scholarly journals Comparitive Study of Cognitive Development of Students of Different School Systems in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol Volume 4 (Issue 3) ◽  
pp. 232-250
Author(s):  
Dr. Rukhsana Durrani ◽  
Dr. Farkhunda Rasheed Choudhary
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Teaching Methodologies ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Development Of Students

This study was conducted to explore the cognitive development of students of Madaris, public sectors and private sectors of Islamabad. It was quantitative research. A sample of 716 students was selected randomly from three streams of education. To measure the cognitive development of students, a standardized tool was used to collect data. The tests were administered, scored, and was analyzed through SPSS. Results showed a significant difference among cognitive development of students of three educational systems. Analysis of the data showed a significant difference among scores in subtests i.e. analogies, the odd one out, and similarities. Similarly, students of the private sector had better overall means scores than the mean score of students of Madaris and public schools. As the three systems claim for development of cognitive abilities of students therefore it is recommended that the curriculum, teaching methodologies and learning resources of the three systems may be compared and streamline them for harmonious cognitive abilities of students.

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Using Selfie Photos on Improving Students’ Ability to Express the Fact: a Case of The Seventh Grade Students of SMP Negeri 1 Kragan Rembang

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Azizah
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Test Score ◽  
T Test ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Learning English

The objectives of the study are: 1) To find out the ability to express the fact of the students taught using selfie photos. 2) To find out the ability to express the fact of the students taught without selfie photos. 3) To find out the significant differences of the ability to express the fact between the students taught using selfie photos and those taught without selfie photos. The study uses descriptive quantitative research. The population of this research is the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Kragan Rembang. The writer takes VII I as experimental group that consists of 36 students and VII D as control group that consists of 36 students as sample. The writer found that the mean score for experimental group in pre-test is 71.44, and after this class is given a treatment by using selfie photos, the result of post-test is 81.33. The mean score for control group in pre-test is 70.22, and the post-test score is 73.89. The writer uses t-test formula to know the significant difference of the ability to express the fact between the students taught using selfie photos and those taught without using selfie photos. The t-test score is 3.455 for 5 percent (0.05) alpha level of significance. The percentage of t-table 5% is 1.99. The calculation shows that t-test is higher than t-table (3.455>1.99). It shows that there is significant difference of the ability to express the fact of the seventh grade studentsat SMP Negeri 1 Kragan Rembang those taught using selfie photos and those taught without using selfie photos. It can be concluded that selfie photos as a media in improving the ability to express the fact of the students is effective. Selfie Photos makes the students active and enjoy in learning English in the classroom. So, the writer suggests to all of the teacher in general to apply selfie photos media in teaching learning process, especially in learning English.

scholarly journals Students' Cognitive Development in Colleges: A Comparative Study of Private and Public Sectors

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (II) ◽  
pp. 458-466
Author(s):  
Sonia Rafique ◽  
Ifitkhar Ahmad Baig ◽  
Ashiq Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Private Colleges ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Development Of Students

Cognition denotes the process of thinking and memory and cognition development is said to be the long-term changes in these procedures. Cognitive development is a major aspect of students' personality. The aims of the study were (1) To compare the perception of male and female students about cognitive development in private and public sector colleges. (2) To investigate which sector is more efficient in doing the cognitive development of students at the intermediate level. The descriptive method was used in this study with survey design on the population of all public and private colleges of Punjab Province. 628 students out of 720 students participated in the research. To check the reliability of research tools, Pilot testing was also conducted. Instruments of students and administrators consisted of Five-point Likert showed the reliability (? =.87), (? =.81) accordingly. Results showed that there is no significant difference in the perception of both genders concerning cognitive development in both sectors. Results of the study also showed

scholarly journals Students’ opinions about teaching of the controversial topics in the social studies classes

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 335
Author(s):  
Kamil Uygun ◽  
Ibrahim Ethem Arslan
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Income Status ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Election System ◽  
Statistical Program

The aim of this study is to determine middle school 7th grade students’ opinions on controversial issues. In the research, screening model and quantitative research method has been used. The sample of the study consists of 7th graders from 5 public schools located on the center of Demirci district of Manisa province. The 5-point Likert-type questionnaire prepared with 20 items has been applied to 203 students. The data has been put into the statistical program and analyzed. By determining means, deviations and frequencies of all items in the survey, it has been tabulated and interpreted separately. “Mann Whitney U” and Kruskal Wallis H” tests have been used to find out whether the students' opinions about which subjects can be discussed in the classroom, shows significant difference according to various variables or not. Interpretation of the results has been done by the significance level of 0,5. According to the findings of the research, the topics that the students want to discuss the most in the classroom respectively are human rights, multiculturalism, election system, animal rights and freedom of the press. The topics that the students do not want to discuss in the classroom are terror and violence. When the results of the research has been examined according to various variables; Significant differences has been seen in different items, such as; The Gender (Military System, Religious Communities, Fanaticism and Cloning), Reading Books (TV Broadcasts), The Education of Father (Religious Communities, Multiculturalism), The Education of Mother (Military System, Religious Communities and Cloning), Father’s Profession (Religious Communities, Fanaticism, Internet and Elections System), Mother's Profession (Religious Communities) and Family Income Status (Internet).

scholarly journals Applying Skimming Strategy in Teaching Reading Descriptive Text

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Vemby Ari Sandi
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
T Test ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Numeric Information

Reading is an important activity to enrich knowledge. However, it is considered as a difficult skill to learn. There are many students facing difficulties in comprehending the content of the reading text, including descriptive text. A strategy which can solve such problems is needed. Skimming strategy is the strategy which enable students to quickly find the main idea and relevant information of the text. Based on those reasons, the research questions are proposed as follows: (1) How can skimming strategy be implemented in teaching reading descriptive texts? and (2) How can the second year students’ reading comprehension ability be improved using skimming strategy? This study used two research methods. Those were qualitative and quantitative research design. They were collected to prove the implementation and the significant improvement by using skimming strategy. Both numeric information and the real observation were evaluated to gain clear and strong data. The researcher acted as the observer to see the process of teaching and learning descriptive texts in three stages. The results of the research showed that the teacher and students implemented four steps of skimming strategy, which are: (1) read the first several paragraph; (2) leave out material; (3) find the main ideas; (4) read fast. The t-test of this research was also calculated to see whether there was a significant difference between control and experimental class and the mean was also measured to see the students’ improvement score. The mean score of experimental class was better than the mean score of control class. However, the t-test result showed that there was no significant difference between experimental and control class.

scholarly journals Using a Teaching Media of “Homophone Stories“ to Improve Students’ Vocabulary Mastery: a Case of Seventh Grade Students at SMPN 1 Kranggan in Academic Year 2014/2015

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Hidayati
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
T Test ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
Discrimination Power ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Study Test ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Academic Year

The objectives of the study are (1) To find out the students’ vocabulary mastery before being taught by using homophone stories, (2) To find out the students’ vocabulary mastery after being taught by using homophone stories, (3) To find out the significant difference the vocabulary mastery of the seventh grade students of SMP N 1 Kranggan before and after being taught using homophone stories. The population of the study was the seventh grade students of SMP N 1 Kranggan. The writer took class 7D as a sample of the study. The class consists of 31 students. The writer used experimental quantitative research in the study. Test as the instrument was used to collect the data. The objective of conducting try out test was to measure the validity, reliability, discrimination power, and level difficulty of the test. The data was computed and it was find out that 30 items were valid. Then, the valid items were used for the pre-test and post-test of vocabulary mastery item tests. The result of the mean score of students before being taught by using homophone stories was 56.34 and the mean score of students after being taught by using homophone stories was 77.5. The result showed that the mean score of post-test was higher than pre-test. Then, the writer calculated t-test to know whether or not there was significant difference students’ achievement between them who were taught before using homophone stories and students who were taught after using homophone stories. The result showed that t-test was higher than t-table. It was 9.19> 1.697. It means that there is significant difference between the students’ vocabulary mastery after being taught by using homophone stories and before being taught by using homophone stories. From the data above, it can be concluded that the students’ vocabulary mastery after being taught by using homophone stories was higher than the students’ vocabulary mastery before being taught by using homophone stories. The data prove that it is effective to use homophone stories as a media teaching in improving students’ vocabulary mastery.

scholarly journals TATHAWWUR MU’TAQADĀT AL-THULLĀB HAULA TA’ALLUM AL-LUGHAH FI BARNĀMAJ DAURAH AL-LUGHAH AL-ARABIYYAH AL-MUKATSTSAFAH ‘ABR AL-JINSI WA AL-KHALFIYĀTI AL-TARBAWIYYAH: DIRĀSAH MAQTA’IYYAH WA THŪLIYYAH

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Nurul Wahdah
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
New Students ◽  
Development Of Students

This study aims to investigate the development of students’ beliefs about learning Arabic in Intensive Arabic Course program at IAIN Palangka Raya across the educational backgrounds and gender. This study used a quantitative research approach by combining cross sectional and longitudinal research types. There are 214 (two hundred and fourteen) new students in Academic Year 2019 at IAIN Palangka Raya as participants of the study. Data were analyzed by using mean, independent sample test and ANOVA. The results showed that 1) the new students studying in the intensive Arabic course program had a strong belief about Arabic learning 2) there was no statistically significant difference between the students belief about Arabic learning across gender and the educational backgrounds at the beginning of the Intensive Arabic Course meeting, 3) there was no statistically significant difference between the students’ beliefs about Arabic learning across the educational backgrounds and the gender after the end of the Intensive Arabic course program, 4) there was no statistically significant difference in development of students' belief about learning Arabic between the beginning and the end of the Intensive Arabic Course program. Keywords: Arabic, beliefs about language learning, course, development

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF PEER RESPONSE ON EFL LEARNERS� WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Nur Rohmat ◽  
Irma Savitri Sadikin
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Peer Response ◽  
Gain Score ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this study is to find out whether or not there is a significant difference between students who are taught by using peer response technique and those who are not taught by using peer response technique in writing descriptive text. This study used quantitative research method with quasi-experimental design. The population of this research was the 175 students of tenth grade at SMK Bandung Barat, while the sample was 26 students of X 2 Farmasi and X TLM. Writing test was used as the instrument of the study. The data were collected from the result of pretest and posttest. Then, the gain of both classes was analyzed by using t-test in SPSS. The result of the study showed that the mean of gain score in experimental class was 0.38 and the mean of gain score of students in control class was 0.22. It meant that there was difference in improvement between both classes. The hypotheses testing showed that sig. 2 tailed values (p) was 0.000 while alpha α was 0.05. In other words, p < α. It indicated that H0 was rejected. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is a significant difference between students who are taught by using peer response technique and those who are not taught by using peer response technique in writing descriptive text.Keywords: descriptive text; peer response technique; teaching; writing.

scholarly journals IMPROVING STUDENTS� VOCABULARY MASTERY THROUGH ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Sri Yanti
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Group Design ◽  
Electronic Dictionary ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Level Of Significance

This research is designed to investigate the use of electronic dictionary in improving students� vocabulary mastery. This quantitative research applied quasi-experimental with nonequivalent control group design by involving 65 second-grader of SMAN 1 Garawangi. There were two instruments used in this research, namely test, consisted of pretest and posttest, and questionnaire. As result, the findings showed that the mean score of experimental class on pretest was 53, and the mean score of experimental class achieved 86 after the treatment. The improvement of students� vocabulary mastery can also be seen from the level of significance (two-tailed) in paired t-test that was less than the alpha (0.000<0.05). It indicated that the null hypothesis was rejected and Ha was accepted which means that there was significant difference of means between pre-test and post-test of experimental class. Besides, most students endorsed ten items of questionnaire involving affective, behavioral, and cognitive aspects which means that most students in experimental class agreed that electronic dictionary can help them in improving their vocabulary mastery. Finally, the researcher concludes that the use of electronic dictionary can improve students� vocabulary mastery.Keywords: electronic dictionary, vocabulary mastery, quasi-experimental, nonequivalent control group

scholarly journals Normative Orthodontic Treatment Need of Nigerian Adolescents – A Comparative Study of Three Major Ethnic Groups

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. S. Etim ◽  
E. A. Aikins ◽  
C. O. Onyeaso
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Orthodontic Treatment ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Treatment Need ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Study Population ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Multistage Sampling

Objective: This study was carried out to assess and compare the normative orthodontic treatment need of adolescents aged 12 to 16 years from the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria. Methods: The study population comprised one thousand, four hundred and forty-nine (1449) adolescents selected from nine public schools within nine Local Government Areas from three (3) selected states (Lagos, Kano, Imo) in Nigeria. Randomization based on multistage sampling technique was used to determine the selected participants. Consent and assent forms were duly completed and signed by parents and participants respectively. Participants’ parents were from the same ethnic group. Oral examination of the participants was done and their normative treatment need assessed following the standard protocols of Index of Complexity, Outcome and Need. (ICON) Data collected were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science version 20.0. Descriptive, as well as parametric (ANOVA) and non-parametric (Chi-square) statistical analyses were conducted. Results: Normative (objective) orthodontic treatment need was observed in 27.7%, 31.5% and 42.8% of Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba adolescents, respectively. The mean ICON scores recorded were for Hausa, 33.0±16.1 (SD), 32.1 ± 16.6 (SD) for Igbo and 34.8 ± 16.2 (SD) for the Yoruba, with a statistically significant difference noted among the groups. The mean scores were 33.9 ± 16.2 for males and 32.8 ± 16.4 for females while the combined population mean was 33.4 ±16.3. The males had more orthodontic treatment need than the females in the combined population. Conclusion: Yoruba adolescents statistically had the greatest normative orthodontic treatment need while Igbo adolescents had the least among the three major Nigerian tribes.

scholarly journals Awareness of the Gifted Students and Their Normally Developing Peers about Environmental Education Concept

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-16
Author(s):  
Fatma MUTLU ◽  
Oğuzhan NACAROĞLU ◽  
Mustafa DOĞAN
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
School Students ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Significant Difference

"Abstract: The aim of this study was to examine the awareness levels of the gifted students and normally developing peers related to the environmental education concepts. In line with this purpose, the survey design, which is one of quantitative research methods, was used in the study. 209 gifted students receiving education in a Science and Art Center in the Eastern Anatolia and 250 secondary school students receiving education in the public schools during the fall term of the 2019-2020 school year, participated in the study. In the study, the Environmental Education Concepts Awareness Scale was used as data collection tool. Necessary validity and reliability studies were conducted for the scale used. The independent samples t-test and ANOVA were used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the study it was determined that the gifted students had higher awareness scores related to environmental education concepts, compared to their normally developing peers. In addition, while the environmental education concepts awareness scores of the gifted students did not differ significantly according to gender, age range and class level, there was a significant difference in all variables examined in the normal-development group. "

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