Alemu, Birhanu Moges (2017). Transforming Educational Practices of Ethiopia into Development and the Knowledge Society through Information and Communication Technology. African Educational Research Journal, v5 n1 p1-17 Jan. Despite the improvements in the access to and use of information and communication technology (ICT) around the world, there is evidence which suggest that a persistent digital divide between and within countries. ICT increases the flexibility of delivery of education so that learners can access knowledge anytime and from anywhere. It can influence the way students are taught and how they learn as now the processes are learner driven and not by teachers. This in turn would better prepare the learners for lifelong learning as well as to improve the quality of learning. It can improve the quality of teaching-learning and thus contribute to the development of Ethiopia. Nowhere is the ICT gap more evident than in the education system and practices. This study assesses ICTs in supporting educational practices of Ethiopia for transforming into a knowledge- and information-based society and economy. It also focus on the benefits that ICT integration in education system can provide, right… [PDF]

Smith, Peter, Ed. (2014). Proceedings of the 2014 ASCUE Summer Conference (47th, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, June 8-12, 2014). Association Supporting Computer Users in Education The Association Supporting Computer Users in Education (ASCUE) is a group of people interested in small college computing issues. It is a blend of people from all over the country who use computers in their teaching, academic support, and administrative support functions. ASCUE has a strong tradition of bringing its members together to pool their resources to help each other, and continues the tradition of sharing through its national conference held every year in June, its conference proceedings, and its newsletter. ASCUE proudly affirms this tradition in its motto: "Our Second Quarter Century of Resource Sharing." The proceedings are divided into three sections. The first section contains the refereed papers. The second section holds papers from the sessions with paper. The last section holds only the abstracts for the other sessions. The following are included in the 2014 proceedings: (1) Recruiting Women into Computer Science and Information Systems (Steven Broad and… [PDF]

Appleton, James R.; Dorsey, Stuart (2009). The Chancellor's Role in a Presidential Transition. Presidency, v12 n1 p30-32, 34 Win. Successful transitions involving a formal role for the former president, such as chancellor, are rare enough that the authors think theirs is an exceptional experience and is worth sharing, especially given the bulge of presidential retirements anticipated over the next decade. The authors believe that this model of transition can be successful, but only if fairly stringent conditions are met. Can a former president stay on as chancellor without crossing leadership swords with his successor? The authors draw from their own unique–and successful–transition experience and present a case study of one presidential transition. (Contains 4 notes.)… [Direct]

Weldon, Lorette S. J. (2009). Taking Your Library on the Road. Computers in Libraries, v29 n5 p12-15 May. Information professionals need to be reachable through email (through cell phones, laptops, Treos, and BlackBerries) and customers' questions have to be answered in \real time,\ meaning that once the question is sent, an answer is expected that moment. A library in a Google environment allows this to happen. It also allows the information professional to be available 24/7, the documents to be obtainable 24/7, and online sharing and discussion between customers and the information professional to be possible. In this article, the author describes the steps in making an electronic library assistant (ELA) within a sandbox environment in Google. Through these steps, information professionals can have an ELA to help them with their duties while they travel all over the world–or at least all over town. All they need is a laptop. (Contains 3 figures.)… [Direct]

Jacobs, Gerrie J. (2010). Quality's Higher Education Dividends: Broadened Custodianship and Global Public Scholarship. Quality in Higher Education, v16 n2 p163-167 Jul. This paper speculates on the possible contribution of the quality movement to higher education and the perceived dividends received from this, in general, over the past two decades but also, more specifically, with reference to the author's institution in South Africa. The first major quality contribution is a gradual broadening of higher education custodianship, ensuring that academic provision more closely resembles societal expectations. It is hoped that the dividend stemming from this will be renewed public trust in higher education. The quality movement put public scholarship globally into action via its tested strategies of self-reflection, interrogation, assessment and, especially, via the airing, sharing and exchange of research findings and practices that work. This scholarship, which increasingly contributes to the integration of various higher education subsystems and which is also respectful of contextual difference and institutional identity, is perhaps the quality… [Direct]

Chen, W.; Looi, C.-K. (2010). Community-Based Individual Knowledge Construction in the Classroom: A Process-Oriented Account. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, v26 n3 p202-213 Jun. This paper explores the process of knowledge convergence and knowledge sharing in the context of classroom collaboration in which students do a group learning activity mediated by a generic representation tool. In analysing the transcript of the interactions of a group, we adapt the group cognition method of Stahl and the uptake analysis methodology of Suthers to understand how the members of the group did meaning making in their interactions, and how individual members did uptakes of their interactions and applied their new shared knowledge or understanding in new situations. The transcript is taken from our school-based research using the Group Scribbles software technology which provides representation spaces for individual, group or class work to support collaborative practices. Our work contributes toward a methodology for explaining a process-oriented account of a small group interaction through face-to-face communication over external shared representations…. [Direct]

Martinez-Hicks, Laura M. (2012). An Exploration of How Elementary School Principals Approach the Student Retention Decision Process. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, The George Washington University. This is a constructivist grounded theory study investigating how elementary principals approach the student retention decision process in their schools. Twenty-two elementary principals participated in the study using a selective or snowball sampling method. Principals worked in one of three districts in a mid-Atlantic state and had experience as educators ranging from 15 to 45 years. The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews lasting between 60 and 90 minutes over a 4-month period. Student retention documents and handouts collected during interviews provided supporting evidence for how principals approach the student retention decision process. Participants answered follow up questions to clarify holes in the data and ensure that the researcher fully understood what participants were sharing. Results indicated that elementary principals' beliefs and experiences inform how they approach student retention decisions. Principals had strong beliefs about the time of the… [Direct]

Christiansen, Ron (2012). Leaving the Well-Rutted Contours of My Pedagogical Past. Teaching English in the Two-Year College, v39 n3 p306-308 Mar. This article questions educators' reliance on textbooks through the author's own struggles to come to terms with his ambiguous, sometimes frustrating, relationship with textbooks. Seeing the wide-open white pages on his syllabus and schedule, not filled or structured by a textbook, the author realizes he has an opportunity to reconsider his pedagogical landscape. Quickly he recognizes how many ideas he has meant to implement over the years, but never fully implemented because he had to cover the textbook: sharing with students his favorite writing examples, having students write during class, using student writing to illustrate rhetorical principles, and inviting students to find and evaluate materials for use in the course. The author argues that textbooks are merely tools that he has sometimes given too much power. As Robert J. Connors argues in \Textbooks and the Evolution of the Discipline,\ educators must keep \training teachers to stand by themselves . . . re-invent[ing]… [Direct]

Avci, Serhat Nazim (2013). Optimal Near-Hitless Network Failure Recovery Using Diversity Coding. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Irvine. Link failures in wide area networks are common and cause significant data losses. Mesh-based protection schemes offer high capacity efficiency but they are slow, require complex signaling, and instable. Diversity coding is a proactive coding-based recovery technique which offers near-hitless (sub-ms) restoration with a competitive spare capacity requirement with respect to other techniques. In this thesis, an optimal algorithm is developed for pre-provisioning of the static traffic using both systematic and non-systematic diversity coding. A Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) formulation is developed for systematic diversity coding which requires many fewer integer variables and constraints than similar optimal coding-based formulations. In all scenarios, diversity coding results in smaller restoration time, higher transmission integrity, and much reduced signaling complexity than the existing techniques in the literature at the expense of slightly lower capacity efficiency than Shared… [Direct]

Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy (2009). Administrators Confront Student \Sexting\. Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, v75 n3 p13-16 Nov. Cellphone-savvy students have created instructional and disciplinary challenges for educators for years. But the recent emergence of \sexting\ by adolescents over their mobile phones caught many school administrators off guard, and the practice is prompting efforts around the country to craft policy responses. Students' sharing of nude or otherwise sexually provocative photos of themselves or classmates via messages over digital devices might be dismissed as just the latest fad in out-of-school adolescent expression–or be deemed the criminal distribution of child pornography. As sexting has grabbed public attention, and teenagers and educators have gotten caught up in the legal and other consequences of the practice, school officials have been urged to respond with more precise rules around cellphone use. They have also been encouraged to provide information to students, teachers, and parents about the dangers of sexting, including the permanent digital record it creates…. [Direct]

Bachore, Zelalem (2012). Surreptitious, Evolving and Participative Ontology Development: An End-User Oriented Ontology Development Methodology. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Ontology not only is considered to be the backbone of the semantic web but also plays a significant role in distributed and heterogeneous information systems. However, ontology still faces limited application and adoption to date. One of the major problems is that prevailing engineering-oriented methodologies for building ontologies do not actively involve end-users but instead rely on a small group of domain experts, which presents barriers to both knowledge elicitation and knowledge sharing. Based on an extensive and critical review of extant ontology development methodologies, a number of issues are identified that could hinder the involvement of end-users in the ontology development process. To address these issues, a surreptitious ontology development methodology is proposed in the dissertation. Based on the result of a usability study, the methodology is refined and a prototype system is developed to implement the methodology. Moreover, a theoretical model is built to predict… [Direct]

Hoit, Graeme; Naji, Faysal; Rangachari, P. K.; Salci, Lauren (2012). The UNSIN Project: Exploring the Molecular Physiology of Sins. Advances in Physiology Education, v36 n1 p13-19 Mar. Although active learning works, promoting it in large undergraduate science classes is difficult. Here, three students (F. Naji, L. Salci, and G. Hoit) join their teacher (P. K. Rangachari) in describing one such attempt. Two cohorts in a first-year undergraduate biology course explored the molecular underpinnings of human misbehavior. Students were divided into 18 groups and randomly allotted to deal with one of the four deadly sins: sloth, gluttony, lust, and wrath. Students were expected to read primary sources to devise molecular ways to counter these sins. Group progress was monitored over the 12-wk period by the preceptor (P. K. Rangachari) at scheduled intervals. A single randomly selected student was questioned about the work done, and future directions were provided by the preceptor. At the end of the term, randomly selected students defended their group's approaches to the entire class. A final written report was graded. The following multiple target molecules were… [Direct]

McGee, Christy D. (2012). Parent to Parent: Giftedness with a Twist. Parenting for High Potential, v1 n5 p12-13 Mar. Discovering that a child is gifted can be both exhilarating and daunting. Parents watch in amazement and awe as their 3-year-old reads a first-grade-level book flawlessly, or they might listen to their preschool child's distress over seeing a homeless person on the street. Parents observe as their 6-year-old dismantles a broken CD player and returns it to working order, or they realize that their child's artistic talents are far above those of their peers. Parents of gifted children remember with fondness the times when their child has astonished them with an unusual talent or gift. However, most parents do not bask in the glow of their children's successes long before they realize that with this amazing gift also comes the challenge of supporting it. Initially, the wonder can be overcome by the challenge of assuring that the child reaches his or her full potential. In this article, the author takes this discovery of an unusual talent or gift and gives it the added twist of a… [Direct]

Preast, Vanessa A. (2012). The Development of Team Trust over Time and Its Effect on Performance When Using Michaelsen's Team-Based Learning. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Iowa State University. Proponents of Michaelsen's Team-Based Learning (TBL) have claimed this teaching method quickly produces highly effective teams which are characterized by high trust among team members. Presumably, the high trust boosts performance because members feel less inhibited during discussions involving sharing personal views and challenging others' views. These team interactions can determine how well teams utilize their members' intellectual resources and make decisions. These assertions, while logical and compelling, did not appear to be fully verified within the TBL literature. This exploratory study used mixed qualitative and quantitative methods to describe performance, trust and behavior patterns over time within TBL teams in a second-year veterinary medical course. No variables were experimentally manipulated. Throughout the semester, I measured performance using students' individual and group quiz scores and measured trust using students' responses to custom… [Direct]

Sampson, Demetrios G.; Zervas, Panagiotis (2011). A Workflow for Learning Objects Lifecycle and Reuse: Towards Evaluating Cost Effective Reuse. Educational Technology & Society, v14 n4 p64-76. Over the last decade Learning Objects (LOs) have gained a lot of attention as a common format for developing and sharing digital educational content in the field of technology-enhanced learning. The main advantage of LOs is considered to be their potential for component-based reuse in different learning settings supporting different learning activities. However, despite the importance of the concept of reuse and its potential benefits in digital educational content production and deployment, there are only sporadic efforts to study issues related to LOs reuse that would allow interested parties (such as people, organizations and initiatives) to assess the conditions for and eventually implement systematic LOs reuse within the context of learning activities design and development. This is a drawback in adopting the LOs paradigm towards reducing costs and effort. In this paper, we study existing efforts for the definition of the different steps involved during the LOs lifecycle, we… [PDF]

Henderson, Everett; Lonergan, James (2011). Majority of States Report Decline in Support for Library Services. Research Brief Number 3. Institute of Museum and Library Services For over a half a century, State Library Administrative Agencies (SLAAs) have played a key role in the development and delivery of library services in the United States. While the organization and responsibilities of these agencies vary from state to state, they have two things in common: state-level planning for library services and administration of federal Library Services and Technology Act funds. These agencies bolster learning opportunities in their states, improve library services with cutting edge technologies and resources, and encourage resource sharing among all types of libraries across the state. Results from the most recent State Library Agency Survey (fiscal year [FY] 2009), which was released in March of 2010, paint a stark picture of the budget and staffing realities faced by these agencies. Overall, budgets were reduced by 2.6 percent and staff cut by 6.7 percent from the previous year. This represents a particularly significant and sudden reduction in staff and… [PDF]

Kleinert, Katrin (2009). Volcanoes on the Beach?. Science and Children, v46 n8 p26-30 Apr. How could a rock formed by volcanic activity get to this shoreline, surrounded by sedimentary rocks? That was the question a group of third-grade students asked–and answered–during an inquiry-based summer camp. Over a two week timeframe, the students practiced basic inquiry skills such as observing; measuring; describing and drawing; sharing tasks in a team; and applying physical principles to field observations along the Baltic Sea coast in northern Germany. Through this activity, common rocks in the children's environment obtained new meaning for them, and at the same time, scientific skills of observation and reasoning were strengthened. (Contains 4 figures and 2 online resources.)… [Direct]

Dennis, Ruth E.; MacLeod, Marie; Potvin, Marie-Christine (2010). Interdisciplinary Journal Club: Advancing Knowledge Translation in a Rural State. Physical Disabilities: Education and Related Services, v29 n2 p20-37 Fall. Professionals who provide health and related supports and services to children with disabilities in educational programs and community settings must practice in an evidence-based manner to ensure children and families receive the highest quality care. Vermont's Interdisciplinary Journal Club provides a successful approach to supporting professional development of rural professionals through a variety of knowledge translation activities, including: (a) building relationships and communities integral to the sharing and application of current knowledge; (b) overcoming barriers of time, distance and various levels of research skill; and (c) collaboratively identifying topics of interest and discussion that include skilled interpretation of research and experiential knowledge of stakeholders. This article describes the structure, processes and evaluation strategies of the Journal Club. Challenges identified over three years of implementation and related solutions may be helpful for groups… [PDF]

Kelly, Stephanie (2010). Movie Magic: A Gateway to Higher Classroom Immediacy. Communication Teacher, v24 n3 p127-130 Jul. For over 30 years, instructional communication scholars have investigated the relationships between instructors' communicative behaviors and students' affective/cognitive learning, as well as student classroom motivation. More specifically, perceived teacher immediacy is positively related to student learning and motivation. Albert Mehrabian first conceptualized immediacy as any communicative behavior that brings people a greater sense of closeness either physically or psychologically. For instructors, one such communicative behavior is the use of personal examples or experiences. This article presents an activity which is aimed at students setting their own goals for the semester based on a concrete example of teacher expectations. In this activity, the instructor begins by showing a favorite movie speech and then critiques it in the form of an informative speech. After the instructor models the speech critique presentation, each student does one. Sharing a personal example of what… [Direct]

Roose, Deborah (2010). A Few Steps Forward in the Process of Looking Back: Setting Parameters for a Self-Study of Administrative and Program Development Work over 18 Years. Studying Teacher Education, v6 n3 p269-279 Nov. Many self-studies focus on an individual or several teacher educators. Although there have been self-studies undertaken by teacher education administrators, there is relatively little research that focuses specifically on an administrator's program development work in teacher education. This self-study examines one teacher education administrator's program development work over a period of 18 years and in two institutions. Data come from entries from a professional journal kept during those years. A framework consisting of emergent categories and sub-categories was developed for analysis. Initial findings suggest there are both a complexity of roles and multiple roles that are influenced by outside forces. The scale and complexity of undertaking a long-term self-study surfaced in understanding the scope of the work, deciding on a framework for data analysis, allowing time and place for making personal connections and meaning, and sharing the work with others. Next steps are discussed… [Direct]

Ferguson, Hadley (2010). Join the Flock!. Learning & Leading with Technology, v37 n8 p12-15 Jun-Jul. A professional learning network (PLN) is a community of individuals around the world who are learning together. They can start out as strangers, people one couldn't pick out in a crowded room. But Twitter, the virtual meeting place where one's PLN comes together, helps these strangers come together to create a community built on communication and collaboration dedicated to making learning and education the best it can be. The first thing to know is that developing a PLN on Twitter takes a commitment–not necessarily a huge one, but it does take some time. It is a bit like starting a new friendship: One cultivates a relationship by chatting over coffee in the faculty room or sharing an anecdote in the hall. It is the kind of commitment that causes one to pause rather than walk on, and that's what it will take to develop and maintain a PLN using Twitter. In this article, the author discusses the steps in building a PLN through Twitter…. [PDF]

Dana Shaat (2023). A Comparison of Two Widely Adopted AP Computer Science Curricula in a High Hispanic Student Population. Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Background/Context: There were over 500,000 open computing jobs across the country in 2018, but only 35% of U.S. high schools offer computer science classes, and only 8-10% of STEM graduates study computer science (Code.org, 2018). In 2021, only 5.1% of all Bachelor's degrees conferred were in Computer and Information Sciences (IPEDS, 2018). STEM is the future, but the present pipeline is insufficient to meet demand. K-12 Computer Science course participation is the leading indicator of what happens in university. The College Board found that students who try AP Computer Science courses in high school are 6 times more likely to study Computer Science in college, and participation is 7 to 10 times higher for minority and female students, respectively (Wyatt, Feng, & Ewing, 2020). Purpose/Objective Research Questions: This study evaluates the impact of an intervention that integrates increased access to Computer Science Principles (CSP) with curriculum and professional development… [Direct]

Feldman, Sue S. (2011). Public-Private Interorganizational Sharing of Health Data for Disability Determination. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The Claremont Graduate University. Information exchange is a cornerstone in facilitating a strategic advantage in business. However, health information exchange has not shared that same foundation in health care and related secondary uses, especially when the information is used for something other than diagnosis, treatment, or payment. This case study provides an in-depth examination of successful health data sharing for disability determination between three organizations: the US Social Security Administration (SSA), MedVirginia (a Health Information Exchange (HIE)), and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC). In this case, use of SSA's MEGAHIT application (Medical Evidence Gathering and Analysis through Health Information Technology) and ONC's Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) facilitated the electronic health data sharing from MedVirginia's electronic health records (EHRs). A Blended Value Collaboration Enactment Framework was used to understand the overall value proposition (answering the… [Direct]

Sutton, Anna; Taylor, David (2011). Confusion about Collusion: Working Together and Academic Integrity. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, v36 n7 p831-841. An increasing emphasis on developing students' transferable skills, such as group working and IT, is creating challenges in ensuring the academic integrity of individually assessed coursework. This study investigated the frequency with which students engaged in a range of study behaviours for individual assignments, with a focus on the extent to which they exchanged information or worked in informal study groups. Over 1000 responses were gathered from students at pre- and post-92 universities engaged in either business or psychology degrees. Four behavioural factors emerged from the data: trust, cooperation, use of IT and conscientious practices. Results indicated that students engage in practices relying on trust and cooperation less often than other practices, implying a concern with avoiding issues of academic misconduct. This was supported by focus group discussions where students described their strategies for working together whilst ensuring the quality and integrity of their… [Direct]

Bassendowski, Sandra Leigh; Petrucka, Pammla (2013). Are 20th-Century Methods of Teaching Applicable in the 21st Century?. British Journal of Educational Technology, v44 n4 p665-667 Jul. The image of students passively absorbing information from an educator who is lecturing from behind a podium does not reflect the current scope and dimension of higher education. There are now tools of technology that can be used to create learning experiences to actively and meaningfully "pull" students into course content. The author started to think about the idea of push-pull whereby in the past, educators (the experts) usually passed the information from them to the students (push). Today, the literature is replete with articles about the need for collaboration, cooperation, communities of learners and engagement with students (pull). Education has garnered the same attention as the arts to "open up" over the years and allow exploration [Direct]

Lopez, Oresta (2013). Women Teachers of Post-Revolutionary Mexico: Feminisation and Everyday Resistance. Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, v49 n1 p56-69. The reflections presented in this article include the process of incorporating women teachers into schools during the post-revolutionary period in Mexico. From one standpoint, women teachers lived in a state of ambiguity throughout this period because they were seen as symbols of national reconstruction following a war that left more than one million people dead. From another standpoint, they were victims of political and gender violence in a country that had not yet been pacified and was experiencing deep divisions between the armed Catholic groups that fought against the government. The process of the feminisation of Mexican teaching is approached through an analysis of the socio-professional conditions of rural teachers around the period of 1924 to 1945. There are a range of sources that were used for this research, including oral and documental. The collection of records of rural teachers from the Archivo Historico de la Secretaria de Educacion Publica are important in terms of a… [Direct]

Hsieh, Hsiu-Wei (2012). Practices and Strategies of Self-Initiated Language Learning in an Online Social Network Discussion Forum: A Descriptive Case Study. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University. The proliferation of information and communication technologies and the prevalence of online social networks have facilitated the opportunities for informal learning of foreign languages. However, little educational research has been conducted on how individuals utilize those social networks to take part in self-initiated language learning without guided instruction. The main purpose of this descriptive case study was to understand the strategies, practices, and knowledge that were shared by forum members during the self-directed learning process. I reviewed forum topics that remained actively discussed over a six-month time frame (from the beginning of September, 2011 to the end of February, 2012). Among those active forum topics, only topics with 30% or more popularity were studied. A total of ten forum topics qualified both selection requirements. Only those that exchanged questions and information pertaining to knowledge of language learning were analyzed. By examining a total of… [Direct]

Bok, Vincent (2012). Creating and Implementing Community Connections. Educational Facility Planner, v46 n2-3 p24-29. Schools have always been recognized as an integral part of the community and the challenge is to ensure this vital component of social infrastructure is delivered in such a manner that long term benefits for local children, families and the broader community are realized. The Western Metropolitan Region in Victoria has experienced rapid residential growth over the last ten years and this growth is projected to continue for the next 20 years. Something different needed to be done to achieve better outcomes for the broader community. An opportunity arose to create and implement better community connections between schools and their local communities through the co-location/integration/sharing of facilities to be provided in these new and emerging growth areas. The turning point came ten years ago when a number of small residential subdivisions were approved, but the planning process had not allowed for a school which was needed to address the population growth. The only site available… [Direct]

Drake, Cassandra Jean (2019). Toward a Social Justice Orientation: Exploring the Development of Teacher-Candidate Cultural Competence. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The Claremont Graduate University. The purpose of this mixed methods, instrumental case study was to investigate the impact of the case–a theoretically informed, curriculum and instruction approach–on the development of cultural competence in teacher-candidates. Denboba (1993) noted that the acquisition of cultural competence is an ongoing, developmental process that requires a long-term commitment. According to DiAngelo (2016), the white, female teachers who comprise the vast majority of teacher preparation cohorts often exhibit a segregated socialization to white culture which means they carry implicit biases, prejudices and Eurocentric notions. They also often present as unaware of their own racial ideologies and ethnic identities which allows resistant individuals to justify the minimization of multiculturalism and issues of diversity in the classroom. The approach of the study sought to combat negative emotionality and student resistance (Matias, 2016; Matias & DiAngelo, 2013) to issues of diversity and… [Direct]

Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. (2019). Psychological Applications and Trends 2019. Online Submission This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2019, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and behavioral standpoints), from this academic and practical scientific discipline, aims ultimately to benefit society. The International Conference seeks to provide some answers and explore the several areas within the Psychology field, new developments in studies and proposals for future scientific projects. The goal is to offer a worldwide connection between psychologists, researchers and lecturers, from a wide range of academic fields, interested in exploring and giving their contribution in psychological issues. We take pride in having been able to connect and bring together academics, scholars, practitioners and… [PDF]