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IB upper secondary school and national upper secondary school students' attitudes towards English oral skills : a comparative study
2013
Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli kartoittaa suomalaisten lukio-opiskelijoiden asenteita englannin suullista kielitaitoa ja sen testaamista kohtaan. Tietoa kerättiin kyselylomakkeen avulla kahden kaupungin IB-lukioista ja samoissa kouluissa toimivista kansallisista lukioista. Vastaajia oli yhteensä 184. Tutkimuksessa haluttiin selvittää, millaisia asenteita Suomen lukiolaisilla on englannin suullista kielitaitoa kohtaan. Samalla selvitettiin myös opiskelijoiden asenteita suullisen kielitaidon testaamista kohtaan varsinkin kansallisen- ja IB-lukion päättövaiheessa. Tutkimuksen päätavoitteena oli vertailla kansallisten lukiolaisten ja IB-lukiolaisten asenteita toisiinsa. Suullisen kielitaid…
The analysis of teaching practices at school and at university.
2011
It is well-known that teachers are required to have an experimental mentality leading them to constantly verify the educational efficiency of their teaching actions and make new hypotheses to improve. Actually, what really happens at school is that intuition is predominant because of the lack of time, so these hypotheses are quite dim, working procedures are the fruit of almost indefinite improvisation, and assessment does not fit the need for observing the benefits and results of learning or it is not even carried out at all. Therefore, it is required for school teachers to have a strong methodological competence in the field of teaching research. The Research Group at the University of Pa…
Teaching competences in Secondary Education : analysis of teachers’ profiles
2014
This paper reports some of the findings from a study that aimed to analyse the importance attributed by secondary education teachers from the province of Castellón (Spain) to teaching competencies and to establish professional profiles from their responses. The survey was based on a purposely designed questionnaire answered by a representative sample of 136 secondary teachers from Castellón, representing 23 school departments. From an analysis of the responses we identified three professional profiles based on the importance that teachers attribute to a range of competencies; although all the competencies were valued highly, we found that teachers still consider the traditional delivery of …
Cyber security training in Finnish basic and general upper secondary education
2023
Cyber security in Finland is part of other areas of comprehensive security, as digital solutions multiply in society and technologies advance. Cyber security is one of the primary national security and nationaldefense concerns. Cyber security has quickly evolved from a technical discipline to a strategic concept. Cyber security capacity building can be measured based on the existence and number of research and developments, education and training programs, and certified professionals and public sector agencies.Cybersecurity awareness and the related civic skills play an increasingly important role as our societies become more digitalized. Improving citizens' cyber skills through education i…
Quasiconformal Jordan Domains
2020
We extend the classical Carath\'eodory extension theorem to quasiconformal Jordan domains $( Y, d_{Y} )$. We say that a metric space $( Y, d_{Y} )$ is a quasiconformal Jordan domain if the completion $\overline{Y}$ of $( Y, d_{Y} )$ has finite Hausdorff $2$-measure, the boundary $\partial Y = \overline{Y} \setminus Y$ is homeomorphic to $\mathbb{S}^{1}$, and there exists a homeomorphism $\phi \colon \mathbb{D} \rightarrow ( Y, d_{Y} )$ that is quasiconformal in the geometric sense. We show that $\phi$ has a continuous, monotone, and surjective extension $\Phi \colon \overline{ \mathbb{D} } \rightarrow \overline{ Y }$. This result is best possible in this generality. In addition, we find a n…
Taking it a tad further : comparing English and Swedish course materials in terms of presenting prosody and accent variation
2011
Tämän tutkimuksen aiheena on prosodian ja aksenttivariaatioiden esiintyminen lukion englannin ja ruotsin oppikirjamateriaaleissa. Ääntämisen opetusta ja osaamista on koulutuksen piirissä ensisijaisesti tutkittu segmentaalien näkökulmaa painottaen, vaikka nimenomaisesti prosodisten ainesten on todettu vaikuttavan puheen ymmärrettävyyteen segmentaalitarkkuutta enemmän. Aksenttivariaatiot ovat niin ikään vaikuttava tekijä puheen suurien linjojen piirissä, ja niiden eroihin vaikuttaa segmentaalimuutosten lisäksi prosodinen vaihtelu. Prosodian käsite itsessään sisältää yksittäisten äänteiden yliset ilmiöt, jotka voidaan jakaa kolmeen osa-alueeseen: äänteiden kvantiteettiin (paino ja pituus), kva…
Acoustic wave guides as infinite-dimensional dynamical systems
2015
We prove the unique solvability, passivity/conservativity and some regularity results of two mathematical models for acoustic wave propagation in curved, variable diameter tubular structures of finite length. The first of the models is the generalised Webster's model that includes dissipation and curvature of the 1D waveguide. The second model is the scattering passive, boundary controlled wave equation on 3D waveguides. The two models are treated in an unified fashion so that the results on the wave equation reduce to the corresponding results of approximating Webster's model at the limit of vanishing waveguide intersection.
The evolution and ecology of multiple antipredator defences
2023
Prey seldom rely on a single type of antipredator defence, often using multiple defences to avoid predation. In many cases, selection in different contexts may favour the evolution of multiple defences in a prey. However, a prey may use multiple defences to protect itself during a single predator encounter. Such “defence portfolios” that defend prey against a single instance of predation are distributed across and within successive stages of the predation sequence (encounter, detection, identification, approach (attack), subjugation and consumption). We contend that at present, our understanding of defence portfolio evolution is incomplete, and seen from the fragmentary perspective of speci…
Drawing techniques as tools for the evaluation of scholastic integration and emotional components in primary and secondary school : a cross-sectional…
2023
IntroductionIn the last decades, many studies have emphasized emotion’s role in psycho-educational processes during childhood, such as scholastic integration. Emotional variables in childhood can be assessed through projective graphic techniques, as they allow children to use kinetic components of the draws to communicate emotions.Method1.757 couple of draws were collected, from primary school children (N = 1.270; F = 643 [50.6%]; Age = 8.6; SD = 1.31) and secondary school children (N = 487; F = 220 [45.2%]; Age = 11.72; SD = 0.70) and from eight schools in Sicily and over 60 different classrooms. The Drawn Stories Technique and the Classroom Draw were used to assess children’s current emot…