Conference: ACEID2019
Journeying with Communities: Theoretical Reflections from the Community Integration as Complex and Integrative Strategy for Teaching, Research and Community Development
Teaching and serving in a university setting is very challenging and yet very substantial. The role of the faculty members is to respond to the challenge of being agents of social transformation within and outside the university. To be able to respond from this call, faculty members must be committed and equipped with integrated knowledge, …
The History of English Education in Japan: Focusing on Its Dawn
How did the English education start in Japan? A strong need to foster human resources to handle situations in the English language (instead of Dutch) arose from “the Nagasaki Harbour Incident” of HMS Phaeton in 1808. Facing a foreign power, the Japanese saw that a simple fact – nobody understood English – might have led …
What is Expected of Us? – Study Abroad and Expected Roles of Native and Local Teachers
As study abroad with English has become popular for university students in Japan, in-country language preparation courses have become a popular option. These courses allow Japanese students to acquire not only English but also academic skills before they actually progress into foreign universities. Although the demand for these courses are increasing, the number of studies …
Student Reflection to Curriculum Design for Computer Scientist Comprehensive Examination
Currently, computer scientists do not need professional certificates for applying for jobs although many organizations have introduced several specific-purpose certificates. In Thailand, most professional certificates are granted by authorities in the field. Nowadays, there is still a controversy whether theses authorized committees should involve in the curriculum design process or they should act as the …
Building an E-profiling of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Instructors in Malaysia
The study in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) has been progressively improving for the past decade supporting all possible market trade in supply and demand for workforce management. In the era of industrial revolutionary, most of the things are connected and administered by big data computational edge technology. The challenge is on how …
Data, Data, Data – What Does Management Want and Need to See?
News flash! Data is important and learning analytics are a major near-term trend. What data does administration need and want to see? How can you build data dashboards that have solid source data and are feasible to update on a routine basis delivering value to management? This presentation will go through variations of reports that …
Keeping Tabs on Reading: Comparing Reading Comprehension Scores of E-Text Readers and Physical Text Readers in Senior High School
Technology plays a powerful role in the field of education (South, 2017), and with digital integration inside the classroom, scholars debated in the use of these e-texts since issues regarding reading comprehension surfaced as researchers tried to tackle new forms of digital learning (Moran et al., 2008). This research aims to compare the pre and …
Teaching Biology Using Contextualized Learning Kit
This study determined the effect of the developed lessons in Biology using the Contextualized Learning Kit (CLK) with the following features: (a) Flipped Classroom Mode of Delivery, (b) Use of Student-friendly Contextualized Learning Kit, (c) 21st Century Skills Development, and (d) Highly Visual Instructional Material. The researcher employed pretest-posttest quasi experimental design. Qualitative and quantitative …
Selected Factors Related to Problem Behavior: The Discriminant Analysis Between Juvenile Delinquency Group and Late Adolescent Student
This research attempts to study the selected factors related to the juvenile delinquency group and to tests predictions about selected factors related to juvenile delinquency by using the problem behavior theory. The conceptual model was tested with 300 high school students and 300 juvenile delinquency youth (mean age: 18.0 years). Discriminant analysis indicates that family …
The Interconnection of Chinese and Western Cultures: The Policy, Development and Expansion of International Early Childhood Education in China
In recent years, the tight control of history narratives and censorship of school textbooks has made the universities suffered by the ideological crackdown from the communist Chinese government. Even though international schools in big cities, such as in Beijing and Shanghai, have been facing the prohibition of using liberal but non-government approved materials in their …
The Effect of Using Head-Mounted Virtual Reality to Improve Learning
In current curriculum, the limitation of location, season, and appearance of insects eliminate students to observe the insects closely. The students usually are confused with insects’ appearance and growing process. Virtual reality remove the limitation of time and space and facilitate students to learn and explore more actively. The head-mounted devices provides a more immersive …
Design and Implementation of Spatial Navigation Transfer Game for Examining Transfer of Learning
Learners continuously shape and reshape their knowledge base, which allows them to generalize their learning to novel contexts and solve novel problems. Irrespective of the academic domain, it is important to provide students with a variety of opportunities to apply their learning across multiple contexts, thus increasing self-awareness and autonomy, and enhancing transfer. Based on …
Integration of Cultural Practices in Teaching Mathematics
The interdependence between culture and education is not new to educators anymore. Educators acknowledge the fact that culture defines and gives identity to education while education strengthens culture. Indeed, these two disciplines are inseparable and complementary. However, cultural relevance in mathematics instruction is seldom evident. This qualitative study designed lesson plans that drew upon the …
Using Peer Assessment and Feedback to Support Individual Learning
Background Feedback supports learning but providing detailed individual feedback is time consuming. Involving students in peer marking and providing constructive feedback can enhance student engagement. Delegating marking and feedback has the potential to save staff time but inter-rater variability limits the value. Higher levels of reliability are obtained when markers just decide which of two …
Teacher Literacy Policy Recommendation and Programme for Action on the Neurobiology of Learning Differences
This presentation outlines the introduction into neurobiology of learning differences that lies at the basis of a 12-hour teacher literacy development program that can implemented in regular schools. In general terms, this introduction means understanding how neurological development should look like in typical and atypical trajectories. To attain this objective, the landmarks for neurological linguistic …
A Study on the Design of Teaching Materials for the Application of Mobile Learning Apps in Printing Professional Courses
This study aims to explore the design of teaching materials for the application of mobile learning apps in printing professional courses. This study firstly conducts literature review to understand the development status of the content for the Mobile Learning Apps, the production process and the teaching materials that conform to the requirements of the printing …
The ICT-Assisted Classroom: From Teacher-Dependence to Independence and Interdependence in Learning
Two Grade 11 classes in a private secondary school in Quezon City, the Philippines, were randomly assigned as experimental groups in which ICT-assisted instruction was introduced after one month in one of their subjects. In Experimental Group 1, ICT- assisted instruction was implemented in their Math subject, Statistics and Probability, while in Experimental Group 2, …
Interdisciplinary Approach to Student Exchange. The Case of ITMO University
Interdisciplinarity and arising from it an interdisciplinary study approach have long been known to positively influence the science and innovation evolvement. Being a response to the global market demands, interdisciplinarity encourages higher education to revise and modernise curriculum plans which are still placed within borders of one discipline. As the result, higher education institutions are …
Implementation of K to 12 Science Program of Public Elementary Schools: Teachers’ Pedagogical Practices and Problems Encountered in Teaching Science
The study aimed at conducting formative evaluation of the implementation of K to 12 Science Program of public elementary schools in Santo Tomas District, Isabela, The Philippines for the first semester, school year 2017-2018. Specifically, the study aimed to determine teachers’ pedagogical practices and common problems encountered by teachers and administrators. The respondents of the …
Restoring Women Status in Rural Afghanistan by Building a Sustainable Livelihood Through Education and Capacity Building to Overcome Poverty
Since 2002, foreign aid has been invested billions of dollars to bring a sustainable social change for women in Afghanistan through education, literacy project and capacity building of women in large cities in Afghanistan, however, a very little is known about the impact on women in the rural areas. The paper will examine the importance …
Visual Basic Coding in Power Point-Based Lessons in Grade 6 Mathematics
There is no doubt that education and the learning process has changed since the introduction of computers such as PowerPoint-Based Lessons. It includes pedagogical approaches like interactive learning, inquiry-based approach, discovery learning and contextualized-localized learning that promotes student-centered activities and lessons, teacher-assisted instructions and appreciation of the locale by-products, livelihood, academic-occupational relevance, and individuality. Mixed …
Information Management Practices and Challenges in School Governance: Basis for Localized Digital Archive
Information plays a vital role in school governance as it is a primary basis for policy planning and development. The Department of Education recognizes this significance as it launched its own management information systems known as EBEIS (Electronic Basic Education Information Systems). In the school level, however, technology and resources for information management remain a …
Secondary School Students’ Educational Perceptions and Experiences in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp
In Tanzania’s Nyarugusu Camp, one of the world’s largest and most protracted refugee camps, only 7% of youth are enrolled in secondary school. These rates are surprising, especially considering that primary school enrollment rates stand at nearly 80% (UNHCR, 2017 March 31). This study, which is in-progress, explores the question of what it means to …
The Relationship Between Perceived Organizational Support, Well-Being and Job Performance: Work Attitudes as Mediators Based on Primary School Teachers in Changhwa County, Taiwan
Based on the concept of occupational health psychology, the purpose of this study is to explore the relationships between well-being and job performance, perceived organizational support and well-being. In addition, considering individual differences in work attitudes, job satisfaction and organizational commitment are also selected and examined as possible mediating factors. The methodology of this research …
A Phenomenological Study on Experiencing in-Class Discussion Among University Students in Hong Kong
Adoption of various type of information and communication technologies in different teaching and learning activities have been a common practice all over the world. One of its adoptions is to facilitate an interaction among students through online discussion forum. While such practice wins a lot of adherents in higher education, there is a concern over …
The Features of QR Code as Attendance Monitoring System: Its Acceptability and Implication to Classroom
The study was conducted to determine the features and acceptability of Quick Response (QR) Code innovative platform as an attendance monitoring system. Purposive sampling was used in the study involving 20 teachers who adapted the QR code and 36 students who were exposed to the attendance monitoring system during the first quarter of the academic …
Mandarin Language Classroom Anxiety: Basis for a Proposed Teacher Manual
This study investigated the Mandarin language classroom anxiety of the Grade 8 to 10 students from two schools in Pampanga – Don Jesus Gonzales High School, Pandacaqui, Mexico and Mabalacat National High School, Dau, Mabalacat – with 253 language learners as the respondents of the study. The Chinese Language Learning Anxiety Scale of Lou (2014) …