Sierra Leone series: Freetown Teachers College and its multimodal approach to teacher professional development - McBurnie, Chris; Moriba, Sambo; Brainard, Prince (EdTech Hub, 2021)
Over the past few months, the EdTech Hub team has analysed and mapped the EdTech research landscape in Sierra Leone. In doing so, we have met a number of individuals and organisations that are exploring if and how technology can support the country’s education sector.  In week two, we connected with Dr Samba Moriba and Prince Brainard from Freetown Teachers…
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _r:AddedByZotZen; _zenodoETH; dode_eth-src-eth

Sierra Leone series: Plan International and the importance of community support for distance teacher professional development programmes - McBurnie, Chris; Saidu, Arthur; Rincon Casado, Eusebio; Shergill, Maggie (EdTech Hub, 2021)
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _r:AddedByZotZen; _zenodoETH; dode_eth-src-eth

Sierra Leone Series: Plan International and the importance of community support for distance teacher professional development programmes - McBurnie, Chris; Saidu, Arthur; Rincon Casado, Eusebio; Shergill, Maggie (EdTech Hub, 2021)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; ___working_potential_duplicate; _cover:analysis:nopdf; _r:AddedByZotZen

Sierra Leone series: Plan International and the importance of community support for distance teacher professional development programmes - Saidu, Arthur; Casado, Eusebio Rincon; Shergill, Maggie; McBurnie, Chris (EdTech Hub, 2021)
Over the past few months, the EdTech Hub team has analysed and mapped the EdTech research landscape in Sierra Leone. In doing so, we have met a number of individuals and organisations that are exploring if and how technology can support the country’s education sector.  In week four, we met with Arthur Saidu, Eusebio Rincon Casado and Maggie Shergill from…
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; ___working_potential_duplicate; _zenodoETH

Sierra Leone Series: the Pikin-to-Pikin Movement and its focus on child protection, education, nutrition and health - McBurnie, Chris; Swaray, Abdulai; Kamara, Bai (EdTech Hub, 2021)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:analysis:nopdf; _r:AddedByZotZen

Sierra Leone Series: the Pikin-to-Pikin Movement and its focus on child protection, education, nutrition and health - McBurnie, Chris; Swaray, Abdulai; Kamara, Prince (EdTech Hub, 2021)
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _r:AddedByZotZen; _zenodoETH; dode_eth-src-eth

Sierra Leone series: the Pikin-to-Pikin Movement and its focus on child protection, education, nutrition and health. - Tahi (EdTech Hub, 2021)
Over the past few months, the EdTech Hub team has analysed and mapped the EdTech research landscape in Sierra Leone. In doing so, we have met a number of individuals and organisations that are exploring if and how technology can support the country’s education sector.   In week one, we connected with Abdulai Swaray and Bai Kamara from the Pikin-to-Pikin Movement.…
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _zenodoETH

Sierra Leone TCPD Sandbox Report (EdTech Hub, 2022)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _r:AddedByZotZen

Sierra Leone teacher & school MIS developments: Sierra Leone Education Attendance Monitoring System (SLEAMS) and Teacher Records Management (TRM) system - Graham, Hannah (2021)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Sierra Leone: Transforming the Country through Innovation - O'Connor, Shane; Zurutuza, Naroa (UNICEF, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Sierra Leone turns to technology and analytics to put quality back into education - Directorate of Science, Technology & Innovation (Sierra Leone) (2019)
Today, an estimated 2 million students return to school for the second year of the Free Quality School Education (FQSE) Program. The Government of Sierra Leone commits 21% of theRead More
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Sierra Leone | UNESCO UIS - UIS (2019)

Silenced by an Unknown Language? Exploring Language Matching during Transitions from Complementary Education to Government Schools in Ghana - Daly, Kieran; Carter, Emma; Sabates, Ricardo (Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021)
Mother tongue-based education has been central to the promotion of early literacy skills in many multilingual contexts of the Global South. However, learners in such environments may face significant linguistic challenges when changing language of instruction during schooling. In particular, the linguistic distance between mother tongue and official language may be a significant barrier to learners. This paper provides an empirical approach to this issue by employing language matching based on linguistic distance between languages to explore changes in literacy scores for learners who change language of instruction. Findings show that the greater the linguistic distance between two languages, the larger the loss in foundational literacy. We conclude that language matching could be introduced as a tool to identify at-risk learners during transitions and, if possible, as a tool for linguistic allocation of students who have the possibility of selecting between schools with different languages for instruction.
Keywords: Ghana; Mother tongue education; language matching; literacy; multilingualism

Silently withdrawn or retracted preprints related to Covid-19 are a scholarly threat and a potential public health risk: theoretical arguments and suggested recommendations - Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A. (Online Information Review, 2020)
Purpose Thousands of preprints related to Covid-19 have effused into the academic literature. Even though these are not peer-reviewed documents and have not been vetted by medical or other experts, several have been cited, while others have been widely promoted by the media. While many preprints eventually find their way into the published literature, usually through integrated publishing streams, there is a small body of preprints that have been opaquely withdrawn/retracted, without suitable reasons, leaving only a vestigial or skeletal record online. Others have, quite literally, vanished. This paper aims to examine some of those cases. Design/methodology/approach For peer-reviewed literature, a retracted academic paper is usually water-marked with “RETRACTED” across each page of the document, as recommended by ethical bodies such as the Committee on Publication Ethics, which represents thousands of journals and publishers. Curiously, even though pro-preprint groups claim that preprints are an integral part of the publication process and a scholarly instrument, there are no strict, detailed or established ethical guidelines for preprints on most preprint servers. This paper identifies select withdrawn/retracted preprints and emphasizes that the opaque removal of preprints from the scholarly record may constitute unscholarly, possibly even predatory or unethical, behavior. Findings Strict ethical guidelines are urgently needed for preprints, and preprint authors, in the case of misconduct, should face the same procedure and consequences as standard peer-reviewed academic literature. Originality/value Journals and publishers that have silently retracted or withdrawn preprints should reinstate them, as for regular retracted literature, except for highly exceptional cases.
Keywords: Acceptance and rejection; Biomedicine; Correction of the literature; Open access; Peer review; Preprints; Retractions; SARS-CoV-2 virus; Withdrawals

Simulating the Potential Impacts of COVID-19 School Closures on Schooling and Learning Outcomes: A Set of Global Estimates - Azevedo, Joao Pedro; Hasan, Amer; Goldemberg, Diana; Iqbal, Syedah Aroob; Geven, Koen (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020)
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Simulating the Potential Impacts of COVID-19 School Closures on Schooling and Learning Outcomes: A Set of Global Estimates - Azevedo, João Pedro; Hasan, Amer; Goldemberg, Diana; Iqbal, Syedah Aroob; Geven, Koen (Policy Research Working Papers, 2020)
Keywords: CORONAVIRUS; COVID-19; DROPOUT RATE; LEARNING LOSS; LEARNING OUTCOMES; PANDEMIC IMPACT; SCHOOL CLOSURE; _COVID_DEAA-List; ___duplicate_item

Simulations for STEM Learning: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - D’Angelo, Cynthia; Rutstein, Daisy; Harris, Christopher; Haertel, Geneva; Bernard, Robert; Borokhovski, Evgueni (SRI Education, 2014)

Singal, N., Lynch, P. & Johansson, S. T. (eds) (2019) Education and Disability in the Global South - Gachago, Violet (British Journal of Special Education, 2019)

Sınıf Öğretmenlerinin Eğitimde Teknoloji Kullanımı, Tersine Çevrilmiş Sınıf ve İşbirlikli Öğrenme Hakkındaki Görüşleri (Primary Teachers’ Views on Using Technology in Education, Flipped Classroom and Cooperative Learning) - Erbil, Deniz Gökçe; Kocabaş, Ayfer (İlköğretim Online, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Hungary HUN; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Sistemas internacionais de aprendizagem profissional: uma análise comparativa em alguns países desenvolvidos e emergentes - Veloso, José Rodrigo Paprotzki; Rodrigues, Marta M Assumpção (Universidade de Aveiro, 2016)
Este trabalho examina as políticas públicas que articulam educa- ção e trabalho para a juventude, de uma perspectiva comparada, contrapondo as trajetórias de países desenvolvidos e em desenvolvimento. Mais especificamente, focaliza a política de formação de aprendizes (Aprendizagem) nos casos de Alemanha, Inglaterra, França, Estados Unidos, Brasil, África do Sul e Índia. O objetivo é revelar que há algo que antecede os formatos atuais que, ao formar imagens políticas específicas, ilumina os cenários dos sistemas de Aprendizagem dos países analisados. Lança mão do enfoque da trajetória histórica (path dependence) para analisar as particularidades de cada caso.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; C:Angola; CLL:pt; publicImportV1; skills

SiTan St. Lucia - UNICEF (UNICEF Office for the Eastern Caribbean Area, 2017)

Situation Analysis of Children: Commonwealth of Dominica - UNICEF (2017)

Situation Analysis of Children in Grenada - UNICEF (UNICEF Office for the Eastern Caribbean Area, 2017)

Situation Analysis of Children in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - UNICEF (UNICEF Office for the Eastern Caribbean Area, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Situational analysis on the status of sexual and reproductive health of students and gender-based violence in technical and vocational colleges in Malawi - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2018)

Skilled labour shortage: a qualitative study of Ghana’s training and apprenticeship system - Ayentimi, Desmond Tutu; Burgess, John; Dayaram, Kantha (Human Resource Development International, 2018)
The impacts of training and apprenticeship education towards building high-level technical and vocational skills that support human capital development and attracting foreign direct investment are being reshaped by global competition. This article draws on human capital theory to report on a qualitative study that explores skilled labour challenges within Ghana’s training and apprenticeship system through the lens of the demand side of employment perspective. The ﬁndings point to a training mismatch, lack of regulations and ineﬀective apprenticeship programmes, underinvestment in education and training, and outdated training programmes. The bottlenecks in the supply of skilled labour in Ghana are hampering the ﬁrms’ ability to ﬁnd skilled labour across industries. We suggest improved social partnership between industries and training institutions, with increased government investment in training and apprenticeship programmes, as a way forward to address the technical and vocational skilled labour supply bottlenecks. Wider implications for the African region which shares similar developing contexts are discussed.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; CA:AandC; CCZ:Ghana; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:D; CT:F; CT:P; CT:R; CT:T; D:developing context; F:regulation; P:social; R:impact; R:qualitative; T:Lehrlingsausbildung; T:Training; T:vocational skills; Z:Skilled labour shortages; Z:social partnership; Z:training and apprenticeship systems; _C:Ghana GHA; __C:filed:1; publicImportV1

Skills for Human Development: Transforming Vocational Education and Training - Powell, Lesley; McGrath, Simon (Routledge, 2019)

Skills for sustainable development: Transforming vocational education and training beyond 2015 - McGrath, Simon; Powell, Lesley (International Journal of Educational Development, 2016)

Skills Training & Certification for Refugees in Uganda - DIT Uganda (2018)
Skills Training & Certification for Refugees in Uganda

Smarter without smartphones?: effects of mobile phone bans in schools on academic performance, well-being, and bullying - Guldvik, Maria Køber; Kvinnsland, Ingvild (2018)
Keywords: _C:Colombia COL; _C:France FRA; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Romania ROU; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

SmartTab: A Design & Implementation of Tablet for Learning Purposes based on PyQT framework - Shrunkhla, Iti; Tripathi, Bramha Swaroop; Reddy, S. R. N. (IEEE, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ❓ Multiple DOI

Social and Economic Impact of School Closure during the Outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Quick Online Survey in the Gaza Strip - Radwan, Afnan; Radwan, Eqbal (Pedagogical Research, 2020)
In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many countries had implemented school closures by March 6, 2020. This study aimed to evaluate the social and economic impact of school closure on the students’ families. Households were surveyed using an online questionnaire interview to obtain information on adherence to, socio-economic impact by and inconveniences of school closure. The current study showed that school closures have profound economic and social consequences in the Gaza Strip. Most of the interviewed households (88.1%) were supportive of the school closure, whereas only 11.9% did not support it. Despite the restriction on attending gatherings or visiting public places, 30.5% of the school student visited relatives, 8.5% went to public places, and 3.4% went to parents’ workplaces. Overall, 25.4% of the interviewed households reported workplace absenteeism, whereas the highest percentage (74.6%) were not absenteeism from their work. The economic harms of school closures are high, where 77.9% of households reported their wage loss during the closure. The daily wage lost per household ranged from 3 to 265 ILS.
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Social Annotation and an Inclusive Praxis for Open Pedagogy in the College Classroom - Brown, Monica; Croft, Benjamin (Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020)
Open social annotation, while offering opportunities for the creation of new knowledge, empowerment, and dynamic dialogue for learning, also contains inherent risk of safety for marginalized student populations navigating open knowledge practices. In this paper, we will explore both the opportunities for subverting traditional knowledge structures offered by open social annotation, while also bringing to the surface the critical tensions that may make engaging in social annotation more dangerous or ineffective for students from historically marginalized backgrounds. Finally, we will offer a framework for constructing social annotation assignments for the college classroom that functions to maximize the potential for equity while taking into account ways to minimize harm in the inevitable tensions of an inherently unsafe online environment. Critical social annotation will be explored as an alternative pedagogical approach.
Keywords: __C:filed:1; annotation; critical social annotation; inclusive; open pedagogical practices; open pedagogy

Social annotation enabling collaboration for open learning - Kalir, Jeremiah H. (Distance Education, 2020)
Collaboration is a conceptually ambiguous aspect of open education. Given inconsistent discussion about collaboration in the open education literature, this article suggests collaboration be defined and studied as a distinct open educational practice. A theoretical stance from the discipline of computer-supported collaborative learning helps conceptualize collaboration as processes of intersubjective meaning-making. Social annotation is then presented as a genre of learning technology that can productively enable group collaboration and shared meaning-making. After introducing an open learning project utilizing social annotation for group dialogue, analysis of interview and annotation data details how social annotation enabled three group-level epistemic expressions delineating collaboration as intersubjective meaning-making and as an open educational practice. A summative discussion considers how the social life of documents encourages collaboration, why attention to epistemic expression is a productive means of articulating open learning, and how to extend the study of collaboration as an open educational practice.
Keywords: annotation; collaboration; computer-supported collaborative learning; open educational practices (OEP); social design experiment

Social Choice, Agency, Inclusiveness and Capabilities - Comim, Flavio; Anand, P. B.; Fennell, Shailaja (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
The capability approach is a versatile framework rooted on issues of justice and multidimensional assessment of quality of life developed in the 1980s as an alternative approach to prevailing mainstream development ideas focused narrowly on economic development. Most closely associated with the work of Amartya Sen, it has become of great interest to development scholars from a variety of different disciplines. Much has already been done exploring the conceptual foundations of the capability approach and discussing Sen's contribution to the field, but few books have explored the links between social choice (another field with rich contributions by Sen) and human development issues. Featuring many of the world's leading experts on social choice theory and capability indicators, Social Choice, Agency, Inclusiveness and Capabilities combines these interrelated themes into one volume and fully explores the relevance of social choice to human development.
Keywords: Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development; Social Science / Sociology / General

Social Dimension and Participation in Vocational Education and Training - Kaiser, Franz; Krugmann, Susann (Social Dimension and Participation in Vocational Education and Training, 2017)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; C:Egypt; CLL:en; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Social Dimensions and Participation in Vocational Education and Training - Special Issue - Kaiser, Franz; Krugmann, Susann (2018)
IJRVET's special edition in 2013 "Social Dimension and Participation in VET-System".

Social Discourse Influencing Elementary Teachers' Cognition and Metacognition for Problem Solving in Open-Ended Professional Development. - Durley, Hui-Chen K.; Ge, Xun (New Waves-Educational Research and Development Journal, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Spain ESP; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Social economic impact of COVID-19 outbreak in India - M., Sandeep Kumar; V., Maheshwari; J., Prabhu; M., Prasanna; P., Jayalakshmi; P., Suganya; M.B., Benjula Anbu Malar; Jothikumar, R. (International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, 2020)
Purpose of this study The situations of COVID-19 will certainly have an adverse effect over and above health care on factors of the internet of things (IoT) market. To overcome all the above issues, IoT devices and sensors can be used to track and monitor the movement of the people, so that necessary actions can be taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Mobile devices can be used for contact tracing of the affected person by analyzing the geomap of the travel history. This will prevent the spread and reset the economy to the normal condition. Design/methodology/approach To respond to the global COVID-19 outbreak, the social-economic implications of COVID-19 on specific dimensions of the global economy are analyzed in this study. The situations of COVID-19 will certainly have an adverse effect over and above health care on factors of the IoT market. To overcome these issues IoT devices and sensors can be used to track and monitor the movement of the people so that necessary actions can be taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Mobile devices can be used for contact tracing of the affected person by analyzing the geomap of the travel history. This will prevent the spread and reset the economy to the normal condition. A few reviews, approaches, and guidelines are provided in this article along these lines. Moreover, insights about the effects of the pandemic on various sectors such as agriculture, medical industry, finance, information technology, manufacturing and many others are provided. These insights may support strategic decision making and policy framing activities for the top level management in private and government sectors. Findings With insecurities of a new recession and economic crisis, key moments such as these call for strong and powerful governance in health, business, government, and large society. Instant support measures have to be initiated and adapted for those who can drop through the cracks. Mid- and long-term strategies are required to stabilize and motivate the economy during this recession. Originality/value A comprehensive social-economic development strategy that consists of sector by sector schemes and infrastructure that supports business to ensure the success of those with reliable and sustainable business models is necessary. From the literature analysis and real world observations it is concluded that the IoT, sensors, wearable devices and computational technologies plays major role in preserving the economy of the country by preventing the spread of COVID-19.
Keywords: COVID-19; Implication; Industry; IoT and wearable devices; Socio-economic growth

Social Hazards or Helpers?: The Role of Mobile Media in Early Childhood Social Development - Blackwell, Courtney K. (Mobile Learning Applications in Early Childhood Education, 2020)
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Social isolation and aging in Zambia: examining the possible predictors - Mapoma, Christopher Chabila; Masaiti, Gift (Journal of Aging Research, 2012)

Social Justice and Diversity in Zambia: The Role of Civic Education and Teachers - Chivunda, Kaumba; Kabombwe, Yvonne; Mwanza, Christine; Mupeta, Sydney (Asian Journal of Education and Social Studies, 2023)
This article explores the role civic education plays in social justice and diversity in Zambia from the civic education teacher’s perspective as well as establish the extent to which teacher’s themselves are actively engaged in social justice and diversity. Predicated on the fundamental role civic education plays in teaching and promoting diversity and social justice, it is highly expected that civic education teachers should be the lodestars in undertaking this activity. It is noted that teachers of civic education can bring about social justice in society; this can be achieved through active participation in local communities and consolidating the teaching of democracy, human rights and promotion of participation within people’s local communities and global level for social justice. Therefore, the teaching for diversification is of great significance in the delivery of Civic Education in Zambia both at teacher training and secondary school level. Anchored on the explanatory design as a methodological bedrock, this study found that teachers where not actively engaged with issues of diversity. The study concludes that there is little to no engagement among teachers in diversity and in bringing about social change especially on matters that affect the wider community. This is partly attributed to the impractical nature in which Civic Education is delivered at secondary school or tertiary level. The study recommends that different approaches to the teaching of civic education must be introduced in the civic education curriculum.

Social Justice and K-12 Teachers’ Effective Use of OER: A Cross-Cultural Comparison by Nations - Tang, Hengtao; Bao, Yu (Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020)
Open educational resources (OER) have the potential to promote social justice imperatives in education, but because of the uneven provision of technical infrastructure across different countries, it remains uncertain whether the people who need OER the most are its primary beneficiaries. In K-12 education, educators play a major role in the effort to incorporate OER into classroom teaching but, even if they are able to source such resources (overcoming the “first-level digital divide”), many lack the practical capacity to effectively use (e.g., adapt) OER (the “second-level digital divide”). This exploratory research paper employs a cross-cultural perspective to interrogate how the second-level digital divide shapes K-12 teachers’ effective use of OER. With the goal of understanding how this divide influences OERs’ potential to enhance social justice, this research attempts to identify the factors accounting for teachers’ effective use of OER – and any reception gap – between different countries by conducting a series of stepwise logistic regressions applied to a largescale survey of K-12 educators. It does so by assessing OER use amongst 675 K-12 educators around the world in relation to their developmental and cultural contexts, as expressed through the Human Development Index, the Gender Development Index, and Hofstede’s six dimensions of national culture. The findings of this exploratory study provide new insights to support OER adoption in K-12 settings worldwide from a cultural perspective.
Keywords: K-12 teachers; cultural dimensions; exploratory research; open educational resources; second-level digital divide; social justice; stepwise logistic regression

Social media and teacher professional learning communities - Goodyear, Victoria A.; Parker, Melissa; Casey, Ashley (Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2019)
Background: An extensive and international evidence base positions professional learning communities (PLCs) as an effective continued professional development (CPD) mechanism that can impact on teachers’ practices and, in turn, students’ learning. The landscape of teacher PLCs is continuously developing; notably through teachers’ uses of social media. Yet, there is limited robust evidence identifying the characteristics of social media PLCs that impact on teachers’ learning and practice.Purpose: This exploratory study examined the characteristics of a specific Twitter-based professional learning community – #pechat. The research questions were: (i) what is the nature of a Twitter-based professional learning community? and (ii) what characteristics of a Twitter-based professional learning community develop learning and practice?Methods: Data were generated from 901 tweets between 100 participants; and 18 in-depth semi-structured elicitation interviews with participants and moderators of the Twitter-based professional learning community. Data were analysed through a process of deliberation, and a relativist approach informed quality.Findings: Two themes are reported to explain the nature of the Twitter-based professional learning community and the different types of characteristics of #pechat that developed learning and practice. The first theme engagement shows how different participants of #pechat engaged with discussions and how moderators played a key role in facilitating discussions between participants. The second theme shared practices shows how discussions between participants of #pechat led to the development of new practices that some teachers were able to use to accomplish particular objectives in their physical education lessons.Conclusion: The analysis of the data provided evidence to suggest that #pechat is a PLC and is representative of an established group of practitioners. These characteristics should be considered in the design of future online professional development experiences. Facilitator or moderator training could support the development of social media based PLCs that subsequently and positively impact on teachers’ practices.
Keywords: Communities of practice; constructivism; professional learning; situated learning

Social media research: The application of supervised machine learning in organizational communication research. - van Zoonen, Ward; van der Meer, Toni, G. L. A. (Computers in Human Behavior, 2016)
Despite the online availability of data, analysis of this information in academic research is arduous. This article explores the application of supervised machine learning (SML) to overcome challenges associated with online data analysis. In SML classifiers are used to categorize and code binary data. Based on a case study of Dutch employees’ work-related tweets, this paper compares the coding performance of three classifiers, Linear Support Vector Machine, Naïve Bayes, and logistic regression. The performance of these classifiers is assessed by examining accuracy, precision, recall, the area under the precision-recall curve, and Krippendorf’s Alpha. These indices are obtained by comparing the coding decisions of the classifier to manual coding decisions. The findings indicate that the Linear Support Vector Machine and Naïve Bayes classifiers outperform the logistic regression classifier. This study also compared the performance of these classifiers based on stratified random samples and random samples of training data. The findings indicate that in smaller training sets stratified random training samples perform better than random training samples, in large training sets (n = 4000) random samples yield better results. Finally, the Linear Support Vector Machine classifier was trained with 4000 tweets and subsequently used to categorize 578,581 tweets obtained from 430 employees.
Keywords: Communication research; Content analysis; Supervised machine learning; Twitter

Social Media Use Is Linked to Brain Changes in Teens, Research Finds - Barry, Ellen (The New York Times, 2023)
Teens who frequently checked social media showed an increasing sensitivity to peer feedback, although the cause of the changes was not clear.
Keywords: Brain; Children and Childhood; Facebook Inc; Final_citation; Instagram Inc; JAMA Pediatrics (Journal); Mental Health and Disorders; Social Media; Teenagers and Adolescence; anystyle; existing; your-feed-health; your-feed-science; ⛔ No DOI found

Social mobility landscape review - Summary report - Better purpose (2021)
Keywords: education

Social Protection and Disability in Rwanda - Kidd, Stephen; Kabare, Krystle (2019)

Social protection responses to the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa - Devereux, Stephen (The Conversation, 2020)
Several groups of people are at high risk of hardship, especially those who have effectively become unemployed because of the lockdown.

Social scholarship revisited: Changing scholarly practices in the age of social media - Greenhow, Christine; Gleason, Benjamin; Staudt Willet, K. Bret (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019)
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Social Services Budgeting in Southern Africa - Bolton, Laura (2018)
It is not possible to do a formal comparison of budget allocations within social services in different countries with the data identified. The data from different countries are from different sources and different years and budget allocations are measured and reported in different ways. There are even some discrepancies from different sources on the same country. The data reported here, however, can be used to give a broad impression of the amounts of social budgets apportioned to wages for comparison. High wage bills for general government expenditure has been highlighted as problematic in recent years and a focus for development reform across different sectors. The concern of this query was the amount of budgets spent on employment within health, education and social protection services. Budget apportioned to other areas of services is more difficult to compare as reporting is not uniform. Some reports describe data on other allocations more specifically, such as amount apportioned to infrastructure, supplies, equipment, and donor development. And some are described more broadly eg. Other recurrent transactions. A balance between funding for different areas is required for optimising services. For example, a well-staffed health facility requires equipment and infrastructure with which to function and conversely a well-equipped facility needs trained staff to deliver the services (UNICEF, 2017a). This rapid review draws on literature on social services budgeting in Southern Africa by drawing samples from Zambia, Malawi, Botswana, Mozambique and South Africa by focusing on three key services including Health, Education and Social Protection.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Social Studies Curriculum at the Crossroads: Implementation of the Secondary School Social Studies Curriculum in Chingola District of Zambia - Moobola, Larry; Mulenga, Innocent Mutale (European Journal of Education Studies, 2020)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Social support networks, instant messaging, and gender equity in refugee education - Dahya, Negin; Dryden-Peterson, Sarah; Douhaibi, Dacia; Arvisais, Olivier (Information, Communication & Society, 2019)

Social Work in Ghana: A Participatory Action Research Project Looking at Culturally Appropriate Training and Practice - Kreitzer, Linda; Abukari, Ziblim; Antonio, Patience; Mensah, Johanna; Kwaku, Afram (Social Work Education, 2009)
Social work emerged in the western world, particularly in the USA and the United Kingdom, at the turn of the twentieth century. Western social welfare systems were introduced to other countries through the colonial empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and social work training reflected these systems. However, many of these countries have revised their curricula to make them more culturally appropriate while others are still in this process. This article highlights issues concerning social work education and training in Ghana, West Africa through a Participatory Action Research project. Themes emerging concerning the present curriculum, the professional association and social work in Ghana are presented. Action plans instigated from this project are described, ending with a future challenge for social work in Africa.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; A:West Africa; CA:AandC; CCZ:Ghana; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:T; F:curriculum; P:culture; P:social; T:Ausbildung; Z:Localization; Z:Participatory Action Research; Z:Social Work; Z:Social Work Curriculum; _C:Ghana GHA; publicImportV1

Socio – Economic Analysis of Farmers in the Dalili Sector of KRIP - Tudunwada, I.Y.; Mustapha, A. (Bayero University, 2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Socio – Economic and Environmental Factors Influencing Fertilizer Practice Among Farmers in the Kano Close Settled Zone - Tudunwada, I.Y.; Essiet, E.U. (Bayero Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2009)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Socioeconomic inclusion during an era of online education - Garcia, Manuel B. (IGI Global, 2022)

Software tools to support title and abstract screening for systematic reviews in healthcare: an evaluation - Harrison, Hannah; Griffin, Simon J.; Kuhn, Isla; Usher-Smith, Juliet A. (BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2020)
Systematic reviews are vital to the pursuit of evidence-based medicine within healthcare. Screening titles and abstracts (T&Ab) for inclusion in a systematic review is an intensive, and often collaborative, step. The use of appropriate tools is therefore important. In this study, we identified and evaluated the usability of software tools that support T&Ab screening for systematic reviews within healthcare research.
Keywords: Feature analysis; Screening; Software tools; Systematic reviews; Title and abstract; _Added-ailr-2024

Solid waste recycling within higher education in developing countries: a case study of the University of Lagos - Mbama, Charles A.; Otegbulu, Austin; Beverland, Iain; Beattie, Tara K. (Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, 2023)
To create a truly circular economy requires a shift from the traditional view of waste disposal to one of resource management. This is particularly important in developing countries, where municipal waste generation is increasing, and efficient recovery of economic value from waste is rarely achieved. Conducted in the University of Lagos (UoL), Nigeria, this study investigated the efficiency of a recycling scheme with the goal of making recommendations to improve the process. UoL’s recycling policy centers around source segregation of waste into color-coded bins. Waste audit was carried out using the output method and interviews were conducted with staff from the waste management team to understand practices on campus. Substantial contamination of colored bins with non-target material was observed. Organics (30%), mixed plastics (28%) and paper (24%) were the most abundant materials, hence have the greatest potential for recovery, and income generation, if segregation rates could be improved. Despite its recycling policy and infrastructure, 99% of UoL waste was going to landfill. Poor policy implementation results in low recovery rates. Targeted waste reduction and increased material recovery would enhance efficiency. Improved awareness of recycling benefits, in addition to policy enforcement, could serve as tools to increase stakeholder participation in recycling.
Keywords: Municipal solid waste; Recycling; Waste characterization

Some interesting papers on SEND (2020)
Keywords: _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sound insulation of double frame partitions with an internal gypsum board layer - Uris, Antonio; Bravo, Jose Maria; Gomez-Lozano, Vicente; Ramirez, Patricio; Llinares, Jaime (Applied Acoustics, 2006)

Sources, Format Preference and Challenges of Accessing TVET Information among the Engineering Students of the Federal Polytechnic Ede, Osun State, Nigeria - Odumade-Salako, Adepero Olajumoke; Federal Polytechnic Ilaro Library, Ogun State, Nigeria; Amusan, Blessing Babawale (Library Philosophy and Practice, 2019)
The study focused on sources, format preference and challenges faced by the engineering students of the Federal Polytechnic Ede, Osun State in accessing Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) information resources. The study adopted a survey method. Questionnaire was administered on a sample size of 379 students selected from the School of Engineering of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, from a population of 7400 students through a stratified sampling technique. 306 sets of questionnaire were returned and valid for analysis, representing 80.74% return rate. The study discovered that personal collections, Internet and colleagues were the three most used sources of accessing TVET information among the students. Also majority of the respondents preferred TVET information sources in electronic format to print resources and reasons attributed to this include ability to interact with the source and search within texts; and round-the-clock, easy, cheap and remote accessibility. Also, the respondents experienced several challenges in accessing TVET information which include high cost of accessing information, poor attitudes of library staff and lack of awareness of TVET information sources. The study recommends among others that the Institution Library should reposition itself to be the first point of call for information among the students, and also acquire more eresources and improve accessibility to the resources. There is also the need to re-orientate the library staff, especially the front desk staff on staff-customer relations as well as teaching information literacy skills to the students to solve the problems associated with information retrieval.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

South Sudan announces schools closure as heatwave deepens (Sudan Tribune, 2024)
March 16, 2024 (JUBA) – South Sudan on Saturday announced an indefinite closure of all schools due to heatwaves characterized by very high temperatures in recent days. The Health minister, Yolanda Awel Deng said the heatwave could last for two weeks, with temperatures ranging between 41 degrees and 45 degrees Celsius. “The government has decided to take the following measures, one, close down all schools with effect from March 18, two, during the closure of the schools, parents are advised to stop their children from playing outdoors for prolonged periods and they should also monitor children, especially the young ones, for signs of heat exhaustion and heatstroke,” Awel told reporters in the capital, Juba. Heatwaves, the minister said, can acutely impact large populations for short periods, often trigger public health emergencies, and result in excess mortality and cascading socioeconomic impacts like loss of work capacity and labor productivity and can also cause loss of health service delivery capacity. Awel said the disease surveillance department at the national Health ministry has put a system in place meant to detect and respond to cases, adding there are already cases of death related to excessive heat being reported in South Sudan. The Undersecretary in the Ministry of Environment, Joseph Africano Bartel said climate change is becoming a global phenomenon in which South Sudan will experience a lot of temperature fluctuations. Africano advised the public to take precaution against rising heatwaves in the country. He urged developed countries to cut emissions, saying South Sudan will soon experience climate change impact, including heavy rains, floods and droughts. A circular from the Environment and Forestry ministry warns of likely illness and deaths among adult and children should they be exposed to the high heatwaves. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a heatwave can be defined as a period where local excess heat accumulates over a sequence of unusually hot days and nights. As such, heatwaves amplify many risks, such as health-related or economic risks, including increased human mortality, drought and water quality, wildlife and smoke, power shortages and agricultural losses.
Keywords: _z:class:countries

South Sudan shutters all schools as it prepares for an extreme heat wave - Machol, Deng (AP News, 2024)
South Sudan’s government is closing down all schools starting Monday as the country prepares for a wave of extreme heat expected to last two weeks.
Keywords: _z:class:countries

South Sudan: Stakeholders' Views of Technical and Vocational Education and Training and a Framework for Action - Atari, Dominic Odwa; McKague, Kevin (Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 2015)
The Republic of South Sudan, recently emerging from the longest civil war in contemporary African history, has set goals towards post-conflict reconstruction in many areas of social services. However, the educational infrastructure continues to struggle, and many stakeholders in government and international and local organisations are not sufficiently aware of the needs, challenges and opportunities that face the implementation of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in the country. Preparing future generations of youth and adults with in-demand technical skills and retraining ex-combatants to enter a peacetime workforce is essential to the development and growth of South Sudan. As a first step towards creating the foundation necessary for post-conflict training, we collected and analysed qualitative data from focus groups, in-depth interviews, field observations, and archival documents and identified three interrelated elements that require attention for the effective development of TVET: political climate, curriculum and delivery options. The resulting findings offer a starting point for addressing some of the key constraining factors for the important job of TVET development in South Sudan.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; C:South Sudan; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:R; CT:T; F:attitude; F:curriculum; P:services; P:social; R:focus groups; R:interview; R:observation; R:qualitative; T:TVET; T:Training; Z:Attitudes; Z:Curriculum Development; Z:Delivery Systems; Z:Educational History; Z:Focus Groups; Z:Foreign Countries; Z:Skills; Z:Stakeholders; Z:Technical Education; Z:Vocational Education; __C:filed:1; publicImportV1

Southern Caribbean Fiber - Submarine Cable Map (Submarine Cable Map, 2020)

"Sowing Seeds" and Its Efficiency. Case Study about the Tanoda Programme of the Greek Catholic Church in the Huszár District in Nyíregyháza (Hungary) - Inántsy Pap, Ágnes; Morvai, Laura (Acta Universitatis Sapientiae. Social Analysis, 2015)
The general laws of the school career of disadvantaged students have been studied by Hungarian researchers for decades (Kozma 1975, Papp 1997, Liskó 2002, Imre 2002ab, etc.). In Hungary, there are several remedial education programmes for the disadvantaged and talent development programmes for the gifted Many tanodas (special afternoon schools offering extra-curricular activities) were established in Hungary when the country's accession to the European Union brought about an increase in the number of grant opportunities. Scientific interest in the effectiveness of compensatory/ remedial education programmes, and thus tanodas, increased enormously (Lányi 2008, Krémer 2008, Fejes 2014, etc.). Our case study examines the operation of a church-run tanoda in one of the most disadvantaged regions of the country, in an area with Roma majority population in a county seat Local children from 12 elementary schools go to this institution, primarily for remedial education and talent development We conducted our research in the autumn of 2014 at the request of the Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development (OFI), as members of the CHERDHungary research group. Our findings are based on the content analysis of the operational documents of the Tanoda (Organizational and Operational Regulations, House Rules, Pedagogical Programme), the analysis of the interviews with the teachers at the Tanoda (English teacher, Hungarian language and literature teacher, identity development coach, personal development coach, teacher of self-knowledge-spiritual guide, and the professional supervisor), and on the data from a focus group interview with 9 children from the Tanoda . Everyone expressing their opinion about the operation of the Tanoda confirmed that the complex activities of the Tanoda do not only help children to catch up, avoid dropping out of school, and even form plans about further education, but they also provide spiritual, psychological, and mental support to the children The environment provided by the Tanoda enables students to realize their human dignity and shape their everyday life, relationships, and future.
Keywords: _Added to LR; _T:reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Sparking a Reading Revolution: Results of Early Literacy Interventions in Egypt and Jordan - Gove, Amber; Brombacher, Arnout; Ward-Brent, Michelle (New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2017)
This article examines the effects of two early grade reading interventions in two Arabic-speaking contexts (Egypt and Jordan), developed in partnership with ministries of education. The interventions relied on similar research bases for improving reading instruction in Arabic. In Egypt, the results of a 166-school pilot led to the national scale-up of the Early Grade Reading Program for more than 4 million children in grades 13. Informed by Egypt's experience, a demonstration effort in 43 schools led to a national rollout in Jordan's 2,651 public primary schools and the creation of a remediation program. We reflect on the conditions that influenced the pilot and scale-up outcomes given the commitments made to "inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all" under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Keywords: _Added to LR; _T:reviewed

SparseGPT: Massive Language Models Can be Accurately Pruned in One-Shot - Frantar, Elias; Alistarh, Dan (International Conference on Machine Learning, 2023)
We show for the first time that large-scale generative pretrained transformer (GPT) family models can be pruned to at least 50% sparsity in one-shot, without any retraining, at minimal loss of accuracy. This is achieved via a new pruning method called SparseGPT, specifically designed to work efficiently and accurately on massive GPT-family models. We can execute SparseGPT on the largest available open-source models, OPT-175B and BLOOM-176B, in under 4.5 hours, and can reach 60% unstructured sparsity with negligible increase in perplexity: remarkably, more than 100 billion weights from these models can be ignored at inference time. SparseGPT generalizes to semi-structured (2:4 and 4:8) patterns, and is compatible with weight quantization approaches. The code is available at: https://github.com/IST-DASLab/sparsegpt.

SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS) CASE STUDY AL-JIHAD SCOTER - Hussein, Aseel Mezher; Mohameed, Asifa Jasim (2020)
Geographical Information System (GIS) is one of the most important tools in urban planning for analyzing the distribution of educational services. In this study based on assessing the spatial distribution of schools (elementary and junior high) using spatial analysis, these analyzes started from collecting quantitative and spatial data through field survey using GPS, these data were processed using ArcGIS and through six analytical methods. The study found that primary and middle schools in the Jihad neighborhood have no equity in spatial distribution, and if schools are distributed regularly, then they do not need additional schools.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Spatial Assessment of Heavy Metals in The Irrigated Area of Dalili Sector of Kano River Irrigation Project (KRIP - Tudunwada, I.Y.; Maina, M.M. (Niger State, 2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Spatial Distribution of Soil Cationic Micronutrients along Rainfall Gradient in Sorghum-Based Cropping System in Sudano Sahelian Zone of Nigeria. ISSN: 2350-0328 - Amin, M.A.; Omar, G.; Tudunwada, I.Y. (International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, 2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Spatially disaggregated population estimates in the absence of national population and housing census data - Wardrop, N. A.; Jochem, W. C.; Bird, T. J.; Chamberlain, H. R.; Clarke, D.; Kerr, D.; Bengtsson, L.; Juran, S.; Seaman, V.; Tatem, A. J. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018)
Population numbers at local levels are fundamental data for many applications, including the delivery and planning of services, election preparation, and response to disasters. In resource-poor settings, recent and reliable demographic data at subnational scales can often be lacking. National population and housing census data can be outdated, inaccurate, or missing key groups or areas, while registry data are generally lacking or incomplete. Moreover, at local scales accurate boundary data are often limited, and high rates of migration and urban growth make existing data quickly outdated. Here we review past and ongoing work aimed at producing spatially disaggregated local-scale population estimates, and discuss how new technologies are now enabling robust and cost-effective solutions. Recent advances in the availability of detailed satellite imagery, geopositioning tools for field surveys, statistical methods, and computational power are enabling the development and application of approaches that can estimate population distributions at fine spatial scales across entire countries in the absence of census data. We outline the potential of such approaches as well as their limitations, emphasizing the political and operational hurdles for acceptance and sustainable implementation of new approaches, and the continued importance of traditional sources of national statistical data.
Keywords: census; geostatistics; population; remote sensing; surveys

Special COVID-19 report - Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, 2022)

Special Education in Mainstream Schools: Guidance Report - Davies, Kath; Henderson, Peter (Education Endowment Foundation, 2020)

Special Education Teachers Job Satisfaction In Malaysia: A Review - Pazim, Khairul Hanim; Al, Et (Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT), 2021)
Job satisfaction of special education teachers can be enjoyed when the teacher is able to focus on teaching MBK and the student shows the proper development. This job satisfaction if achieved will increase the commitment of teachers in performing their duties. However, if job satisfaction is not achieved, then avoidance and neglect of responsibilities will occur. This job satisfaction is important in producing the work productivity of special education teachers at the best level. This study was conducted to review previous studies related to job satisfaction of special education teachers. It is hoped that the findings of this study can help future researchers to get a clearer picture related to this issue.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Special Needs Education in Uganda: Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #4 Concerns Quality and Inclusive Education - World Bank (World Bank, 2020)
About 16% of Ugandan children have a disability, this suggests that most children with disabilities are not able to attend school and that learners with special needs fail to transition from one educational level to another.

Special Needs & Inclusive Education Strategic Plan 2018/19-2023/24 - Ministry of Education (Rwanda) (2018)

Speculative Futures on ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Collective Reflection from the Educational Landscape - Bozkurt, Aras; Xiao, Junhong; Lambert, Sarah; Pazurek, Angelica; Crompton, Helen; Koseoglu, Suzan; Farrow, Robert; Bond, Melissa; Nerantzi, Chrissi; Honeychurch, Sarah; Bali, Maha; Dron, Jon; et al. (Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2023)
While ChatGPT has recently become very popular, AI has a long history and philosophy. This paper intends to explore the promises and pitfalls of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI and potentially future technologies by adopting a speculative methodology. Speculative future narratives with a specific focus on educational contexts are provided in an attempt to identify emerging themes and discuss their implications for education in the 21st century. Affordances of (using) AI in Education (AIEd) and possible adverse effects are identified and discussed which emerge from the narratives. It is argued that now is the best of times to define human vs AI contribution to education because AI can accomplish more and more educational activities that used to be the prerogative of human educators. Therefore, it is imperative to rethink the respective roles of technology and human educators in education with a future-oriented mindset.
Keywords: _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; artificial intelligence (AI); artificial intelligence in education (AIEd); future educational perspectives; generative pre-trained transformer (GPT); natural language processing; speculative methodology; ⛔ No DOI found

Spillover of COVID-19: Impact on the Global Economy - Ozili, Peterson K.; Arun, Thankom (Social Science Research Network, 2020)
How did a health crisis translate to an economic crisis? Why did the spread of the coronavirus bring the global economy to its knees? The answer lies in two methods by which coronavirus stifled economic activities. First, the spread of the virus encouraged social distancing which led to the shutdown of financial markets, corporate offices, businesses and events. Second, the exponential rate at which the virus was spreading, and the heightened uncertainty about how bad the situation could get, led to flight to safety in consumption and investment among consumers, investors and international trade partners. We focus on the period from the start of 2020 through March when the coronavirus began spreading into other countries and markets. We draw on real-world observations in assessing the restrictive measures, monetary policy measures, fiscal policy measures and the public health measures that were adopted during the period. We empirically examine the impact of social distancing policies on economic activities and stock market indices. The findings reveal that the increasing number of lockdown days, monetary policy decisions and international travel restrictions severely affected the level of economic activities and the closing, opening, lowest and highest stock price of major stock market indices. In contrast, the imposed restriction on internal movement and higher fiscal policy spending had a positive impact on the level of economic activities, although the increasing number of confirmed coronavirus cases did not have a significant effect on the level of economic activities.
Keywords: COVID-19; Central banks.; Coronavirus; SARS-CoV-2; financial crisis; fiscal policy; global recession; liquidity provision; monetary policy; outbreak; pandemic; public health; social distancing; spillovers

Split-attention and redundancy effects on mobile learning in physical environments - Liu, Tzu-Chien; Lin, Yi-Chun; Tsai, Meng-Jung; Paas, Fred (Computers & Education, 2012)

Sprint 1 report - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 1 report - Arabic - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 2 report - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 2 report - Arabic - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 3 report - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 3 report - Arabic - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 4 report - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 4 report - Arabic - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 5 report - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 5 report - Arabic - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 6 report - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2020)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 6 report - Arabic - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2020)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 7 report - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2020)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 7 report - Arabic - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2020)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevED; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 8 report - Abed, Reema; Alawamleh, Nour; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2020)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 8 report - Arabic - Abed, Reema; Alawamleh, Nour; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2020)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevED; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 9 report - Abed, Reema; Alawamleh, Nour; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2021)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 9 report - Arabic - Abed, Reema; Alawamleh, Nour; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2021)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevED; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Squad reports and presentations - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

St. Kitts and Nevis: Safe Education Sector Plan - Villavicencio, Xuzel; Vijil-Morin, Alejandra; Moustafa, Nariman; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2022)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/
Keywords: _internal; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

St. Kitts and Nevis: Safe Education Sector Plan - Villavicencio, Xuzel; Vijil-Morin, Alejandra; Moustafa, Nariman; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2022)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/

St. Lucia: Safe Education Sector Plan - Villavicencio, Xuzel; Vijil-Morin, Alejandra; Moustafa, Nariman; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2022)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/
Keywords: _internal; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

St. Lucia: Safe Education Sector Plan - Villavicencio, Xuzel; Vijil-Morin, Alejandra; Moustafa, Nariman; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2022)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/

St Vincent and the Grenadines Education for All 2015 review - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2015)

St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Safe Education Sector Plan - Villavicencio, Xuzel; Vijil-Morin, Alejandra; Moustafa, Nariman; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2022)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/
Keywords: _internal; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Safe Education Sector Plan - Villavicencio, Xuzel; Vijil-Morin, Alejandra; Moustafa, Nariman; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2022)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/

Stakeholder Participation Planning Tool (for Evaluation) (2020)

Stakeholders' Roles in Prioritizing Technical and Vocational Education and Training in PostConflict Liberia - Forh, Edward S. (Walden University, 2014)
Postconflict governments and counterparts have collaborated to provide skills training to communities as a critical postconflict development strategy. In these undertakings, the role of community members remains largely undefined. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive case study was to understand the perceptions held by rural community members regarding the role they played in influencing government's policy priority for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) as a local human development strategy in postconflict Liberia. The conceptual framework was based on human capital theory and concepts of motivation and achievement. Fourteen participants were purposefully selected for the study. Data were collected from interviews, focus group discussion, and documents and analyzed using constant comparison. Results indicated that increasing human capital, restoring self-esteem, encouraging civic participation, and building peace were among the community members' motivations for establishing a skills training institution. Leadership, advocacy, and ownership were major roles community stakeholders played in establishing their local skill training institution; voluntarism and collaboration were found to be strategies for support to the local TVET initiatives. Findings have positive social change implications for facilitating community-initiated TVET programs for youth employment as well as informing TVET policies in countries transitioning from conflict to development.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; C:Liberia; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:R; CT:T; F:achievement; F:leadership; F:motivation; F:policy; P:administration; P:social; Q:higher education; R:case study; R:focus groups; R:interview; R:qualitative; T:TVET; T:Training; Z:Education Policy; Z:Higher Education Administration; Z:Higher education; Z:Sub Saharan Africa Studies; Z:Vocational education; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Stakeholders' Roles in Prioritizing Technical Vocational Education and Training in Postconflict Liberia - Forh, Edward (2014)

Stand der Gleichstellung von Frauen und Männern in Deutschland - Hobler, Dietmar; Lott, Yvonne; Pfahl, Svenja; Buschoff, Karin (2020)

Standards and criteria for approval of programmes in vocational enterprise institutions and innovation entreprise instutions programmes (2007)

Standards - EdTech Tulna - EdTech Tulna (2021)
The EdTech Tulna standards define a set of expectations for the design of EdTech products

Standards for Accreditation and Re-accreditation of Diploma Programmes in Polytechnics and Similar Post–Secondary Technical institutions in Nigeria - NBTE (2013)

Standards of evidence: an approach that balances the need for evidence with innovation - Puttick, Ruth; Ludlow, Joe (Nesta, 2013)
Keywords: Stefanie

Standars and Creteria for Approval of Programmes in Vocational Enterprise Institutions (VEI) & Innovation Enterprise Institutions (IEI) Programmes (Nigeria) - Government: Nigeria (2007)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; CC:Nigeria; publicImportV1

Standing on the shoulders of giants: challenges and recommendations of literature search in information systems research - Brocke, J; Simons, A; Riemer, K (Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2015)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Starting from scratch: Critical reflections on an educational reform programme in St Vincent and the Grenadines - Davies, John Dwyfor; Lee, John (2010)
Keywords: _Added to LR; _G:reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

State of the art and practice in AI in education - Holmes, Wayne; Tuomi, Ilkka (European Journal of Education, 2022)
Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have generated great expectations for the future impact of AI in education and learning (AIED). Often these expectations have been based on misunderstanding current technical possibilities, lack of knowledge about state-of-the-art AI in education, and exceedingly narrow views on the functions of education in society. In this article, we provide a review of existing AI systems in education and their pedagogic and educational assumptions. We develop a typology of AIED systems and describe different ways of using AI in education and learning, show how these are grounded in different interpretations of what AI and education is or could be, and discuss some potential roadblocks on the AIED highway.
Keywords: Final_citation; anystyle; existing

State of the Art of Teaching-Learning of Artificial Intelligence at Early Ages - Ojeda-Bazaran, Maria-Jose; Chamba-Eras, Luis; Coronel-Romero, Edison; Labanda-Jaramillo, Milton; Conde-Zhingre, Lorena; Irene-Robalino, Daniel; Fierro-Saltos, Washington; Orellana-Malla, Angel; Romero-Flores, Mabel; Cueva-Alvarado, Gilmar (IEEE, 2021)

Statement: DFID merged into FCO – ODI Response (ODI, 2020)
ODI’s Chief Executive, Sara Pantuliano, reacts to today’s announcement of the merger between the Department for International Development and the FCO.

States and regions of Somalia (Wikipedia, 2021)
Somalia is a federal republic consisting of five federal states as well as the claimed territory of Somaliland. Somalia is further subdivided into thirteen administrative regions (gobollada, singular gobol), and five claimed regions which are in turn subdivided into districts.

Statistical Analyses of Digital Divide Factors - Várallyai, László; Herdon, Miklós; Botos, Szilvia (Procedia Economics and Finance, 2015)
The digital divide has become an extremely important issue for many international organizations and a major challenge for policy makers and academic researchers. We have to know the factors of digital divide to find solutions for eliminating disparities in ICTs.The first goal of our research is to measure or calculate the digital divide in Hungary. The digital divide is a complex and multidimensional issue, which requires taking into account diverse technologies, variables, and territories. In this context, factor analysis has revealed as a useful tool to capture the overall dimension of the digital divide. Therefore our research is based on different ICT indicators from Eurostat statistics and the Empirica survey results. Our research focuses on the digital divide circumstances in Hungary. The investigated fields are the followings: Percentage of households with access to the Internet; Percentage of households with a broadband connection; Percentage of individuals regularly using the Internet at least once a week; Percentage of individuals who have never used a computer; Percentage of individuals who ordered goods or services online for private use. The correlation matrix in our research (which comes from factor analysis) shows that all variables are closely related to each other, with correlation coefficients larger than 0.8. For instance, the percentage of individuals who have never used a computer is highly and negatively correlated with using the Internet and having access at home because most people are connected to the Internet through a computer. Furthermore, the high and positive correlations of broadband infrastructural and usage indicators show the increasing importance of high-speed connections: many of the latest online services, are only possible through fast networks. Given these strong correlations, factor analysis seems to be appropriate.Since the EU has been paying special attention to bridging the rural-urban digital divide the relationship between ICT factor and population density has also been analyzed. Furthermore, the percentage of population aged 65 and over is included to capture the potential influence of regional demographic differences on the extent of ICT adoption. In this sense, older people often face more barriers to use ICT than younger individuals. The highest correlations with ICT factor are found for GDP per capita, human resources in science and technology, in contrast to population density, which shows the lowest one among the considered variables. This article shows our research results on the field of digital divide factors using by statistical analyses.
Keywords: Digital divide; ICT.; e-competences; e-skills; skills gap

Statistical equating with measures of oral reading fluency - Albano, A.D.; Rodriguez, M.C. (Journal of School Psychology, 2012)

Statistical Methods for Meta-Analysis - Hedges, Larry V.; Olkin, Ingram (Academic Press, 2014)
The main purpose of this book is to address the statistical issues for integrating independent studies. There exist a number of papers and books that discuss the mechanics of collecting, coding, and preparing data for a meta-analysis , and we do not deal with these. Because this book concerns methodology, the content necessarily is statistical, and at times mathematical. In order to make the material accessible to a wider audience, we have not provided proofs in the text. Where proofs are given, they are placed as commentary at the end of a chapter. These can be omitted at the discretion of the reader.Throughout the book we describe computational procedures whenever required. Many computations can be completed on a hand calculator, whereas some require the use of a standard statistical package such as SAS, SPSS, or BMD. Readers with experience using a statistical package or who conduct analyses such as multiple regression or analysis of variance should be able to carry out the analyses described with the aid of a statistical package.
Keywords: Education / Testing & Measurement; Mathematics / Probability & Statistics / General; Social Science / Research

Status of TVET in the SADC region: assessment and review of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in the Southern African Development Community Region and of the development of a regional strategy for the revitalisation of TVET - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2013)
in spite of the importance of TVET for development and a range of national reform initiatives to support TVET over the past two decades, major concerns remain regarding the state of TVET in the Southern African region. These led SADC and UNESCO to intervene through the commissioning of a pilot TVET monitoring tool and a regional review of the state of TVET, with a view to developing a new strategic programme of action for regional cooperation in TVET. As is made clear throughout this report, the evidence gathering process for these activities demonstrated the very weak current knowledge base for TVET in the region. This means that the report has to be seen as a first step towards better knowledge for better policies and practices. The limitations of the data mean that the findings are often the best currently possible rather than meeting the highest standards of rigour. Equally, the comparative analysis cannot be as sophisticated as may be possible in future years when the data are more robust. Nonetheless, the report represents an important step forward in building an evidence-driven picture of the state of TVET in Southern Africa that provides a valuable basis for future strategic interventions.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; CC:Botswana; CC:Congo; CC:Lesotho; CC:Malawi; CC:Mauritius; CC:Mozambique; CC:Namibia; CC:Seychelles; CC:South Africa; CC:Tanzania; CC:Zambia; CC:Zanzibar (tz); CC:Zimbabwe; CC:eSwatini (Swaziland); CLL:en; publicImportV1

Status of usage of Information Communications Technology by academic staff at a selected nursing training institution in South Africa - Maharaj, S.; Mshunquane, N.; Puckree, Threethambal (International Journal of Educational Sciences, 2015)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Staying or leaving? Designing for persistence in an online educator training programme in Indonesia - Burns, Mary (Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, 2013)
Keywords: Indonesia; completion; online learning; persistence; readiness

STEM Skills Initiatives for Adolescent Girls in the LAC Region - Villavicencio, Xuzel; Myers, Christina; Coflan, Caitlin Moss (EdTech Hub, 2022)
This report was produced in response to a request from the UNICEF country office of Argentina and presents a curated list of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills initiatives for adolescent girls in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. It also provides an introduction to gender equality and background on the participation of women in STEM fields in the LAC region — as well as cross-cutting recommendations based on an analysis of a series of initiatives. Key words: STEM; Gender; Girls; LAC; Argentina; technology; Science An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; F: Helpdesk response; _r:AddedByZotZen

Stemming Learning Loss During the Pandemic: A Rapid Randomized Trial of a Low-Tech Intervention in Botswana - Angrist, Noam; Bergman, Peter; Brewster, Caton; Matsheng, Moitshepi (2020)
The COVID-19 pandemic has closed schools for over 1.6 billion children, with potentially long-term consequences. This paper provides some of the first experimental evidence on strategies to minimize the fallout of the pandemic on education outcomes. We evaluate two low-technology interventions to substitute schooling during this period: SMS text messages and direct phone calls. We conduct a rapid trial in Botswana to inform real-time policy responses collecting data at four- to six-week intervals. We present results from the first wave. We find early evidence that both interventions result in cost-effective learning gains of 0.16 to 0.29 standard deviations. This translates to a reduction in innumeracy of up to 52 percent. We show these results broadly hold with a series of robustness tests that account for differential attrition. We find increased parental engagement in their child’s education and more accurate parent perceptions of their child’s learning. In a second wave of the trial, we provide targeted instruction, customizing text messages to the child's learning level using data from the first wave. The low-tech interventions tested have immediate policy relevance and could have long-run implications for the role of technology and parents as substitutes or complements to the traditional education system.
Keywords: Education; Final_citation; Human Capital; Technology; cited; existing

Stemming Learning Loss During the Pandemic: A Rapid Randomized Trial of a Low-Tech Intervention in Botswana - Angrist, Noam; Bergman, Peter; Brewster, Caton; Matsheng, Moitshepi (SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020)
The COVID-19 pandemic has closed schools for over 1.6 billion children, with potentially long-term consequences. This paper provides some of the ﬁrst experimental evidence on strategies to minimize the fallout of the pandemic on education outcomes. We evaluate two low-technology interventions to substitute schooling during this period: SMS text messages and direct phone calls. We conduct a rapid trial in Botswana to inform real-time policy responses collecting data at four- to six-week intervals. We present results from the ﬁrst wave. We ﬁnd early evidence that both interventions result in cost-eﬀective learning gains of 0.16 to 0.29 standard deviations. This translates to a reduction in innumeracy of up to 52 percent. We ﬁnd increased parental engagement in their child’s education and more accurate parent perceptions of their child’s learning. In a second wave of the trial, we provide targeted instruction, customizing text messages to the child's learning level using data from the ﬁrst wave. The low-tech interventions tested have immediate policy relevance and could have long-run implications for the role of technology and parents as substitutes or complements to the traditional education system.
Keywords: Education; Human Capital; Technology; _COVID_DEAA-List; __C:filed:1

Stemming the Tide: The Furtive conflict-resilience of Tech-Driven Real Estate in Nigeria’ - Ajadi, S.B. (The Cambridge Land Society Magazine, 2021)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Steps Towards a 'Dialogic' Grammar - Wegerif, Rupert; Major, Louis (The Theory of Educational Technology, 2023)
In this chapter we look at three ‘grammars’ of educational technology, or ways of using and thinking about education technology, that are informed by the advent of the internet: online mediated communities of practice, educational online multi-user role-play games, and connectivism. Each of these grammars has different strengths and weaknesses. Our critique leads us towards a new way of understanding the role of educational technology which we call a ‘dialogic’ grammar or a dialogic foundation for the design of educational technology.

Stepwise organization of the β-structure identifies key regions essential for the propagation and cytotoxicity of insulin amyloid fibrils - Chatani, Eri; Imamura, Hiroshi; Yamamoto, Naoki; Kato, Minoru (The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2014)
Amyloid fibrils are supramolecular assemblies, the deposition of which is associated with many serious diseases including Alzheimer, prion, and Huntington diseases. Several smaller aggregates such as oligomers and protofibrils have been proposed to play a role in early stages of the fibrillation process; however, little is known about how these species contribute to the formation of mature amyloid fibrils with a rigid cross-β structure. Here, we identified a new pathway for the formation of insulin amyloid fibrils at a high concentration of salt in which mature fibrils were formed in a stepwise manner via a prefibrillar intermediate: minute prefibrillar species initially accumulated, followed by the subsequent formation of thicker amyloid fibrils. Fourier transform infrared spectra suggested the sequential formation of two types of β-sheets with different strength hydrogen bonds, one of which was developed concomitantly with the mutual assembly of the prefibrillar intermediate to form mature fibrils. Interestingly, fibril propagation and cellular toxicity appeared only after the later step of structural organization, and a comparison of β-sheet regions between the prefibrillar intermediate and mature fibrils using proteolysis led to the proposal of specific regions essential for manifestation of these properties.
Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence; Amyloid; Animals; Cytotoxicity; Hot Temperature; Hydrogen Bonding; Insulin; Mass Spectrometry; Microscopy, Atomic Force; Molecular Sequence Data; PC12 Cells; Prefibrillar Intermediate; Propagation; Protein Aggregation; Protein Misfolding; Protein Structure; Protein Structure, Secondary; Rats; Salts; Sodium Chloride; Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization; Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; Temperature; Time Factors

Steuerungsformen von Erwerbsqualifizierung und die aktuelle Perspektive europäischer Bildungspolititk - Greinert, W (Reihe Jugend und Arbeit - Positionen, Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2008)

Strategie zur gezielten Gewinnung von Fachkräften aus Drittstaaten - BMWi – Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (2019)

Strategiepapier der Bundesregierung zur internationalen Berufsbildungszusammenarbeit - BMBF (Drucksache, 2013)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; CLL:de; publicImportV1

Strategiepapier der Bundesregierung zur internationalen Berufsbildungszusammenarbeit - BMBF (Drucksache, 2019)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; CLL:de; publicImportV1

Strategies and Approaches to Ensure Equitable Access to Quality Education in Economic Crises - James, Zoe (2018)
This helpdesk review has drawn primarily on evidence from systematic reviews and synthesis studies focused on (i) the impact of economic crises on education systems, and (ii) the effectiveness of strategies and approaches that aim to improve educational participation. It has focused on policy responses at the primary and secondary levels of education, and where possible has drawn on examples from effective responses in the context of large-scale economic crisis. Where evidence was not available from contexts of economic crisis, studies from resource-constrained low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) were considered. Economic crises pose particular challenges to the achievement of goals around equitable access to quality education. Falling household incomes can affect the ‘demand’ for schooling, increasing the cost of schooling, particularly for the poorest. Meanwhile, constrained government budgets can lead to reduced investments in schools and teachers, and associated declines in education quality (World Bank 2009). This review discusses five strategies and approaches to ensure equitable access to quality education, which have been identified as appropriate responses in literature on the impact of economic crisis on education (Lundberg and Wuermli 2012; Shafiq 2010; World Bank 2009). These are: (1) cash transfers; (2) scholarship programmes and fee waivers; (3) school feeding; (4) decentralisation and school grants; and (5) information-related activities. For all except ‘information-related activities’, there are examples of the effective implementation of that policy in contexts of economic crisis.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Strategies for implementing implementation science: a methodological overview - Handley, Margaret A.; Gorukanti, Anuradha; Cattamanchi, Adithya (Emergency Medicine Journal, 2016)

Strategies for Reducing Inequalities and Improving Developmental Outcomes for Young Children in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries. - Engle, Patrice L; Fernald, Lia CH; Alderman, Harold; Behrman, Jere; O'Gara, Chloe; Yousafzai, Aisha; de Mello, Meena Cabral; Hidrobo, Melissa; Ulkuer, Nurper; Ertem, Ilgi; Iltus, Selim (The Lancet, 2011)

Strategies That Enhance Students Access to Public Technical Training Institutions in Kenya - Nganyi, JE; Odebero, SO; Onderi, H; Musera, G (International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 2014)
Stakeholders in the education sector in Kenya are concerned about low students’ participation in Technical Training Institutions. Despite the Government of Kenya’s efforts to upgrade infrastructure in these institutions, students’ participation has remained low yet the realisation of Vision 2030 depends on middle level training. Therefore this study was conceptualised to establish strategies adopted by Technical Training Institutions to support students access in these institutions. This study was conducted in Western Region of Kenya. Western Region comprise of the former Western, Nyanza and rift valley Provinces. The sample constituted of 200 lecturers (principals, deputy principals, heads of departments and registrars) and 400 students from 30 Technical Training Institutions. Data was collected using questionnaires. The results show that the strategies used to attract students are bursaries, provision of competitive courses and opening more centres. However these strategies do not attract students to these Technical Training Institutions because of weak administration and implementation by the institutions. It was recommended that in an effort to promote enrolment in Technical Training Institutions, the Kenyan Government should fully fund students enrolled in Technical Training Institutions. Besides Technical Training Institutions should enhance advertisement of the courses offered; strengthen distance/e-learning; and review courses offered to meet the market demand.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; A:East Africa; C:Ethiopia; C:Kenya; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:T; F:access; Q:open learning; T:TVET; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Strategies to retain and motivate employees in Africa: Examining the case of the ministry of education in Zambia - Masaiti, Gift; Naluyele, Pamela Nachona (African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 2011)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Strategy for South African public libraries to bridge the digital divide - Mphidi, Hamilton Hamilton (University of Pretoria, 2017)
This thesis reports on a study that investigated the role of public libraries in addressing the digital divide in South Africa. The study started in 2006. This study addressed the main research question: "How should a theoretical model look for South African public libraries to contribute to bridging the digital divide?" The central research problem was further addressed by asking the following questions: • What are the scope and implications of the digital divide? (These include the meaning of the concept, the dimensions and the factors leading to the digital divide.) • What has been reported on the role of libraries (including information services) in bridging the digital divide? • What have libraries in South Africa done to address the digital divide, and which possibilities are foreseen? • How can South African libraries be positioned to contribute to bridging the digital divide? The study followed a survey method using interviews with directors of Provincial Library Services (or their representatives), which are the controlling bodies of public libraries in South Africa, questionnaires distributed to representative staff members of participating public libraries in Gauteng, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal and individual interviews with selected heads/representatives of public libraries in Gauteng, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal. Data collected through the questionnaires were both quantitative and qualitative. Data was collected between 2011 and 2012. Quantitative data were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), while qualitative data from interviews were analysed by content analysis and thematic categorising of information. In October 2015 a follow-up study of limited scope was conducted with three representatives from the three provincial library services to establish developments since the first round of data collections. Seven out of nine directors of Provincial Library Services in South Africa participated in the study. Furthermore, 247 public libraries from Gauteng, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal out of 463 public libraries and 18 heads/representatives of public libraries participated in this study. Findings on the opinions expressed on the role of public libraries in bridging the digital divide include the following: providing access to information and communication technologies (ICTs), offering information literacy and ICT literacy training, providing information to reduce the gap between "haves" and "have-nots", providing communities with equal, free access, reaching out and spreading ICTs to those who may not have online access and support and facilitating and promoting information exchange and communication between citizens and the government. The overall findings from the study were that although provincial library services have documents containing information on their mission and vision, their mission and vision statements do not address the digital divide or shed any light in this regard. The study found that provincial library services aimed to support public libraries to provide information resources, services to communities and access to information through ICT via targeted fund transfers to municipalities. None of the provincial library services included in the study had an explicit policy and strategies aligned to its vision and mission to guide and enable it in addressing the digital divide. Although all provincial library services included in the study had access to computer facilities in their headquarters, there were still disparities in the number of computer facilities available. It was also found that none of the provincial library services had its own website at the time of the study. They depended on the websites of their parent organisations. The study found that very few provincial library services had information technology (IT) units/departments charged with the responsibility of taking care of ICT facilities. They depended on external ICT service providers or the IT departments of their parent organisations to maintain the library's ICT infrastructure.

Strategy for Tanzania — Focus Area: TCPD in primary schools - El-Serafy, Yomna; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Carter, Alice; Haßler, Björn; Proctor, Jamie; Adam, Taskeen (EdTech Hub, 2021)
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Strategy for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), (2016-2021) - UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (2016)

Strategy to revitalize technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in Africa - African Union (2007)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; A:West Africa; C:Benin; C:Burkina Faso; C:Congo, Democratic Republic COD; C:Kenya; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:R; CT:T; F:curriculum; F:leadership; F:learning; F:ministry; F:policy; F:teaching; P:agricultural; P:artist; P:construction; P:crafts; P:economy; P:environment; P:health; P:technology; Q:ICT; Q:masters; R:survey; T:Ausbildung; T:Educação profissionalizante; T:Lehrlingsausbildung; T:TVET; T:apprentice; T:apprenticeship training; T:informal training; T:vocational school; _C:Ghana GHA; publicImportV1

Strengthening Agricultural Education and Training in sub-Saharan Africa from an Innovation Systems Perspective: A Case Study of Mozambique - Davis, Kristin E.; Ekboir, Javier; Spielman, David J. (The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2008)
This paper examines how post-secondary agricultural education and training (AET) in sub-Saharan Africa can contribute to agricultural development by strengthening the capacity to innovate*to introduce new products and processes that are socially or economically relevant to smallholder farmers and other agents. Using the AET system in Mozambique as a case study, this paper examines the role of AET within the context of an agricultural innovation system. This innovation systems perspective offers an analytical framework to examine technological change in agriculture as a complex process of interactions among diverse actors who generate, exchange, and use knowledge, conditioned by complex social and economic institutions. The paper argues that while AET is conventionally viewed as key to the development of human capital, it also has a vital role to play in building the capacity of organizations and individuals to transmit and adapt information, products and processes, and new organizational cultures and behaviors. The paper emphasizes the importance of improving AET systems by strengthening the capabilities of organizations and professionals; changing organizational cultures, behaviors, and incentives; and building innovation networks and linkages. The paper offers several recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of AET for agricultural innovation and development. Key reforms include aligning the mandates of AET organizations with national development aspirations; inducing change in the cultures of AET organizations through the introduction of educational programs and linkages beyond the AET system; and enhancing innovative individual and organizational capacity by improving incentives to forge stronger links between AET and other stakeholders.

Strengthening Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) and Data for Increased Resilience to Crisis: country case study: Ethopia - UNESCO Digital Library - Szucs, Eszter (UNESCO, 2021)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Strengthening Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) and Data for Increased Resilience to Crisis: country case study: South Soudan - Mwaniki, David (UNESCO, 2021)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Strengthening education management information systems for increased resilience to crises: a synthesis of case studies - UNESCO Digital Library - UNESCO (2021)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Strengthening systems for integrated early childhood development services: a cross-national analysis of governance - Britto, Pia Rebello; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; van Ravens, Jan; Ponguta, Liliana Angelica; Reyes, Maria; Oh, Soojin; Dimaya, Roland; Nieto, Ana María; Seder, Richard (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2014)
While there has been substantial growth in early childhood development (ECD) services in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), there is considerable inequity in their distribution and quality. Evidence-based governance strategies are necessary, but currently they are insufficient for widespread, quality implementation. In particular, there is a limited understanding of the use of systems approaches for the analysis of ECD services as they go to scale. The aim of this paper is to present findings from four countries, using a cross-national case study approach to explore governance mechanisms required to strengthen national systems of ECD services. While different sets of governance strategies and challenges were identified in each country, overarching themes also emerged with implications for systems strengthening. Study results focus on local, mid-level and central governance, with recommendations for effective coordination and the integration of ECD services in LMICs.
Keywords: coordination; early childhood; governance; low- and middle-income countries (LMICs); systems strengthening

Strengthening Teacher Professional Development: Local and global communities of practice in Kakuma Refugee Camp - Mendenhall, Mary (Columbia University, 2017)
Keywords: C:Kenya; _C:Burundi BDI; _C:Congo XCO; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:France FRA; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Somalia SOM; _C:South Sudan SSD; _C:Sudan SDN; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Uganda UGA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Strengthening Teaching Accountability to Reach All Students - Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne; Lucas, Adrienne; Tsinigo, Edward (IPA Ghana, 2020)
Keywords: C:Ghana; _C:Ghana GHA; ⛔ No DOI found

Strengthening the Education Workforce - Naylor, Ruth; Jones, Charlotte; Boateng, Pearl (2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Strengthening the Governance of Skills Systems: Lessons from Six OECD Countries - Di Maio, Gina; Seitzl, Lina; Unterweger, Daniel Franz (2020)
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

Structured information extraction from scientific text with large language models - Dagdelen, John; Dunn, Alexander; Lee, Sanghoon; Walker, Nicholas; Rosen, Andrew S.; Ceder, Gerbrand; Persson, Kristin A.; Jain, Anubhav (Nature Communications, 2024)
Abstract Extracting structured knowledge from scientific text remains a challenging task for machine learning models. Here, we present a simple approach to joint named entity recognition and relation extraction and demonstrate how pretrained large language models (GPT-3, Llama-2) can be fine-tuned to extract useful records of complex scientific knowledge. We test three representative tasks in materials chemistry: linking dopants and host materials, cataloging metal-organic frameworks, and general composition/phase/morphology/application information extraction. Records are extracted from single sentences or entire paragraphs, and the output can be returned as simple English sentences or a more structured format such as a list of JSON objects. This approach represents a simple, accessible, and highly flexible route to obtaining large databases of structured specialized scientific knowledge extracted from research papers.

Structured Pedagogy — 0a. How-To Guides - Piper, Benjamin (2021)

Structured Pedagogy — 0b. Literature Review - Piper, Benjamin (2021)
Keywords: _yl:b

Structured Pedagogy — 0c. Structured Pedagogy Can Really Work - Piper, Benjamin (2021)

Structured Pedagogy and EdTech - Adam, Taskeen; Chuang, Rachel; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2021)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Structured Pedagogy and EdTech - Adam, Taskeen; Chuang, Rachel; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2021)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; ___duplicate_item; _bjoern_cv; _cover:analysis:nopdf; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; dode_eth-src-eth; dode_eth-trf2-dode

Structured Pedagogy — Guide 1. Government Leadership and Program Adoption - Piper, Benjamin (2021)

Structured Pedagogy — Guide 2. Designing an Effective Structured Pedagogy Program. - Piper, Benjamin (2021)

Structured Pedagogy — Guide 3. Curriculum and Scope and Sequence Development for Literacy and Numeracy .pdf - Piper, Benjamin (2021)

Structured Pedagogy — Guide 4. Materials Development. - Piper, Benjamin (2021)

Structured Pedagogy — Guide 5. Teacher Professional Development: Teacher Training - Piper, Benjamin (2021)

Structured Pedagogy — Guide 6. Teacher Professional Development- Ongoing Teacher Support. - Piper, Benjamin (2021)

Structured Pedagogy — Guide 7. Data Systems and Accountability. - Piper, Benjamin (2021)

Structured Pedagogy — Guide 8. Systems Management. - Piper, Benjamin (2021)

Structured Pedagogy — How-To Guides and Literature Review - Piper, Benjamin (2021)
Keywords: _yl:a

Student acceptance of tablet devices in secondary education: A three-wave longitudinal cross-lagged case study - Courtois, Cédric; Montrieux, Hannelore; De Grove, Frederik; Raes, Annelies; De Marez, Lieven; Schellens, Tammy (Computers in Human Behavior, 2014)

Student engagement with computerized practising: Ability, task value, and difficulty perceptions - Cornelisz, Ilja; Van Klaveren, Chris (Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018)
Keywords: _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Student Learning Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education and in Academic Libraries: A Review of the Literature - Goss, Harold (The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2022)
Conducting effective assessment toward evaluating student learning outcomes (SLO) is a difficult and complex process for all higher education professionals. University-level conversations are increasingly centered on student learning outcomes as they pertain to issues such as students' skills competence, continuous improvement, retention, etc. In response to the increasing demand for units on campus (including academic libraries) to contribute to these conversations, an understanding of how to assess student learning outcomes becomes essential. This paper reviews recent academic literature pertaining to assessing student learning outcomes in higher education and academic libraries. The objective is to use both to create a starting point for academic librarians looking to embark on a SLO-based program of assessment at their academic libraries.
Keywords: Academic libraries; Assessment; Information literacy; Librarians; Student learning outcomes; Student success

Student organisation as a facet of teaching quality in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence to inform the World Bank’s Teach observation instrument - Mitchell, Rafael (UKFIET, Oxford, 2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Student participation in private supplementary education: A comparative analysis of Japan, Korea, Shanghai, and the USA - Park, H.; Lim, Y. (Chinese Journal of Sociology, 2020)
Private supplementary education, which refers to private lessons and learning outside of formal schooling purchased by families, has been widely practiced in East Asia. Its demand has grown even beyond East Asia, however, as educational competition for social mobility has intensified in many parts of the world. This global trend makes it important to determine who has greater access to private supplementary education and address the implications of the differential access for educational inequality. The current study compares how family socioeconomic status (SES) and students’ prior academic performance are related to their participation in private supplementary education in three East Asian societies—Japan, Korea, and Shanghai (China)—and the USA. Private supplementary education has existed on a substantial scale in Japan and Korea. The public and scholars have increased their concerns regarding the growing prevalence of private supplementary education in China. Although it has not been a major educational strategy, the demand for private supplementary education is rising in the USA as well, which can offer a useful insight into the global application of private supplementary education in contemporary educational systems. The focused comparisons across a small number of societies allow analyses of detailed patterns in each society in comparative perspective, thus moving beyond both single-country research and large-scale cross-national studies. The data for the current study come from 15-year-old students who participated in an international survey of student achievement, Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012. With a clearly defined measure of private supplementary education, PISA 2012 provides an exceptional opportunity for comparison. Drawing on data for 15-year-old students in four societies from PISA 2012, the linear probability models highlight heterogeneity among three East Asian societies. Japan is distinctive from Korea and Shanghai in terms of the influences of family SES on student participation in private supplementary education. Once school-fixed effects are taken into account, the strength of the relationship between family SES and private supplementary education in Japan is similar to the strength in the USA, which is weaker than the strength in Korea and Shanghai. Japan and the USA are also similar in that family structure is not significantly associated with private supplementary education, while students in non-two-parent families are significantly less likely to receive private supplementary education in Korea and Shanghai. The school-fixed-effects models also show that the within-school relationship between students’ prior academic performance and their participation in private supplementary education is generally negative. Japan, Shanghai, and the USA show a significantly negative relationship, while only Korea shows no significant relationship. Future research directions are suggested in the conclusion. © The Author(s) 2020.
Keywords: Children; East Asia; Supplementary Education; _AcademicRecoveryOECS; education; inequality; stratification

Student perceptions of flipped learning in a high school math classroom - Strohmyer, Daniel A. (Walden University, 2016)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Cuba CUB; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Student Perceptions of the Creation and Reuse of Digital Educational Resources in a Community Development-Oriented Organisation - Paskevicius, Michael; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl (http://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/253/284, 2018)
This case study explores students’ perceptions of the creation and reuse of digital teaching and learning resources in their work as tutors as part of a volunteer community development organisation at a large South African University. Through a series of semi-structured interviews, student-tutors reflect on their use and reuse of digital educational resources, and identify the challenges they experience in curating, adapting, and reusing educational resources for use in their teaching activities. The data is analysed qualitatively within the framework of an activity system (Engeström, 1987) to surface the primary systemic tensions that student-tutors face in the reuse of resources found online as well as open educational resources (OER). This study found that student-tutors sourced and used educational materials from the Internet, largely irrespective of their licensing conditions, while also creating and remixing a substantial number of educational materials to make them suitable for use in their context. We conclude that greater awareness of the availability of OER and explicit open licencing for works sourced and created within community development organisations could enhance sharing, collaboration, and help sustain high impact resources.
Keywords: _C:Canada CAN; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Student Support Services in the OECS - Knight, Verna; Robinson, Sandra (The Education Development Management Unit (EDMU), OECS Commission, 2016)
Keywords: _Added to LR; _T:reviewed

Student-teacher relationships matter for school inclusion: school belonging, disability, and school transitions - Crouch, Ronald; Keys, Christopher B.; McMahon, Susan D. (Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, 2014)
For students with disabilities, the process of school inclusion often begins with a move from segregated settings into general education classrooms. School transitions can be stressful as students adjust to a new environment. This study examines the adjustment of 133 students with and without disabilities who moved from a school that served primarily students with disabilities into 23 public schools in a large urban school district in the Midwest. These students and 111 of their teachers and other school staff rated the degree that students felt they belonged in their new schools and the quality of their social interactions. Results show that students who experienced more positive and fewer negative social interactions with school staff had higher school belonging. Teachers accurately noted whether students felt they belonged in their new settings, but were not consistently able to identify student perceptions of negative social interactions with staff. Implications for inclusion and improving our educational system are explored.
Keywords: Adaptation, Psychological; Adolescent; Data Collection; Disabled Children; Faculty; Female; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Mainstreaming, Education; Male; Midwestern United States; Peer Group; Social Adjustment; Social Identification; Social Perception; Surveys and Questionnaires

Student Teachers School Experience in Zambia: Experiences and Challenges - Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Bwalya, Katongo (East African Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 2022)

Student Teachers School Experience in Zambia: Experiences and Challenges - Mutale Mulenga, Innocent; Bwalya, Katongo (EAST AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2022)
The purpose of this study was to establish challenges and experiences faced by student teachers during teaching practice in Zambia. The study employed the concurrent embedded design. Data was collected from 280 respondents including 200 student teachers, 30 host school deputy head teachers and 50 lecturers. The study employed a questionnaire, focus group discussion and an interview to collect data from the respondents. The study established some challenges which can serve as learning points for teacher educators and administrators in institutions of higher learning that are running teacher education programs. The challenges include the struggle of maintaining low costs while having a high quality school experience, lecturers hurrying through the supervision process, the tendency to involve non-lecturers to supervise students and students lack of adequate support during the school experience period. The school experience period was adequate and students had a number of benefits from it although some institutions had it at the end of the program. It was therefore recommended that school experience be continually evaluated by both the Ministry of Education and institutions that provide teacher education programs in Zambia and that the length of the school experience period be maintained so as to enhance the benefits that student teacher drew from it. It was further recommended that institutions preparing teachers should make sure that school experience is done during the teacher education period and not at the end of it so that students and their lecturers evaluate the experience before the end of the program.

Student Version of the Teacher–Student Relationship Inventory (S-TSRI): Development, Validation and Invariance - Ang, Rebecca P.; Ong, Soo Lin; Li, Xiang (Frontiers in Psychology, 2020)
There is limited knowledge concerning children’s relationships with their teachers, and specifically, we lack a suitable, culturally appropriate measurement instrument for assessing the teacher-student relationship from the student’s perspective in Asia. This study used attachment theory as a theoretical framework to understand teacher-student relationships. Using a dataset from the Ministry of Education (MOE) of Singapore, the authors developed and validated a student version of the Teacher-Student Relationship Inventory (S-TSRI), with good psychometric properties for Singaporean children. The three-factor S-TSRI model comprising the factors satisfaction, instrumental help, and conflict was first established by exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Through subsequent multigroup CFAs, we found that the factorial invariance was supported across gender, grade levels, and students of different academic levels, represented by the pass and fail groups. The structural model was tested in the total, pass, and fail groups. For the total and pass groups, the factors satisfaction and instrumental help showed significant positive relationships with a sense of school belonging, and negative or non-significant relationships with aggression. The conflict factor showed a weaker negative or non-significant relationship with a sense of school belonging, and a positive relationship with aggression. For the fail group, identical results were obtained with one exception; this was discussed in light of the fail group having a different needs profile. Findings from this study show that the 14-item S-TSRI measure has robust psychometric properties and yields scores that are reliable and valid in this large sample of primary school students from Singapore.

Students' Acceptance of Tablet PCs and Implications for Educational Institutions. - El-Gayar, Omar F; Moran, Mark; Hawkes, Mark (Educational Technology & Society, 2011)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Students' acceptance of tablet PCs in Italian high schools: Profiles and differences - Villani, Daniela; Morganti, Laura; Carissoli, Claudia; Gatti, Elena; Bonanomi, Andrea; Cacciamani, Stefano; Confalonieri, Emanuela; Riva, Giuseppe (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2018)
Keywords: _C:France FRA; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Spain ESP; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Students and mobile devices - Traxler, John (Research in Learning Technology, 2010)

Students’ and teachers’ attitudes and views on employing the use of iPads in science lessons - Oliviera, Jose (University of Cambridge, 2014)

Students’ behavioral intention to use and achievements in ICT-Integrated mathematics remedial instruction: Case study of a calculus course - Chen, C.-L.; Wu, C.-C. (Computers and Education, 2020)
Mathematics remedial instruction is a mathematics education topic worthy of attention; therefore, studying how to effectively implement remedial instruction is essential. A Grade 12 calculus course was used as a case study for exploring the effects of information and communication technology (ICT)-integrated mathematics remedial instruction and factors affecting students' intention to use. A within-group design was adopted to examine whether students' grades on the same type of question in a posttest were significantly higher than in a pretest using a paired samples t-test. Results showed that when ICT-integrated mathematics remedial instruction was not implemented, students' scores in the posttest were not significantly higher; however, after implementing ICT-integrated mathematics remedial instruction, the grades in the posttest were significantly higher. Regarding students' intention to use ICT-integrated mathematics remedial instruction, the research model was developed from the technology acceptance model. This study analyzed data collected from questionnaires using the partial-least-squares structural equation modeling multivariate data analysis method. The results indicated that (1) perceived usefulness significantly affected attitude toward use and behavioral intention to use; (2) attitude toward use significantly affected behavioral intention to use; and (3) attitude toward use exhibited significant mediating effects between perceived usefulness and behavioral intention to use, indicating that perceived usefulness primarily affected students’ behavioral intention to use through attitude toward use. The results may facilitate the application of technology to implement mathematics remedial instruction. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
Keywords: Applications in subject areas; Applications in subject areas ∙; Calculations; Computer aided instruction; Edtech; Education computing; Improving classroom teaching; Improving classroom teaching ∙; Information and Communication Technologies; Integration; Interactive learning environment; Interactive learning environments ∙; Knowledge acquisition; Least squares approximations; Marginalised; Multivariant analysis; Multivariate data analysis method; Pedagogy; Structural equation modeling; Students; Surveys; Teaching; Teaching/learning strategies; Teaching/learning strategy; Technology acceptance model; _AcademicRecoveryOECS

Students’ Learning Processes during School-Based Learning and Workplace Learning in Vocational Education: A Review - Schaap, Harmen; Baartman, Liesbeth; Bruijn, Elly de (Vocations and Learning, 2012)
Learning in vocational schools and workplaces are the two main components of vocational education. Students have to develop professional competences by building meaningful relations between knowledge, skills and attitudes. There are, however, some major concerns about the combination of learning in these two learning environments, since vocational schools are primarily based on the rationales of learning and theory, while workplaces are based on the rationales of working and practice. This study therefore aims to structure empirical insights into students’ learning processes during the combination of school-based learning and workplace learning in vocational education. A review-study has been conducted in which ultimately 24 articles were analyzed thoroughly. The review shows that students’ learning processes in vocational schools and workplaces are related to six main themes: students’ expertise development, students’ learning styles, students’ integration of knowledge acquired in school and workplace, processes of knowledge development, students’ motivations for learning and students’ professional identity development. Our results show that students are novices who use specific and different learning styles and learning activities in vocational schools and workplaces. It is concluded that the enhancement of students’ learning processes needs to be adaptive and differentiated in nature. Recommendations for further research are elaborated and suggestions for the enhancement of students’ learning processes are discussed using insights from hybrid learning environments and boundary crossing via boundary objects.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; CLL:en; publicImportV1

Students’ online information use and learning progress in higher education – A critical literature review - Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Hartig, Johannes; Goldhammer, Frank; Krstev, Jan (Studies in Higher Education, 2021)
Learning using the Internet has become a vital factor for academic success in higher education. Students increasingly rely on the Internet as their main information source. However, related research is still an emerging and highly fragmented field. Therefore, this study aims to provide a comprehensive and integrative review of research literature on student learning vis-à-vis using the Internet. The review encompasses research on students' strategies for searching, evaluating, and selecting online information, the use of this information for domain-specific learning, and the influence of the characteristics of both online information sources and learners on searching, evaluating, and selecting online information. Moreover, research on how this information-related behavior develops and affects learning outcomes is considered. The literature research, conducted in 2020, employed the database Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) and the search engine Google Scholar. Based on relevant search phrases and keywords, over 500 publications were found. After a second search, 55 fitting publications from 2009 onwards were identified. The review reveals a lack of research on the characteristics of online information, how these characteristics affect student learning in higher education, and how student learning can be fostered by improving students' information-related strategies. Research integrating these different perspectives is even scarcer.
Keywords: Online learning; higher education; meta-analysis; online media use

Students’ Perceived Heat-Health Symptoms Increased with Warmer Classroom Temperatures - Bidassey-Manilal, Shalin; Wright, Caradee Y.; Engelbrecht, Jacobus C.; Albers, Patricia N.; Garland, Rebecca M.; Matooane, Mamopeli (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2016)
Temperatures in Africa are expected to increase by the end of the century. Heat-related health impacts and perceived health symptoms are potentially a problem, especially in public schools with limited resources. Students (n = 252) aged ~14–18 years from eight high schools completed an hourly heat-health symptom log over 5 days. Data loggers measured indoor classroom temperatures. A high proportion of students felt tired (97.2%), had low concentration (96.8%) and felt sleepy (94.1%) during at least one hour on any day. There were statistically significant correlations, when controlling for school cluster effect and time of day, between indoor temperatures ≥32 °C and students who felt tired and found it hard to breathe. Consistently higher indoor classroom temperatures were observed in classrooms constructed of prefabricated asbestos sheeting with corrugated iron roof and converted shipping container compared to brick classrooms. Longitudinal studies in multiple seasons and different classroom building types are needed.
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; BE:temperature; South Africa; climate change; health; school; temperature

Students’ Perceptions of Financing Public Universities in Zambia: Toward a More Sustainable and Inclusive Policy Strategy - Masaiti, Gift (Funding Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2013)

Students' potential abilities as correlates of self-employment start-up intentions: Evidence from private sector-led technical and vocational education institutions in Nigeria - Edokpolor, James Edomwonyi; Abusomwan, Vero Iyalekhue (International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 2019)
© 2019 Society for Research and Knowledge Management. All rights reserved. The current study examines the correlation between technical and vocational education and training (TVET) students' potential abilities and self-employment start-up intentions. The participants of the survey were 209 students of TVET institutions in Nigeria. Using a Bivariate Pearson Correlation Matrix and Simple Linear Regression tests of relationships, the results revealed a significant relationship between TVET students' potential abilities and self-employment start-up intentions. More specifically, the results revealed significant correlations among potential abilities (e.g., creativity and innovation skills, ICT functional literacy and numeracy skills, communication and collaboration skills, critical thinking and problem solving skills) and the intentions of TVET students to venture into self-employment upon graduation. The results also revealed significant correlations among potential abilities (e.g., managerial and leadership skills, flexibility and adaptability skills, lifelong learning and self-direction skills) and the intentions of TVET students to venture into self-employment upon graduation. Contrarily, the results revealed that there is no significant correlations among potential abilities (e.g., social and cross-cultural skills, desirability and feasibility skills) and the intentions of TVET students to venture into self-employment upon graduation. Implications, limitations and logical conclusions were spotted out in the study.

Students’ Use of and Engagement with ICT at Home and School - Fraillon, Julian; Ainley, John; Schulz, Wolfram; Friedman, Tim; Gebhardt, Eveline (Preparing for Life in a Digital Age, 2014)
Keywords: Final_citation

Study Behavior in Computing Education—A Systematic Literature Review - Lorås, Madeleine; Sindre, Guttorm; Trætteberg, Hallvard; Aalberg, Trond (ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2021)
As the field of computing education grows and matures, it has become essential to unite computing education and higher education research. Educational research has highlighted that how students study is crucial to their learning progress, and study behaviors have been found to play an important role in students’ academic success. This article presents the main results of a systematic literature review intended to determine what we know about the study behaviors of computing students and the role of educational design in shaping them. A taxonomy of study behaviors was developed and used to clarify and classify the definitions of study behavior, process, strategies, habits, and tactics as well as to identify their relationship to the educational context. The literature search resulted in 107 included papers, which were analyzed according to defined criteria and variables. The review of study behavior terminology found that the same terms are used to describe substantially different study behaviors, and the lack of standard terminology makes it difficult to compare findings from different papers. Furthermore, it was more common for papers to use study behaviors to explain other aspects of students rather than exploring and understanding them. Additionally, the results revealed a tendency to focus on specific educational contexts, predominantly introductory programming courses. Although computing education as a field is well equipped to expand the knowledge about both study behaviors and their connection to the educational context, the lack of common terminology and theories limits the impact. The taxonomy of study behaviors in computing education proposed in this article can contribute to contextualizing the research in such a way that researchers and educators across institutional borders can compare and utilize results. Last, the article outlines some areas for future research and recommendations for practice.
Keywords: Computing education; educational context; study behavior; study habits; study process; study strategies; study tactics

Study on Agricultural Technical and Vocational Education and Training (ATVET) in Developing Countries - Walker, Katharina; Hofstetter, Sonja (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2016)

Study on Key Issues and Policy Considerations in Promoting Lifelong Learning in Selected African Countries Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda and Tanzania - Walters, Shirley; Yang, Jin; Roslander, Peter (2012)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Study on the feasibility of provision of distance learning programmes in surgery to Malawi - Mains, Edward A.A.; Blackmur, James P.; Dewhurst, David; Ward, Ross M.; Garden, O. James; Wigmore, Stephen J. (The Surgeon, 2011)
Abstract Medical educational opportunities and resources are considerably limited in the developing world. The expansion of computing and Internet access means that there exists a potential to provide education to students through distance learning programmes.This study investigated the feasibility of providing distance learning course in surgery in Malawi. The study investigated the user requirements, technical requirements and Internet connections in two teaching hospitals in Malawi. In addition the appropriateness of current course material from the Edinburgh Surgical Sciences Qualification to Malawi trainees was assessed.The study found a high degree of interest from Malawian trainees in distance learning. The provision of basic science modules such as anatomy and physiology and the ability to access journals were considered highly desirable. The current ESSQ course would require extensive re-modelling to make it suitable to an African trainee’s requirements. Internet speeds remain slow and access is currently expensive.There is considerable interest in distance learning programmes in Malawi but access to them is limited partly because of slow and expensive Internet access.Understanding the needs of trainees in countries such as Malawi will allow better direction of educational aid and resources to support surgical training.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:M:final; A:Africa; C:Malawi; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:D; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:T; D:developing world; F:access; F:qualification; F:teaching; P:media; Q:degree; Q:distance learning; T:Training; T:distance learning program; T:trainee; Z:Education, Distance [I02.195]; Z:Education, Medical, Graduate [I02.358.399.350]; Z:Malawi [Z01.058.290.175.500]; publicImportV1

Study on the Use of Ict in Education and Remote Learning During Crises and the Required Investment for Digital Transformation for African Countries (Association for the Development of Education in Africa, 2022)

Studying dilemmas of mathematics teaching in Southern Africa - Gobede, Fraser; Mosvold, Reidar (African Journal of Teacher Education and Development, 2022)