Search results for "BELIEFS"
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Children's and adolescents' achievement strategies, school adjustment and family environment
2001
Students' Positive Expectations and Concerns Prior to the School Transition to Lower Secondary School
2020
This mixed-method study examines students' expectations and concerns before transitioning from primary to lower secondary school and the role of students' school-related wellbeing and self-esteem in their concerns. Students reported their beliefs about the forthcoming school transition and filled in a questionnaire assessing school burnout and self-esteem. The results showed that the students had positive expectations comprising comfort, friendships, learning, school environment, increased freedom and teacher -student relations. The students' concerns were mainly related to friendships. Furthermore, results indicated that students who reported concerns about peer relations were likely to ex…
Oppilaiden käsityksiä englannin suullisesta kielitaidosta, sen oppimisesta ja arvioinnista
2018
This study investigated Finnish pupils’ beliefs about English oral proficiency, its learning and assessment in order to give voice to the pupils themselves as well as to better understand their views on English oral proficiency. The data consisted of nine semistructured interviews and self-evaluations and peer evaluations of nine 9th graders from three Finnish basic education schools. The study was qualitative in its nature, and the data were mainly analysed using content analysis. The results showed that the pupils understood English oral proficiency as an ability to speak and interact intelligibly in English. The most important components were seen to be pronunciation, vocabulary and gram…
Beliefs about oral corrective feedback in an Argentinean EFL university classroom : their impact on a teacher’s classroom actions
2019
Beliefs about oral corrective feedback (OCF) are essential components in the EFL classroom, especially when learning the speaking skill since teachers have to strike a delicate balance between the provision of OCF without negatively affecting students’ emotions. During the last years, many scholars have devoted great attention to the influence of affective factors in the learning of foreign languages. Among these factors, beliefs held by teachers and students have proved to impact significantly on the processes of teaching and learning a foreign language. The aims of this paper are: to describe the beliefs held by an Argentinian EFL teacher about OCF and to describe how her beliefs might sh…
Revised and short versions of the pseudoscientific belief scale
2021
This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Fasce, A, Avendaño, D, Adrián‐Ventura, J. Revised and short versions of the pseudoscientific belief scale. Appl Cognit Psychol. 2021; 1– 5, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3811. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. In this article, we develop the revised and short versions of the pseudoscientific belief scale through two empirical studies (N = 4154). This revision is motivated by the excessive length of the scale, as well as by consistent observations of poor item loadings across several studies…
Understanding Language Teacher Identities : Conceptualizations, practices and change
2019
This chapter presents some new approaches and questions in language teacher identity research that could facilitate a better understanding of the work of language teachers, and as a consequence help teacher educators to support them in that work. Language teacher research has shown that periods of change play an important role in identity development. In the field of general teacher research, several studies have addressed the significance of transition phases and changes in curriculum for teacher identities and beliefs. However, there has been some research on the significance of teacher education and transition to full-time teaching for language teacher identity development. A more partic…
Przekonania skazanych za zabójstwo o sobie, innych i przyszłości - możliwości restrukturyzacji poznawczej jako kierunku oddziaływań resocjalizacyjnych
2014
Podstawą teoretyczną przeprowadzonych badań jest koncepcja poznawcza, która zakłada, że dla efektywnego funkcjonowania człowieka kluczowe są jego procesy poznawcze determinujące schematy przekonań na temat siebie, innych i przyszłości. Badania prezentowane w artykule przeprowadzono w grupie 232 skazanych na karę dożywotniego pozbawienia wolności lub karę 25 lat za zabójstwo. Otrzymane wyniki poddano analizie czynnikowej, która ujawniła cztery czynniki: poczucie zagubienia, przekonania o własnej zaradności, przekonania o funkcjonariuszach i przekonania o innych. W artykule zaprezentowano powiązania pomiędzy ujawnionymi zmiennymi a zmiennymi demograficzno-społecznymi w kontekście możliwości p…
Chapter 5. Overcoming scepticism? Belief and moral responsibility
2006
Este es el capítulo 5 de mi libro Moral Responsibility: the ways of scepticism (Routledge 2006). Los cuatro primeros capítulos son comentarios extensos a un importante argumento escéptico sobre la posibilidad de la responsabilidad moral, que puede reconstruirse o extraerse fácilmente a partir de la bibliografía actual sobre la responsabilidad moral. El argumento, que denomino SMR (por “Scepticism about Moral Responsibility”), puede formularse como sigue: Primera premisa (A): O el determinismo es verdadero o no lo es. Segunda premisa (B): Si el determinismo es verdadero, la responsabilidad moral no es posible. Tercera premisa (C): Si el determinismo no es verdadero, la responsabilidad moral …
Adolescent reading and math skills and self-concept beliefs as predictors of age 20 emotional well-being
2023
This study examines longitudinal associations among reading skills, math skills and emotional well-being in a Finnish sample (n = 586) followed from the end of comprehensive school (Grade 9, age 15–16) to age 20. In particular, we determine whether the associations between skills and well-being are mediated by self-concept beliefs. In Grade 9, the participants’ reading fluency, PISA reading comprehension and math skills were assessed in classrooms, and questionnaires were used to assess self-concept (global and skill-specific) and internalising problems. At age 20, questionnaires were used to self-report emotional well-being and educational attainment. The results showed no direct predictiv…
Estudio de la relación entre la creencia en las pseudociencias y la alfabetización científica del alumnado de Bachillerato
2021
La presencia de ideas pseudocientíficas en el alumnado y el bajo nivel de alfabetización científica ponen en relieve un problema de insuficiencia en las metodologías de enseñanza de las ciencias. El objetivo de este estudio es analizar la relación entre el nivel de alfabetización científica y el grado de creencia en pseudociencia en el alumnado preuniversitario como una forma de evaluar la preparación científica que han recibido durante la secundaria. Para ello se pasó un cuestionario a 90 estudiantes del bachillerato Científico-tecnológico y Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales en el que se evalúan el grado de acuerdo entre diversas afirmaciones pseudocientíficas y el nivel de alfabetización ci…