iosr-JRME   Volume-6 ~ Issue-4 ~ July-August 2016

Abstract: The study generally aimed to ascertain the faculty performance and students' academic achievement in the licensure examination for teachers of Naval State University. It utilized the descriptive method through the use of interviews, documentary analysis, and survey questionnaire. Unstructured interviews pertaining to the Licensure Examination for Teachers was conducted among the College of Education (COED) Faculty and the students who took the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET). A total of 62 faculty members of the College of Education and all the 1072 students who took the Licensure Examination for Teachers from SY
2009-2010 to SY 2011-2012 were the subject of this study............

Keywords: faculty performance; students' academic achievement; licensure examination for teachers.

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Abstract: Back Ground: Frequent absence from the classes may lead to improper learning and poor performance in the examinations. Without attaining proper knowledge and technical skills, satisfying the patients attending to a doctor will be very difficult. Students are likely to skip boring lectures those that are not relevant to their future needs. Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted from June 2015 to August 2015 among 2013 and 2014 years batches of students in the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences Ongole, Prakasam District of Andhra Pradesh........

Keywords: Absenteeism, Feedback, Illness, Laziness, Lengthy classes, Student, Motivation,

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Abstract: The Flipped classroom mode is the most popular teaching mode at the moment in western courtiers, in particular, in America. With the introduction of FCM into Chinese educational realm, the Chinese experts and teachers began to make tentative research into this new teaching mode. The paper is one of these tentative explorations, which firstly reviews the developing FCM and makes comparative study between American and Chinese FCM from cultural perspective. American culture belongs to western culture, while Chinese culture is typical oriental culture, so they must exhibit many different and even contradictory cultural characteristics.......

Keywords: FCM, comparative study, optimized study, cultural perspective, macro blueprint, micro blueprint,

[1] Liu Jianzhi, Wang Dan, Review of flipped classroom research and practice in foreign countries, Theory and Practice of Contemporary Education, (2), 2014, 68-71.
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[4] Lu Yu, Xu Bibo, Jiao Yu, Rethink the application of flipping classroom in Chinese schools from the perspective of cultural difference, China Educational Technology, (8), 2015, 110-116.
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Abstract: The divorce rate in Indonesia from time to time is alwah high. This results in the increasing number of children that are raised by single parents (widows or widowers). On the other hand, some facts reveal that children raised by single parents tend to have problematic issue with their surroundings in social life. Meanwhile studies on the responsibility of single parents in fostering children are immensely limited. Therefore this study aims to identify and analyze the responsibilities of the single parents in fostering their children, in order to construct a better and more optimal parenting by single parents.......

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Abstract: Many share the knowledge that the decrease in education endangers the future of Israel. The argument is about the solutions and ways to improve the quality of education of wide groups in the population. In the meantime, we are swamped with suggestions for reforms involving the crème de la crème from the business sector who think that it is possible to turn the school into a well-managed business firm and therefore to achieve a better high quality education. It is important to understand that these offers do not operate in a void. They are motivated by economic interests of the business sector............

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Abstract: Academic advising is a crucial task that should be done at tertiary institutions as it prepares the students for the tertiary education. The study focused first year students doing Accounting degree on their experiences during academic advising for one year. A mixed methods research approach was adopted and a questionnaire and interview were used to get views from participants. Recommendations were made on how to ameliorate the academic advising at tertiary institutions.........

Keywords: Academic advising, student experiences

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Abstract: The study explored the knowledge and skills of undergraduate student-teachers in utilizing contemporary quantitative techniques to present their action research reports. The study purposely sampled 165 student-teachers who pursued Bachelor of Education in Basic Education degree in the University of Education, Winneba in Ghana, and adopted an exploratory mixed design in exploring the student-teachers' demographic information, academic qualifications, and knowledge and skills to cover many and varied characteristics of the student-teachers. Particularly, their knowledge and skills were centred on data collection instruments, data representing skills, and data analysis methods.........

Keywords: action research; contemporary quantitative methods; knowledge and skills

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Abstract: This paper deals with the reliability and validity of revised Bhattacharya's Achievement Motivation Inventory (BAMI). Original BAMI was prepared by Vijay Kumar Rai and S.B. Bhattacharya (Rai, 1989) to measure the achievement motivation of the students. This tool is available in two forms: Form 'A' and Form 'B'. BAMI measures 11 dimensions of Achievement Motivation with 40 items in Form 'A'. Only Form A has been considered for this study. On the basis of the instructions from the test constructors (Rai & Bhattacharya) some modifications were done and eight items were added for retry-out..........

Keywords: Achievement Motivation, Difficulty Value, Discrimination Index.

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Abstract: Cultivating college students' mechanical innovation ability is urgent requirements for mechanical engineering education in today's society. In this paper, we put forward improving the students' ability of knowledge application and mechanical innovation design through virtual assembly technology based on institutional innovation in the comprehensive practice teaching. The practice results of teaching reform show that the teaching based on virtual simulation and assembly technology of engineering helps students apply what they have learned, stimulate their interest in learning, and cultivate their mechanical innovation design ability, which verifies the validity of the teaching reform

Keywords: Virtual assembly, mechanical innovation, knowledge application, teaching reform

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Abstract: Children in diverse urban schools are struggling socially and academically due to a range of unmet social, emotional and academic needs (Greene, 2014). In a small qualitative research study, participants' interpretations of a vignette showed some evidence of using child development but were silent about possible racial, cultural and linguistic dimensions of the interaction. This suggests the need for teacher preparation programs to consistently, explicitly and rigorously attend to the interaction of identity and learning for children in US urban schools to supportteacher candidates' abilityto develop culturally inclusive, learner-centered, identity-safe classroom practices (Steele & Cohn-Vargas, 2013).

Keywords: Cultural competence; culturally inclusive practice; culturally relevant teaching; learner-centered teaching; urban teacher education

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Abstract: Adult education is a versatile area of study that needs to be strengthened with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) equipment. This is so because adult education touches all aspects of human endeavours that demand the use of technological equipment. The integration of ICT equipment in adult education will engender positive development in actualizing societal goals and associating with the terrain of computer age. This paper, therefore, examined the benefits, limitations, challenges and prospects of integrating ICT in adult education. The paper also came up with way forward and drawn conclusion

Keywords: Adult education, Information and Communication Technology, Challenges and Prospects

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Abstract: In this paper, we report the construction of an application to aid in the understanding of an important content studied in organic chemistry disciplines, in higher education. We carried out a connection between the cognitive sciences and Peirce's semiotics, as a way to make inferences about the processes of appropriation of students, especially about the representations on the symbolic level that can be directly related to daily events.............

Keywords: Chemistry education, learning, rearrangements, semiotics.

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