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English speaking skills in Finnish upper secondary school : students' self-assessment vs. the objectives of the curriculum
2017
Vieraiden kielten osaamisella on alati kasvava merkitys nykyajan ihmisille. Eri kulttuureista ja yhteisöistä tulevat ihmiset luovat kontakteja toisiinsa niin virtuaalisesti kuin myös kasvokkain. Tällaiset kontaktit ovat mahdollisia juurikin kielten avulla, ja erityisesti englannin kieli on saavuttanut kansainvälisesti tärkeän roolin eri taustaisten ihmisten yhteisenä kommunikointivälineenä. Englannin kielen taidolla voi pärjätä lähes kaikkialla maailmassa, ja Suomessakin voi olettaa törmäävänsä englannin kielen puhumista vaativiin tilanteisiin arkipäivän elämässä. Suurin osa suomalaisista pääsee opiskelemaan englannin kieltä peruskoulussa, ja lukioon menevät nuoret jatkavat englannin opinto…
Adolescents' engagement profiles and their association with academic performance and situational engagement
2020
This study examined adolescents' engagement profiles and their association with situational engagement and academic performance in lower secondary school settings. The data consisted of 301 Grade 7 students from Finland. By utilizing person-oriented approach with Latent Profiling Analysis on subscales capturing students' overall engagement, four subgroups of students with different overall engagement profiles were identified. These profile groups were further analyzed with respect to differences in student background (gender and maternal education), academic performance (GPA, and reading and mathematics tests), and lesson-specific situational engagement. The profile groups showed difference…
Investigating the professional agency of secondary school English teachers in South Korea
2020
This qualitative study examines the professional agency of secondary English teachers in Midwestern South Korea. Specifically, it investigates how secondary English teachers in South Korea understand their professional agency and what mediates their professional agency. The ecological approach in this study recognises that agency encompasses both individual and environmental dimensions and is formed through the constant interplay between the individual and the environment. The dataset for this study comprises 15 semi-structured interviews with secondary English teachers in South Korea. The thematic analysis highlights a significant gap between Korean English teachers’ espoused agency and re…
Finnish Secondary Students’ Mental Models of Magnetism
2020
We examined Finnish lower secondary students’ mental models of magnetism through their drawings, written explanations and interviews. Secondary students in Finland (N=12) engaged in six lessons designed specifically to target three key concepts in understanding magnetism: structure and organization (magnetic domains), magnetic fields and magnetic interactions. We describe how, with a finite number of key concepts introduced, students reflected upon and revised their mental models of magnetism and magnetic interactions towards more sophisticated and normative scientific views. We found two new categories of students’ models: the pole model and pole/field model. The critical moments in evolvi…
All-Possible-Couplings Approach to Measuring Probabilistic Context.
2013
From behavioral sciences to biology to quantum mechanics, one encounters situations where (i) a system outputs several random variables in response to several inputs, (ii) for each of these responses only some of the inputs may "directly" influence them, but (iii) other inputs provide a "context" for this response by influencing its probabilistic relations to other responses. These contextual influences are very different, say, in classical kinetic theory and in the entanglement paradigm of quantum mechanics, which are traditionally interpreted as representing different forms of physical determinism. One can mathematically construct systems with other types of contextuality, whether or not …
Finnish Adolescent Girls’ Activity Patterns and The Effects of an Activity-Based Homework Intervention on Their Physical Activity
2021
Purpose: The insufficient physical activity (PA) of adolescents is a global challenge, and there is a need to find opportunities to engage youth in active lifestyles. The majority of adolescents do not meet the recommended guidelines of physical activity, and especially females have low levels of activity as they approach adolescence. The goal of this study was to obtain insight into Finnish adolescent girls’ objectively measured physical activity by evaluating the effects of an activity-based homework intervention on low, medium, and high-active girls during after-school hours. Method: A physical activity homework intervention was put into place for female adolescent girls. Physical activi…
Ansiedad ante las ciencias y pruebas de evaluación científicas: efectos del nivel académico y género
2019
Resumen En este trabajo se hace una primera aproximación a la ansiedad de los estudiantes de secundaria ante las ciencias. Se han aplicado a 175 estudiantes de educación secundaria de diferentes cursos dos cuestionarios validados y una prueba de evaluación de competencias científicas. Un cuestionario mide la ansiedad ante diversos contextos científicos y el otro evalúa la ansiedad generada por una prueba de evaluación de ciencias. El análisis de los resultados obtenidos por medio de pruebas Anova evidencia que: a) la ansiedad ante situaciones científicas es mayor que en otras situaciones y disminuye significativamente con el aumento del nivel académico; b) la ansiedad generada en la prueba …
Estrategias docentes digitales: una aproximación desde la Didáctica
2019
espanolLa sociedad actual, caracterizada por el impacto de la tecnologia en los diferentes ambitos de la vida cotidiana, construye nuevas formas de hacer, de vivir, de ser, de interactuar, de conocer y de aprender. En este contexto, la escuela no queda al margen de este proceso de cambio e innovacion y se requiere de la puesta en practica de estrategias didacticas digitales para atender a las caracteristicas y demandas del alumnado que escolariza. Sobre ello y, a partir de los resumenes de los articulos que componen el monografico, se realiza un analisis de contenido que ha permitido identificar las palabras de uso frecuente en el ambito analizado, empleando la herramienta Atlas.ti.8 para l…
Linguistic diversity and assessment in multilingual schools
2018
En un entorno en el que la diversidad lingüística es natural, la metodología de evaluación afronta nuevos retos. La equidad en el proceso evaluativo aconseja la consideración de aspectos relacionados con las características psicométricas de las pruebas, el desarrollo de la competencia lingüística, o el contexto sociolingüístico, a través de modelos explicativos sobre las variables contextuales de naturaleza lingüística que inciden en el rendimiento. Utilizando datos poblacionales de centros educativos de segundo curso de enseñanza secundaria obligatoria que ofertan más de un modelo lingüístico en la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco (N=45), este trabajo analiza las respuestas de 2783 estudi…
From a “Student” to a Lifelong “Consumer” of Education? Constructions of Educability in Adult Students’ Narrative Life Histories
2010
The focus of this study was to examine the constructions of the educable subject of the lifelong learning (LLL) narrative in the narrative life histories of adult students at general upper secondary school for adults (GUSSA). In this study lifelong learning has been defined as a cultural narrative on education, “a system of political thinking” that is not internally consistent, but has contradictory themes embedded within it (Billig et al., 1988). As earlier research has shown and this study also confirms, the LLL narrative creates differences between those who are included and those who fall behind and are excluded from the learning society ideal. Educability expresses socially constructed…