scholarly journals Constructivism in the Pedagogical Practices of the University Faculty

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (I) ◽  
pp. 172-180
Author(s):  
Hukam Dad Malik ◽  
Marium Din ◽  
Samra Afzal
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Higher Order Thinking ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Demographic Differences ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The University ◽  
Constructivist Practices

The present research is aimed at assessing the extent to which university teachers employ student-centered learning, independent learners, higher order thinking, usability in real world and a conducive learning environment. Demographic differences like gender, age, experience and position differences in teachers’ usage of constructivist practices are explored. Six dimensions of the constructivist practices questionnaire are sorted through the use of exploratory factor analysis. It is identified that many teachers use the constructivist pedagogical practices at a moderate level. No significant difference is found in the use of constructivist practices of gender and experience strata, while significant difference is present in the constructivist practices of teachers in age and position strata.

TECHNOLOGY MAJORS’ METHODOLOGY EDUCATION: COMPARING APPROACHES FROM TWO COURSES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antti Rissanen ◽  
◽  
Kalle Saastamoinen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Student Evaluation ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Military Technology ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Technology Students ◽  
Technical Students ◽  
Master Level ◽  
The University

The National Defense University (NDU) trains officers to develop their academic and professional skills. To accomplish this, the university offers two mandatory courses on methodological training for military technology students for master level education. The first course was theoretically oriented, and the second course was practically oriented. These both master-level methodology courses emphasize practice oriented mathematical skills, which officers use in their operative decision-making and statistical analysis. This study focuses on student-centered learning methodologies linked to teachers’ observations from current and previous course implementations. Results in this study described the outcome from the first run of the revised curriculum. We collected data from students’ course reports and the university’s standard student evaluation of teaching (SET). According to the SET, the course 2 which was practically oriented course, where groups worked on more significant projects gained higher value among students. In conclusion, we recommend that teachers continue using student-centered learning methodologies to technical students as much as possible. Theoretically underscored courses should also contain more practical examples. Keywords: distance education, flipped learning, learning by doing, research methodology, student-centered learning

Peer Feedback Activities in Smart Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-135
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Peer Feedback ◽  
Higher Order Thinking ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Main Process ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Feedback Model ◽  
Smart Education

New ways of communication and peer feedback activities provide several opportunities for student-centered collaborative learning in smart higher education. This chapter increases the knowledge about how collaborative peer feedback processes can support student-centered learning toward higher-order thinking and critical ability in smart higher education. Methodically, various types of feedback are illustrated based on review of selected articles from previous research. The qualitative empirical data of feedback processes (N=155) among 22 students was grounded on criteria and guidance on feedback for collaborative learning. Theoretically, the analysis of excerpts is based on a feedback model and an assessment cycle to identify the gap between the main process, self-regulated and self-directed actions, and the self as a person (i.e., what is understood and what is aimed to be understood). The results demonstrate that peer feedback provides one of the most critical and self-directed impacts on student-centered collaborative learning and higher-order thinking.

Teaching a ‘Managing Innovation and Technology' Course

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Despo Ktoridou ◽  
Epaminondas Epaminonda
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Management Of Innovation ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Inductive Methods ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

In the last few years an increasing emphasis on developing entrepreneurship has been evident in many universities in an effort to prepare students to integrate effectively into the competitive working environment of the 21st century. A key question is how to do this. This work examines the impact of Student Centered Learning (SCL) introduced in a multidisciplinary undergraduate course of Management of Innovation and Technology at the University of Nicosia. It examines students' and lecturer experiences, benefits and challenges of implementing SCL, and gives recommendations to lecturers for designing a SCL based curriculum, incorporating inductive methods. The findings may be useful for academics who teach entrepreneurship related topics and seek ways to incorporate innovative approaches in their teaching and learning processes in order to motivate students towards the development of entrepreneurial skills and thinking.

scholarly journals Radical Togetherness: African-American Literature and Abolition Pedagogy at Parchman and Beyond

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Patrick Elliot Alexander
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
African American Literature ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Conception Of Teaching ◽  
Prison Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
Educational Deprivation

This article makes the case that the student-centered learning paradigm that I have aimed to establish at Parchman/Mississippi State Penitentiary as a member of a college-in-prison program represents a prison abolition pedagogy that builds on Martin Luther King and Angela Y. Davis’s coalitional models of abolition work. Drawing from Davis’s abolition-framed conception of teaching in jails and prisons as expressed in her autobiography and her critical prison studies text Are Prisons Obsolete?, I argue that the learning environments that I create collaboratively with students at Parchman similarly respond to incarcerated students’ institution-specific concerns and African-American literary interests in ways that lessen, if only temporarily, the social isolation and educational deprivation that they routinely experience in Mississippi’s plantation-style state penitentiary. Moreover, I am interested in the far-reaching implications of what I have theorized elsewhere as “abolition pedagogy”—a way of teaching that exposes and opposes the educational deprivation, under-resourced and understaffed learning environments, and overtly militarized classrooms that precede and accompany too many incarcerations. As such, this article also focuses on my experience of teaching about imprisonment in African-American literature courses at the University of Mississippi at the same time that I have taught classes at Parchman that honor the African-American literary interests of imprisoned students there.

Correlates of Organisational Commitment Among University Teachers in India: An Empirical Investigation

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Barooj Bashir ◽  
Abdul Gani
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Organisational Commitment ◽  
Continuance Commitment ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The University

For the success of educational institutions (herein referred as an organisation), teachers’ commitment has, in particular, been recognised as an effectual route. As the educational system is the most influential spot that leads to the progress of society, it requires committed teachers who are not mere tools, but their strategic partners. This research study highlights the state of commitment of university teachers under various dimensions in India and explore whether there is any significant difference between selected demographics and the perception of teachers over their organisational commitment issues. The data were collected from full-time teachers working in selected universities of India. This study reveals that the majority of teachers possess continuance commitment, as they weigh the costs and risks associated with leaving the university and when given better alternatives, they may leave their institutions. Among the demographic variables, it was only the level of education that was found to be significantly affecting the commitment of university teachers. This study reveals that the teachers and the universities are engaged in give and take relationship. When teachers perceive high organisational engagement, they respond back with a greater commitment, perceiving them as an integral part of the organisation. They are more motivated and dedicated towards meeting and achieving organisational goals. Moreover, universities depend on committed teachers to create and sustain a competitive advantage and achieve superior performance.

scholarly journals The Use of Clinical PBL in Primary Care in Undergraduate Medical Schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Salata Romão ◽  
Reinaldo Bulgarelli Bestetti ◽  
Lucélio Bernardes Couto
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Knowledge Retention ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Critical Reasoning ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
Effective Option ◽  
The University

Abstract: Introduction: Problem-based learning (PBL) is a collaborative student-centered learning method for small groups, based on the mobilization of previous knowledge and on critical reasoning for problem solving. Although it has been used predominantly in the classroom, when applied in clinical studies, PBL can increase the intrinsic motivation and long-term knowledge retention. In addition, Clinical PBL represents a more effective option to learn from practice considering the students’ overload in clinical clerkships in the Unified Health System (UHS). This study aimed to assess the students’ perception of a Clinical PBL model implemented in Primary Health Care (PHC) clerkships during the first four years of the Medical Course at the University of Ribeirão Preto (UNAERP) in 2017. Method: The primary outcome was assessed by the DREEM (Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure) tool, which contains 50 items distributed in five dimensions. The questionnaire was applied to 374 medical students, corresponding to 78% of the total number of medical students from the first to the fourth year. Results: For most of the evaluated items, the students’ perceptions were “positive”, including the dimensions “Perception of Teachers”, “Perception of Academic Results” and “Perception of the General Environment”. For the dimensions “Perception of Learning” and “Perception of Social Relationships” the evaluation was “more positive than negative”. The DREEM total score was 124.31, corresponding to 62.15% of the maximum score, which indicates a perception that is “more positive than negative” regarding the Clinical PBL. The internal consistency given by Cronbach’s alpha was 0.92. Conclusion: The use of Clinical PBL in PHC qualifies learning from practice, is well accepted by medical students and offers a useful option to the students’ overload in the clinical clerkship during the first four years of the Medical School.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Model Pembelajaran Kooperatif Type STAD Terhadap Keterampilan Pengisian Partograf Mahasiswa Kebidanan

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
Yulizawati Yulizawati ◽  
Venny Rismawanti
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Learning System ◽  
P Value ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Active Learning Method

Educational development demands different ways of thinking and act from what have already existed. Ideal learning system must be able to provide a learning experience for students, to open up their potential for internalizing knowledge, skills and attitudes through their learning experiences. It can be done by applying an active learning method through student centered learning (SCL), one of these methods is STAD (Student Teams Achievement Division). This type teaches cooperation, responsibility, interaction, confidence, decision-making, communication, and conflict management. With this method, partograph filling skill as the core competencies of midwifery students in labor monitoring may increase..  This research aims to determine the effect of STAD method on partograph filling skill of midwifery students. This was a comparative study to compare the level of student skill in filling up partograph before and after applying cooperative learning using STAD method. The results obtained in this study showed that there was a very significant difference of the skill of students before and after using cooperative learning of STAD method, with a p-value is 0.001. Student centered learning using STAD method is proved to be more significant to improve student competence of filling up partograph.

scholarly journals English Teachers' Conceptual Knowledge and Pedagogical Practices on Student-Centered Learning in Primary Schools in Denpasar Municipality

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Candra Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Knowledge ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Public Elementary Schools ◽  
Child Centered

This study aims at (1) describing the conceptual pedagogical knowledge of the English teachers in public elementary schools in Denpasar municipality on child-centered learning, (2) describing the pedagogical practices of the English teachers in public elementary schools in Denpasar municipality on child-centered learning, and (3) describing the relation of English teachers’ conceptual pedagogical knowledge and pedagogical practices in the context of child-centered learning in public elementary schools in Denpasar municipality. The subjects who are under investigation in the study are three English primary teachers from three public primary schools in Denpasar municipality. The type of this study is embedded mixed method which was adapted from Creswell (2012). The instruments used to collect the data in this study are observation sheet, questionnaire, and interview guide. The result of the questionnaire shows that the Teachers have very strong concept on child-centered learning as the mean score is in the range of 3.3335 ≤ M ≥ 4.0005. This was contradicted with the data obtained from the classroom observation in which implementation of child-centered learning was low implemented. It indicated that there was tendency of inconsistent between teachers' conceptual knowledge and their practices on child-centered learning

scholarly journals (144) ePortfolios: A Philosophy for Improving Education in Horticulture

HortScience ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 1044B-1044
Author(s):  
Michael E. Reinert ◽  
Dan T. Stearns
Keyword(s):  
Career Planning ◽  
Computer Applications ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Program Outcomes ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
The University

ePortfolios are gaining popularity in academic communities worldwide. Purposes of ePortfolios include: converting student work from paper to digital format, thereby allowing it to be centrally organized, searchable, and transportable throughout their academic lives and careers; promoting student centered learning and reflection; improving advising; and career planning and resume building. Pennsylvania State University is investing in the use of ePortfolios in course work throughout the university system. To facilitate these efforts, the university provides all students and faculty with 500 MB of hosted web space to create and share their portfolios. One of the courses using ePortfolios is Horticulture 120, Computer Applications for Landscape Contracting, in the Landscape Contracting program. Outcomes of implementing ePortfolios include increased availability of student work to potential employers, enhanced recruiting through displays of student work, and enabled reflection on completed work. Students showed improved quality in project work because their projects would be publicly available through the Internet to potential employers, faculty, family, and other students.

Teaching a ‘Managing Innovation and Technology' Course

2020 ◽  
pp. 1075-1093
Author(s):  
Despo Ktoridou ◽  
Epaminondas Epaminonda
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Management Of Innovation ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Inductive Methods ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

In the last few years an increasing emphasis on developing entrepreneurship has been evident in many universities in an effort to prepare students to integrate effectively into the competitive working environment of the 21st century. A key question is how to do this. This work examines the impact of Student Centered Learning (SCL) introduced in a multidisciplinary undergraduate course of Management of Innovation and Technology at the University of Nicosia. It examines students' and lecturer experiences, benefits and challenges of implementing SCL, and gives recommendations to lecturers for designing a SCL based curriculum, incorporating inductive methods. The findings may be useful for academics who teach entrepreneurship related topics and seek ways to incorporate innovative approaches in their teaching and learning processes in order to motivate students towards the development of entrepreneurial skills and thinking.

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