Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and the linguistic difficulties of Saudi students learning algebra

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russina A Eltoum
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Instructional Model ◽  
Study Group ◽  
College Level ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Saudi Students ◽  
Mixed Method Design ◽  
Analyze Data ◽  
Algebra Class

Abstract This study explores the type of linguistic difficulties that Saudi students are encounter in Introductory Algebra courses at college level and how an integrated pedagogical approach, such as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), might impact students’ learning of both algebra and the language needed to learn it. A mixed-method design was implemented for 12 weeks to collect and analyze data in three phases. The study sample comprised of a study group of 28 students from an Introductory Algebra class. Findings identified and classified the types of difficulties that the students encountered and suggested a CLIL instructional model to overcome or minimize them.

scholarly journals The Relationships Among Affective Factors in Learning EFL: A Study of the Saudi Setting

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Jihan Zayed ◽  
Huda Al-Ghamdi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Affective Factors ◽  
Saudi Students ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Mixed Method Design ◽  
High Motivation ◽  
Predictive Relationships

Adopting a mixed-method design, the current study attempted to specify the relationships among four affective factors (i.e., motivation, attitudes, self-confidence, and anxiety) involved in learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Seventy-three students – from Administration and Humanities College, Mustaqbal University and Jubail University College, KSA – responded to a questionnaire of two parts: Part I and Part II, which yielded quantitative data. Qualitative data were generated through the analysis of Part I results to prove that there was no relationship between Saudi students’ EFL proficiency and their awareness of the affective factors involved in learning it. Findings of Part II confirmed the interrelatedness among the four affective factors in the learning process in general, except for self-confidence did not significantly correlate with anxiety; the former got the highest mean (48.79) while the latter got the lowest (34.93). Calculating Standard Multiple Regression for the four affective factors, the study concluded giving four arithmetic equations of the predictive relationships among these factors. In the Saudi setting, the current study confirmed that anxiety does not affect learners with high motivation and good attitudes to a great extent. Besides, it does not affect self-confident learners at all.

scholarly journals Investigating The Syntactic Errors Faced By Omani Learners At The College Level: Proposing A Self-Learning Material

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 854-873
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ahmad Al-Shallakh, Mohd. Nazri Latiff Azmi, Arturo G. Palaming
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
College Level ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
Mixed Method Design ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Sample Technique ◽  
Self Learning

This study investigates the syntactic errors committed by Arab learners in a college in Oman. This research is a mixed-method design, which contains quantitative and qualitative procedures. Research and Development (R&D) methodology was applied to propose a new self-learning kit that might help in minimizing or solving these errors and switch the learner from a dependent learnerto become an autonomous learner.  This methodology was adopted by Gall, Gall and Borg (2003) by following some steps starting with the need analysis step, followed by determining the learning objectives and proposing the new learning material. Then, it is followed by testing its validity and reliability and finally using ANOVA to test its effect on the students’ performance. The sample contained 70 previous final examinations in the need analysis process, 30 student in the validity process and 50 students in the last step of testing the students’ performance. The researcher chose a convenient sample technique.

scholarly journals How should be the laboratory application? Prospective teachers' perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 01007
Author(s):  
Fatma Alkan
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Chemistry Laboratory ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Mixed Method Design ◽  
Group Interviews

The importance and effectiveness of laboratory applications should be find out by students or teachers. The aim of this study is to examine the perceptions on laboratory applications of prospective teachers and to determine the opinions about chemistry laboratory practices. The study group consisted of 1st grade prospective teachers. The research has been designed in a mixed method design. In the quantitative dimension of the study, the data obtained from the perceptions on laboratory applications scale were analysed. In the qualitative dimensions of the study was carried out in accordance with the situation pattern, and focus group interviews were conducted. According to quantitative findings of the research, the highest scores of sub-scales is in the effectiveness of laboratory. In qualitative findings, it has been emphasized that laboratory applications still bring chemistry lessons more enjoyable, provide knowledge retentions with practical applications, develop responsibility, improve the preparation behaviour of the course.

Evaluation der Pflege- und Führungskompetenz – eine Ausgangslage für die weitere Praxisentwicklung

Pflege ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline S. Martin ◽  
Irena Anna Frei ◽  
Franziska Suter-Hofmann ◽  
Katharina Fierz ◽  
Maria Schubert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Mixed Method Design ◽  
Competence Scale ◽  
Nurse Competence

Kompetente Pflege und effektives Leadership sind wichtige Voraussetzungen für die Bereitstellung einer qualitativ hochwertigen, evidenzbasierten, patienten- und ergebnisorientierten Patientenversorgung. Die Abteilung Klinische Pflegewissenschaft (KPW) am Universitätsspital Basel (USB) entwickelte und implementierte Programme zur gezielten Praxisentwicklung, welche die pflegerische Kompetenz sowie die des Leadership fördern. Zur Erfassung von Pflege- und Leadership-Kompetenz sowie der Arbeitsumgebungs- und Pflegequalität führte die KPW 2007 eine Evaluationsstudie mit einem Mixed-Method-Design durch. Am quantitativen Anteil der Studie nahmen 679 Pflegefachpersonen und 27 Stationsleitungen teil. Die deskriptiven Resultate zeigen, dass Pflegefachpersonen ihre durchschnittliche pflegerische Kompetenz über alle sieben Subkategorien der Nurse Competence Scale mit einem Mittelwert von 75,1 (VAS 0 – 100) beurteilten. Die Leadership-Kompetenz von Stationsleitungen wurde im oberen Drittel der Skala des Leadership Practice Inventory mit mittleren Werten zwischen 40 bis 50 (Meanscore: 6 – 60) eingeschätzt. Als Qualitätssicherungsmaßnahme sind regelmäßige Nachfolgeerhebungen im Sinne eines Monitoring geplant. Solche Erhebungen werden in Zukunft von zentraler Bedeutung sein, da zu erwarten ist, dass sich mit der Einführung des DRG-Finanzierungsmodells im schweizerischen Gesundheitswesen der Kontext der pflegerischen Leistungen verändern wird.

Familial Interdependence, Socioeconomic Disadvantage, and the Formation of Familial Mentoring Relationships Within Black Families

2020 ◽  
pp. 074355842097912
Author(s):  
Janelle T. Billingsley ◽  
Ariana J. Rivens ◽  
Noelle M. Hurd
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Socioeconomic Disadvantage ◽  
Mentoring Relationships ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Disadvantaged Youth ◽  
Mentoring Relationship ◽  
Mixed Method Design

This study used an explanatory sequential mixed-method design to explore the association between familial interdependence and familial mentoring relationship presence within black families. This study also examined how socioeconomic disadvantage may moderate the association between familial interdependence and familial mentoring presence. A sample of 216 black youth (59% girls; 41% boys) were surveyed, and a subsample of 25 participants were interviewed along with one of their parents, and one nonparental familial adult with whom the youth reported feeling emotionally close to learn more about the enactment of familial interdependence and the formation of familial mentoring relationships across social class. Logistic regression analyses revealed that greater valuing of familial interdependence was associated with a greater likelihood of having a familial mentoring relationship, but this association was present only among nonsocioeconomically disadvantaged youth. Data collected from participant interviews were analyzed to better understand this pattern of findings. These analyses provided some preliminary insights into why familial interdependence may predict familial mentor formation only among nonsocioeconomically disadvantaged youth. Implications of study findings for the promotion of familial mentoring relationships within black families are discussed.

scholarly journals For the Sustainable Development of Universities: Exploring the External Factors Impacting Returned Early Career Academic’s Research Performance in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1333
Author(s):  
Xiantong Zhao ◽  
Hongbiao Yin ◽  
Chenyang Fang ◽  
Xu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Early Career ◽  
External Factors ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Mixed Method Design ◽  
Good Research

Early career academics are the key agents for the sustainable development of higher education institutions. In China, those who were educated overseas and have returned to Chinese universities to seek academic positions are becoming a fast-growing group. Good research performance is critical to survive in the increasingly competitive environment in academia. Improving research performance requires an understanding of the factors that facilitate or inhibit research performance. In the light of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, this study, using a mixed-method design (20 interviewees and 136 respondents), elaborates on a number of external factors affecting returned early career academics’ research performance. Understanding these factors is helpful for the building of a favorable environment that can improve the research performance of the returned early career academics, and hence the sustainable development of universities.

Feedback of Certificate in Medical Teaching Programme at King Edward Medical University Lahore

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 2564-2566
Author(s):  
Salman Javed ◽  
Mehwish Ayyaz ◽  
Bushra Adeel ◽  
Wajeeha Imran Andrabi ◽  
Amna Khanum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Medical Teaching ◽  
Study Objective ◽  
Teaching Programme ◽  
Mixed Method Design ◽  
Medical University ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Method Approach

Background: The concept of feedback is central to medical education. There is gradual shift from sandwich feedback to Pendleton feedback which is learner centred. Pragmatic worldview was proposed in this study. Certificate in Medical Teaching (CMT) programme was initiated at King Edward Medical University (KEMU) Lahore since 2019.The study objective was to improve learning outcome. Methods: Mixed Method research design was chosen, out of all mixed method procedures “Convergent parallel mixed method design” was followed collecting simultaneously quantitative and qualitative data, then results were analysed and compared separately. This study was carried out from 01-06-2020 to 31-03-2021 at King Edward Medical University Lahore. Sample size of 43 participants from CMT (Certificate in Medical Teaching) Batch 1 and 2 took part in this study. Doctors from clinical side, demonstrators and personnel of Allied health sciences attended this course. A predesigned proforma designed on google form was sent to each participant via e-mail.. Results: Quantitative data collected was interpreted as percentages and in form of tables and presented as pie charts. Qualitative data collected was analysed by segregating data into codes. Corresponding themes were made of each code and presented in tabular form. Conclusion: On the basis of feedback and mixed method approach, it can be concluded that certificate in medical teaching is a new teaching program at king Edward Medical University Lahore which can serve as basis to start master’s degree at this institution. Keywords: Feedback, medical teaching, KEMU

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