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STUDENT GRAPHICAL INFORMATION LITERACY IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE
2017
Among the most important 21st century skills that every student needs are the ability to work with information. The key for implementing competency based approach to learning will be related to how students' ability to apply skills acquired in, for example, mathematics can be transferred to other subject contexts. Newest OECD PISA results presented in 2016 show a recurring tendency that in Latvia there is a small number of students whose performance is in accordance to the 5th and 6th level of the framework. These two levels represent students' ability to apply deep thinking skills in new learning contexts. It is necessary to analyze the causes of this situation in order to identify opportu…
Student teachers' questioning behaviour which elicit conceptual explanation from students
2016
Getting students to explain their thinking is one of the big challenges in teachers’ work. Previous studies have analysed teacher questioning by focusing on amounts of different types of questions. In this study, I use questioning diagrams to see how questioning develops during the lessons. The data includes video recordings of student teachers’ mathematics lessons in secondary and upper secondary school. The data is analysed by constructing questioning diagram for each student teacher and locating conceptual explanations given by students. The lessons which included largest amount of conceptual explanations are further studied. In these lessons the student teachers had lengthy discussions …
Territories and effects on student living conditions : a case study of the Paris student housing scheme
2021
International audience; In a context of competition between student cities, the local level is increasingly involved in improving student living conditions and is working to make their territory more attractive to students. A focus is made on the "Aide à l'Installation dans un Logement pour les Étudiants" (Help for students to settle in) of the city of Paris, a system that aims to promote the social mix of students. A quantitative evaluation of the system was carried out using the theory of capabilities. The program has increased the scope of possibilities by giving students the opportunity to live in Paris. However, the autonomy so sought after by the students is specific in that the finan…
Engineering students' engagement with resources in an online learning environment
2018
International audience; This study explores engineering students' interactions with different resources in an online learning environment. The constituent resources of this environment involve MyMathLab which is an online interactive system for practicing mathematics, the tutorial videos, and the textbook. We conducted a qualitative case study to observe a small group of undergraduate engineering students interacting with the resources in a Calculus course. Employing the documentational approach to didactics, we identified several techniques while participants used resources to practice mathematics in MyMathLab environment. We discuss the pragmatic and epistemic value of the identified tech…
Predictors of performance in engineering mathematics
2018
International audience; Mathematics in university courses was identified as a main obstacle for engineering students in the beginning of their study. Since difficulties with mathematics could lead to a dropout, our research aims to analyse students' profiles referring to individual characteristics that allow identifying possible risks for students' achievement or success in the first year of study. As a first step to identify possibly risky profiles, we started to find possible predictors of students' performance. For this, we give a short overview of the research state and our derived research interest. We discuss theoretical constructs that are possibly crucial characteristics of students…
Student experiences of project-based learning in an analytical chemistry laboratory course in higher education
2020
Abstract This study describes students’ experiences in project-based learning (PjBL) incorporated as part of a revised undergraduate analytical chemistry laboratory course. We examined which phases were the easiest as well as the most challenging and what student skills developed during the research project. The research data were collected between 2016 and 2018 via two questionnaires. They were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. One questionnaire focused on the whole course (in 2016–2018, n = 127) of which only the answers on the research project questions were analyzed. The other questionnaire focused on only the research project (in 2018, n = 42). Based on the results of our…
Collaborative professional practice for strengthening teacher educator identities in Eritrea
2021
Strengthening the identities of teacher educators is critical to quality teacher education and implementing change in the education sector. This study examines the professional identities of Eritrean teacher educators and how these identities can be strengthened through collaborative professional practice in a challenging context currently under reform. The focus is on the professional capacity building activities at the College of Education in Eritrea, which were implemented in collaboration with Finnish education partners. The paper reports on findings from an action-research informed study of a semester-long series of professional development seminars and an interview study with individu…
Inter-annotator agreement in spoken language annotation: Applying uα-family coefficients to discourse segmentation
2021
As databases make Corpus Linguistics a common tool for most linguists, corpus annotation becomes an increasingly important process. Corpus users do not need only raw data, but also annotated data, submitted to tagging or parsing processes through annotation protocols. One problem with corpus annotation lies in its reliability, that is, in the probability that its results can be replicable by independent researchers. Inter-annotation agreement (IAA) is the process which evaluates the probability that, applying the same protocol, different annotators reach similar results. To measure agreement, different statistical metrics are used. This study applies IAA for the first time to the Valencia E…
Diskursa iezīmētāji autora subjektīvās attieksmes paušanai
2018
Bakalaura darba tēma ir „Diskursa iezīmētāji autora subjektīvās attieksmes paušanai”. Izstrādājot darbu izvirzīti uzdevumi – apskatīt dažādu autoru rakstus par attiecīgi darbam nepieciešamajām teorijas tēmām; izstrādāt darba teorētisko pamatu, balstoties uz teorētiskās bāzes, apkopot diskursa iezīmētājus; analizēt iegūtos diskursa iezīmētājus un grupēt tos attiecīgās grupās pēc noteiktiem kritērijiem. Izstrādājot darbu padziļinātāk izprasti diskursa iezīmētāji, to funkcijas un izpausmes. Šī darba galvenie avoti, no kuriem ekscerpēti diskursa iezīmētāji, ir intervijas avīzēs un žurnālos – to struktūra ir jautājumu un atbilžu veidā –, un tāpat arī izmantoti avīžu un žurnālu raksti, kas ietver…
Androgyynit sankarit : Final Fantasy -pelisarjan sukupuolikuvien tarkastelua
2012
Käsittelen tutkimuksessa japanilaisen Final Fantasy -konsolipelisarjan sukupuolikuvia. Sarjan hahmokuvastolle ominaisia ovat kehollisesti feminiiniset miessankarit sekä toimijuudeltaan vahvat naissankarit, jotka pohjaavat japanilaisen mangan ja animen bishonen-perinteestä ammentavaan sukupuoliestetiikkaan. Tutkimusnäkökulmassani Final Fantasy -hahmojen sukupuolirepresentaatiot asettuvat vertailusuhteeseen länsimaisen populaarikulttuurin sankariesitysten kanssa, mitä kautta niiden (länsimaisia) normeja haastavia piirteitä ja elementtejä luetaan auki. Sarjan sukupuolikuvia analysoidaan kolmen ydinaspektin – kehollisuuden, toimijuuden ja seksuaalisuuden – kautta, joille taustakontekstin muodos…