Increasing Student Engagement During Questioning Strategy Sessions

1984 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 470
Author(s):  
James S. Cangelosi

An alarming proportion of secondary school students are unable to apply mathematical principles that they have memorized to the solutions of realistic problems (Florida Department of Education 1978).

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Martina Maamin ◽  
Siti Mistima Maat ◽  
Zanaton H. Iksan

Student engagement is a multidimensional construct that predicts learning performance. However, student engagement receives limited attention, especially in mathematics. Thus, this study conducts a survey to determine the influence of student engagement on mathematical achievement. Stratified random sampling was employed to select secondary school students (n = 1000). Questionnaires and end-of-year examination grades were collected as data on student engagement and respective mathematics achievement. The findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between cognitive engagement, affective engagement, behavioural engagement, and mathematical achievement. The results of multiple linear regression analysis show that affective engagement is the largest predictor of mathematical achievement (β = 0.743, p < 0.001), followed by behavioural engagement (β = 0.585, p < 0.001), and cognitive engagement (β = −0.375, p < 0.01). This suggests that policymakers should formulate a curriculum that enables the improvement of affective and behavioural engagement. Furthermore, this study recommends that school administrators and teachers plan and implement activities that stimulate such engagement.


Author(s):  
Hussain Ahmad Al-Harthi

The study aimed to find the relationship between counseling services and self-confidence among high school students in Taif Governorate. To achieve the goal of the research, the researcher used the descriptive approach. A random sample of secondary school students in Taif Governorate was selected, amounting to 750 students, and it represents about 5% of the total study population, which numbered about 15000 students. The study tools were the scale of indicative services prepared by the researcher. And a measure of self-confidence prepared by Al-Qawasmeh and Al-Farah (1996). The study found that there is a positive correlation between counseling services provided to secondary school students in Taif Governorate and self-confidence, and the correlation coefficient has reached (0.77). In light of the results of the study, the researcher recommended a number of recommendations, Preparing counseling programs by the Department of Student Guidance and Guidance in the Department of Education and applying them in schools to develop self-confidence., Providing the necessary training courses for student counselors to provide counseling services more effectively., Designing special counseling programs by specialists in the Department of Student Guidance and Guidance in the Department of Education and Universities for students who suffer from low self-confidence- Spreading cultural awareness in the family about the nature of adolescence as a development stage, while clarifying its characteristics and manifestations.


2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heinz Neber ◽  
Kurt A. Heller

Summary The German Pupils Academy (Deutsche Schüler-Akademie) is a summer-school program for highly gifted secondary-school students. Three types of program evaluation were conducted. Input evaluation confirmed the participants as intellectually highly gifted students who are intrinsically motivated and interested to attend the courses offered at the summer school. Process evaluation focused on the courses attended by the participants as the most important component of the program. Accordingly, the instructional approaches meet the needs of highly gifted students for self-regulated and discovery oriented learning. The product or impact evaluation was based on a multivariate social-cognitive framework. The findings indicate that the program contributes to promoting motivational and cognitive prerequisites for transforming giftedness into excellent performances. To some extent, the positive effects on students' self-efficacy and self-regulatory strategies are due to qualities of the learning environments established by the courses.


2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jake Harwood ◽  
Laszlo Vincze

Based on the model of Reid, Giles and Abrams (2004 , Zeitschrift für Medienpsychologie, 16, 17–25), this paper describes and analyzes the relation between television use and ethnolinguistic-coping strategies among German speakers in South Tyrol, Italy. The data were collected among secondary school students (N = 415) in 2011. The results indicated that the television use of the students was dominated by the German language. A mediation analysis revealed that TV viewing contributed to the perception of ethnolinguistic vitality, the permeability of intergroup boundaries, and status stability, which in turn affected ethnolinguistic-coping strategies of mobility (moving toward the outgroup), creativity (maintaining identity without confrontation), and competition (fighting for ingroup rights and respect). Findings and theoretical implications are discussed.


2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Latsch ◽  
Bettina Hannover

We investigated effects of the media’s portrayal of boys as “scholastic failures” on secondary school students. The negative portrayal induced stereotype threat (boys underperformed in reading), stereotype reactance (boys displayed stronger learning goals towards mathematics but not reading), and stereotype lift (girls performed better in reading but not in mathematics). Apparently, boys were motivated to disconfirm their group’s negative depiction, however, while they could successfully apply compensatory strategies when describing their learning goals, this motivation did not enable them to perform better. Overall the media portrayal thus contributes to the maintenance of gender stereotypes, by impairing boys’ and strengthening girls’ performance in female connoted domains and by prompting boys to align their learning goals to the gender connotation of the domain.


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