Is There a Degree of Repetitiveness in Schools and Teachers in Finland?

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-202
Author(s):  
Eduardo Andere
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Success ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
Pedagogical Principles

This chapter shows the main results from the interviews, question after question, in a summarized way. Some trends or patterns were found in answers to questions relating to issues: the main pedagogical principles in the schools, the main curricula changes, the level of understanding about these changes, the mindsets of principals and teachers, the key factors behind Finnish school success, what is missing in schools in Finland, why teachers became teachers in the first place, and how happy individuals are with their career as teachers. At the same time, using the same data, a hypothesis was tested about the degree of “repetitiveness” in schools and teaching in Finland regarding whether schools and teachers think and implement teaching and learning in the same way or not.

Pocket E-Li: Listening Assessment Made Easy

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Norazean Sulaiman ◽  
Nurul Nadiah Dewi Faizul Ganapathy ◽  
Wan Faizatul Azirah Ismayatim
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Application ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Positive Response ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Current Technology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
Almost All

Listening skills should be given more attention as listening takes precedence over anything else when it comes to acquiring a language (Putriani, Sukirlan & Supriyadi, 2013). Even with the booming of various technology to facilitate teaching and learning of listening skills in class, the assessment conducted to identify students’ level of understanding of certain topic is still not up-to-date and not parallel with the advancement of technology. The current studies show that the use of mobile apps for listening purpose is proven to be effective in reducing students’ anxiety (Rahimi & Soleymani, 2015), sustaining students’ motivation (Read & Kukulska-Hulme, 2015), and improving students’ linguistic competencies (Ramos & Valderruten, 2017). This study is aimed to test the effectiveness of mobile application in assessing students’ listening skills. Diploma students from various faculties in UiTM Shah Alam were randomly chosen to answer listening comprehension questions via the prototype developed, named Pocket E-Li. The results demonstrate that the majority of the students provided positive response towards the implementation of mobile application for listening assessment. Almost all respondents agreed that listening assessment should be conducted via mobile application in the future. It can be concluded that listening assessment via mobile application is beneficial to students since it meets the students’ demands and needs which is equivalent with the use of current technology.

Cognitive Processes in Fashion Design

2017 ◽  
pp. 205-222
Author(s):  
Geraldo Coelho Lima Júnior
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The Body ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Design Students ◽  
Visually Handicapped

This chapter is concerned with the teaching and learning of modelling in fashion design courses. Following a series of observations, it was found that fashion design students, with normal sight, have difficulties in fully understanding how an item of clothing can be transposed to a modelling display bust, which represents the body of the wearer. The same obstacle affects visually-handicapped students. This study seeks to explore ways of overcoming this problem. It involves seeking to introduce features into teaching that can allow a comprehensive learning program to be taught and in particular, to concentrate on certain key factors - cognition, constancy and abstraction - with regard to the information on fashion projects that can be found in the surrounding learning environment.

scholarly journals Is Organizing Knowledge Effective in Primary Education?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Marisol Cueli ◽  
Ana Isabel Álvarez ◽  
Stephen Loew ◽  
Paloma González-Castro ◽  
Celestino Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Primary Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Lexical Processing ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Early School ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Key Aspects

The acquisition of reading comprehension abilities and written expression is one of the key factors among learning processes in which students show many difficulties. For this reason, it is necessary to implement effective intervention strategies from early school years. The program EPI.com is aimed at improving lexical, semantic, and syntactic processes related to the reading process. This work aims to analyze the efficiency of EPI.com in years 1&2 of Primary Education. Participants in the research were 62 students (ages 6–8), who were assigned to an Experimental Group (EG; 38 students receiving the EPI.com intervention) and a Control Group (CG; 24 following traditional teaching and learning methods). The Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities and the Peabody test were applied before and after the intervention was carried out. Results showed that the strategy was effective in EG in improving the psycholinguistic aspects measured by the ITPA, with better results in the variables related to syntactic and lexical processing. Taking the results into account, it was concluded that EPI.com allows students to improve the abilities relating to reading skills. Also, the results highlight the need to incorporate interventions aimed at favoring maturation in some key aspects at early ages.

Conventional Online Teaching vs. Andragogical Online Teaching

2010 ◽  
pp. 68-82
Author(s):  
Victor X. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Compare And Contrast ◽  
Pedagogical Principles ◽  
Andragogical Principles

In an effort to promote the andragogical teaching model in helping adult learners learn online, the author of this chapter has sought to compare and contrast this model with conventional online teaching model. In doing so, the author argues while conventional online teaching is guided by behaviorism, in order to help adults learn in the online environment, instructors must go beyond the conventional online teaching model characterized by the use of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives and embrace humanism from which andragogy flows. The two models addressed in this chapter were not developed in a vacuum. Rather, they were derived from pedagogical and andragogical assumptions of learners. According to the literature in adult education, pedagogical principles were developed as early as in the 7th and 12th centuries whereas andragogical principles emerged in the early part of the 19th century in Europe. Both pedagogical principles and andragogical principles have been used to guide online adult teaching and learning since universities began to deliver courses in the virtual environments at the beginning of the 21st century.

In Search of Greater Understanding: The Impact of Mastery Learning on Social Science Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-119
Author(s):  
Patrick R. Cundiff ◽  
Olivia McLaughlin ◽  
Katherine Brown ◽  
Keiondra Grace
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Mastery Learning ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Social Science Education ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
The Impact

Mastery learning approaches were designed to improve student learning and elevate the level of understanding across a broader swath of students. These approaches operate under the belief that all students are capable of learning if given enough time. Little research has examined the utility or applicability of a mastery learning approach for social sciences outside of research methods courses. This study provides a review of the relevant literature on mastery learning, a discussion of the applicability of this approach to the teaching and learning of social sciences, and a review of the process and results of the conversion of more traditionally organized and taught courses to a mastery learning approach. Overall, our evaluation provides evidence that a mastery learning approach can make a significant impact on student learning.

Metric Analyzer for Kannada Verse Using Rule-Based Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 4007-4011
Author(s):  
R. J. Prathibha ◽  
K. H. Manju Skanda ◽  
S. Juned ◽  
Anup R. Shetty ◽  
B. V. Shashank
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Metric Analysis ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
Rule Based Approach

Metrical poetry in any language is called Chandassu ( ). It generates rhythm to poem when the predefined metric rules are properly followed. The classification of Chandassu is done with the help of syllables known as Laghu ( ), Guru (....) and Gana (..). The proposed metric analyzer for Kannada verse is a rule-based teaching and learning tool devised to identify and classify the Chandassu of input Kannada poem. This tool also contains an exercise module to test the level of understanding of learners about metric analysis. Accuracy obtained by the proposed system is very good.

scholarly journals Problem Analysis on Teachers in the Development of Discovery Learning Model-based Worksheet and Student Problem on Cognitive Learning Achievement

BIODIK ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-104
Author(s):  
Panca Herlambang ◽  
Evi Palenewen ◽  
Susilo Susilo
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cognitive Learning ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Discovery Learning ◽  
Circulation System ◽  
Problem Analysis ◽  
Learning Achievement ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Blood Circulation System ◽  
Level Of Understanding

Abstract : The purpose of this research is to analyze the development of Biology worksheet about Blood Circulation System based on Discovery Learning model in SMA Negeri Samarinda. The research targets are (1) to describe the teacher's level of understanding about Discovery Learning model-based worksheet (2) to find solutions to solve teacher problem about worksheet development (3) to find out the level of student achievement (4) to find solutions regarding to low students’ learning achievement. The participants of this research are Biology teachers at SMAN 6, SMAN 14, SMAN 4 and SMAN 3 Samarinda. The results of this study were analyzed using qualitative descriptive methods. The results of this study indicate that (1) The teachers’ understanding about the development of Discovery Learning-based Biology worksheet is still inadequate so that worksheet application was not optimal in teaching and learning process. (2) The teachers still experience some difficulties in synthesising worksheet, thus teachers need more explanations and references in the development of Discovery Learning model-based worksheet. (3) The students’ learning achievement are not optimal, (4) Teachers’ guidance is the best solution to improve the students’ achievement.Key Words: Problem analysis, Worksheet, Discovery Learning, students’ achievement Abstrak : Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk  melakukan analisis kebutuhan pengembangan LKS biologi pada materi sistem peredaran darah berbasis model Discovery Learning di SMA Negeri Samarinda. Target penelitian adalah untuk memperoleh (1) gambaran tingkat pemahaman guru terkait LKS berbasis model Discovery Learning (2) Solusi dalam mengatasi permasalahan guru terkait pengembangan LKS (3) tingkat pencapaian hasil belajar siswa .(4) solusi dalam mengatasi hasil belajar siswa. Populasi penelitian analisis kebutuhan ini adalah guru Biologi pada SMAN 6 ,SMAN 14, SMAN 4 ,dan SMAN 3 Samarinda. Hasil observasi permasalahan guru dan siswa yang di analisis secara deskriptif kualitatif menunjukkan bahwa (1) Pemahaman guru terkait pengembangan LKS biologi berbasis model Discovery Learning masih kurang sehingga penerapannya dalam kegiatan belajar mengajar tidak optimal. (2) Guru mengalami kendala dalam pembuatan LKS oleh karena itu guru memerlukan sosialisasi dan acuan referensi  dalam pengembangan LKS berbasis model Discovery Learning  dan (3) Hasil belajar siswa masuk kategori kurang, (4) Rendahnya hasil belajar siswa perlu diatasi dengan bimbingan dan pendampingan yang penuh  oleh guru terkait hasil belajar siswa. Kata kunci : Analisis permasalahan , LKS, Discovery Learning, hasil belajar.

scholarly journals The access network: Supporting the construction of social justice physics identities through student partnerships

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-61
Author(s):  
Daniel Lee Reinholz ◽  
Adriana Corrales ◽  
Amelia Stone-Johnstone
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Access Network ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
National Network ◽  
Predicting Success

This paper explores the intersections of Students as Partners (SaP) and identity development. While identity and sense of belonging are known to be key factors for predicting success and persistence in STEM, less is known about how student partnerships can provide space for students to develop their identities. To explore this space, we focus on the Access Network, a coalition funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) of student-run programs that aims to improve equity in the physical sciences. Qualitative interviews with six student participants showed how SaP created opportunities for students to develop social justice physics identities, which allowed them to bridge traditional notions of what it means to be a physicist with their own social justice commitments. This paper contributes to the rapidly growing SaP literature by studying student partnerships at the scale of a national network of institutions, which contrasts studies that focus on more localized contexts, such as teaching and learning in a single classroom.

scholarly journals POLYMERS IN COMPULSORY SECONDARY EDUCATION AND HIGH SCHOOL IN SPAIN: ANALYSIS OF TEXTBOOKS AND TEACHER'S OPINION

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 74-81
Author(s):  
Ángel SERRANO-AROCA ◽  
Joan Josep SOLAZ-PORTOLÉS
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Assessment Questionnaire

Even though the study of polymers is included in the school secondary curriculum in Spain, all the signs are that this topic is not being adequately addressed in the classroom. For this reason, this paper focuses on two key factors for polymers teaching and learning at secondary level: teachers and textbooks. A qualitative methodology, based on semi-structured interviews and a content analysis of textbooks, has been used. Six High School teachers have participated in this research. Attempts have been made to find out teachers' opinion about introducing contents of polymers in the classroom by means of semi-structured interviews. The content analysis of textbooks used in many schools of Spain has been carried out through the application of a assessment questionnaire. The results obtained as regards the polymers suggest that: a) Teachers provide only a limited amount of time for this topic in the curriculum; b) Textbooks do not include a large part of basic contents; and c) The low level of knowledge of students is justified by a) and b).

scholarly journals Understanding Technical Instructors Motivational Practices in Vocational Training Centre, Morang, Nepal

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 33-37
Author(s):  
Amit Koirala ◽  
Gita Dhungana
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Training Centre ◽  
Vocational Training Centre

This study “understanding technical instructor’s motivational practices in vocational training centre, Morang Nepal” tries to explore the motivational and demotivational factors among the technical instructors in vocational training centre, Morang, Nepal. As motivational factors plays an important role in carrying out teaching and learning activities this study tries to understand the key factors that enhance or hinder the technical instructors for teaching in vocational training centre and for carrying out qualitative research, researchers employed case study research design.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jtd.v1i0.13088 Journal of Training and Development Vol.1 2015: 33-37

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