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Matei, Speranta-Gabriela. "Student teachers as researchers : an inquiry-oriented approach to initial teacher education." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269853.
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Esposito, Antonella. "The transition ‘from student to researcher’ in the digital age: Exploring the affordances of emerging ecologies of the PhD e-researchers." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/290995.
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This doctoral dissertation is concerned with an exploratory study on how emerging learning ecologies enabled by Web 2.0 and social web are affecting the self-organized practices and dispositions in the digital settings of individual PhD students. The research endorses a constructivist grounded theory approach, where data collection has been undertaken across three Italian and one UK universities and has included a sequence of online questionnaires, individual interviews and focus groups. The findings being generated provide a repertoire of social media practices for research purposes; a framework conceptualizing the trajectories in the digital, in terms of Space, Time, Socialization, Digital identity, Stance and Tensions; the forms of resilience and the tensions underlying the PhD researchers’ digital engagement. The affordances of PhD e-researchers’ emerging ecologies are therefore understood as multi-dimensional and transitional trajectories intentionally undertaken by the individuals and generating a range of reactions toward the opportunities provided by the open Web.
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Flitcroft, Deborah. "Impact of teachers' behaviours on student motivation and exam performance." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/impact-of-teachers-behaviours-on-student-motivation-and-exam-performance(e54d6885-e78a-43ee-aaf7-89050a153daf).html.
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Student motivation is a significant concept as school teachers need to be able to mobilise students to work towards success in examinations. This thesis investigated the impact of teachers' behaviours on students' motivation and examination performance and how these behaviours could be adapted to suit the needs of students. A systematic review of the literature examined how secondary school teachers use motivational strategies in respect of student academic assessment, performance and attainment. Six studies were included in the review and showed both the positive and negative impacts of teacher behaviour on students' academic performance. The review highlighted a need for further research on teachers' knowledge of the impact of their behaviours on student motivation. An empirical study was completed which engaged high school teachers as participants, affording the opportunity to reflect on their current practice from feedback from their students. The research progressed through 3 phases: focus group of six teachers teaching high stakes examination programmes to students age 14-16 (English GCSEs); 10 interviews with students selected from each teacher's classes; and a second focus group re-convening the teachers. The research found a link between what students perceived to be motivational and the changes that teachers were able to envisage for future practice, indicating that teachers were able to learn from their students. The implications for educational psychologist practice and future research are discussed. Finally, the thesis concludes with a reflection of the dissemination of the above pieces of research. Dissemination focussed on offering the findings to schools and using methods of consultation and collaboration to integrate findings in to school practice.
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Shearer, Caroline. "Student voices : a study of the transfer, early experiences and inclusion of students in a further education college involving students as co-researchers." Thesis, University of East London, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532594.
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This study is concerned with the transfer and early experiences of a group of students at a Further Education College. They are a specific group of post sixteen students in their first year at college, who are studying on a bridging course and have left school with insufficient formal qualifications to transfer directly to a mainstream course, or need to develop life and social skills. The study seeks to identify sources of help which the students drew on in making the choice to come to college, and what they hope to gain from attendance. Initial perceptions about the teaching and support they are receiving at college are explored. In addition, investigation into differences between school and college is undertaken. A further area of enquiry was to find out if the label of special educational needs was meaningful to this group of students. The study also investigates whether the students felt positive about their early experiences of college life. Most of these areas of enquiry feed into the picture of inclusion in the college which was an important theme of the study. It seemed fundamental to try to find out if the operation of the course promoted inclusion within the college. The interviews took place at two points in time; in the autumn term and again in the summer so that changes over time could also be explored. In both interviews students expressed very positive views of life in college, particularly in relation to experiences in school. In college, the students felt respected, valued and secure. Their main source of help in choosing college proved to be their parents. Responses to discussion of the special needs label were varied with more negative than expected views emerging. In terms of the main theory of concerns about inclusion, the material is fascinating. It became apparent that the students felt included and safe within the parameters of their bridging course, and even at times over-protected. Clearly, however, there are issues about their inclusion in college in the widest sense. The epistemological position taken is a social constructivist and phenomenological one as the study explores life at college as these students comprehend it to be, taking into account their different experiences, perceptions and beliefs. The methodology is largely based on a grounded theory approach both in terms of the design and analysis, and adopts a case study approach. A distinctive and unusual feature of this study is the use of student co-researchers who were in their second year at college. Details of their role and involvement will be discussed in some detail.
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Bland, Derek Clive. "Researching educational disadvantage : using participatory research to engage marginalised students with education." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16434/1/Derek_Bland_Thesis.pdf.
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Educational disadvantage, long recognised as a factor in determining post-school options, manifests in forms of marginalisation from and resistance to education, and in under-representation in tertiary education. Moreover, while student voice is becoming a more normalised aspect of decision making in schools, marginalised students have limited opportunities to participate in education reform processes. The practice of "students as researchers" (SaR) extends student voice through engaging students in researching the educational issues that directly affect them and inviting participation in pedagogical and school reform issues. In this research, I examine the application of an SaR model with marginalised secondary school students, and the outcomes for the participants and their schools. The Student Action Research for University Access (SARUA) project provides the site of my empirical investigation.
The research is informed by two complementary lines of theory: Habermasian critical theory, which provides the framework for participatory research, and Bourdieuian social reproduction theory, which scaffolds the aims of empowerment underlying SaR. These theories are extended by a theory of imagination to take account of difference and to establish a link to post-modern considerations. I employed a participatory action research methodology to investigate changes in the students' awareness of post-school options, their aspirations regarding tertiary study, and the development of related educational skills as a result of their participation in the project.
The principal findings from the research are that the SARUA model provides an effective medium for the empowerment of marginalised students through engagement in meaningful, real-life research; that participant schools are positioned to benefit from the students' research and interventions when school and student habitus are in accord; and that the SARUA model complements current pedagogical reforms aimed at increasing student engagement, retention, and progression to higher education.
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Bland, Derek Clive. "Researching educational disadvantage : using participatory research to engage marginalised students with education." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16434/.
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Educational disadvantage, long recognised as a factor in determining post-school options, manifests in forms of marginalisation from and resistance to education, and in under-representation in tertiary education. Moreover, while student voice is becoming a more normalised aspect of decision making in schools, marginalised students have limited opportunities to participate in education reform processes. The practice of "students as researchers" (SaR) extends student voice through engaging students in researching the educational issues that directly affect them and inviting participation in pedagogical and school reform issues. In this research, I examine the application of an SaR model with marginalised secondary school students, and the outcomes for the participants and their schools. The Student Action Research for University Access (SARUA) project provides the site of my empirical investigation. The research is informed by two complementary lines of theory: Habermasian critical theory, which provides the framework for participatory research, and Bourdieuian social reproduction theory, which scaffolds the aims of empowerment underlying SaR. These theories are extended by a theory of imagination to take account of difference and to establish a link to post-modern considerations. I employed a participatory action research methodology to investigate changes in the students' awareness of post-school options, their aspirations regarding tertiary study, and the development of related educational skills as a result of their participation in the project. The principal findings from the research are that the SARUA model provides an effective medium for the empowerment of marginalised students through engagement in meaningful, real-life research; that participant schools are positioned to benefit from the students' research and interventions when school and student habitus are in accord; and that the SARUA model complements current pedagogical reforms aimed at increasing student engagement, retention, and progression to higher education.
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Noonan, Jesse Sage. ""If you don't read, it is like you don't exist": The Transformative Power of Critical Literacy at an Alternative Charter High School." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2009. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/251.
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The purpose of this youth participatory action research (YPAR) project was to challenge the pedagogy of traditional literacy instruction for low-income Latino/a students, particularly the overuse of scripted curricula and standardized tests mandated through the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. Twelve student participants served as co-teachers and co-researchers as they created, implemented, and evaluated a critical literacy class based on the theoretical frameworks of critical pedagogy and critical literacy and the methodology of youth participatory action research (YPAR).
The YPAR Critical Literacy Group and research took place at one of a network of small, independent-study alternative schools called Future Horizons Charter High School (FHCHS, a pseudonym), located in southern California. Critical pedagogy and critical literacy formed a theoretical foundation upon which the students and teacher built a class based on the tenets of dialogue, problem-posing, and generative themes based on the interests of the student co-researchers. This alternative practice of co-creating knowledge with students was paramount in facilitating young peoples’ learning to think critically about their positionality within their political and social spheres. Critical literacy does not focus simply on the development of decoding and comprehension skills for reading, but students of critical literacy must “read the word and the world” (Freire & Macedo, 1997), grounding their acquisition of literacy skills through their own experiences and social contexts. This research examined the capacity of critical literacy and YPAR methodology to transform both learner and teacher.
The YPAR Critical Literacy Group at FHCHS positively impacted the student coresearchers. Elements of qualitative research, including interviews and transcription positively impacted the students co-researchers’ traditional literacy skills. Student coresearchers evaluated the course as a positive experience throughout, and engaged in and comprehended texts far above their traditionally-defined decoding and reading comprehension reading levels. Attendance and engagement in the class for the 4-month period was consistently higher in the critical literacy class than in other reading classes offered at the school. The students experienced preliminary transformation and early stages of critical consciousness from the beginning to the end of the course, evidenced by the evolution of their reflective writings and progressively sophisticated analyses of social injustice at the school and within the broader community.
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Scott, Hannah Jeanne. "Breaking silences through collaborative actions : exploring ways to empower students with learning difficulties." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/breaking-silences-through-collaborative-actions-exploring-ways-to-empower-students-with-learning-difficulties(8566a442-eec8-42f4-8381-114f0d735dad).html.
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Students with learning difficulties are said by many writers to be prohibited from having a valued learner identity and denied a voice in which to influence their educational circumstances. They are, it is argued, kept submerged in a ‘culture of silence’, where they are homogenised as a deficit category of learners and, therefore, perceived in a one-dimensional way. Such disabling barriers stem from practitioner assumptions and wider sociological influences, which are also part of this same culture. The by-products of this thinking have prevented practitioners from developing more interactive and enabling relationships with their students. Starting with a commitment to listen to student views, and explore accessible, flexible and innovative ways in which to advocate these, the research reported in this thesis sought ways to address this agenda. Set in a further education college, five student co-researchers, four practitioner co-researchers and a facilitator co-researcher embarked on a year long project to learn how the same students could be supported in contributing to their own learning. Being a transparent account, the inquiry was also interested in exploring the difficulties of this endeavour and whether student empowerment would alter the relational dynamics and, therefore, practitioner roles. As the facilitator was instrumental in introducing these ideas, she also examined her own influential role. Data were generated from observations and co-researcher experiences of engaging with roles, body collages, student interviews, photo voice, journals, portfolios and reflective meetings. These exploratory processes and methods were predicated upon the ideological frameworks of the social model of disability and multiple intelligences theory. The study revealed that renegotiated co-researcher roles and body collages were effective processes for enabling reciprocal engagement, causing students to empower themselves and leading practitioners to rethink in ways that had not been anticipated. These processes were also felt to be educationally effective in relation to curriculum aims. Whilst journals and lengthy meetings proved to be impractical and of little use, the reflective journal did prove to be an essential tool for the facilitator, allowing her to draw upon further evidence. The findings indicate that student voice can be raised through collaboration and forging relationships of trust and co-ownership. The thesis concludes by arguing that silences were broken, not least since these collaborative actions are still being used in the particular context in ways that are conducive to everyday practices. Although time and commitment are needed, these are valuable strategies that other marginalised educational communities may benefit from adopting.
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Lin, Yuhfen. "From Students to Researchers: The Education of Physics Graduate Students." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1213372064.
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Krabacher, Anne Claxton. "Undergraduate Research as a Means of Student Engagement: A Study of Research's Involvement in Five Areas of College Life." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1211200259.
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Ebenezer, Jazlin Vasanthakumari. "Students' conceptions of solubility : a teacher-researcher collaborative study." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32245.
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For the last fifteen years, research on students' conceptions of physical phenomena has been directing our attention to the value of knowing and considering children's prior ideas in science teaching. Although many who are concerned with science education are aware of and see wisdom in this perspective of teaching, there are many realities, including the content of the discipline, that pose great challenges in translating it into practice in science classes.
Currently, in collaboration with teachers, science educators are actively conducting classroom studies. In this process, teachers as researchers are making reflective inquiries into their own students' learning. This study followed a similar framework of research at a microcosmic level. It entailed elicitation of thirteen Grade 11 students' individual prior conceptions of solubility and a teacher-researcher collaboration to incorporate these conceptions in the instruction of a unit on solution chemistry. Consequently, the study presents a phenomenography of solubility, narrates a story about classroom instruction which took students' conceptions into consideration, reports four case studies on students' conceptual growth and changes, and outlines some of the factors that facilitate or constrain collaborative teaching that focuses on student understanding of subject matter.
The students' prior conceptions of solubility were categorized into six categories of description:
1. physical transformation from solid to liquid
2. chemical transformation of solute
3. density of solute
4. amount of space available in solution
5. properties of solute
6. size of solute particles
With regard to learning chemistry, these conceptualizations made clear four issues: (1) students' explanations were bounded by their perceptions, (2) students extended macroscopic explanations to a microscopic level, (3) students made inappropriate links to previous chemistry learning, and (4) students used the language of chemistry non-discriminately.
After studying a unit on solution chemistry, two more categories of description were added to the pre-instructional categories:
1. chemical structure of components
2. solution equilibrium
After instruction, the students attributing to the initial six categories of description' diminished in number. The newly acquired conceptions of solubility reflected insufficient explanatory power and were merely overlaid with the chemical language. Learning the language of solution chemistry and acquiring some theoretical understanding of it were reflected in the change between pre- and post-instructional conceptions. This conceptual change can be considered as evolutionary. It was inferred that the abstract and ambiguous nature of chemical theories and principles sets limits to conceptual change teaching.
The influences that facilitated the collaborative efforts include: (1) the teacher's attempts to incorporate students' conceptions, (2) the teacher's openness and willingness to assess her own methods of teaching chemistry, (3) the teacher's reflections about the researcher's constructivist teaching, and (4) the researcher's active participation in the classroom interactions. The four most important influences that seriously constrained the collaborative efforts to link students' conceptions with formal chemistry were: (1) the lack of time to devote to the topic of solution chemistry, (2) the lack of teacher
time to plan lessons together in order to incorporate students' conceptions, (3) the lack of practical experience on the part of both the researcher and the teacher in developing specific teaching strategies which acknowledged students' prior belief in this content area, and (4) the lack of time to develop common perspectives and a shared language.
This study has implications for both teachers and researchers. Specifically, it implies that students' conceptions form an integral component of chemistry instruction—as points of origin for lesson planning and development of curricular materials It also implies that through science educators' modelling and practising in their "teaching and learning" courses, pre- and in-service teachers be challenged to seek answers for epistemological questions such as: What is chemical knowledge? and, How is it acquired? A general implication is that both teachers and researchers, rather than being fence-makers, must strive to be bridge-builders so that they can be learners of each other's theoretical and practical experiences.Education, Faculty of
Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of
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Neiderhouse, Nick R. "The Impact of a Problem-Based Service-Learning Course on the Improvement of Behaviors Reflecting Positive Character Traits on Students Considered At-Risk in a Suburban High School." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1371760211.
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Conrad, Lettie Y. "Managing academic information: A grounded theory model of the student-researcher information experience." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/228753/1/Lettie_Conrad_Thesis.pdf.
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Viewed as an experience, personal information management (PIM) is a private domain of reflection and expression of personal narratives. Where prior research framed information management as a realm of task-based activities, this grounded theory study explored the experiences of academic information management – specifically that of masters-level students. Using a unique card-sorting interview technique, this thesis contributes the personal information experience (PIE) model. The PIE model represents how student-researchers identify, personalize, and utilize information during its management in the learning process. The findings challenge homogenous, systems-centric paradigms by demonstrating inclusive, holistic, and humanistic methods for understanding academic information experiences.
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Prassas, Lea 1960. "A descriptive study of collaboration: Teacher-researchers and cross-age students writing to learn." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289644.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the benefits of collaboration while cross-age students and teachers conducted research. The cross-age collaboration investigated ways that students assist each other with writing and concept development as they researched a topic. The collaborative teacher research explored ways that classroom teachers assist each other with their professional development while they are examining ways to assist their students. This was a participant-observational study which took place over a semester. The cross-age students conducted research on teacher selected topics. The teachers held meetings to share their questions, observations, reflections and plans regarding the cross-age collaboration. Data sources included student surveys, student interviews, teachers' reflective journals, and transcriptions of teachers' meetings. The methods of analysis were domain analysis and constant comparison. The findings suggested that students assisted each other with writing and concept development when provided the opportunity to collaborate. They used language for constructing and reconstructing knowledge as they researched their topics. As they used language for learning, they also assisted each other with language development by using scaffolding strategies. A major finding in this study is that the students and teachers place high value on the interpersonal relationship that develops through the collaborative process. They found that encouragement, listening to one another, and respecting each other's ideas were foundational for igniting the collaborative process. Findings also suggested that the collaborative process gave the classroom teachers opportunities to assist each other with professional development. The teachers were able to assist each other by sharing their beliefs and knowledge about teaching and learning. Sharing beliefs about teaching and learning caused harmony in planning, as well as tensions. Variances in belief systems caused tensions which led to rich discussions about professional knowledge. The teachers reconstructed their knowledge through collaborative research.
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Giroud, Nicolas. "Problems to put students in a role close to a mathematical researcher." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-79881.
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In this workshop, we present a model of problem that we call Research Situation for the Classroom (RSC). The aim of a RSC is to put students in a role close to a mathematical researcher in order to
make them work on mathematical thinking/skills. A RSC has some characteristics : the problem is close to a research one, the statement is an easy understandable question, school knowledge are elementary, there is no end, a solved question postponed to new questions... The most important characteristic of a RSC is that students can manage their research by fixing themselves some variable of the problem. So, a RSC is completely different from a problem that students usually do in France. For short : there is no
final answer, students can try to resolve their own questions : a RSC is a large open field where many sub-problems exist; the goal for the students is not to apply a technique: the goal is, as for a researcher,
to search. These type of situations are particularly interesting to develop problem solving skills and mathematical thinking. They can also let students discover that mathematics are “alive” and “realistic”.
This workshop will be split into two parts. First, we propose to put people in the situation of solving a RSC to make them discover practically what is it. After, we present the model of a RSC and some
results of our experimentations.
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Bruce, Catherine Diane. "Collaborative action research on enhancing student communication in mathematics, building a teacher-researcher community." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ62980.pdf.
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Siegel, Bryna L. "Resistence, resistance, and change : toward a critical praxis for student researched writing /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2009. http://0-digitalcommons.uri.edu.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI3380538.
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Magalhaes, Maria Cecilia Camargo. "A study of teacher-researcher collaboration on reading instruction for Chapter one students." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39989.
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This study examines a collaborative endeavor in which a Chapter One teacher and a researcher worked together to plan, conduct and reflect on a reading instruction designed to promote strategic reading.
For eleven weeks, data were collected during conversations and reflective/planning sessions conducted by the teacher and the researcher and during instruction for a group of fourth- and fifth-grade students. Ethnographic methods such as participant observation, interviews, document collections and research journal writing were used as data collection techniques. Two methods of data analysis were used - discrepant case analysis (Erickson, 1986) and constant comparison method (Glaser and Strauss, 1967).
The findings suggest that the teacher-researcher collaboration motivated changes in the teacher, the researcher and the students. That is, the collaborative work helped the teacher learn to use a process approach to teaching reading comprehension. It also helped students learn about the reading process and reading strategies. Finally, this study helped the researcher learn about ways to assist teachers in becoming more knowledgeable and reflective.Ed. D.
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Spacco, Jaime W. "Marmoset a programming project assignment framework to improve the feedback cycle for students, faculty and researchers /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/4095.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.Thesis research directed by: Computer Science. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Thompson, Susan Wilensky. "Net Generation Researchers: An Inquiry Into Hypertext Reading and Research Strategies of First-Year Composition Students." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2165.
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Hypertext and hyperlinks are present on almost every web site or electronic document. As integral components of visual rhetoric, they are foundational to any discussion of technology and literacy. This inquiry is designed to explore first-year composition students' advances in technological literacy, specifically hypertext reading and research strategies. To accomplish this, a hypertext-reading project was designed to investigate the ways in which first-year composition students assimilate and employ hypertext information as a source from which they must extract information to use in the development of an argument. A program, designed and written specifically for this project, presented research participants, 76 students enrolled in second semester first-year composition, the components of hypertext reading as an online reading and research activity. Participants first completed a technology survey designed to reveal each participant's prior experience and self-perceived expertise with current technology, after which they completed a two-part exercise consisting of a hypertext reading assignment and a post-reading questionnaire. Participants were instructed to use their reading to inform and develop a thesis for an argument. The article selected for this study was "Illegal Immigration," accessed by navigating to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration. The article discusses a current controversial national concern, illegal immigration. While the use of Wikipedia, an online user-edited encyclopedia, often raises credibility concerns, the site in general offers excellent examples of hypertext reading that include textual as well as graphic links. In the analysis, it is revealed that while the study group rated themselves highly proficient users of Internet search engines, email, social networking, and word processing applications, the majority initially did not recognize a relationship between the actions they take as users of those applications and hyperlinks or hypertext. Post-reading responses revealed that the majority of the group read the article from top to bottom with few to no diversions. Furthermore, while most did recognize the hyperlinks as information portals, they made conscious decisions to not access the links for a variety of stated and implied reasons. This research involved a relatively small student sample that defines the limited scope of the findings; however, the data suggests attitudes and expectations of this group that may reflect student populations with similar or shared demographics. These data are used to inform potential pedagogical application suggestions, including the usefulness of technological proficiency assessments and research using technology within the classroom as well as in external assignments.M.A.
Department of English
Arts and Humanities
English MA
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Errico, Alexandra Sandy. "The effects of a researcher-designed intervention on elementary students' music performance anxiety levels." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12363.
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Thesis (D.M.A.)--Boston University
PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of an instructional strategy on performance anxiety in elementary music students and how the effects varied according to participant characteristics. The primary research question addressed in this study was: Do elementary students who received a performance anxiety intervention experience significantly less anxiety prior to a performance than a control group? Auxiliary questions included: Was there a significant difference between the anxiety scores of boys and girls? Was there a significant difference between the anxiety scores of students in varying grade levels? The participants were fourth and fifth grade chorus students in an urban public school in the Northeastern United States. For the instructional portion of the study, students were randomly placed in control and experimental groups. Both groups completed the state portion of the State-Trait Anxiety Index for Children (STAIC) before performing in a choral concert. Following this performance, participants in the experimental and control groups received six consecutive chorus classes in which 15 minutes were devoted to practicing song material for their second performance. In addition, the experimental group received six 30-minute sessions consisting of a researcher-designed instructional approach during class. The control group did not receive the training but worked on other musical activities. After the training was completed, both groups completed the state anxiety portion of the STAIC again before performing in a concert. Analysis through ANCOVA indicated that there was no significant difference between the mean pre-test and post-test scores of the state portion of the STAIC of the control and experimental groups and no significant difference between boys and girls. There was, however, a significant difference between grades four and five. Suggestions for further research include studies on elementary students, music perfonnance anxiety, and applicable interventions that significantly reduce this anxiety.
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Phipps, Oliver Lorenza. "The Effect of Researched-Based Practices on Reading Achievement of Title Î? Students." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1321.
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Title Î? schools are supported to improve student reading achievement and to bridge the achievement gap between low-income students and other students. The researched-based practices of professional learning communities, coteaching classrooms, and the RtI 3-tiered model were added to a Title Î? school to improve students' reading achievement; however, the effects of these research-based practices on students' reading achievement were unclear. The purpose of this quantitative causal comparative study was to examine the impact of these research-based practices on reading scores of students. Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT 2.0) reading achievement scores were compared between students (n = 98) in a Title Î? school receiving researched-based practices for 3 consecutive years against Title Î? students (n = 127) not receiving researched-based practices for 3 consecutive years. Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences and Webb's depth of knowledge formed the theoretical framework of the study. The independent variable was the type of reading instructional practices. The dependent variables were the FCAT 2.0 reading scores of Title Î? 5th, 4th, and 3rd grade students. The covariates were the FCAT 2.0 scores or the Florida Assessment for Instruction in Reading test scores taken at the end of previous year for each grade level. Analysis of covariance indicated that students receiving the enhanced instructional practices had significantly higher reading scores than did the comparison group following the intervention. The implications for positive social change include providing data to the study school administration that support the use of these researched-based practices in Title Î? schools to improve students' reading achievement and close the reading achievement gap.
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Silverman, Anna Kate. "Students as researchers : the implementation and evaluation of a whole-school pupil voice project in a primary SEBD school." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020710/.
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Children's and young people's rights to a voice have been enshrined in social care and health legislation for many years. However. their opportunity to have an active role in decision making in their education appears, until recently, to have been relatively lacking. Students as Researchers (STARs) projects are whole-school initiatives where children are given opportunities to undertake student-led research. The benefits of such work have been \veil documented. Despite this, to date, there has been minimal published research into their use with pupils in specialist educational settings, in comparison with the greater body of research undertaken with their mainstream cow1terparts. The present study investigated the way in which a ST ARs project could be implemented in a primary specialist provision for children with Social. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (SEBD) in a Local Authority in the South of England, and subsequently how those within the setting perceived it. A qualitative research design was adopted consisting of two parallel strands - the Process of Implementation and the Evaluation strand. The intervention was evaluated through the use of semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis was used to uncover key themes. Findings from these interviews, examples of pupil work and observations reported in a reflective journal, suggested that the intervention was viewed positively by those involved. Themes which emerged from the interviews included perceived benefits and challenges of implementing the intervention, the future of the intervention at the school, development of skills, pupil competence and behaviour. The study has provided useful conclusions regarding implications for the practice of those working with pupils with SEBD. including educational psychologists.
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Edosomwan, Simeon Osamuyimen. "The Perceptions of Education Doctoral Students and Graduates Concerning Their Experiences of Thriving During the Transition to Independent Researchers." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28763.
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This qualitative study examines the perceptions of education doctoral students and graduates in two upper Midwest research universities in the United States concerning their experiences of thriving during the transition to independent researchers. Thriving is a multi-faceted construct that describes positive human functioning and development. Twelve participants, four doctoral graduates and eight active doctoral candidates in the discipline of education, participated in a semi-structured interview conversation that resulted in the data utilized for this study. The data was carefully organized and analyzed by the study research questions. The study was guided by a central research question and four sub-research questions. Informed by a phenomenology methodology and a process of interpretive analysis participants experiences were synthesized and discussed using their actual expressions. In reading and reflecting on the data, significant statements that provided the understanding of how participants experience thriving as they transition to independent researchers were identified. These significant statements were useful in developing clusters of meaning about what shapes study participants? experience of thriving in the doctoral learning context. From the analysis of data, four emergent themes: Digging-in, Commitment, Supportive relationships, and Persistence, offers the knowledge and major understanding concerning how participants experienced thriving during the transition to independent researchers, and overall, during their doctoral journey. The knowledge from this study is useful for promoting thriving of doctoral students in education and other related disciplines. It offers insights, experiences, and proactive initiatives for thriving during doctoral students? transitions to independent researchers.
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Malacara, Estrada L. (Lourdes). "What promotes interest in a science career path?:exploring graduate students and postdoctoral researchers’ descriptions of their interest development." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2019. http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/nbnfioulu-201905252088.
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Abstract. Developments in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) are essential to improve the way people live and they have a profound impact on the global economy. The lack of interest in STEM is resulting in a decrease in the number of people studying a degree in these areas. It is also threatening the engagement of people in science issues, which have an impact on society.
The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences and reasons that have influenced the development of interest in science from the perspective of science graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. The research questions were: What type of interest-related reasons and experiences did the participants describe as influencing on their science career path development?, How the different types of interest-related reasons and experiences were situated in the different phases of their science career path? and What type of interest profiles can be found to lead to the science career path?
Ten science graduate students and postdoctoral researchers were interviewed to analyze their interest-related experiences and reasons through qualitative content analysis. The experiences were situated in the different phases of their career paths, encompassing both school and higher education years. In the analysis, the participants’ descriptions were classified into categories to qualitatively identify different types of experiences that promoted interest in STEM. Finally, the career paths of the participants were compared to define different types of interest profiles that can lead to a science career.
The results indicated that interest-related experiences were associated with the context, the social network and with individual reasons. Most of the experiences were situated in university, followed by elementary school, high school, preschool and finally middle school. Also, four different profiles were found to lead to a science career path. In conclusion, the synergy of interest-related experiences provided by different contexts and significant people were essential to influence the development of interest in science. Therefore, collaboration between schools and families can be relevant to promote interest in science.
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Tian, Zhongfeng. "Translanguaging Design in a Mandarin/English Dual Language Bilingual Education Program: A Researcher-Teacher Collaboration." Thesis, Boston College, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108914.
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Thesis advisor: C. Patrick ProctorTraditionally strict language separation policies in dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs reflect parallel monolingualism and have been criticized as failing to recognize the sociolinguistic realities of bilingual students (García & Lin, 2017). To leverage bilingual learners’ full linguistic repertoires as resources, this study explored how Sánchez, García, and Solorza’s (2018) translanguaging allocation policy could be strategically and purposefully designed in a third grade Mandarin/English DLBE classroom where the majority of the students were English-dominant speakers. Taking the form of participatory design research (Bang & Vossoughi, 2016), I (as a researcher) and a Mandarin teacher worked together to co-design translanguaging documentation, translanguaging rings, and translanguaging transformation spaces across different content areas – Chinese Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies. During the process, we also engaged in equitable forms of dialogue and listening to openly discuss, negotiate, and develop our translanguaging co-stance in iterative ways. Data collection included classroom and design meeting recordings, observational field notes, and teacher and students’ artifacts and interviews throughout the school year of 2018-19. Inductive and deductive coding were adopted for data analysis. Findings revealed that translanguaging pedagogies took many shapes based on contextual factors, such as the different pedagogical purposes and curricular demands across content areas. Students were able to develop deeper content understandings, build cross-linguistic connections, and develop their bi/multilingual identities and critical consciousness in those flexible bilingual spaces. Findings also demonstrated that the ideological (re)negotiation between the researcher and the teacher was a bumpy and discursive journey, replete with tensions, confusions, and difficult conversations. Overall, it was a balancing act to create translanguaging spaces while maintaining the language-minoritized (Mandarin) space and privileging students’ use of Mandarin given the societal dominance of English. This study provides implications for new theoretical and pedagogical understandings of translanguaging, and suggests that researcher-teacher collaboration provides a promising way to generate evidence-based, practitioner-informed, and context-appropriate knowledge for DLBE curricular and pedagogical improvements
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2020
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction
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Lee, Heesook Ms. "The Relationships Between Research Training Environment, Researcher Identity Formation Process, and Research Activity Among Counseling Doctoral Students." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2335.
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Current literature claims that the graduate students’ personal aspects not only influence research training outcomes, but they also serve as a mediator between students’ research activity and research training environment. In previous studies, key predictors of scholarly/research productivity among counseling graduate students have been investigated (Brown, Lent, Ryan, & McPartland, 1996; Kahn, 2001; Kahn & Scott, 1997). However, only 17% of the variance in three factors—research self-efficacy, research interests, and number of years in a program—predicted student research activities directly and research training environment indirectly. Bandura’s social cognitive theory was utilized as the conceptual framework for the study. Data was collected through SurveyMonkey™, an online source that surveyed 292 counseling doctoral students currently enrolled in 90 counseling doctoral programs across the United States. The findings from a factor analysis conducted in the present study indicated, the RIFPQ-R developed by the researcher was a reliable and valid instrument. Additionally, the findings showed that counseling doctoral students’ researcher identity correlated significantly with students’ research activity and research training environment; however, the correlations were weak. Finally, using two multiple regression analyses, students’ research experiences before admission to program, number of credit hours completed in qualitative and quantitative research, number of years enrolled in their program, and weekly hours spent doing research predicted a small portion of variance in students’ reported researcher identity and research activity.
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Chen, Ying-Yi. "Using a Learners-as-Researchers approach to raising discourse awareness among high school students learning English as a Foreign Language." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2017. https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/using-a-learnersasresearchers-approach-to-raising-discourse-awareness-among-high-school-students-learning-english-as-a-foreign-language-edd-tesol(48b82006-cb09-4def-88db-00e8c396b365).html.
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The study evaluated the usefulness of a learners-as-researchers (LAR) approach in raising discourse awareness among Taiwanese high school students learning English as a Foreign Language. It investigated their perceptions of learning English through this approach. The LAR teaching program included in-class instructions on how to do discourse analysis and out-of-class research on discourse by students. Before and after the implementation of the LAR approach, a questionnaire was administered. During the program, students created individual learning portfolios and a teacher's journal was recorded. Focus group interviews were carried out at the end of the program. The results showed that when the students had the freedom to select their own topics/discourse types for analysis these were related to class exercises, professional studies at school or their interest in English. The results indicate the LAR approach chelped raise students' discourse awareness. Most students held positive attitudes towards this learning approach, although they felt challenged. These findings confirm those reported in the related LAR literature and suggest that the approach can be used with high school students learning English as a foreign language.
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Rivers, Angel. "Cultural Check and Connect Sessions: A Researcher-Designed Pilot Dropout Intervention Program for Ninth Grade African-American Students." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2018. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/118.
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The purpose of this mixed-method study, combining a quantitative, quasi-experimental, and qualitative design was to examine a researcher-designed, piloted dropout intervention program that would address the factors that have contributed to African American, ninth-grade “at-risk” students. This phenomenon, also known as the “ninth grade shock” due to the rapid incline within the United States’ traditional public high school setting, has also been a direct connection to the low graduation rates listed for African American students in the state of Georgia. The researcher-designed, dropout intervention program, Cultural Check and Connect Sessions (CC&CS) was evaluated while developing and implementing strategies that will reverse the need for students to drop out while being promoted to the next grade level.
The researcher examined the following variables: Student Perception, Attendance, Discipline, The Number of Failed Courses, and Support Staff Perception. Student data were gathered from the selected students (Group A) using student surveys, staff interviews, and the school’s database, Infinite Campus. Forty African-American students were also selected as a control group (Group B). Both groups of students met the following requirements before the start of the researcher-designed program: 2 or more failed courses on the previous progress report, 3 or more semesters behind from being promoted to the 10th grade, 10 or more unexcused absences, and 3 or more discipline referrals.
When Group A was compared to Group B after the completion of the researcher-designed program, the results of the study revealed that the group was impacted by the researcher-designed, piloted dropout intervention program through the students’ perception of school, attendance, and discipline. This research investigation provides implications and recommendations for all schools educating African American, ninth- grade “at-risk” students in a traditional school learning environment.
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Bannan-Watts, Margaret Elizabeth. "Spiritual ecological consciousness towards ecological conversion: Experiental stories of senior secondary students and an autoethnography of the researcher." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2009. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/79752a083ee9bb0de11dd0b6d4020039850ca9b4cbca4e3b564d3a0ef5a112ca/2379438/64786_downloaded_stream_11.pdf.
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Pope John Paul II called the Catholic people of the world to an ecological conversion in response to scientific information that the Earth is experiencing a global environmental crisis. To help people to come to an ecological conversion he asked teachers to develop concrete programs and initiatives in order to sensitize young people to the needs of the Earth. This thesis explores one educational pathway to ecological conversion. The thesis begins by presenting the environmental crisis as a spiritual and moral crisis of alienation from the natural world which has allowed us to dominate and despoil the Earth. From the literature on the subject, and from my personal and professional experience as a teacher, a schema was developed which provided a process for ecological conversion. An autoethnography of my personal and professional experience of spiritual ecological consciousness towards ecological conversion is presented as lived experience of the phenomenon. The next step was to design a curriculum to teach for ecological conversion and so a topic titled Creation Theology evolved out of the literature and the schema. The students of this class subsequently provided participants for interviews for research data gathering. The experience of this class inspired an extended learning experience in a unit of study titled Earth Spirituality. Again the students were invited to share their experiences of learning about spiritual ecological consciousness towards ecological conversion. I wanted to know what the experience of learning about creation theology and earth spirituality from religious and scientific perspectives was like for my students. This involved telling the great story of the universe which initiated an understanding of connectedness, interdependence and interrelatedness with the natural world. It also introduced the notion of the Earth as spiritual and sacred to God.;The thesis explores: one pathway presented as an innovative curriculum for teaching senior secondary students at Catholic Secondary College for renewal and restoration of God's Earth; a schema developed as a process for undergoing an ecological conversion; an innovative pedagogy for teaching for ecological conversion; the experience of students who participated in classes with addressed spiritual ecological consciousness towards ecological conversion and an autoethnography of my lived experience of ecological conversion.
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Persson, Lena. "En aktionsforskningsstudie om undervisning och lärande för hållbar utveckling." Licentiate thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för matematikämnets och naturvetenskapsämnenas didaktik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-52291.
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Researchers in environmental education and education for sustainable development (ESD) have discussed in what way young people’s experience impact their action competence (e.g. Almers 2009; Schnack 1996; Breiting &Mogensen 1999; Lundegård 2007). In my research I wanted to study if and how action research (AR) including the students’ reflections may contribute to a pluralistic education in ESD. The AR was made together with a teacher at a secondary school in year 9. We worked on equal level in planning and often during the lessons, but I, as the researcher, was making the Analysis and the Questions of the interviews. I made three group interviews with five students. The other students were answering questions in logbooks. I also interviewed the teacher. Early on the class visited an exhibition at the National Museum of Science in Stockholm. During the next lesson the students wrote in their logbooks about their thoughts after visiting the museum, and I interviewed five students. The teacher and I read their reflections and observed what we had to pay attention to during the next lesson. Many students had been afraid of the future and started thinking that their children might not have a future; everything on the globe is spoilt, ice flows everywhere. The teacher and I decided to talk more about whose responsibility it is (Öhman 2006; Lundegård 2007). We found support in Ojala’s (2007) thesis.This was the first question we had to deal with in our Action Research. The teacher and I planned a new cycle of action, where we talked about the environment and whose responsibility is it.We talked about society, economy and politics, because we had noticed that the students were thinking that they were guilty for the global situation. Further on the students got more action competence and were more motivated and interested in environmental problems, and also critical in many ways about how societies and politicians were dealing with the environment issues. The next time the students were reflecting, they were not talking about worries for the future. Instead they had started to think about constructive actions favoring the globe’s future. Other things we took care of were when the students needed help with their studies about life-styles. They were working in groups, 3-5 members in each group, and they were taking initiatives, planning and acting and after the study they made presentations of their work in front of the whole class. I found that the Pluralistic way of education worked fine together with my action research and the students were able to take their own decisions in the environmental questions. They had gained action competence now and for the future.Lärarforskarskolan Klimatutveckling och Vattenresurser
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Manco, Vega Alejandra. "Early career researchers and PhD students from the social sciences use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) for science communication: an affordances approach." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-332028.
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This research aims to understand the different practices and strategies early career researchers and PhD students from the social sciences have in Social Networking Sites (SNSs) for science communication in one particular country: Brazil. Following this purpose, the central research question is which are the motives and rationale of the researchers for using social networking sites for science communication. Two sub-questions arise from this general research question: How do practices and strategies relate to the academic system of this country? And How do the traditional science communication practices translate into the use of Social Networking Sites (SNS)? This research is empirically oriented building up on case studies in Brazil. This study makes use of the adaptation that Van Dijck (2013) made of the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and the review of affordances of social media platforms (Bucher & Helmond, 2016) to apply it to the study of social media as the theoretical approach. The methodological approach of this research is qualitative, using both interviews and netnography as research methods. The primary motivations for using different Social Networking Sites are all related to connectivity: communication with peers, to the public and research subjects, updating themselves about their research issue, dissemination of research, availability of papers, self-branding and participation in interest groups are the most mentioned. These motivations translate into cross-posting practices and integrated communication strategies -combining online and offline elements- on the different Social Networking Sites. These motivations translate into perceived affordances all related to social affordances, therefore, social capital processes: availability, scalability, visibility and multimediality. The academic system of the country has remained unchanged as it privileges traditional scholarly academic formats; therefore, early career researchers and PhD students from the social sciences only use the different Social Networking Sites (SNS) as a side aid but not as a primary means of communication. Social media is underused as a means of public science communication, even though these platforms offer a lot of advantages for pursuing such issue. Traditional science communication practices translate into the use of Social Networking Sites (SNSs). The most important issue that came out in this report was the fact that social affordances provided by Social Networking (SNSs) are still required to be endorsed by real life meeting to start further collaboration and the fact that English is the preferred language for such issues.
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Santos, Joana Ribeiro dos. "Encontros de ensino de História como espaçostempo de pesquisa: o professor-pesquisador e o estudante-pesquisador nos cotidianos escolares." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2012. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5485.
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Este texto é resultado de encontros. Encontros de sala de aula, encontros de História, encontros de debate, encontros de vidas. Estes encontros produziram novos fios que foram tecendo-se juntos e unindo-se a uma rede que associava questões acerca do cotidiano escolar, do ensino de História, da formação do professor, da escola noturna e da pesquisa em sala de aula. Desejava-se compreender se a escola é um espaçotempo de pesquisa e se os estudantes são estudantes-pesquisadores e os docentes, professores-pesquisadores. Ao final da pesquisa realizada em uma escola noturna da rede estadual do Rio de Janeiro, pudemos compartilhar experiências vividas no cotidiano de seus praticantes e discutir se a escola proporciona ações de pesquisa entre os estudantes e se a mesma busca desenvolver atividades que partam dos interesses do grupo discente. A escola é um lugar de pesquisa e nós somos estudantes-pesquisadores e professores-pesquisadores mesmo que, muitas vezes, a escola, da forma como está organizada e sofrendo pressões internas e externas diversas, como, por exemplo, a falha formação de professores e as políticas públicas de ensino, negligencie os interesses dos estudantes e que os mesmos não consigam reconhecer-se enquanto condutores de seu processo de aprendizagem, estudantes e professores pesquisadores. É a experiência da pesquisa, de atividades que estimulem o estudante a fazer escolhas, buscar informações, analisá-las, criticá-las, organizar o seu pensamento, apropriar-se dos conhecimentos reunidos e colocar-se diante da sociedade, modificando-se, que formará os cidadãos críticos que a escola e o ensino de História devem auxiliar a formThis text is the result of some meetings. Classroom meetings, History meetings, discussion meetings, life meetings. Those meetings produced some new threads, which have woven together and joined a net that associated questions about school routine, History teaching, teachers training, evening school and research in the classroom. The aim was to understand if school is a research time-space and if pupils are researcher-students and also if teachers are researcher-teachers. By the conclusion of the research, developed in an evening public school in Rio de Janeiro, we could share the daily experiences of its practitioners and discuss if school provides research actions among students, and also if it tries to develop activities from the pupils interest. The school is a research place and we are researcher-students and researcher-teachers, even though, in many circumstances, school, as it is organized, under various internal and external pressures, such as, for instance, the failure in teachers training and the teaching public politics, denies pupils interests. In this kind of organization, students are not able to recognize themselves as conductors of their own learning-teaching process, researcher students and teachers. It is the research experience, from activities which stimulate students to make choices, search for information, analyze and criticize them, organize their thought, appropriate themselves of the gathered acknowledgment and have a position in society, changing themselves, the final result will be the critical citizens, who should be educated under the assistance of school and History teaching.
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Kao, Shin-Mei. "Classroom interaction in a drama-oriented English conversation class of first-year college students in Taiwan : a teacher-researcher study." Connect to resource, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1239367113.
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Lo, Wen-Chu. "An application of the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence to students of English in a Taiwanese university : reflections of an action researcher." Thesis, Durham University, 2009. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/61/.
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In order to acquire knowledge from my teaching and students’ learning experiences, I have attempted to apply the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (i.e. analytical, creative and practical intelligence) to teaching English at a Taiwanese university. This study adopted the action research approach and was developed in three stages. Each stage lasted one semester. At the end of stage two, the lesson planning for practical intelligence was found to be difficult to develop. Therefore, the research questions were changed into comparing the experiences between the analytical and creative groups, which received the analytical and creative teaching approaches, respectively. According to the multiple data sources (i.e. students’ reflection papers, interviews, diary writing, testing, etc.), the major findings included: § The discrepancy in applying both analytical and creative teaching approaches from the above theory to teaching Chinese students; § Both the potential of using the creative teaching approach in creative writing during the lessons and the strength of the analytical teaching approach in essay-writing near the end of the intervention to enhance the students’ learning motivation; § The analytical group’s advantage of having self-study time in reducing the learning pressure arising from poor time management, and in facilitating better performances in learning attitudes, relevant disciplines and academic performance, including the language test. The creative group’s disadvantages of having no self-study time but having additional learning through creative writing, as a possible distraction from the novel, creative teaching approach. § The students’ changed perspectives on English writing in both analytical and creative groups from the negative to the positive; § A few students’ disinclination to engage intellectually, possibly due to the influence of the rote learning experienced during their secondary English education; § The students’ changed perspective on learning English in Taiwan from both teaching approaches, the possibility of creative teaching approach to establish the students’ clearer awareness of the importance of the learning methods and the possibility of employing analytical teaching approach to identify with greater clarity the relevant intellectual development. Along with these, the importance of: (1) classroom management, (2) the students’ time management, (3) workload considerations and (4) development in stages, and also the methodological changes via the self-inquiry process of the action research approach were also found to be prominent in this study.
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Alexandre, Maria Thereza 1947. "O processo de socialização do aluno no contexto do Projeto Ciência na Escola - Primeiros Passos." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/250745.
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Orientador: Afira Vianna RipperTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo: Este estudo, nascido de um desconforto que originou a questão de pesquisa, tem por objetivo a verificação da hipótese de que a formação do aluno pesquisador de sua realidade, com base nos pressupostos da metodologia de pesquisa científica, enseja sua formação enquanto ser social, a qual dar-se-ia no estabelecimento de relações com a natureza e com a sociedade, imbricadas entre si. Abrangendo, estritamente, o contexto do Projeto Ciência na Escola - Primeiros Passos, relacionado a docentes e estudantes da Educação Infantil e dos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental, esta investigação é atravessada pela maneira como se deu, no período de 2003 a 2010, a formação do aluno pesquisador de sua realidade, com o desenvolvimento de projeto de pesquisa. Ao longo deste estudo, o aluno pesquisador surge da descrição de suas ações, manifestações, intervenções, atitudes, realizada pelas professoras pesquisadoras, e sua formação envolve o decorrer de um ano letivo. Ao realizar o trânsito entre a universidade e a escola, a professora traduz em ação pedagógica, no cotidiano de sala de aula, as propostas deste Projeto, assentando-se sob os pressupostos da pesquisa-ação sua formação como pesquisadora da própria prática. Sendo a socialização o processo por meio do qual ocorre a formação do ser social, esta constituiu-se em objeto de estudo, de forma a fornecer suporte teórico ao procedimento da análise dos relatórios anuais elaborados pelas docentes sobre os projetos de pesquisa das classes, cujas temáticas envolveram, no âmbito das relações com a natureza, a nutrição, com incidência em alimentos e produção, e o meio ambiente, com foco em aspectos como água e lixo, e, no tocante às relações sociais, racismo e brinquedo, divisão essa que, feita para fins de esclarecimento, acabou por tornar evidente o entrelaçamento de ambas as relações. Com os resultados obtidos foi possível realizar a proposição da inclusão formal do processo de socialização nos pressupostos do Projeto, até o momento voltados para a aquisição do conhecimento produzido pela ciência e a apropriação da metodologia de pesquisa científica.
Resumo: Este estudo, nascido de um desconforto que originou a questão de pesquisa, tem por objetivo a verificação da hipótese de que a formação do aluno pesquisador de sua realidade, com base nos pressupostos da metodologia de pesquisa científica, enseja sua formação enquanto ser social, a qual dar-se-ia no estabelecimento de relações com a natureza e com a sociedade, imbricadas entre si. Abrangendo, estritamente, o contexto do Projeto Ciência na Escola - Primeiros Passos, relacionado a docentes e estudantes da Educação Infantil e dos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental, esta investigação é atravessada pela maneira como se deu, no período de 2003 a 2010, a formação do aluno pesquisador de sua realidade, com o desenvolvimento de projeto de pesquisa. Ao longo deste estudo, o aluno pesquisador surge da descrição de suas ações, manifestações, intervenções, atitudes, realizada pelas professoras pesquisadoras, e sua formação envolve o decorrer de um ano letivo. Ao realizar o trânsito entre a universidade e a escola, a professora traduz em ação pedagógica, no cotidiano de sala de aula, as propostas deste Projeto, assentando-se sob os pressupostos da pesquisa-ação sua formação como pesquisadora da própria prática. Sendo a socialização o processo por meio do qual ocorre a formação do ser social, esta constituiu-se em objeto de estudo, de forma a fornecer suporte teórico ao procedimento da análise dos relatórios anuais elaborados pelas docentes sobre os projetos de pesquisa das classes, cujas temáticas envolveram, no âmbito das relações com a natureza, a nutrição, com incidência em alimentos e produção, e o meio ambiente, com foco em aspectos como água e lixo, e, no tocante às relações sociais, racismo e brinquedo, divisão essa que, feita para fins de esclarecimento, acabou por tornar evidente o entrelaçamento de ambas as relações. Com os resultados obtidos foi possível realizar a proposição da inclusão formal do processo de socialização nos pressupostos do Projeto, até o momento voltados para a aquisição do conhecimento produzido pela ciência e a apropriação da metodologia de pesquisa científica.
Abstract: This study was born from some uneasiness experienced that gave origins to the mainquestion of the research. It has as main objective the verification of the hypothesis according to which the formation of the pupil as a researcher of his own reality, grounded on the assumptions of the methodology of scientific investigation, provides too an opportunity to his formation as a social human being. This specific formation would be supported on the settlement of relations with both nature and society, implied between itselves. This investigation, strictly linked to the context of the Science in School Project - First Steps, respecting to elevens and teachers of Pre School as well as of initial series of Elementary School, is traversed by the manner by which takes place the students formation while researchers of their living realities, throughout the development of project investigation. Along this study, this pupil as researcher emerges from descriptions of his actions, manifestations, interventions and attitudes made visible in the researchers teachers reporting, a process that happens all along the academic year. By doing the transit between university and school, the participants teachers translate into pedagogical action the purposes of the mentioned Project; and their formation is sustained by action-research methodology. As the process through which takes place the formation of social human being consists in socialization, this topic constituted an object of study, as a way of furnishing theoretical grounds reclaimed by the analysis procedures of annual registries elaborated by docents about the research projects of classes/series, whose thematic included, in the sphere of relations with nature, nutrition, focusing on food and production, and environment, with emphasis on water and garbage; and, regarding to social relations, on racism and toys, conducting such section, made for comprehension ends, to evidentiate the intertwining of both relations. With the results obtained became possible the actualization of the proposition of formal inclusion of socialization processes within the Project?s assumptions, until now directed to the acquiring of the knowledge produced by science and the appropriation of the scientific research's methodology.
Abstract: This study was born from some uneasiness experienced that gave origins to the mainquestion of the research. It has as main objective the verification of the hypothesis according to which the formation of the pupil as a researcher of his own reality, grounded on the assumptions of the methodology of scientific investigation, provides too an opportunity to his formation as a social human being. This specific formation would be supported on the settlement of relations with both nature and society, implied between itselves. This investigation, strictly linked to the context of the Science in School Project - First Steps, respecting to elevens and teachers of Pre School as well as of initial series of Elementary School, is traversed by the manner by which takes place the students formation while researchers of their living realities, throughout the development of project investigation. Along this study, this pupil as researcher emerges from descriptions of his actions, manifestations, interventions and attitudes made visible in the researchers teachers reporting, a process that happens all along the academic year. By doing the transit between university and school, the participants teachers translate into pedagogical action the purposes of the mentioned Project; and their formation is sustained by action-research methodology. As the process through which takes place the formation of social human being consists in socialization, this topic constituted an object of study, as a way of furnishing theoretical grounds reclaimed by the analysis procedures of annual registries elaborated by docents about the research projects of classes/series, whose thematic included, in the sphere of relations with nature, nutrition, focusing on food and production, and environment, with emphasis on water and garbage; and, regarding to social relations, on racism and toys, conducting such section, made for comprehension ends, to evidentiate the intertwining of both relations. With the results obtained became possible the actualization of the proposition of formal inclusion of socialization processes within the Project?s assumptions, until now directed to the acquiring of the knowledge produced by science and the appropriation of the scientific research's methodology.
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Psicologia, Desenvolvimento Humano e Educação
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Maillot, Lionel. "La vulgarisation scientifique et les doctorants : mesure de l'engagement, exploration d'effets sur le chercheur." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018UBFCH040/document.
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Nous posons deux questions : quels sont les facteurs qui influencent l’engagement de chercheurs dans la vulgarisation ? quels effets, pour lui-même, un chercheur peut-il tirer de la vulgarisation ? Après un historique synthétique brossant différents paradigmes de la communication publique des sciences, nous explorons 20 enquêtes réalisées entre 1967 et 2014. Celles-ci interrogent les chercheurs. Nous les critiquons une à une et dégageons certaines tendances. La vulgarisation a globalement « bonne presse » et l’engagement des chercheurs semble faible mais robuste. Les études de type « enquête d’opinion » tendent à laisser déclarer le diagnostic et les préconisations aux chercheurs eux-mêmes, d’autres utilisent des modèles théoriques, moins déclaratifs, et des divergences apparaissent autour l’influence du « regard des autres » notamment. La question des effets n’est pas analysée. Pour explorer plus avant nos deux questions, nous utilisons deux démarches. D’une part adapter un modèle théorique, la théorie du comportement planifié, au corpus des doctorants de l’université de Bourgogne ; d’autre part, profiter de mon expérience de responsable de l’Experimentarium, programme de vulgarisation qui, depuis 17 ans, engage des doctorants. L’enquête utilisant la théorie du comportement planifié détermine des facteurs d’engagement principaux : le comportement passé, l’attitude envers la vulgarisation, l’avis des collègues. Au-delà de tendances générales, des analyses multifactorielles permettent de mieux cerner, au cas par cas, les facteurs qui influencent l’engagement de chacun. Chaque doctorant a une histoire. L’observation de l’Experimentarium appuie l’influence de l’attitude, du plaisir à vulgariser, ainsi que l’importance de la socialisation conséquente de certaines actions de vulgarisation. Ces critères sont à la fois facteurs d’engagement et effets pour le chercheur. L’importance de « prendre soin » des doctorants vulgarisateurs est soutenue. Elle conduit à une dynamique réconfort - remotivation pour la recherche. L’action réjouissante menée avec des pairs (à qui on peut parler), l’encouragement du public, l’acquisition d’aptitudes pour mieux s’exprimer et cerner son sujet contribuent à « faire exister » le vécu du chercheur et à le dynamiser dans son travail scientifique. Plus généralement, certaines actions de vulgarisation gonflent la pratique scientifique de sens. In fine, nous proposons un schéma définissant trois postures communicationnelles, basées sur des « pelures d’identité » : le soi, le chercheur, le présentateur. Ce schéma explique des effets potentiels en fonction de situations de vulgarisation. Les dynamiques de communication sont causes et conséquences d’ajustements sur ces postures et de la porosité de ces pelures d’identité. Cette schématisation conduit à aborder le concept de réflexivité, constitutif de situations de vulgarisation et qui peut provoquer certains effets sur le chercheur. Ces réflexions invitent à penser la vulgarisation, non comme une tâche ou un devoir à remplir, mais comme une situation qui – si elle est préparée, observée, ajustée et donc réflexive – peut être source d’émancipation pour le public, mais également pour le chercheurWe examine two questions: what factors influence the engagement of researchers in public engagement activities ? what effects, for himself, can a researcher derive from popularization (or public communication of sciences and technologies : PCST)? After a synthetic history brushing different paradigms of the PCST, we investigate 20 studies carried out between 1967 and 2014. These interrogate the researchers. We criticize them one by one and clear some trends. PCST has generally "good press" and the commitment of researchers seems weak but robust. Opinion-type studies tend to allow the diagnosis and recommendations to be declared to the researchers themselves, others use less declarative theoretical models, and divergences appear around the influence of the "gaze of others" especially. The question of effects is not analyzed. To explore our two questions further, we use two approaches. On the one hand adapting a theoretical model, the theory of planned behavior, to the corpus of PhD students of the University of Burgundy; on the other hand, to take advantage of my experience as head of the Experimentarium, an extension program which, for 17 years, has been hiring doctoral students. The survey using the theory of planned behavior determines the main factors of engagement: past behavior, attitude towards extension, the opinion of colleagues. Beyond general trends, multifactorial analyzes make it possible to better identify, on a case by case basis, the factors that influence the commitment of each one.Each doctoral student has its own history. The observation of the Experimentarium supports the influence of attitude, pleasure to popularize, as well as the importance of the consequent socialization of actions of popularisation. These criteria are both factors of commitment and effects for the researcher. ...These reflections invite thinking about popularisation, not as a task or a duty to be fulfilled, but as a situation which - if prepared, observed, adjusted and therefore reflexive - can be a source of emancipation for the public but also for the searcher
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Cook, Karen. "The role of the academic library in supporting postgraduate students and researchers within the Community and Health Sciences Faculty at the University of the Western Cape." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7287.
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Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBiblResearch, aimed at strengthening the economy and driving development, with the view to address South Africa’s numerous challenges and/or advance knowledge, generally, exists in abundance. It has highlighted the crucial role played by institutions of higher learning, such as universities, in this regard. In particular, the contribution of academic libraries in supporting the country’s agenda, with regard to its teaching and research goals, has come to the fore. Academic libraries have been portrayed, quite correctly, as the legitimate heart of the university, for majority of scholars rely heavily on their collections and services in their quest to develop new knowledge. However, the role played by these important facilities in supporting postgraduate students and researchers in South Africa is yet to be comprehensively examined. With a view to partly address this existent knowledge gap, this study examines the interaction between the University of the Western Cape’s (UWC’s) library and the institution’s Faculty of Community and Health Sciences’ postgraduate students and researchers. In accomplishing this task, I explore the skill set and competencies required of the subject librarian to best support the research needs of postgraduate students and researchers at UWC’s Faculty of Community and Health Sciences. I also investigate the perceptions and expectations of postgraduate students and researchers vis-à-vis the institution’s library. Additionally, this study explores the innovative measures adopted by UWC’s library in its quest to provide competent and satisfactory services to its postgraduate students and researchers. For its theoretical framework, this study employs the Diffusion of Innovation (DOI), also known as Roger’s model. This framework has been used to explore how innovative research services can be established and offered to support postgraduate students and researchers’ needs. This study employs a mixed methods approach and makes use of various data collection instruments, namely, survey questionnaires and interviews. The collected data has been analyzed through the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The transcribed interviews have been analyzed thematically. The findings indicated some gaps between postgraduate students’ and researchers’ expectations for library’s research support services, research workshops and skills and competencies of a subject librarian. The findings also revealed postgraduate students’ and researchers’ perception of the library’s research support services, research workshops and subject librarians’ skills and competencies to be fulfilled. Even though many of the identified needs are currently being addressed by UWC library, several potential areas for improvement were identified. One of the major challenges is the awareness of the library services and facilities the library offers to support research. Other challenges that postgraduates’ students and researchers are facing is that they are often not aware how to search for information, easy access to the library’s resources and the expertise of the subject librarians.
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Pietrandrea, Laura M. "Co-Constructing Critical Literacy in the Middle School Classroom." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1228266146.
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Yoneda, Fusako. "The Sociocultural Contexts of Being/Becoming Japanese within a Japanese Supplementary Culture/Language School: A Practitioner Researcher’s Un/Learning of Culture and Teaching." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1245416649.
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Захарченко, Д. О. "Маркетинг міжнародних програм студентської мобільності." Master's thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2019. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/75893.
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Глобалізаційні процеси і можливості, відкритість кордонів, міжкультурне середовище обумовлюють підвищення рівня зацікавленості у програмах мобільності серед молоді. Так кількість проектів для обміну досвідом, стажування чи навчання зростає з геометричною прогресією. При цьому з кожним роком роботодавці все частіше запитують про володіння хоча б однією іноземною мовою та досвід роботи у мультикультурному середовищі.
З іншої сторони, низький рівень поінформованості молоді про можливості мобільності обмежують можливості їх повноцінного залучення до таких програм. У зв`язку з цим актуальності набувають питання щодо якісного просування програм мобільності.
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Atkins, Elaine. "Developing Internet research skills among criminology honours students and researchers in the Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town : an evaluation of the methods and materials used for this purpose." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7747.
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Bibliography: leaves 62-66.In order to assist honours students and researchers in the Criminology Department at theUniversity of Cape Town to fully utilise resources available through the Internet and other online databases, an online electronic research skills tutorial was developed and implemented. The aim of this research is to assess whether this tutorial is a useful and efficient method of imparting information literacy skills and assisting users to use the rich array of information available electronically. The concept of information literacy is reviewed internationally and in South Africa, in order to place this research within this framework. Concepts of benchmarking and best practice are examined to assess whether the tutorial meets these criteria. Internet trainer certification is studied as well as the importance of linking information tutorials to specific subjects and integrating them with the curriculum. In developing and implementing this tutorial, other information literacy initiatives and Internet tutorials were examined to provide background information and to inform the construction of the tutorial. Initiatives at the University of Cape Town were explored to avoid duplication and overlap and to build on prior training of students and researchers. The practical component of this research reviews the implementation of the tutorial with 13 participants. The participants completed pre-tutorial assessment questionnaires, using open and closed questions, to assess their knowledge and skills. The questionnaire responses were scored on a scale of I to 5 and represented in graphical form. The participants completed the online tutorial, which introduced important sites for criminologists that can be found on the Internet as well as in other electronic databases, and explored how to use the Internet to support research. The tools and techniques to improve Internet searching were reviewed with the participants, as was the critical thinking needed to evaluate information found on the Internet. A post-course evaluation was completed to assess whether the participants had found this a useful experience, whether the course was at an appropriate level and whether the objectives of the course had been achieved. A self-administered follow-up evaluation questionnaire was completed 2 to 3 months after completion of the tutorial in order to assess whether the information contained in the tutorial had been used, sites visited and whether in retrospect, the participants found the experience a useful one. The findings of these questionnaires are analysed and presented in graphical form on a scale of 1 to 5. The analysis of the research shows that the participants of this case study found the experience of doing thc online research skills tutorial a valuable one and that it assisted in developing new skills and in providing a window into all the electronic resources available in their field.
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Lowerre, Robert. "PERCEPTIONS OF TEACHERS REGARDING THE IMPORTANCE AND EXISTENCE OF RESEARCHED-BASED PROGRAM CHARACTERISTICS IN ALTERNATIVE HIGH SCHOOLS AND TEACHER’S PERCEPTIONS OF EFFICACY IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2335.
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The purpose of this research was to determine teachers’ perceptions of the degree to which research-based characteristics exist in alternative high schools and programs in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the importance of these characteristics to effective education. In addition, this research investigated whether or not these perceptions were related to the teachers’ perception of efficacy. These seven characteristics were (a) clearly identified enrollment criteria, (b) low ratio of student to teachers, (c) one-to-one interactions between staff and students, (d) social skills instruction, (e) effective academic instruction, (f) parental involvement and parental support programs, and (g) specific training for teachers who are working with at-risk youth. Alternative school teachers were also administered the short form of the Tschannen-Moran and Woolfolk Hoy (2001) Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale that is specifically designed to assess the respondents’ perceptions of their self-efficacy as teachers. The data show that alternative school teachers in Virginia ranked “low student to staff ratio” as the most important and “parental involvement and parental support programs” as the least important research-based characteristics for the academic focus of their schools. It was also evidenced by the data that none of the research-based characteristics were shown to have “strong evidence” of existence in Virginia’s alternative schools and programs. Finally, the data showed that there is a positive correlation between the existence of the research-based characteristics and the reported self-efficacy of the alternative school teachers.
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Van, Camp Diana Jean. "An investigation of the effects of a researcher-designed string music curriculum on the playing skills of mildly mentally handicapped middle school students grouped in homogeneous and heterogeneous classes /." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487672631600038.
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Souza, Maria das Graças de. "Contribuições de um programa educativo de uma organização não governamental (ONG) para a prática da educação ambiental na conservação da biodiversidade." Universidade de São Paulo, 2005. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18139/tde-11012008-125349/.
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Este trabalho teve como objetivo identificar as contribuições que um programa educativo da organização não governamental ambientalista IPÊ - Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas oferece para a área da educação ambiental voltada a conservação da biodiversidade, por meio da integração da pesquisa científica com o ensino formal. Utilizou-se neste estudo a adoção de processos de avaliação qualitativa e quantitativa nos quais os dados foram obtidos por diversos instrumentos de coleta. O estudo foi baseado nos referenciais da abordagem participativa e da pesquisa-ação e realizado na bacia hidrográfica do rio Pardo junto a 72 alunos do ensino formal, 05 professoras e 06 pesquisadores da área ambientalista. Os resultados indicam a pré-disposição entre pesquisadores ambientalistas e professores do ensino formal em se integrarem em ações de educação ambiental direcionadas a formação socioambiental dos estudantes e que, a troca de informações e conhecimentos são os principais fatores que motivam a ação participativa e integradora entre professor e pesquisador na inserção da temática ambiental nas salas de aulas bem como na conservação ambiental local. Os resultados indicam também que a estratégia educativa da ONG IPÊ, possibilitou aumento de aprendizagem, criatividade, socialização entre os alunos e interesses pelas questões ambientais locais. O estudo aponta ainda para a necessidade de haver maiores oportunidades de orientação e preparação dos docentes para a prática das atividades com a temática ambiental em ambientes extra-classes.This study had the objective of identifying the contributions of an educational program conducted by a non-governmental conservation organization, IPÊ - Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (Institute for Ecological Research) in the field of environmental education, geared to the conservation of biodiversity through the integration of scientific research and the formal educational system. Qualitative and quantitative evaluation processes were adopted, in which the data were collected using a number of instruments. The study was based on the principles of participatory approach and research-action, and took place in the surroundings of the Rio Pardo region, involving 72 students of the formal education system, 5 teachers and 6 researchers of the environmental field. Results indicate a predisposition among environmental researchers and teachers to become involved in environmental education actions that aim at students\' social and environmental enhancements. The exchange of information and of knowledge was the main factor to motivate participation and integration actions between teachers and researchers in the inclusion of environmental themes and local conservation in classrooms. Results also indicate that IPÊ\'s education strategy increased learning, creativity and socialization among students, besides stimulating their interest in local environmental aspects. The study shows the need to promote more opportunities to guide and prepare teachers to conduct extra-classroom activities with environmental focus.
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Smith, Christina Catharina. "An analysis of the e-research needs of postgraduate students at higher education institutions." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01162007-153836/.
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Tauceda, Karen Cavalcanti. "O contexto escolar e as situações de ensino em ciências : interações que se estabelecem na aprendizagem entre alunos e professores na perspectiva da teoria dos campos conceituais." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/105016.
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A presente pesquisa versa sobre o aprender a aprender dos diferentes sujeitos/atores em situações de ensino problematizadoras e diversificadas, produzidas na dinâmica do contexto escolar. A aprendizagem, neste estudo, é considerada como um “evento” relacionado à diferentes contextos histórico-culturais, em uma unidade dinâmica, cujos sujeitos-atores estão inseridos, provocando múltiplas situações produtoras da aprendizagem. As situações e as interações entre os sujeitos envolvidos no ato de aprender, foram problematizadas em uma escola pública de Porto Alegre/RS, o Colégio Estadual Júlio de Castilhos, entre 2011 e 2013, junto aos alunos de 1º ano do ensino médio na disciplina de biologia, e a estudantes do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia (IFRS-campus Porto Alegre), do curso de Licenciatura em Ciências da Natureza: Química e Biologia, participantes do PIBID (Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação à Docência), entre julho de 2012 a dezembro de 2013. Na perspectiva de uma pesquisa em ação, foram analisados os conceitos construídos (os invariantes operatórios), e identificou-se as dificuldades para determinar as situações-problema mais adequadas para promover as conceituações em ciências. Mas nas interações que se estabelecem dialeticamente na escola, o professor também aprende, modifica-se. É na sala de aula que este professor irá desenvolver o seu processo investigativo para aprender a ensinar, construindo conceitos relacionados ao ensino de ciências, em um aprender a aprender. No processo de aprender a aprender, o professor compreende a dinâmica relacionada ao aprender a aprender do estudante. Nas dificuldades da aprendizagem de alunos e professores formados e em formação, a professora investigadora modificou-se através da reflexão sobre as suas próprias dificuldades de aprendizagem para resolver as situações-problema, no enfoque de Gérard Vergnaud (1990), dos campos conceituais. Nesta análise, o conhecimento está organizado em situações-problema, e é a partir da resolução destas situações que os sujeitos que aprendem, desenvolverão as suas conceituações. O contexto de ensino dos formadores de professores também é problematizado nesta pesquisa. Nas investigações de formação inicial e continuada, as situações/contextos sociais direcionaram a aprendizagem em ciências, reforçando a ideia de que aprender a aprender através da ressignificação dos conceitos prévios em situações problematizadoras, é fundamental para aprender a ensinar. Quando não existe esta conexão, identificam-se dificuldades para a aprendizagem do professor, pois ele simplesmente repete sem significação alguns conceitos transmitidos na academia, reproduzindo muitas vezes, a metodologia tradicional de ensino. Constatou-se neste estudo, que um professor que não é formado em um contexto investigativo, onde a sua prática na sala de aula não é o fundamento para elaboração de conhecimentos ressignificados da academia, é um professor que provavelmente, não reconhece como elemento para a aprendizagem de seus alunos, a investigação. Portanto, o aprender e o ensinar ciências se realizam no contexto cuja essência deve ser a investigação, pois é permeado por situações de ensino que se constituem no contexto histórico-cultural dos sujeitos da aprendizagem. As argumentações desta tese foram fundamentadas a partir da reflexão-ação nos referenciais de Vergnaud (1990, 2003), Ausubel (1980, 2000), Vygotsky (!988), Moreira (2002, 2011), Freire (2004), Demo (1999), Nóvoa (1992) e Schön (1997).The study deals on the learning to learn of the different subjects/actors in teaching situations problematizing and diversified, produced in the dynamics of the school context. Learning, in this study, it is considered as an "event" related to different contexts historical-cultural in a dynamic unity, whose subject-actors are inserted, causing multiple situations producing learning. The situations and the interactions between the individuals involved in the act of learning, were analyzed in a public school in Porto Alegre/RS, the State College Julio de Castilhos, between 2011 and 2013, together with the students of 1ST year of secondary education in the discipline of biology, and the students of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology (IFRS-campus Porto Alegre), of degree course in Natural Sciences: Chemistry and Biology, participants of PIBID (Institutional Program of Scholarships to Teaching), between july 2012 and december 2013. From the perspective of a research in action, were análisados concepts built (the invariant operative), and we identified the difficulties to determine the problem situations most suitable to promote the conceptions in sciences. But in the interactions that are dialectically in the school, the teacher also learns, modifies itself. It is in the classroom that the teacher will develop your investigative process to learn how to teach, constructing concepts related to the teaching of science, in a learning to learn. In the process of learning to learn, the teacher understands the dinâmca related to learning to learn of student. In the learning difficulties of students and teachers trained and training, the teacher researcher has changed through reflection of their own learning difficulties to solve problem situations, at focus of Gérard Vergnaud (1990), in the conceptual fields. In this analysis, the knowledge is organized in problem situations, and is from the resolution of these situations that the subjects who learn, develop their conceptualizations. The context of teaching the teacher trainers also is problematized in this research. In investigations of initial and continuing training, the situations / social contexts has influenced learning in sciences, reinforcing the idea that learning to learn through the Resignification of the previous concepts in problem-solving situations, it is essential to learn to teach. When there not is this connection, identifies difficulties for the learning of the teacher, because he simply repeats without signification some concepts transmitted in the academy, reproducing often many times, the traditional methodology of teaching. It was found in this study that a teacher who is not formed in a research context, where his practice in the classroom not the basis for the elaboration of new meanings of academic knowledge, is a teacher who probably does not recognize as an element for the learning of their students, research. Therefore, the learning and teaching science if perform in the context whose essence must be the research, because it is permeated by teaching situations that is constitute in the historical-cultural context of the subjects of learning. The arguments of this thesis were based from the reflection-action on reference Vergnaud (1990, 2003), Ausubel (1980, 2000), Vygotsky (! 988), Moreira (2002, 2011), Freire (2004), Demo (1999) Nóvoa (1992) and Schon (1997).
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Kovalčikienė, Kristina. "The importance of psychological, social and academic environmental factors for postgraduate (doctoral) students’ professional identity expression." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2014. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2014~D_20140930_121057-39775.
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The peculiarities of Lithuanian doctoral students’ professional identity and its multiplicity are analyzed. It is presumed that psychological, social and academic environmental factors may explain the doctoral students’ professional identity expression, which is observed through the professional roles: researcher-scientist, teacher and public service provider/practitioner.
The theoretical part presents the problems of terminology regarding identity phenomenon, a disquisition of the professional identity concept by integrating identity and social identity theories, the peculiarities of the doctoral student’s professional identity formation within the career construction theory perspective, analysis of the factors that possibly explain doctoral student’s professional identity expression in the context of the systems theory, and finally, a theoretical model of the study is constructed.
The empirical part covers the results of the study implemented in 2013. The sample consisted of 494 doctoral students from 22 higher education institutions in Lithuania. The results indicated that particular personality traits and thinking styles, subjectively perceived social support from various sources (scientific supervisor, colleagues and other students, employer, family and friends), as well as academic environmental factors (working conditions and scientific field) are significant for doctoral students’ identification with different professional roles. Modeling the interaction of factors... [to full text]Daktaro disertacijoje analizuojama Lietuvos doktorantų profesinio identiteto daugialypiškumo problematika. Darbe keliama prielaida, kad psichologiniai, socialiniai ir akademinės aplinkos veiksniai gali paaiškinti doktorantų profesinio identiteto raišką, kurią stebime per atliekamus profesinius vaidmenis: tyrėjo-mokslininko, dėstytojo ir visuomeninių paslaugų teikėjo/praktiko. Disertacijos teorinėje dalyje pristatoma identiteto reiškinio terminijos problematika, profesinio identiteto sampratos aiškinimas integruojant identiteto ir socialinio identiteto teorijas, doktoranto profesinio identiteto formavimosi ypatumai per karjeros konstravimo teorijos prizmę, doktoranto profesinį identitetą lemiančių veiksnių analizė sistemų teorijos kontekste, pateikiamas teorinis tyrimo modelis. Empirinėje darbo dalyje pristatomi 2013 m. atliktos Lietuvos doktorantų apklausos rezultatai. Tyrimo imtis – 494 doktorantai iš 22 aukštojo mokslo institucijų Lietuvoje. Tyrimo rezultatų analizė atskleidė, kad tam tikri doktorantų asmenybės bruožai bei mąstymo stiliai, subjektyviai suvokiamas palaikymas iš skirtingų socialinių šaltinių (mokslinio vadovo, kolegų ir kitų studentų, šeimos ir draugų, darbdavio) bei akademinės aplinkos veiksniai (darbo sąlygos bei mokslo sritis) turi reikšmę doktorantų identifikacijai su skirtingais profesiniais vaidmenimis. Kompleksinis veiksnių sąveikos įvertinimas atskleidė, kad doktorantų profesinio identiteto raiškai tam tikri veiksniai yra svarbūs netiesiogiai, o per... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Uema, Soraya Noriko. "Etude d'ateliers scientifiques à l'université à destination d'élèves : efficacité, efficience et pertinence d'un dispositif complexe." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0447/document.
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Cette thèse vise à mieux comprendre de quelle manière les ateliers scientifiques animés par des chercheurs à l’université essayent de motiver les élèves de l’école primaire au lycée à suivre une carrière scientifique universitaire. Notre défi majeur a été d’analyser ces ateliers scientifiques à une fin didactique en prenant en compte la complexité d’interactions des acteurs et leurs attentes. Ainsi, ce travail repose sur une analyse des ateliers en les considérant comme un système dynamique complexe. Nous articulons une approche qualitative qui consiste en un « noyau d’analyse complexe » d’une triangulation systémique entre le contexte, la stratégie et la production.Dans cette perspective, cette thèse apporte une réflexion sur la culture des évaluations dans le domaine de l'éducation en proposant une modélisation d’une « évaluation multiréférentielle » basée sur trois critères : l’efficacité, la pertinence et l’efficience. Pour ce faire, différents niveaux d’analyse sont proposés à partir de questionnaires et d’entretiens auprès d’élèves, de médiateurs et d’enseignants, ayant participé à des ateliers.Les résultats ont mis en évidence des décalages entre les objectifs des acteurs et les visées institutionnelles affichées pour ces ateliers. L’enjeu pour les médiateurs, les enseignants et les élèves se situe avant tout dans un registre du plaisir. En plus, les médiateurs interrogés valorisent peu leur parcours scolaire et universitaire, alors que les élèves voient avant tout le parcours du chercheur comme relevant d’une vocationThis thesis aims to better understand how scientific workshops led by researchers at the university try to motivate students from primary school to high school to pursue a university science career. Our major challenge was to analyse the scientific workshops with a didactical goal by taking into account the complexity of interactions between its actors and their expectations. As such, this work is based on a analysis of the workshops, as these are seen as a complex dynamic system. We articulate a qualitative approach consisting in a “complex core of analysis” and a systemic triangulation of the system: the context, the strategies and the production.In this perspective, this thesis reflets on the culture of assessment in education by proposing a modelisation of a “multireferencial assessment” based on three criteria: the efficacy, the relevance and the efficiency. To do that, different levels of analyses are proposed based on questionnaires and interviews of students, mediators and teachers who were engaged in workshopsThe results have especially highlighted the gap between the objectives of the workshops' participants and a those of the institutional presented for these workshops. For the mediators, the teachers and the students, these workshops are primarily meant to enjoy the activities. More, mediators who took part in the study express little interest in showing a positive view of their own academic background and their career, whereas students see, before anything else, researchers’ career as a vocation
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Kitchen, Rebecca Jane. "How do ethnic minority students represent geographical knowledge? : exploring the stories that relate to representations and link with post-14 subject choices." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267923.
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Students who identify as being from an ethnic minority are under-represented within school geography in England at Key Stage 4 (ages 14 – 16) and Key Stage 5 (ages 16 – 18). At these stages geography is an optional subject and how students view geographical knowledge may influence their GCSE and A level subject choices. This study uses an intersectional theoretical lens to explore representations of geographical knowledge by students of different ethnicities, the stories that relate to these representations and how the students accounted for the GCSE and A level subject choices that they made. The first part of the study reveals a lack of empirical and contemporary research into ethnic minority students’ views of geographical knowledge and subject choices. This is followed by a two-strand exploratory case study at one girls’ grammar school in England. The practitioner-researcher strand was two phase; in the first phase, 314 sixth form students (aged 16 – 18) completed a questionnaire to gauge initial views of geographical knowledge. During the second phase, eight of these students represented their views of geographical knowledge through collages, critical incident charts and semi-structured interviews that explored their stories in depth. In parallel, a group of Year 10 (aged 14 – 15) students as researchers used questionnaires to investigate the influence of parents and other factors contributing to students’ subject choices at GCSE level. In the study, geographical knowledge was represented in different ways given different methods. It was found to be diverse and individual, although it was possible for specific themes to be identified. The representations reflected the characteristics and concepts from students’ recent formal experiences of geography. Informal experiences also featured but these were not always explicit or straightforwardly definable. Unless students could see the intrinsic usefulness of their view of geographical knowledge then they were unlikely to choose the subject past GCSE level. This study expands theoretical conceptualisations of how students represent geographical knowledge and the factors affecting subject choice, engages students as researchers in a methodologically innovative way and provides a rich and detailed account of post-14 subject choice by ethnic minority students which otherwise does not exist in an English context.