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EQ - Volume 6 - Issue 2

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Title: Productivity, Work Values, and Teaching Effectiveness of Science Teachers in Capiz State University
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This study was conducted to determine the teaching effectiveness, productivity, and work values of Science teachers in Capiz State University for the School Year 2014-2015 to shed light on the long- debated question of whether performance in one area enhances performance in the other, or so. It is a well-known idea that effectiveness, productivity and work values are interrelated, which could lead to the improvement of educational standards because they help boost students’ ability to become knowledgeable, productive and responsive individuals. This survey-correlation study was conducted to a total population of 35 Science teachers, 24 administrators, and 375 randomly selected students from 9 of the 10 campuses of Capiz State University. There is no significant difference in the teaching effectiveness of science teacher according to the level of their productivity. Furthermore, science teachers were found to be effective at work regardless of their work values. Productivity, work values, and teaching effectiveness were not significantly related to one another.

Title: Translation Enriches the Value of Education and Culture
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Every human beings have a culture by which they are enrich and the make a complete society. The country men would not be prosperous without education and culture. It is the general knowledge of an individual about his identity and connection with the country and people he lives in. Culture is often confused with good manners and proper behavior. Culture has a much broader sense, which embraces everything which is unique, authentic for some country and its people. Culture as well as the language can be divided into the local and global people and the total heritages. The actual, rational limitation of translation is not given through the difference of languages, through languages as systems of signification, but through the reality brought to bearing the text. It should be emphasized only that which is said, only language in its sign function in the narrow sense, can be translated, but not extra lingual realities which the text presupposes nor the realities in the text, in so far as they function as realities. In a word, language makes the societies in compact. Education is another part of developmental issue of the societies. So the languages of the men should be universal understanding or should be translated in every language for the public convenience. The civilization, culture, religion etc. are transference among the different kinds of people or societies. For this the new thoughts, new ideas, science and concept growing up and spread through the languages. The local culture and foreign culture, local language and foreign language even the inclusive education enriches the value of humanity through this. Every writer, editor, schools, colleges and other educational bodies should translate their own speeches, lectures and articles in multi languages for the benefit of the whole societies and whole students.

Title: Prosocial Behaviour among Senior Secondary School Students in Relation to their Home Environment
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Prosocial behavior is any act performed with the goal of benefiting another person. It is the action to benefit other people like the act of donating, helping, cooperating, volunteering and sharing. Prosocial behavior develops gradually as a process of socialization.. Home appears to have positive influence in developing socialized traits of a child. Prosocial behavior of course has its roots in our social upbringing which starts at home. Keeping in view the importance of home environment as a factor to induce pro-social behavior among children, it was thought to conduct the study. The purpose of the study was to explore the prosocial behaviour of the senior secondary school students and to find out how home environment could be influencing the same. Descriptive survey method was used in this study to obtain pertinent and precise information. The sample of the study included 200 senior secondary school students selected by using simple random sampling technique from Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur districts of Punjab. For the purpose of drawing out the results, the investigator used statistical techniques like correlation, t-test, mean and standard deviation along with graphical presentations. The study revealed that there exists no significant difference between the senior secondary school boys and girls in their prosocial behaviour. Among the senior secondary boys and girls no significant difference in control, protectiveness and permissiveness dimensions of home environment was found. The study also revealed that there exists positive relationship between prosocial behavior and home environment dimensions like control, deprivation of privileges, nurturance and permissiveness of the senior secondary school students. However, prosocial behaviour of the senior secondary school students is not positively influenced by the home environment in protectiveness, punishment, conformity, social isolation, and reward and rejection dimensions.

Title: Critical Pedagogy in English Classrooms
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This paper aims to understand and critically analyses the various underlying theoretical constructs to evolve a critical pedagogy of English in Indian classrooms language leaning is not an isolated process, it is an amalgation of multiple voices and multiple identities. These voices and identities are quite different from the ‘cultural values’ imbibed and inculcated through English. So critically pedagogy builds a bridge between L1 (Language 1 or Mother Tongue) and L2 (English) by giving space to multiple voices and multiple identities and transforming language learning into an agent of social change

Title: Student Attitudes and Approaches to Learning in a Science Classroom
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Students’ attitudes and perceptions may influence their test preparation strategies. The type of assessment may also affect the preparation protocol.The goal of this action researchstudywas to examine the attitudes of students as they prepared to take an assessment and explore the relationship between student attitudes and their preparation for specific types of assessments. Multiple choice and essay examinations were chosen as the assessments for this study. The findings of the study indicate that students preferred multiple choice examinations. The findings also indicate that the students utilized an overall surface approach to learning in preparation for the assessments. However, students also indicated that they believed the essay examination was the more accurate of the two assessments and that grades on the assessments were more important than knowledge of the science content.

Title: Multiple Intelligence among Low Vision Children – An Analysis
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Educational system today aims to design a creative and effective interdisciplinary approach to teaching, learning, and assessment taking into account the intellectual gifts of each student (Diaz-Lefebvre and Finnegan, 1997). Learning takes place best when Educators try to know what helps students learn and then adjust teaching strategies to enhance the method of instruction. Students can learn from a combination of modalities, hands-on activities, oral and visual instruction and a combination of these methods. In 1983, Howard Gardner, a noted Harvard psychologist and educator theorized that there are multiple intelligences that dictate how children process and understand information. According to Gardner, all individuals possess, exhibit and perceive the world in eight different and equally important ways as verbal – linguistic, logical – mathematical, visual - spatial, musical - rhythmical, bodily – kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist but in a varying amount and combine and use them in different ways. Therefore every educator should assess their low vision child’s multiple intelligences to address their strengths and build upon their weakness. According to Gardner, “the broad spectrum of student and perhaps the society as a whole—would be better served if disciplines could be presented in a number of ways and learning could be accessed through a variety of means”. Thus the present study has been chosen by the investigator in order to know the Multiple Intelligence of children with Low vision.

Title: Integrating Environmental and Science Education: Issues and Possibilities
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The paper attempts to pursue critical reflection of the linkages between Science Education and Environmental Education (EE) and examines the challenges and possibilities of integrating and broadening science education using perspectives from environmental education. Although the pedagogical and epistemological conflicts between the two disciplines are often debated, it is argued that both the subjects have much to contribute to each other in terms of offering different perspectives and in creating a somewhat broader goal for science in the curriculum that encompasses interdisciplinary approach central to EE. Finally, the paper attempts to elaborate socio-scientific issues presented in the current science curriculum through epistemic and educational lens to highlight the lacunae in the existing science textbooks.

Title: External influence, policy transfer and national ownership: A case on primary education of Bangladesh
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This paper aims to explain ‘how the development partners have worked to transfer policies in primary education of Bangladesh’, followed by an assessment of national policy ownership in context of external policy influence in the sector. The external development partners’ mode and nature of the policy influence has taken the form of ‘emulation’ in primary education sector. Emulation entails making, by the development partners, the funds and policy ideas available for reforms in educational development projects and programmes. They have tried down various modalities and by the way they have consolidated their position in directing primary educational development by introducing sector-wide approach. Together with this, they have imported many reforms from the outside in the education system. Empowering schools to prepare school improvement plans within the second primary education development program is an example of external policy transfer. This raises questions about government’s leadership in educational development policies. Lack of national policy ownership weakens ministerial accountability to the government or the parliament. National capacity constraints, uncertainty of national education policy, and resistance of the domestic interest groups to local reforms are some of key bottlenecks towards promoting national stewardship in policy domain.

Title: Effect of Adjustment on the Academic Performance of Urdu Medium Male and Female Secondary Level Students
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This paper makes an attempt to find out the relationship of adjustment with the academic performance for the Urdu medium male and female secondary level students. Sample of the study consisted of 336 Urdu Medium secondary level students (143 male and 193 female) selected by stratified random sampling procedure. Data were analyzed by using t-ratio and Pearson Product Moment correlation coefficient (r) techniques. The major findings of the study indicated that the coefficients of correlation of adjustment with academic performance for both the groups are found to be positive and significant.

Title: Future Classroom with ICT Tools
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This paper focuses on the Future Classroom. It shows the whole process of building the classroom of the future from a normal classroom. It points out the problems and questions arising during the realization of the project, highlights the benefits of some ICT tools and shows the main lines of research running in connection with this issue. The main aims of the paper are: (1) to build an Ideal Classroom for the 21st century, (2) to integrate multimedia learning environment into teacher-education, (3) to test the efficiency of the newest ICT tools in education (4) to develop curriculum materials for different ages to foster deep understanding and to motivate students through bringing real-life problems and new directions of teaching methods to school. Flexible furniture and technology is also a perfect environment for students to obtain the skills they will need in the real-life knowledge-based digital world.

Title: Management of Public Expenditure on Education for Sustainable Economic Growth-A study of
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Education plays an important role in the growth and prosperity of a nation and financial resources assume much significance in ensuring accessibility, equity and quality in education. Expenditure on education is an investment that can help foster economic growth. But, at present the education budget is declining day by day which is creating serious financial constraints in the working of education system. So, there is a need for effective and efficient use of financial resources. The present study attempts to concentrate on the management of public expenditure on education for sustainable economic growth in India. The data variables used in the present study are Government expenditure on education and Gross Domestic Product at real prices. The study period has been taken from post liberalization period i.e.1991-92 to 2011-12.CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) has been used to examine the growth of education expenditure by using log linear regression model. Ordinary least square regression has been used to study the impact of education expenditure on economic growth. Study found that the public expenditure on education increased remarkably but the rate of increase not necessarily kept pace with students’ enrollment and number of educational institutions. The regression results shows that increase in government expenditure on education has positive impact on economic growth which leads to sustainable development. So, there is a need to stress upon the central government, state government and planning commission to revise their thinking while making allocation of resources to education.There is a need for sustainable funding of education sector to maintain the sustainable economic growth.

Title: Frustration among Adolescents in relation to Parental Encouragement
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Man has many needs, drives, aims and ambitions in life and he continuously makes efforts to fulfill them. But in certain situations he faces a state of confusion and predicament especially when there are some blocks in the way. This condition is termed as frustration. There are many factors which help a person in coming out from frustration. One among these factors is the parental encouragement. The main objective of this study was to know the level of frustration among and also to study the relationship between frustration and parental encouragement of adolescents. The sample of the study consisted of 250 students of 10th class taken from 6 schools. Parental Encouragement Scale by Sharma and Frustration Test by Chauhan and Tiwari were used to collect the data. The study found that more than half of the adolescents have low level of frustration and nearly one-third have average level of frustration. Frustration level of boys is significantly higher than the girls. 40.4% of the adolescents are getting average level of parental encouragement. More of the adolescents are getting low level of encouragement from parents in comparison to those who are getting high level of encouragement. The study found that there is not a significant difference in the level of parental encouragement of the boys and girls. Frustration among boys is significantly related to their parental encouragement but it is not significantly related in case of girls.