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Journal of Education and Training
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ISSN (Print) 2330-9709
Published by Macrothink Institute

[47 journals]

Undergraduate Student Thriving: An Assessment and Comparison of Nutrition
Science and Dietetics Students
- Authors: David Edens, Erik Froyen
  Pages: 1 - 13
  Abstract: This study utilizes the Thriving Quotient to determine the factors of student thriving for students in a nutrition and dietetics program at a large university in Southern California. Additionally, the study compared these students to the national averages for the factors of thriving. The Thriving Quotient assesses student levels of engagement, academic determination, positive perspective, social connectedness, and diverse citizenship. The largest influence on thriving for the sample population were engagement and academic determination. Comparisons to the national average and implications on practice are discussed.
  PubDate: 2020-08-21
  DOI: 10.5296/jet.v7i2.16320
  Issue No: Vol. 7, No. 2 (2020)
From Social Research to Education and Training - Campaigns to Raising
Public Awareness of Hazards
- Authors: Barbara Szykula Piec, Izabella Grabowska Lepczak, Monika Wojakowska
  Pages: 14 - 35
  Abstract: The education of society regarding safety is in fact the cheapest, smartest and most effective form of preventing danger. It constitutes a fundamental way of building the population’s safety. It also has a great influence upon the attitudes, values, knowledge and skills required for proper behaviour in case of danger.The article describes the education process consisting in the transfer of knowledge and teaching skills in order to take specific actions, as well as forms and tools to raise the level of social awareness, especially in terms of perceiving actions, and a list of references showing the flow of social research, its purpose, and the tools used. Most of the elements, however, are shown in the list of possibilities to use tools on a very large scale, in the form of social campaigns. An example is given of a practical approach to all departments and goals for raising the level of social opinion in Transcarpathia and of hazadrs occurring in that area and ways to counteract them.
  PubDate: 2020-08-21
  DOI: 10.5296/jet.v7i2.16323
  Issue No: Vol. 7, No. 2 (2020)
Erasmus+ and Vocational Secondary Education: Analyzing Participating
Students’ Views. A Case Study of Students’ Mobility in the Prefecture
of Preveza, Greece
- Authors: Aggelos Kavasakalis, Maria Tzima
  Pages: 36 - 62
  Abstract: After the advent of the knowledge society there has been a lot of debate, among countries and supranational organizations, on the promotion of lifelong learning policies and cooperation policies on education and training issues. In this context, training policies and mobility programmes at all levels of education and/or training are high on the international political agenda.At the same time, it is well known that vocational education and training is inextricably linked to the labour market and undoubtedly to employability (Stamelos, Vasilopoulos, Kavasakalis, 2015). Within this broader framework, many policies and programmes have been developed and implemented at European level to defend this objective, with the most contemporary of them, Erasmus+. This article presents a case study of a students’ mobility programme.In detail, the purpose of this article is to investigate and analyse the participating students’ views in individual mobility actions under the Erasmus+ programme in secondary vocational education in theprefectureofPreveza, regarding the effectiveness in achieving the objectives set by the programme itself.The text is divided into two subsections. The first section analyses the most important parameters of the issue at European and national level, as well as the basic structures and actions implemented within the framework of the European Erasmus+ Programme, while the second presents the research methodology and the primary results extracted from the descriptive and statistical analysis of the research tool, i.e. the questionnaire answered by Erasmus+ participants after the mobility.
  PubDate: 2020-08-21
  DOI: 10.5296/jet.v7i2.16736
  Issue No: Vol. 7, No. 2 (2020)
Technology Integration: Teaching Elementary Deaf Student English Language
Arts
- Authors: Bailey K. Gates, Millicent M. Musyoka
  Pages: 63 - 76
  Abstract: This study examined an elementary deaf education teacher’s experiences and practices regarding the integration of technology into an English/Language Arts (ELAR) classroom. Most deaf students experience challenges acquiring and learning English as a second language. Research continues to indicate deaf students graduate high school with a fourth-grade reading level. Specifically, the study investigated how technology was used to support the development of English/Language Arts skills in deaf students based on McCrory’s model on technological integration (McCrory, 2006). McCrory’s (2016) technology integration model is used to identify the teacher knowledge and use of technology. The model includes four components: representation, information, transformation, and collaboration. Using a qualitative case study design, data was collected using interviews, surveys, and observations. The data collected focused on the teacher only and did not include the students. The analysis showed how the ELAR teacher used technology to teach deaf students in relation to the four components of McCrory’s model. Implications for K-12 teacher preparation and professional development are discussed.
  PubDate: 2020-08-21
  DOI: 10.5296/jet.v7i2.17566
  Issue No: Vol. 7, No. 2 (2020)
The Influence of Representational Formats and Learner Modality Preferences
on Instructional Efficiency Using Interactive Video Tutorials
- Authors: Chun-Ying Chen
  Pages: 77 - 93
  Abstract: This study investigated how to create effective interactive video tutorials for learning computer-based tasks. The role of learner modality preferences was also considered. A 4 × 4 between-subjects factorial design was employed to examine the influence of instruction representational formats (noninteractive static, interactive static, interactive visual-only video with onscreen text, interactive video with audio narration) and learner modality preferences (visual, aural, read/write, multimodal) on instructional efficiency. Instructional efficiency was a combined effect of test performance and perceived cognitive load during learning. The results suggested that implementing interactivity into the video tutorials tended to increase transfer performance, and the role of modality preferences was related to learners’ perceived cognitive load. The significant interaction effect on transfer efficiency indicated: (a) the auditory preference tended to exhibit better transfer efficiency with the narrated video, and (b) the read/write preference tended to exhibit better transfer efficiency with both the noninteractive static format and the captioned video. This study highlighted the importance of considering individual differences in modality preferences, particularly that of auditory and read/write learners.
  PubDate: 2020-08-22
  DOI: 10.5296/jet.v7i2.17415
  Issue No: Vol. 7, No. 2 (2020)