Praise as Classroom Communicative Reinforcing Device: Perceptions of Vietnamese University Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (12) ◽  
pp. 57-71
Author(s):  
L. T.T. Do ◽  
A. T.L. Vu
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Low Achievers ◽  
High Achievers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Teacher Praise ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Verbal Praise ◽  
Explicit Recognition ◽  
Positive Learning Environment

One of the biggest challenges for teachers is to foster a positive learning environment in which students become motivated and engaged in classroom activities. Growing concerns have been shown about how evaluative praise functioned as a good reinforcer for students' achievement and desirable behaviour affects students' motivation to learn, depending on teachers' messages communicated with students. This study examined the impacts of different types of teacher praise upon university students' perceptions. Case study was employed to collect the data through observations and semi-structured interviews. The results highlighted that students perceived differently towards kinds of praise that they earned. They tended to respond to specific, verbal praise in a more positive way because of its explicit recognition and precise information about their contributions, hence it could make better their self-concept as well as help them keep motivated. Also, high-achievers sought for ability praise whereas low-achievers desired to draw effort praise from teachers. Educators would benefit these findings for the pedagogical purposes. 

scholarly journals Role of Study Habits in Academic Achievement: A Study of University Students in Punjab (Pakistan)

2018 ◽  
Vol III (IV) ◽  
pp. 441-455
Author(s):  
Tehsin Ehsan ◽  
Naveed Sultana ◽  
Muhammad Shah
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
University Students ◽  
Low Achievers ◽  
Study Habits ◽  
Reliability Coefficient ◽  
High Achievers ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
University Level

The current study was designed to predict the role of study habits in academic achievement and to identify the study patterns and environment for studying high, average and low achievers at University level. This was a survey study based on data from 1334 students from government universities of Punjab include the same departments. Students were chosen proportionately, according to the existed total number of the students in the department. Data was collected through a self-developed questionnaire. Semester GPAs were taken to divide students in. high, average, and low achievers. The reliability coefficient of the study habits questionnaire was .866. The findings revealed that all university students like to study silently but the percentage of high achievers is comparatively elevated in this pattern. Results showed that study habits play a positive role in the improvement of academic results in university scholars in Punjab.

Students' Management of Goals in the Natural Classroom Setting: Methodological Implications

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 198-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Serra de Lemos ◽  
Teresa Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Multiple Goals ◽  
Classroom Context ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Action Orientation ◽  
Action Sequence ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Goal Management ◽  
Multiple Case

The conceptualization of goals as projects of person-environment relationships emphasizes the mutual influences of individuals and situations. This interactionistic view leads to a focus goal research on current behavior in proximal contexts. Moreover, within the real classroom context, as students encounter situations implying new demands and new opportunities, diverse and multiple goals are potentially elicited. Exploring these assumptions, the present study examined the strategies that students use to deal with multiple goals during ongoing classroom activities. Instead of valuing behavioral and phenomenological approaches as alternative models, we used both observed behavior and reported intentions viewed as representing two different levels of action, to allow a more comprehensive understanding of students' strategies. This approach is consistent with a contextualized view of action orientation, and with a view of goal-directed behavior as hierarchically organized ( Frese & Stewart, 1984 , Silbereisen & Eyferth, 1986 ; Volpert, 1982 ). To this effect, in a multiple case study of eight (6th-grade) students, methods included (a) videotaping, and interpretation of the student's actual behavior (the researcher perspective) in natural classroom settings, and (b) semi-structured interviews regarding the student's individual purposes (subjective perspective) for those activities. Results revealed diverse forms of goal management such as the automatization of certain action-orientations and the monitoring of action emergence and duration. Moreover, results illuminated the function of certain goals within the overall action sequence.

The Nature of the Facebook Group Learning Environment: Insights from University Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Juraj Datko
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
University Students ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Group Learning ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Research Material

Abstract The paper analyses the inherent features of the Facebook learning environment that were identified by university students enrolled in an English for Academic Purposes course. The presented case study is based on students’ subjective theories that have been reconstructed from semi-structured interviews and diaries. The research material involves qualitative data acquired from thirty-four university students. The identified characteristics relate to four areas, namely motivation, distraction, security, and structure. The dominant strengths and weaknesses of the discussed learning environment are singled out.

scholarly journals Ethical Perception of University Students about Academic Dishonesty in Pakistan: Identification of Student's Dishonest Acts

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rana Rehman ◽  
Ajmal Waheed
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Academic Dishonesty ◽  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
The University

The current research work aims to explore major activities performed by the university students during academic misconducts and their perception regarding such activities. The study further explores the ethical limits drawn by the students about academic dishonesty. Case study methodology is utilized in this research. Sixty-one post graduate and doctoral students were interviewed. Pattern analysis is conducted to analyze the information received through structured interviews of the participants. Study founds the key activities through which students are involved in such misconducts and make a comprehensive agreement on academic dishonesty that has become the normal part of life in education system of Pakistan. Furthermore, students opined that these activities are ethically wrong habits and may be avoided.

scholarly journals Strategies of Writing Used by the Students of Higher and Lower Proficiency Level: A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Ruhul Amin
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Low Achievers ◽  
High Achievers ◽  
Writing Strategies ◽  
Writing Quality ◽  
Proficiency Level ◽  
Program Language ◽  
Method Approach

<p><em>The objectives of the current study were to determine the types of writing strategies used by the students and to describe the differences of writing strategies utilization between high and low achievers. This research was conducted at academic writing program, Language Training Center of NPI University of Bangladesh. The subjects were three of high achievers and three of low achievers who had enrolled in the program. The study applied a qualitative method approach. Structured interview and open-ended questionnaire based on Cazrl and Petric writing strategies, inventory were employed in collecting data. The result showed that all twenty writing strategies investigated in this research were employed by the subjects; secondly, high proficiencies employ writing strategies more frequently than those with low proficiencies. The implication of the study is that by understanding the writing strategies, employment of the high and the low students to upgrade the students writing quality into a better writing.</em></p>

scholarly journals Enablers and barriers of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of an online university course

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 130-146
Author(s):  
Nuri Kara ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
University Students ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Private University ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Axial Coding ◽  
Online Assignments ◽  
University Course

COVID-19 has affected university students’ learning experiences on a great scale. The aim of this study was to understand the enablers and barriers to the effectiveness of online learning in a university course during the COVID-19 pandemic, using a qualitative case study approach. Participants were 44 first-year university students enrolled in a digital game history and analysis course at a private university. Structured and semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect the data, which were then organized and transcribed into full text. Inductive data analysis was applied with content analysis. The researcher used axial coding to compose themes by considering the commonalities among codes created. Five main themes emerged, namely online content, online assignments, online assessment, instructor behavior and practices, and psychological issues. Based on the findings, taking online courses at home and joining online classes from home positively affected students’ mood during the lockdown. On the other hand, students declared feeling pressure due to many online courses. All themes and codes are reported in detail together with direct quotations from students.

scholarly journals Scaffolding argumentative essay writing via reader-response approach: a case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mojgan Rashtchi
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Reader Response ◽  
English Language ◽  
Cognitive Strategies ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Argumentative Essays

AbstractThe variety of activities and techniques suggested for improving the writing skill shows that EFL/ESL learners need scaffolding to gain mastery over it. The present study employed the reader-response approach to provide the assistance EFL learners require for writing argumentative essays. Five upper-intermediate EFL learners in a private class participated in the qualitative case study. The participants were not selected from the fields related to the English language and did not have any previous instruction on literary texts. During the treatment that took 20 sessions, each session 2 h, the participants read five short stories. Different classroom activities were used as sources of information, which helped the researcher to collect the required data. The classroom activities consisted of group discussions, writing tasks, and responses to the short stories that helped the learners to reflect on the short stories. Think-aloud protocols helped the researcher to learn about the participants’ mental processes during writing. The semi-structured interviews provided the researcher with the information necessary for a deeper understanding of the efficacy of the classroom procedure. As the results of the study showed, successful writing requires manipulation of meta-cognitive strategies and thought-provoking activities. Although the findings of the study cannot be generalized, they can inspire EFL/ESL teachers and material developers to seek a variety of procedures in their approaches to teaching writing.

Austerity is impeding children’s education: A qualitative study of the associations of food insecurity and school engagement in Ghana

2021 ◽  
pp. 204361062110273
Author(s):  
Abdul-Rahim Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
School Engagement ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
School Feeding ◽  
Fiscal Austerity

The latest round of fiscal austerity in Ghana has meant that the feeding rate paid to the service providers of Ghana’s school feeding programme is both frozen and unrealistically low. Accordingly, service providers adopt discretionary coping strategies. This qualitative case study, therefore, explores the impacts of austerity on children’s school engagement. Relying on semi-structured interviews with school children in two public primary schools, as well as two focus group discussions with the teachers in both schools, the study shows how the discretionary coping strategies adopted by the service providers impact school children’s food security, which might lead to disinterest in classroom activities and increases in absenteeism and truancy.

scholarly journals Predicting the Role of Study habits in Academic achievement: A study of university students in Punjab

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tehsin Ehsan ◽  
Naveed - Sultana
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
University Students ◽  
Low Achievers ◽  
Study Habits ◽  
Reliability Coefficient ◽  
High Achievers ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
University Level

The present study was designed to predict the role of study habits in academic achievement and to identify the study patterns and environment for studying of high, average and low achievers at University level. This was a survey study based on data from 1334 student from government universities of Punjab include same departments. Students were chosen proportionately, according to the existed total number of the students in the department. Data was collected through a self-developed questionnaire. Semester GPAs were taken to divide students’ in. high, average and low achievers. Reliability coefficient of study habits questionnaire was .866. The findings revealed that all university students like to study silently but percentage of high achievers is comparative elevated in this pattern. As far as environment for studying is concerned it was found that preferred environment of low and high students was studying in bedroom and study in T.V lounge is commonly used by low and average students. Result showed that the study habits play positive role in the improvement of academic results in university scholars in Punjab. 

FOSTERING STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES IN ENGLISH WRITING WITH MICROBLOGGING IN TWITTER

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Pham Thi Thu Hien
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology

Twitter and Microblogging are two separate entities but completes each other. Both of them can be used as language learning tools and their potential has been proved by several scholars. This study tries to examine students’ experiences in integrating microblogging with twitter. It is also study about the beneficial roles of microblogging with Twitter in language learning, its relation to writing, and its appropriateness in language learning. This study employs a qualitative research methodology, and case study as its research design. Semi-structured interviews and questionnaires were employed in this study to find out about participants' views about microblogging and Twitter. From this study, it can be concluded that the participants of the study underwent various experiences during the implementation of microblogging with Twitter. They also felt that microblogging with Twitter at some point advantages them to systematically arrange their ideas, and allows them to choose appropriate diction of their ideas. They also stated that Twitter can be an appropriate means in language learning, especially in English writing<em>.</em>

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