Search results for "Mathematics EDucation"

The associations among fundamental movement skills, self-reported physical activity and academic performance during junior high school in Finland.

2015

The purpose of this study was to analyse the longitudinal associations between (1) fundamental movement skills (FMSs) and academic performance, and (2) self-reported physical activity and academic performance through junior high school in Finland. The participants of the study were 325 Finnish students (162 girls and 163 boys), who were 13 years old at the beginning of the study at Grade 7. Students performed three FMS tests and responded to a self-reported physical activity questionnaire at Grades 7 and 8. Marks in Finnish language, mathematics and history from Grades 7, 8 and 9 were collected. Structural equation modelling with multigroup method demonstrated that in the boys' group, a cor…

Kielitutkinto ohjaa opetusta ja kannustaa puhumaan

2017

Tässä tutkimuksessa selvitetään vuosina 2003–2016 käytössä olleen kielitutkinnon vaikutuksia inkeriläisten paluumuuttajien paluumuuttovalmennukseen. Inkeriläisillä tarkoitan etnisiä suomalaisia, jotka ovat asuneet Venäjällä jo sukupolvien ajan. Voidakseen muuttaa Suomeen paluumuuttajastatuksen perusteella heidän piti suorittaa A2-tason kielitutkinto. Tutkimuksessa analysoin, kuinka opettajat kuvaavat tutkinnon vaikutusta opetukseensa. Opettajat työskentelivät Venäjällä ja opettivat suomea inkeriläisille, jotka aikoivat muuttaa Suomeen. Kurssin päätarkoituksena oli saavuttaa kielitutkinnossa vaadittu kielitaidon taso.Aineisto koostuu opettajien ja kielitutkintotyöryhmän asiantuntijoiden haas…

Good English Pronunciation Users and Their Pronunciation Learning Strategies

2015

The study investigates pronunciation learning strategies (PLS) deployed by those with good English pronunciation, as well as their beliefs concerning the variables that affect pronunciation competence. In order to collect data for analysis this study surveyed 61 participants who had learned English as a foreign language. They comprised 28 higher education teachers and scholars specialising in English phonetics and phonology, who were defined as good pronunciation users (GPU), and 33 EFL teacher training students, viewed as average pronunciation learners (APL). This cohort responded to a survey on pronunciation learning strategies and expressed their views on several aspects affecting the L2…

Dialogue through the eyes: Exploring teachers’ focus of attention during educational dialogue

2020

Abstract This study explored teachers’ focus of attention during educational dialogue. Teachers’ focus of attention was recorded in 54 Grade 1 classrooms using Tobii Pro Glasses 2 mobile eye-tracking device. From the video recordings, episodes of educational dialogue were identified and categorised by quality. Teacher’s focus of attention on students was examined during the dialogue episodes. Results showed that teachers allocated their attention relatively unevenly among the students. More students got visual attention during high-quality educational dialogue than during moderate-quality dialogue. This study provides insight into the quality of educational dialogue by combining assessment …

Freshman Engineering’ Reasoning Strategies When Answering FCI Questions: A Case Study

2020

Force Concept Inventory (FCI) is a questionnaire commonly used to assess students’ conceptual understanding of Newtonian Mechanics. We show that Cluster Analysis methods can be used to study student answers to FCI by finding their reasoning strategies on Newtonian Mechanics. Our analysis is performed to data obtained by a sample of freshman engineering students just at the beginning of their first General Physics course. The analysis takes into account the decomposition of the force concept into the conceptual dimensions suggested by test authors and successive researches. We identified groups of students with similar answering strategies, characterised by correct answers, as well as by non…

Foreign Language Learners’ Pronunciation Learning Beliefs and Strategies

2021

This quantitative research investigates the extent to which adult L2 learners act in line with what they declare to believe in regarding pronunciation learning. In other words, this paper focuses on determining the strength of the relationship between the frequency of use of L2 pronunciation learning strategies (PLS) and the beliefs the individuals hold on selected factors affecting pronunciation acquisition, pronunciation instruction, self-efficacy, pronunciation learning goals and affective factors in pronunciation learning. A group of 116 learners of English as a foreign language who took an English phonetics course responded to the Pronunciation Learning Strategies Inventory (PLSI) and …

Does formative feedback on search behaviour help students in answering comprehension questions from an available text? / ¿Ayuda la retroalimentación …

2015

AbstractThis study analyses the efficacy of formative feedback to boost students’ search behaviour when answering comprehension questions in a with-text reading situation, which is a common reading situation in instructional and assessment settings. In these reading situations search strategies play an important role to predict students’ performance. Sixty-five high school students read two texts and answered eight multiple-choice comprehension questions per text using the software Read&Answer, which recorded all the students’ actions. After answering each question, students received either global-search-feedback or specific-search-feedback, which differed in the specificity of their inform…

Using Affordances and Constraints to Evaluate the Use of a Formative e-Assessment System in Mathematics Education

2020

Forms and functions of on-the-fly formative assessment conversations in physics inquiry lessons

2020

This case study examined teachers’ on-the-fly formative assessment conversations, that is, how teachers collect information from students’ thinking and use that information to support their learnin...

After the Press Release on Mathematics Achievement : The Alignment of Formative Assessments and Summative Standardized Tests for Students from Minori…

2018

Media coverage often reports standardized test scores as indicative of global competitiveness and journalists frequently frame the mathematics achievement of U.S. students using a discourse of failure, particularly for students from minoritized backgrounds. Informed by research literature on: (a) formative and summative assessment, (b) the interdependence of language and mathematics, and (c) a sociopolitical stance for researching students from minoritized language backgrounds, this study analyzed the linguistic alignment of mathematics assessments. Results from this study show how alignment between formative assessment processes and summative standardized tests influences performance on hi…