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teachers, etc ; curriculum; food sanitation; foodborne illness; risk; stakeholders; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Foodborne illnesses have a significant global burden and can be life-threatening, but good food hygiene practice can prevent most. SafeConsume is an EU-funded, transdisciplinary project aiming to improve consumers’ food safety behaviour and reduce the burden of foodborne illness. Young people are at risk of foodborne illness and research indicates a lack of knowledge or concern about food hygiene. ...
teachers, etc ; educational status; games; gender; questionnaires; regression analysis; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Although video games are increasing their presence in teens/children's private entertainment and there is ample evidence to support their educational possibilities, they are seldom introduced in classrooms. One of the least studied factors relative to the insertion of video games in curricula is teachers' conceptions on their effectiveness to foster learning. In this study, we investigate how teac ...
teachers, etc ; agricultural development; agricultural education; motivation; professional development; Florida; Show all 6 Subjects
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... A wide range of challenges continues to exist in delivering school-based agricultural education (SBAE) programs. Among the most pressing challenges are the recruitment and retention of high-quality agriculture teachers (Guffey & Young, 2020). Teacher educators and researchers in SBAE are tasked with meeting the nationwide demand for teachers, while also better understanding the status of alternati ...
teachers, etc ; agricultural education; agricultural research; females; males; models; questionnaires; India; Show all 8 Subjects
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... In the present digital era, it is important that a teacher is equipped with proper technology usage besides having a domain and pedagogical knowledge. It is very important to assess the overall teaching competency matrices. Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) is an established model to assess such competencies of teachers. The study was conducted to understand the overall competenc ...
teachers, etc ; education; questionnaires; surveys; sustainable development; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Instructional practices in Education for Sustainable Development are thought to play a crucial role in the cultivation of students' action competence towards Sustainable Development issues. This paper explores teachers' interests and their action-oriented instructional practices in ESD. The Action-orientation in ESD Questionnaire (AoESD-Q) employs a survey methodology consisting of vignettes descr ...
teachers, etc ; decision making; qualitative analysis; risk perception; vegan diet; Germany; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The transformation toward more sustainable food choices may be supported by an education for sustainable nutrition. In schools, biology teachers play a key role in educating students as sustainability change makers, as biology lessons provide various opportunities to deal with ESD-topics such as sustainable nutrition. Teachers’ classroom practices may be influenced by their personal choices regard ...
agricultural colleges; occupational stress; sustainable development
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... In contemporary societies majority of people seem to be talking about stress and its various consequences. Individual’s reactions to severe stress has become the major concern of the stress researchers in different disciplines. Job life, wherein, employees spend more than one third of their daily routine is the major source of satisfaction of their various needs, as well as of frustration and stre ...
teachers, etc ; descriptive statistics; females; nutrition education; refrigerators; surveys; North Carolina; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Food-based learning (FBL) in the classroom has been theorized as an effective method for improving children's eating behaviors through positive exposures to healthy foods. However, few studies have explored preschool teachers’ resources and training needs specific to hands-on FBL in the classroom. Examine North Carolina (NC) Head Start (HS) teachers’ FBL needs, assets, and current resources to inf ...
Internet; agricultural colleges; e-mail; mobile telephones; sustainable development; India
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... The present study was conducted in three purposively selected agricultural universities in Rajasthan; namely, Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University, Jobner, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur and Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University Three constituent colleges from each agriculture university were selected purposely on the basis of having maximum num ...
... Teachers are uniquely poised to support students’ healthy eating habits and physical activity. However, research is needed to examine the successes and challenges teachers face when implementing a school wellness initiative. The purpose of this study was to examine teachers’ experiences implementing and managing a pilot school wellness initiative where students had longer lunch and recess, and mor ...
... (1) Background: Approximately 7% of Canadian children live with a food allergy (FA). Pre-COVID-19, ~20% of anaphylactic reactions occurred in schools. Yet, teachers reported poor FA-related knowledge, and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic are not well-studied. Additionally, teachers’ management approaches vary widely. We aimed to describe elementary school teachers’ perceptions about FA man ...
Kateřina Jochecová; Michal Černý; Zdeněk Stachoň; Hana Švedová; Natálie Káčová; Jiří Chmelík; Vojtěch Brůža; Ondřej Kvarda; Pavel Ugwitz; Alžběta Šašinková; Nicola Catherine Fořtová; Čeněk Šašinka
computer simulation; focus groups; geography; qualitative analysis; spatial data
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... The presented study aspires to utilize the gradually validated immense potential of collaborative immersive virtual environments (CIVEs) in higher education when designing and conducting geography lessons. These particular lessons focused on hypsography. A Research through Design approach and relevant qualitative methodology were used as we engaged two groups of domain experts (experienced geograp ...
elementary schools; healthy diet; qualitative analysis; school meals
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... School meals can have a key function in promoting children’s health. However, simply providing a free school meal is not a guarantee that pupils will eat the food. The purpose of this study was to explore factors influencing pupils’ participation in free school meal schemes in Oslo. The study has a qualitative research design, inspired by grounded theory. Data were collected through interviews wit ...
teachers, etc ; computer software; curriculum; elementary schools; environmental sustainability; food production; healthy diet; literacy; nutrition education; professional development; qualitative analysis; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Australian children's diets are far from optimal with high consumption of energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods. Healthy practices established at early ages, such as following a well-balanced diet have the potential to last a lifetime. Teacher delivered food and nutrition education (FNE) can be effective in improving children's food literacy and eating habits. However, teachers are known to have some ...
... This study aims to develop and validate an instrument to analyse future Secondary Education teachers' perceptions regarding the development of Teachers' Professional Identity (TPI). The data were collected from a sample of 733 participants who were students enrolled in the Master's Degree for Secondary Education teachers. The psychometric properties of the instrument were obtained by analysing con ...
body mass index; confidence interval; cross-sectional studies; health education; lifestyle; odds ratio; pain; physical activity; regression analysis; television; working conditions; Brazil
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... The sensation of pain is frequent in teachers and its relationship with the practice of free-time physical activity still needs more scientific evidence. This study analyzed the association between free-time physical activity and pain symptoms experienced by teachers during the day and at bedtime. In this cross-sectional study, data were obtained through individual interviews and the fulfillment o ...
... This study aims to assess the determinants of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination hesitancy and refusal (VHR) among teachers, from pre-school to higher education, through an online survey. A logistic regression analysis was used to determine the adjusted odds ratio (OR) of the independent variables (perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes) per 1-point increase in the Likert scale, an ...
motivation; questionnaires; surveys; United Arab Emirates
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... This study explored teachers' views on the behavioral problems among school children in the Emirate of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The population comprised cycles one (grades 1–4) and two (grades 5–8) teachers in the Emirate. In collecting data from the teachers, a survey questionnaire was administered, and a total of 378 were returned. After analyzing the major scales using SPSS ve ...
cardiovascular diseases; cohort studies; death; diabetes; dietetics; food frequency questionnaires; fruits; mortality; public health; risk; soft drinks; sugar sweetened beverages; California
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... The evidence linking sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) intake and mortality risk is conflicting, and associations between various SSB subtypes and mortality remain unclear. To examine the association between baseline SSB intake, subtypes of SSB intake, and mortality risk in women. Prospective cohort study. Participants of the California Teachers Study (n = 100,314; median age = 53 years) free of card ...
teachers, etc ; Isopoda; ecosystems; fearfulness; professional development; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Terrestrial isopods, a diverse group of small crustaceans, are a beneficial component of a healthy ecosystem. Terrestrial isopods are also excellent living animals to have in a middle school science classroom. The current study evaluated if future middle school science teachers would utilize living terrestrial isopods in their classroom, and if they would not, to what extent fear and disgust towar ...
... This study aimed to explore teachers' management and assessment strategies of free-riders, and the challenges they faced in the process at selected secondary schools in Ethiopia. To address these objectives, a concurrent mixed-methods design was adopted. 146 teachers were selected for the questionnaire survey while four teachers were selected for follow-up interviews. To decide teachers' managemen ...
Karla Cervantes-Martínez; Dalia Stern; José Salvador Zamora-Muñoz; Ruy López-Ridaura; José Luis Texcalac-Sangrador; Adrian Cortés-Valencia; Jorge Octavio Acosta-Montes; Martín Lajous; Horacio Riojas-Rodríguez
... Air pollution is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, scarse longitudinal studies have evaluated this association in low- and middle-income countries, where 80% of the worldwide cases of T2D occur. Our aim was to estimate the association between PM₂.₅ and NO₂ exposure and incident T2D, in the Mexican Teachers' Cohort (MTC). We selected a subsample of female teachers from the MTC from ...
capital; climate; group size; leadership; surveys; working conditions
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... Previous studies have demonstrated to some extent that the psychological capital of employees affects how they respond differently to leadership and organizational climate, but research has yet to investigate this in leaders, whether existing or potential. Studies in this area have also not made comparisons across occupational contexts. Hence, this research was initiated. The participants of our s ...
... Despite the progress recently made towards automatic sleep staging for adults, children have complicated sleep structures that require attention to the pediatric sleep staging. Semi-supervised learning, i.e., training networks with both labeled and unlabeled data, greatly reduces the burden of epoch-by-epoch annotation for physicians. However, the inherent class-imbalance problem in sleep staging ...
teachers, etc ; educational planning; stakeholders; surveys; Show all 4 Subjects
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... In improving learning outcomes in education, we found a gap in available standard protocols to analyze pedagogical documents such as lesson plans. This study is a product of validated and reliable Lesson Plan Analysis Protocol (LPAP) supporting education stakeholders to get insight into the lesson plans (LPs) used in schools. The LPAP was found to be a valid and reliable tool that education evalua ...
teachers, etc ; gender; mathematics; socioeconomic status; Spain; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The objective of this research was to verify whether teacher expectations of students' achievement in mathematics in solving elementary arithmetic problems are related to students’ performance in these problems. The sample was 1,420 students and 66 teachers from 48 schools in Spain. First, we assessed whether differences existed in the level of resolution among students, with regard to such factor ...
academic achievement; data collection; mathematics; motivation; research projects; Rwanda
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... This dataset belongs to a large doctoral research project in Biology education conducted under the African Centre of Excellence for Innovative Teaching and Learning Mathematics and Science (ACEITLMS), University of Rwanda College of Education (URCE). The data were collected from students undertaking biology education as their future teaching career [here referred to as pre-service biology teachers ...
teachers, etc ; Hieracium; Willdenowia; botanists; herbaria; lectotypes; museums; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The Hieracium (Compositae: Cichorieae) collection of Ferdinand Tessendorff (1879–1924) was recently located in the backlog of the Botanical Museum Berlin. It comprises 565 specimens, including several types, which have now been incorporated into the general herbarium. A digest of the life and work of Tessendorff, a high school teacher and amateur botanist in Berlin, is presented. The status of the ...
teachers, etc ; COVID-19 infection; exercise; literacy; society; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Rapid changes in technology force Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to generate policies and permanent digital adaptations in their exercise of forming professionals through university professors. HEIs -in their permanent desire to qualify teaching faculty and graduate high-level professionals-develop continuous training events to strengthen and update techno-pedagogical skills that allow givin ...
teachers, etc ; abscess; animals; declawing; education; hematoma; models; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Veterinary surgical education is improved by studying the relevant literature. The aim of this literature review was to report the theory and methods used to provide surgical education to veterinary students; to discuss the training most likely to create a competent general practitioner; and to review assessment methods for simulated and live surgeries. The literature reviewed demonstrates that ne ...
teachers, etc ; aerosols; air; carbon dioxide; environmental science; Show all 5 Subjects
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... This study examined the dispersion of potentially infectious aerosols in classrooms by means of both a CO₂ tracer gas, and multizone contaminant transport modeling. A total of 20 tests were conducted in three different university classrooms at multiple air change rates (4.4–9.7/h), each with two different room orientations: one with the tracer gas released from six student desks toward the air ret ...
teachers, etc ; focus groups; interpersonal relationships; models; researchers; Indonesia; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Islamic schools with the concept of boarding school are increasing every year in Indonesia. These schools offer academic education that is integrated with Islamic learning and Islamic character to students. Of course, this integration must be carried out systematically and planned by the school as an education provider through good communication between schools and students. Therefore, this study ...
teachers, etc ; aerosols; air; carbon dioxide; environmental science; technology; Show all 6 Subjects
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... A study of aerosol dispersion was conducted in a university classroom using a CO₂ tracer gas emitted from three source locations in a steady release, one source location per test. The tracer gas emitted from the single source location represented the potentially infectious aerosol droplets emitted from a single student and was thus a way to examine the influence of one sick student on the rest of ...
teachers, etc ; COVID-19 infection; forests; spring; surveys; uncertainty; Show all 6 Subjects
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... During the spring semester of 2020, American universities, along with many others across the world, rapidly transitioned mid-term from traditional face-to-face classes to online learning methods to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus causing Covid-19. While this transition was a challenge for most instructors and students to navigate, it posed specific and unique challenges to forest operat ...
teachers, etc ; color; decision making; exhibitions; learning; solutions; students; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The present work introduces a systematic decision making process which, based on Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis – Matching, is aimed at supporting the selection of pedagogical strategies according to the theoretical paradigms provided by the Color Theory and the Learning Styles concept. This novel procedure is illustrated by an example which allowed comparison with the traditional ...
teachers, etc ; Ayurvedic medicine; pain; quality of life; therapeutics; yoga; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease that causes significant disability and reduced quality of life. Scientific studies on yoga have revealed its various health benefits in chronic conditions, including autoimmune diseases. However, whether yoga is feasible for AS patients or not is not studied. Further, no validated yoga module is available for AS patients. This study int ...
teachers, etc ; adolescents; climate; questionnaires; regression analysis; socioeconomic status; Jordan; Show all 7 Subjects
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... School climate is one of several important factors influencing adolescent well-being and life satisfaction. Although a growing number of studies investigate the role of school climate, they often apply a global scale and only a few of them measure any specific elements. Likewise, most studies are focused on well-being and not life satisfaction. The purpose of this study is to investigate how diffe ...
... BACKGROUND: Active play is vital for healthy child development, and schools are a valuable setting to promote this behaviour. Understanding the determinants of children’s physical activity behaviour during recess, particularly the role of risk-taking and the influence safety concerns have on active play, is required. This systematic review aimed to 1) synthesise qualitative research with children ...
teachers, etc ; factor analysis; measuring devices; methodology; vocational education; Pakistan; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Service-learning activities are rapidly expanding worldwide. Several instruments are available for measuring these activities. However, none of these are suitable for measuring management issues and challenges in service-learning implementation. This study reports on the development and factor analysis of an instrument to measure service-learning management. In total, 315 teachers from vocational ...
teachers, etc ; data collection; gender; ownership; questionnaires; tongue; Spain; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Developing an accurate second language competence different from the mother tongue has become an essential skill in today's globalized world, and therefore it is a highly valued and demanded learning among the main educational institutions and models. However, it is a complex process that is influenced by numerous and, in many cases, unknown factors, which are not usually taken into consideration ...
teachers, etc ; agricultural development; agricultural education; models; self-efficacy; Show all 5 Subjects
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... With the implementation of the supervised agricultural experience (SAE) within school-based agricultural education (SBAE), hands-on learning has changed how students learn in the classroom. SAE programs, a key component of agricultural education, are an example of experiential learning within the SBAE model. The implementation of SAE experiences has been often viewed as difficult for many teachers ...
teachers, etc ; landscapes; literacy; questionnaires; Spain; Show all 5 Subjects
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... In recent years, the educational landscape has been in a period of constant change due to the advent of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). As a result, training in digital competence has become one of the challenges to be met by the teaching staff, in order to incorporate these skills into their professional practice. As a result of this, the present work aimed to analyse the level ...
teachers, etc ; COVID-19 infection; data collection; occupations; socioeconomics; surveys; Cambodia; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Between 2019 and 2021, we collected detailed administrative data of grade 9 students from 54 lower-secondary schools in rural Cambodia. We also collected phone-survey data from these students in July and August 2020, to understand the implications of the nation-wide lockdown, that was implemented to curb the spread of COVID-19 in March 2020. The administrative data contain information on students’ ...
teachers, etc ; data collection; gender; physics; research projects; surveys; Rwanda; Uganda; Show all 8 Subjects
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... This dataset comprises data collected from three measures; (a) 419 students who completed the mechanical waves conceptual survey (MWCS), (b) the same students (419 students) who completed the views about sciences survey (VASS), and (c) 152 physics lessons that were observed from 22 teachers using reformed teaching observation protocol (RTOP). The data were collected from 19 schools in Mitoma distr ...
teachers, etc ; cities; data analysis; females; languages; reading; sampling; students; Iran; Show all 9 Subjects
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... This study explores the potential of podcasting and blogging in cultivating advanced EFL learners’ reading comprehension (RC) gains, as well as their perceptions of their effectiveness in improving their RC gains. For this purpose, three intact female classes (n = 20) were selected using a convenience sampling method from Pooyesh Language Center in Borujerd City, Iran. Then, they were randomly ass ...
teachers, etc ; behavior; body mass index; females; nutrition education; overweight; California; Show all 7 Subjects
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... To examine how body mass index assessments are conducted in schools and whether student comfort with assessments varies by students’ perceived weight status, weight satisfaction, or privacy during measurements. In-person cross-sectional surveys with diverse fourth- to eighth-grade students (n = 11,510) in 54 California schools in 2014–2015 about their experience being weighed in the prior school y ...
teachers, etc ; agricultural conservation practice; agronomy; farmers; friction; socioeconomics; stover; South Asia; Show all 8 Subjects
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... While there are numerous studies that explore the agronomic and the economic benefits of Conservation Agriculture in South Asia, only few studies have explored the farmers' experiences and the drivers of its adoption. This study aims to learn directly from current users through exploration of their decision processes, evaluations, and experiences in extrapolating the concept for the broader scalin ...
teachers, etc ; gender; issues and policy; minorities (people); nationalities and ethnic groups; Show all 5 Subjects
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... We conduct a randomized control trial to assess the efficacy of utilizing modified introductory language in student evaluations of instruction to mitigate implicit bias. Students are randomly assigned within courses to three treatment arms and shown so‐called “cheap talk” scripts referencing implicit bias, the high stakes associated with student evaluations, and the combination of the two. We anal ...
teachers, etc ; academic achievement; anxiety; electronic learning; information systems; models; surveys; Ghana; Show all 8 Subjects
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... E-learning is soon expected to be widely used as a teaching and learning method in the mainstream for educational institutions. Given the relative preparedness of advanced economies, the conclusions about their implementation level with e-learning are incomparable with emerging countries. Emerging economies must, therefore, be aware of the issues to consider when formulating successful adoption or ...
teachers, etc ; Delphi method; cleaning; cybernetics; design; education; experts; interior design; journals; professionals; Show all 10 Subjects
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... While the notion of sustainability has long been a major concern in the built environment, the practice of sustainable interior architecture and design still falls short. This study aimed to identify and analyse barriers to the practice of sustainable interior architecture and design. To this end, after identifying 30 potential obstacles through a review of literature, a two-round Enhanced Fuzzy D ...