Educational Research and Reviews

  • Abbreviation: Educ. Res. Rev.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1990-3839
  • DOI: 10.5897/ERR
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2014

Table of Content: 19 February 2012; 7(7)

February 2012

Developing children’s literary resources

The Malay literary materials and resources for early childhood in Malaysia are still in the infant stage and have not been expanded to include the main references or developed into big book form. The children literature in our market is not published based on educational philosophy and research, but it is produced based on profit. The process of evaluating the quality of children’s literature needs to take into...

Author(s): Chew Fong Peng

February 2012

Impact of Malaysian polytechnics’ head of department multi-dimensional leadership orientation towards lecturers work commitment

The purpose of this study is to determine if the multi-dimensional leadership orientation of the heads of departments in Malaysian polytechnics affects their leadership effectiveness and the lecturers’ commitment to work as perceived by the lecturers. The departmental heads’ leadership orientation was determined by five leadership dimensions adapted from Bolman and Deal’s leadership frame and...

Author(s): Mohammed Sani Ibrahim and Siti Junaidah Mohd Mujir

February 2012

Wikipedia as a teaching tool for technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) development in pre-service history teacher education

This paper seeks to explore a web-based teaching activity designed for technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) development in pre-service history teacher education in Turkey. The study is conducted by action research methodology. Using a project-based learning (PBL) approach, the designed activity aims to provide the necessary background knowledge to support student-teachers for their use of the wikis as a...

Author(s): Ibrahim Hakki Öztürk