Homeschooling, as a controversial educational practice, raises many questions about its outcomes, which still remain unanswered. The homeschooling population has been growing over the past years, as has interest in this educational paradigm. The increased accessibility and use of emerging information technologies also hold significance in…

This study aims to identify the literacy skills of individuals whose highest level of education was in the field 'teacher training and educational sciences'. The study sample comprised 10,618 individuals in the field of teacher training and educational sciences, selected from 31 countries (participating in the International Adult Skills Assessment…

We have been conducting a longitudinal study of two cohorts of teachers since they began teaching, 20 (originally 22) in 2004 and 20 (originally 23) in 2007. Over the period reported here -- to mid-2014 -- nearly all the teachers stayed in teaching and most maintained quite a high level of motivation. Although they faced many challenges, they also…

'Employers know that they can hire worldwide now … so, there is limitless supply of people … who can do the job … . they're all qualified, most of them are actually over-qualified … . I'm a wage slave basically, I don't think we have very much social status … . we are replaceable workers … I mean, the employer holds all the cards really. We are…

We argue the importance of "praxis" in financial literacy education teaching practices that is, the moral and ethical nature of teaching and learning. Post the global financial crisis of 2008, the teaching of financial literacy has become a priority for many countries. Indigenous communities are often the target of broad FLE strategies…

Integrating information literacy skills is fundamental to learning in all contexts. The nexus of mobile devices and information literacy lessons to learn these skills is an innovative pedagogy in higher education explored in this Mobile Information Literacy Tool (MIL) project. Currently, the project's second stage of data collection and analysis…

Learned opinion supports the relevance of satisfaction with job facets in studies of job satisfaction, but an analysis of the perceived importance of these facets concerning overall job satisfaction in education has largely been ignored. The relationships among Alberta (Canada) elementary and junior high school principals' job facet perceptions…

Discusses the evaluation and redefining of services in the four resource centers of the British Columbia ministry of consumers and corporate affairs in terms of economic feasibility and ministry objectives. (CHC)

Job dissatisfaction may manifest itself in frustration for the teacher and defense mechanisms for the employer. Previous research suggests that unfulfilled needs, goals, and value expectations, as well as the lack of achievement of outcomes, account for job dissatisfaction. Other variables include demography, disillusionment with life, lack of…

This paper presents the preliminary results of a longitudinal study carried out in 1982 and 1990 about the job satisfaction and career plans of Quebec school principals, in the primary and secondary levels, working in the public (francophone and anglophone) schools or in the private school of the Quebec school system. Preluding the theoretical and…

After reviewing recent gerontological literature on satisfaction and happiness from the point of view of explanations by analysis of constituents, explanations by synthesis of correlates, and mixtures of these two types of explanations, the report describes results of a social survey of 392 Huron County (Ontario) rural residents over age 60. The…

Stress has been defined as a stimulus event, a complex personal response to the interaction of various personal and environmental factors. When a demand, real or imagined, is perceived, a stress response will occur unless appropriate coping responses are present. The terms burnout or excessive distress refer to the experience of physical,…

The increasing commercialism and professionalism of sport through the medium of television has had an impact upon the policy of the Canadian government toward sport. Facing pressure from separatist movements within the country, the government has made athletics a keystone in the drive for national unity. The cultural significance of sport and the…

This paper describes the Self-Help Information Service (SIS), and summarizes data evaluating the program. Associated with a generally focused information and referral service (I&R), SIS was designed to facilitate research on self-help groups. Its specific goals were to develop and maintain a telephone referral service disseminating self-help…

A systems framework is presented for the evaluation of online bibliographic retrieval services by determining the interrelationships among the procedures in search request processing, the client's gain in knowledge, and the degree of client satisfaction. The application of the framework to an evaluation of the Educational Information System for…