scholarly journals Views of secondary school students on ideal teacher qualifications: A phenomenological analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 317
Author(s):  
Fatma Kalkan ◽  
Emine Dağlı
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Teacher Qualifications ◽  
School Students ◽  
Ideal Teacher ◽  
Interview Technique ◽  
Grid Technique ◽  
Academic Year

This research aimed to reveal the views of secondary school students on ideal teacher qualifications. For this purpose, research was carried out in a phenomenological pattern, which is one of the qualitative research methods. The study was carried out with 76 students who were studying in a secondary school in the 2017-2018 academic year. The data were obtained with the repertory grid technique and interview technique. As a result of the analysis of the data, it was seen that the qualifications of the teachers considered ideal by the participants were among the general competencies of the teaching profession. According to the results of this research, ideally, teachers are expected to provide good and fun lessons, not discriminate among students, be friendly and calm in communications with students, and ensure discipline and democracy in the classroom environment.

ROLE OF THE EMOTIONS AND CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT IN WILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 605-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gholam Hassan Khajavy ◽  
Peter D. MacIntyre ◽  
Elyas Barabadi
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Multilevel Analysis ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Willingness To Communicate ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
School Students ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Classroom Level

AbstractThe purpose of the present study was to examine the relations between emotions, classroom environment, and willingness to communicate (WTC) using the advanced quantitative methodological procedure of doubly latent multilevel analysis. To this end, 1528 secondary school students from 65 different classrooms in Iran participated in the study. Results of the doubly latent multilevel analysis showed that a positive classroom environment is related to fostering WTC and enjoyment, while it reduces anxiety among students. Moreover, enjoyment was found as an important factor in increasing WTC at both student and classroom level, while anxiety reduced WTC only at the student level. Finally, the results of the study are discussed and pedagogical implications are provided for language teachers.

scholarly journals Secondary School Students’ Experiences with Reading Aloud in Uganda: A Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 224
Author(s):  
Rebecca Nambi
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Reading Aloud ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Classroom Context ◽  
Classroom Experiences ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Way

Reading aloud supports vocabulary build-up, provides basic background knowledge of the text and motivates learners’ interest in the text even among adolescents. This paper explores classroom experiences of Senior One students (12-13 years) with reading aloud of Soyinka’s (2007) play The Trials of Brother Jero. The findings show that both the teacher and the learners performed clear roles during the reading exercise and this seemed to create a systematic classroom environment for reading aloud. However data also indicates that although many of the learners declared to find value in reading aloud, some learners did not participate in the activity due to various reasons. The classroom context and the nature of the text also seemed to affect the way reading aloud was implemented during the lessons.

scholarly journals Determination of secondary school students' ability of making transitions between representations related to the

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 607-624
Author(s):  
Ebru Ezberci ◽  
Mehmet Altan Kurnaz ◽  
Nezihe Gökçen Bayri
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
School Students ◽  
Graphic Representations ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
The Given ◽  
Academic Year

The aim of this study was to reveal secondary school students' ability of making transitions between text, picture, table and graphic representations related to the electricity. The research is a case study of the qualitative research methods. The working groups of the study were totally 100 students, including 50 from each of 6th, 7th and 8th students, studying at a secondary school in the 2012-2013 academic year. To determine the students' status of transitions in representations, a measurement tool relating to the subject of electricity was developed by researches. The measurement consists open-ended questions which questioned transitions representations (text, images, tables and graphics) with each other. Document analysis method was used in data analysis. In this context, determining specific criteria, established codes in accordance with the given answers by the students and the questions was evaluated in certain dimensions. Consequently, students were found to be inadequate to present transitions in representations in electricity. When the results are evaluated, it was suggested that during the teaching of electricity topic, teaching practices to draw attention to transition between different representations and in measurement-assessment processes, the questions reflecting the transition between different representations should be given; regulation the assessment questions in textbooks in this direction is recommended.

scholarly journals Emotional, School Environment and Intelligence Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 2651-2657
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
School Students ◽  
High Level

Purpose – In the present century the need and importance of understanding the emotional intelligence of the learner has been grown among the educationists. This is especially true and more prevalent in professions that require the employees to be highly emotionally intelligent such as in the teaching profession. In this study Emotional Intelligence, School Environment and Academic Achievement of secondary school students was probed to find the relationship between and among Emotional nature, School climate and outcomes of standard IX and X students. Methodology - In this study the Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire, School Environment Scale (SES) is used. The investigator used stratified random sampling technique for selecting the sample. The study will adopt a Normative Survey Method. The variables studied are the Emotional Intelligence, School Environment and Academic Achievement. Emotional Intelligence Scale developed and validated by the Balasubramanain and Shanty in 2005 is used for the study. Further School Environment questionnaire developed and validated by the Shanty Jose 2009 is used for the study. The academic achievement scores obtained by the student is used for analysing the learning outcome. Findings - Finding shows from the study shows that there is a high level of Emotional Intelligence, school environment and academic achievement of secondary school students. No significant differences found between and among Emotional Intelligence, School Environment and Academic Achievement with respect to the variables gender, class, type of institutions, locality and medium of instruction. There is a significant relationship exists between and among Emotional Intelligence, school environment and academic achievement and its sub variables. Significance - Emotion as the basis of all behaviours and activities and so is directly related to all human nature and achievements. Emotions are source of motivation, source of learning,source of strength and endurance to body. Emotional intelligence is being able to understand one's one behaviour and to use this to guide their action. Understanding the emotional intelligence of learner will help to analyse the academic performance of individual learner and to provide them useful support.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Secondary School Students’ Writing Attitudes and Anxiety and Writing Disposition

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Berna Urun Karahan
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
School Students ◽  
Writing Anxiety ◽  
Teaching Language ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Writing Attitudes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Year

Literacy is an important result of language teaching. Language skills are like the pieces of a whole. The accurate acquisition of these skills, which are needed to be used effectively by individuals both in their social and educational life, is equally valuable. Writing is a skill that is acquired and developed mostly during the learning process among these skills. Writing requires not only recognizing the letters and language rules but also understanding and internalizing oneself and the environment. Therefore, emotions, opinions and experiences regarding this skill should be emphasized. The aim of this study is to review the relationship between secondary school students’ writing attitudes and anxieties, and writing dispositions. The study group of the study included secondary school students who were randomly selected in the center of Kars, Turkey in the 2019-2020 academic year. Data were collected using “the Attitude Scale towards Writing for Secondary School Students”, “the Writing Disposition Scale”, and “the Writing Anxiety Scale for secondary school Students”. The results showed that secondary school students’ writing attitudes, dispositions and anxieties did not produce a significant difference based on the variable of gender.

scholarly journals Students’ Views on the Use of Technology in Geography Course

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (23) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Ussenov Nurbol ◽  
Zhoya Kairat ◽  
Аbdimanapov Bakhadurkhan ◽  
Mamadiyarov Marat ◽  
Tleubergenova Kenjekey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Technology In Education ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
School Students ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Academic Year

Use of technology in education enables students to be motivated and eager to participate in the lesson and is also a more effective tool in increasing motivation, encouraging students to the lesson and understanding the sub-ject. The aim of this study is to determine the views of secondary school students on the use of technology in geography lessons. Qualitative re-search method was used in this study. Semi-structured interviews were car-ried out with 32 students who took geography lessons in Kazakhstan dur-ing the 2018-2019 academic year. The semi-structured interview form de-veloped within the scope of this research was used as a data collection tool. Results of the study showed that secondary school students found tech-nology effective and funny to use in geography lessons. Projections, com-puters, tablets and smart phones were specified by the students as useful technological tools for teaching geography. Results of the study were dis-cussed with relevant literature and important implications for further re-search and practices were presented.

scholarly journals Metaphors on the Concepts of “Reading” and “Listening” Created by the Secondary School Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 238
Author(s):  
Betul Keray Dincel
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Level ◽  
School Students ◽  
Secondary School Level ◽  
Learning Development ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Knowledge Learning

This research aims to examine the metaphors on the concepts of reading and listening of the secondary school students and is based on phenomenology. 390 randomly selected secondary school students participated in this study in the 2016–2017 academic year in Turkey. The study includes all the grades (5, 6, 7, & 8th) at the secondary school level. “Reading is like ..................., because .....................”, “Listening is like ..............., because ..................” were the two sentences given to the students and they were asked to fill in the blanks. The data were analyzed by the content analysis. The students created 385 metaphors about the concept of reading and 329 metaphors about the concept of listening. Metaphors on the concept of reading were divided into 11 categories: A source of knowledge/learning, development, necessity, imagination, life, finding peace, sincerity, boredom/suffocation, eternity, guidance, enjoyment. Metaphors on the concept of listening were divided into 9 categories: A source of knowledge/learning, necessity, imagination, life, finding peace, communication, boredom, guidance, enjoyment. In this research, metaphors were used to reveal the thoughts of secondary school students on the concepts of reading and listening.

scholarly journals Investigation of writing tendencies of secondary school students with regards to various variablesOrtaokul öğrencilerinin yazma eğilimlerinin farklı değişkenler açısından incelenmesi

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 909
Author(s):  
Fatih Kana ◽  
Durmuş Özbaşı ◽  
Süleyman Ünlü
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Female Students ◽  
The State ◽  
Reading Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Descriptive Survey ◽  
Academic Year

<p>The purpose of this study is to investigate writing tendencies of secondary school students with regards to different variables. Descriptive survey model was used in the study to find out students’ general writing tendencies. Writing Tendency Inventory which was adapted into Turkish by İşeri and Ünal (2010)  and which has 21 items, was used in this study. The sampling of this study consists of 1145 secondary school students in 2013-2014 academic year. T-test and one-way variance analysis were used in the analysis of the collected data in this study. The findings of this study reveal that there has been a significant difference in students’ writing tendencies depending on their classes, gender, their state of keeping or not keeping a diary, the number of the books that they read in the former year, the reading group that they feel they belong to  and the state of their liking or not liking to read. As a conclusion of the study, it can be suggested that secondary students’ writing tendencies (with regards to reliance, passion and continuity sub-dimensions) are higher at first years compared to other classes (especially at the 5th year) and they have more tendency to write.  Besides, female students were found to have higher writing tendencies, and it can also be suggested that writing tendency is closely related to the number of read books, the state of keeping or not keeping a diary or the state of liking or not liking to read.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Özet</strong></p><p>Bu çalışmanın amacı ortaokul öğrencilerinin yazma eğilimlerini çeşitli değişkenler açısından incelemektir. Araştırma öğrencilerin genel yazma eğilimlerinin araştırılması bakımından betimsel türde tarama modelinde bir araştırmadır. Çalışmada öğrencilerin okuma yazma eğilimlerini tespit etmek amacıyla İşeri ve Ünal (2010) tarafından Türkçe ’ye uyarlanan 21 maddeden oluşan yazma eğilimi ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın çalışma grubunu 2013-2014 eğitim öğretim yılında öğrenim görmekte olan 1145 ortaokul öğrencisi oluşturmaktadır. Verilerin analizinde t-testi ve tek yönlü varyans analizi kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın bulgularına göre, öğrencilerin yazma eğilimleri okudukları sınıf, cinsiyet, günlük tutup tutmamaları, son bir yıl içerisinde okudukları kitap sayısı, kendilerini hissettikleri okuyucu grubu, yazmayı sevip sevmedikleri bakımından anlamlı fark bulunmuştur. Çalışmanın sonucu olarak, yazma eğilimi (güven, tutku ve süreklilik alt boyutlarında) ortaokul öğrencilerinin ilk yıllarında (özellikle beşinci sınıfta) diğer sınıflara göre daha yüksek olduğu, öğrencilerin yazmaya daha yatkın olduğu söylenebilir. Ayrıca kız öğrencilerin yine yazma eğilimlerinin daha yüksek odluğu; yazma eğiliminde okunan kitap sayısının, günlük tutmanın ve yazmayı sevmenin etkili olduğu araştırma sonucuna söylenebilir.</p>

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