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Adaptive Number Knowledge in Secondary School Students: Profiles and Antecedents
2019
Cited By :1 Export Date: 10 February 2021 Correspondence Address: McMullen, J.; Department of Teacher EducationFinland; email: jake.mcmullen@utu.fi The present study aims to examine inter-individual differences in adaptive number knowledge in secondary school students. Adaptive number knowledge is defined as a well-connected network of knowledge of numerical characteristics and arithmetic relations. Substantial and relevant qualitative differences in the strategies and expression of adaptive number knowledge have been found in primary school students still in the process of learning arithmetic. We present a study involving 879 seventh-grade students that examines the structure of individual…
HIV/AIDS education in secondary schools a study of government bilingual high schools in Yaoundé, Cameroon
2009
HIV/AIDS education in regular and special (deaf) secondary schools in Ghana
2011
This study investigated HIV/AIDS education in two secondary schools in Ghana comparing students’ knowledge, attitude and behaviour. Furthermore, this study investigated students most trusted source of HIV/AIDS knowledge, how students see the disease against other diseases and how HIV education is grounded in the schools curricular. In all, 283 students were involved in the survey. Their ages were between 12 and 25. The findings established that student’s knowledge on how to avoid the disease, mode of transmission, and prevention were very high. However, it was unearthed that female students fear for the disease was higher than their male counterparts and this have motivated them to know the…
Toward adjustment profiles for lower secondary student-athletes in the Finnish dual career context: A mixed-methods approach
2022
Engagement, burnout, and experiences are central concepts for understanding student-athlete adjustment in a dual career (DC) environment. As part of a larger 3-year, lower secondary sports schools pilot project, the aim of this study was to examine student-athletes’ DC adjustment in Finnish lower secondary sports schools at the end of the second academic year. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods, we sought to (a) identify adjustment profiles among student-athletes based on measures of engagement and burnout in school and sport and (b) to extract experiences that describe the distribution of student-athletes in the profiles. A latent profile analysis using questionnaire data fr…
The Role of Parental Support and the Students’ Opinions in Active Finnish Physical Education Homework
2022
Prior research indicates that adolescent boys are often more active than girls, implying a need for special attention to increase the physical activity levels of adolescent girls. Adolescents are at an age where they are especially susceptible to environmental and social influences but still have a limited amount of autonomy over their own behaviors. The effective physical activity programs implemented at this age may benefit health into adulthood. The fact that adolescents’ physical activity is influenced by many factors indicates that to achieve any behavioral change, interventions must target several levels across the socio-ecological model. During childhood, the family is the prim…
Vanhempien merkitys yläkoululaisten liikunta-aktiivisuuteen
2012
Svensklärare och elevernas dyslexi
2010
Tässä tutkielmassa tutkitaan ruotsinopettajien valmiuksia kohdata oppilaita, joilla on dysleksia. Lisäksi tutkielmassa tarkastellaan opettajankoulutuksen mahdollisia vaikutuksia tähän valmiuteen. Tutkielmassa käytetään sekä kvantitatiivisia, että kvalitatiivisia metodeja. Aineistonkeruu suoritettiin kyselylomakkeilla, jotka sisälsivät sekä strukturoituja-, että avoimia kysymyksiä. Strukturoidut kysymykset käsiteltiin kvantitatiivisesti ja avoimet kysymykset kvalitatiivisesti. Kyselyyn osallistui yhteensä 17 vastaajaa. Vastaajat koostuivat opettajista, jotka ovat suorittaneet opettajankoulutuksen auskultoinnin vuosien 1972-2005 välillä. Tulokset osoittivat, että suurimmalla osalla opettajist…
Parents' perceptions and experiences of home and school cooperation in English teaching in the secondary school
2008
Cognition of Korean-English secondary school teachers about intercultural dimension in EFL teaching
2016
The importance of intercultural competence in education has been recognized in order to promote students’ tolerance and empathy towards others in the globalized world. Being the first and foremost foreign language subject in Korea, English classroom is considered to be the right place to address different cultures and the intercultural competence. Then, how English teachers understand intercultural competence would be important since it would greatly affect their teaching. The aim of this study is to investigate how Korean-English secondary school teachers understand intercultural dimension in EFL teaching in relation to their teaching context; and how their reported practices look like. 37…