudes,Positive Attitudes,Human Dignity,Gender Differences,School Effectiveness,Socioeconomic Status,Athletics

The aim of this study is to examine relationship between the physical education course sportspersonship behaviors and respect levels for high school students. The sample of study consists of randomly selected 505 high school students (215 female and 290 male) attending state schools in the province of Istanbul in 2016-2017 academic year. &quot;Physical Education Course Sportspersonship Behavior Scale,&quot; &quot;Respect Scale&quot; and personal information form created by the researcher were used in the study. It was found that the scales was valid and reliable and could be used for high school students. Sportsmanship behaviors significantly differed according to the gender of the students (in favor of the girls), the grade (in favor of 10th grade), school success (in favor of good level) and the type of sports most interested (in favor of physically noncontact sports). It was understood that the scale scores of the students are not significantly different according to the family economic conditions. It was found that physical education course sportspersonship behaviors (Realization of Positive Behavior, Avoidance from Negative Behavior) are significantly related to respect levels (Cosmopolitanism, Communitarianism) positively. And it was seen that the level of respect was a significant predictor of the sportsmanship of the students. It is believed that the implementation of activities aimed at improving the level of respect in schools will be helpful in improving sportsmanship behaviors.
Shapes of Educational Data in an Online Calculus Course
Author: Caprotti, Olga
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Online Courses,Calculus,Markov Processes,Graphs,Models,Educational Resources,Learning Activities,Mathematics Instruction,Study Habits,Teaching Methods,Mathematical Models,Management Systems,Student Centered Learning,Peer Teaching,Data Analysis,College Students,Tests,Grades (Scholastic),Recordkeeping

This paper describes investigations in visualizing logpaths of students in an online calculus course held at Florida State University in 2014. The clickstreams making up the logpaths can be used to visualize student progress in the information space of a course as a graph. We consider the graded activities as nodes of the graph, while information extracted from the logpaths between the graded activities label the edges of the graph. We show that this graph is associated to a Markov Chain in which the states are the graded activities and the weight of the edge is proportional to the probability of that transition. When we visualize such a graph, it becomes apparent that most students follow the course sequentially, section after section. This model allows us to study how different groups of students employ the learning resources using sequence analysis on information buried in their clickstreams.
The Relationship between School Administrators Personalities and Servant Leadership Behaviours
Author: Saglam, Mehmet Hilmi
Date: 2017-08-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: School Administration,Leadership Styles,Leadership Qualities,Personality Traits,Correlation,Administrator Behavior,Personality Measures,Regression (Statistics),Behavior Rating Scales,Teacher Surveys,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis,Factor Analysis

In a globalized world, people's financial opportunities are increasing. However, their spiritual and moral behaviour is diminishing. This situation can be seen in both people and institutions, especially in the education sector. Servant Leadership, which presents a new perspective on this humanitarian crisis, is a modern leadership approach. An effective and successful school comprises managers with strong personalities and effective leadership methods. The main purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between the personalities of school administrators and their servant leadership behaviours. A correlational research model was used in the research. The participants constituted 14.135 teachers working in schools in the province of Denizli, a city in Turkey, in the academic year of 2016-2017. The sample comprised 327 teachers selected using the convenient easy sampling method. A personal information form prepared by the researcher, comprising the Servant Leadership Scale and the Adjective Based Personality Test (ABPT) was used in the research. The research data was analysed with the IBM SPSS 21.0 package software program. As a result of the analyses made, a high positive correlation was found between school administrator personalities and Servant Leadership behaviours (r = 0.764).
Interview with Datin Goh Suet Lan on Business Coaching
Author: Nimehchisalem, Vahid
Date: 2016-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Business,Coaching (Performance),Entrepreneurship,Females,Low Income Groups,Poverty,Nongovernmental Organizations,Outcomes of Education,Program Effectiveness,Success,Transformative Learning,Empowerment,One Parent Family

In this article the author writes of having had the pleasure of meeting Datin Goh Suet Lan and one of the key members of her team, Mr. Murali, in the Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia with three colleagues, Associate Professor Dr. Shamala Paramasivam (who initiated this meeting), Dr. Ilyana Binti Jalaluddin, and Dr. Ramiza Binti Darmi. At the end of this meeting, Datin graciously accepted the invitation for an E-mail interview, which is the result of what is presented here. The interview will show how it is possible to educate women who are the bread-winners of poverty stricken families to work more wisely for a better living. In this interview, Datin, who is the president of an non governmental organization (NGO) called Women of Will (www.womenofwill.org.my), shares the insightful experiences she and her team have reaped in their journey of making a meaningful difference in their community.
Impact of Educational Attainment on Marital Stability among Married Persons in Imo State, Nigeria
Author: Ojukwu, M. O.
Date: 2016-07-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Marriage,Marital Instability,Educational Attainment,Comparative Analysis,Questionnaires,Correlation,Urban Areas,Rural Areas,Geographic Location,Social Influences,Sex Role

It has been revealed that recently there appear to be a kind of downward trend in marriage patronage in our society. The trend is prevalent in both western and non-western culture. Also, in the recent decade there seems to be a cut down in the interest of young people willing to go into marriage. This is as a result of the dwindling credibility that people attach to marriage and the retreat of men and women from getting married or patronizing marriage in our society today which seems to be a concomitant effect of the numerous crises bedeviling the marriage institution chief among which is marital instability. Unfortunately, not much is being done to redress this issue and since a stable marriage gives birth to a stable society and a stable nation, the primary aim of this study therefore was to determine the impact of educational attainment on marital stability among married persons in Imo State. The study adopted a casual comparative design. Eight hundred and three (803) married persons were selected through simple random sampling for the study. The study made use of questionnaire for the collection of data. Two research questions guided the study. Spearman's Correlation Coefficient and independent T-test analysis were used to analyze the data. The findings revealed that there was a positive relationship between married persons' low and high levels of educational attainment and marital stability while there was no significant relationship between those with medium level of educational attainment and their marital stability. Based on the findings, it was recommended that those involved and engaged in the marriage molding institution should organize seminars, workshops and conferences to educate intending couples with regard to choosing partners based on the couples' educational attainment.
College Students' Interpretations of Financial Morality: An International Comparison
Author: Bates, Alan
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Students,Online Surveys,Student Surveys,Student Attitudes,Foreign Countries,Moral Values,Cross Cultural Studies,Cultural Differences,Money Management,Citizenship Education,Multicultural Education,Relevance (Education),Social Studies,Teacher Education,Business Administration Education,Majors (Students),Literacy,Ethics

This paper interprets comments associated with an open-response item on an online survey of college students in the United States, Japan, and Canada. The item inquired about their interpretations of financial morality. The paper describes student understandings of appropriate behaviors in relationship to financial practice. The authors claim that the distinction between social convention and moral behavior represents a critical understanding for citizenship education. The value of this research lies within the importance of being cognizant of cross-cultural differences about perspectives of financial ideas in global communications and in educational processes.
Experiencing the Local to Become Global: A Portrait of Teaching and Learning Abroad
Author: Brugar, Kristy A.
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Social Studies,Teacher Attitudes,Teaching Experience,Case Studies,Professional Identity,Overseas Employment,Interviews,Foreign Countries,Study Abroad,Cultural Awareness,Faculty Development,Place Based Education,Global Education,Secondary School Teachers,Focus Groups

This case study analyzes the experiences of two first-year American (U.S.) social studies teachers, Sam and Libby, working aboard. Over the course of the year, these two teachers developed an understanding of place and themselves as global educators. Using place-based theory (Sobel, 1994) and drawing on case study methodology, the research question is: How do international teaching experiences impact in-service teachers' identities as global educators? I interviewed Sam and Libby six times over the course of one calendar year about their teaching and living experiences in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, their first-year teaching as well as their thoughts on global teaching and learning. Findings show each teacher developed a growing understanding of place and their identity as global educators. The implications of these understandings have an impact on their work as social studies teachers and ways in which international experiences may be used to facilitate better global understandings. Recommendations for future research, teacher education, and in-service teacher professional development are identified.
Cybernated Storytelling: Revitalising Storytelling Activities for Secondary School Students
Author: Rosli, Roziana M.
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Story Telling,Teaching Methods,Secondary School Students,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Qualitative Research,Foreign Countries,Video Technology,Cooperative Learning,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Learning Activities,Oral Language,Written Language,Interviews

Storytelling is one of the most common activities used in teaching English proficiency to language students. It is widely accepted as a teaching technique by many educators because it engages students in learning. This study seeks to examine students' readiness in using technology-aided applications in telling their stories. It also investigates how cybernated storytelling could encourage them to communicate more in groups. This qualitative study involved 35 secondary school students, selected based on purposive sampling technique, from a multi-ethnic secondary school in Malaysia. After having initial exposure to cybernated storytelling video production, the students were divided into small groups and required to engage in developing a cybernated storytelling video for a period of 90 days using the English language. While engaging in the activity, students were expected to communicate orally in face-to-face meetings and in writing using WhatsApp (WA) and Facebook (FB) platforms. Their WA and FB entries were compiled and analysed thematically besides interview responses which were collected during the group interview. The findings point to how technology aided language learning could be a strong support in enhancing students' English communication skills.
A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Most Frequent Adjectives in Academic Texts
Author: Kartal, Galip
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Form Classes (Languages),Incidence,Textbook Content,Social Sciences,Technology,Medicine,North American English,Second Language Learning,Language Usage

Based on a mega corpus, The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), this study aims to determine the most frequent adjectives used in academic texts and to investigate whether these adjectives differ in frequency and function in social sciences, technology, and medical sciences. It also identifies evaluative adjectives from a list of a hundred most frequently used adjectives. A total of 839 adjectives, which comprises the list of frequently used adjectives in COCA, were searched using a search engine. 334 of the adjectives were found to appear more frequently in the academic sub-corpus than in other sub-corpora (spoken, fiction, magazine, and newspaper). There was only one adjective that was used more frequently in technology and medical sciences than in social sciences. Some adjectives were very dominant in a specific discipline of academic texts. The frequency of evaluative adjectives in most frequently used 100 adjectives was also listed. It is found that almost 40% percent of the adjectives are evaluative. The results of the study were discussed in terms of frequency effects in language learning and writing in the foreign language as providing learners with corpus data may improve language knowledge and the correct use of adjectives.
&quot;You Can't Vote, Right?&quot;: When Language Proficiency Is a Proxy for Citizenship in a Civics Classroom
Author: Dabach, Dafney Blanca
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Language Proficiency,Civil Rights,Citizenship,Immigration,Grade 12,High School Students,Teacher Student Relationship,Immigrants,Undocumented Immigrants,United States Government (Course),English Language Learners,Secondary School Teachers,Sampling,Teacher Attitudes,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Second Language Learning,Teaching Methods,Discourse Analysis

This article raises questions at the intersection of immigration, citizenship, and formal civics education. Drawing from positioning theory and critical discourse analysis, this article contrasts episodes in two twelfth-grade classrooms taught by the same teacher. In the general education government class, the teacher registered students to vote, while in her English learner (EL) government class she positioned youth as non-citizens. Students' language status appeared to serve as a proxy for citizenship status. This article serves as an existence proof that teachers may conflate students' language status with their citizenship status. Additionally, the article highlights the need for understanding more about how teachers navigate citizenship status when there are real or imagined discontinuities between teachers' citizenship rights and students'. The episodes also raise questions about the implications of teaching in settings where youth may potentially have a variety of citizenship statuses (including official citizenship by birth or naturalization, temporary or permanent &quot;legal&quot; resident status, or undocumented status). Ultimately this work contributes to conceptualizing what a more inclusive and equitable civics education would look like for all students, regardless of citizenship status.
&quot;Creating a Comic Strip Is Very Creative and Thanks to It We Learn and Remember&quot;--Student Perceptions of a Biology Challenge in a Gamified Extracurricular CLIL Project
Author: Pitura, Joanna
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cartoons,Biology,Science Instruction,Language of Instruction,Teaching Methods,Secondary School Students,Extracurricular Activities,Second Language Learning,Foreign Countries,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Learning Experience,Computer Games,Student Projects,Active Learning,Questionnaires,Task Analysis,Difficulty Level,Student Attitudes

Upper-secondary school students must prepare for adult life, which--among others--entails acquiring relevant skills and discovering their own potential. Efforts at European and national levels have been made to ensure that students gain the competences, the so-called key competences, which facilitate functioning in the modern world. However, in Polish upper-secondary schools their overall development may be problematic as schoolwork is heavily exam-oriented. In order to address this challenge, a study was undertaken, the aim of which was to investigate the usefulness and feasibility of applying gamification to an extracurricular CLIL project intended to develop key competences in an upper-secondary school. The paper reports on one part of this study, i.e. on how a biology challenge (two tasks) was designed, implemented and evaluated. The results show educational and emotional gains, suggesting the motivational effect of gamification in learning.
The Utility of Blended Learning in EFL Reading and Grammar: A Case for Moodle
Author: Bataineh, Ruba Fahmi
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Online Courses,Large Group Instruction,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Reading Instruction,Grammar,Reading Comprehension,Quasiexperimental Design,Pretests Posttests,College Students,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Blended Learning,Comparative Analysis,Statistical Analysis,Foreign Countries,Multivariate Analysis

This study examines the effect of Moodle-enhanced instruction on Jordanian EFL students' reading comprehension and grammar performance. The study uses a quasi-experimental, pre- /post-test design. A purposeful sample of 32 students, enrolled in a language requirement course at a Jordanian state university, was randomly divided into an experimental group (n = 17) and a control group (n = 15). The former used blended learning in which Moodle supplemented in-class instruction whereas the latter used in-class instruction only. Using means, standard deviations, ANCOVA and MANCOVA, the analysis revealed that the experimental group outperformed the control group (at a = 0.05) in both reading comprehension and grammar.