scholarly journals Does the Structural Organisation of Lower-Secondary Education in Switzerland Influence Students’ Opportunities of Transition to Upper- Secondary Education? A Multilevel Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Scharenberg ◽  
Karin Wohlgemuth ◽  
Sandra Hupka-Brunner
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Multilevel Analysis ◽  
Multilevel Logistic Regression ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Integrated Models ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
Structural Organisation ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Lower Secondary Education

Abstract The Swiss cantonal education systems account for the structural organisation of lower-secondary education (streamed, cooperative or integrated models). We examined whether structural cantonal variations affect students’ transition to upper-secondary education. Analyses drew on data from the TREE study. Multilevel logistic regression analyses indicated that students in cantons with a cooperative or integrated model had, by trend, a higher chance of gaining access to upper-secondary education. The effect was confounded with the language regions.

Girls’ Education in Turkey: A Provincial Analysis of Private Funding Campaigns

2019 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-72
Author(s):  
Zeynep Ozkok
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Completion Rates ◽  
Private Funding ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Inequality In Education ◽  
Education In Turkey ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Lower Secondary Education

With large disparities in enrollment and completion rates, girls’ education is a topic of concern in Turkey. Private funding campaigns have played an important role in combating gender inequality in education. This paper examines the impact of two major private funding campaigns on girls’ schooling rates using Turkish provincial level data for 2013 and 2014. Controlling for regional and socio-demographic characteristics our findings show that “Dad, Send Me to School” and “Snowdrops” campaigns have positively influenced girls’ schooling rates in primary and lower secondary education across Turkish provinces. The effect is less conclusive for upper secondary education.

scholarly journals First and second thoughts about teaching secondary chemistry

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-380
Author(s):  
Georgios Tsaparlis
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Chemistry Curriculum ◽  
Secondary Chemistry ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
8Th Grade ◽  
Strengths And Difficulties ◽  
Lower Secondary Education

This paper selectively reviews both early and more recent work by the author on the teaching of chemistry at secondary level. The purpose is twofold: (i) to review the proposals, their features, and the research behind them, (ii) to emphasize the strength over time of the work presented, but also the need for constant revision. The reviewed topics for lower secondary education (7th-9th grades) include: a revised curriculum (1984); a study of Greek students’ contextual chemistry knowledge (1987); an updated proposal about the curriculum (2001); an integrated physics and chemistry program for the 7th grade (2000), that has been further developed recently (2011) to include biology; two research studies on teaching methodology (2000)’; a chemistry course for the 8th grade (2010); revision of the current formal Greek chemistry curriculum (2014). The reviewed topics for upper secondary education (10th-12th grades) include: three early (1981, 1985a, 1985b) studies on Greek students’ strengths and difficulties with chemistry; a context-based chemistry curriculum (1988, 1991); proposals for new chemistry curricula (2000, 2011, 2014) for the 10th and 11th grades. Coupling to the PARSEL modules is also made. The paper concludes by making reference and connection to the work of Hans Jürgen Schmidt.

scholarly journals DISTANCE EDUCATION DURING COVID-19: THE PERSPECTIVE OF SLOVAK TEACHERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 78 (6) ◽  
pp. 884-906
Author(s):  
Eva Ballová Mikušková ◽  
Marcela Verešová
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Lower Secondary Education

As the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (causing COVID-19) has begun to spread around the world, education has taken the form of distance education from one day to the next. To this day, little is known about distance education during the pandemic period from teachers’ point of view, so the study focused on perception and management of distance education in primary school (primary and lower secondary education) and upper-secondary school (upper secondary education) teachers; and the main aim was to explore the connection between teaching experience, personality traits, and emotions of teachers and their perception and management of distance education during the coronavirus pandemic. The research sample consisted of 379 teachers (89.7% women) aged 23 – 70 years (M = 44.91; SD = 10.38). They completed the questionnaire which consisted of: demographic questions, questions related to perception and management of distance education, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule and the Big Five Inventory 2. During the pandemic period, the negative emotions of teachers increased while positive emotions decreased; distance education was closely related to emotions (and changes in emotions) and personality; moreover, teachers reported willingness to implement partial changes into their teaching after the pandemic period.

scholarly journals Os discursos dos organismos financeiros e de cooperação internacional sobre a obligatoriedad da educação secundária baixa, 1960-2015. Uma perspectiva desde o institucionalismo discursivo e a análise crítica do discurso

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Rosalina Romero Gonzaga
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Lower Secondary School ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Comprehensive Development ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Lower Secondary Education

The article examines the proposals and recommendations formulated by three international financial and cooperation organizations (OFyCIs) for lower secondary education (ESB), an emerging educational level in educational research. It is assumed that the lower secondary school is promoted by the OFyCI as a functional subsidiary to upper secondary education (high secondary education), reoriented and aligned toward the capitalist economy, but forgoing a critical and comprehensive development of adolescents. The discourse of the OFyCI on the compulsory nature of secondary education constitutes frames of reference that serve to reproduce their economic, political and social interests, within a context marked by educational segmentation and lack of definition of educational levels.

scholarly journals A Managerial Research of Online Education in the Primary and Secondary Romanian Education System During COVID 19 Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 343 ◽  
pp. 07006
Author(s):  
Eduard Edelhauser ◽  
Lucian Lupu-Dima
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
One Year ◽  
Lower Secondary Education

The authors tried to analyse the implication of one year of online education in the Romanian primary education, lower secondary education, upper secondary education and even in the early childhood system. COVID-19 was seen as a social phenomenon world-wide and also in Romanian, that affected many elements of the society, including education. The study is based on a survey and used the online questionnaire investigation composed of 10 questions and authors have received more than 2500 answers from the respondents. The investigation took place during 29th of January 2021 and 11th of February 2021. The study concluded that, in the Romanian primary and secondary education system most schools migrated quickly to an online education system. The result shows also that over 82% of the students have participated rhythmic to online education and 50% to 60% of them used a Google Classroom platform or another virtual classroom. In the authors opinion the future of the Romanian education system will represent from now on a continuous debate between classic and online education, considering that only 10% of the Romanian students have no access to Internet and another 8% of the students did not have a computer, a laptop, a tablet, or a smartphone and obvious could not take online classes.

The Story after Immigrants’ Ambitious Educational Choices: Real Improvement or Back to Square One?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Dollmann ◽  
Markus Weißmann
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
Educational Choices ◽  
Completion Rates ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
Immigrant Background ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Prior Achievement ◽  
Lower Secondary Education

Abstract It is a well-established finding in the literature that immigrants make ambitious educational choices. Once controlling for prior achievement and socioeconomic status, children of immigrants are more likely than natives to switch to the more demanding educational tracks. However, less is known about whether immigrants can actually benefit from these optimistic choices in terms of educational attainment or whether they have a higher risk of dropping out from the more demanding tracks. By focusing on a representative sample of adolescents with and without immigrant background in Germany, this contribution investigates how enrolment and completion rates change over time—from the end of lower secondary education until the end of upper secondary education—and how this affects ethnic inequalities in educational outcomes. When comparing academic completion rates and academic enrolment rates in grade 9, we observe long-term improvements within the immigrant group as a result of immigrants’ ambitious choices. When comparing both outcomes between natives and immigrants, however, ethnic differences in academic completion rates remain comparable to the disparities in enrolment rates as observed in grade 9.

Towards Flipped Learning in Upper Secondary Mathematics Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Robert Weinhandl ◽  
Zsolt Lavicza ◽  
Stefanie Schallert
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Flipped Learning ◽  
Educational Innovations ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Secondary Mathematics Education ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
Mathematics Classrooms ◽  
Upper Secondary

Challenges for students in the 21st century, such as acquiring technology, problem-solving and cooperation skills, also necessitates changes in mathematics education to be able to respond to changing educational needs. One way to respond to these challenges is utilising recent educational innovations in schools, for instance, among others are flipped learning (FL) approaches. In this paper, we outline our explorative educational experiment that aims to investigate key elements of mathematics learning in FL approaches in upper secondary education. We describe the methodologies and findings of our qualitative study based on design-based research to discover key elements of FL approaches in upper secondary education. Analysing the data collected over ten months suggested categories (a) confidence when learning; (b) learning by working; and (c) flexibility when learning could be essential to understand FL approaches practices in mathematics classrooms.

Caracterrsticas de la Oferta de la Educaciin Media en Colombia (Upper Secondary Education in Colombia)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Garcia ◽  
Darro Maldonado ◽  
Marcela Acosta ◽  
Nicolas Castro ◽  
David Granada ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
Upper Secondary

scholarly journals Being Able to Stay or Learning to Stay: a Study of Rural Boys’ Educational Orientations and Transitions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna-Maria Stenseth ◽  
Unn-Doris K. Bæck
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Upper Secondary School ◽  
Upper Secondary Education ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Educational Orientations

AbstractThis study explores the influence of geographical location on young pupils’ educational orientations and their transition from lower to upper secondary school; it pays particular attention to the voices of male youths from a rural area. More specifically, it investigates the interplay between gender and geographical contexts and the significance of these factors in understanding the processes associated with educational orientations. Margaret Archer’s framework is used to analyse how pupils’ agency is constrained and/or enabled by objective structures. The data material consists of qualitative interviews with 18 pupils transitioning from lower to upper secondary school in Norway. Each of the pupils was interviewed twice: first when they were in their last year of lower secondary education, and then during their first year of upper secondary education. The findings show that pupils consider geographical locations when making decisions about further education and work. In addition, they believe that education beyond compulsory schooling benefits their life in the rural areas. However, unlike their urban counterparts, pupils from rural areas appear to have a more constraining transition to upper secondary education. Through the analyses in this article, it becomes clear that both geographical location and gender are key factors for understanding processes connected to education.

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