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Study evaluates how university departments of preschool and primary school education are involved in international publication activities. Data collected from 9 departments of teacher training colleges in Slovakia are analysed to summarise publications of 122 faculties from these departments registered in 4 academic databases − SCOPUS, Web of Science, ERIC and Proquest Central. Comparative analysis of total number of publications registered in all selected databases and in individual databases either is used to evaluate scientific activity of departments in time series. Results of analyses show significant gap between departments and profound lag of many of departments in these indicators of the quality of scientific activities. These analyses also show that only one university would meet criteria adjusted for accreditation of doctoral study program in this study area and three universities for accreditation of master study program. Moreover, study defends the stand-point that contemporary pressure on meeting scientometric indicators is beneficial for academic culture in this area and its denial as a representation of neoliberal terror will not stand on in our academic environment.
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Given text focuses on the quantitative analysis of student’s foreign academic mobility in the Czech Republic. The mobility is briefly defined in the context of internationalization, which is one of the priorities in the European Union and also with regard to the socio-historical connotations of student’s mobility. The main source of data for the quantitative analysis is the international research Eurostudent, specifically its fourth wave from 2008/2009 years (sample: more than 12,000 respondents − university students enrolled at higher education institutions in the Czech Republic). The basic structure and form of mobility is presented in the text and relevant statistical data of the Czech Statistical Office and OECD instead of Eurostudent data are used. Student’s opinions to mobility (expectations, experiences, obstacles) are analyzed according to whether students are or aren’t experienced with mobility. It turns out that mobility is related not only to socio-economic indicators, but also values, i.e. the student’s personality equipment.
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The paper gives a brief overview of the international research on pupil’s resistance within classroom. The aim of this qualitative study is to analyze resistant behaviour in the Czech lower secondary classrooms, where student teachers realize their long term practice. Student teachers recorded in their diaries variety of resistant behaviour connected to school norms and teachers and themselves. The sample consisted of 58 student teachers diaries. The paper analyze pupils resistance within classroom in the power relationship context. It brings typology of resitance from passive to aggressive resistance, which takes place in both didactic and regulative power discourse.
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The study investigates the process of standard (cut score) setting for criterion-referenced educational tests. The main goal of this study is to provide the comprehensive framework on standard setting based mainly on Anglo-American research literature as well as on the Standards for educational and psychological testing (AERA, APA, & NCME, 1999). Main emphasis is dedicated to the process of creating description of performance levels and to the methods of cut score setting. Description of performance levels is shown on some examples concerning the reading comprehension and is based on MCAS testing. Among the test-item centered methods, Angoff, Nedelsky and bookmarking methods are desribed. The person-centered methods are represented by contrasting group approach. As a representant of methods combining both approaches, the measurement decision theory classification is described. The validity issues of these methods are briefly discussed.
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This study examines whether the nature of educational communication influences student learning in humanistic subjects or not. It is based on a questionnaire which inquires as to what the features of educational communication and indicators of perceived learning are. The study surveys the results of an analysis of data coming from 256 lower secondary school students who study in the South Moravian Region. The results show that features of educational communication significantly influence perceived learning and that the most important variable is students’ participation in communication.
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The paper aims to answer the question of what information is important for graduate students of secondary technical schools and secondary vocational schools in their career decision-making. A sub-objective was to determine whether there are differences between the information needs of students based on their gender, educational aspirations, manner of graduating from the secondary school, and experience with unemployment in the family. The instrument of data collection was a non-standardized questionnaire. The questionnaire survey was carried out in 2011. The questionnaire was completed by 442 students of secondary technical schools and secondary vocational schools. It was found that the most useful information for students in their career decision-making would be that about the job opportunities for graduates of individual fields of studies, the content of studies, the intensity of studies; the content of professions (occupations), the income in the occupations and the requirements of the professions. Moreover, differences between the information needs of boys and girls, and students studying fields of studies leading to a school leaving examination and fields of studies leading to a vocational certificate were proven. Differences in the needs for career information in students who have experienced unemployment in the family and those who have not were not proven.
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The article deals with history of National Education Council from the very beginning of the idea to present. It has two main goals. First, it strives to objectively and accurately reconstruct the intricate process of the Council development. Second, it aims at explaining why the Council has not been established even after twenty years. Based on theories and exploratory information search, four basic hypotheses were formulated: intricacy and maturity, veto player, missing actor and policy work practices. These hypotheses have been used for searching for so called diagnostic evidence. The article is based upon methodology of process tracing. It uses period documents (transcripts, press releases, minutes etc.), periodical articles (especially from Učitelské listy and Učitelské noviny) a period newspapers articles stored in Newton Media database. The memories and feedback of direct participants of the process have also been used as a supplementary source of information. The strongest diagnostic evidence has been found in favour of policy work practices and missing actor hypotheses. On the other hand, there is rather little evidence supporting veto player hypothesis.
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