ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Psychometric and Structural Evaluation of the Physics Metacognition Inventory Instrument
Author: Haeruddin
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Physics,Psychometrics,Metacognition,Measures (Individuals),Indonesian,Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,English (Second Language),Goodness of Fit,Universities,Science Education,College Students,Student Attitudes,Reliability,Problem Solving,Factor Analysis,Foreign Countries

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the psychometric and structural instruments of the Physics Metacognition Inventory (PMI) developed by Taasoobshirazi, Bailey, and Farley. The PMI consists of 26 items in six factors. The English and Indonesian versions were tested on an English course (N = 37) in the Geophysics study program at Tadulako University. The trials were conducted separately within a two-week interval. The data collected from 364 students of the Physics Education Department, University of Tadulako were analyzed using the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). Later, data were collected from 351 students of some Indonesian universities which have physics education study programs, and the data were analyzed using the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). The EFA result reveals six factors based on the rotation result with the maximum loading factor. The CFA result shows the RMSEA values of 0.018, X[superscript 2] (284) = 316.32 (X[superscript 2]/df = 1,11), GFI = 0.93, CFI = 0.99, AGFI = 0.92 and NFI = 0.93 which meet the cut-off statistic value, and therefore, the model is considered fit, with the Construct Reliability Estimation (CR) of 0.93, Composite Reliability of a = 0.95, and maximum reliability of omega = 0.96. The results obtained reveal that the PMI scale has good, valid and reliable psychometric properties. Therefore, PMI can be used to measure the level of metacognition of students when solving physics problems. Future studies using PMI are also discussed.
Value Creation of Big Data Utilization: The Next Frontier for Productive Scholarship among Filipino Academics
Author: Dapiton, Ethelbert P.
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Faculty,Data Analysis,Productivity,Reputation,Faculty Workload,Scientific Research,Time Management,Teacher Attitudes,Data Use,Item Response Theory,Foreign Countries

Research productivity plays an important role in the prestige and reputation among higher education institutions. However, the time spent to do research among Filipino academics is the most pressing issue since they can barely meet the requirement for research productivity. Further, the lack of time for data gathering aggravated the drawbacks for research productivity. Data gathering is at the core of almost all research activity, the absence of factual and reliable data will lead to an invalid and illogical inference. In research years, there has been a massive agglomeration of data in large volumes coming from diverse sources pertaining to almost all facets of human activity which is worthy of investigation- known today as Big Data. This research has two (2) main objectives; the first is to find out the underlying reasons why Filipino academics are not enthusiastic to do research. The second is to evaluate the value of big data utilization for research productivity based on the assessment of the faculty members. This research used the Rasch model to measure the responses of Filipino academics with regards to their reasons for not doing enough research work as well as on their assessment for value creation of big data utilization using a polytomous item response selection scale.
An Explanation of Happiness with Secure Attachment, Basic Psychological Needs and Hope: The Case of Turkish University Students
Author: Cihangir Cankaya, Zeynep
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,College Students,Psychological Patterns,Student Satisfaction,Personal Autonomy,Competence,Relevance (Education),Parent Child Relationship,Attachment Behavior,Predictor Variables,Self Determination,Student Needs,Mothers,Fathers

In this study we aimed to investigate the role of hope, secure attachment with the parents, and satisfaction levels of the basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relatedness) of university students in predicting their happiness levels. A total of 558 university students were recruited and 70% of them were female and 30% of them were male. Ages of the participants ranged from 18 to 29. The data were collected in classroom settings using personal information form, the Oxford Happiness Scale, the Attachment with the Parents Scale, the Basic Psychological Needs Scale, and the Dispositional Hope Scale. Results indicated that that the satisfaction levels of the competence needs were the most powerful predictor of happiness among university students. The satisfaction levels of autonomy, relatedness needs, and a secure attachment to the father, along with hope contributed little to the explanation of happiness; whereas, a secure attachment to the mother was not a predictor of happiness of the university students. The findings were discussed within the framework of the developmental characteristics of university students and the characteristics of collectivist societies.
Developing of Computerized Adaptive Testing to Measure Physics Higher Order Thinking Skills of Senior High School Students and Its Feasibility of Use
Author: Istiyono, Edi
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Computer Assisted Testing,Physics,Science Instruction,Secondary School Science,High School Students,Thinking Skills,Student Evaluation,Test Validity,Grade 10,Foreign Countries,Educational Technology

The Computer has occupied a comprehensive coverage, especially in education scopes, including in learning-teaching processes, testing, and evaluating. This research aimed to develop computerized adaptive testing (CAT) to measure physics higher-order thinking skills (HOTS), namely PhysTHOTS-CAT. The Research Development used the 4-D developmental model carrying the four phases of define, design, development, and dissemination (4D) developed by Thiagarajan. This testing instrument can give the item test based on the student's abilities. The research phases include (1) needs analysis and definition, (2) development design (3) development of CAT and assemble the test items into CAT, (4) validation by experts, and (5) feasibility try-out. The findings show that PhysTHOTS-CAT is valid to measure physics HOTS of the 10th-grade students of Senior High School according to 82.28% of teachers and students assessment on PhysTHOTS-CAT content and media. Therefore, it can conclude that PhysTHOTS-CAT can be used and feasible to measure physics HOTS of the 10th-grade students of the Senior High School.
Integrating Concepts and Expressions of Inclusion in the K-Curriculum: The Case of the Philippines
Author: Raguindin, Princess Zarla J.
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Inclusion,Regular and Special Education Relationship,Foreign Countries,Kindergarten,Student Diversity,Social Development,Interpersonal Competence,Educational Legislation,Curriculum,Academic Standards,Educational Principles,Teaching Methods

Inclusive education as a curricular trend is implemented by countries as an action taken in response to the collective call of the Salamanca Statement. It carries the tenet that all learners should be educated alongside their peers regardless of physical, cognitive, socio-emotional, and economic, language, cultural, and other perceived differences. School children, as peers of children with special needs, are co-implementers of the inclusive agenda. Young children are competent, possess their views and agencies, and have nascent characteristics that promote inclusion. As such, it is essential to explore how knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, and ethics can further be developed and refined for the sake of creating an inclusive community through integrating them in the school curriculum. This paper sought to analyse the articulation of inclusive concepts and expressions in the K-curriculum and strategies utilized by the teachers to reinforce them. Two documents were analysed in this study to address the research questions: (a) prescribed k-curriculum currently used in the Philippines (b) interview transcripts of the key informants. Through content analysis, results of the study revealed that several inclusive concepts and expressions are articulated in the kindergarten curriculum across domains and are reinforced by teachers using varied strategies. Recommendations of the study are discussed.
Prospective Social Studies Teachers&apos; Views on a Creative Drama and Painting Activity with Turkish Coffee
Author: Sungurtekin, Sehnaz
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preservice Teachers,Social Studies,Painting (Visual Arts),Food,Foreign Countries,Interdisciplinary Approach,Art Education,Student Attitudes,Color,Aesthetics,Cultural Background,Art Materials,Culturally Relevant Education,Art Activities,Role Playing,Social Environment,Emotional Response

The purpose of this research was to carry out an interdisciplinary art education activity with Turkish coffee and to evaluate the views of prospective teachers. For this aim, an integrated single case study design with a qualitative research approach was used. The study group consisted of twenty prospective social studies teachers. A questionnaire and semi-structured observation form were used as data collection tools. The data obtained were grouped under specific codes and categories and interpreted with a descriptive analysis approach. The visualised combination of the experiences, feelings and thoughts that the prospective teachers acquired through the natural colour content of coffee and the synthetic content of paints enabled the formation of a great variety of visual effects. The research findings show that prospective teachers gained aesthetic values through these visual effects. The integration of Turkish coffee with creative drama and painting also enabled the students to increase their awareness regarding Turkish coffee as an intangible cultural heritage in the social studies curriculum. Furthermore, it may ensure the dissemination of activities that involve the use of natural materials together with artificial materials for artistic purposes in all fields of teacher education.
The Development of Computerized Economics Item Banking for Classroom and School-Based Assessment
Author: Friyatmi
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Computer Assisted Testing,Item Banks,High School Students,Foreign Countries,Economics,Test Validity,Item Response Theory,Usability,Student Evaluation

The advancement of information and technology resulted in the change in conventional test methods. The weaknesses of the paper-based test can be minimized using the computer-based test (CBT). The development of a CBT desperately needs a computerized item bank. This study aimed to develop a computerized item bank for classroom and school-based assessments. A research and development method is used in this study, which consisted of four phases, i.e., planning, item development, system development, and field testing. Data is collected through documentation, expert judgment, and field testing. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and item response theory. The sample of this study was teachers and high school students in West Sumatera province selected using purposive random sampling techniques. The results of the study are as follows. 1) The computerized item bank has excellent quality based on expert validation. 2) There are 120 items inputted into the item bank system that has a moderate difficulty and good discriminant index based on item response theory. 3) The field testing indicated the computerized economics item banking has high effectiveness of usability, usefulness for the teachers, and feasible for classroom and school-based assessment.
The Significance of Motivations and Selected Effects of Student Employment in the Course of Studies: A Case of an Economics Study Program in Poland
Author: Ostoj, Izabela
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Economics Education,Student Employment,Student Motivation,Universities,Correlation,Career Choice,Job Skills,Education Work Relationship,Student Attitudes,Undergraduate Students,Time Management,Study Habits,Leisure Time,Foreign Countries,Higher Education,Student Characteristics

The article addresses the problem of gainful employment undertaken during full-time studies. It analyzes the importance of students' motivations to work and the selected effects of combining studies and work. It refers to areas that have not yet been investigated by other researchers. The data used in the article come from the survey conducted by the author at the Faculty of Economics, at the University of Economics in Katowice through 2014-2017. The study revealed a strong relationship between the motivations to start work during studies and the following factors: the alignment of a chosen job to the field of study, the opportunity to develop new skills and competencies valued on the labor market, the willingness to continue working for the same employer after graduation, and an employer's intention to employ a student after graduation. Another connection was identified between the character of the work performed by students and their readiness to change if given another opportunity. The relationship, albeit relatively weak, was also confirmed between the character of the work performed and difficulties experienced by students with combining work with studies and the ability to maintain a balance between time assigned to studying, work and leisure.
Emotional Intelligence of Elementary Scholar: Instructional Strategy and Personality Tendency
Author: Tadjuddin, Nilawati
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Emotional Intelligence,Personality Traits,Extraversion Introversion,Elementary School Students,Foreign Countries,Grade 1,Learning Strategies,Teaching Methods,Inquiry

Each child has a different personality type of tendency. Personality type is closely related to emotional intelligence. Through this study, we report the analysis results of the effects of personality type tendencies and the application of learning strategies in controlling the emotional intelligence of elementary school students. This study uses the quasi-experimental method with a 2x2 factorial design in data collection. Data analysis used was a two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) test. Research findings show that students with extrovert tendencies personality are better than students with introvert personality types. The application of inquiry strategies in learning is better at controlling emotional intelligence than the application of expository strategies.
The Correlation between Metacognitive Skills and Critical Thinking Skills at the Implementation of Four Different Learning Strategies in Animal Physiology Lectures
Author: Amin, Astuti Muh.
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Metacognition,Critical Thinking,Correlation,Thinking Skills,Learning Strategies,Animals,Physiology,College Science,Active Learning,Constructivism (Learning),Persuasive Discourse,Foreign Countries,Undergraduate Students,Conventional Instruction,Inquiry

The empowerment of metacognitive skills has an important role in increasing the capacity of critical thinking and active control of students' cognitive processes in learning. Metacognitive skills can be enhanced through the implementation of learning strategies involving higher-order thinking. The RQA, ADI, RQA integrated with ADI are constructivistic learning strategies that can accommodate these skills. The researches specifically examining the correlation between metacognitive skills and critical thinking skills at the implementation of RQA, ADI, and RQA integrated with ADI learning strategies are still rarely found. This research is a correlational research, aiming at revealing the correlation between metacognitive skills and critical thinking skills. The data of metacognitive skills and critical thinking skills are collected by using a valid and reliable essay test. The samples of this research are the fourth semester (IV) biology education students programming Animal Physiology course in the 2016/2017 academic year consisting of 109 students. The results of this research show that (1) there was a significant correlation between metacognitive skills and critical thinking skills at the implementation of the four learning strategies, (2) the regression equations analyzed using Anova obtain regression lines (not coincide), and non parallel regression lines (intersected); meaning that there is a difference in the increase rate and magnitude of the critical thinking skills influenced by the four learning strategies. It is expected that the teachers and the lecturers always strive to improve the quality of the learning process through the implementation of active and constructive learning strategies.
&quot;Flipped Learning&quot; Methodology in Professional Training of Future Language Teachers
Author: Nikitova, Inna
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Homework,Video Technology,Ukrainian,Language Proficiency,College Students,Student Attitudes,Preferences,Student Motivation,Time Management,Lifelong Learning,Problem Solving,Distance Education,Foreign Countries,Secondary Education,Languages for Special Purposes

The purpose of the study was to examine and evaluate the impact the &quot;flipped classroom&quot; model-based learning environment accompanied by multimedia-based textbook entitled &quot;Ukrainian language (for professional purposes)&quot; provides for the language proficiency and learning styles of the university students majoring in language and literature teaching. A multimedia textbook &quot;Ukrainian for Special Purposes&quot; was designed for the study. A multi method approach was used to gather feedback and quantitative methods were used to analyze the data. Specifically, a 2X2 split-plot design was used to analyze the quantitative data and the two-way ANOVA for Mixed Measures was used to designate the main effects for column and row factors and their interaction effect related to the efficacy of the experiment. Textalyzer software was used to process the students' responses to survey questions. The results reported a shift in student preferences in learning, including a greater desire to engage independently with computer-assisted work, quicker problem solving, increased motivation to study, and improved time management and lifelong learning skills. The study may better inform building the learning process for the students with limited learning opportunities or studying the distance learning model. Despite the experimental group involving only the students majoring in Economics, this methodology could be applicable to teaching Ukrainian for specific purposes to other majors, such as: Psychology, Educational Management, etc. The research is advancing the knowledge of integration multimedia tools into teaching, and specifically the use of multimedia textbooks in the &quot;flipped classroom&quot; settings to deliver the language course to the students majoring in literature and language teaching.
The Effect of Emotional Intelligence, Self-Efficacy, Subjective Well-Being and Resilience on Student Teachers&apos; Perceived Practicum Stress: A Malaysian Case Study
Author: Ngui, Geok Kim
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Emotional Intelligence,Self Efficacy,Well Being,Resilience (Psychology),Stress Variables,Practicums,Preservice Teachers,Teacher Education Programs,Predictor Variables,Foreign Countries,Student Teacher Attitudes

Stress is inevitable in the world of teaching and practicum training and therefore, student teachers naturally incur a certain level of stress due to the demands for them to use various knowledge and skills in real school and classroom environment. Hence, practicum stress needs to be addressed accordingly. The central focus of this study is using a partial least square-structural equation modeling to explore the inter-relationships among the student teachers' personal resources to mitigate practicum stress. A sample of 200 student teachers selected by purposive sampling from teacher education institutions in Sabah, Malaysia was used in this study. This study collected data via survey methods using a questionnaire developed from several existing scales. Findings showed that emotional intelligence, self-efficacy, and subjective well-being were able to explain resilience with good predictive accuracy and relevance but poorly for practicum stress. These findings were suggestive of the need to include additional constructs to explain perceived practicum stress better in future exploratory research.
Exploring Inclusive Education across Europe: Some Insights from the European Agency Statistics on Inclusive Education
Author: Ramberg, Joacim
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Inclusion,Students with Disabilities,Regular and Special Education Relationship,Cultural Differences,Disability Identification,Resource Room Programs,Special Classes,Mainstreaming,Educational Policy,Data Collection,Policy Formation,Student Placement,Student Participation,Access to Education

The European Agency Statistics on Inclusive Education (EASIE) work focuses upon the collection and analysis of longitudinal, comparative national data related to inclusive education systems and learners with officially recognised special educational needs (SEN) among its 31 member countries. In this article, the EASIE work is discussed in relation to the key concepts of presence, placement, participation and progress within inclusive education systems. The findings of the EASIE work indicate differences and variations between countries in how they respond to all learners' rights to an inclusive education. There are substantial differences in the identification rates of learners identified as having SEN across countries. In addition, the EASIE data shows that all countries use some form of fully segregated settings for some learners, indicating a gap between inclusive education as a societal goal and practice. Possibilities for future, more comprehensive comparative data collection concerning inclusive education systems are discussed.
Variations in Reasoning in Javanese and Bataknese Students&apos; Argumentative Writing: A Study on the Relation between Ethnicity and Reasoning
Author: Sibarani, Berlin
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Persuasive Discourse,Writing (Composition),Thinking Skills,Foreign Countries,Ethnic Groups,Text Structure,Cultural Differences,Writing Processes,Undergraduate Students,Social Values,Social Media

This study was intended to describe the relation between students' reasoning and their ethnicities. Comparison between the argumentative writings written by Javanese and Bataknese students - two of the ethnics found in Indonesia- was conducted to seek shared and variation of reasoning between the two ethnics. Interpretation on the results of such comparison was made in order to find out the relation between reasoning and ethnicity. To achieve the objective, a descriptive qualitative research design was applied. Twenty students consisting of 10 Javanese and 10 Bataknese were involved in the study. They were assigned to write 20 argumentative writing. Qualitative data analysis was applied to analyze the 20 argumentative writing. The result of the study showed that both Javanese and Bataknese students shared common patterns of arguments in terms of text structure, reasoning, and affective appeal. Meanwhile, difference in cultural value between Bataknese and Javanese students caused minor variation (differences) in text structure of argumentative writing in two aspects namely in developing thesis statement and drawing conclusion. Ethnicity's relation to variation in argumentative writing is limited to the two aspects: to the writing of thesis statement and drawing conclusion.