scholarly journals Video Games and Collaborative Learning in Education? A Scale for Measuring In-Service Teachers’ Attitudes towards Collaborative Learning with Video Games

Informatics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Martín-del-Pozo ◽  
Ana García-Valcárcel Muñoz-Repiso ◽  
Azucena Hernández Martín
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Measurement Instrument ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Teachers Attitudes

Students’ motivation is a fundamental factor in the educational process, and can be facilitated through new methodologies and technologies, including gamification, video games, collaborative learning, or, in particular, the methodology called “collaborative learning with video games” (which is presented and can be understood as the implementation of educational activities in which students have to work together to achieve a goal, and the main resource of the activity is a video game). However, if teachers themselves are not motivated, or if they lack a positive attitude towards implementing these new methodologies, it will be difficult for students to feel motivated when approaching said resources. Therefore, it is important to know what teachers’ attitudes towards them are. The aim of this research is the creation of an attitudes scale towards collaborative learning with video games, aimed at in-service primary school teachers. Different methodological steps were followed that made its construction possible, such as the analysis of items and the verification of their reliability, resulting in a rigorous attitudes scale of 33 items, with a reliability of α = 0.947. This implies that the measurement instrument is validated and allows one to know the attitudes of in-service primary school teachers towards a new methodology related to the implementation of video games in education.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF DIAMONOLOGICAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE PROCESS OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 395-405
Author(s):  
Iryna Lapshyna ◽  
Lyudmila Lyubchak ◽  
Nataliia Franchuk ◽  
Alla Vasylyuk ◽  
Nadiia Komarivska
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Developmental Potential ◽  
Primary School Teachers

The implementation of active forms and methods of group interaction in the educational process is recognized as a perspective means of developing future teachers’ communication. From the authors’ standpoint, it is necessary to re-evaluate the developmental potential of such specific methods as discussion methods (group discussion, analysis and commentary of situations); play methods (role-, director-, and counterplays) and play psychotherapy, trainings of interpersonal sensitivity, personal growth, techniques of non-verbal interaction and others. The topicality of such re-evaluation is caused not only by the reform processes in the education system of Ukraine, but also by the modern challenge to the whole system of world education - the need for large-scale implementation of distance forms of the educational process organization in connection with the pandemic situation. The survey of future primary school teachers conducted by the authors, indicates a low readiness of modern teachers to use active teaching methods for training schoolchildren of different age groups, to organize speech interaction with students based on emotional involvement in work, critical re-evaluating of self-position, frank and reasoned expression of thoughts and feelings. In this regard, the issues of the development of diamonological competence of the higher education institutions students acquire additional relevance in the pedagogical discussion. 

scholarly journals THE PEDAGOGICAL TOOLS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPASSION OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH REGARD TO THEIR PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Guseva
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Tools ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Psychological Types

The article contains the development of pedagogical tools of the compassion in the primary school children in the educational process with regard to their psychotypes. It also includes examples of learning activities for primary school teachers.

An analysis of attitudes towards the gifted students with learning difficulties using two samples of Greek and Czech primary school teachers

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aikaterini Gari ◽  
Kostas Mylonas ◽  
Sarka Portešová
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Years Of Teaching Experience ◽  
Separate System ◽  
Teachers Attitudes

The provision of gifted students with learning difficulties (GSLD) composes a complicated educational problem that deserves special care. This study explores teachers’ attitudes towards the GSLD in two samples of primary school teachers: 225 Greek teachers and 158 teachers in the Czech Republic, 40–59 years of age and with 14–28 years of teaching experience. A questionnaire of 26 questions, created for the purpose of this study, was administered referring to teachers’ attitudes towards opinions and information regarding the GSLD characteristics, along with three open-ended questions on the most preferable types of the GSLD educational provision. Through multidimensional scaling solutions in their trigonometric transformation (MDS-T) one large common and one minor separate system of items emerged for the two samples, which were meaningful in the direction of understanding teachers’ difficulties in accepting the contradictory core of the GSLD characteristics and educational needs. These systems of attitudes are discussed in respect to their relative importance to Czech and Greek teachers and the respective educational settings.

THE STUDY OF THE READINESS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS TO PLAN THE CONTENT OF EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE TRANSITION FROM INFORMATIZATION TO DIGITALIZATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zh.I. Sardarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers

The article is devoted to the problem of digitalization, which currently occupies a central place at the global level, since in today's rapidly changing world, accelerated rates and changes in the field of technology can be taken into account not for years, but for months. Today, the main goal of digitalization of education in the republic is to improve the quality of education, the formation of digital competencies of students based on the creation of a unified educational information environment using digital learning technologies. In this regard, the modern education system of the country can be considered as a dynamically developing system aimed at harmonious integration into the world educational space. This, in turn, is accompanied by changes in the content structure of the teaching technology and significant changes in the pedagogical theory and practice of the educational process, which contribute to mastering the constantly dynamically developing didactic capabilities of ICT and the harmonious entry of the child from primary school into the developing information environment. Observation, research of the work of students and teachers and the responses received to the survey prove that the rational use of digital educational resources in everyday practice contributes to improving the efficiency, effectiveness and productivity of the learning process. In addition, digital technologies help to improve relationships, increase the responsibility of students and teachers for learning, achieving success. The authors, analyzing the course of the transition from the period of informatization to the current period of digitalization, by introducing the first computer technologies into the educational process of primary classes, tried to reveal its positive and negative aspects, to determine the readiness of primary school teachers to plan the content of education in the information educational environment. Along with providing the author's position on the basis of an analytical analysis of research works of domestic and foreign scientists on the topic of research, the objective and subjective factors influencing the transition from informatization to digitalization of modern primary schools are revealed.

Mathematics Attitudes and Achievement among Student Teachers

1978 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary L. Schofield ◽  
K. B. Start
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Mathematics Attitudes ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Partial Explanation ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Achievement In Mathematics ◽  
Teachers Attitudes

Concern regarding the prevalence in primary school teachers of poor attitudes towards and low achievement in mathematics has received some empirical support. But the common assumptions (i) that attitudes towards, and achievement in, mathematics are substantially related, and (ii) that teachers' attitudes and achievement in mathematics affect pupils' attitudes and achievement, await empirical verification. While studies relating teachers' attitudes toward pupils' attitudes and achievements are sparse, those relating attitude and achievement within teachers or within pupils have typically shown a low positive relationship not always reaching statistical significance. Some writers use this as evidence to discount the importance of attitudes in achievement, but the present paper contends that a partial explanation for the lack of the expected result may arise from the measurement assumption that attitude to mathematics is a unidimensional phenomenon. Two multidimensional attitude instruments were constructed and administered to 317 final year prospective primary school teachers. Although the two instruments employed widely differing techniques for tapping attitudes to mathematics and mathematics teaching, dimensions from both instruments showed substantial correlations with mathematics achievement. The findings gave support for the contention that attitude to mathematics is not a unidimensional phenomenon. The consistency of findings within and between both attitude instruments suggests a good validation of each. The contention that teachers' attitudes (and achievement) affect pupil attitudes and achievement is yet to be tested.

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