scholarly journals The Smartphone Use in Indonesian Schools: The High School Students’ Perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karmila Machmud

<p> </p><p>The goal of this research is to investigate schools’ policy of using a mobile phone at schools from the perspective of secondary school students in Indonesia. It happens to be a long debate involving educators in Indonesia on whether or not the use of smartphone can be allowed in schools. So far, all we hear is the perspectives of teachers and schools’ administrators regarding the ban but never from the students, even though the students are the subject of these debates. This research is conducted in order to investigate, as well as to give the opportunity for students’ to voice their opinion, point of views, and perspectives toward the issue of banning smartphone use at schools. The data of this research was collected through online survey aimed at secondary schools’ students in Gorontalo, Indonesia. There are 250 students from 5 high schools have responded to the online surveys. The result shows that even though students mostly believe that the use of smartphone should be integrated into teaching and learning process, an appropriate policy of using it at school should be designed in order to get rid of the negative impact cause by it, and to maximize the use of it as a sophisticated resource to help students learn better at school.</p>

Retos ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 58-65
Author(s):  
Paloma Escamilla Fajardo ◽  
Mario Alguacil Jiménez ◽  
María Huertas González-Serrano

La práctica físico-deportiva genera numerosos beneficios para la salud, siendo la adolescencia uno de los periodos clave para la adquisición de estos hábitos. Por consiguiente, la materia de Educación Física es un escenario ideal para ello, encontrándose relación entre diversas variables (motivación deportiva, importancia de la Educación Física y clima motivacional), con la continuidad de la práctica físico-deportiva. Sin embargo, son escasos los estudios que han analizado la influencia que tiene practicar deporte de forma federada o no federada en estas variables. Es por ello, que los objetivos de este estudio son conocer las diferencias existentes en la motivación deportiva, el clima motivacional en las clases de Educación Física y la importancia que se le otorga a las clases de Educación Física, teniendo en cuenta si el alumno está federado en algún deporte o no, y averiguar si existen diferencias en las variables predictoras de la motivación deportiva intrínseca y extrínseca, dependiendo de si están federados. Se ha analizado una muestra compuesta por 267 estudiantes de secundaria, utilizándose como instrumento de medida un cuestionario. Los resultados muestran que existen diferencias en la motivación extrínseca y la importancia de la Educación Física según si los adolescentes practican deporte de forma federada o no. Además, aunque las variable predictoras de la motivación deportiva tanto intrínseca como extrínseca son las mismas para ambos grupos, la importancia de estas variables varía según si los adolescentes estaban federados o no. Por último, se presentan una serie de conclusiones e implicaciones prácticas para el diseño de las clases de Educación Física.Abstract. Physical-sports practice generates numerous health benefits, adolescence being one of the key periods for the acquisition of healthy habits. Therefore, the subject of Physical Education is an ideal scenario for it, as relations between diverse variables (sports motivation, importance of Physical Education and motivational climate) and the continuity of the physical-sports practice can be found in it. However, few studies have analysed the influence of practising sports in a federated or non-federated way on these variables. It is for this reason that the objectives of this study are: to know the existing differences in sports motivation, motivational climate in Physical Education classes, and importance given to Physical Education classes, taking into account whether the students are federated in any sport or not; and to find out whether there are differences in the variables predicting intrinsic and extrinsic sports motivation, depending on whether the students are federated. A sample of 267 secondary school students was analysed using a questionnaire as the measuring instrument. The results show that there are differences in the extrinsic motivation and importance of physical education depending on whether adolescents practice sport in a federated way or not. In addition, although the predictors of both intrinsic and extrinsic sports motivation are the same for both groups, the importance of these variables varies according to whether adolescents were federated or not. Finally, a series of conclusions and practical implications for the design of Physical Education classes are presented.


Author(s):  
Amani Mohammad Abdo Hakamy, Ikhlas Abdul Raqib Salam Al-Shar Amani Mohammad Abdo Hakamy, Ikhlas Abdul Raqib Salam Al-Shar

The study aimed to discover the relationship between psychological safety and smartphone among high school students in the Jazan Educational administration and to predict smartphone use addiction through the psychological safety among high school students in the Jazan Educational administration. and the researcher used the relational-descriptive method, and the Psychological Safety Scale was used by (Shukair: 2005), and smartphone Addiction Scale by (Alosaimai et, al.: 2016).The study sample consisted of (430) female students from the secondary stage of the Jazan Educational administration, they were randomly selected from the three general secondary grades of the schools affiliated to Jazan Educational Administration Where the arithmetic mean of their ages (16.074), The results indicated the high level of psychological safety among the study sample of high school students, and the high level of smartphone use addiction among secondary school students. It also indicated that there is a negative correlation between psychological safety and smartphone use addiction among secondary school students at the significance level (0.01), and the possibility of predicting smartphone use addiction among secondary school students through the dimensions of psychological safety at the level of significance (0.01) through each degree of (the individual mood, the individual composition, and his vision for the future). The study recommends educating mothers and fathers about the correct educational methods in dealing with cases of children's smartphone addiction.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Itimad Jamil Al-Jaafreh Jamil Aljaafreh

Purpose: The study aimed to learn about the effectiveness of a program based on the Theory of TRIZ in the subject of physics to develop the skills of creative thinking and critical thinking among the high school students of the Southern al-Mazar Brigade, the study used the design like experimental, and was represented the tools of study in the Torrance test for creative thinking and the test of California for critical thinking, as a training program was built based on the theory of creative solution to problems.Methodology: The sample of the study consisted of ( 81) students of the first high school scientific which was chosen in the method of intent and the students are distributed on two randomly assigned school divisions as exacts and pilots, one (40) students and the exact group, and the other (41) students represented the experimental group.Findings: The results of the study showed that there are statistically significant differences in favor of the experimental group that indicates the effectiveness of the program in developing the skills of creative thinking and Critical thinking  among the students.


2013 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kadir, Jl ◽  
Mayjen S. Parman

Mathematical communication skills of junior secondary school students in coastal area are still considered low due to the lack of contextual problem technique in the teaching of mathematics. The various potencies of the coastal area have been damaged without any concern. It is interesting to investigate the contextual problem in mathematics teaching because it can be identified, required, and related to everyday life. The objective of this study is to enhance mathematical communication skills of junior secondary school students in the coastal area. Using coastal-based contextual teaching and learning (CCTL) can enhance: (1) students’ mathematical communication skills better than conventional teaching and learning (CVTL); and (2) the students’ learning activity, fluency of argument in problem solving process, advanced question skills, and knowledge of coastal area potencies and problems.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (04) ◽  
pp. 506-511
Author(s):  
Eunice a ◽  
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N. Anumudu ◽  
Adedapo I. Yemi ◽  
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Mathematics is an essential part of the education system in Nigeria. However, it is perceived among learners as a tedious and challenging subject. The primary objective of the current study was to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics using improvisation. The study also examined the role of students location on mathematics learning when the learning material is improvised. The population of the study included secondary school students in both rural and urban areas of Enugu State. A total of 68 secondary school students constituted the study samples. A quasi-experimental design was used. Two hypotheses were tested, and it was concluded that improvisation of learning material enhances students performance in mathematics. Also, the study found that students location does not affect performance in mathematics when instructional material is improvised. The findings and recommendations are discussed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-118
Author(s):  
Olusola Samson

Empirical observations reveal low enrolment of senior secondary school students for physical education at external examination bodies. The poor rate of students' choice of the subject at this level is a matter of concern to professionals, given the fact of monumental benefits of physical education as a science subject to humanity. The study was conducted to examine how psycho-administrative factors influence the choice of physical education by senior secondary school students at external examination bodies (in Nigeria) to come up with modalities to increase enrolment of the subject at external examination bodies. Descriptive method was applied for the study due to large respondents involved. Self-developed validated questionnaire tagged psycho-administrative determinants for choice of physical education among senior secondary school students at external examination bodies (PADGPEAS) was applied for the research. Out of three thousand and twenty-four (3024) questionnaire forms administered, only two thousand and fifty (2950) copies completed and returned were coded for analysis, with the use of descriptive statistics of percentages and nonparametric statistics of Chi-square (x 2) at 0.05 level of significant. Results unraveled a remarkable influence of psycho-administrative variables on the choice at physical education among senior secondary school students at external examination bodies. Based on this outcome, it is suggested that utilization of variety of methods by physical education teachers will go a long way to kindle the interest of the students for the subject. Enlightenment of students and parents on the values of physical education will facilitate remarkable positive attitude of both parts that relocate their position in favor of the subject.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sônia Palha

Interactive Virtual Math (IVM) is a visualization tool to support secondary school students’ learning of graphs by dynamic events. In the prototype version students construct a graph and try to improve it themselves and with the feedback of the tool. In a small-scale experiment, which involved four classes at secondary and tertiary education and their mathematics teachers we investigated how the students used the tool in the classroom. In this study we focus on the students learning experience and the results are expected to provide knowledge and directions for further development of the tool. The corpus data consists of self-reported questionnaires and lessons observations. One main finding is that students, at different school levels, find the tool useful to construct or improve graphical representations and it can help to get a better understanding of the subject. The tool features that helped students most were the self-construction of the graphs and to get feedback about their own graph at the end. Other findings are that the students can work independently with the tool and we know more about the tool features that are attractive or need to be improved.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Isnatul Husniah ◽  
Habiddin Habiddin ◽  
Muhammad Sua’idy ◽  
Nuryono Nuryono

This paper outlines the development and validation of a Four-tier instrument in the topic of salt hydrolysis (FTISH). The instrument was developed by using the procedure of FTDICK instrument as published by Habiddin & Page (2019). This study was a part of other separates studies conducted by other groups of researchers including Devita, Habiddin & Suaidy (2019) (in press). This study involved 127 students in total and data collection were carried out two times involving 64 students in the first data collection and 63 students in the second one. The participants of both groups were public secondary school students from Malang. The FTISH consists of 23 questions. The results show that the validity of the questions ranged between 0.263 and 0.745. The reliability of the instrument was 0.80 and falls in the high category. The future implementation of the instrument to support the teaching and learning of salt hydrolysis are also discussed.


Author(s):  
Abigail González Maldonado ◽  
Mario Sánchez Aguilar

ResumenEn este artículo se reporta una investigación en la cual se intenta averiguar si los estudiantes pueden adquirir habilidades necesarias para realizar factorizaciones algebraicas, utilizando software matemático. Para contestar la interrogante de la investigación, se aplicaron actividades a estudiantes de nivel secundaria y bachillerato, donde debían calcular factorizaciones algebraicas con ayuda del software GeoGebra, posteriormente se les pedía que buscaran patrones en los resultados que arrojaba el software para poder generar una factorización general. Después de analizar los resultados de la experimentación se encontró́ que los estudiantes son capaces de producir factorizaciones algebraicas generales, aunque presentan ciertas dificultades. Este trabajo cierra haciendo una discusión de las implicaciones que pueden tener los resultados encontrados.AbstractThis paper describes a research study focused on finding out if mathematics students can acquire skills necessary to perform algebraic factorizations by using mathematical software. To answer the research question, a group of lower secondary school students and high school students were involved in mathematical activities where there should calculate algebraic factorizations using the software GeoGebra, then they were asked to look for patterns in the results generated by the software in order to produce a general factorization. After analyzing the results of the experimentation, it was found that students are able to produce general algebraic factorizations, but some of them have some difficulties in doing so. This work is closed by a discussion of the implications of the research results.


2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sibnath Deb ◽  
Esben Strodl ◽  
Jiandong Sun

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the prevalence of academic stress and exam anxiety among private secondary school students in India as well as the associations with socio-economic and study-related factors. Design/methodology/approach – Participants were 400 adolescent students (52 percent male) from five private secondary schools in Kolkata who were studying in grades 10 and 12. Participants were selected using a multi-stage sampling technique and were assessed using a study-specific questionnaire. Findings – Findings revealed that 35 and 37 percent reported high or very high levels of academic stress and exam anxiety respectively. All students reported high levels of academic stress, but those who had lower grades reported higher levels of stress than those with higher grades. Students who engaged in extra-curricula activities were more likely to report exam anxiety than those who did not engage in extra-curricula activities. Practical implications – Private high school students in India report high levels of academic stress and exam anxiety. As such there is a need to develop effective interventions to help these students better manage their stress and anxiety. Originality/value – This is the first study the authors are aware of that explores the academic stress levels of private secondary school students in India. The study identifies factors that may be associated with the experience of high levels of stress that need to be explored further in future research.


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