scholarly journals Leisure Patterns and Values in Adolescents from Serbia born in 1990s: An Attempt at Building a Bridge between the Two Domains

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (4/2019) ◽  
pp. 99-123
Author(s):  
Ivana Stepanović Ilić ◽  
Marina Videnović ◽  
Nebojša Petrović
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Media ◽  
Post War ◽  
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This work is an attempt at empirically establishing a relation between leisure and values in adolescents. Being new, this topic could help a broader understanding of youth leisure and its association with inner psychological dispositions, but also with specific social context (prolonged economic crisis and post-war environment). Five typical leisure patterns were previously identified: academic, sports, going out, following celebrities in the media and music, and computers pattern. The main objective was to discover whether students with high and low scores on these patterns differ regarding their values. The sample consisted of 2426 Serbian secondary school students from 9 towns. A discriminant analysis was performed and showed that it was possible to identify a specific mix of personal and social values for every leisure pattern. This confirms the existence of a relation between students’ behaviour during free time and their values, expressed as a preference for specific personal and social goals. The resultss imply that connecting two domains is achievable and fruitful in both ways. The identified leisure patterns contribute to a more detailed and elaborate portrayal of adolescents’ values but those values also bring a new insight into specific features of adolescents’ behaviour during leisure time.

Smart Girls, Dumb Boys!?

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Latsch ◽  
Bettina Hannover
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Stereotype Threat ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
School Students ◽  
Compensatory Strategies ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
Stereotype Lift ◽  
The Media

We investigated effects of the media’s portrayal of boys as “scholastic failures” on secondary school students. The negative portrayal induced stereotype threat (boys underperformed in reading), stereotype reactance (boys displayed stronger learning goals towards mathematics but not reading), and stereotype lift (girls performed better in reading but not in mathematics). Apparently, boys were motivated to disconfirm their group’s negative depiction, however, while they could successfully apply compensatory strategies when describing their learning goals, this motivation did not enable them to perform better. Overall the media portrayal thus contributes to the maintenance of gender stereotypes, by impairing boys’ and strengthening girls’ performance in female connoted domains and by prompting boys to align their learning goals to the gender connotation of the domain.

Source-Based Writing in Secondary School

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
Tamara Kavytska ◽  
Vyacheslav Shovkovyi ◽  
Viktoriia Osidak
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Procedural Knowledge ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Schema Theory ◽  
School Students ◽  
General Hypothesis ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Processing Information ◽  
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This chapter examines the instructional intervention aimed at enhancing source-based compare-contrast writing in the secondary school students. Conceptually, it relies on the schema theory as a cognitive basis for integrated reading-writing instruction. The theory asserts that writing and reading both generate meaning using similar cognitive processes and types of knowledge: meta-knowledge of reading and writing strategies in relation to communicative goals, domain and textual knowledge, procedural knowledge that involves integrating writing and processing information while reading the text. Methodologically, the instruction is based on read-write cycle and was carried out in a secondary public school of Kyiv, with the 10th-grade students being the participant (n=22). The general hypothesis about a positive impact of read-write cycle instruction is partially confirmed in the research, which is an indication of the necessity to give further insight into the issue.

scholarly journals A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Examining learners’ illustrations to understand Attitudes towards Mathematics

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-248
Author(s):  
Farhat Syyeda ◽  
Farhat Syyeda
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
School Students ◽  
Exploratory Case Study ◽  
East Midlands ◽  
Mathematical Symbols ◽  
Insight Into

This article presents my experience of using pictures/images drawn by children as a form of data in research and discusses the merits and implications of employing this method. It comes from research of a mixed method exploratory case study to investigate the attitudes of 11 and 15 year old secondary school students (in the East Midlands) towards Mathematics. The aim of this research was to gain an insight into the emotions, cognition, beliefs and behaviour of learners regarding Maths and the factors which influence their attitude. Besides using the tried and tested data collection tools such as focus groups and questionnaires, the children were asked to draw pictures illustrating their vision of Maths and its impact on their lives. The idea was to offer them an alternative medium of communication to exhibit their feelings and thoughts. Students used emoticons, numerals, figures, characters and mathematical symbols to show their favourable/unfavourable attitudes towards Maths and their understanding of the importance of Maths in future life. The results of visual data in this study conform to the findings of the other forms of data collected and show that boys and higher ability students have a more positive attitude towards Mathematics as compared to girls and low ability students.

scholarly journals The status of new English loanwords in the language of secondary school students

Bastina ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 111-123
Author(s):  
Valentina Gavranović ◽  
Marijana Prodanović
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Status ◽  
Global Language ◽  
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Language change is an important characteristic of any language, and its manifestations are most obvious in the structure and content of the lexicon. The lexicon of the Serbian language has been changing not only as a result of various word formation processes, but also under the influence of the process of borrowing, particularly from the English language, nowadays a dominant global language which permeates all areas of human activity. English loanwords play a significant role in the change of the lexicon of the Serbian language, and are being adopted and used in everyday oral and written communication, particularly by younger people, who are more open to accept these changes. This paper investigates the status of some English loanwords among secondary school students, and how these words affect their lexicon. The research focuses on the analysis of students' answers to the questions containing a corpus of selected loanwords taken from the dictionary 'Rečnik novijih anglicizama' (Vasić et al., 2001), whose aim is to determine which English loanwords have already been assimilated and perceived as words of domestic origin, and which words are still felt as foreign by the students. This paper also investigates semantic characteristics of these loanwords, and how the students use them and understand their original meaning. The analysis of the answers casts a deeper insight into the way loanwords are used in the target language the longer they stay therein.

scholarly journals Invertebrate-Interactive Dichotomous Key Media: Enhance Students Learning Motivation in Lower Secondary School

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 669-673
Author(s):  
Rizhal Hendi Ristanto ◽  
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Mieke Miarsyah ◽  
Ilena Amalia Luthfi ◽  
Endah Kristiani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Lower Secondary School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Dichotomous Key ◽  
Invertebrate Animals ◽  
The Media ◽  
Expert Validation

The purpose of this research is to develop interactive learning media about classification of organisms. This research used modification of 4D method (Define, Design, Develop, and Disseminate from Thiagarajan et al., 1974). Invertebrate Interactive Dichotomous Key (Invertebrate-IDKM) is given in the learning at lower secondary school. Percentage of the expert validation is 80%. According to the validation result, we conclude that Invertebrate-IDKM is valid in the media, materials, languages, and eligible in the learning about the classification of organisms especially classification of invertebrate animals. Invertebrate-IDKM increases learning motivation especially lower secondary school students because it encourages interaction and use technology.

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