scholarly journals Student Motivation Profiles: Ukrainian Studies at the Postsecondary Level in Canada

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Alla Nedashkivska ◽  
Olena Sivachenko
Keyword(s):  
Student Motivation ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Learning Situation ◽  
L2 Motivation ◽  
Language Courses ◽  
Integrative Motivation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Motivation Profiles

The study investigates postsecondary student motivation and demotivation for studying Ukrainian language, culture, folklore, literature, linguistics, and history. Four groups of students from one Canadian postsecondary institution are studied: (i) students taking Ukrainian language courses; (ii) those in Ukrainian content courses; (iii) students who took a language course at the postsecondary level in the past but did not continue; and (iv) students active in the Ukrainian community who have never taken any Ukrainian studies courses at the postsecondary level but are potentially interested in Ukrainian studies.The analysis is grounded in Dörnyei’s motivational framework, which categorizes L2 motivation into three levels: the language level (in this study, ‘subject area’), the learner level, and the learning situation level (“Motivation”). The subject area level deals with reasons to learn certain subjects: instrumental and integrative motivation. The learner level focuses on learners’ personality traits and cognition. The learning situation level relates to learning environment. Dörnyei’s framework is employed to develop a motivational questionnaire, used as an instrument. The results are analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The quantitative data are elicited through participant responses to close-ended questions, showing the distribution and significance of various motivational factors in different groups of students under study. The qualitative analysis is based on participant responses to open-ended questions, allowing us to analyze both responses and perspectives on how their motivation relates to learning experience and the learning process overall. The combination of the two methods of analysis contributes to a multi-faceted understanding of motivational factors and yields pedagogical implications. The article concludes with a list of recommendations that stem from these analyses.

Subject Expertise and Teachers’ Knowledge

1998 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul G. Schempp ◽  
Dean Manross ◽  
Steven K.S. Tan ◽  
Matthew D. Fincher
Keyword(s):  
Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Student Motivation ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Perceptions Of Students ◽  
Subject Matter Expertise ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of

The purpose of the study was to ascertain the influence of subject matter expertise on teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge. Data were collected through multiple, extended interviews with 10 teachers with expertise in at least 1 subject area in physical education. Each teacher was interviewed 4 times for approximately 1 hour, focusing on the teacher’s familiarity with 2 content areas (1 expert and 1 nonexpert) and their experiences teaching the subjects. Data were analyzed using the constant comparative technique. The findings were presented with reference to Grossman’s (1990) definition of pedagogical content knowledge. Subject experts identified their largest pedagogical problem as student motivation, while nonexperts believed finding appropriate activities was their greatest challenge. Subject experts were more comfortable and enthusiastic about pedagogical duties and could accommodate a greater range of abilities. The experts and nonexperts revealed no differences in curricular selection, perceptions of students’ understanding of the subject, or evaluation criteria.

Reforming heat and power technology course using student feedback to enhance learning experience

2020 ◽  
pp. 030641901989993
Author(s):  
Ioanna Aslanidou ◽  
Nathan Zimmerman ◽  
Evangelia Pontika ◽  
Anestis I Kalfas ◽  
Konstantinos G Kyprianidis
Keyword(s):  
Student Performance ◽  
Student Motivation ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Student Feedback ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Essential Skills ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Insight Into

The main outcomes of an engineering course should be for the students to achieve the educational goals, enhance their problem solving capabilities and develop essential skills for their future career. In that context, it is important to understand what motivates the students and what helps them develop an engineering mind-set. This paper discusses the improvement of a course with the use of student feedback to motivate students and help them develop essential skills. The purpose of the paper is to provide insight into how different aspects of the course are linked to the students’ growth. Different activities have been integrated in the course over the past years. The effect these have on the student motivation to follow the course and develop skills, knowledge and interest in the subject is discussed through the analysis of student performance, student feedback and the experience of the lecturers. The improvements in the course based on the student feedback were received positively by the students, whose learning experience improved, even though the workload of the course was high. Their motivation to successfully complete the course has also increased through the changes in the delivery of the course and the support by the teachers. The combination of student feedback and teacher experience is key for the improvement of a course, while ensuring that the students develop their engineering knowledge. Therefore, the teachers should strike a balance between helping the students find the solution and encouraging them to think on their own in order to develop essential skills.

Macromedia Flash-Based Animations for Teaching of the Digital Signal Processing Principles

2011 ◽  
Vol 219-220 ◽  
pp. 1518-1522
Author(s):  
Kurban Ubul ◽  
Guljamal Ubul ◽  
Alim Aysa
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Digital Signal Processing ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Digital Signal ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
Computer Engineering ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
The Subject

Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is an important and growing subject area in Electrical/Computer Engineering (ECE), Computer Science and other Engineering/Science disciplines. Since 1997, the authors have taught an undergraduate DSP courses at Xinjiang University (XJU). While the subject of DSP has become very popular with ECE students and with the growing DSP job market, the subject matter is still considered to be a difficult and complex one for students. This paper presents an approach to teaching DSP basic concepts using a platform which developed by the tool, Macromedia Flash. The authors of XJU had enhanced the learning experience for their students by adding the platform to their class offering to reduce the difficulty of understanding the theoretical DSP.

scholarly journals Threshold Concepts and Students’ Learning Experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. p110
Author(s):  
Elvis Cornerstone
Keyword(s):  
Learning Experience ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Threshold Concepts ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Economics Students ◽  
Main Class ◽  
Undergraduate Economics ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Academic Year

This paper gives an account of students’ learning experience entrenched in threshold concepts for a group of second year undergraduate Economics students at Bangor University during the 2008/2009 academic year. The majority of students who were involved in the supplementary class were totally satisfied with the quality of the intervention. Most students benefited from the clear style of delivery used for the intervention. A large number of students managed to cope with the difficult topics in their main class after having their confidence level improved. This made it possible for such group to develop a good understanding of the subject area covered in their main class. Majority of the students had their expectations met due to the relevance and accuracy of the course content.

Recording Lectures, Streaming, Downloading, Podcasting, Vodcasting, and Webcasting

2008 ◽  
pp. 176-195
Author(s):  
Richard Caladine
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Student Interaction ◽  
Fundamental Part ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Efficient Learning

There can be a range of reasons to record lectures or presentations, from the creation of resources to meeting the needs of distant students. Of course recordings are one-way. The information in them flows from the recorded file to students and student interaction with recordings is generally limited to interacting with the controls of the player, that is, they can pause, stop, and replay the recording in part or in its entirety. It can be argued that this interaction adds another level of access to educational presentations. While this low level of interaction can have positive educational outcomes it cannot be equated with interactions between students and teachers. Clearly the person-to-person interactions have the potential for far greater educational outcomes ranging from the answering of questions to the exploration and extension of the subject area. In cases where students are distant from teachers and interact with recorded resources other technologies and techniques are need to provide viable two-way communications channels between them. All learning technologies impose on teaching and learning activities and recordings of presentations are no exception. It is argued that recordings by themselves seldom, if ever, are sufficient for effective and efficient learning in higher education. However, it is suggested that recordings when used in conjunction with other learning technologies and techniques can be a fundamental part of the learning experience.

scholarly journals PENINGKATAN PEMAHAMAN KONSEP DAN MOTIVASI BELAJAR SISWA MELALUI SIMULASI PHYSIC EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY (PhET)

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaerunnisak Khaerunnisak
Keyword(s):  
Student Motivation ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Education Technology ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Physic Education ◽  
Liquid Pressure ◽  
Reference Class ◽  
Virtual Lab ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Subject

Simulation of Physic Education Technology (PhET) is a simulation that contains about learning physics, chemistry and biology. PhET can replace a real lab into a virtual lab for PhET simulations can provide a learning experience at the same time play. This study aims to determine the effect PhET simulations of improving understanding the concept of the material liquid pressure and to determine the effect PhET simulations to increase student motivation to learn the material pressure liquid. Subjects in this study were students VIIIA and VIIIB MTsS Insan Quranic, Aceh Besar, with the number of students are 30 children. The VIIIA Class is the reference class in this study and the VIIIB classis the subject of experimental class. This study used a quasi-experimental. The instrumen  research used understanding test of concepts and questionnaires. The conseptual understanding is conducted by pretest and posttest, each of the testconsisting of 15 questions choice. The questionnaire to measure students motivationusing Likert scale.Keywords: PhET Simulation, Conseptual Understanding, Learning Motivation

Philosophical and Cultural Aspects of Medical Profession: Philosophical and Conceptual Peculiarities

Cultura ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-174
Author(s):  
Iryna MELNYCHUK ◽  
Nadiya FEDCHYSHYN ◽  
Oleg PYLYPYSHYN ◽  
Anatolii VYKHRUSHCH
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Cultural Proximity ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ecological Culture ◽  
High Level

The article analyzes the philosophical and cultural view of “doctor’s professional culture” as a result of centuries-old practice of human relations, which is characterized by constancy and passed from generation to generation. Medicine is a complex system in which an important role is played by: philosophical outlook of a doctor, philosophical culture, ecological culture, moral culture, aesthetic culture, artistic culture. We have found that within the system “doctor-patient” the degree of cultural proximity becomes a factor that influences the health or life of a patient. Thus, the following factors are important here: 1) communication that suppresses a sick person; 2) the balance of cultural and intellectual levels; 3) the cultural environment of a patient which has much more powerful impact on a patient than the medical one.At the present stage, the interdependence of professional and humanitarian training of future specialists is predominant, as a highly skilled specialist can not but become a subject of philosophizing. We outlined the sphere where the doctors present a genre variety of philosophizing (philosophical novels, apologies, dialogues, diaries, aphorisms, confessions, essays, etc.). This tradition represents the original variations in the formation of future doctor’s communicative competences, which are formed in the process of medical students’ professional training.A survey conducted among medical students made it possible to establish their professional values, which are indicators of the formation of philosophical and culturological competence. It was found out that 92% of respondents believed that a doctor should demonstrate a high level of health culture (avoid drinking and smoking habits, etc.)99% of respondents favoured a high level of personal qualities of a doctor which would allow methods and forms of medical practice to assert higher human ideals of truth, goodness and beauty that are the subject area of cultural studies and philosophy.

New Approaches to Understanding Judicial Ethics in the Information

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-32
Author(s):  
E. V. Burdina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Judicial Administration ◽  
Personal Approach ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
The Subject

Introduction. The article is devoted to the problems of the essence and content of judicial ethics in the new conditions of the technical revolution and with other social needs for legal regulation. Theoretical Basis. Methods. The work used a systematic, activity-personal approach to the study of moral and ethical standards of the conduct of judges. This made it possible to reveal a new and broader view on judicial ethics, which is not simply a set of moral restrictions and obligations imposed on a judge. Results. The work has identified and analysed the signs of judicial ethics at the current stage of development. It is argued that ethical regulation is precautionary in relation to the legal regulation of the independence of judges, for they complement ethical rules and reinforce legal norms. The ethical conduct of judges is an instrument guaranteeing judicial independence in all of its manifestations, including in organisational and judicial relations. The new realities of our time recognise the expansion of boundaries and the subject area itself of ethical regulation. A broader view on judicial ethics, which differs from the traditional one, is hereby justified. The latter is defined in two ways – namely both as a system of professional values, as well as a means of judicial administration based on the principle of self-regulation. By its very nature, judicial ethics is the result (and the way) of judicial self-governance, developed on the basis of the experience of functioning bodies of the judicial community. Discussion and Conclusion. Conclusions are drawn on both the instrumental and the managerial impact of the categories of ethics. The subject of judicial ethics has been defined, which constitutes the rules of conduct of judges in the performance of their professional duties and beyond – namely the set of general principles of work of a judge, as well as the personal qualities of a judge personifying the judicial power. Proposals on the optimisation of the mechanism of ethical influence, differentiation of ethical and disciplinary norms have also been substantiated.

Construction of an Achievement Test in General Science for Class IX Based on NCERT Syllabus

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sailendra Bhuyan ◽  
Punita Borpuzari Deori
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Achievement Test ◽  
General Science ◽  
School Students ◽  
The People ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Time Changes ◽  
Teaching Learning

Achievement test is of very important assessment tool to evaluate the student’s current level of knowledge and skill acquired from classroom instruction. This test is designed to evaluate the student’s level of achievement in a particular subject for a particular class prescribed under the board or the university. In other words, to assess how much the pupils have achieved the educational objectives in teaching learning process at the end of the course and if achieved then to what extent, it has been achieved. Achievement tests are proved to be very helpful in various ways to the people who are involved in the field of education such as the teachers, the administrators, the planners, to the parents as well as for the students. The teacher very carefully develops and conduct achievement test in the class which enable the teacher to get an overall idea of the progress or the level of achievement of his students in the subject area. The teacher can determine the pupil’s strength and weakness in the subject area. So, based on this the teacher can take necessary remedial instructional strategies for the betterment of the pupil’s progress. In the same time, it also provides feedback for the teaching efficiency of the teacher.As with the time changes there have been many educational reforms taken place and in between syllabus had also been changed under different Boards of Studies. In order to maintain uniform standard of education the Government has formulated a policy to implement NCERT syllabus common to all School Boards throughout the country and accordingly the State Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA) follow NCERT syllabus and to evaluate students’ achievement in terms of the policy formulated by the Board. Till now, no any standardized achievement test has been conducted for the secondary school students of Assam. Therefore, the investigators felt to construct and standardize an achievement test in the subject General Science which will definitely help in educational research.

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