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Going into the real world : language learners' views on how foreign language teaching prepares them to use language in authentic situations
2014
Englannin kieli nähdään oikeutetusti maailmankielenä, sillä se on vakiinnuttanut asemansa kansainvälisen kommunikaation välineenä. Kielenkäyttö ja kommunikatiivisuus ovat olleet teoriassa vieraiden kielten opetuksen tärkeimpiä tavoitteita jo pitkään. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoitus oli tarkastella kielenoppijoiden näkemyksiä siitä, miten englannin kielen opetus suomalaisessa peruskoulussa valmistaa oppijoita käyttämään kieltä autenttisissa kielenkäyttötilanteissa peruskoulun jälkeen. Tarkoituksena oli myös selvittää, mitkä opetuksen osa-alueet lisäävät oppijoiden kykyä käyttää kieltä. Lisäksi tutkimus pyrki selvittämään, millaisia kielenkäyttötilanteita oppijat ovat kokeneet. Tutkimuksen tavoit…
Science and law in the time of cholera: the mystery of the biscuits in Torroja (1865)
2018
By focussing on a case of collective poisoning in 1865, four features of forensic cultures are analysed: technologies for detection, authorized voices, regulations in action and the predominant social anxieties. Local newspapers and archival documents kept in the medical academies of Barcelona and Madrid are analysed. The analysis shows the tensions between various types of proof employed in legal medicine and the ambiguities between epidemic diseases and poisoning accidents. In the first section, I review the fears caused by the cholera epidemic in 1865, which was the first explanation of the accident. The changes of popular perception are also discussed by analysing contemporary newspaper…
Digital solutions transform the forest-based bioeconomy into a digital platform industry : a suggestion for a disruptive business model in the digita…
2018
With the notion that the transformation of the forest-based bioeconomy in recent years provides insightful suggestions not only on the bioeconomy, but on business innovation, this paper conducts an empirical analysis of the transformation and attempts to extract suggestions for a digital-solution-driven, disruptive business model in the digital economy. Notwithstanding the potential broad cross-sectoral benefits, the natural environment, locality constraints, and incessant challenge of distance have impeded the balanced development of the bioeconomy. However, driven by digital solutions, the bioeconomy has taken big steps forward in recent years. Digitalization has enabled real-time, end-to…
Pathways Through Peer Assessment: Implementing Peer Assessment in a Lower Secondary Physics Classroom
2020
AbstractPeer assessment has been shown to advance learning, for example, by improving one’s work, but the variance of learning benefits within or between studies has not been explained. The purpose of this case study was to examine what kinds of pathways students have through peer assessment and to study which factors affect them when peer assessment is implemented in the early stage of physics studies in the context of conducting and reporting inquiry. Data sources used include field notes, audio recordings of lessons, student lab reports, written peer feedback, and student interviews. We examined peer assessment from the perspective of individual students and found 3 profiles of peer asse…
Il valore della formazione integrata tra scuola e lavoro
2021
La metodologia Alternanza Scuola Lavoro, caratteristica dei percorsi di apprendimento basati sul lavoro (Work–Based Learning), è inserita all’interno dei curricoli scolastici e di quelli di istruzione e formazione professionale, presenti sia nel modello educativo italiano sia nella maggior parte dei sistemi educativi europei. I presupposti teorici che l’hanno definita e promossa sono rintracciabili nei primi programmi di Work placements, sandwich courses e negotiated learning, nati dagli studi di John Dewey che concepiva l’istruzione scolastica come un laboratorio continuo di educazione alla vita. Tali programmi sono stati proposti intorno agli anni Settanta–Ottanta nelle università e negli…
Il Transformative Learning nei futuri insegnanti di sostegno: un’indagine in laboratorio
2022
Il presente lavoro illustra gli esiti di un’indagine condotta con 2193 corsisti frequentanti i laboratori del VI ciclo del corso di specializzazione per le attività di sostegno didattico dell’Università degli Studi di Palermo svoltosi nell’A.A. 2021/2022. La finalità dell’indagine è stata quella di rilevare il grado di consapevolezza dei taciti assunti e delle aspettative, nonché di quelle degli altri e valutarne la rilevanza a fini interpretativi, dei futuri docenti di sostegno, nel processo laboratoriale che li ha coinvolti per 180 ore. La cornice teorica all’interno della quale si delinea l’indagine è quella del Transformative Learning (Mezirow, 2013), che riteniamo fondamentale per la c…
Wspomaganie procesu organizacji uczenia się dziecka w okresie zdalnej edukacji w doświadczeniu rodziców zastępczych
2022
Tło badań: Rodzicielstwo zastępcze jest szczególnym rodzajem rodzicielstwa, które wymaga zaangażowania, poświęcenia, cierpliwości oraz odpowiednich umiejętności. Zdalne nauczanie w okresie Covid-19 było nową sytuacją zadaniową dla uczniów i ich opiekunów. Artykuł jest pewnym zapisem podmiotowej świadomości czasu zarazy lat 2020–2022. Cel badań: Poznanie doświadczeń rodziców zastępczych w sytuacji wyznaczonych im przez system edukacyjny zachowań ułatwiających funkcjonowanie dzieci w czasie nauki zdalnej. Metoda badawcza: Artykuł prezentuje rezultaty pilotażowych badań metodą wywiadu częściowo ustrukturyzowanego, przeprowadzonych na grupie rodziców zastępczych w marcu 2022 roku. Osiągnięte wy…
Persistence in complex systems
2022
Persistence is an important characteristic of many complex systems in nature, related to how long the system remains at a certain state before changing to a different one. The study of complex systems' persistence involves different definitions and uses different techniques, depending on whether short-term or long-term persistence is considered. In this paper we discuss the most important definitions, concepts, methods, literature and latest results on persistence in complex systems. Firstly, the most used definitions of persistence in short-term and long-term cases are presented. The most relevant methods to characterize persistence are then discussed in both cases. A complete literature r…
An Information Systems Design Product Theory for Software Project Estimation and Measurement Systems
2009
There is relatively little research on software Project Estimation and Measurement Systems (PEMS). Commercial PEMS vary in functionality and effectiveness. Their intended users thus do not know what to expect from PEMS and how to evaluate them. This paper creates an information system design product theory for the class of PEMS that prescribes the meta-requirements, the meta-design, and applicable theories for all products within the class. Meta-requirements and the meta-design are derived from the project estimation and measurement literature, experiences obtained during more than ten years of empirical work in Finnish Software Measurement Association, and a commercially available PEMS.
Adaptive variable structure fuzzy neural identification and control for a class of MIMO nonlinear system
2013
This paper presents a novel adaptive variable structure (AVS) method to design a fuzzy neural network (FNN). This AVS-FNN is based on radial basis function (RBF) neurons, which have center and width vectors. The network performs sequential learning through sliding data window reflecting system dynamic changes, and dynamic growing-and-pruning structure of FNN. The salient characteristics of the AVS-FNN are as follows: (1) Structure-learning and parameters estimation are performed automatically and simultaneously without partitioning input space and selecting initial parameters a priori. The structure-learning approach relies on the contribution of the size of the output. (2) A set of fuzzy r…