Re-designing A Practice Test Into A Game

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 1234-1236
Author(s):  
Hung-Tao Chen ◽  
Michael Lee
Keyword(s):  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Student Participation ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Voluntary Participation ◽  
Practice Test ◽  
Effective Learning

Practice testing is an effective learning strategy, but it can lead to increased test anxiety and often has low voluntary participation rate. This paper describes a case study on the effects of a re-designed practice test using game-like elements. The results indicate that the gamified practice test had a high student participation rate and showed improved test performance.

A new window through which to look at safety culture surveys: a case study at Arrow Energy

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Zaunbrecher ◽  
Lisa Mealiff
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
High Response Rate ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Industry Group

This paper provides a case study of applying a different approach to executing a safety culture survey. Arrow Energy (Arrow) completed the Safer Together Safety Culture Survey, with an excellent participation rate of 90% of total employees. There were indications from other Safer Together member companies that the typical response rate when the survey was emailed out was 30%. Arrow took the approach to undertake the survey ‘live’, where each team manager or supervisor facilitated the team session; this approach was fundamental to achieving a high response rate. A total of 33 separate team sessions were undertaken, which enabled team-specific results. The survey technique and application was provided by Safer Together, a not-for-profit industry group representing the Queensland coal seam gas industry. The intent is to have all Safer Together member companies undertake the survey so that industry-wide benchmarking can be carried out. The survey was completed by each team all together in one room, and the consolidated results for the team were available as soon as all participants had completed all survey questions, which took ~30 min. The benefits of the Safer Together tool, and live participation compared with online, included: ▪ Visible safety leadership demonstrated by the team manager/supervisor ▪ Team-specific results generated allowing meaningful immediate discussion and follow-up actions ▪ Three layers of organisation results available including everyone, supervisors and managers ▪ Visibility of ‘Most impactful behaviours’ that need improvement ▪ Generation of comments by the participating teams, visible during session as free text. Overall it was a very meaningful exercise shining a light on key areas the employees believe need to be addressed including: ▪ Planning ▪ More effective learning from incidents ▪ Making the Arrow HSE Management System more accessible and available in relevant bite-sized pieces. The consolidated results indicate that Arrow has a maturing safety culture.

scholarly journals Exploring The Use of Translation as a Strategy to Learn English

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 1391
Author(s):  
Ajeng Dini Arfianti ◽  
Utami Widiati
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Effective Learning

<div align="center"><table width="645" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="439"><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> This study primarily wanted to explore students’ views and how they employ translation-related strategies to learn English. Five students from the accounting department, Universitas Negeri Malang participate in this qualitative case study. The findings showed that students consider translation has a positive contribution to their English learning. They also mentioned learning activities by using translation that can be categorized into several learning strategies. It is expected that the results of the study can raise awareness and exercise cautious use of translation as an effective learning strategy in English for the benefits of the students.</p><p class="Abstract"><strong>Abstrak:</strong><em> </em>Penelitian ini ingin mengeksplorasi pandangan siswa dan bagaimana mereka menggunakan strategi terkait terjemahan untuk belajar bahasa Inggris. Lima mahasiswa dari jurusan akuntansi, Universitas Negeri Malang berpartisipasi di studi kasus kualitatif ini. Hasil wawancara menunjukkan bahwa siswa menganggap terjemahan memiliki kontribusi positif untuk pembelajaran bahasa Inggris. Mereka juga menyebutkan beberapa kegiatan belajar yang terkait dengan penggunaan terjemahan yang dapat dikategorikan ke dalam beberapa strategi pembelajaran. Diharapkan hasil penelitian ini dapat meningkatkan kesadaran dan melatih penggunaan terjemahan secara hati-hati sebagai strategi pembelajaran bahasa Inggris yang efektif untuk kepentingan siswa.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

scholarly journals Peer Tutoring as A Best Practice of Accounting Learning in Vocational Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Mika Marsely
Keyword(s):  
Peer Tutoring ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Social

This study attempts to investigate the use of peer tutoring and to assest the effectiveness of peer tutoring in accounting learning, State Polytechnic of Malang. A descriptive research approach with case study was employed in this research. The information gathered by documentation, observation and in depth interview. The accounting learning was done by the author with apllying same age peer tutoring (co-peer). The findings revealed that peer tutoring is a very effective learning strategy both to tutors and tutees. Tutors feels happy, proud, and satisfied when the lecturers trust them to give the material in front of their friends. Whereas the tutees feel more comfortable because the learning activities has become more relaxed and not strained, the students have been brave to ask more question. Peer tutoring has improve the academic achievement, communication skill, responsibilities, patience, empathy, sympathy, and strengthening the social skills both to tutors and tutees. As we know that these all skills were very needed in the world life. The author suggest that it should be utilized within the premises of the educational institutions. It is a must for polytechnic students to be equipped with such ability given that it has a great impact towards their future career development. The graduates are believed to be able to perform productively in the society with this ability, notwithstanding what contexts they are in. This is to assure that they would be able to function in line with the complex world of today.

scholarly journals GENERALIZATION STRATEGY OF LINEAR PATTERNS FROM FIELD-DEPENDENT COGNITIVE STYLE

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-94
Author(s):  
Yayan Eryk Setiawan ◽  
Purwanto Purwanto ◽  
I Nengah Parta ◽  
Sisworo Sisworo
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Cognitive Style ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Junior High ◽  
School Students ◽  
Linear Pattern ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Field Dependent

Linear pattern is the primary material in learning number patterns in junior high schools, but there are still many students who fail to generalize the linear pattern. The students’ failure in generalizing the pattern occurred when the students ended to view the problems globally without breaking them into the constructors’ components such as the experience of field-dependent type students. For this reason, this study was carried out to explore the thinking process of students who fail and investigate the thinking processes of students who succeed in generalizing linear patterns. The results of this study provide an effective learning strategy solution for field-dependent students in generalizing linear patterns. This study employed a qualitative approach with a case study design to junior high school students. The results indicated that students in the field-dependent cognitive style looked at pattern questions represented in the form of geometric images globally without looking at the structure of the image. Two strategies for generalizing linear patterns used by field-dependent students were examined, namely recursive and different strategies.

scholarly journals PERCEPTION OF SPORT SCIENCE UNDERGRADUATES ON THE JIGSAW LEARNING METHOD

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Hoe Wee Eng ◽  
Fong Cheng Wei
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Sport Science ◽  
Sport And Exercise ◽  
Psychology Course

Recognising the potential of Jigsaw Learning Method (JLM) and limited research around its uses in higher education, this case study sought to explore the perceptions of sport science students’ on learning using the JLM. A total of 36 undergraduate students enrolling in the Sport and Exercise Psychology Course participated in this study. They were divided into groups and participated in JLM using a 2-hour lecture on ‘addictive and unhealthy behaviours’ with JLM materials uploaded into the Google Classroom. At the end of the JLM session, a reflective essay was carried out to find out students’ learning experience. The analysis of the perceptions of the students on JLM revealed two main themes which were ‘learning experience of JLM’ and ‘perceptions of their own and others’ abilities’. JLM is perceived as an effective learning strategy but students were concerned on the issue of deliverable content and accuracy of the team members’ responses. In this study, with its limitation, JLM proved that classroom learning could be educational and enriching.

Acquisition and Use of Mental Operators: Effects of Type of Practice

2002 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burkhard Müller ◽  
Jürgen Gehrke
Keyword(s):  
Mental Models ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Test Phase ◽  
Acquisition Phase ◽  
Practice Test ◽  
Subsequent Test ◽  
Use Of Knowledge

Abstract. Planning interactions with the physical world requires knowledge about operations; in short, mental operators. Abstractness of content and directionality of access are two important properties to characterize the representational units of this kind of knowledge. Combining these properties allows four classes of knowledge units to be distinguished that can be found in the literature: (a) rules, (b) mental models or schemata, (c) instances, and (d) episodes or chunks. The influence of practicing alphabet-arithmetic operators in a prognostic, diagnostic, or retrognostic way (A + 2 = ?, A? = C, or ? + 2 = C, respectively) on the use of that knowledge in a subsequent test was used to assess the importance of these dimensions. At the beginning, the retrognostic use of knowledge was worse than the prognostic use, although identical operations were involved (A + 2 = ? vs. ? - 2 = A). This disadvantage was reduced with increased practice. Test performance was best if the task and the letter pairs were the same as in the acquisition phase. Overall, the findings support theories proposing multiple representational units of mental operators. The disadvantage for the retrognosis task was recovered in the test phase, and may be evidence for the importance of the order of events independent of the order of experience.

Is testing a more effective learning strategy than note-taking?

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Rummer ◽  
Judith Schweppe ◽  
Kathleen Gerst ◽  
Simon Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Note Taking ◽  
Effective Learning

EFEKTIVITAS STRATEGI CLOZE STORY MAPPING TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN MEMBACA PEMAHAMAN PADA SISWA KELAS V DI SD 2 PADOKAN KASIHAN BANTUL

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danuri Danuri ◽  
Dwendha Lahitani
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
T Test ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Story Mapping ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Class Average

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of CSM strategies on comprehension reading skills in classes V Padokan 2 Elementary School. The research method used is a quasi-experimental method. In this study the subjects of the study were VA class students as the control class and V C as the experimental class with 28 VA and VC class students. Quantitative data analysis technique used is the calculation of independent sample t-test. Based on data analysis and discussion, researchers can conclude that CSM strategies are more effective than conventional methods of reading comprehension learning. The results of this study indicate that there is a significant difference between the experimental class and the control class as evidenced by the results of the independent sample t-test obtained by the value of Asymp. Sig (2-Tailed) 0.014 <0.05. CSM strategy is an effective learning strategy seen from the average value of the experimental class posstest which is 81.61 higher than the control class average value of 72.96.

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