scholarly journals Factors Affecting Cambodian Upper Secondary School Students’ Choice of Science Track

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 262
Author(s):  
Kao Sovansophal ◽  
Shimizu Kinya
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Upper Secondary School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
And Mathematics

Upper secondary school years have been considered as a critical period for attracting students into future science-related majors and careers; yet, Cambodia is facing a worrisome decline trend in the students’ choice of science track. Through the lens of the making of engineers and scientists conceptual framework, the study aims to investigate the factors affecting Cambodian upper secondary school students’ choice of science track. With self-rating questionnaire survey, which randomly covered 751 11th graders in nine upper secondary schools in three provinces of Cambodia, the researcher collected data on three significant factors namely individual ability and personality, family background and encouragement, and upper secondary school experience and support. Binary logistic regression analysis revealed that performance in science and mathematics subjects, attitude towards science, plan to major in STEM, time spent self-studying in science and mathematics subjects, family encouragement, mother’s education, and school location significantly predicted students’ choice of science track. Some important implications for pedagogical orientation were also discussed.

scholarly journals A Synergy between History of Mathematics and Mathematics Education: A Possible Path from Geometry to Symbolic Algebra

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilia Florio
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Upper Secondary School ◽  
Analytic Geometry ◽  
School Students ◽  
Symbolic Algebra ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Mathematics

This paper proposes an experimental path aimed at guiding upper secondary school students to overcome that discontinuity, often perceived by them, between learning geometry and learning algebra. This path contributes to making students aware of how the algebraic language, formalized in the most powerful form by Descartes, grafts itself onto the geometric language. This is realized by introducing a problem included in a text written by Abū Kāmil before the year 870. This awareness acquired by the students, when accompanied by some semiotic considerations, allows the translation of the problem from “spoken” algebra to “symbolic” algebra, and it represents the background for a possible use of the same problem within the framework of analytic geometry. This proposition manifests a didactic and popular efficacy that supports and favors the recognition of the object it is talking about in different contexts, helping to create a unitary vision of mathematics.

Identity in adolescence and emerging adulthood: relationships with emotional and educational factors

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konrad Piotrowski
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Upper Secondary School ◽  
Lower Secondary School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Identity Statuses ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Shame And Guilt

Abstract In the processual approach to identity, the role of the interaction between subjective and contextual factors in the process of its development is emphasized. Based on the model of Luyckx et al. (2008) relationships between identity and educational context, as well as the tendency to experience shame and guilt were analyzed.. 821 people aged from 14-25 and belonging to six educational groups: (1) lower secondary school, (2) basic vocational school, (3) technical upper secondary school, (4) general upper secondary school, (5) post-secondary school (medical rescue, massage therapy, cosmetology, occupational therapy) and (6) university, took part in the research. Two questionnaires were used: The Dimensions of Identity Development Scale (DIDS), to allow the measurement of the five dimensions of identity postulated by Luyckx et al (2008) and The Personal Feelings Questionnaire-2 (PFQ-2, Harder, Zalma, 1990) to measure of the shame and guilt proneness. The results show that general upper secondary school students in terms of the dimensions of identity are closer to lower secondary school students rather than to their peers from technical and vocational schools. Among general upper secondary school students not only was a higher intensity of an identity crisis observed, but also a strong tendency to experience shame and guilt. Among lower secondary school students and general upper secondary school students, people with diffusion and moratorium as identity statuses prevailed, while in the remaining groups the achievement and foreclosure identity were observed more frequently. A general relationship was also observed, namely, a greater tendency to experience shame was associated with a higher intensity of an identity crisis.

scholarly journals Ligga steget före: Barnskötares yrkesomdöme åskådliggjort genom bedömningshandlingar

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enni Paul ◽  
Camilla Gåfvels
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Multimodal Interaction ◽  
Video Sequences ◽  
Upper Secondary School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Central Aspect ◽  
Upper Secondary

This study explores vocational judgement, which is discernible in the assessment actions of a supervising childminder directed towards upper secondary school students – while interacting with the children – during work-based learning in Sweden. The research aims to identify the characteristics of vocational knowing in terms of judgement, as exhibited in everyday interactions with children, by applying multimodal interaction ana-lysis to two video sequences from different Swedish preschools. The study findings show how vocational judgement – in the form of embodied discernment – is a central aspect of a childminder’s vocational knowing. Vocational judgement becomes discernible, for instance, in how supervising childminders are consistently one or several steps ahead of both children and upper secondary school students

scholarly journals The Instructional Design of an Online Learning Environment (RISSC) for Upper Secondary School Students’ Research Skills

2019 ◽  
pp. 174-182
Author(s):  
Louise Maddens ◽  
Fien Depaepe ◽  
Annelies Raes ◽  
Jan Elen
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Instructional Design ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Online Learning Environment ◽  
Upper Secondary School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
Upper Secondary

In today’s complex world, the acquisition of research skills is considered an important goal in (upper secondary) education. Consequently, there is a growing body of literature that recognises the value of well-designed (online) learning environments for effectively supporting the development of this complex set of skills. However, a clear consensus on how these research skills can be facilitated is currently lacking. Furthermore, interventions aiming to foster these skills are often implemented in specific domains, mostly in physics, biology and chemistry. In addition, current approaches to facilitation often refer to only a few epistemic activities related to research skills. Because of the broad and (mainly) domain-specific character of research skills, the purpose of this paper is to articulate the instructional design considerations for an online learning environment for upper secondary school students’ (broad set of) research skills in a(n) (underrepresented) behavioural sciences context.

Various reasons, various trajectories? Interrupted schooling among Polish upper secondary school students

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Jasińska-Maciążek ◽  
Anna Hawrot ◽  
Paulina Marchlik ◽  
Hanna Tomaszewska-Pękała ◽  
Tomasz Żółtak
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Upper Secondary School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Interrupted Schooling
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