Exploring the impact of a teacher development programme using a digital application on linguistic interactions in the classroom: a multiple case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Gràcia ◽  
Ana Luisa Adam-Alcocer ◽  
Pamela Castillo Mardones

Abstract This article reports on the use of a digital application (EVALOE-SSD) for the professional development of teachers to improve the linguistic competence of their students. We conducted a multiple case study that involved five teachers and their students from different schools. Over a period of three months, the teachers used the digital application to assess their classes, make decisions and introduce changes in their teaching practices. The results show that the change process includes stages of progress and stages of regression, but in general the trend was to a progressive increase in scores. Therefore, the use of the digital application improved the competences of teachers and students, regardless of the type of school or students’ age. This is shown in the cases of two teachers, which are analysed in greater depth. We believe that our findings are important as they document how self-reflection, stimulated by aids such as video recordings, reflective questions and pictures, facilitates a change in teaching practices. At the end of the programme, all the teachers stated that the experience of using the digital tool had clearly been enriching, and they had learnt and improved teaching practice linked to communicative competence.

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Solano Dos Santos Nascimento

ResumoO artigo apresenta o resultado de um estudo de casos múltiplos a respeito da relação entre três reportagens que trataram de problemas sociais – publicadas pela revista Época e pelos jornais O Globo e Correio Braziliense - e mudanças na legislação que teoricamente buscaram resolver os problemas apontados pelas reportagens. O estudo concluiu que houve influência das reportagens nas mudanças em leis, mas que esse impacto teve nuanças bastante distintas.AbstractThis report presents the results of a multiple case study about the relationship between three stories  that dealt with social problems - published by Época magazine and O Globo and Correio Braziliense newspapers  - and changes in legislation that theoretically sought to solve the problems pointed out by the stories . The study conclusion was that there was influence of the stories in laws  changes, the impact had quite different shades. ResumenEl artículo presenta el resultado de un estudio de casos múltiples acerca de la relación entre tres reportajes sobre problemas sociales-publicados por la revista Época y por los periódicos O Globo y Correio Braziliense - y cambios en la legislación que teóricamente buscaron resolver los problemas señalados por los reportajes . El estudio concluyó que hubo influencia de los reportajes en los cambios de leyes, pero que ese impacto tuvo matices muy distintos.


Author(s):  
Courtney Braun ◽  
Katherine A. Tamminen

Researchers have examined the impact of coaches’ emotional expressions and emotional intelligence on athlete outcomes (Allan, V., & Côté, J. (2016). A cross-sectional analysis of coaches’ observed emotion-behavior profiles and adolescent athletes’ self-reported developmental outcomes. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 28, 321–337; Thelwell, R.C., Lane, A.M., Weston, N.J., & Greenlees, I.A. (2008). Examining relationships between emotional intelligence and coaching efficacy. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 6, 224–235; van Kleef, G.A., Cheshin, A., Koning, L.F., & Wolf, S.A. (2018). Emotional games: How coaches’ emotional expressions shape players’ emotions, inferences, and team performance. Psychology of Sport & Exercise). However, there is little research examining coaches’ use of specific strategies to regulate their athletes’ emotions. The purpose of the present study was to explore the strategies coaches used to try and regulate their athletes’ emotions, and to explore the relationship and contextual factors influencing coaches’ IER strategy use. A longitudinal multiple case study approach was used (Stake, R.E. (2006). Multiple case study analysis. New York: The Guilford Press) with five cases, each consisting of one male coach and two individual varsity sport athletes (N = 15). Participants completed individual interviews, a two-week audio diary period, and a follow-up interview. Data were inductively and deductively analyzed and a conceptual model was developed outlining athletes’ emotions and emotion regulation, coaches’ IER, the coach-athlete relationship, and contextual factors. Participants described a bidirectional association between the coach-athlete relationship and coaches’ IER. A number of factors influenced athletes’ and coaches’ use of emotion regulation strategies and contributed to the quality of the coach-athlete relationship. The IER strategies that coaches used may reflect instrumental, performance-related motives, and coaches’ IER efforts may also contribute to coaches’ emotional labour.


2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 250-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxime Maheu ◽  
Sara Pagé ◽  
Andréanne Sharp ◽  
Audrey Delcenserie ◽  
François Champoux

Author(s):  
Marwa Mallouli Ben Zouitina ◽  
Zouhour Smaoui Hachicha

This chapter aims to explore the impact of social networking sites (SNS) usage on individual work performance (IP). A literature review revealed contrasting results. A multiple-case study on 15 employees from eight Tunisian firms has been conducted to highlight the SNS effects on IP in the specific context of democratic transition. Data have been collected by semi-structured interviews and coded using the Nvivo 10 software. The analysis shows that, depending on the level of SNS usage, three types of effect are identified on IP at work: positive, negative, or null. This result invites researcher to consider the usage intensity when analyzing SNS effects on IP. Understanding the different types of SNS usage by actors and their effects on IP could help managers to take appropriate decisions to take profit from this usage. This research suggests also that organizational policy moderates the relationship between SNS usage and IP.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorra Rakia Allegue ◽  
Dahlia Kairy ◽  
Johanne Higgins ◽  
Philippe S Archambault ◽  
Francois Michaud ◽  
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BACKGROUND In Canada, chronic stroke survivors have difficulty accessing community-based rehabilitation services, due to lack of resources. VirTele, a personalized remote rehabilitation program combining virtual reality exergames and telerehabilitation, was developed to offer chronic stroke survivors the opportunity to pursue rehabilitation of their affected upper extremity (UE) at home, while receiving ongoing monitoring by a clinician. OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to: 1) Explore the determinants of VirTele use among chronic stroke survivors and clinicians; 2) Identify indicators of support of psychological needs by clinicians, during VirTele intervention; and 3) explore indicators of empowerment among stroke survivors. METHODS This multiple case study involved three chronic stroke survivors participating in a VirTele intervention and their respective clinicians (physiotherapists). VirTele is a two-month remote rehabilitation intervention, using non immersive virtual reality exergames and telerehabilitation aimed at improving UE deficits in chronic stroke survivors. Study participants had autonomous access to Jintronix exergames, which they were asked to use 5 times a week for 30 minutes periods. VirTele also included videoconference sessions with a clinician, 1 to 3 times a week (1-hour duration), using the Reacts application. During these sessions, the clinician was able to engage in motivational interviewing, supervise the stroke survivors’ use of the exergames and monitor the use of the affected UE through activities of daily life. Semi-directed interviews were conducted 4 to5 weeks after the end of the VirTele intervention. Two interview guides, adapted for clinicians and stroke survivors respectively, were developed to facilitate the interview administration while allowing new codes to emerge. All interviews were audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. RESULTS Three stroke survivors (2 females and 1 male), with a mean age of 58.8 years (SD=19,4), and two physiotherapists participated in the study. Five major determinants of VirTele use emerged from the qualitative analyses, namely the technology performance (usefulness, perception of exergames), effort (ease of use), entourage support (encouragement), facilitators (stroke survivors’ safety, trust and understating of instructions), and challenges (miscommunication, exergames limits). At the end of the VirTele intervention, both clinicians demonstrated support of psychological needs, in terms of autonomy, competence and relatedness, all of which were reflected as empowerment indicators in the three-stroke survivors. Lessons learned from using telerehabilitation combined with exergames were provided, which will be relevant to other researchers and transferable to other populations and contexts. CONCLUSIONS This multiple case study provided a first glimpse at the impact that motivational interviewing can have on adherence to exergames and behavior modification of UE use in stroke survivors. Five major determinants of VirTele use have been identified, namely technology performance, effort, entourage support, facilitators and challenges. Lessons learned from these determinants may serve as a model to guide the implementation of similar interventions. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT RR2-10.2196/14629


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