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Empowering Teaching for Participatory Citizenship: Evaluating the Impact of Alternative Civic Education Pedagogies on Civic Attitudes, Knowledge and Skills of Eight-Grade Students in Mexico
Author: Reimers, Fernando M.
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Citizenship Education,Low Income,Generalization,Educational Objectives,Teaching Methods,Civics,Intervention,Knowledge Base for Teaching,Instructional Effectiveness,Teacher Education,Outcomes of Education,Lesson Plans,Statistical Analysis,Experimental Groups,Transfer of Training,Grade 8,Mexicans,Grade 9,Questionnaires

In spite of the fact that public schools were established to prepare students for citizenship, the alignment of teaching practice with this goal is poor. In part, this is because the knowledge base about the efficacy of curricular and pedagogical approaches in supporting specific civic outcomes is limited, as is our knowledge about the extent to which civic learning is constrained to pedagogical objectives specifically taught vs. the generalizability of what is learned to other civic outcomes. In this paper we evaluate the impact of three interventions aimed at training teachers to use a specific pedagogical approach (i.e. lesson planning, participatory learning, and a combination of both) to teach civic education to low-income eight-grade students in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. These pedagogies aimed at improving teacher practices used to teach the civic education curriculum and fostering a specific set student's civic skills. Using data from a cluster randomized experimental design at the classroom level, we found positive impact of the three civic education pedagogies on teacher practices reported by students. We also found statistically significant impacts on a range of students' civic dimensions explicitly targeted by the curriculum. Finally, we found limited or no evidence of transfer of effects to civic dimensions not explicitly targeted in the curriculum.
The Effect of Learning Together Technique of Cooperative Learning Method on Student Achievement in Mathematics Teaching 7th Class of Primary School
Author: Ozsoy, Nesrin
Date: 2004-07-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cooperative Learning,Teaching Methods,Mathematics Instruction,Mathematics Achievement,Pretests Posttests,Grade 7,Foreign Countries,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Instructional Effectiveness,Elementary School Students,Elementary School Teachers,Mathematics Tests

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of learning together technique of cooperative Learning method on student mathematics achievement. The study was an experimental research in which pre-test -- post-test design with control group was applied. The study was conducted in spring 2004 with 70 pupils studying at 7th class in Balikesir, Turkey. In this study, experiment and control groups have been used. &quot;Learning Together&quot; technique of &quot;Cooperative Learning&quot; method has been applied to the experiment group and &quot;Traditional Teaching&quot; method has been applied to the control group. Before applying the measure means is given to groups as pre-test. In the end of applying is practised post-test to groups. Conclusions showed that there is a significant difference between the results of experiment and control groups. Learning Together technique of cooperative learning method is more effective than traditional teaching methods.
Implications of the Integration of Computing Methodologies into Conventional Marketing Research upon the Quality of Students' Understanding of the Concept
Author: Ayman, Umut
Date: 2004-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Technology Integration,Computer Uses in Education,Computer Software,Marketing,Research Methodology,Statistical Analysis,Questionnaires,Likert Scales,Student Attitudes,Student Surveys,Electronic Learning,Foreign Countries

It has been an ongoing concern among academicians teaching social sciences to develop a better methodology to ease understanding of students. Since verbal emphasis is at the core of the concepts within such disciplines it has been observed that the adequate or desired level of conceptual understanding of the students to transforms the theories into practical derivations is usually quite frustrating. Thus with the introduction of highly sophisticated user friendly analysis and statistical software, integration of such computing methodologies into the teaching of theoretical courses could present a basis to overcome this problem. Hence within this concept a detailed study to enable the comparative evaluation of the understanding of students within the communication faculty regarding a major area of businesses and media industries, that is marketing research, is aimed. For this purpose two groups were traced, one getting the essentials of marketing research only on the theoretical basis during the marketing courses and the other learning the concepts through a marketing research course equipped with computer application practices. The findings of the study will be presented on a comparative display format to enable ease of understanding. Also the methodology of both courses will be presented to serve as a guideline for academicians who are interested in integration of innovative computer application facilities into their conventional theory based course formats.
Attitudes toward Learning about and Working with Computers of Students at UiTM
Author: Hashim, Rugayah
Date: 2004-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Student Attitudes,Computer Uses in Education,Self Esteem,Anxiety,Value Judgment,Questionnaires,College Students,Statistical Analysis,Gender Differences,Educational Technology,Likert Scales

The purpose of this study was to assess the attitudes toward learning about and working with computers of Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Shah Alam students. Attitudes were studied in an attempt to ascertain factors such as anxiety, confidence, liking and, usefulness at the university level. A total of 300 students at various stages of education from diploma to doctoral degrees participated in this study. Questionnaires were distributed to students and completed ones (100%) were collected by two research assistants. The instrument used was a questionnaire designed by Loyd and Gressard (1984). The questionnaire solicited demographic information, and 40 questions or statements structured on a scale of one to four. They were then utilized to measure attitudes toward learning about and working with computers. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 11.0 for frequencies, mean, standard deviation and, cross tabulation. The results suggested that UiTM Shah Alam students, especially the female students, have positive attitudes toward learning about and working with computers.
An Occupational Survey of Refrigeration Technicians Aiming at Determining Psychomotor Competencies in Turkish Vocational Higher Education System
Author: Isik, Nurettin
Date: 2004-01-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Questionnaires,Psychomotor Skills,Competence,Employees,Vocational Education,Mechanical Skills,Mechanics (Process),Individual Characteristics,Job Skills,Foreign Countries,Blue Collar Occupations

In this study of &quot;Occupational Survey of Refrigeration Technicians&quot; in which the &quot;Task Inventory Questionnaires&quot; have been developed, we aim at determining the vocational psychomotor competencies (skills) of refrigeration technicians for effectively carrying out the occupational duties in labor-life. In the first phase of the study, for implementing that purpose, by means of job/task analysis, it has been determined some fundamental psychomotor competencies indicating what is done in labor-life for refrigeration technicians. In the second phase of the study, it has been founded out the degrees of frequency, importance, and difficulty of these competencies determined for refrigeration technicians by applying &quot;Task Inventory Questionnaires&quot; to selected technical personnel in refrigeration industry. In addition to determining these degrees, it also founded out the correlation between the calculated values of frequency, importance, and difficulty among the respondents. In the light of the findings, in the third phase of the study, some recommendations were made for development of refrigeration technician education.
Online Learning: Student Role and Readiness
Author: Vonderwell, Selma
Date: 2004-07-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Online Courses,Student Role,Barriers,Student Responsibility,Teaching Methods,Distance Education,Teacher Student Relationship

Successful online learning requires a reconstruction of the roles, responsibilities, and practices of online instructors and their online students. It is essential to understand the dynamics of a range of online learning environments, the perceptions and pre-conceptions that exist, and how best to utilize the potential of current technology to overcome barriers to successful learning. Promoting student readiness is essential for successful learning experiences. Students need to be prepared for changing demands related to online learning with respect to technology, learning management, pedagogical practice and social roles. The purpose of this article is to examine and discuss student roles and responsibilities for learning online and strategies to promote student readiness.
Cosmopolitan Capabilities in the HE Language Classroom
Author: Crosbie, Veronica
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Citizenship Education,Social Justice,Well Being,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Power Structure,Intervention,Focus Groups,Interviews,Journal Writing,Educational Change,Curriculum,Self Concept,Student Attitudes,Action Research,Participatory Research,Foreign Countries,Course Content,Course Descriptions,Global Approach,Child Labor,College Students,Peer Teaching,International Trade

This study, concerning the development of cosmopolitan citizenship, draws on theories of human development and capabilities (Sen 1999; Nussbaum 2000) from a social justice perspective, where individual wellbeing is articulated as having the freedom to live a life of one's choosing. In the context of an English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classroom this involves paying attention to pedagogical strategies, power dynamics and curriculum content as a means of developing valued beings and doings (or capabilities and functionings as they are described in the literature). Sample activities are presented and evaluated to see to what extent they achieve the desired end. These include critical pedagogical interventions, students' artefacts and extracts from focus group interviews, class reports and reflective journals. Results from the textual data offer research evidence of successful curriculum change, demonstrating that the learning that takes place there can make a difference: in terms of the learners' identity development, capability enhancement and cosmopolitan citizenship.
Student Teachers' Attitudes about Basic Physics Laboratory
Author: Yesilyurt, Mustafa
Date: 2004-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Teacher Attitudes,Science Instruction,Physics,Laboratory Experiments,Student Attitudes,Student Interests,Attitude Measures,Questionnaires,Foreign Countries,Control Groups,Experimental Groups,Scores,Likert Scales,Quasiexperimental Design,Higher Education,Interviews

In this study an attitude questionnaire was developed and applied to identify student teachers' interests and attitudes for basic physics laboratory. In physics laboratory practices run by a higher education institution a new attitude questionnaire was developed and applied twice in two terms by researchers to increase student teachers' success during the experimental process was going on. To that end sufficient number of students were interviewed, the findings were supported and the results were discussed. Although these students were successful in undertaking basic physics laboratory experiments, it was found that the students performed unfavorable attitudes against laboratory experiments. The study was completed by suggesting that students/pupils' interests may be developed at earlier ages.
Design Strategies for Higher Education Faculty
Author: Palak, Deniz
Date: 2004-07-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Instructional Design,Higher Education,Educational Technology,Teaching Methods,Educational Change,Teacher Role,Student Role,Taxonomy,Student Centered Learning,College Faculty,Networks,Simulation,Program Descriptions

This paper reports the current findings in literature on the impact of instructional technologies on teaching and learning environments pertaining higher education institutions. This study investigates the instructional design strategies in terms of (1) the scope of change in design strategies as a result of current school reform in the United States (2) impact of instructional technologies on teaching and learning, (3) evolving roles of teachers and learners within these new environments, (4) new networked technologies available for teaching, and (5) implications for changes in instructional strategies. The paper also brings two models of instructional technology integration (Harris' genres of telecollaborative activity structures and Tomei's Taxonomy of Instructional Technologies) for higher education faculty who are interested in applying learner-centered design principles. As this paper is an interactive document taking advantage of the full range of hyperlinks, it is recommended to be viewed to online. Higher education institutions are undergoing substantial changes as a result of education reform that is taking place at schools. Universities are making the shift from face-to-face print only delivery to digital delivery in both traditional face-to-face and online courses. Coupled with socio-economic and pedagogical changes over the last decade, higher education faculty has become increasingly responsive to creating flexible technology-supported teaching and learning environments. In this growing demand, higher education faculty has begun to integrate instructional technologies into their existing course design. The paper investigates the instructional design strategies in terms of (1) the scope of change in design strategies as a result of school reform (2) impact of instructional technologies on teaching and learning, (3) evolving roles of teachers and learners within these new environments, (4) new networked technologies available for teaching, and (5) implications for changes in instructional strategies used by faculty in higher education.
The Political Response of Spanish Youth to the Socio-Economic Crisis: Some Implications for Citizenship Education
Author: Jover, Gonzalo
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Economic Climate,Economic Factors,Youth,Citizenship Education,Political Attitudes,Voting,Activism,Student Participation

This article discusses the effects of the current socio-economic crisis on Spanish youth and their political response to it. It does so in three consecutive stages. In the first, it analyses the repercussion of the crisis on young people using information from certain social indicators (employment, mobility and education). It then outlines the subjective perception of the crisis, i.e., how they are experiencing it and what their hopes are regarding the economy and politics. The third part focuses on how young citizens have responded to the situation politically. The article finishes by considering what implications may be drawn from that response in terms of citizenship education.
An Audio-Book Project for Blind Students at the Open Education System of Anadolu University
Author: Ozgur, Aydin Ziya
Date: 2004-07-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Blindness,Distance Education,Visual Impairments,Audio Books,Technology Uses in Education,College Students,Teaching Methods

As a contemporary system to provide equal education rights to all learners, distance education gives different education opportunities to people who cannot get enough educational services because of the some limitations of traditional education. Distance education at the Open Education System of Anadolu University has been formed for all diverse people who have severely different educational needs and expectations from each other. Therefore, the system provides different educational programs and services to them, especially the people who need special education. This study conducted to develop an audio-book project for the 362 blind students in Open Education Faculty of Anadolu University. The process to convert available traditional books to audio-books, commonly known as e-audio-books, will be explained in this paper. Also, the production and publication processes of e-audio-books will be discussed.
Investigating Society &quot;Close-Up&quot;: A Case-Study of an Individual Student, Yumiko, and the Construction of a Footbridge on Route 419
Author: Kuno, Hiroyuki
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Social Studies,Units of Study,Lesson Plans,Instructional Effectiveness,Case Studies,Teaching Methods,Educational Practices,Problem Solving,Student Centered Learning,Political Issues,Case Method (Teaching Technique),Grade 9,Data Collection,Community Study,Community Surveys,Community Needs,Foreign Countries

Is it actually certain that our students are changing during our social studies classes? This paper aims to reveal structural development and evaluation in social studies education which is related to national curriculum requirements and focused on particular students in order to test the effectiveness of the lesson. In order to increase students' concern for the theme, the teacher choose a topic related to the construction of a footbridge on Route 419 on the students' daily route to school as the lesson study unit. The lesson unit took place in a 9th grade class of a Japanese Secondary School, called Asahi Chu-gakko in Kariya, Aichi, for about 40 days from September 21 to October 29, 2010. &quot;Yumiko&quot; is a so-called &quot;case student&quot; among the 37 students that is indicate effectiveness of the lesson through observing in detail his/her performance during the lesson. The authors describe whole learning tracks of the case student Yumiko through pre- and post-Lesson Commentary and Lesson transcripts as evidence of her learning.
Teaching Scientific Literacy through a Science Technology and Society Course: Prospective Elementary Science Teachers' Case
Author: Macaroglu Akgul, Esra
Date: 2004-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Science Instruction,Scientific Literacy,Science and Society,Preservice Teachers,Elementary School Science,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Knowledge Level,College Seniors,Data Collection,Assignments,Learning Activities,Portfolios (Background Materials),Interviews,Data Analysis,Definitions,Qualitative Research

The study examines Turkish pre-service elementary science teachers' scientific literacy levels. The research took place in Marmara University, in 2001-2002 academic year. The research participants were twenty randomly chosen students among all senior classes of the university mentioned above. The research data were gathered with the documents, i.e. class assignments and activities, collected in science-technology and society course performance portfolios. Interviews with students and field notes from the class were used for data triangulation. Participants' definitions of scientific literacy were determined with document analysis and open coding of data. Then, assertions to explain findings were formed. The assertions displayed that participants define scientific literacy in relation with thinking and inquiry. However; they are having problems to define the term scientific. Documents displayed that although participants had some traditional understandings about science, they hold more contemporary views about scientific literacy.
Improving Professional Skills of Practitioners by Constructing an Effective Approach in Science Teaching
Author: Saka, Ahmet Zeki
Date: 2004-10-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Science Instruction,Teaching Methods,Cooperative Learning,Discussion (Teaching Technique),Science Achievement,Teacher Competencies,Preservice Teacher Education,Teaching Skills,Peer Teaching,Grouping (Instructional Purposes)

This study has been made to construct a different effective approach in science teaching by implementing cooperative learning and discussion to increase achievement in science teaching/learning and improve professionals' skills of practitioners in pre-service teacher education. This approach indicates that as teachers know their students well especially regarding cognitive skills, affective domain, and level of achievement, they can separate their students into three groups, the first of which is presenter responsible for discussing theoretical section, the second of which is project responsible for developing science activities related each unit, and the third of which is implementer responsible for practicing developed activities in front of all class and the evaluation of those activities by all practitioners regarding level of applicability, convenience, and efficiency. A valuable aspect of this approach was that it reflected an effective way to increase level of achievement in science teaching/learning by means of giving inspiration through developed activities and implementation and evaluation of them in interactional classroom atmosphere offering practitioners the chance to elicit ideas about effective science teaching/learning in their own practice in science teaching lesson before actual practice in school. This approach ensures the practitioners many kinds of opportunities thorough emerged specific references, regarding learner participation, learner relationships, teaching methods and the use of teaching aids by improving social skills participating cooperative learning groups and discussing and evaluating developed activities. The article concludes by discussing the contribution to presented approach with regard to increasing achievement in science teaching and improving professional skills of practitioners and by giving some suggestions for further research. [This article was originally presented at ICIHE 2003 organized by Iowa State University of Science and Technology, The International Conference on Innovation in Higher Education, May 16-19, Kiev, Ukraine.]
Teaching Human Rights in Turkey: Commentaries on a Single Lesson from Multiple Perspectives
Author: Kesten, Alper
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Civil Rights,Instruction,Social Studies,Educational Innovation,Citizenship Education,Student Participation,Student Attitudes,Teaching Methods,Course Content,Questioning Techniques,Instructional Effectiveness,Concept Mapping,Discourse Analysis,Classroom Communication,Positive Reinforcement,Classroom Observation Techniques,Learning Modules,Teacher Attitudes,Cultural Influences

This group of commentaries on teaching human rights in Turkey includes: (1) Reflection on Turkish Human Rights Lesson from Turkey (Alper Kesten)--A lesson on human rights in Turkey is analyzed for its representativity and methodology within the Turkish teaching culture from the viewpoint of a Turkish researcher; (2) Commentary on a Turkish Lesson on Human Rights (Joan Brodsky Schur)--A lesson on human rights in Turkey is analyzed for its content and methodology from the viewpoint of an American teacher and curriculum developer; and (3) Review: Insan Haklari Dersi (Teaching Human Rights) (Kudret Gürsoy)--A lesson on human rights in Turkey is analyzed for its content and methodology from the viewpoint of a German teacher.