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Education Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 3

2020 March - 39 articles

Cover Story: This paper looks at the effects of an intervention, based on fluency oriented reading instruction (FORI), on the motivation for reading among struggling readers in Irish primary schools. The intervention took place in learning support settings in three primary schools located in urban educationally disadvantaged communities in North Dublin. The study, conducted through a pragmatic lens, employed a mixed methods design with a concurrent triangulation strategy. The study was guided by a reading motivation perspective, recognising the overlapping influences of teachers, parents and the individual student. Findings indicate that the FORI intervention had a positive impact on the motivation to read for struggling readers. In particular, the intervention was found to decrease students’ perceived difficulty with reading and increase their reading self-efficacy and orientation towards reading. View this paper.
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Articles (39)

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
8,295 Views
12 Pages

Gender and Digital Teaching Competence in Dual Vocational Education and Training

  • Jesús Sánchez Prieto,
  • Juan Manuel Trujillo Torres,
  • Melchor Gómez García and
  • Gerardo Gómez García

In recent decades, technological advances have been revolutionizing all areas of society, including the teaching resources and methodologies used in the world of education. Teachers are in the process of adapting to develop the digital skills they ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,379 Views
8 Pages

Dealing with Academic Difficulty in Medical School: A Pilot Study

  • Bunmi S Malau-Aduli,
  • Robin A Ray,
  • Teresa O’Connor,
  • Yolanda van der Kruk,
  • Faith O Alele and
  • Michelle Bellingan

Some students struggle through medical school and do not have the confidence to seek help. This pilot study sought to explore the challenges and needs of medical students experiencing academic difficulty. Semi-structured interviews and online surveys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
21,336 Views
13 Pages

This conceptual paper offers a reconsideration of the application of Novakian concept mapping to higher education research by putting to work the Deleuzian concept of the rhizome. We ask: what does thinking with Deleuze’s concepts offer researc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,263 Views
17 Pages

The purpose of this study is to develop a thinking process model that reveals cognitive bias through analyzing students’ cognitive biases in processing experimental manuals. Twenty-two college students participated in the study. During the &ldq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,716 Views
18 Pages

This article presents the background to and rationale for a practice-focused model of educational change and improvement. In contrast to autocratic top-down models, this democratic and pragmatic approach begins with the educational concerns of teache...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,869 Views
14 Pages

Teacher Training in Intercultural Education: Teacher Perceptions

  • Victoria Figueredo-Canosa,
  • Luis Ortiz Jiménez,
  • Cristina Sánchez Romero and
  • María Carmen López Berlanga

Background: The aim of the present study was to evaluate teacher perceptions on the training received in intercultural education. Methods: The article presents a quantitative, non- experimental and ex-post-facto type of research; directed to inquire...

  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
13,400 Views
19 Pages

Research on digital learning environments has traditionally applied either an individual perspective or a social perspective to learning. Based on a literature review, we examined to what extent individual or social perspectives determined the learni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,291 Views
21 Pages

Learning the wave-particle dualism of electrons and photons plays a central role in understanding quantum physics. Teaching it requires that the teacher is fluent in using abstract and uncommon terms. We inspect the lexical structures of pre-service...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,571 Views
9 Pages

The purpose of this study is to conduct a non-systematic meth-analysis of a literature review by way of reviewing research that was found in any databases under the terms “urban health services” in order to document the major factors infl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
10,916 Views
14 Pages

Social Media University Branding

  • Petra Maresova,
  • Jan Hruska and
  • Kamil Kuca

Globalization has increased the demands placed on higher education and increased competition among universities. In response, institutions of higher education have started to consider their online presence as a potential competitive advantage. The ai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
13,731 Views
15 Pages

How Creativity in STEAM Modules Intervenes with Self-Efficacy and Motivation

  • Cathérine Conradty,
  • Sofoklis A. Sotiriou and
  • Franz X. Bogner

Many current curricula, in going beyond traditional goals, increasingly foster creativity in science classrooms, declaring creativity a core skill of the 21st century. For enhancing creativity in science classrooms, the subject Arts is considered to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,751 Views
17 Pages

According to the OECD, The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and other education policy experts all over the world, an urgent reform is needed to promote education innovation with “competencies” as the core. To inves...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,318 Views
15 Pages

Drawn to Story

  • Daniel Gregson

Rising to the demands of academic writing, scholarship and research is challenging for many practitioners in post compulsory education. Only a small number manage to see their research through to completion and write-up. Therefore, their work is unde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,455 Views
14 Pages

This article investigates Brown’s assertion that students today exhibit an unwillingness/inability to engage in critical thinking (CT). He describes this as a ‘critical thinking deficit’. The question of whether CT can be taught or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
11,126 Views
12 Pages

The objective of the present study was to investigate parents’, teachers’ and principals’ views on parental involvement (PI) in Secondary Education Schools in Greece. The research was based on a survey among parents (n = 54), teache...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,806 Views
21 Pages

Student belongingness is important for successful study paths, and group work forms an important part of modern university physics education. To study the group dynamics of introductory physics students at the University of Helsinki, we collected net...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,117 Views
22 Pages

Linking Sustainable Development Goals with Thermal Comfort and Lighting Conditions in Educational Environments

  • Isabel Montiel,
  • Asunción M. Mayoral,
  • José Navarro Pedreño,
  • Silvia Maiques and
  • Gema Marco Dos Santos

The present paper deals with a wide range of issues related to the environmental quality in learning spaces, such as thermal and visual comfort, as well as energy efficiency. All of these issues fall under the umbrella of the UN Agenda 2030 and Susta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,373 Views
12 Pages

The aim of this research is to emphasize the importance of education for the philanthropic responsibilities of students. The basic term of the explanatory research is corporate social responsibility, adapted for higher education institutions—th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,471 Views
12 Pages

Practical strategies for improving individual engagement and performance within an engineering team project learning environment were applied and evaluated. While methodological refinements were required due to the structural challenges and novelty o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,698 Views
15 Pages

Globalisation and digital technology have changed the means and mechanisms of knowledge acquisition. The rapidly expanding open-access online resources and various digital learning platforms present new opportunities in the area of continuous entrepr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,041 Views
16 Pages

Video based instructional approaches have become very popular in teacher education. In this context, fictional video cases (FVCs) are a promising format because they can make discrete situations (e.g., parent–teacher conversations) accessible f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,228 Views
11 Pages

The paper presents and explores the experience of maths students studying in a context shaped by a core concept maths curriculum. The three vignettes that illuminate experience are drawn from a larger research project that worked with five teachers a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
21,070 Views
15 Pages

Quality of Feedback in Higher Education: A Review of Literature

  • Kathryn Haughney,
  • Shawnee Wakeman and
  • Laura Hart

In raising the standards for professional educators, higher educators must be prepared to provide the highest quality feedback on student performance and work products toward improved outcomes. This review of the literature examined the major finding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
10,363 Views
11 Pages

Read Like Me: An Intervention for Struggling Readers

  • Chase Young,
  • Stacey Lagrone and
  • Joyce McCauley

The current study reports on a reading intervention method titled Read Like Me. The intervention utilizes a stacked approach of research-based methods, including reading aloud, assisted reading, and repeated reading. The student involved was a second...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,634 Views
10 Pages

The development of mobile apps, which are either suitably adapted or especially designed for use by sensory-deprived people, have contributed significantly to the continuously increasing adoption of digital assistive technologies by people with disab...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,185 Views
13 Pages

Assessing Expressive Oral Reading Fluency

  • Timothy G. Morrison and
  • Brad Wilcox

Educators struggle to assess various aspects of reading in valid and reliable ways. Whether it is comprehension, phonological awareness, vocabulary, or phonics, determining appropriate assessments is challenging across grade levels and student abilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,301 Views
20 Pages

In a European project about formative assessment, Local Working Groups (LWGs) from six participating countries made use of a format for teacher-researcher collaboration. The activities in each LWG involved discussions and reflections about implementa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,702 Views
20 Pages

Previous studies of integral calculus have mainly explored students’ conceptual and procedural knowledge; only a few have focused on students’ metacognition in relation to integral calculus. The study reported here explored students&rsquo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
14,742 Views
23 Pages

This paper looks at the effects of an intervention, based on fluency oriented reading instruction (FORI), on the motivation for reading among struggling readers in First Class in Irish primary schools. The intervention took place in learning support...

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,372 Views
13 Pages

It Takes a Village: Listening to Parents

  • Stephen Bolaji,
  • Sulay Jalloh and
  • Marilyn Kell

29 February 2020

The study was premised on the concern of the migrant African parents about their children’s lack of aspiration for higher education after completing their secondary education in the Northern Territory (NT), Australia. There appears to be little...

  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
42,873 Views
28 Pages

28 February 2020

Oral reading fluency (ORF) deficits are a hallmark of reading difficulties. The impact of fluency struggles extends beyond word-level difficulties to include deficits in reading comprehension. Sixteen empirical studies conducted in 2000–2019 th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,397 Views
13 Pages

28 February 2020

The purpose of this study was to detect mind-wandering experienced by pre-service teachers during a video learning lecture on physics. The lecture was videotaped and consisted of a live lecture in a classroom. The lecture was about Gauss's law on phy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,193 Views
13 Pages

28 February 2020

Almost every country in the world is obligated to implement education policies to enable an inclusive school system. However, implementing techniques to be inclusive in schools is a major challenge to teachers, especially to those teaching a subject...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,849 Views
21 Pages

27 February 2020

The extant literature on mobile learning in higher education has mainly focused on students and academics. This study conducted in a Nigerian university considered a wider group of stakeholders (students, academics, IT personnel, and administrative l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
11,344 Views
11 Pages

Element Enterprise Tycoon: Playing Board Games to Learn Chemistry in Daily Life

  • Jen-Che Tsai,
  • Shih-Yeh Chen,
  • Chun-Yen Chang and
  • Shiang-Yao Liu

26 February 2020

This article reports the design of a scientific board game, named “Element Enterprise Tycoon” (EET), which creates a scenario combining chemical elements, techniques, and products in daily life. The game cards are designed to motivate stu...

  • Discussion
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,179 Views
13 Pages

25 February 2020

Workforce pipelines are essential to sustain a productive workforce in an increasingly competitive, high-tech environment. Advanced automation, sensors, materials and data analytics will increase the need for highly skilled workers in the manufacturi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
17,393 Views
15 Pages

25 February 2020

The academic use of mobile technology engages students beyond traditional classroom contexts. Over the past few years, higher education institutions have promoted students’ learning and growth by supporting their use of mobile technology. Mobil...

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