Korca Region Research Articles

Attitudes Toward Mathematics of Lower Secondary Education Students in Korca Region

Attitudes Toward Mathematics of Lower Secondary Education Students in Korca Region

Growth intensity of lambs from native sheep breeds in Albania

The aim of the study was to evaluate the influence of breed and sex on the body weight at different ages from birth to weaning and to compare with exotic ones. The data of live body weight at birth, 30 days, 60 days and weaning time were collected from a total of 180 lambs from two native sheep breeds namely Shkodrane and Lara e Polisit and two imported breeds Awassi and Il de France that are reared in the farm of the Center of Agricultural Technology Transfer of Korca region located in South East of Albania. All the lambs were from a single litter size. The mean body weight at birth was 3.3065 ± 0.307 kg, 7.847 ± 1.979 kg at the age of 30 days, 8.296 ± 2.015at 60 daysand 9.9161 ± 3.188 kg at weaning time of lambs of Shkodrane breed. The mean body weight of Lara e Polisit breed was 3.2500 ± 0.481 kg at birth, 8.9963 ± 2.565 kg at age 30days, 9.045 ± 2.155at 60 days and 10.1857 ± 3.078 kg at weaning time. The average birth weight of lambs from both imported breeds was 37.41% higher than that of both native breeds.The imported breeds have higher body weights at all post natal stages compared to the native breeds and the differences were highly significant (p<0.0001).Body weight at different ages until weaning was significantly affected by the breed effect (p<0.0001). The difference in the body weight of male and female lambs were significantonly at the age of 30 days (p<0.05). Average daily gains from birth to weaning time of lambs were 0.0782 kg and 0.085 kg for Shkodrane e Lara e Polisit, respectively.

The difference in consumer attitudes of locally grown apples with imported apples. the case of Korca Region, Albania

What motivates consumers to act differently from each other has been studied and will continue to be studied in order for marketers and consumer attitudes researchers to better understand their needs and, consequently, to satisfy them as best as possible. Figuring out why someone likes a red apple and someone likes a green apple can be a difficult process, but it's still easier than understanding why people choose an imported apple over a domestic apple when no verifiable qualities distinguish them. In attempt to analyze this invisible element and to evidence it, along with other factors such as familiarity with the product, knowledge of the product, physical characteristics, etc. in this study we will prove that there is another evident element and measurable such as the credence attribute for locally produced apples in the Korca area. For the study, 335 random interviews were conducted with apple consumers in the Korca region, providing demographic data, data on consumption, data on knowledge about apples, the attitudes of the interviews about issues related to apples and especially about cultivated apples in Korca. Full analysis was done for descriptive statistical data. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were done to group attitudes into fewer factors. The attitudes of the interviewees were grouped into 3 factors, attitudes about the physical qualities of the apple, subjective knowledge and credence attributes of the locally grown apple. Quantitative analysis was done using statistical models binary logistic equation SPSS 26 programs. From this analysis and examination of the relationships of the factors with each other and with other variables in the study, the raised hypotheses of this study were confirmed, Consumers who buy imported apples have a low rating for the Credence attribute "Apple cultivated in the Korca region" and for Subjective knowledge regarding apples.

An Assessment of the Factors that Influence the Use of Digital Technologies in Teaching: A Case Study

In the last decade we have a great development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). As a result, educational institutions are increasingly incorporating these digital technologies into the teaching and learning process. Governments are making major investments to increase ICTs infrastructure in educational institutions and to train teachers to use these technologies in the teaching process. In this paper the main objectives of this study were to analyze ICTs availability and use by students and by their teachers, their knowledge of different computer applications as well as their opinion about ICT use in learning. The study was conducted in the Korca region, located in the southeastern part of Albania. We will begin with a quick look at the level of access to digital technologies. Next we will study the use, knowledge and behavior of teachers and students towards digital technology and how these factors correlate with each other. The main focus will be on students as well as their perceptions about ICTs. This will be done by examining how much students know, use and how motivated they are to use digital technology. Questionnaires for teachers and students will be examined separately for each high school to see how these factors relate to and affect each other. At the end we will draw conclusions and make recommendations on how to maximize access and use of digital technologies by students in high schools.

IMMIGRATION ANALYSIS AND REMITTANCES COMPOSITION: A CASE STUDY FROM KORCA, ALBANIA

This study aims to realize an analysis of immigration issues and also issues related to remittances. Our focus will be the analysis of these issues in the case of Albanian immigrants from the Korca region. Through the study, we will reveal some of the immigrant's characteristics, the reason for immigration, the benefits that immigration has brought to them, financial and also other benefits. Regarding the remittances, we will see in detail the composi-tion of remittances sent from the immigrants of this region, the reason why they are being sent, their supposed and real usage and other issues. The greatest part of the study is based on the information collected by using a ques-tionnaire, which included the participation of 210 respondents. The analysis conducted revealed that the main part of the respondents had chosen to immigrate for financial reasons, the most part of them had not a high level of education, and what we also revealed was the fact that immigration had improved the employment status of the respondents and had increased their opportunities for career. Regarding the remittances, the study revealed that the main purpose of using remittances was for consumption and moral responsibility was one of the main reasons for sending remittances. In general, the study revealed that immigration has had a great impact on the immigrants' life and also on their families' life.

An assessment of impact of information and communication technology in enterprızes of Korça region

Ever-evolving and increasingly powerful Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have fundamentally changed the nature of global relationships, sources of competitive advantage and opportunities for economic and social development. ICTs have greatly increased the impact on every area of human life. Technologies such as the Internet, personal computers and wireless have turned the globe into a network of individuals, businesses, governments, and ever-growing schools who communicate and interact with one another. Without doubt ICTs plays a strategic role in managing organizations. This paper presents a part of the current state of ICTs for enterprises by establishing comparative bases for further studies in this field. It also helps academic institutions to evaluate and identify factors, as well as the specific role and weight of these factors have in the process of developing ICTs towards a developed economy and society in the context of digital Albania. It is presented as a scientific analyse, accomplished, detailed and expressed in percentage and graphical analysis of a number of very important data sets of enterprises in their full form, to unlock developments in the field of ICTs in our country, including specific ones based on concrete data. This study tends to study the extent to which these but have involved ICTs and what impact these technologies have in the daily work of these organizations in part of Albania (Korca Region)and brings its contribution as a perspective of literature, experience and international studies, the level of development of our country regarding the assessment of electronic readiness of business organizations.

BUILDING THE CITY (VILLAGE) OF THE FUTURE WITH SCHOOL, YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

In this paper, we want to address the issue of the relationship between social space, education methods and institutions that carry out education today and project the future of the society: human, social, economic and cultural. The inclusion of infants and children in education in our day in the Korca region, Albania, has attracted the attention of the University and local municipal institutions, in order to form them in accordance with the best educational programs and perspectives used today. Over the last years in Albania, pre-university education such as university campuses has been overwhelmed by political changes in the country, but also by new visions driven by both the outside and the emerging needs of the country. Albania has a set of well-developed laws for covering sectoral policies and delivery of services to all children (0 to 18 years). However, a suitable environment for early childhood development has not yet been established. Basically, early childhood education, care and development are a proven and very important investment in national wellbeing. Investing in quality early-learning programs is one of the most effective ways to improve children’s success in school, to increase incomes and to reduce costs to society. In Albania there is a wide range of early childhood development services, including childcare, pre-school education and programs for vulnerable children. Early childhood development is a multidimensional process. To meet the diverse needs of children during the first years of life, government coordination is indispensable both horizontally in different sectors, and vertically from local to national levels. We will try to present the conditions and qualities of buildings and facilities of the century 21's, along with trends toward standards of new Early Childhood school, to offer the knowledge required by implementing them new standards. The theoretical part analyses some important information child care centers, function-related, space and safety, decoration, comfort, materials, the relationship between educators and children and many other factors. The programs and curricula that take place today at our University aim to build an education with contemporary standards, in cooperation with local administrations and organized institutions that care for infants and children. This cooperation has created examples of good practices in the Early Childhood School of our region.

Identifying Adolescent Problem Gambling Using Latent Variable Techniques

Recently disordered gambling is reclassified as an addictive disorder which inter alia affects a little but significant proportion of adolescents. The aim of this study is to identify and assess different levels of gambling severity among adolescent gamblers (N=1157) from middle and high schools of Korca region, utilizing a cross-sectional design and self-report questionnaire. Using Exploratory, Parallel, Reliability and Confirmatory Analysis, the PGSI measurement instrument, designed for these purposes, resulted to be an appropriate unidimensional screening tool of adolescent disordered gambling in terms of psychometric properties. A traditional Latent Class Analysis using the nine PGSI-items as indicators is performed to identify and predict subtypes of adolescent gamblers, classifying them into latent classes based on their problem gambling severity levels. The inclusion of three covariates related to adolescent gambling problems into Latent Class Model improved the model, helping us to better understand the latent structure.

Importance of Parental Involvement to Meet the Special Needs of their Children with Disabilities in Regular Schools

Inclusive education for special needs students is an important component of their inclusion into society. Despite the other conditions that school must create, in order to fulfill the rights for education of children with disabilities, the role of parental engagement is crucial to realize inclusive education. The Law on Pre University Education in the Republic of Albania has reinforced the importance of parental involvement in order to ensure the progress of education for students with disabilities. The fundamental aim of this study was to evaluate the level of parental involvement of 32 parents of special need children, from seven different schools of Korca region. To realize this study is used the snowball sampling method, according to which the first group of interviewed parents recruits other parents to be part of it. The qualitative method was used to analyze the data gathered from this study. The main research questions were: How does the school involve parents in school life? Are the parents satisfied with the special needs assessment procedure? How much are they represented in the school structures and do they feel part of decision - making process? As a conclusion, in practice parents were not involved enough into the school life in order to ensure the inclusion of their children within the regular education system. Parental involvement in school takes a significant sense in terms of achieving inclusive education for their children with disabilities, who could not raise the voice to protect their own rights. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2016.v5n1p147

A multidisciplinary model of suicide and suicidal behavior in Korça region, Albania

Patterns of suicide and suicidal behavior vary among different cultures. In Albania and in Korca region has a relatively high number of suicides and behavior related to for a long period of time related to the transition, the changes that have occurred and occur in Albania, the economic, social, psychological and cultural, politics conditions in which we are. This presenting article explores multidisciplinary explanations for suicide and suicidal behavior in region and in Albania as a whole through data collected from official and public institutions. The interconnection of Durkheimian concepts of social integration and regulation with ecological insights into family relations in change and psychological and psychiatric theories on individual distress are relevant.

Tourism enterprises in Korca region and their sustainability

Tourism is considered as one of the economic sectors with the greatest potential to make a positive contribution in achieving sustainable development (UNCED, 1992) .Sustainable tourism has become an increasingly popular field of research. There are a wide range of albanian tourism enterprises involved in the tourism industry.The informal nature of tourism enterprises can make it very difficult to spread awareness on sustainable policies, practices and to measure moves towards more sustainable performance. This paper addresses the concept of sustainable development in tourism and examines the degree to which tourism enterprises in Korca region are aware of the broad concept of sustainable tourism.The aim is to determine attitudes of tourism enterprises toward sustainability and understanding the influences on the adoption of sustainability practices, including motivators and barriers .The main findings stresses “a lack of a general awareness about sustainability issues within albanian tourism enterprises. Also as dominant barriers identified were lack of available money to invest, other business priorities,lack of incentive programs. A better understanding of tourism enterprise attributes, barriers, and responses is critical if we are to extend the theoretical concepts that underpin sustainable tourism development and to enhance sustainability in practice. Keywords: sustainability ,albanian tourism enterprises,sustainable tourism practices,motivators,barriers.

The Application of English Syllabuses by Teachers of Elementary Education in the Teaching- Learning Process, in Korça Region

Growing needs for appropriate English learning in Albanian context, the importance of English syllabuses, objectives reflected in the English textbooks, the conformity of syllabuses and the assessment teachers make, conform Common European Framework of References for languages in Elementary education , in urban and rural area, public and non public schools in elementary schools of Korca region, are some elements that lead toward the question: To what extent do Albanian teachers apply the syllabuses in the Albanian context, and how the syllabuses are a point of reference for them and for Albanian learners, for a better language acquisition? The purpose of this research is to conduct an empirical study on the way how Albanian Elementary school teachers aimed at developing their opinions and their practice in the teaching- learning process. A questionnaire survey was adopted as the methodological approach employed in this research. In total, 60 teachers from different public and nonpublic elementary schools, belonging to urban and rural areas in Korca region, participated in this research. It also explored how Albanian teachers of different Elementary schools in Korca region implement the syllabus in their actual classroom language teaching practices and what effect syllabus has on learning outcomes. The questionnaire was conducted in the continuation of a learners' survey, in order to see and observe the teachers' opinions on the English syllabus, the way of organizing classes, how the syllabus is followed, how they adjust it to the textbooks they use, how satisfied they are with them, how they apply them in the educational process. The expected contribution of this research is to observe how the English syllabuses are implemented from the Albanian teachers in elementary education and if they are conform Common European Framework of References for languages (CEFR). The findings of this study provided valuable implications in developing teachers' new ideas for the actual situation of the teaching and learning process.