scholarly journals Growing Deeper Learners. How to Assess Robotics, Coding, Making and Tinkering Activities for Significant Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 261-267
Author(s):  
Rita Tegon ◽  
Mirko Labbri
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
The Other ◽  
Educational Robotics ◽  
International Context ◽  
Learning Time ◽  
Poor Understanding

AbstractAs more and more unstructured project-based activities fill the learning time of students, there is a growing need for assessment models for educational robotics, tinkering, making and coding activities. On one hand, there is a poor understanding or an underestimation of the need for evaluation, and its ability to improve systems and learning outcomes, while on the other, it is difficult to identify or devise suitable assessment frameworks. Examples from the international context are discussed more for their potential to raise awareness than as definitive answers.

Towards the Integration of Faith, Love, and Praxis

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-27
Author(s):  
Monica Y. E. Chi
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intergroup Dialogue ◽  
Christian Spirituality ◽  
Social Work Educators ◽  
Dorothy Day ◽  
Jane Addams ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Poor Understanding ◽  
Martin Luther King

Non-faith-based social work educators and researchers have a poor understanding of what might motivate Christians in social work and whether Christian motivations have any place in social work. On the other hand, Christians have difficulty articulating actions inspired by their faith in ways that others can comprehend despite feeling misunderstood. The focus of this article is to present the framework of faith-inspired praxis of love and lay the groundwork for intergroup dialogue. The framework draws from the works of Jane Addams, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jean Vanier, and Mary Jo Leddy, five notable leaders in Christian spirituality and public initiatives, to discuss their conceptualization of faith, love, and praxis. Practice and research implications of this framework for social work are discussed.

Comparative Area Studies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Berg-Schlosser
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
International Context ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Cross Area Studies ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Analytical Approaches

Area studies have undergone significant changes over the last two decades. They have been transformed from mostly descriptive accounts in the international context of the Cold War to theory-oriented and methodological analytical approaches. More recent comparative methods such as “Qualitative Comparative Analysis” (QCA) and related approaches, which are particularly suitable for medium N studies, have significantly contributed to this development. This essay discusses the epistemological background of this approach as well as recent developments. It provides two examples of current “cross area studies,” one concerned with successful democratic transformations across four regions (Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and East Asia), the other with political participation in marginalized settlements in four countries (Brazil, Chile, Ivory Coast, Kenya) in a multilevel analysis. The conclusion points to the theoretical promises of this approach and its practical-political relevance.

scholarly journals Dewey’s Yardstick

SAGE Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824401770046 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Giamellaro
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Situated Cognition ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Important Link ◽  
Measurable Variable ◽  
The Relationship

Although experience and context are omnibus terms, the relationship between them provides some guidance on how each can be used to inform an understanding of the other. This article presents contextualization, or the degree to which content and context are connected through experience, as a measurable outcome of learning, education, or situated cognition. Contextualization is proposed here as a construct that (a) indicates curricular intention, cognitive process, and learning outcomes; (b) is a measurable variable that can be correlated to measures of learning; (c) is broadly applicable and thus represents a comparison variable across diverse scenarios; and (d) represents an important link between existing theory and practice. A contextualization spectrum framework is proposed to align curricular intentions for student experience to the resulting disposition of knowledge, as connected through contextualization.

STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE LEVEL OF ANXIETY DEVELOPMENT ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Vestnik ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 155-160
Author(s):  
А.Е. Малибаева ◽  
Б.К. Кайрат ◽  
А.И. Нуфтиева ◽  
Л.Б. Умбетьярова ◽  
М.С. Кулбаева ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Child Anxiety ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
The Other ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level

В современных стрессовых и негативных внешних экологических условиях растет число неуверенных в себе, эмоционально неустойчивых тревожных детей. В работах А.И.Захаровой, Н.В.Имеладзе, Л.М. Прихожановой говорится, что когда человек постоянно волнуется - возникает паника. Согласно анализу исследований многих авторов, детская тревога, с одной стороны, имеет психодинкамическую природу, с другой-является результатом социализации. По мнению психологов, у учащихся наблюдается высокий уровень тревожности в процессе обучения. В результате изучения данной проблемы установлено, что уровень тревожности и успеваемость ребенка тесно взаимосвязаны. Процесс приобщения детей, пришедших в школу, к процессу обучения тесно связан с процессом паники . In the current stressful and negative external environmental conditions, the number of insecure, emotionally unstable children with anxiety is growing. In the works of A.I. Zakharova, N.V. Imeladze, L.M. Prikhozhan, it is said that when a person is constantly agitated, panic occurs. According to the analysis of the research of many authors, child anxiety, on the one hand, has a psychodynamic nature, and on the other-is the result of socialization. According to psychologists, there is a high level of anxiety in students ' learning process. As a result of the study of this problem, it was found that the level of anxiety and the child's academic performance are closely related. The process of adaptation of children to the learning process is closely related to the panic process. However, the level of anxiety in lower-class students affects the learning process and learning outcomes.

Adding Pre-Training and Feedback Enhances the Benefits of Adaptive Flashcard Training

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 1317-1321
Author(s):  
Cheryl I. Johnson ◽  
Daphne E. Whitmer ◽  
Matthew D. Marraffino ◽  
Lindsay B. Conner ◽  
Allison E. Garibaldi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Instructional Strategies ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Multimedia Learning ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Feedback Group ◽  
Adaptive Training ◽  
Learning Efficiency

Adaptive training is tailored instruction designed to target an individual’s strengths and weaknesses, and it has been shown to improve learning outcomes and efficiency in a variety of domains, including flashcard training. The goal of this experiment was to determine whether the addition of other instructional strategies, such as enhanced feedback and pre-training, would further boost the learning benefits of an adaptive flashcard trainer. Thirty-nine college students learned to identify U.S. Navy ships using either a base version of the flashcard trainer, a version that included enhanced feedback, or a version that included pre-training and enhanced feedback. Results showed that the pre-training and enhanced feedback group significantly outperformed the other groups on delayed retention and transfer tests and showed higher learning efficiency. Implications for adaptive training and the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning are discussed.

scholarly journals Designing a Teacher’s Handbook: Perspectives of Pre-Service Elementary Teachers Regarding Activities and Songs

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Oguzhan Atabek ◽  
Sabahat Burak
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Teachers ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
Printed Educational Materials

Printed educational materials such as teacher’s handbook may affect the quality of education as much as teachers, curriculum, educational environment, and the other course materials. Perspectives of eighty-two pre-service elementary teachers regarding the activities and songs included in the teacher’s handbook for music course were examined by content analysis for shedding light on the nature of the handbook and for producing knowledge about how an effective teacher’s handbook for music course may be like. Even though the question was deliberately worded to let respondents express their both positive and negative views, the number of respondents who expressed positive views and the frequency of such expressions were considerably lower compared to the negative ones. Inappropriateness for age group and learning outcomes, insufficiency for facilitating learning, requiring hard-to-attain materials, and difficulty of application raised as major concerns for both activates and songs. Additionally, activities were argued to be repetitive and lacking entertainment while songs were criticized for their rhythm, melody, lyrics, quality, and practicability in the classroom.

International politics by other means: External sources of civil war

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 812-826
Author(s):  
Mark Toukan
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Random Forests ◽  
Interstate Conflict ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ratchet Effect ◽  
International Context ◽  
Spatial Measures ◽  
External Sources ◽  
Logistic Regressions

The literature on civil wars has recently turned towards their international context but lacks an account for how conflict beyond a state’s borders contributes to civil war onset. I argue that interstate rivalries can increase the risk of civil war in other states when rivals come to associate the foreign-policy orientation of other states with their own security. I present three pathways through which rivals increase the risk of civil war in other states. First, competition between rivals creates a ratchet effect by which the prospect of one’s involvement in a conflict makes it more likely that the other becomes involved. This dynamic makes support easier to secure and lowers the expected costs of war for governments and opposition groups. Second, rivals encourage domestic polarization as parties attempt to capture their influence, making domestic conflicts more intractable. Third, uncertainty over the potential for intervention by rivals increases the risk of miscalculation. I test the implications of the theory with novel spatial measures of interstate conflict and rivalry. Using logistic regressions and random forests, I find that being in the neighborhood of interstate rivals can increase a state’s risk of civil war.

scholarly journals Development and efficiency of agri-food foreign trade of the Slovak Republic in the international context

2011 ◽  
Vol 57 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
J. Gálik
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Trade Balance ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
The Other ◽  
International Context ◽  
Food Trade ◽  
Trade Performance ◽  
Mutual Relations

The contribution is aimed at changes in the foreign trade of the Slovak Republic with agricultural and food products from 2004. The attention was paid to mutual relations of the imported and exported agricultural products. The contribution was supplemented by the comparison of the SR agri-food trade performance with the other EU member countries. To attain the objective, an unconventional methodical practice based on the calculation of trade balance per one inhabitant was used.

scholarly journals Colonial crossovers: Nazi Germany and its entanglements with other empires

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Bernhard
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
International Context ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
Controversial Topic ◽  
The One

Abstract Nazi Germany’s place in the wider world is a controversial topic in historiography. While scholars such as Ian Kershaw argue that Hitler’s dictatorship must be understood as a unique national phenomenon, others analyse Nazism within comparative frameworks. Mark Mazower, for example, argues that the international concept of ‘empire’ is useful for comprehending the German occupation of Europe. Using an approach native to transnational cultural studies, my contribution goes a step further: I analyse how the Nazis themselves positioned their regime in a wider international context, and thus gave meaning to it. My main thesis is that, while the Nazis took a broad look at international colonialism, they differentiated considerably between the various national experiences. French and British empire-building, for instance, did not receive the same attention as Japanese and Italian colonial projects. Based on new archival evidence, I show that the act of referring in particular to the Italian example was crucial for the Nazis. On the one hand, drawing strong parallels between Italian colonialism and the German rule of eastern Europe allowed Hitler to recruit support for his own visions of imperial conquest. On the other hand, Italian colonialism served as a blueprint for the Nazis’ plans for racial segregation. The article thus shows the importance of transnational exchange for understanding ideological dynamics within the Nazi regime.

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