Career Development: Linking Education and Careers of Blind and Visually Impaired Ninth Graders

1985 ◽  
Vol 79 (10) ◽  
pp. 444-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Graves ◽  
Steve Lyon
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Ninth Graders ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Ninth Grade Students

The development of educational programs which relate to the career development needs of blind and visually impaired youth depends on information about their needs. These data are not presently available. The following study identified career development needs of blind ninth grade students and determined their perceptions of the extent to which these needs were met by their schools. The blind ninth graders surveyed reported that a number of their career development needs were not being met by the schools they attended, and that even those services which were not perceived as necessarily meeting their needs were not readily accessible to them.

scholarly journals Washback of English national exams at ninth-grade level in Thailand and Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wachyu Sundayana ◽  
Panusak Meekaeo ◽  
Pupung Purnawarman ◽  
Didi Sukyadi
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
Ninth Graders ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Learning ◽  
Ninth Grade Students

Washback refers to influences of testing on teaching and learning. In Thailand and Indonesia, washback of the Ordinary National Educational Test (O-NET) and Ujian Nasional (UN) inevitably occurs on teaching and learning in classrooms at every level. This present study aims to explore and compare the washback effects of the O-NET and UN on English language learning as perceived by Thai and Indonesian ninth-grade students. It is a multi-case study (Thailand case and Indonesia case) by using triangulation design as the research design. The questionnaires concerning washback effects of national exams on English language learning were distributed to 200 ninth-graders in the two cases. In addition, six students from each case were interviewed. The results reveal that in both cases, the participants focus to learn on contents and skills that were likely to appear in the national exams. The participants learned English harder to perform well in the tests rather than to improve their English ability. Moreover, the students had high anxiety during the test preparations and feared for low O-NET and UN scores. The results of the study contribute to future washback study and improvement of English language teaching and learning at ninth-grade in Thailand and Indonesia.

Service Providers Assessment of the Career Development Needs of Blind and Visually Impaired Students and Rehabilitation Clients and the Resources Available to Meet those Needs

1985 ◽  
Vol 79 (10) ◽  
pp. 434-443
Author(s):  
Martha Bagley
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Visually Impaired Students ◽  
Management Staff ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons ◽  
Development Tasks

The following study presents an overview of career development needs of blind and visually impaired individuals and discusses results of a 1983–84 survey of school teachers (grades K, 3, 6, 9 and 12), rehabilitation counselors, management staff of rehabilitation agencies and agency administrators that assessed career development needs of severely visually impaired persons and resources available to meet those needs. Individuals surveyed felt that their students or clients need greater accessibility to career development tasks, experiences, and resources, and that none of the resources listed in the survey are readily accessible now, and many are inaccessible. Four basic conclusions are discussed.

The Current System of Education for Visually Impaired Children in the USSR and Plans for Improvement

1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-33
Author(s):  
V.A. Feoktistova
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Current System ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
History Of ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Visually Impaired Children

The author reviews both the history of the blindness field in the Soviet Union and current trends and programs with emphasis on the development of educational programs for blind and visually impaired children. Psychosocial and employment issues are also addressed.

Visually Impaired Women and the World of Work: Theme and Variations

1983 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 276-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances A. Koestler
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Theme And Variations ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
The World ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
Major Factors

This summary of the proceedings at the conference on “Education and Employment Opportunities for Blind and Visually Impaired Women” lists the major factors identified as roadblocks to satisfactory career development and points to a variety of coping strategies that can help overcome the dual handicap of gender and disability.

scholarly journals TEXTILE LITERACY OF NINTH-GRADE STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 674-685
Author(s):  
Barbara Zaman ◽  
Francka Lovšin Kozina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ninth Graders ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
School Year ◽  
Ninth Grade Students ◽  
Textile Products

Today’s world is facing a problem with the growth of textile products and in particular, textile waste, which already represents a serious environmental problem. From the point of view of ensuring sustainable handling of textile products, it is thus very important that individuals have the appropriate knowledge, attitudes and skills for sustainable handling of textile products or that they are properly ‘textile literate’. After all, appropriate textile literacy enables individuals to act according to the concept of sustainable development. The purpose of this research, which included 80 students from three Slovenian schools, who had completed their lower secondary education in the 2018/2019 school year, was to find out what their basic textile knowledge was and how they transferred it into their daily lives. Ninth graders were found to be deficient in basic textile skills, with girls having statistically significant better knowledge than boys. The girls were also statistically significantly better at recognising the connection between the acquired knowledge and everyday life and achieved a better result in terms of sustainable handling of textile products. The research findings can help teachers to be aware of the critical points in textile teaching in the context of sustainable development. The results also suggest that the current placement of textile content in the fifth grade, without further upgrading of the content in higher grades is not optimal. Most of the surveyed students had high grades in the fifth grade, but knowledge that is vital from the point of view of the sustainable behaviour of an individual is low in the ninth grade. These results can provide useful information for school policy makers who want to follow modern concepts of sustainable development. Keywords: active learning strategies, cross-curricular integration, ninth-graders, sustainable development and textile literacy

scholarly journals Improving Students’ Vocabulary Mastery through Word Wall Method at Ninth Graders of SMPN 1 Mamuju

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Syahban Mada Ali
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Diagnostic Test ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
Ninth Graders ◽  
Average Score ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Word Wall ◽  
Ninth Grade Students ◽  
Wall Method

This research was a classroom action research (CAR). The objective of this research was to find out students’ vocabulary mastery especially its application in a correct sentence pattern by using Word Wall method to the ninth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Mamuju. This research consisted of three cycles. There were 30 students in one class that followed this research. The result showed there was improvement of the students’ vocabulary. It could be seen on their average score in the first cycle improved by 49.25%, from the diagnostic test 34.83%. Then, it improved more in the second cycle by 60.8% and more in the third cycle that achieves 68.25%. However, despite getting the students’ average score improved, after applying the three cycles, it is still not success achieving the Minimum Completeness Criteria (MCC) of the subject that was 75.

scholarly journals The Effect of Using Mental Imagination Strategy on Developing Critical Reading Skills among Ninth Graders

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Rashed M. Abu Soawen
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Method ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
Ninth Graders ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Student Reading ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Ninth Grade Students ◽  
Experimental Group

The study aimed at showing the effect of using Mental Imagination strategy in developing critical reading skills for ninth grade students in Gaza. The study used the experimental method and suitable critical reading skills for nine grade were identified. The sample of the study consisted of 81 students (ninth grade) distributed to an experimental group (41 students) and a controlled group (40 student), reading subjects were taught to the experimental group by using the Mental Imagination strategy which was applied by a teacher who received training related to this strategy. The controlled group were taught by using traditional methods. After a test was implemented to measure the critical reading skills and conducting statistical treatments by using Ancova, the study revealed that there was an effect on using the Mental Imagination strategy in developing targeted critical reading skills. It also clarified that there were significant differences at a ≤ 0.01 between the experimental and controlled group grades in the post test of critical reading skills attributed to the experimental group.

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