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Uchtenhagen, Ambros; Stamm, Rene; Huber, Jakob; Vuille, Rodolphe – Substance Abuse, 2008
Continued education of professionals is a major factor for service improvement and evidence-based good practice. This project explores the strategies used for this purpose across countries (CET = continued education and training in the substance abuse field). A structured questionnaire was circulated internationally by an expert committee of the…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Public Health, Foreign Countries, Professional Development
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Papanikolaou, Kyparisia; Boubouka, Maria – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2011
In this paper we investigate the value of collaboration scripts for promoting metacognitive knowledge in a project-based e-learning context. In an empirical study, 82 students worked individually and in groups on a project using the e-learning environment MyProject, in which the life cycle of a project is inherent. Students followed a particular…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Case Method (Teaching Technique), College Students
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Kaldi, Stavroula – Educational Studies, 2009
This study focuses upon identifying and classifying prospective teachers' perceptions of self-competence in teaching after a four-year university course on primary education and the relationship between their personal well-being, views, emotions and stress about teaching and their teaching competencies during their undergraduate school teaching…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Teaching Skills, Teaching Methods, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Kariotoglou, Petros; Spyrtou, Anna; Tselfes, Vassilis – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2009
In this paper, we describe empirical research on the recording of primary school and preschool student teacher conceptions of the concept of distant force interactions in different contexts related to the school curriculum for this subject. For this objective to be achieved, we undertook ten semi-structured interviews with student teachers. Based…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Physics, Scientific Principles
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Giallousi, Maria; Gialamas, Vassilios; Spyrellis, Nicolas; Pavlatou, Evangelia A. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2010
This study describes the development and validation of a Greek-language instrument that can be used to assess grade 10 students' perceptions of their chemistry classroom environment as a means of showing differences between chemistry learning environments in Greece (Attica) and Cyprus. The development of the instrument was based on available…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chemistry, Urban Areas, Effect Size
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Mavroudi, Elizabeth; Jons, Heike – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2011
This paper critically reviews the use of video documentaries in the assessment of human geography field courses. It aims to contribute to recent debates about the role of visual methods for developing active and deep learning in student-centred teaching. Based on four days of group work in Crete, 30 third-year students produced individual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Human Geography, Documentaries
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Katsamani, Maria; Retalis, Symeon; Boloudakis, Michail – Educational Media International, 2012
CADMOS is a graphical learning design (LD) authoring tool that helps a teacher design a unit of learning in two layers: (i) the conceptual layer, which seems like a concept map and contains the learning activities with their associated learning resources and (ii) the flow layer, which contains the orchestration of these activities. One of CADMOS'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Concept Mapping, Usability, Teacher Developed Materials
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Georgiadou, Elli; Abu-Hassan, Norihan; Siakas, Kerstin Viola; Wang, Xueming; Ross, Margaret; Anandan, Prem Anand – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to consider the under-representation of women in computing, information technology (IT) and information systems in most Western countries. This under-representation can only be detrimental to society. Design/methodology/approach: The authors discuss recently published studies on the under-representation of…
Descriptors: Females, Career Choice, Case Studies, Cross Cultural Studies
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Kokkinos, Constantinos M.; Charalambous, Kyriakos; Davazoglou, Aggeliki – Learning Environments Research, 2009
The present study investigated the psychometric properties of a Greek translation of the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction Primary (G-QTIP). A sample of 273 primary school students from 17 Grade 5 and 6 classes in Cyprus public schools, as well as their teachers, participated in the study. Students completed a self-report questionnaire…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Translation, Academic Achievement, Questionnaires
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Manti, Eirini; Scholte, Evert M.; Van Berckelaer-Onnes, Ina A. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2009
The scope of the present study was first to evaluate the cross-cultural reliability and validity of the Social Emotional Questionnaire (SEQ) and second to estimate and compare the prevalence rates of childhood developmental and psychiatric disorders in the general population of young children in the Netherlands and Greece. To this end, the…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Incidence, Mental Disorders, Caregivers
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Sapouna, Maria – School Psychology International, 2008
The problem of school bullying among Greek primary and secondary school children was investigated by using a translated version of the Olweus Questionnaire with a total of 1,758 students, mainly aged 10-14, from 20 schools in the greater Thessaloniki area. Overall, 8.2 percent of all students were victims, 5.8 percent were bullies and 1.1 percent…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Bullying, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
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Sahinidis, Alexandros G.; Bouris, John – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between perceived employee training effectiveness and job satisfaction, motivation and commitment. Design/methodology/approach: The study examined the responses of 134 employees and lower managers, of five large Greek organizations, after they had completed a training program.…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Employee Attitudes, Motivation, Program Effectiveness
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Tapsis, Nikolaos; Tsolakidis, Konstantinos; Vitsilaki, Chryssi – American Journal of Distance Education, 2012
This study explores the effects of the use of Second Life (SL) as a learning environment on a course's dialogue. An experimental design within groups was used with thirty-seven graduate students for three weeks. Half of them followed the course activities in the official Learning Management System (LMS) of the program, Blackboard Vista, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Distance Education, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Granic, Andrina; Cukusic, Maja – Educational Technology & Society, 2011
This paper presents a comprehensive usability study conducted within the context of a Europe-wide project. The design of the evaluated e-learning platform is based on an innovative approach to the education of young Europeans by integrating into the curricula of a Europe-wide network of 14 schools different state-of-the-art technologies in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expertise, Electronic Learning, Feedback (Response)
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Konstantinidis, Andreas; Papadopoulos, Pantelis M.; Tsiatsos, Thrasyvoulos; Demetriadis, Stavros – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2011
This paper presents the rationale behind the utilization of a Moodle Learning Management System for the facilitation of a blended learning approach in the Informatics department. The authors present and analyze the steps followed in order to replace the prior decentralized organizational structure of the courses, which consisted of a multitude of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Information Science, Departments
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