scholarly journals Effects of Generic and Subject-Didactic Teaching Characteristics on Student Performance in Mathematics in Secondary School: A Scoping Review

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 711-737
Author(s):  
Carina Spreitzer ◽  
Samuel Hafner ◽  
Konrad Krainer ◽  
Andreas Vohns
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Instructional Quality ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Teaching Characteristics ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Further Development

<p style="text-align: justify;">Research on instructional quality has been of great interest for several decades, leading to an immense and diverse body of literature. However, due to different definitions and operationalisations, the picture of what characteristics are important for instructional quality is not entirely clear. Therefore, in this paper, a scoping review was performed to provide an overview of existing evidence of both generic and subject-didactic characteristics with regard to student performance. More precisely, this paper aims to (a) identify both generic and subject-didactic characteristics affecting student performance in mathematics in secondary school, (b) cluster these characteristics into categories to show areas for quality teaching, and (c) analyse and assess the effects of these characteristics on student performance to rate the scientific evidence in the context of the articles considered. The results reveal that teaching characteristics, and not just the instruments for recording the quality of teaching as described in previous research, can be placed on a continuum ranging from generic to subject-didactic. Moreover, on account of the inconsistent definition of subject-didactic characteristics, the category of ‘subject-didactic specifics’ needs further development to establish it as a separate category in empirical research. Finally, this study represents a further step toward understanding the effects of teaching characteristics on student performance by providing an overview of teaching characteristics and their effects and evidence.</p>

scholarly journals Knowledge, Perceptions and Practices of Community Pharmacists Towards Antimicrobial Stewardship: A Systematic Scoping Review

Antibiotics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sajal K. Saha ◽  
Chris Barton ◽  
Shukla Promite ◽  
Danielle Mazza
Keyword(s):  
Infection Control ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Antimicrobial Stewardship ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Community Pharmacists ◽  
Antibiotic Use ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Medical Databases ◽  
Further Development

The scope of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) surveys on community pharmacists (CPs) is uncertain. This study examines the breadth and quality of AMS survey tools measuring the stewardship knowledge, perceptions and practices (KPP) of CPs and analyse survey outcomes. Following PRISMA-ScR checklist and Arksey and O’Malley’s methodological framework seven medical databases were searched. Two reviewers independently screened the literatures, assessed quality of surveys and KPP outcomes were analysed and described. Ten surveys were identified that assessed CPs’ AMS perceptions (n = 7) and practices (n = 8) but none that assessed AMS knowledge. Three survey tools had been formally validated. Most CPs perceived that AMS improved patient care (median 86.0%, IQR, 83.3–93.5%, n = 6), and reduced inappropriate antibiotic use (84.0%, IQR, 83–85%, n = 2). CPs collaborated with prescribers for infection control (54.7%, IQR 34.8–63.2%, n = 4) and for uncertain antibiotic treatment (77.0%, IQR 55.2–77.8%, n = 5). CPs educated patients (53.0%, IQR, 43.2–67.4%, n = 5) and screened guideline-compliance of antimicrobial prescriptions (47.5%, IQR, 25.2–58.3%, n = 3). Guidelines, training, interactions with prescribers, and reimbursement models were major barriers to CP-led AMS implementation. A limited number of validated survey tools are available to assess AMS perceptions and practices of CPs. AMS survey tools require further development to assess stewardship knowledge, stewardship targets, and implementation by CPs.

scholarly journals Computer Aided Instruction For Preschoolers In Mathematics

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marylene Saldon Eder ◽  
Paul Rojas ◽  
Mary Grace Empasis ◽  
Love Jhoye Raboy
Keyword(s):  
Student Performance ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
Learning Performance ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Multimedia Instruction ◽  
Computer Aided Instruction ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Improving Student Performance ◽  
Multimedia In Education

Computers are increasingly a part of pre-schoolers to professional lives. The use of multimedia in education has significantly changed people’s learning processes. Computer technology holds promise for improving student performance and the quality of teaching education programs at all levels. Today, development has been rapid and technology has been acknowledged as an additional teaching tool. Results from a number of research studies indicate that appropriately designed multimedia instruction enhances students’ learning performance in mathematics, and literacy. The purpose of the present paper was to discuss research avenues employing computers as a learning tool and to analyze the results obtained by this method at the pre-schoolers learning level.

scholarly journals Application of action research in the field of healthcare: a scoping review protocol

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Mary Casey ◽  
David Coghlan ◽  
Áine Carroll ◽  
Diarmuid Stokes ◽  
Kinley Roberts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Comprehensive Framework ◽  
Research Studies

Background: Traditional research approaches are increasingly challenged in healthcare contexts as they produce abstract thinking rather than practical application. In this regard, action research is a growing area of popularity and interest, essentially because of its dual focus on theory and action. However, there is a need for action researchers not only to justify their research approach but also to demonstrate the quality of their empirical studies. Therefore, the authors set out to examine the current status of the quality of extant action research studies in healthcare to encourage improved scholarship in this area. The aim of this scoping review is to identify, explore and map the literature regarding the application of action research in either individual, group or organisational domains in any healthcare context. Methods: The systematic scoping review will search the literature within the databases of CINAHL, PubMed and ABI/Inform within the recent five-year period to investigate the scientific evidence of the quality of action research studies in healthcare contexts. The review will be guided by Arksey and O'Malley’s five mandatory steps, which have been updated and published online by the Joanna Briggs Institute. The review will follow the PRISMA-ScR framework guidelines to ensure the standard of the methodological and reporting approaches are exemplary. Conclusion: This paper outlines the protocol for an exploratory scoping review to systematically and comprehensively map out the evidence as to whether action research studies demonstrate explicitly how the essential factors of a comprehensive framework of action research are upheld. The review will summarise the evidence on the quality of current action research studies in healthcare. It is anticipated that the findings will inform future action researchers in designing studies to ensure the quality of the studies is upheld.

scholarly journals Teachers and teaching in upper secondary education: a comparison of systems in place across secondary and FE sectors

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Review Current

The training of teachers in upper secondary education varies considerably dependent on whether training is undertaken as a secondary school teacher or as a teacher within the Further Education (FE) system. Indeed, until the late 1990s, the training of teachers in FE had been the focus of little regulation by Government. Differences also occur across the UK with different pathways in place in the home countries. Regardless of the pathway taken to teaching in upper secondary education there are concerns that the teaching in schools and FE is still not good enough. The Coalition Government has proposed many reforms to the training of teachers in schools and a consultation exercise has been undertaken on the training of teachers in the FE sector. This article will review current approaches to the training of teachers in the home countries of the UK. Attention will be given to the proposed reforms in order to consider how these might contribute to raising the standard of teacher training and hence the quality of teaching in schools and FE.

scholarly journals Think big: learning contexts, algorithms and data science

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Baldassarre
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Scientific Investigation ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Learning Platforms ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract Due to the increasing growth in available data in recent years, all areas of research and the managements of institutions and organisations, specifically schools and universities, feel the need to give meaning to this availability of data. This article, after a brief reference to the definition of big data, intends to focus attention and reflection on their type to proceed to an extension of their characterisation. One of the hubs to make feasible the use of Big Data in operational contexts is to give a theoretical basis to which to refer. The Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom (DIKW) model correlates these four aspects, concluding in Data Science, which in many ways could revolutionise the established pattern of scientific investigation. The Learning Analytics applications on online learning platforms can be tools for evaluating the quality of teaching. And that is where some problems arise. It becomes necessary to handle with care the available data. Finally, a criterion for deciding whether it makes sense to think of an analysis based on Big Data can be to think about the interpretability and relevance in relation to both institutional and personal processes.

scholarly journals الثنائية اللغوية في تعليم اللغة العربية

ASALIBUNA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Qomari
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Language ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Teaching Language ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Bilingual Teaching ◽  
The World ◽  
World Class ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

Bilingualism in teaching is something to be done to make the quality of teaching more effective especially in the World Class University Like Islamic State Of University Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang. This Article will be give information about implementation of Bilingulism in teaching. And also give information about the definition of bilingual and what kind of bilingual can be implemented especially in Arabic language teaching for the foreigner. Beside of information about the kind of the suitable bilingual in teaching language, This Article also inform how much of Arabic language acquisition when that language to be tought by bilingual method. And offcourse this give information about the relationship between the bilingual teaching language with the skills of language.

scholarly journals Leprosy patients quality of life: a scoping review

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raissa Mariah Ferraz Moreira Barcelos ◽  
Gutembergue Santos de Sousa ◽  
Michelle Veiga de Almeida ◽  
Fabiana Gulin Longhi Palacio ◽  
Maria Aparecida Munhoz Gaíva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Observational Studies ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Sf 36 ◽  
Leprosy Patients ◽  
Assess Quality

ABSTRACT Objective: To explore the scientific evidence regarding the leprosy patients quality of life. Method: Scoping review according to the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology, with articles indexed in PubMed, Cochrane, LILACS, Embase, CINAHL, Scopus, Web of Science, PsyINFO, INFOLEP, and Google Scholar databases, published in full in Portuguese, English, or Spanish. Results: Seventy-four studies were identified, with 71 of quantitative approach and 3 with a mixed method. There was a predominance of studies published in Brazil (58.1%), with an adult population, (97.3%) and recruited in reference centers for the treatment of leprosy (52.7%). There was greater use of the WHOQOL-bref (50%) and SF-36 (18.9%) instruments to assess quality of life. The study showed that the greatest impairment in quality of life was related to the delay in the diagnosis of the disease, to leprosy reactions, physical disabilities, neuropathic pain, and stigma. Conclusion: Most studies were developed in endemic countries, with adults, and based on observational studies, and the worst scores obtained were associated with physical domain impairment.

Let's ask our students what really matters to them

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Cladera
Keyword(s):  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Teacher Evaluations ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Teaching Characteristics ◽  
Examination Methods ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

PurposeStudents' feedback is of great importance to the development of knowledge about teaching in higher education. One of the main purposes for which this feedback is collected is teaching quality assessment, usually conducted through course and teacher evaluations completed at the end of the course. However, for improving students' perceptions of teaching quality, their prior expectations should be identified first and the aspects that they consider relevant for a “good teaching” should be found out. Moreover, obtaining feedback at the end of a course could not benefit the respondents themselves. This work analyses students' opinions about the importance of several aspects related to the quality of teaching in an undergraduate course.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire was administered to gather students' opinions about the importance of several aspects related to the quality of teaching in an undergraduate course. Differences in the mean score of each aspect depending on students' characteristics were also analyzed.FindingsThe teaching characteristics that students considered more important were lecturer enthusiasm, the organization of the lectures and materials, the examination methods and feedbacks, the interest and intellectual challenge of the course and the friendliness, interest and accessibility of the lecturer. Differences in the importance of the different aspects exist depending on gender, expected grade and prior interest in the subject.Originality/valueResults could help lecturers to do a better programming of the different features of the course and prepare the subject more effectively, which is likely to positively impact student satisfaction; student satisfaction, in turn, has been related to an improvement in students' performance.

scholarly journals Impacts of robotic arm use on individuals with upper extremity disabilities: A scoping review

2018 ◽  
Vol 85 (5) ◽  
pp. 397-407
Author(s):  
Maude Beaudoin ◽  
Josiane Lettre ◽  
François Routhier ◽  
Philippe S. Archambault ◽  
Martin Lemay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Upper Extremity ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Robotic Arm ◽  
Scientific Quality ◽  
Occupational Performance ◽  
Robotic Arms ◽  
Review Form

Background. Robotic arms may help users perform various activities. Even though robotic arms are commercially available, their impacts are still poorly understood. Purpose. This scoping review aimed to identify the potential impacts of using robotic arms for individuals with upper-extremity disabilities and appraise the scientific quality of the selected studies. Method. A search for studies published between 1970 and 2016 was conducted in PubMed, Embase, Compendex, and Scopus. The Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and Engagement was used to classify activities in which impacts were evaluated. The quality of each study was rated using McMaster University’s critical review form for quantitative studies. Findings. Thirty-six studies were reviewed, which evaluated self-care (21), productivity (33), and leisure (8). The short-term impacts were more commonly documented than long-term impacts. The impacts identified were mostly positive. The studies’ mean quality score was 8.8/15. Implications. Additional studies with more rigorous conditions are needed to produce higher-quality scientific evidence of the long-term impacts of robotic arm use.

scholarly journals Scoping Review: The Trajectory of Recovery of Participation Outcomes following Stroke

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Batya Engel-Yeger ◽  
Tamara Tse ◽  
Naomi Josman ◽  
Carolyn Baum ◽  
Leeanne M. Carey
Keyword(s):  
Scoping Review ◽  
Well Being ◽  
International Classification Of Functioning ◽  
Stroke Survivors ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Meaningful Participation ◽  
Search Terms ◽  
Review Question ◽  
Definition Of

Participation is a central concept in health and well-being and healthcare, yet operationalizing this concept has been difficult. Its definition, uses in healthcare, and impacts on recovery require ongoing research. Our review question goes like this: from the longitudinal evidence investigating participation among stroke survivors, what are the patterns of participation recovery in stroke survivors over time, and what interventions are used to improve participation? To fully understand these questions, we also ask, how is participation defined in the stroke literature, and what are the measures of participation used in the stroke literature? A systematic scoping review was undertaken using the search terms “stroke,” “longitudinal,” “participation,” and “outcome” in seven databases. Articles included were published until April 2017, written in English, and had at least two longitudinal assessments of participation. Fifty-nine articles met the inclusion criteria. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health was the most frequent definition of participation used (34%). There were 22 different measures of participation. Eight of ten studies demonstrated significant improvements in participation up to 12 months poststroke. Efficacy of interventions and their impact on participation varied. The various definitions, measures, and intervention efficacies of participation highlight the need for further research worldwide into achieving meaningful participation and quality of life among stroke survivors. Future practice should include participation as a main outcome measure.

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