scholarly journals Performance Effectiveness of Natural Science Using Productive Assessment Instruments at PGSD FKIP UNTAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Tahmid Sabri
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Science Learning ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Learning Performance ◽  
Primary School Teacher ◽  
Assessment Instruments ◽  
Assessment Activity ◽  
Primary School Teacher Education

This research started from "whether effective learning performance of Natural Sciences student using productive assessment instrument in PGSD FKIP Untan Pontianak?". This study aims to get a picture of the effectiveness of the performance of Natural Science Learning using productive assessment instruments in PGSD (Primary School Teacher Education). The method used is descriptive with a qualitative approach in the form of class research. The results obtained turns out when compared with the learning of Natural Sciences without using instruments of productive assessment, activity and result of students in learning have increased significantly. The hope of this research results can contribute to the improvement of the quality of natural science learning in PGSD which has implications on the acquisition of student learning in elementary school.

scholarly journals What is history? Views from a primary school teacher education programme

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Godsell
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary School Teacher ◽  
First Year ◽  
School Students ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Learning History ◽  
Primary School Teacher Education

This article focuses on how history as a concept is understood by first-year BA Education students. Students were asked to respond to the following questions: ‘what is history?’, ‘what is history to you?’ and ‘who writes history?’ Verbal and written consent was obtained from the students to participate in the study. Their answers demonstrated a concept of history that is imbued with a spatial and temporal as well as ideological and moral position. This article argues that, through the data, it seems that for these students the concept of history emerges as an object that is given a moral value, rather than history being seen as having value as a knowledge or skill set. I draw parallels between my findings and Donovan and Bransford’s work on how history is learnt by primary school students in the United States. There are clear similarities between the primary school understandings recorded in Donovan and Bransford, and first-year university understandings that emerged in the data of this study. This article argues that if history is understood as moral, as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, critical thinking and analytic skills which learning history can imbue are vastly diminished. Furthermore, this article uses Lauren Berlant’s concept of ‘cruel optimism’ to consider the implications of how the participating students understand what history is.

scholarly journals Portraits of primary school pre-service teachers at a South African university: Implications for nuanced student support

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarita Ramsaroop ◽  
Nadine Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
South African ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Student Support ◽  
Primary School Teacher ◽  
First Year ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Primary School Teacher Education

In this article, we report on a study of two South African primary school teacher education cohorts undertaken to investigate and understand their readiness to succeed in higher education and to plan support accordingly. Using the methodology of portraiture, we generated data from a combination of student questionnaires and examination results. Qualitative content analysis enabled the construction of six personas and three main themes. The portraits helped with an understanding of the complexity of the themes, in particular with how an identification of both the malleable and non-malleable elements affecting students' lives could inform and shape interventions for successful transition into university. More specifically, the dominance of particular characteristics in the personas provided information about which student groups required the most psychosocial and academic support and where it was required. The portraits also helped us to gauge the value of existing first-year initiatives, such as the educational excursion, for promoting student enculturation and in overcoming their initial anxieties and preconceptions. We argue for more nuanced information about students to inform a multi-pronged approach to student support that may extend much longer than teacher educators anticipate.

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