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A NEW TEACHING METHOD AIMED AT ELIMINATING THE CAUSES OF STUDENTS’ UNSUCCESSFUL ALGORITHMIC PROBLEM SOLVING WITH PARAMETER

Author(s): Dalibor Gonda,Anna Tirpakova / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2018

The new method of teaching the problems with a parameter was designed based on the identification of the reasons for the low success rate of the kids in solving the problems. In order to identify these causes and to find ways of their elimination, pedagogical research was carried out in two phases at selected universities of Slovakia (126 students) in 2016-2017. In the first stage the validity of the research hypothesis was confirmed, that the cause of the kids´ poor success in solving problems with the parameter is an algorithmic approach to their solution, a misunderstanding of the concept of a parameter and a formal determination of solvability conditions. Based on this, a new method of teaching the tasks with a parameter was developed. Its main idea is focusing on understanding the term parameter and showing its creative use in solving multiple tasks. In the second stage of the research, the success of the new teaching method was also verified experimentally. The results of the experiment confirmed the success of the students in solving the problems with the parameter, confirming that the basis of the success in solving the problems is the understanding of the term parameter and the ability to find their own solution to the task. It has turned out that the transition from the method of solving equations with a parameter by algorithms to the solution method by understanding the basic concepts and possibilities of their use is one of the methods to improve the teaching of mathematics.

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A pedagógia elnyomottja

Author(s): Tamás Tóth / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 28/2021

The most common way of articulating educational problems and questions is by speaking the language of social sciences, and using the grammar of political logics. What is the proportion of disadvantaged students? Does this and that project for inclusion appear to be effective? Since when has the school been reproducing inequalities? And so on. What I would like to discuss here is that it is possible to talk about education educationally and along educational logics. While the logic of the political refers to the way the social is born, the logic of the educational signifies the way birth becomes social – namely, our collective and political attitude toward the fact that newcomers are constantly coming into our common and old world. I will present four educational logics characteristic of our epoch, which are discussed in depth by the proponents of an experimentative critical pedagogy. They do understand these logics of the educational in a radically different, twisted way if compared to the mainstream educational discourse, thus laying the groundwork for a new kind of radical left-wing pedagogy. In agreement with them, I want to argue here that pedagogy is not the praxis of the future, but of the present, in which it is more important not to know certain things than to want to know everything, because this is how we can break the chains of the prevailing order here and now: by putting gods and masters into brackets, and ignoring the expectations of the society, as well as the hopes of yesterday which constantly defer revolution.

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A PERCEPTIONS ASSESSMENT OF PATIENT-ORIENTED PROBLEM-SOLVING TEACHING STRATEGY FOR MEDICAL IMMUNOLOGY COURSE IN CHINESE STUDENTS

Author(s): Xingming Ma,Lifeng Zhang,Jingqiu Wang,Yanping Luo,Yaling Liang,Yufeng Wu / Language(s): English / Issue: 6/2016

This research assessed the perceptions of students to patient-oriented problem-solving (POPS) teaching strategy in a medical immunology course in China. Data were collected from second-year students (N=71; 58% males, 42% females) who were offered lecture-based instruction and POPS teaching strategy during October - November 2015 at Lanzhou University. Afterward, students’ response and capability perception scores to POPS teaching strategy were evaluated using questionnaires. The majority of students (89.02%) favored POPS teaching strategy over traditional lectures. Students responded that POPS improves their intrinsic motivation (91.55%), learning interest (94.37%), self-directed learning skills (92.96%) and feasible for medical education (87.32%). Compared to the traditional lectures, the POPS can improve markedly their learning motivation (p=0.03), clinical reasoning ability (p=0.01), and clinical problem-solving ability (p=0.02). The implementation of POPS in medical courses will help students improving their learning motivation, problem solving abilities, which is feasible for current medical immunology education in China.

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A Place Between School and Home: Exploring the Place of Shadow Education in Students’ Academic Lives in the Netherlands

Author(s): Daury Jansen,Louise Elffers,Monique L. L. Volman / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

Worldwide, the use of private supplementary tutoring, commonly referred to as shadow education, has become increasingly prevalent since the turn of the millennium. Recently, participation rates in the Netherlands have substantially increased. This paper aims to explore the place of shadow education in students’ academic lives by studying the goals and experienced benefits that students identify. Data were collected through 37 semi-structured interviews with tutored students in secondary education in the Netherlands. Our findings indicate that students conceived of shadow education as a skill-building institution to which they turned to for self-study, to receive career support, and to boost their performance. Students’ reflections reveal that shadow education builds upon and extends, but does not replace, learning activities at home and school. Based on our findings, we discuss how shadow education can function as a “third place” between school and home, occupying an increasingly prominent position in students’ academic lives.

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A Place with No Time: Re-Conceptualising Child–Adult Relations during ‘Homeschooling’ in the 2020 Pandemic

Author(s): Sarah Crinall,Edith Crinall Rowbottom,Xanthia Patricia Mariana Blom / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

We have heard the warming planet’s calls for sustaining rhythms through many events. COVID-19 is one such song. We have returned home with our families to our places in a mandated ‘lockdown’. Competitive economics are troubled, and trouble our world with unsustaining patterns. An urgent, convergent conversation about how ‘we’ (writers entwining) might touch on sustenance more begins between our two families. The children amongst us want to thread into these convolutions too.

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A PRIMER IN THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE IN THE CONTEXT OF SCHOOL REFORM IN SERBIA

Author(s): Brinduša Žujka / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2011

A complex process of the school reform in Serbia has promoted a whole range of new elements in the teaching in the Romanian language. Apart from teaching staff training and new program development, new textbooks were published. We are talking about The Primer in the Romanian language, a workbook In the World of Letters and The Primer Companion. The textbooks are published under the patronage of the Institute for Textbook Publishing, Belgrade, written by Brandusa Zujka and prepared within the Program of the Romanian language as a mother tongue for the 1st grade of elementary schools. The Primer suggests a new way of organizing of school activities, revealing the secrets of reading and writing to small children, i.e. pupils. The Primer Companion is created with an aim to provide the teachers who work with 1st primary school grade pupils with orienting instructions for teaching reading and writing in better conditions. The workbook In the World of Letters supplementing The Primer is outlined and realised in accordance to The Primer. The Primer, together with the work book In the World of Letters and The Primer Companion, published with an aim to introduce the teaching of the Romanian language into the context of contemporary teaching, reveal their real value only in everyday work with pupils.

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A projektoktatás bevezetése a matematikatanításba

Author(s): Jelena Knežević,Bojan Lazić,Sanja Maričić,Aleksandar Petojević / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2019

Modern primary education permanently requires innovations that contribute to the modernization, rationalization and efficiency of the teaching process. The application of project work in the teaching of mathematics develops creative thinking and functional knowledge. In this paper, the term and the essential characteristics of the project teaching of mathematics are explained. Examples of project ideas and ways of implementing project work into mathematical contents as well as the existing plan and program are given. A sketch of a mathematical project in classroom is presented. It was pointed out that it is of the utmost importance that the project work be introduced in upper elementary teaching of mathematics and that its key ideas are applied by each teacher.

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A REFLECTION OF PRESERVICE SCIENCE TEACHERS' VIEWS OF OPEN ACCESS DIMENSION OF RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

Author(s): Cagla Bulut,Bulent Cavas,Kadir Demir / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

European Union has recently begun placing emphasis on sharing of scientific process as well as knowledge with public as part of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) approach. During RRI process, research results are required to be accessible to public for efficient scientific communication. It is hereby significant to evaluate pre-service science teachers’ views. Thus, this study focused on pre-service science teachers’ views of RRI using RRI-questionnaire. Preliminary results show that pre-service science teachers have positive views towards RRI-open science dimension.

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A Research on Schools as Learning Organizations: A Theoretical Approach

Author(s): Gabriela Alina Paraschiva,Anca Draghici,Constanţa-Valentina Mihăilă / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

Due to the growing pressures on the educational area to provide young people with the knowledge and skills needed to live and work in a constantly changing society and the technologies and trades that today do not exist, the model of learning organization has been extended to schools, as an attempt to re-conceptualize them from organizations that are traditionally linked to the learning and knowledge process to organizations that are capable of responding with efficiency to uncertain and dynamic environments. The purpose of this paper is to identify the state of affairs in the Romanian educational system (pre-university level) in order to provide a starting point for the implementation of the ‘school as a learning organization’ concept and model. The approach is theoretical, using desk research of regulations and data regarding the public expenditure in education, per capita funding, number of pupils enrolled, PISA results and correlations between the action-oriented dimensions (including their key characteristics/elements) of the model proposed by Kools & Stoll (2017) and the performance indicators (including descriptors) that are used at the Romanian national level. Results show that, between 2009 and 2018, school organizations were under increasing pressure and the implementation of this concept and model at system level could be an opportunity to focus on students from the organizational side, having the determined correlations as a foundation.

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A REVIEW AND CONTENT ANALYSIS OF MATHEMATICS TEXTBOOKS IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Author(s): Cheng Chieh Chang,Sari Muthia Silalahi / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2017

Research collected and reviewed a number of empirical studies in the field of educational research regarding the analysis of mathematics textbooks to provide summary and overview the information there in. The questions were identified via Google Scholar and collected from different data sources. A total of 44 papers published from 1953 to 2015 were selected based specific criteria, with 24 articles include in the SSCI database. Descriptive statistics were used to evaluate and interpret the results. A perspective on the learning analysis methods was used to collect studies and showed the mathematics textbooks analyzed were investigated under four themes: The analysis of standards, distributive property, language in mathematics, and others. School’s level which is investigated textbooks: Kindergarten, elementary, junior school, and senior school. Subjects covered in the mathematics textbooks included algebra and arithmetic, geometry, measurement, data analysis and probability, number and operations, among others. Research found the most frequently discussed in perspective on learning was the analysis of the standards and the distributive property (15 studies), the most common subject was number and operations (16 studies), and the highest number in school’s level was elementary school (18 studies). Nevertheless, fewer studies have been found to analyzing mathematics textbooks. Future research can pay attention for the relevant theoretical issues and collaborate studies in more perspective learning analysis.

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A ROMÁNIAI KÖZÉPISKOLAI MÉDIAISMERETI OKTATÁS HELYZETE A TANTERVI SZABÁLYOZÁS TÜKRÉBEN

Author(s): Elza-Emőke Veress / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 26/2014

Developing the minors’ media literacy includes decoding and interpreting media messages, distinguishing and analysing quality values. Thus understanding the media, its meaningful use, and the critical interpretation of the contents can provide the basis for the consumer consciousness education. The necessity of media pedagogy can be interpreted by the social status of the mass media, its cultural role, by the consonance existing between the functions of media and the education, and by the social needs. In this paper I intend to examine the extent to which this can be realised in Romania. My goal is to outline the state of the Romanian media literacy education based on the analysis of the curriculum. By the situation analysis associated with the needs analysis and the curriculum analysis method I look at the objectives, content, evaluation methods and teaching strategies used in the Romanian high school media education. Based on this approach I intend to outline how schools manage to take on the task of orienting media consumption.

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A SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS COURSE WITH COMPUTER-ASSISTED REMEDIAL LEARNING SYSTEM SUPPORT FOR VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Author(s): Shu-Hsuan Chang,Ai-Chiao Ku,Li-Chih Yu,Tsung-Chih Wu,Bor-Chen Kuo / Language(s): English / Issue: 5/2015

One of the significant and distinguishing curriculum characteristics of STEM compared to other subjects domains is hands-on skill development. Hands-on training enables the enhancement of learning because it parallels with the concrete-to-abstract nature of cognitive development, providing additional sources of brain activation via kinaesthetic involvement and elevating students’ motivation and engagement. To bridge the gap between theory and practice, and advance unprepared students’ hands-on skills, this research proposed and implemented an innovative STEM course with the computer-assisted remedial learning system (CARLS) in the vocational high school experience in Taiwan. The effects of STEM course were examined through an experiment with learning performances hypotheses. A total of 32 students in a vocational high school in Taiwan voluntarily participated in this research and a one-group pre-test and post-test pre-experimental design was adopted. The results of this experimental course demonstrated that CARLS is effective and contributed in enhancing students’ knowledge, achievement and hands-on skill performance in this STEM course. Suggestions and implications for STEM education is also made for practitioners and educators.

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A STEAM ACTIVITY THAT CAN BE USED IN SCIENCE EDUCATION

Author(s): Gülbin ÖZKAN,Ünsal UMDU TOPSAKAL / Language(s): English / Issue: 45/2020

In STEAM education the fields of science, mathematics, engineering, art and technology are taught by integrating these fields in a holistic way instead of teaching them separately. However, preparing STEAM activities that helps actualizing students’ learning in terms of concepts, principles and actions related to science classes is a difficult process. This study involves a STEAM activity prepared as a sample that can be used in teaching and learning process. The activity prepared was implemented to 7th grade middle school students composed of 37 participants. Before and after implementation, a questionnaire that was composed of three open ended questions was applied in order to determine how the activity is effective. As a result of the implementation, it was concluded that the activity developed was effective in students’ learning in the science topic entitled as conservation of energy. For this reason, it is thought that the activity prepared about the conservation of energy topic in which students have a lot of misconceptions will be a useful class activity that can improve students’ meaningful learning. Besides, it can also be used as a practical teaching design that can easily be used in crowded classes.

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A story-based approach to the teaching of English (L2) word writing: A case study from primary education

Author(s): Tú Anh Hà,Andrea Roxana Bellot / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

This case study aimed at exploring the effects of the story-based approach in helping children to write English words in the ESL/EFL primary classroom. It employed a quasi-experiment with 44 children who were in Grade 2 in a semi-private school in Tarragona, Spain; whose English level is pre-A1 (CEFR). The students were evenly divided into two groups: the experimental group and the control group. Only the experimental group was taught by means of the storybased approach. A pre-test, a post-test, and a five-week-later exercise were used to measure students’ ability of writing at word-level. The collected data were analyzed with the Mann-Whitney U test, the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, and the General linear model in order to identify the difference between the two groups, the effect of time and the influence of the interaction between time and treatments. The analysis provided evidence for considerable improvement in word writing in both experimental and control groups. This may account for frequency and reiteration of the written input, which came to play an imperative role in students’ performance in their word writing. With a limited number of exposures to the target language that the experiment provided (six times), stories were as effective as other teaching methods designed to supply students with written input (such as games and alternate activities) in improving students’ ability to write the target lexical items.

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A Study into how Covid-19 changed the public opinion of homeschooling

Author(s): Adna Sijerčić,Mario Odak / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

– Homeschooling is a term typically used to describe the form of education where parents educate their own children at home with little to no contact with public school education. The purpose of this study is to gather information on the public opinion of homeschooling in Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as to see how the COVID-19 pandemics affected this opinion. For this purpose, a survey was conducted and, as a result, information on the topic is gathered. The general opinion of the public leaned more towards the negative end when all the results were summarized. Homeschooling, in general, is not a term that people are familiar with and accepting of in the region of Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina.Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic has not had a positive influence on the opinion of the homeschooling.

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A STUDY OF FACTORS AFFECTING SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL FEMALE STUDENTS

Author(s): Chun-Chu Liu,Tse-Yu Wang / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

This research was the first research integrating decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) and structural equation modeling (SEM) to analysis factors, including interest in science, value in science and confidence in science, affecting female students’ science achievements from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2011. The research constructed two causal models base on mutual effect of value in science and confidence in science by DEMATEL analysis. The causality of two factors in model 1 was value in science affected confidence in science and model 2 vice versa. According to the results of SEM analysis, fit indices of CFI, GFI and AGFI in model 1 were 0.851, 0.796 and 0.745; in model 2 were 0.818, 0.772, and 0.873. And results showed that female students had better fitness in model 1; in other words, the causality of value in science to confidence in science might have an important effect on the science achievement of female students. Lastly, these findings could provide not only a different perspective for future researches but also a useful insight as a reference for policy making and improvement by relevant decision makers.

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A Study of Parents' Readiness to Raise Children with Intellectual Disabilities

Author(s): Svitlana Myronova,Maryana Buinyak / Language(s): English / Issue: 6/2021

The readiness of parents to raise children with intellectual disabilities is a set of emotional-motivational, cognitive and activity components, the formation of which ensures an adequate attitude of family members to the child and the choice of optimal methods of its upbringing. The article highlights the results of a study of parents' readiness for family upbringing of children with intellectual disabilities, the research methodology is described, and a detailed analysis of the results is presented. According to the results of the experiment, it was found that a significant part of parents raising child with intellectual disabilities accept the child and its disorders at the psychological level, but they are emotionally depressed that their child has developmental disabilities. The vast majority of parents are not sufficiently aware of the psychological and pedagogical characteristics of their children, the age dynamics of their development. This negatively affects the choice of tactics and methods of education, knowledge about possible problems in learning and further adult life

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A STUDY OF THE CORRELATION BETWEEN TEACHERS’ TEACHING STYLES AND STUDENTS’ PARTICIPATION MOTIVATION IN THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Author(s): Cheng-Bo Yang,Min-Kai Dong / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2017

Based on Self-determination Theory (SDT), this research intends to analyze the effect of different physical education (PE) teachers’ teaching styles on students’ class participation motivation in universities. Students of some universities and colleges in Sichuan Province and Shanghai Municipality, China, are researched. Total 871 valid copies of questionnaire are retrieved for testing the research hypotheses. The results reveal positive correlation between incentive, intelligence inspiration and the intrinsic motivation of student learning as well as between charisma and the extrinsic motivation of student learning in transformational leadership. In transactional leadership, contingent reward and positive involving management show positive relationship with the intrinsic motivation of student learning, and negative involving management also presents positive relationship with the extrinsic motivation of student learning. Finally, it is suggested that PE teachers should build the situation which could satisfy the needs of autonomy, sense of competence and sense of belonging as well as create the physical education environment which could satisfy basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and sense of belonging to reinforce students’ positive motivation on physical education. Sports education is the most important education to develop the students’ physical and mental health.

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A Study on the Relations among Work Pressure, Emotional Intelligence, and Subjective Well-Being of Kindergarten Teachers

Author(s): You LI,Han ZHANG / Language(s): English / Issue: 73/2021

The globalization development of the world allows the economic development presenting knowledge. Talent cultivation is similar to long-term investment that the importance cannot be neglected. Moreover, low birth rate in current society has each child being the treasure of the parents, who spoil the children with permissive parenting and do not realize the immaturity and low self-control of children in the preschool stage to result in children's deviant behaviors and teachers’ increasing workload and pressure. Aiming at kindergarten teachers in Jiangsu as the research objects, total 380 copies of questionnaire are distributed, and 277 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 72%. The research results are summarized as below: Kindergarten teachers are general people who have emotion and cannot exercise forbearance for everything. For this reason, school organizations should be considerate of kindergarten teachers’ emotional labor problems, parents and the mass society should treat teachers’ work with objective perspective and putting themselves in the place. Using individual emotional intelligence to achieve personal emotional accommodation in the process is an important strategy for kindergarten teachers; In the cultivation process, kindergarten teachers stress on evaluating children's level, strength, and weakness for individualized instruction. Step-by-step design of learning content aims to emphasize the importance of rational evaluation. In this case, special education teachers with better emotional intelligence performance could well apply rational evaluation and emotional accommodation strategies, reduce working pressure, and enhance subjective well-being; Kindergarten organizations could properly support teachers with time flexibility to reduce kindergarten teachers dealing with class affairs or other problems with extra time. Cooperation among people would help deal with problems and promote individual positive affect. According to the research results, suggestions are eventually proposed, expecting to help kindergarten teachers present higher commitment and better effectiveness on the teaching performance to promote the overall education quality.

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A STUDY ON THE VARIABLES PREDICTING READING COMPREHENSION

Author(s): Mustafa Başaran / Language(s): English / Issue: 60/2021

The correlational survey design was used in this study in order to determine whether the attitude towards reading, text type and text subject, reading speed, correct reading, lack of prior knowledge and the amount of change in the surface structure of the text predict students' literal and deep reading comprehension skills. The study group of the research study is 180 students selected from amongst grade 4 students attending public primary schools in Esenler and Zeytinburnu districts of Istanbul province in the fall semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. According to the results of the regression analysis conducted in the study, the relative importance order of the variables that predict not being able to make deep meaning (meaning in depth of text) are the inability to make literal meaning, attitude towards reading, change in the superficial structure, attitude towards the subject, correct reading, attitude towards the narrative text, reading speed and pre-learning. Together, these factors explain 42% of not being able make deep meaning. The order of relative importance of the variables predicting the inability to construct literal meaning is make deep meaning, change in the superficial structure, attitude towards reading, correct reading, pre-learning, attitude towards the narrative text, attitude towards the subject and reading speed. Together, these factors explain 33% of not being able to make literal meaning.

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