scholarly journals Educational Benefits of Kahoot! in Enhancing Skills: Investigating Students’ Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Le Nguyen Ai Nhan ◽  
Kieu Thi Thu Trang ◽  
Nguyen Thi Quyen
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Educational Benefits ◽  
Repeated Measures Anova ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Knowledge Enhancement ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Skill Enhancement ◽  
Skill Improvement ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

This study focuses on exploring the contribution of Kahoot! to students’ skill enhancement. We set out to determine students’ perceived judgments on how much their skills have improved as a result of using Kahoot! inside classrooms. Deviating from several related research, we not only looked at the effects of playing Kahoot! games but also of creating Kahoot! games. Using a survey that takes Bloom’s taxonomy as its theoretical foundations, we elicited judgments from 95 university freshmen, sophomores, and juniors. Students’ self-reports were analyzed using a series of one-way repeated measures ANOVA, which reveals a number of interesting results. First, students reported significant skill improvement when they played Kahoot! during class and even more so when they themselves were involved in the creation of Kahoot! games. Second, not all of the examined skills are subject to the same degree of improvements, leaving some room for educators to ponder how they can use gamification to effectively develop students’ comprehensive skill set. Thirdly, freshmen and juniors reported the highest amount of skill improvements, indicating that certain game-based applications might be helpful for only certain groups of students. Taken together, we suggest that Kahoot! games can be utilized in classrooms for both knowledge enhancement and effective skill improvement.

One Size Fits All?

Methodology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel C. Voelkle ◽  
Patrick E. McKnight
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Type I Error ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Type I ◽  
Finite Sample ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Repeated Measures Anova ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Latent Curve

The use of latent curve models (LCMs) has increased almost exponentially during the last decade. Oftentimes, researchers regard LCM as a “new” method to analyze change with little attention paid to the fact that the technique was originally introduced as an “alternative to standard repeated measures ANOVA and first-order auto-regressive methods” (Meredith & Tisak, 1990, p. 107). In the first part of the paper, this close relationship is reviewed, and it is demonstrated how “traditional” methods, such as the repeated measures ANOVA, and MANOVA, can be formulated as LCMs. Given that latent curve modeling is essentially a large-sample technique, compared to “traditional” finite-sample approaches, the second part of the paper addresses the question to what degree the more flexible LCMs can actually replace some of the older tests by means of a Monte-Carlo simulation. In addition, a structural equation modeling alternative to Mauchly’s (1940) test of sphericity is explored. Although “traditional” methods may be expressed as special cases of more general LCMs, we found the equivalence holds only asymptotically. For practical purposes, however, no approach always outperformed the other alternatives in terms of power and type I error, so the best method to be used depends on the situation. We provide detailed recommendations of when to use which method.

Time of imagery’s effect on performance and self-efficacy in college baseball players

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Colton Haight ◽  
Sandra Moritz ◽  
Tanis Walch
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Group Interaction ◽  
Physical Effect ◽  
Baseball Players ◽  
Repeated Measures Anova ◽  
Significant Time ◽  
Imagery Group ◽  
College Baseball ◽  
Group 2

AbstractThe relationships among the time of imagery use on performance and self-efficacy in college baseball players during a hitting task was examined. Participants (n=24) were randomly assigned to one of three imagery conditions: (a) before practice, (b) during practice, (c) after practice. A one-shot MG-M imagery intervention was used. Results from a 3 (imagery group) ×2 (pretest and posttest) repeated measures ANOVA showed only a significant time by imagery group interaction for self-efficacy (F (2, 21)=4.67, p<0.05). These findings suggest that imagery had a stronger psychological effect than physical effect.

scholarly journals Differences in Graphomotor Skills by the Writing Medium and Children’s Gender

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Boram No ◽  
Naya Choi
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Repeated Measures Anova ◽  
Surface Textures ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Print Size ◽  
Writing Practice ◽  
Pressure Analysis

Factors of graphomotor skills may serve as indicators to determine a writer’s handwriting proficiency or acclimation to different writing surface textures. This study examines differences in children’s graphomotor skills based on types of writing medium and gender. Participants were 97 six-year-old Korean preschool children who had not received formal writing training prior to the study. Writing tasks were completed on a tablet screen and paper. Writing samples were analyzed using the Eye and Pen software to investigate spatial, temporal, and pressure exertion exhibited during the writing tasks. A repeated measures ANOVA revealed differences in graphomotor skills such as print size, writing speed, and writing pressure. Writing on a tablet screen decreased clarity of writing; print size and speed increased as the stylus slides across the tablet surface with relatively less friction, thereby decreasing the exertion of writing pressure. Analysis of writing differences according to gender indicated that boys generated larger print sizes than girls. Results suggest that while simple writing tasks may be feasible on the tablet screen, providing children with a larger writing medium and encouraging larger print sizes for writing practice, especially for boys, may be beneficial in the development of graphomotor skills among young learners.

Actual Issues оf Bilingual Hungarian-Bulgarian Lexicography

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-129
Author(s):  
Lilyana Lesnichkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Academic English ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Selection Of

The article focuses on the presentation of the Hungarian-Bulgarian valence dictionary, which is currently in preparation, against the background of an extremely actual task – the creation of an academic English-Bulgarian dictionary, adequately reflecting the current state of vocabulary in both languages. The author substantiates the need for such a dictionary, given the lack of general and specialized Hungarian-Bulgarian dictionaries, based on the theoretical foundations and principles of modern lexicography. Outlined are the main features of the dictionary, the specificities and approaches in the work of its compilation. The selection of material and the methods of its presentation are in accordance with the practical needs of learners of Hungarian as a foreign language.

The Mobile Thriving Respite With and for the Street Community

2021 ◽  
pp. 002216782110467
Author(s):  
Robert McInerney ◽  
Kelsey Long ◽  
Rachel Stough
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Institutional Review Board ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Institutional Review Board Approval ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Emergent Strategy ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

We report on our work with the street community of Pittsburgh, specifically, a community-based action initiative we call the Mobile Thriving Respite (Institutional Review Board approval was obtained from our university). For 5 years, student advocate ethnographers from Point Park University have gathered data (e.g., long- and short-term interviews, participant-observations generating fieldnotes). The data revealed and supported the need for thriving beyond surviving homelessness. The data endorsed the creation of the mobile thriving respite. In the first part of this work, we will discuss some critical concepts regarding homelessness as a phenomenon and then argue that while surviving as enduring is necessary, there are some for whom survival is a perpetual, lethal state of being. We will discuss the theoretical foundations to the respite and offer researchers’ ethnographic accounts of the respite’s process and progress (We had to temporarily end the respite during the Covid-19 pandemic. To date, the respite has returned with “pop up” events outside at various locations). We will outline how the mobile thriving respite is a praxis as site of resistance as well as an emergent strategy, and an instantiation of communitas. We will then revisit surviving as collectively bearing witness and testifying to the lived experiences of those living outside.

scholarly journals Legal regulation of the digitalization process of Ukrainian archive space

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
D. Vasylenko ◽  
L. Butko
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
General Concept ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Scientific Principles ◽  
Systematic Development ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
State Regional

The problem statement. Archival sphere can fit organically into the general concept of digital transformation of Ukraine’s economy. The creation of digital format of archival institutions should be based on identical branch standards and rules for the creation, preserving, accounting, description, using of digital copies in order to ensure a single collaboration algorithm between state, regional and municipal authority levels. The purpose of the research is to analyze the new trends of the management system of the archival sphere from the perspective of regulatory support for the implementation of digitalization tools of Ukrainian archival institutions. The methodology. To resolve the tasks of the research were used traditional complex of common scientific principles (determinism, imaging, unity of opposites) and methods (analysis and synthesis, systematic and structural, questionnaire, content-analysis, observation, statistical). The results. The article analyzes the legal tools as an element of state regulation of digitalization of the Ukrainian archival space. The results of the study were confirmed by a sociological survey on the topic “Do we need to adjust the regulatory basis the archival branch to the digitalization contexts?”. The scientific novelty of the research is to develop the theoretical foundations in the branch of archival sphere management due to context of regulatory support for provision of digitalization issue, including methods of analysis, synthesis and systematization, to generate the problem of introducing the modernizational legislation to manage the digitalization of archival sphere. Conclusions. It is reviewed in the research the influence of the state regulation on the task of systematic development of Ukrainian branch standards and other legal documentation, which is created to regulate the requirements of creation, accounting, preserving, and use of electronic document copies, as well as the collaboration between the archival institutions with stakeholders within a single online platform.

scholarly journals Microhardness evaluation of root dentin after using resin sealer solvents

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 256-261
Author(s):  
Gamze Nalci ◽  
Tayfun Alaçam ◽  
Bülent Altukaynak
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Saline Solution ◽  
Prolonged Exposure ◽  
Repeated Measures Anova ◽  
Ultrasonic Agitation ◽  
Gutta Percha ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Root Dentin ◽  
Substantial Decline ◽  
Hardness Values

Background. This study aimed to assess the effects of methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) and ethyl acetate (EA) on dentin microhardness, used as resin sealer solvents. Methods. Eighty halves of single-rooted teeth were randomly divided into four groups to apply MEK, EA, chloroform, or saline solution. Vickers hardness values were measured for three root levels before and after the direct application of solvents for 5 and 15 minutes or a 1-minute application with ultrasonic agitation. The results were analyzed using repeated-measures ANOVA, and adjustments were made for comparisons with Bonferroni tests. Results. The dentin microhardness decreased in all the solvent groups (P<0.05). The changes in microhardness increased with prolonged exposure times, except for the saline solution group. Chloroform exhibited the most significant decrease in value. Furthermore, ultrasonic agitation elicited a more substantial decline in values. Conclusion. MEK and EA might be preferred over chloroform as a solvent for resin sealers because they offer an attenuated decrease in dentin microhardness and do not have gutta-percha-dissolving properties.

scholarly journals Analyzing randomized controlled interventions: Three notes for applied linguists

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Vanhove
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Intervention Studies ◽  
Mixed Effects ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Cluster Randomization ◽  
Repeated Measures Anova ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Mixed Effects Modeling ◽  
Statistical Formalism ◽  
Relevant Covariates

I discuss three common practices that obfuscate or invalidate the statistical analysis of randomized controlled interventions in applied linguistics. These are (a) checking whether randomization produced groups that are balanced on a number of possibly relevant covariates, (b) using repeated measures ANOVA to analyze pretest-posttest designs, and (c) using traditional significance tests to analyze interventions in which whole groups were assigned to the conditions (cluster randomization). The first practice is labeled superfluous, and taking full advantage of important covariates regardless of balance is recommended. The second is needlessly complicated, and analysis of covariance is recommended as a more powerful alternative. The third produces dramatic inferential errors, which are largely, though not entirely, avoided when mixed-effects modeling is used. This discussion is geared towards applied linguists who need to design, analyze, or assess intervention studies or other randomized controlled trials. Statistical formalism is kept to a minimum throughout.

scholarly journals Αξιολόγηση της πρώιμης νευροεξελικτικής παρέμβασης στη νευροαναπτυξιακή πορεία πρόωρων νεογνών υψηλού κινδύνου

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Μαρία Κυριακίδου
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
T Test ◽  
Repeated Measures Anova ◽  
Kolmogorov Smirnov ◽  
One Way Anova

Τα ποσοστά θνητότητας των υψηλού κινδύνου πρόωρων νεογνών έχουν σταθεροποιηθεί και συνεπώς η μελέτη των στρατηγικών μείωσης των υψηλών ποσοστών νευροαναπτυξιακών διαταραχών είναι απαραίτητη. Τα υψηλού κινδύνου πρόωρα νεογνά πρέπει να συμμετέχουν σε προγράμματα πρώιμης παρέμβασης από πολύ νωρίς, λόγω της αυξημένης πλαστικότητας του αναπτυσσόμενου εγκεφάλου. Παρόλα αυτά, η αποτελεσματικότητα της παρέμβασης σε όλα τα ΥΚ πρόωρα νεογνά δεν είναι ξεκάθαρη. Έχει αποδειχτεί, ότι οι πρώιμες αναπτυξιακές παρεμβάσεις που ξεκινούν μετά την έξοδο από το νοσοκομείο, βελτιώνουν τη γνωστική ανάπτυξη των νεογνών αλλά το αποτέλεσμα αυτό δε διατηρείται στη σχολική ηλικία. Η απόδειξη των επιδράσεων της πρώιμης παρέμβασης στην κινητική ανάπτυξη είναι ελλιπής. Επομένως, στόχος της παρούσας μελέτης ήταν να αξιολογήσει την επίδραση της πρώιμης παρέμβασης με τη μέθοδο NDT στη γνωστική και κινητική έκβαση ΥΚ πρόωρων νεογνών, μέχρι τη διορθωμένη ηλικία των 18 μηνών αλλά και να συσχετίσει νεογνικούς και περιγεννηρικούς παράγοντες με τη γνωστική και κινητική έκβαση. Στη μελέτη εισήχθησαν νεογνά με ΔΚ≤32 εβδομάδων και ΒΓ≤1500 γραμμαρίων. Αποκλείστηκαν, νεογνά με χρωματοσωμικές ανωμαλίες, μείζονες συγγενείς ανωμαλίες και γενετικά σύνδρομα. Επίσης, αποκλείστηκαν τα νεογνά που στη διορθωμένη ηλικία των 18 μηνών διαγνώστηκαν με εγκεφαλική παράλυση. Συνολικά, 147 νεογνά πληρούσαν τα κριτήρια εισαγωγής και εφαρμόστηκε η δοκιμασία ΤΙΜΡ στη ΔΗ των 38-41 εβδομάδων. Από αυτά, 73 τυχαιοποιήθηκαν στην ομάδα παρέμβασης και 74 στην ομάδα ελέγχου. Η ομάδα παρέμβασης ακολούθησε πρόγραμμα φυσικοθεραπείας με τη μέθοδο NDT με συχνότητα 2 φορές την εβδομάδα, για ένα έτος ενώ η ομάδα ελέγχου εφάρμοσε πρόγραμμα οδηγιών στο σπίτι 2 φορές την εβδομάδα, για ένα έτος. Στη στατιστική ανάλυση χρησιμοποιήθηκε το t-test, η one-way ANOVA, ο έλεγχος χ² κατά Pearson, repeated measures ANOVA και ο έλεγχος κατά Greenhouse-Geisser. Επιπρόσθετα, χρησιμοποιήθηκε ο έλεγχος Kolmogorov-Smirnov. Το ΒΓ και η ΔΚ των νεογνών στις δύο ομάδες ήταν 1325,18 (±368,46) γρ και 30,55 (±1,6) εβδ, αντίστοιχα, στην ομάδα παρέμβασης και 1440,18 (±293,61) και 30,76 (±1,6) στην ομάδα ελέγχου, αντίστοιχα. Η διαφορά δεν ήταν στατιστικά σημαντική. Οι δύο ομάδες ήταν συγκρίσιμες ως προς τους περιγεννητικούς και νεογνικούς παράγοντες . Οι 2 ομάδες αξιολογήθηκαν στη διορθωμένη ηλικία των 3, 6, 12 και 18 μηνών. Οι δύο ομάδες είχαν στατιστικά σημαντική διαφορά στη διορθωμένη ηλικία των 3, 12 και 18 μηνών στη γνωστική και κινητική έκβαση με την ομάδα παρέμβασης να υπερέχει. Στη διορθωμένη ηλικία των 18 μηνών, η ομάδα παρέμβασης σημείωσε μέση βαθμολογία 108,83 (±9,39) στη γνωστική κλίμακα και 109,01 (±10,30) στην κινητική ενώ η ομάδα ελέγχου 99,18 (±7,31) στη γνωστική και 98,81 (±8,91) στην κινητική κλίμακα της δοκιμασίας Bayley III. Η φυσικοθεραπεία (p<0,0001), η IVH (p<0,0001), η πολυδυμία (p=0,008), η ΝΕΚ (p=0,001) και η διάρκεια χορήγησης Ο₂ (p=0,008) επηρέασαν σημαντικά στη βαθμολογία της γνωστικής έκβασης των πρόωρων νεογνών στη διορθωμένη ηλικία των 18 μηνών. Η φυσικοθεραπεία (p<0,0001), ήταν ο μοναδικός παράγοντας που επηρέασε σημαντικά τη βαθμολογία της κινητικής έκβασης των πρόωρων νεογνών στη διορθωμένη ηλικία των 18 μηνών. Τα ΥΚΠΝ επωφελούνται από το πρόγραμμα πρώιμης παρέμβασης με τη μέθοδο NDT, διότι βελτιώνουν την κινητική και γνωστική τους έκβαση μέχρι τη διορθωμένη ηλικία των 18 μηνών. Ως εκ τούτου, συστήνεται η εφαρμογή της μεθόδου κατά τη διάρκεια του 1ου έτους ζωής ως προληπτικό πρόγραμμα θεραπείας στα ΥΚΠΝ. Αδιαμφισβήτητα, μεγαλύτερης διάρκειας μακροχρόνιες παρακολουθήσεις απαιτούνται για να επιβεβαιώσουν ή να απορρίψουν τη διατήρηση των αποτελεσμάτων στην προσχολική ή σχολική ηλικία. Συστήνεται, ο παράγοντας φυσικοθεραπευτική παρέμβαση να συνυπολογίζεται στις πολυπαραγοντικές αναλύσεις διότι οδηγεί σε αξιόπιστη ερμηνεία των αποτελεσμάτων που αφορούν την έκβαση.

scholarly journals Facial attractiveness and lip morphology of Caucasian women

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 404-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zdzisław Lewandowski ◽  
Dariusz P. Danel
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Facial Attractiveness ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Repeated Measures Anova ◽  
Adult Men ◽  
Caucasian Women

Abstract Human lips are one of the most sexually dimorphic facial features. Although lip morphology is considered particularly important for female facial attractiveness no systematic empirical study has been conducted in this respect. This study aimed to investigate a relationship between female Caucasian facial attractiveness and their lip morphology. Two series of morphologically average composite portraits with digitally increased and decreased lip width and height measurements were assessed by adult men and women. Results were analysed using repeated measures ANOVA. When compared to the average lip shape both a decrease and an increase in lip width were associated with lower female facial attractiveness. A systematic increase in lip height from the lowest values to the highest, was associated with an increase in attractiveness scores. Attractiveness assessments of men and women did not differ significantly. The results show that perception of lip attractiveness may be intersexually congruent and that a variation in lip morphology may significantly affect female facial attractiveness.

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