Application of Gaming as Strategy for Teaching Organic Nomenclature in a Brazilian Public School

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-200
Author(s):  
Viviane Amaral Porto ◽  
Vinicius Fernando da Silva Costa ◽  
Ivy Santos Soares ◽  
RICARDO SILVA PORTO
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Organic Molecules ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Great Difficulty ◽  
School Students ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Knowledge Assimilation ◽  
Research Types

Specific topics in chemistry, such as organic nomenclature, are often considered key subjects for understanding organic chemistry in high school. Several research types have already demonstrated that most high school students and even university students have great difficulty in this topic. In general, the problems come from the approach used to present these contents, sometimes superficial or without the use of interactive methodologies. This work aims to help the teaching & learning chemistry process by a game's applying, which consisted of building organic molecules using jelly beans and toothpicks, the previously published "Fastest Fingers." In the present work, we analyzed the positive impact that gaming can bring for the learning process and knowledge assimilation of this article's topic. This method mainly shows its importance when applied in a state that faces many issues in its education system, like Alagoas-Brazil. It was possible to notice that students' interaction and perception of the game, and molecules representation occurred more efficiently, thus favoring the learning and the interaction improvement between teachers and students.

scholarly journals The Academic Portfolio System (APS) Usage Intention of Senior High School Students in Taiwan

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8394
Author(s):  
Tsen-Yao Chang ◽  
Yu-Chieh Chiu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Subjective Norms ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Model Verification ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
School Students

Taiwan began to implement a new high school syllabus nationwide, in 2019. The Ministry of Education has also established a high school student Academic Portfolio System (APS) to collect the learning process of high school students for future university admissions references. However, during this period, high school students and their parents had many opinions on the implementation of the new system. There were even groups of students protesting. The main purpose of this research is to explore the factors that affect the system usage intentions of high school students. Based on the theory of reasoned action (TRA) and the technology acceptance model (TAM), this research established a research model. The research variables include system interface design, usefulness, ease of use, attitude, subjective norms, and usage intentions. A total of 712 questionnaires were collected from high school students in northern Taiwan. Data analysis is carried out in three stages: descriptive analysis, measurement model verification, and structural equation modeling. The results of the study found that system interface design has a significant impact on the perceived ease of use. Factors such as ease of use, usefulness, attitude, and subjective norms also have a significant positive impact on usage intention; ease of use and usefulness positively affect attitudes toward using. Finally, according to the results, some practical implications were proposed for implementation references from the perspectives of education authority, high schools, teachers, and students.

DISCIPLINE IN SCHOOLS: SOME ACTUAL ISSUES

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Wirth ◽  
◽  
Boris Aberšek ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
The Other ◽  
School Students ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The One ◽  
Senior High School Students

Discipline in class is essential. Without it the educational processes and teachings are difficult. In this manner curricula goals are almost impossible to achieve. There are and there always will be some kind of conflicts between teachers and students, but they should not evolve to become a problem. Teachers (especially elderly teachers) often express pessimism of contemporary students. They say that today's students have less knowledge, they do misbehave more often than previous generations. A study among students was conducted. It was trying to determine the rate of discipline in schools in Celje to see if these statements are true. The questionnaire to students of one primary and one high school in Celje, Slovenia were distributed. The answers from 234 students were received. On the one hand, it was found out that senior high school students have the worst level of discipline of all the grades tested. They themselves assess their class atmosphere as less disciplined. They report that teachers use a lot of time to calm the class down. All this is probably a factor in lower average grade that the senior high school students have. On the other hand, it was found out that teachers do not react to the disturbance or they are trying to be repressive. These are not the correct ways of dealing with discipline issues. Therefore, there are some recommended ways how teachers should react. Keywords: discipline in class, primary school, contemporary student, elderly teachers.

scholarly journals School-Based and PRECEDE-PROCEED-Model Intervention to Promote Physical Activity in the High School Students: Case Study of Iran

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baratali Rezapour ◽  
Firoozeh Mostafavi ◽  
Hamid Reza Khalkhali
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Vigorous Physical Activity ◽  
School Students ◽  
School Based Intervention ◽  
School Based ◽  
Sedentary Life Style

<p><strong>OBJECTIVES:</strong> Students attend sedentary life style and less like vigorous physical activity. This study investigated the effects of School-based intervention<strong> </strong>on increasing physical activity for decreasing obesity among high-school obese and overweight boys, based on the components of PRECEDE PROCEED Model, to participate in median - vigorous physical activity among the first Period of high school boys in the city of Urmia, Iran</p><p><strong>METHODS:</strong> This study was an experimental intervention that conducted at 4 high schools that were divided into 2 groups of intervention (40) and the control (40) male students, schools in junior high schools in Urmia.</p><p><strong>RESULTS:</strong> Three and six months after the intervention, significant differences were found between the experimental and control groups of schools, in the amount of students’ participation in vigorous physical activity (p&lt;0.01).</p><p><strong>CONCLUSIONS:</strong> According to the results, the school-based intervention and components of PRECEDE PROCEED Model had a positive impact on the improvement of physical activity and decrease in physical inactivity among the students.</p>

scholarly journals The The perceptions of Senior High School students and teachers about organic chemistry: A Ghanaian perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-342
Author(s):  
Esther Nartey ◽  
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Ruby Hanson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Chemical Reactions ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Positive Perception ◽  
School Students ◽  
Teachers Perceptions

The purpose of the study was to determine the perceptions that senior high school (SHS) chemistry students and teachers have about organic chemistry as well as to compare organic chemistry topics that are difficult for students and teachers. Simple random sampling (lottery) and purposive sampling methods were used to select a sample of one hundred (100) SHS students who studied elective chemistry and ten (10) chemistry teachers. The research instruments used to collect data for this study were the ‘organic chemistry perceptions questionnaire for students’ (OCPQS) and ‘organic chemistry perceptions questionnaire for teachers’ (OCPQT). Descriptive statistics (frequencies and percentages) were used to analyze the data collected. The findings revealed that these SHS students have a fairly positive perception of organic chemistry while their teachers had a highly positive perception of organic chemistry. Preparation and chemical reactions of alkenes, preparation and chemical reactions of alkynes, structure and stability of benzene, reactions of benzene, comparison of reactions of benzene and alkenes, petroleum, polymers and naming of alkanes and structural isomerism were perceived by students as difficult to understand. The rest of the Ghanaian SHS organic chemistry topics (26 out of 34 topics) were perceived as easy to understand by students. Also, the teachers perceived all the SHS organic chemistry topics as easy to teach with the exception of reactions of benzene. The insights gained about teachers’ and students’ perceived difficult organic chemistry topics in this study imply that teachers’ perceptions and how these are communicated to students can have significant effects on learning. The authors believe that both teachers and learners could benefit from this increased awareness of perceptions about difficulties in teaching and learning organic chemistry. They therefore suggest that further studies into how teachers’ perceptions influence their teaching and consequently their students’ experiences be carried out. In addition, in future research, a diagnostic test based on the topics in the SHS organic chemistry syllabus could be added to ascertain whether the perceived difficult topics are actually difficult for students to answer questions on. This would help teachers to separate perceived difficulties from the actual difficulties (realities) and be able to address them in their lessons.

scholarly journals Do students need more information to leave the beaten paths? The impact of a counseling intervention on high school students’ choice of major

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim G. Piepenburg ◽  
Lukas Fervers
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Counseling Intervention ◽  
Choice Of Major ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
The Impact

AbstractDespite an almost endless list of possible study programs and occupational opportunities, high school students frequently focus on pursuing a small number of well-known study programs. Students also often follow gender-typical paths and restrict their attention to study programs in which the majority of students consists of same-gendered people. This choice pattern has far-reaching consequences, including persistent gender segregation and an undersupply of graduates in emerging sectors of the industry. Building on rational choice and social psychological theory, we argue that this pattern partly occurs due to information deficits that may be altered by counseling interventions. To assess this claim empirically, we evaluated the impact of a counseling intervention on the intended choice of major among high school students in Germany by means of a randomized controlled trial (RCT). We estimate the effect by instrumental variable estimation to account for two-sided non-compliance. Our results show that the intervention has increased the likelihood that participants will consider less well-known or gender-atypical study programs, particularly for high school students with lower starting levels of information. Supplementary analyses confirm that a positive impact on information seems to be one of the relevant causal mechanisms. These results suggest that counseling services have the potential to guide high school students to less gender-typical and well-known majors, possibly reducing gender segregation and smoothing labor market transitions after graduation.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study on Beliefs of Grammar Teaching between High School English Teachers and Students in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fangfang Deng ◽  
Yuewu Lin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Teaching Beliefs ◽  
Teaching Behaviors ◽  
School Students ◽  
High School English ◽  
Grammar Teaching ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Traditional Grammar

<p>Grammar is “a system of rules governing the conventional arrangement and relationship of words in a sentence” (Brown 1994) which can facilitate the acquisition of a foreign language and is conducive for cultivating comprehensive language competence. Most teachers regard grammar as a frame of English learning. The grammar teaching beliefs held by teachers can affect their practical teaching behaviors in class, thus can have different teaching results in the end. Therefore, through quantitative and qualitative research, this paper aims to investigate the present status of grammar beliefs of high school students as well as teachers’ beliefs and their grammar teaching behaviors, analyze and compare the similarities and differences between them. The result shows that teachers’ grammar teaching has the tendency of communicative teaching while students’ grammar beliefs have the characteristic of integration of communicative and traditional grammar teaching. Teachers’ grammar teaching behaviors can basically be consistent with their grammar teaching beliefs.</p>

scholarly journals Teaching of German in Thailand: Past, Present, and Future

MANUSYA ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-80
Author(s):  
Wanna Saengaramruang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
German Language ◽  
School Students ◽  
History Teaching ◽  
The Past ◽  
Support Organizations ◽  
Teachers And Students

This paper aims firstly to give an overview of the development of German language, teaching in Thailand at both high-school and, university levels from the past up to the, present time, since German has been taught, in Thailand for more than 80 years and its development has not been studied and documented systematically or continuously. The survey and analysis of German teaching, in Thailand in this paper deal with history, teaching approaches, curricula, the development of teaching materials, the number of German language teachers, students, and schools, the attitudes of German language teachers, the expectations of and attitudes towards German teaching among high-school students, and an analysis of the decreasing number of German language teachers and students. Furthermore, this paper also showcases other research works, support organizations, and activities for German language teaching in Thailand.

Teacher-Student Correlates of Goal Expectations

1972 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 267-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carroll A. Londoner
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Experienced Teachers ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
School Students ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Teaching Time

The rank-order of importance of a set of educational goals to a sample of 134 adult high school students, composed of com pleters and dropouts, was assessed by 22 teachers of adults to determine how perceptive they were of the differences that exist between completer's and dropout's reasons for enrolling in adult education. Significantly strong associations were observed in the ways teachers and completers assessed the importance of the goals (rho=.78, df=9, p<.01) and the ways teachers and dropouts assessed the importance of the goals (rho=.65, df=9, p<.05). However, marked differences were observed within sets of ranks indicating that teachers and students had significantly different view-points concerning the importance of some of the goals to completers and dropouts. When length of teaching time was con trolled, experienced teachers were found more likely to misjudge the importance of the overall set of goals to the dropouts (rho=.57, NS).

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