scholarly journals Introduction of “Honorable Mention“ Award at the International Olympiad in Informatics

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Mile JOVANOV ◽  
Emil STANKOV
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
The Other ◽  
School Students ◽  
Honorable Mention ◽  
Fourth Degree ◽  
Rule Change ◽  
Gold Silver ◽  
The World

In 2020, there are 14 International Science Olympiads for secondary school students, which aim to gather teams from all the countries around the world, with the brightest young eligible students from each country. These Olympiads are not just a science competition but a means to care for talent in the particular scientific field. International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) is one of the first five Olympiads that arose, after Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, and before Biology Olympiad. Being the “summit” of the brightest students, they generously award recognitions to contestants in the form of gold, silver and bronze medals, and additionally – the so called “honorable mention” award. IOI is the only Olympiad that up until 2019 has not introduced the fourth-degree award – “honorable mention”. In this paper we explore the rules of the other four scientific Olympiads in order to compare their methods of awarding contestants to the current one used by IOI, and to use that analysis for proposing a rule change that will introduce “honorable mention” category at IOI. Furthermore, a set of possible approaches are considered, and for each one, the “retroactive” impact of the rule to the results of the last five IOI issues is presented. At the end, as a conclusion, the most appropriate approach is proposed.

scholarly journals The conception of substitution of the equals sign plays a unique role in students' algebra performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emine Simsek ◽  
Iro Xenidou-Dervou ◽  
Ilyas Karadeniz ◽  
Ian Jones
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
The Other ◽  
School Students ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
School Year ◽  
Equals Sign ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Unique Predictor ◽  
Algebra Learning

Students’ conceptions of the equals sign are related to algebraic success. Research has identified two common conceptions held by children: operational and relational. The latter has been widely operationalised in terms of the sameness of the values on each side of the equals sign, but it has been recently argued that the substitution component of relational equivalence should also be operationalised (Jones, Inglis, Gilmore, & Dowens, 2012, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2012.05.003). In this study, we investigated whether students’ endorsement of the substitution definition of the equals sign is a unique predictor of their algebra performance independent of the other two definitions (operational and sameness). Secondary school students were asked to rate the ‘cleverness’ of operational, sameness, and substitution definitions of the equals sign and completed an algebra test. Our findings demonstrate that endorsement of substitution plays a unique role in explaining secondary school students’ algebra performance above and beyond school year and the other definitions. These findings contribute new insights into how students’ algebra learning relates to their conceptions of the equals sign.

The education professional: From imaginary to knowledge. A laboratory experience

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Anna Grazia Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Educational Service ◽  
School Students ◽  
Future Aspirations ◽  
Education Professional ◽  
The World ◽  
Professional Profile ◽  
The University ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The Autor describe a training orientation experience intended for fourth and fifth year of secondary school students aimed at promoting conscious access to the university world and facilitating the process of building their own professional prefigurations. These paths led by career advisors, experts in the world of work and guidance representatives involved 16 classes from four institutes for a total of 278 students. Each meeting was structured in two moments: a Photolangage workshop and a seminar, which consisted in making the experts in the field talk with the students of the schools participating in the guidance activity. The Photolangage workshop was followed by a moment dedicated to the meeting with experts from the world of training present in the territory, each of whom described their field of action. As it is written in the Guidelines, the guidance activity should also be done by those who have specific professional skills, who are outside the school and who can introduce the girls and boys to the world of work in order to promote the process of work inclusion. The experts in the area working in the field of education were asked to present to the students the professional profiles for the degree course: social educators, child educators and trainers. The experts called to converse with the students each represented different areas of education and social work: one coordinator of an educational service for children, two company trainers, two social planners. Each of the eight meetings included, at the beginning of the activity, the administration of a semi-structured questionnaire aimed at surveying the students' previous knowledge about the educator's field of action, the skills of this professional profile, as well as future aspirations and expectations with respect to the guidance experience.

scholarly journals The role of motivation on secondary school students’ causal attributions to choose or abandon chemistry

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Ardura ◽  
Ángela Zamora ◽  
Alberto Pérez-Bitrián
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Causal Attributions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Right

The present investigation aims to analyze the effect of motivation on students’ causal attributions to choose or abandon chemistry when it first becomes optional in the secondary education curriculum in Spain. Attributions to the effect of the family and to the teacher and classroom methodology were found to be common predictors of the choice to all the students in the sample. However, our analyses point to a significant effect of the students’ motivation in other types of attributions. In the case of at-risk of abandonment students, specific causal attributions to the effect of friends and to the subject's relationship with mathematics were found. On the other hand, the effect of media was a significant predictor only in the case of highly-motivated students. Our study provides several suggestions for teachers, schools, and administrations to design counseling strategies to help students make the right choices.

Moving beyond the Crises in Secondary Physical Education: An Australian Initiative

1997 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doune Macdonald ◽  
Ross Brooker
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
School Students ◽  
Australian Context

Recent literature suggests that secondary school physical education is in crisis due to uncertainties about focus, status, and accountability. After providing some background discussion to the crises, two curriculum approaches, one current and the other in trial, to secondary physical education in an Australian context are reviewed. Drawing upon empirical research, the various strengths and weaknesses of each approach are highlighted. The paper concludes with proposals that the movement-centered conceptualization of physical education in the trial approach offers a defensible physical education for secondary school students.

scholarly journals MODERN RUSSIAN POETRY IN OLYMPIAD ASSIGNMENTS IN LITERATURE

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-220
Author(s):  
Tatiana G. Kuchina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
School Students ◽  
Object Based ◽  
The World ◽  
Holistic Analysis ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
The Relationship

The article discusses approaches to a holistic analysis of poetic texts of the 21st century at Literature Olympiads. The main aim of this academic activity of senior schoolchildren is to teach them to demonstrate their own understanding of a poem through considering it as an integral unity of elements and analyzing the most essential features of its artistic structure. The author answers the following questions: what knowledge, skills, competences are tested by assignments on contemporary poetry? What poetics features of modern literature require special attention and how to teach senior schoolchildren to carry out analysis correctly? How can “Olympiad” poetry be of interest to a modern secondary schooler? On the material of the poems by Polina Barskova, Alexei Tsvetkov and Vladimir Gandelsman the article shows possible ways of text analysis that have formed in practical work – primarily in the Sirius educational center (Sochi). The author uses P. Barskova’s poem “Happiness” (2001), included in the tasks of the final stage of the 2019 Literature Olympiad, to show the methods of work with subtext / intertext and subject structure. The relationship between the object-based and symbolic plans, of the empirically “true-to-life” plot and the biblical subtext are in the focus of attention during the analysis of A. Tsvetkov’s poem “The experience of the end of the world” (2019). V. Gandelsman’s poem “In the morning, right after dawn, I am at the foot…” (2018) was offered to students at a trial competition in “Sirius”. The article contains excerpts from the works of secondary school students, showing how they interpreted the poem.

scholarly journals KONSTRIBUSI KEBIJAKAN PENINGKATAN JUMLAH SISWA SMK TERHADAP PEMBANGUNAN EKONOMI INDONESIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Slamet PH
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Vocational School ◽  
Vocational Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
National Education ◽  
The World

Abstrak: Untuk mendukung pembangunan ekonomi, Kementerian Pendidikan Nasional membuat kebijakan yang signifikan tentang proporsi jumlah siswa SMA dan SMK dari 57,85%:42,15% pada tahun 2007 dan menjadi 30%:70% pada tahun 2014. Kebijakan tersebut diharapkan mendukung pertumbuhan ekonomi dan mengurangi pengangguran. Kebijakan tersebut hanya didasarkan atas asumsi dan bukan data. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk: (1) menemukan proporsi jumlah siswa SMA dibanding siswa SMK tahun 2007 dan tahun 2014; (2) menemukan besarnya dukungan perbanyakan jumlah siswa SMK terhadap pertumbuhan ekonomi; (3) menemukan kontribusi ekspansi jumlah siswa SMK terhadap pengurangan pengangguran; (4) menyusun konsep proporsi jumlah siswa SMA dan SMK yang selaras dengan kebutuhan pembangunan ekonomi. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah diskriptif kuantitatif. Hasil penelitian ditemukan bahwa: (1) proporsi jumlah siswa SMA:SMK pada tahun 2014 adalah 51%:49%; (2) peningkatan jumlah siswa SMK tidak mendukung pertumbuhan ekonomi; (3) peningkatan jumlah siswa SMK menyebabkan tingkat pengangguran lulusan SMK makin tinggi; dan (4) idealnya, proporsi jumlah siswa SMA dan SMK didasarkan atas kebutuhan tenaga kerja. Kata kunci: proporsi, konstribusi, pertumbuhan ekonomi, dan pengagguran THE CONTRIBUTION OF POLICY OF INCREASING THE NUMBER OF VOCATIONAL STUDENTS TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA Abstract: To support economic development, The National Education Ministry made significant policy regarding the ratio of general secondary school students to vocational secondary school students from 57.85%:42.15% in 2007 to 30%:70% by 2014, supposedly. It is expected that the policy can support economic growth dan reduce unemployment. This policy change was decided based on assumption only and not based on accurate labor information. The objectives of this study were to find out: (1) proportion of general and vocational school students in 2007 and 2014; (2) the support to economic development from increasing the number of vocational secondary school students in 2007 and 2014; (3) to find out the contribution of increasing the number of vocational school students to unemployment reduction; and (4) the concept of link & match between vocational school and the world of work in terms of quantity.The research method used to achieve the objectives of research was descriptive quantitative. The research found that: (1) the ratio of general and vocational secondary school students was 51%:49% in 2014; (2) increasing the number of vocational school students did not support economic growth; (3) increasing the number of vocational school students increased unemployment of vocational school graduates; and (4) ideally, proportion of general and vocational students must be based on the needs of labor. Keywords: proportion, contribution, economic growth, and unemployment

scholarly journals Effect of Family Variables on Multiple Intelligences of Secondary School Students of Gujarat State

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Sanjay Kumar M. Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Multiple Intelligences ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Gujarat State ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Individual Potential ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Family Variables

There are billions of people in the world, but it is impossible to find two people identical because God doesn’t repeat His creation. It means everybody is inborn different. But, our education system is such that treats everybody in more or less same way which hampers the development of a child negatively and his or her contribution as well. Hence, researcher has conducted this study entitled “Effect of Family Variables on Multiple Intelligences of Secondary School Students of Gujarat State” to study the individual potential of children in terms of their intelligences and the effect of family related variables on their intelligences. It was found that some of the family and environment related variables affect the intelligences of learner positively and some do not have any effect as given.

scholarly journals 5G Joint Artificial Intelligence Technology in the Innovation and Reform of University English Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Xia Sun
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Gesture Recognition ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
The Other ◽  
Logical Thinking ◽  
School Students ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Oral Teaching ◽  
Primary And Secondary School

This paper considers the issue of human subjectivity in the system of “5G + AI+Education” from the perspective of, on the one hand, the real need for the problems that gradually emerge in the new round of development and application of artificial intelligence, and a philosophical reflection on the application of artificial intelligence in specific fields, on the other hand. It is also a further examination of the issue of human subjectivity in the new context. On the other hand, it is also a further examination of the issue of human subjectivity in the new context of the times, which can also provide students with an immersive learning environment, and AI artificial intelligence and hologram technology can enhance students’ motivation. This paper shows the specific steps and implementation measures of “5G” technology into online oral teaching and provides a case study design to explore the new online oral teaching model, summarizing the advantages and proposing solutions to the shortcomings. The system visualizes each step of gesture recognition to facilitate students’ understanding. Students can experience the process of gesture recognition according to the guidance of the interactive interface, and then, the complex and abstract gesture recognition process is explained with a figurative example, which is conducive to primary and secondary school students’ deeper understanding and improved logical thinking. This will help primary and secondary school students to have a deeper understanding and improve their logical thinking skills. Finally, a comparison experiment is designed to verify the effectiveness of using this system to learn AI knowledge compared with traditional learning methods. The experimental results are analyzed to prove that using this system to learn AI knowledge is effective and helps improve users’ interest in learning and hands-on ability.

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