scholarly journals Assessing Common Errors in Students’ Guided Writing in Case of First Year Social Science and Humanities Studensts at Kabridahar University

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
First Year ◽  
Guided Writing

Most Difficult Topic in Social Science Curriculum as Perceived by Elementary Level Student-Teachers

2021 ◽  
pp. 236-247
Author(s):  
R. Vinodh Kumar ◽  
M. Vakkil
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
First Year ◽  
Elementary Teacher Education ◽  
Tamil Nadu State ◽  
Interest And Motivation ◽  
And Training

The study was conducted to identify the most difficult topic in elementary teacher education first-year social science curriculum as perceived by the student-teachers by using survey research design. The study also investigated the underlying reasons responsible for the student-teachers' difficulties in learning different topics. 218 student-teachers were selected using convenience sampling technique from five District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET), in Tamil Nadu State (India) for the study. The instrument used for data collection was a checklist designed by the researchers to elicit information from the student-teachers. The data collected were analysed using frequencies and percentages. The results showed that the topic namely, 'Reading the Globe, Maps and Atlas' was perceived as the most difficult topic in social science curriculum. The results also showed that teaching the topic without using the maps, lack of previous knowledge about the maps, the existence of vague concepts, heavy content load, and lack of interest and motivation to learn map concepts were the main reasons responsible for the student-teachers' difficulties in learning the topic.

The Educational Quality of the Doctoral Programs in Public Affairs

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Tiangeng Lu ◽  
Göktuğ Morçöl
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Educational Quality ◽  
First Year ◽  
The Public ◽  
Science Disciplines

Public affairs scholars have been concerned about the quality of education in their field for some decades. To assess the program quality, the authors analyzed the National Research Council's most recent data. In the comparative analyses between the public affairs programs and the programs in other social science disciplines, they found that public affairs doctoral programs were behind their peer fields on most of the input-based metrics (students fully funded in their first year of education, median quantitative GRE scores, and percentage of international students in programs) but ahead of them in student-faculty ratios. The results of the outcome-based metrics were mixed. Public affairs students graduated earlier on average, but smaller percentages of them had plans for employment in academic positions. Also, the faculty productivity was lower in public affairs programs compared to the other social science disciplines. Among the subfields of public affairs, public management and public policy had more favorable input- and outcome-based results compared to public administration.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Vaccination: What Do We Expect for the Future? A Systematic Literature Review of Social Science Publications in the First Year of the Pandemic (2020–2021)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8259
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Pratici ◽  
Phillip McMinn Singer
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
First Year ◽  
Single Issue ◽  
The Future

The Covid-19 pandemic has had wide-reaching societal and economic effects and a return to “normal” will take years to accomplish. In light of this situation, the most important advancement since COVID-19′s emergence has been the development of multiple, life-saving, vaccines. Academic research on vaccine has been extensive. It is estimated that in only one year it has been produced more published and indexed papers on this single issue than in the last twenty years on any other single issue, thus, necessitating some organization. This research consists of a systematic literature review of the social science publication on COVID-19 published in the first year of the pandemic (February 2020 to March 2021). This review is important because it occurs at a time when vaccines have begun their global distribution and the best efforts to address the pandemic is through vaccination programs. In this research, 53 papers published in relevant journals are analyzed out of the almost 30,000 articles retrieved from Scopus database. The analysis conducted relies on two different types: descriptive analysis (evolution at the time of citations; evolution over time of keywords; bibliographical mapping of countries, the top 10 most influential papers), and bibliometric analysis for content evaluation. A cluster analysis was performed for the latter. Clustering the research papers, based on the actual content of papers, found there to be five research areas: (1) economic aspects; (2) ethics and legal aspects; (3) health communication; (4) policies and crisis management, and (5) political issues. Yet, this article’s results paint a picture of literature that has not yet considered the full scope of COVID-19’s effect on the economic, political, and population level health and well-being. Nor has it considered these effects across the global community, suggesting new potential areas of research and giving a perspective of what we should expect for the future.

scholarly journals THE EFFECTIVENESS OF EDRAW MIND MAP APPLICATION IN TEACHING WRITING OF RECOUNT TEXT AT THE TENTH GRADE OF MAN 4 KEDIRI

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Siti Pujiana
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
First Year ◽  
Science Program ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
And Control ◽  
Academic Year

The objectives of this study were (1) to describe the student’s skill of recount text in an experimental class taught by using Edraw Mind Map, (2) to describe the students’ skill of control class without being taught Edraw Mind Map, and (3) to investigate whether there is a significance in teaching writing skill of recount text between experimental and control class at tenth grade of MAN 4 Kediri. During the research quantitative approach of true experimental was used as the research design. This research used two classes which became experimental class (X Social Science Program 1) which was taught by using Edraw Mind Map Application and control class (X Natural Science Program 4) which was not taught by using Edraw Mind Map Application. The population was the first year students of MAN 4 in academic year of 2019/2020. Out of this population, 60 students were taken as sample. There were two classes, each of which consisted of 30 students. The data were collected by using writing test and questioners.

scholarly journals Student-centered Pedagogy and Real-world Research: Using Documents as Sources of Data in Teaching Social Science Skills and Methods

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magali Peyrefitte ◽  
Gillian Lazar
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Real World ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
First Year ◽  
Teaching Session ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Analytical Skills

This teaching note describes the design and implementation of an activity in a 90-minute teaching session that was developed to introduce a diverse cohort of first-year criminology and sociology students to the use of documents as sources of data. This approach was contextualized in real-world research through scaffolded, student-centered tasks focused on archival material and contemporary estate agents’ brochures so as to investigate changes in the suburbs that surround a university in north London. To contribute to the growing discussion on pedagogic dialogical spaces in teaching research methods, we provide empirical evidence of students’ greater engagement via group work and the opportunity to draw on experiential knowledge in analyzing sources. Beyond stimulating students’ engagement with research skills and methods, the data also show the value of our approach in helping students develop their analytical skills, particularly through a process of comparison and contrast.

Political Literacy and the Teaching of Social Policy. A Study into the Political Awareness and Political Vocabularies of First Year Undergraduates

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Heron ◽  
Mike McManus
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Information Gathering ◽  
The Political ◽  
First Year ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
Political Literacy ◽  
Political Structures

This article explores the findings of a research project carried out into the political awareness and attitudes of first year social science undergraduates. The results initially suggested that students generally lacked understanding of, and interest in, political structures and concepts and possessed poor news awareness and information-gathering skills. However, a more complex picture emerged that indicates a degree of engagement through responses to personal, moral and social questions, suggesting some degree of politicisation, yet such issues seem dislocated from their studies. This mixed picture poses serious challenges for social policy teachers seeking to enhance political awareness among their students.

scholarly journals The Agenda for “Social Science History”

1977 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-391
Author(s):  
J. Morgan Kousser
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Political History ◽  
First Year ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Science History ◽  
Social Science History

I want to take as my texts today statements made to me in correspondence and conversation by two senior quantitative historians. Each statement illustrates what I believe to be misjudgments about the proper methodological priorities for quantitative historians in America today. To spare these historians from publicity which their casual statements were not intended to invite, but mostly to protect myself against reprisal, I shall not name them here.The first statement arose because I assigned a particular book in my American Political History course. Some of my colleagues, students, and I were critical of the methodology employed in the book, and a student suggested we might reanalyze the data, employing different techniques. The data set, however, was rather obscure and was apparently not available at any major archive. When I wrote to the author, rather brashly asking for a copy of his computer tapes, I was informed that he had “lost interest” in the project after the first year or so and discarded most of the tapes and IBM cards.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document