Education articles from March 2009

Education archives from March 2009

Comparing self and expert assessments of counseling skills before and after skills training, and upon graduation.
March 22, 2009... The American Counseling Association ethical guidelines (2005) require counselors to continually monitor their own effectiveness and to avoid over-stepping their boundaries of competence. These mandates are intended to ensure that counselors...

Parent and adolescent interaction in television advertisements as consumer socialization agents.
March 22, 2009... Young people today become consumers at an earlier age than their parents used to do. Indeed, they become consumers in their own right while they are still children (Ahava and Palojoki, 2004; Brusdal, 2006). Young people in modern societies need...

Teaching and learning moral values through kindergarten curriculum.
March 22, 2009... Most prominent research studies (e.g., Kohlberg, 1958, 1973, 1971, 1981, 1984) on moral development and moral reasoning have been conducted longitudinally. For example, Kohlberg's studies particularly emphasized people's progression in...

Supporting the preparation of beginning teachers with online assessment products.
March 22, 2009... Teacher education has come under fire in recent years with calls for reforms that will help improve the achievement of K12 students. Since the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Legislation (NCLB, 2002) in the United States (US),...

Students perception of the role of Parents in Academia and continued examination malpractice.
March 22, 2009... Examination is a process of evaluating the extent to which education has taken place in the individual. It determines the recipients' level of proficiency in all the subjects tested as well as their ability to utilize the knowledge and skills...

An evaluation of the materialization of the latent functions of education according to student perceptions.
March 22, 2009... The rapid technological developments which started in the 20th century have transformed literacy from being a luxury in most pre-industrial societies to being a social requirement (Drucker, 1970, p.70). Today, education is not only a...

The leadership behaviours of teachers in primary schools in Turkey.
March 22, 2009... Leadership is the ability to gather individuals around some specific objectives by motivating them to fulfill these objectives co-operatively. Leaders should have some qualities such as having vision, giving confidence, being adoptable, taking...

New perspectives on the education and career of the students of the Health Services Vocational College.
March 22, 2009... The production of knowledge accelerates with the rate of the developing technology and new types of jobs are needed parallel to these developments (1). In this perspective, the training of manpower titled with technician in 4 semi-semesters of...

Functions of history education: history teacher trainees' perspective.
March 22, 2009... History awareness, historical experience and thus history education is a basic reference point for adapting the ways in which individuals and societies perceive the future (Bruner, 1990; Fosnot, 1996; Kuhn, Cheney& Weinstock, 2000). Studies on...

"But I teach math!" The journey of middle school mathematics teachers and literacy coaches learning to integrate literacy strategies into the math instruction.
March 22, 2009... There was a time mathematics teachers focused on teaching the subject matter and nothing else. If teachers understood the symbols, models, proofs, and the language of the mathematical strands, they would be considered "a good teacher."...

The body language behaviours of the chairs of the disputes according to the disputants.
March 22, 2009... Since the human being is a kind of creature that can think and can produce thoughts, dispute is one of very natural activity of them. Thinking is a detailed activity that includes some mental efforts like querying, criticising, listening and...

The contributions of new curriculum to full time mainstreaming education in Turkey.
March 22, 2009... Education is a basic way in reaching individual, environmental and social success, and it is a powerful way of achieving peace, freedom, social justice and universal integrity goals. For this reason, it is necessary to provide a continuous...

Building teacher-family partnerships: the role of teacher preparation programs.
March 22, 2009... Most people believe in and support the notion that all students should be given an opportunity to realize their full potential for success and that no child should fail and be left behind. Unfortunately, the emphasis on increasing student...

Self-efficacy perceptions of prospective social studies teachers in relation to history teaching.
March 22, 2009... Self-efficacy is one of the important concepts of the social cognitive theory. It can be defined as individual's perception of his or her own capabilities for organizing and successfully executing the courses of action required to attain...

Effective technique for consistent evaluation of negotiation skills.
March 22, 2009... Business school curricula, such as finance, accounting, and MBA programs generally emphasize content or quantitative skills. At the same time, employers recognize the need for graduates who possess interpersonal skills, and recommend that...

Turkish language and literature education in Turkey (brief history-problems-recommendations).
March 22, 2009... The purpose of this study is to seek a solution to the problem by approaching the matter as to how to provide language and literature education, which is still a debatable matter in Turkey, from a historical dimension. In an attempt to be able...

Gift of Tongues: Passing the Ohio Mathematics Graduation Test.
March 22, 2009... In April, 2008, the Education Research Center released its study, Cities in Crises: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation. The report ranks the graduation rates for the principal school districts serving the nation's 50 largest...

Assistive technology: what every school leader should know.
March 22, 2009... As a school leader many questions are asked and demands are made regarding special education services for students with disabilities. Are you as a school leader prepared to represent the needs of the school while protecting the rights of...

The effect of gender, socio-economic status and school location on students performance in Nigerian Integrated Science.
March 22, 2009... Educators are incessantly concerned about the need to improve academic achievement especially in the sciences. The plethora of researches on students academic achievement in the sciences, is a testimony to this concern (e.g. Bajah, 1979;...