National Institute Of Education Research Articles

Investigation of internet dependent and depressive symptoms among secondary school students

IntroductionInternet use and depression is a significant problem regardless of social status and in almost all age groups. Internet addiction in adolescents is considered to be the most important risk groups.ObjectivesThis study was conducted to determine correlation of Internet addiction and depressive symptoms among secondary school students.MethodThis research was conducted at two secondary public schools in İstanbul during 2015-2016 academic year. Ethics committee approval and permission was obtained from the Directorate of National Education Institutions. The population of the study was 2121 students. The sample group was 1312 students who completely filled in measuring instruments. The measuring instruments consisted of a personal information form, Internet Dependency Scale (IDS) and Children's Depression Inventory (CDI). The data were analyzed with the descriptive statistical analysis and Pearson correlation test.ResultsThe average of students’ age was 12.44 ± 1.20. 50.2% of the sample were women. 53.8% of the sample spent 1–2 hours per day in Internet. Mean IDS point was 38.942 ± 12.90 and mean CDI point was 12.52 ± 7.13. According to the IDS cutpoint; 80.9% of students were normal users, 18,4% of them were high-risk users and 0.6% of them were Internet dependents. According to the CDI cutpoint, 16.8% of the students had depressive symptoms. A statistically significant moderate correlation was found between mean scores of CDI and IDS (r = 0.414; P < 0.01).ConclusionsThere is a relation between Internet dependent and depressive symptoms. This finding supports the outcomes of previously performed studies.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Origin and money matter: The airline service quality expectations of international students

International students represent a relevant market for national tourism organisations, educational institutions, travel agencies and transport providers. These potential tourists may travel for a variety of touristic and non-touristic reasons and an understanding of their origin, financial status and the service quality levels they require for an airline service is relevant for destination stakeholders to remain competitive and potentially adjust to these tourists' requirements. Data was collected from 563 international students studying at a university in Queensland, Australia to determine 1) the airline service quality expectation factors of international students; and 2) if significant differences existed between these potential tourists based on their source of funding, country or origin and employment status. Five service quality expectations factors were produced and significant differences existed between the expectations of ancillary services for students that were current employed and those that were not. Furthermore, students rated ancillary service, employee service and service indicators differently based on their country of origin. Conversely, the relationship between service quality expectations and source of funding was insignificant. Recommendations as a result of the findings are made and future opportunities to direct research are also outlined.

Social factors outside of family and school related to student dropout

The paper presents a systematisation of broader social factors affecting student dropout in Serbia from the framework of Bronfenbrenner’s approach. Although recognised by authors and commonly related to community and education as a system, these factors are rarely investigated. Starting from our previous research into dropout, focused primarily on family and school, this study is aimed at investigating community and systemic factors. The data were compiled by semi-structured interviews with respondents from the following groups (including relevant public statistical data): students who dropped out/are at risk and their parents; school principals and counsellors from schools with high and low attrition rates; teachers’, parents’ and students’ representatives from schools with high dropout rates; social workers in charge of schools with a low attrition rate; representatives of national educational institutions. The findings reveal that factors with a negative impact on children’s education dominate over supportive ones which could have a preventive effect on attrition. Negative influences exist in all social niches: in microsystems (peers prone to risky behaviour, poor neighbourhoods), in weak mesosystem connections of school and family with local institutions, in exosystems (undeveloped regions), up to the macrosystem level (legislative inefficiency, lack of cooperation within educational institutions and between governmental departments). Productive features were observed in mesosystem connections of schools as examples of good practice, as well as at macrosystem level in the form of recognising the dropout problem at the national level. Although preliminary, the obtained results provide useful guidelines for future investigations.

Examining the Effectiveness of In-Service English Language Teacher Training in Khartoum State/Sudan 2011/2012

<em>This study aims at investigating the effectiveness of in-service English language teacher training in Khartoum state: A case study of in-service teacher training programme “English for Teaching 1” (EfT1) provided by the British Council (2011-2012). The Researchers adopted the descriptive analytical method to analyze the collected data. The tool used to collect data was a questionnaire which was analyzed with the Statistical Packages for Social Science (SPSS). All the Hypotheses of the study were verified to be true and according to the analysis of the questionnaire. The study has come up with the following findings: Teacher training programme English for Teaching (1) (EfT(1)) has a positive impact on developing teaching process, the components of the programme satisfy the training needs of the English language teachers in Khartoum State, and the trainees who attended the programme have a positive attitude and opinions towards the programme. The study has been included with some recommendations that reflect the importance of in-service teacher training for Sudanese English language teachers and the effectiveness of partnership between national and international educational institutions in this field.</em>

Phonological patterning for English as a lingua franca in Asia: Implications for norms and practice in multilingual Asia

AbstractWith the rapid economic development and the increasing activities in trade, education, cultural events, and tourism in Asia, more and more people are using English as a lingua franca (ELF). The Asian Corpus of English (ACE) project has, as one of its defining goals, the collection of a million-word corpus of naturally occurring speech in order to analyse and describe the distinctive linguistic features of Asian ELF and to identify shared features if any. However, little research has been done hitherto on the features of ELF in the Asian context. This paper, therefore, presents a description of the phonological patterns found in ELF. Specifically, the paper focuses, inter alia, on the monophthong vowels and rhythmic patterning in the spoken interactions of ELF speakers from the data as well as the implications for policy and practice of ELF in multilingual Asia. The study is based on the Asian Corpus of English (ACE) data collected in Singapore by the National Institute of Education (NIE) team. Participants in the study include speakers from China, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia and India. The paper aims to deepen the boundaries of thinking about shared pronunciation patternings of ELF speakers in Asia and considers the implications of such shared patternings and norms on practice in multilingual Asia.

Characteristics of adult education in european countries

In the article was considered a question of necessity of introduction of the system approach to organization of education of adult population in European space, to choice of optimal ways of the effective professional preparation of the different categories of adults for the diverse directions of qualification advance, determination of criteria of assessment of informal education of adults. There were grounded characteristics of professional training of specialists and unemployed people by the models on examples of Great Britain, Poland. There was determined the role of formal and informal education of adults. Formal education is given by the higher educational institutions – universities, institutions of postgraduate education, polytechnics and colleges. Informal education of adults is provided by the teaching associations, national educational institutions. There were determined the vectors of modernization of education of adult population: orientation on the real needs of customers (private persons and entrepreneurs); structural transparence and content flexibility of learning programs; multichannel financing; democratization of the system of education of adults by decentralization of managerial authorities.Conceptual principles of systematization of the prospects of development of education of adults in developed European countries are: determinism of educational policy of aforesaid countries by historical, political, national, socio-economic, cultural factors.We assign to the prospective directions of further researches: the theory and practice of education of adult population in the context of elaboration of civil society of the global scale; psychological adaptation of adults to the study and/or work in the foreign countries; acknowledge of the results of formal and informal education within international cooperation

Public-Private Nexus for the Educational Development of Central-Tribal Region of Pakistan

Public-private blend remains the more pragmatic approach for efficiency through assistance and mutual cooperation for the contemporary educational policies in any area. This article summarizes PPP for advancement of the secondary education through quantifiable and qualitative support from both the poles in the most backward central tribal region of Pakistan. It is focused on policy strategies, over the years, from the national educational institutions facilitated by not-for-profit sector to increase net enrolment rate, gross enrolment ratio and reduction in gender parity through the package of developed infrastructure, teaching material provision and studentships. Furthermore, training of the teaching-staff to boost quality aspect to provide enough qualified human resource to tertiary level alternatively to improve the local economy. However, the article concludes wide-range objectives’ setting through sequential educational policies, and strategies, investment of significant financial resources, and outlaying of comprehensive mechanism of implementation, yet, triggered retrogression across net enrolment rate, gross enrolment ratio, wide geographical and gender disparity besides discrepancies across selection of teachers for training, training modules and trainers’ competencies.

On Educational Practice Dissemination of Multidisciplinary University as a Regional Support Higher Educational Institution in Terms of Public-Private Partnership

Creating a new quality of higher education in Russia at the second phase provides a new structural policy towards the network of universities. As a result of the first stage of the higher education reform, federal, national research universities and other higher educational institutions were established. Since 2012 at the federal level the work is in progress aimed at consolidation of the higher education system, creation of a modern infrastructure for interlinkage of scientific, educational and productive activities1. Today, the higher education starts a new stage – the creation of multidisciplinary universities – regional support universities, whose main task is personnel training to meet the needs of the country real economy and being in-demand in the first place in the labor market of their region. The article uncovers the issues of creating the regional educational space of the support university and educational practice dissemination of the subject of teaching and professional activities. A reflexive position of management activities at university contributing to the improvement of high education quality gains significance in this process. Fundamental importance for the development of a multidisciplinary university as a support higher educational institution in the region suggests finding ways of interlinking the world of work and vocational education in new social and labor relations in education based on the legal documents: The National Qualifications Framework, occupational standards and federal state educational standards. The demand for highly qualified professionals meeting requirements of the regional economy, possessing competences aimed at generating new knowledge and creating new technologies provides changes in the scientific, educational and industrial component of the university’s educational practices. The expansion of the resource base of professional personnel training for the region actualizes public-private educational infrastructure.

Information society and civic education of the personality

The article reveals the interdependence of information society development and civic education, shows the relationship of these processes. Also, the main parameters of a modern society relating to globalization and the impact on education of the person are the object of analysis. With the reference to the example of the leading Soviet pedagogy educator, A.S. Makarenko, an attempt is made to identify the main features of civil identity formation within the national educational institutions, especially in the national tradition of human socialization, the main of which is a combination of legal education with the moral formation of the person.

VVER Knowledge Preservation and Transfer within the Frame of CORONA Project Activities

The CORONA project is funded by the European Commission under the FP7 programme with overall objective to establish a Regional Centre of Competence for VVER Technology and Nuclear Applications. The Centre will provide support and services for preservation and transfer of VVER-related nuclear knowledge as well as know-how and capacity building. Specific training schemes aimed at nuclear professionals and researchers, non-nuclear professionals and students are developed and implemented in cooperation with local, national and international training and educational institutions. Pilot trainings are executed for each specific target group to assess the applicability of the training materials. The training scheme implemented for nuclear professionals and researchers is focussed on the NPP Lifetime Management. The available knowledge on enhancing safety and performance of nuclear installations with VVER technology is used in the preparation of the training materials. The Online Multimedia Training Course on VVER Reactor Pressure Vessel Embrittlement and Integrity Assessment, developed by the joint effort of JRC-IET and IAEA is used in the training. The outcome collected from the trainees showed that the tool meets its primary goal of consolidating the existing knowledge on the VVER RPV Embrittlement and Integrity Assessment, provides adequate ground for transfer of this knowledge.

Comparison Of Cardiovascular Fitness Between Students In Games-Concept And Skills-Based Approach In Physical Education Lessons

Strategies used in physical education (PE) lessons are important to help students improve in their fitness. Cardiovascular fitness, in particular, is still the key area of fitness for children to be developed in during PE lessons. In general, there are two main different strategies in PE lessons - the games-concept approach (GCA) and skills-based approach (SKA). This study will provide physical educators insight into the effectiveness of the two different approaches in improving children’s cardiovascular fitness. PURPOSE: To compare the effectiveness of the GCA and SKA in PE lessons in improving children’s cardiovascular fitness. METHODS: Twenty-four male participants were randomly assigned into either the GCA (n=12, age 9.6 ± 0.52 years) or SKA (n=12, age 9.6 ± 0.52 years) PE class. Both groups underwent an intervention: a 6-week prescribed PE programme based on the approach in PE they were assigned to. They were taught by the same, trained PE teacher with knowledge of the GCA and SKA. Rate of perceived exertion (RPE) and heart rate (HR) were recorded for each stage (warm-up, games-time, cool down) of every PE lesson. A 1.6km run-test was taken pre- and post-intervention as a means to assess the cardiovascular fitness of the participants. RESULTS: Pre-post-intervention 1.6km run test results showed significant difference in the GCA group (from 10.6 ± 1.9 to 9.6 ±1.6 minutes), t(11)=5.601, p<0.01; but not in the SKA group (from 13.2 ± 1.7 to 12.6 ±1.5 minutes), t(11)=1.096, p=0.30. Separate independent t-test results showed no significant difference between average RPE but showed significant difference between average HR during games-time between GCA (140.4 ± 9.2bpm) and SKA (158.8 ± 9.5bpm), t(22)=-4.825, p<0.001. CONCLUSION: GCA in PE lessons is more effective in improving cardiovascular fitness of children than SKA. As GCA involves more modified game-play, this time is translated to more activity time, which involves the use of large muscle groups. However, the more ‘traditional’ SKA emphasizes more on skills-practice, which creates more waiting time and less activity time. These differences in the approaches are shown by the higher average HR achieved in GCA PE lessons than SKA PE lessons. Supported by the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Start-Up Grant, SUG34/13DT.

Does India Have an International Strategy?

There is a movement across the world to internationalize higher education so that it meets the needs of students to be more global in their approach to higher education. Various strategies are being worked out by different countries to understand the meaning of internationalization and how it can be imparted in national educational institutions. Unfortunately, in India, the higher education system is not being subjected to this process of internationalization. India's latest five year plan (2012-17) for national development has a brief mention about internationalization, but no concrete measures to bring about this change in the higher education system have been formulated so far)

Šolski esej in splošna matura iz slovenščine

The development of the school essay as part of the General Matura in Slovenian language is closely related to the development of the didactics of literature founded by Boža Krakar Vogel. In the last two decades, the instructions for writing the essay, the method of its grading, and the number of prescribed literary works have changed, while the prudent selection of the thematic headings has remained a constant. Further development of the school essay in the General Matura is an important and demanding task that requires co-ordinated professional efforts on the part of academics in the area of literature and the didactics of literature, as well as on the part of experts from the National Education Institute of the Republic of Slovenia and the examination committee for Slovenian language, which has benefitted from staff reinforcement, acting within the framework of the National Examinations Centre.

Analysis of the 2-D C5G7 MOX Benchmark with VISWAM Code

The Indian nuclear power programme is being augmented with a variety of imported light water reactors (LWRs). Close interaction between the national labs, plant operators and educational institutions is required to meet the human resource requirements of this program. A neutronics code VISWAM for physics analysis of current and future power reactors is being developed as a part of the above long term goal. The overall plan is to develop a lattice code for generating few group cross sections and a diffusion theory based few group core solver for steady state and transient core calculations. As a first step towards this goal, we have taken up the development of a lattice burnup code. Initially, we used a combination of 1‐D multigroup transport for pincell and supercell calculations and 2‐D few‐group diffusion theory for assembly calculations. Although this method was fast and reasonably accurate for simple fuel assembly designs, we found that the power distribution errors were large in the vicinity of strong absorbers like burnable poison and control rod pins. We improved the solution method by using the 2‐D collision probability (CP) method for calculating the fluxes in each region and currents at each surface of a cell. Adjacent cells are coupled using interface currents at cell boundaries with double P2 (DP2) expansion of angular flux. The advantage of this method is that it can been extended for 2‐D full core solution of the neutron transport equation without spatial homogenization. We tested this code using the OECD/NEA 2‐D C5G7 MOX fuel assembly benchmark. The eigenvalue for the core calculation lies within 0.05% of the reference result. The average power distribution error is less than 1.0%.

Institutional memory of the National theatre of the Republic of Srpska: The analysis of reminiscence of the National theatre of RS

The subject of this paper's research is institutional memory of the National Theatre of the Republic of Srpska (NTRS) observed through a prism of social constructivism theories by Maurice Halbwachs as well as Aleida and Ian Assmann. Main hypotheses of the paper were: (1) Ian Assmann's mnemonic and communicative memories in the institutional memory of NTRS preserve narratives about the Theatre as a national and traditional educational institution and (2) Strategy and implementation of preserving the institutional memory of NTRS is not satisfactory in terms of the memory preservation strategy according to Kenneth McGill. For the needs of positive confirmation of these hypotheses mnemonic memory (monographs, bulletins, posters, brochures, program booklets, collections of papers, events schedules, other written documents, space) and communicative memory (interviews with the members of management and actors' ensemble) were analyzed, gathered by means of archival research, interviewing and observation. In the analysis were used methods of discourse analysis and narrative analysis. Research results show that the most distinguished narratives are: enduring and resolute David; circle of productivity and diversity; continuous excellence; theatre as educator; collectiveness and zealousness; theatre as the foundation of the traditional; theatre for the people. Talking about the strategy of preserving the memory of the theatre, certain number of defaults was determined such as dim systematization, insufficient protection of archive material as well as non-existing plan of material digitalization, but also disintegration of the Theatre collective with far reaching consequences in terms of preserving communicative, and finally mnemonic memory of the institution.

THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE TRADITIONAL BELIEFS AND PRACTICE OF MATHEMATICS TEACHERS AND THEIR STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENTS IN DOING MATHEMATICS TASKS

The importance of teachers’ beliefs for students’ learning is highlighted from different sources showing that teachers’ beliefs affect their teaching approach that, in turn, affects students’ achievement. The studies of mathematics teachers’ beliefs in Latvia brought out a contradiction between teachers’ constructivist beliefs on teaching and learning and their traditional routine work while revealing match between some traditional beliefs on teaching and learning and traditionally-oriented instructional practice. The aim of the present study is to explore the possible relationships between the traditional beliefs and practice of mathematics teachers and their students’ achievement in mathematics. For this purpose the Latvian data from two international research projects was analyzed: Singapore National Education Institute project “Non-cognitive skills and Singapore learners – international comparison” and project “Nordic-Baltic comparative research in mathematics education” (NorBa). The sample included 190 mathematics teachers and their 2828 students from grade 9 representing different regions of Latvia, schools with different programs of education, rural areas and cities. The results suggest that the traditional beliefs of teachers are connected with lower students’ achievement in mathematics test, while teachers’ traditionally oriented self-reported practice is positively related to the achievement of their students. The research will discuss the reasons for the outcomes of this study that may refer to a certain extent to other European countries in the sphere of mathematics education that are currently trying to introduce reforms in their systems of education, as well as countries where students demonstrated lower achievements than OECD average in the mathematics test of PISA 2009. Key words: reported practice, students’ achievement, teachers’ espoused beliefs, teaching of mathematics.

Special library in teacher training and information literacy

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the underemphasized importance of libraries in cultivating information literacy habits in teacher trainees that in turn generate the multiplier effects of inculcating positive habits of information literacy of children in schools. Design/methodology/approach – By using Singapore's National Institute of Education (NIE) Library as a case study, this paper provides an overview of its institutional and cultural dynamics that create a favorable environment to cultivate information literacy in trainee teachers. Findings – NIE Library's unique embeddedness in the public education system and education research system allows it to provide world-class information literacy support for teacher trainees. Originality/value – Provides a description of how special libraries are vital in supporting a nation-wide effort in information literacy through the support of teacher trainee and education researchers.

Status and Functioning of Distance Education in Bhutan: An Evaluative Study

Bhutan is a small, landlocked country in southern Asia, between China and India. Its population is 634,982, and it covers 38,394 square kilometers. It has one of the world's smallest and least developed economies. Agriculture, forestry, and hydroelectric power provide the main sources of income for 90 % of the population. International agencies are currently supporting a number of educational, social, and environmental programs. In 2003, the higher education sector in Bhutan was reorganized through the creation of the Royal University of Bhutan bringing together eight higher education institutes and two teacher education institutions, including the National Institute of Education (NIE) in Samtse, which is in the southern border of Bhutan with India. Recently, the NIE was renamed as Samtse College of Education and the Paro College of Education in the west. The Royal University of Bhutan, founded on 2nd June, 2003 by a royal decree is the national university system of Bhutan. It was established to consolidate the management of tertiary education in Bhutan. It is a decentralized university with 10 constituent colleges spread across the kingdom. The present study focuses the growth and functioning of distance education in Bhutan.

Remaking the Male Body: Masculinity and the Uses of Physical Culture in Interwar and Vichy France, by Joan Tumblety

Remaking the Male Body: Masculinity and the Uses of Physical Culture in Interwar and Vichy France, by Joan Tumblety. Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2012. xiv, 257 pp. $125.00 US (cloth). This is a deeply-researched and fully-documented, but not quite definitive study of many of the French proponents and practitioners of physical culture for men between 1920 and the mid-1940s. Based on documentation on the private, public, and military advocacy and provision of physical education in the national library and archives, the army archives, and the police and departmental archives in Paris, Remaking the Male Body presents engaging and informative sections on the marketing of physical culture for men, replete with analyses and illustrations of promotional material, and on physical culture at the Paris World Fair of 1937. Having consulted the holdings on private, public, and military exercise programs in the libraries of the national institute of sport and physical education (INSEP) and of the military school, Joan Tumblety delineates the differences between various systems of exercise, yet recognizes their interactions and similarities. In particular, she shows that implemented programs were often eclectic mixes of different regimens. Drawing on the resources of the municipal archives of Saint-Denis (a red suburb of Paris that promoted physical culture), and other material on the communist and socialist parties' and the Popular Front government's commitment to men's physical fitness, she challenges assumptions that physical cultists were politically rightwing. By extending her study to the Vichy years, she demonstrates that many of the interwar protagonists entered the Vichy administration and shaped some of its policies. Remaking the Male Body introduces many purveyors of physical culture and indicates their motivations: private fitness institutes and gyms, most of them associated with the large number of medical men interested in bodily health and strength; physical educators in the public schools, who started with military battalions in boys' schools to prepare Frenchmen for military duty; the military, sufficiently concerned about high rates of rejection in the yearly medical examinations of potential conscripts, encouraged physical preparation for future soldiers; government officials at the national and municipal level who mandated a series of physical education programs out of concern about national regeneration and military revenge; and political parties and factions from the left to the right. While many political groups shared governmental motives about regeneration and revenge, Tumblety shows that they also wanted to protect their adherents in the period of street battles during the political turmoil of the mid-1930s. Remaking the Male Body analyzes the arguments of these advocates, starting with common fears that (French) masculinity was fragile and could only be regenerated through muscle building. The fear was based upon theories of degeneration due to the softening effect of civilization, including sedentary professions, public transport, excessive food, and overwork, especially intellectual labour in the school system. Tumblety makes a compelling case for the effect of the surfeit of trained medical doctors seeking to make a living in the market. …

8 - “University is ISO 9000:2008 Certified”: Neoliberal Echoes, Knowledge Production and Quality Assurance in Kenyan State Universities

In Africa, Quality Assurance (QA) in universities has acquired a sense of urgency owing to the rapid growth of the university sector in the last two decades. The adoption of neoliberal tenets in the development of universities has witnessed the surge in student numbers and types of degree-granting institutions. The decline in budgetary support for higher education, evident in average per-student expenditure decline from US $6,300 to $1,500 by 1990, rising student enrolments coupled with inadequate and outdated teaching and learning resources, alongside massive staff exodus as well as poor governance have raised troubling questions about the quality of education provided. The rising concerns about the quality of the institutions and the graduates have catalyzed national educational authorities and individual institutions to institute quality assurance strategies in order to enhance the quality of education provide. This paper looks at how neoliberalism has undermined faculty validation of learning within the context of QA. Faculty exclusion in knowledge validation via QA is examined from the following themes: national accreditation, ISO certification, internal QA units, internships &amp; attachments, and the deployment of information communication technologies. It is apparent that the development of universities along the neoliberal paradigm has eroded faculty prerogatives in QA as market ideals have triumphed over academic principles.