Search results for "needs"

Training citizenship and intercultural education in Europe: Main needs and best practices

2008

A Small Special Needs Class or a Smaller Class at the Beginning of the Educational Path?

2016

<p>This article is based on the case study which focuses on the small class (in this article used to describe a small special needs class) operation of one medium-sized Finnish town. In the study an attempt was made to clarify what kind of alternative the small class is to the first grade of general education at the beginning of the child's educational path, what kind of experiences the teachers had of the pupils of the small class, of multi-vocational cooperation and of pupils' integration and success in general education. The results of the study showed that a large part of the pupils who come to the small classes had learning difficulties, and attention and behavioural disorders. I…

Muestra de los resultados obtenidos en el constructo metodología de evaluación de los docentes desde el concepto de Cohesión Social

2019

En el presente artículo se examinan los resultados obtenidos en el proyecto SECS-EVALNEC (Sistema Educativo y Cohesión Social: Diseño de un modelo de evaluación de necesidades) donde desde la perspectiva de la cohesión social (CS) analizamos el constructo de metodología de evaluación de los docentes en el nivel de 3º de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (ESO), en un centro educativo del área metropolitana de Valencia. Desde la CS, se entiende la educación como el mejor instrumento de las políticas sociales para orientar la transformación y la mejora de las personas, los colectivos y la sociedad. A lo largo de esta investigación se estudian los distintos ítems desarrollados en el proyecto SEC…

Oppilaiden kaikupuheen tehtävät kielellisesti epäsymmetrisissä luokkahuonekeskusteluissa

2017

Repeating the words of the conversational partners gives the persons with restricted communicative abilities a possibility for taking an active part in and exerting some control in the conversational interaction. Earlier research has approached the repeats with two different viewpoints: they have been considered either as problematic and meaningless echolalia, or as motivated communication meaningful for speakers themselves. This paper examines the functions for which students with special needs use repetition in their interaction with teachers and the ways in which teachers treat these echolalic responses in classroom talk. The research data consists of the video-recordings of lessons in o…

INFLUENCE OF THE PROJECT “QUALITATIVE INCLUSIVE EDUCATION FOR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN” ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN THE PROJECT SCHOOLS

2015

The study „Evaluation of the project influence on the development of inclusive education in project schools” was implemented from 2009 till 2011 in the project “Qualitative inclusive education for special needs children” (Education initiative centre, State Education content centre, Soros Foundation Latvia, more information in: http://www.iic.lv) with the aim to find out whether the project results brought changes in defined inclusive education indicators. The article analyzes how the cooperation of school’s pedagogues in promoting inclusive education in general comprehensive school has improved as a result of the project.

Does the law matter? An empirical study on the accessibility of Finnish higher education institutions’ web pages

2022

AbstractInformation and communication technology (ICT) has made higher education available to many students in a new way. The role of online learning in higher education institutions (HEIs) has grown to an unprecedented scale due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The diversity of higher education students has increased, and accessible solutions are needed. New European and national regulations support these trends. The research reported in this paper was conducted in Finland, which is one of the leading European countries in terms of high technology and digitalisation. The aim of this research is to explore the accessibility of all Finnish HEIs’ (N = 38) landing pages based on Web Content Accessibi…

Continuing Education in the Health Sciences in Spain

2008

<div class="ftSection"><span class="ftInlineSubsectionTitle">Background:</span><p>Employers have long been concerned about the professional qualifications of their employees. Decision makers in the health sciences are no exception, particularly now that they are seriously considering the improvement and full accreditation of continuing education as part of the planned European convergence.</p></div><div class="ftSection"><span class="ftInlineSubsectionTitle">Method:</span><p>Medical and nursing professionals were questioned about their views on continuing education, suitable content of possible programs, and implementation, in comp…

Touch or touchless?:Evaluating usability of interactive displays for persons with autistic spectrum disorders

2019

Interactive public displays have been exploited and studied for engaging interaction in several previous studies. In this context, applications have been focused on supporting learning or entertainment activities, specifically designed for people with special needs. This includes, for example, those with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). In this paper, we present a comparison study aimed at understanding the difference in terms of usability, effectiveness, and enjoyment perceived by users with ASD between two interaction modalities usually supported by interactive displays: touch-based and touchless gestural interaction. We present the outcomes of a within-subject setup involving 8 ASD users…

Evaluation Framework of Hypertext Access for Program Comprehension Support

2008

Hypertext consists of text fragments connected by links enabling fast nonlinear browsing of the fragments. In case of program text there are many alternative ways to form the fragmentation and linkage. Transient hypertext is a general and well-grounded approach for offering capabilities to form versatile information access support for many kinds of central software maintenance activities. Transient hypertextual access structures (THASs) are data structures formed automatically based on situation dependent information needs of the users of program comprehension support tools. The approach has been implemented in HyperSoft system. It is aimed at supporting legacy software maintenance and comp…

World`s Most Valuable Brand Resonation With Categories of Different Customer Needs

2017

One of the key performance indicators of brand success is its value. Brand value is an outcome of brand`s performance in market, and is largely depended from brand`s ability to satisfy certain customer needs. For the greatest success in the world`s market brand should resonate its ability to satisfy some of customer`s most universal needs. In this paper authors strives to find out which of the needs world`s most successful brands are resonating with. Therefore paper goal is to is to determine what customer needs world`s most valuable brands are primarily satisfying. First part of paper authors briefly evaluate Maslow theory of needs. In second part of paper authors identify main challenges …