scholarly journals The development of Vocational Secondary School students’ reflection and self-assessment skills in the context of critical constructivism

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Irēna Kroiče
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Learning Problems ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
School Students ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Assessment Skills

<p><em>As the demands of labor market have increased, Vocational Secondary School students have to acquire the knowledge and skills level, which could help them to become highly qualified professionals who are able to compete in the labor market. The author explores the causes of poor results and options to prevent possible learning difficulties.</em></p><p><em>A learning model, which is based on a critical constructivist didactic epistemology, has been proposed. This type of teaching encourages the learners to reflect on their learning aims, their personal meaning as well as existing experience; to evaluate, define and solve learning problems and if it is necessary  to ask for support of the teacher; to evaluate learning results and to set new goals.</em></p><p><em>The results</em><em> of the research in Rezekne Technical School confirm that the development of reflection and self-assessment skills contributes to the quality of learning and helps to identify as well as to overcome learning difficulties.</em></p><p> </p>

Effect of Resource Factors and Quality of Instruction on Performance in Mathematics of Nigeria Secondary School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Umar Abdullahi ◽  
Musa Sirajo
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Secondary School Student ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
School Students ◽  
Quality Of Instruction ◽  
The Public

It seems that educational system in Nigeria has undergone only quantitative improvement in terms of number of schools and students’ enrolment. However, there has been little effort in respect to the capacity to manage them through provisions of adequate financial, human, material and physical resources. Physical and material resources in secondary schools were discovered to be inadequate and poorly equipped. Some of the secondary school buildings were dilapidated, also the allocated financial resource, teaching and non-teaching staff are grossly inadequate compared with the students’ enrolment. The public, the Ministry of Education and other stakeholders in education are expressing serious concern about the consistency of the poor performance of secondary school students especially in mathematics. Increase in population and the government’s free education programs make people want to take advantage of the education provided. Provision of both professionally qualified and non-qualified teachers by government and non-state providers of education also appear not to ameliorate the problem of declining performances in mathematics. The effect of all these on the public secondary school student academic performance in mathematics concern the researchers of this study. It is against this background that the study sought to empirically investigates effect of resource factors and quality of instruction on performance in mathematics of Nigeria secondary school students.

scholarly journals Comparison on Well-Being, Engagement and Perceived School Climate in Secondary School Students with Learning Difficulties and Specific Learning Disorders: An Exploratory Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Lombardi ◽  
Daniela Traficante ◽  
Roberta Bettoni ◽  
Ilaria Offredi ◽  
Mirta Vernice ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Learning Disorder ◽  
School Students ◽  
Specific Learning Disorder ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Specific Learning

Reading and writing skills influence the social status of students, exerting effects not only on learning, but also on wellbeing. This study aimed to assess the impact of diagnosis of specific learning disorder on well-being in secondary-school students, comparing students with a diagnosis of specific learning disorder (SLD-group), students showing learning difficulties without diagnosis (LD-group) and students without learning difficulties (control-group). Students were tested with neuropsychological screening tests in order to identify learning difficulties and were further assessed by means of psychological and school well-being questionnaires. The results show that LD group perceive themselves as having a low sense of mastery and autonomy, less interest and engagement in daily activities and low peer social support than their schoolmates. This result highlights, for the LD group, a low well-being experience, which is not observed in the SLD and control groups. On the contrary, SLD group students do not differ from control group students in any dimensions except for the perceived parents’ support and involvement in school life, in which the SLD group show the highest scores. This work underlines the importance of having a diagnosis as it seems to work as a protective factor for both the psychological and school well-being of the student.

scholarly journals A study on prevalence and effects of allergic rhinitis and asthma on quality of life among secondary school’s student in Kinta District, Perak

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (SPL1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soe AK ◽  
Aizat AF ◽  
Bellahcene MA ◽  
Atiqah N ◽  
Husna N
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Allergic Rhinitis ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Bronchial Asthma ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Chronic Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Validated Questionnaire

Allergic rhinitis (AR) and bronchial asthma (BA) are common inflammatory chronic respiratory diseases, and they are significant public health challenges on a global scale. The prevalence of these diseases are on the rise in all regions of the world, affecting all ages but more commonly among children and adolescences. Both AR and BA affect patients to a different extent with variable restrictions in the physical, emotional, and social aspects of the patient's life. They may be seen as two presentations of the same disease by sharing common epidemiologic, histologic, physiologic, and immunopathologic linkages. To determine the prevalence and impact of allergic rhinitis, asthma and allergic rhinitis with asthma on quality of life among secondary school students in Kinta District, Perak. A cross-sectional study was done among secondary school students from randomly selected three schools in Kinta District, Ipoh, Perak. A well-vetted and validated questionnaire was used to collect the data, and statistical analysis was done to determine the prevalence and impact of AR, BA, or both. A total of 250 secondary school students were involved in this study. Malays were the majority among the participants. The prevalence of AR alone, BA alone, and disease co-occurance were 27.2%, 9.2%, and 8%, respectively. Nearly 20% of the participants were troublesome but low scale in terms of quality of life followed by disturbed sleep, restricted participation in school, and daily activities. Only 6% of the participants experienced sleep disturbance due to asthma, but daily anti-asthmatic medication was essential in only 1.2%. This study showed that although a relatively high prevalence of allergic rhinitis and bronchial asthma. There was no significant low quality of life among sufferers.  

ICT Labor Market Needs: The Gap in Secondary School Graduate Soft Skills as a Challenge for the Educational System

2021 ◽  
Vol 138-139 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 195-220
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Czainska
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
School Students ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Ict Industry

The article deals with the topic of soft competences that should be acquired by secondary school students planning a professional career in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector. In connection with the assumed goal, the paper describes key trends on the labor market in the ICT sector, indicates soft skills related to those trends as identified, and presents the results of an analysis of curricula and class organization in domestic and foreign secondary schools providing education in occupations related to the ICT industry. It also provides draft recommendations for companies. The research was carried out over the years 2019–2020. Desk–research, Individual In–depth Interview (IDI), and Computer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI) methods were used, as appropriate at each stage of the work. As a result of the research, a competency gap was identified among secondary school students, a catalogue of soft competences was developed, and recommendations were formulated for the Polish educational system at ISCED Level 3 and for entities in the ICT sector.

Investigating students' engagement in epistemic and narrative practices of chemistry in the context of a story on gas behavior

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Pabuccu ◽  
S. Erduran
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Student Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Epistemic Practice

This study investigated secondary school students' engagement in epistemic and narrative practices of chemistry in the context of a chemistry story on gas behavior. Argumentation is an example of an epistemic practice in science and stories are one kind of narrative (Ricoeur, 1981). By using a chemistry story, the authors hoped to engage students in the argumentation processes by linking chemistry knowledge to everyday contexts (Erduran and Pabuccu, 2012). Student group discussions and written frames during the activity were used as data sources. Analysis of these student outcomes concentrated on (a) the nature of the students' discourse; (b) the quality of students' argumentation; and (c) students' conceptual understanding of gas behaviors. The authors categorized the nature of group discourse using five different codes, determined the quality of student argumentation by counting the number of rebuttals, and measured conceptual understanding through students' answers in the writing frames. The results of this study add to the literature seeking to understand how to develop students' engagement in the argumentation process, how to enhance the quality of students' argumentations, and how to improve their conceptual understanding of gas behaviors.

Prevalence of Acne Vulgaris among Secondary School Students and Its Impact on the Quality of Life in Ismailia , Egypt

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Khaled M. Abd Elaziz ◽  
Ahmed M. Shedid ◽  
Ekramy A. Elkhateeb ◽  
Naziha H. Khafagy
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Acne Vulgaris ◽  
School Students

Social and psychological characteristics of Greek secondary school students with learning difficulties

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 741-752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiriakos Zafiriadis ◽  
Miltos Livaditis ◽  
Kiriakos Xenitidis ◽  
Miranta Diamanti ◽  
Evgenia Tsatalmpasidou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
School Students

scholarly journals Secondary-school chemistry textbooks in the 19th century

2015 ◽  
Vol 80 (10) ◽  
pp. 1321-1338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Milanovic ◽  
Dragica Trivic ◽  
Biljana Tomasevic
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
School Students ◽  
Chemistry Textbooks ◽  
The 19Th Century

The teaching of chemistry in Serbia as a separate subject dates from 1874. The first secondary-school chemistry textbooks appeared in the second half of the 19th century. The aim of this paper is to gain insight, by analysing two secondary-school chemistry textbooks, written by Sima Lozanic (1895) and Mita Petrovic (1892), into what amount of scientific knowledge from the sphere of chemistry was presented to secondary school students in Serbia in the second half of the 19th century, and what principles textbooks written at the time were based on. Within the framework of the research conducted, we defined the criteria for assessing the quality of secondary-school chemistry textbooks in the context of the time they were written in. The most important difference between the two textbooks under analysis that we found pertained to the way in which their contents were organized. Sima Lozanic?s textbook is characterized by a greater degree of systematicness when it comes to the manner of presenting its contents and consistency of approach throughout the book. In both textbooks one can perceive the authors? attempts to link chemistry-related subjects to everyday life, and to point out the practical significance of various substances, as well as their toxicness.

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