Search results for "learning"

Debunking the myth of high achievers in Finnish primary teacher education: first-year preservice teachers’ learning strategies and study success

2022

This study aimed to explore the admitted students of Finnish primary teacher education programmes from the viewpoint of learning strategies, and academic success. An overall view was derived from national register data, which were supplemented with questionnaire data gathered from three teacher education units (N = 216). Primary teacher programmes currently seem to attract and select mediocre secondary school graduates from academic perspective, contrary to previous studies. Furthermore, women enter the programmes with higher exam scores than men and have more success in their studies. Based on their learning strategies, students were divided into subgroups of deep and independent learners,…

Estimating Programming Exercise Difficulty using Performance Factors Analysis

2020

This Work in Progress Paper studies student and exercise modelling based on pass/fail log data gathered from an introductory programming course. Contemporary education capitalizes on the communications technology and remote study. This can create distance between the teacher and students and the resulting lack of awareness of the difficulties students encounter can lead to low student satisfaction, dropout and poor grades. In many cases, various technological solutions are used to collect individual exercise submissions, but there are little resources for indexing or modelling the exercises in depth. Exercise specific feedback from students may not be easily obtainable either. In the presen…

Experiencing studies at the University of Joensuu - Modelling a student cohort's satisfaction, study achievements and dropping out

2001

The purpose of the study was to examine a student cohort's study experiences and emotions, satisfaction with the learning environment and changes in them during the four years of studies, on the one hand, and the influence of these factors and some background variables on learning outcomes and retention of studies, on the other. In addition, we wanted to find out how students' commitment to their studies and their study orientations influence the overall satisfaction and drop-out rates in different fields of education. The design and the problems were based on the previous research reviewed in the theoretical part and on the practical reasons to develop higher education policies. The answer…

Children's and adolescents' achievement strategies, school adjustment and family environment

2001

Course Satisfaction in Engineering Education Through the Lens of Student Agency Analytics

2020

This Research Full Paper presents an examination of the relationships between course satisfaction and student agency resources in engineering education. Satisfaction experienced in learning is known to benefit the students in many ways. However, the varying significance of the different factors of course satisfaction is not entirely clear. We used a validated questionnaire instrument, exploratory statistics, and supervised machine learning to examine how the different factors of student agency affect course satisfaction among engineering students (N = 293). Teacher’s support and trust for the teacher were identified as both important and critical factors concerning experienced course satisf…

Oppiennätyksistä opetussuunnitelman perusteisiin : lukion kemian kansallisen opetussuunnitelman kehittyminen Suomessa vuosina 1918-2016

2017

Kemiasta tuli itsenäinen oppiaine vuonna 1918. Lukion lukusuunnitelmaan kemia tuli vasta vuodesta 1941. Aina 1980-luvun puoleen väliin saakka opetussuunnitelmat olivat valtakunnanhallinnon antamia. Vuodesta 1985 lähtien Koulu- ja Opetushallitus ovat antaneet valtakunnalliset perusteet koulutuksen järjestäjien laatimien ja vahvistamien opetussuunnitelmien pohjaksi. Tutkimuksen päätavoitteena on kuvata lukion kemian kansallisen opetussuunnitelman kehittymistä Suomen itsenäisyyden alusta tähän päivään saakka. Tutkimuksen teoriaosassa käsitellään eri maissa tapahtunutta kemian opetuksen ja opetussuunnitelman kehittymistä varsin perusteellisesti 1800-luvulta nykypäivään. Siinä tarkastellaan eri …

Visual Literacy From the Perspective of the VTS Method

2017

The purpose of this article is to investigate visual literacy from the perspective of the VTS (Visual Thinking Strategies) method. The authors examine the viewpoints of seven American elementary school teachers on visual literacy and its meanings in the context of the VTS method. Data collection was done using a semi-structured questionnaire, which was followed by theory-driven content analysis. The authors emphasize that when supporting holistic development in a teaching context, it is the interconnected nature of aesthetics, growth and the learner’s learning which is more important than developing special skills, like visual literacy. In the teaching context visual literacy and language d…

What do we do when we analyse the temporal aspects of computer-supported collaborative learning? A systematic literature review

2021

To better understand the premises for successful computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL), several studies over the last 10 years have analysed the temporal aspects of CSCL. We broadly define the temporal aspects of CSCL as focusing on the characteristics of or interrelations between events over time. The analysis of these aspects, however, has been loosely defined, creating challenges regarding the comparability and commensurability of studies. To address these challenges, we conducted a systematic literature review to define the temporal analysis procedure for CSCL using 78 journal papers published from 2003 to 2019. After identifying the key operations to be included in the proce…

Selective breeding for endurance running capacity affects cognitive but not motor learning in rats

2012

The ability to utilize oxygen has been shown to affect a wide variety of physiological factors often considered beneficial for survival. As the ability to learn can be seen as one of the core factors of survival in mammals, we studied whether selective breeding for endurance running, an indication of aerobic capacity, also has an effect on learning. Rats selectively bred over 23 generations for their ability to perform forced treadmill running were trained in an appetitively motivated discrimination-reversal classical conditioning task, an alternating T-maze task followed by a rule change (from a shift-win to stay-win rule) and motor learning task. In the discrimination-reversal and T-maze …

Preventive Support for Kindergarteners Most At-Risk for Mathematics Difficulties: Computer-Assisted Intervention

2015

Weaknesses in early number skills have been found to be a risk factor for later difficulties in mathematical performance. Nevertheless, only a few intervention studies with young children have been published. In this study, the responsiveness to early support in kindergarteners with most severe difficulties was examined with two different computer programs. Two intervention groups were matched by age, visuo-spatial, and phonological working memory, as well as early number skills. After a short and intensive computerized intervention, the results indicated significant intervention effects for verbal counting Wilcoxon ES (r) = 0.46, and dot counting fluency, r = 0.52, when practiced with Grap…