Cultural Expression and Black Students' Attitudes Toward High Achievers

2005 ◽  
Vol 139 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biko Martin Sankofa ◽  
Eric A. Hurley ◽  
Brenda A. Allen ◽  
A. Wade Boykin
Keyword(s):  
Black Students ◽  
High Achievers ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Students Attitudes

scholarly journals Introductory students’ attitudes and approaches to Physics problem solving: Major, achievement level and gender differences

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuri Balta ◽  
Mervi Asikainen
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
High Achievers ◽  
Achievement Level ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Sample Correlation ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Learn Physics ◽  
Physics Problems

Students’ attitudes and approaches to problem solving are claimed to be related to their ways they learn physics and to their success in solving physics problems. In this study, the Attitudes and Approaches to Problem Solving (AAPS) survey was used to reveal Turkish introductory university students’ attitudes and approaches to physics problem solving. The data were collected from 175 students, in the spring semester of 2015-2016 academic year, from an introductory physics course at a university in the Black See Region of Turkey. The analysis of the data was conducted by grouping the data by major, achievement level, and gender. They are no statistically significant differences between the averages of civil engineering and molecular biology majors or between male and female students. However, we obtained a small sample correlation of 0.22 between students’ attitudes and exam grades that suggests high achievers’ attitudes and approaches to physics problems are more expert-like than the attitudes and approaches of low achievers. Implications for problem solving strategies and directions for further research are discussed.

scholarly journals The Effect of Using Fryer Teaching Model on 7th Grade Students' Acquisition of Scientific Concepts and their Attitudes toward it

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waleed H. Nawafleh ◽  
Wesal H. Alomari
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Traditional Method ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
High Achievers ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
Scientific Concepts ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Experimental Group

This study aimed to investigate the effect of using Fryer teaching model on 7th grade students' acquisition of scientific concepts. The researchers were interested in testing if differences between students’ acquisitions of scientific concepts were dependent on previous achievement. Also important was to test if students' acquisition of scientific concepts correlated with attitudes towards using Fryer model. To achieve the objectives of the study, a quasi-experimental method was used. Two instruments were developed: a test to measure the acquisition of the scientific concepts and a questionnaire to measure students' attitudes. The study sample consisted of 72 students who were divided into two groups: one (n=37) studied science using Fryer model; the other (n=35) used the traditional method. At the end of the experiment, concepts acquisition test was administered to both groups; while the attitude scale was administered to the experimental group. The results revealed that there were statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) in the acquisition of scientific concepts in favor of the experimental group; and the previous achievement in favor of high achievers. There was an interaction effect between method and previous achievement. The results also revealed a statistically significant correlation between the acquisition of scientific concepts and attitudes towards learning using Fryer model among 7 graders. 

Dental students' attitudes toward smoking cessation guidelines

2000 ◽  
Vol 64 (9) ◽  
pp. 641-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
JK Yip ◽  
JL Hay ◽  
JS Ostroff ◽  
RK Stewart ◽  
GD Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes Toward Smoking

Dental students' attitudes toward cheating

1994 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 402-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Warman ◽  
RA Harvan ◽  
B Weidman
Keyword(s):  
Dental Students ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes Toward Cheating

The Impact of TimeSlips on Undergraduate Students in Service Learning With Older Adults

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Sabine Heuer
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Attitudes Toward Older Adults ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Attitude Shift ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Journal Entries

Purpose Future speech-language pathologists are often unprepared in their academic training to serve the communicative and cognitive needs of older adults with dementia. While negative attitudes toward older adults are prevalent among undergraduate students, service learning has been shown to positively affect students' attitudes toward older adults. TimeSlips is an evidence-based approach that has been shown to improve health care students' attitudes toward older adults. The purpose of this study is to explore the change in attitudes in speech-language pathology students toward older adults using TimeSlips in service learning. Method Fifty-one students participated in TimeSlips service learning with older adults and completed the Dementia Attitude Scale (DAS) before and after service learning. In addition, students completed a reflection journal. The DAS data were analyzed using nonparametric statistics, and journal entries were analyzed using a qualitative analysis approach. Results The service learners exhibited a significant increase in positive attitude as indexed on the DAS. The reflective journal entries supported the positive change in attitudes. Conclusions A noticeable attitude shift was indexed in reflective journals and on the DAS. TimeSlips is an evidence-based, patient-centered approach well suited to address challenges in the preparation of Communication Sciences and Disorders students to work with the growing population of older adults.

Commitment to pro- versus counter-attitudinal behavior and the dynamics of social representations

2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Tafani ◽  
Lionel Souchet
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Cognitive Restructuring ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Dimensional Model ◽  
Students Attitudes

This research uses the counter-attitudinal essay paradigm ( Janis & King, 1954 ) to test the effects of social actions on social representations. Thus, students wrote either a pro- or a counter-attitudinal essay on Higher Education. Three forms of counter-attitudinal essays were manipulated countering respectively a) students’ attitudes towards higher education; b) peripheral beliefs or c) central beliefs associated with this representation object. After writing the essay, students expressed their attitudes towards higher education and evaluated different beliefs associated with it. The structural status of these beliefs was also assessed by a “calling into question” test ( Flament, 1994a ). Results show that behavior challenging either an attitude or peripheral beliefs induces a rationalization process, giving rise to minor modifications of the representational field. These modifications are only on the social evaluative dimension of the social representation. On the other hand, when the behavior challenges central beliefs, the same rationalization process induces a cognitive restructuring of the representational field, i.e., a structural change in the representation. These results and their implications for the experimental study of representational dynamics are discussed with regard to the two-dimensional model of social representations ( Moliner, 1994 ) and rationalization theory ( Beauvois & Joule, 1996 ).

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