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Gultekin Cakmakci Hatice Sevindik Meryem Pektas Asli Uysal Fatma Kole Gamze Kavak 《Research in Science Education》2012,42(3):469-489
This paper reports on an attempt to investigate Turkish primary school students’ interest in science by using their self-generated
questions. We investigated students’ interest in science by analyzing 1704 self-generated science-related questions. Among
them, 826 questions were submitted to a popular science magazine called Science and Children. Such a self-selected sample
may represent a group of students who have a higher level of motivation to seek sources of information outside their formal
education and have more access to resources than the students of low social classes. To overcome this problem, 739 students
were asked to write a question that they wanted to learn from a scientist and as a result 878 questions were gathered. Those
students were selected from 13 different schools at 9 cities in Turkey. These schools were selected to represent a mixture
of socioeconomic areas and also to cover different students’ profile. Students’ questions were classified into two main categories:
the field of interest and the cognitive level of the question. The results point to the popularity of biology, astrophysics,
nature of scientific inquiry, technology and physics over other science areas, as well as indicating a difference in interest
according to gender, grade level and the setting in which the questions were asked. However, our study suggests that only
considering questions submitted to informal learning environments, such as popular science magazines or Ask-A-Scientist Internet
sites has limitations and deficiencies. Other methodologies of data collection also need to be considered in designing teaching
and school science curriculum to meet students’ needs and interest. The findings from our study tend to challenge existing
thinking from other studies. Our results show that self-generated questions asked in an informal and a formal setting have
different patterns. Some aspects of students’ self-generated questions and their implications for policy, science curriculum
reform and teaching are discussed in this paper. 相似文献
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Joke Voogt Frank Tilya Jan van den Akker 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2009,18(5):429-438
Science teachers from secondary schools in Tanzania were offered an in-service arrangement to prepare them for the integration
of technology in a student-centered approach to science teaching. The in-service arrangement consisted of workshops in which
educative curriculum materials were used to prepare teachers for student-centered education and for the use and application
of Microcomputer Based Laboratories (MBL)—a specific technology application for facilitating experiments in science education.
Quantitative and qualitative data were collected to study whether the in-service arrangement impacted teacher learning. Teacher
learning was determined by three indicators: (1) the ability to conduct MBL-supported student centered science lessons, (2)
teachers’ reflection on those lessons and (3) students’ perceptions of the classroom environment. The results of the research
indicate that the teachers’ were able to integrate MBL in their science lessons at an acceptable level and that they were
able to create a classroom environment which was appreciated by their students as more investigative and open-ended. 相似文献
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This study explored university students’ views of whether they will need research skills in their future work in relation
to their approaches to learning, situational orientations on a learning situation of quantitative methods, and difficulties
experienced in quantitative research courses. Education and psychology students in both Finland (N = 46) and the USA (N = 122), who thought that they would need research skills in their future work, differed significantly from the students who
were not sure whether they would need these skills. The students, who considered research skills important for their future
work, were more task-oriented, used a deeper approach to learning and experienced fewer difficulties in the learning of research
skills than other students. This finding implies that experiences in learning, learning approaches and situational orientations
are related to expectations about future work. For instruction, this means that if we were somehow able to change students’
experiences and orientations towards research into a more positive direction, students might be better prepared for their
future work. 相似文献
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Kyle L. Peck 《TechTrends》1998,43(2):47-53
Conclusion I applaud ISTE, AASL, AECT, and the other organizations involved for tackling the “messy work” of developing standards for
the use of technology and information resources in schools. And, at the same time, I call for a “second generation” of standards
that define realistic expectations for teachers based on the subjects and levels they are called upon to teach. I propose
that professional organizations from each subject work with ISTE and AECT to complete this huge task, and I propose that we
consider as a “next step” the creation of a set of on-line learning experiences through which teachers can gain the identified
skills and knowledge by using the very technologies we’re hoping they’ll embrace in their own teaching.
There’s an old saying, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will do.” As far as educational technologies are concerned,
this is also true. For many, the goal seems to have been simply to “get more computers into the schools,” without much thought
about purpose. To return to Phil Schlechty’s metaphor, It’s generally been a brief and misguided “Ready” stage (occupied with
questions like “How many do we need?” “What type?” “Where?” and “How shall we connect them?”), followed by “Fire!” (the acquisition
and installation of equipment). What we need is: “Ready” (the creation of appropriate teams of people who will combine their
insights to plan for the district)... “Aim” (a series of discussions about what technologies can accomplish for schools and
the students they serve)... “Fire” (acquisition, installation, and professional development according to plan)... “Aim” (an
assessment of how well the technologies and related programs met the intended goals, and a new planning effort designed to
close the gap)... “Fire” (acquisition and implementation designed to eliminate the gap)... “Aim” (another gap assessment)...
“Fire” (another attempt to close gaps)..., And so on. 相似文献
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Todd Campbell Shaing Kwei Wang Hui-Yin Hsu Aaron M. Duffy Paul G. Wolf 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2010,19(5):505-511
This position paper proposes the enhancement of teacher and student learning in science classrooms by tapping the enormous
potential of information communication and technologies (ICTs) as cognitive tools for engaging students in scientific inquiry.
This paper serves to challenge teacher-held assumptions about students learning science ‘from technology’ with a framework
and examples of students learning science ‘with technology’. Whereas a high percentage of students are finding their way in
using ICTs outside of school, for the most part they currently are not doing so inside of school in ways that they find meaningful
and relevant to their lives. Instead, the pedagogical approaches that are most often experienced are out-of-step with how
students use ICTs outside of schools and are not supportive of learning framed by constructivism. Here we describe a theoretical
and pedagogical foundation for better connecting the two worlds of students’ lives: life in school and life outside of school.
This position paper is in response to the changing landscape of students’ lives. The position is transformative in nature
because it proposes the use of cyber-enabled resources for cultivating and leveraging students new literacy skills by learning
‘with technology’ to enhance science learning. 相似文献
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Zeynep Mine Derince 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2011,29(1):377-395
After passing their university entry exam, students who wish to study a subject at one of the Turkish universities offering
English-medium courses attend a one-year preparatory class. At the end of this, they need to pass an English language proficiency
exam in order to be admitted to their chosen course of study. The existing curriculum for such preparatory classes is designed
to be taught in English only and very much oriented towards passing the concluding standardised language proficiency exam
at the end. This approach does not teach the students any of the skills they will need for their further study, such as how
to think critically or to question their own conditioning and political attitudes. Using a different methodology, the author
of this paper conducted an in-class project with students learning English in a Turkish state university’s preparatory class.
The project was carried out within a framework of critical pedagogy and used both Turkish and English during the phases of
research and discussion. Evaluating the students’ own reflections on the experience as well as their final presentations which
were prepared in English, the author suggests that the critical pedagogy approach in combination with a maximum use of students’
means of expression and language resources led to a more meaningful learning experience – both for the students and for herself
– as well as a more efficient and lasting English language proficiency. 相似文献
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This article reports findings from a classroom environment study which was designed to investigate the nature of Chinese Language
classroom environments in Singapore secondary schools. We used a perceptual instrument, the Chinese Language Classroom Environment
Inventory, to investigate teachers’ and students’ perceptions towards their Chinese Language classroom learning environments
using six dimensions, namely, Student Cohesiveness, Teacher Support, Involvement, Cooperation, Task Orientation and Equity.
The investigation was carried out using a sample of 1,460 secondary three (Grade 9) students from 50 Chinese Language classes
in 25 Singapore government secondary schools. The nature of the Chinese Language classroom learning environments was interpreted
from analyses of the perception scores obtained, as well as from various comparisons of the perception scores between different
groups. Although both the Chinese Language teachers and students perceived their present classroom learning environments positively,
they would like improvements in all the six dimensions of the classroom learning environments under investigation. Also teachers
perceived a more positive classroom learning environment than their students in the same class. In addition, female students
perceived their actual and preferred classroom environments more positively than their male counterparts. 相似文献
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Stephen Billett 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2005,32(1):49-66
This paper proposes co-opting high school students’ paid part-time work experiences to develop their critical understanding
of the world of work, beyond their schooling through post-school pathways. It argues that unlike work experience program or
work placements organised through schools, students’ paid part-time employment provides authentic workplace experiences that
have the potential to inform students deeply and critically about the world of work. These experiences include the reciprocal
obligations that arise from paid employment and, as such, provide a rich base for high school students to explore the world
of work, relationships in the workplace, what constitutes more and less valued work and how work is organised and rewarded.
The co-opting of students’ work experiences for school-based activities may provide a useful base to explore the world of
work both for those students who are employed part-time and those not employed in part-time work, but able to learn from their
peers’ experiences. To assist achieving these goals some pedagogic tools are required to effectively describe, analyse and
illuminate these experiences in classroom settings. A way of describing and critically appraising this paid work is proposed
through individual and collective consideration of the activities and interactions that constitute students’ paid work experience.
Given the difficulty of organising workplace placements and work experience programs, and the potentially richer outcomes,
co-opting students’ paid work experiences presents a viable and worthwhile resource available in most classrooms for learning
more about the world of work. 相似文献
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Johanna Wyn 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2007,34(3):35-52
This article argues that education has a role in promoting young people’s wellbeing. It draws on research on young people’s
lives to highlight the changing world for which educators prepare young people. While older educational agendas such as literacies
and numeracy remain significant, it is argued that education is increasingly important for its role in assisting young people
to develop the capacities and skills that will enable them to live well and that will enhance social cohesion. Although these
more recent social agendas are often acknowledged in significant policy documents, their enactment in schools is compromised
by economistic policy imperatives that see young people primarily in terms of their capacities to attain labour market skills
that will ensure Australia’s international competitiveness. I make a link between the work that young people do to make themselves,
and wellbeing, highlighting the role that education plays in shaping identities — and in enabling them to ‘become somebody
well’. The article concludes that health and wellbeing are marginalised in school curricula not because of a ‘crowded curriculum’
but because not all elements are given equal value within our current policy frameworks. 相似文献
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Bev Rogers 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2003,30(2):65-87
Educational research has been criticised by governments and practitioners. For some politicians and policy makers, there is
a tendency to look for direct links between research and successful, effective and efficient practice. Research is needed
to inform their evidence-based practice as policy makers, and to provide the kind of research teachers need to base their
practice on the best available evidence for doing ‘x rather than y’ (Hargreaves 1996) or predicting the ‘size of the effect
of A on B’ (Blunkett 2000). There is no doubt that both teachers and policy makers do make decisions on a daily basis based
on some form of evidence. This paper explores Hargreaves’ notion of evidence-based practice, providing a range of criticisms.
It also examines Carr’s historical account of ‘praxis’ and ‘poiesis’ to suggest a notion of evidence-based praxis based partly
on the historical notion of ‘phronesis’ — practical wisdom. The basis for this is the argument that wise and practical ethical
and moral judgements are central to an understanding of teachers’ daily work. What to do in a specific educational situation
cannot be determined solely by theoretical beliefs or by ‘techne’. However the ethical dimension is not the only consideration.
The paper suggests that evidence-based praxis use Stenhouse’s notion of ‘actionable evidence’, which includes the ethical
dimension, but also Thomson’s concept of ‘thisness’, which describes the unique contextual characteristics of a school. If
disadvantaged schools can make some sort of difference to learning opportunities for students, it is argued that teachers
might engage in evidence-based praxis which involves them in reflecting on, and theorising what is happening in classrooms,
schools and neighbourhoods. This ‘praxis’ also involves them in modifying their theories, critically analysing ‘what works’,
questioning how they know and developing ideas about how things might be done differently. There will be an element of developing
knowledge about teaching and learning strategies (Hargreaves’ ‘body of knowledge’), but it will be in the context of the ethical
and moral dilemmas associated with education. It will take up the question of local differences as well as a realistic approach
to what constitutes actual school improvement. Evidence-based praxis is also essentially a collective activity not an individual
approach. Future development of the notion of evidence-based praxis might also include involving students in a more reciprocal
and open learning process like that highlighted by researchers who focus on student participation linked to school reform. 相似文献
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Mad City Mystery: Developing Scientific Argumentation Skills with a Place-based Augmented Reality Game on Handheld Computers 总被引:3,自引:5,他引:3
While the knowledge economy has reshaped the world, schools lag behind in producing appropriate learning for this social change.
Science education needs to prepare students for a future world in which multiple representations are the norm and adults are
required to “think like scientists.” Location-based augmented reality games offer an opportunity to create a “post-progressive”
pedagogy in which students are not only immersed in authentic scientific inquiry, but also required to perform in adult scientific
discourses. This cross-case comparison as a component of a design-based research study investigates three cases (roughly 28
students total) where an Augmented Reality curriculum, Mad City Mystery, was used to support learning in environmental science.
We investigate whether augmented reality games on handhelds can be used to engage students in scientific thinking (particularly
argumentation), how game structures affect students’ thinking, the impact of role playing on learning, and the role of the
physical environment in shaping learning. We argue that such games hold potential for engaging students in meaningful scientific
argumentation. Through game play, players are required to develop narrative accounts of scientific phenomena, a process that
requires them to develop and argue scientific explanations. We argue that specific game features scaffold this thinking process,
creating supports for student thinking non-existent in most inquiry-based learning environments. 相似文献
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The demographic changes in Greek schools underline the need for reconsidering the way in which migrant pupils move from their
everyday culture into the culture of school science (a process known as “cultural border crossing”). Migrant pupils might
face difficulties when they attempt to transcend cultural borders and this may influence their progress in science as well
as the construction of suitable academic identities as a means of promoting scientific literacy. In the research we present
in this paper, adopting the socioculturally driven thesis that learning can be viewed and studied as a meaning-making, collaborative
inquiry process, we implemented an action research program (school year 2008–2009) in cooperation with two teachers, in a
primary school of Athens with 85% migrant pupils. We examined whether the two teachers, who became gradually acquainted with
cross-cultural pedagogy during the project, act towards accommodating the crossing of cultural borders by implementing a variety
of inclusive strategies in science teaching. Our findings reveal that both teachers utilized suitable cross-border strategies
(strategies concerning the establishment of a collaborative inquiry learning environment, and strategies that were in accordance
with a cross-border pedagogy) to help students cross smoothly from their “world” to the “world of science”. A crucial key
to the teachers’ expertise was their previous participation in collaborative action research (school years 2004–2006), in
which they analyzed their own discourse practices during science lessons in order to establish more collaborative inquiry
environments. 相似文献
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Mete Akcaoglu Sedat Gumus Mehmet Sukru Bellibas D. Matthew Boyer 《Technology, Pedagogy and Education》2013,22(4):477-491
Technology has already become an indispensable part of our lives, and nations around the world see schools as the main agents to prepare their youth for a technology-filled future, and invest important amounts of funding to provide hardware to schools, students and teachers. The Turkish Ministry of National Education is in the midst of the FAT?H project, a nation-wide attempt to provide each classroom with an interactive whiteboard and each student with a tablet computer. In this paper, the authors present interview data from teachers at first-year FAT?H pilot schools who are using these technologies to understand how this national attempt is being translated into practice, and identify what is working and what areas need further attunement. Results show that teachers were especially content with being able to make their lessons visually more appealing for their students. They were, however, not satisfied with the in-service training provided, especially in understanding ways to effectively integrate the technologies into their teaching, and the limitations put upon Internet access from the tablets. The impacts of these tools on their teaching practices were very minimal. 相似文献
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Selection of students for places at universities mainly depends on GCSE grades and predictions of A-level grades, both of
which tend to favour applicants from independent schools. We have therefore developed a new type of test that would measure
candidates’ ‘deep learning’ approach since this assesses the motivation and creative thinking that we look for in university
students. We recruited 526 applicants to Oxford University and gave them a short commentary test and a learning style questionnaire.
Specific deep learning approach questions correlated with results in the new test, and both predicted whether the candidate
subsequently obtained a place at Oxford. Furthermore high scores on one open-ended commentary question, demanding arguments
in favour of a case, produced a greater than 70% chance of obtaining a first class degree at the end of their course irrespective
of the candidates’ type of school attended or GCSE scores. Candidates from State schools scored as well as those from Independent
schools in both tests. Thus our test seemed to index candidates’ potential to succeed at a highly selective university, and
might usefully be added to current selection procedures for such universities. 相似文献
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As teacher-educators, we designed and implemented a small study that mapped teacher-education students' understandings of
their own identities and how they made sense of ethnicity and class differences among their secondary students while on teaching
rounds. While we didn't set out to ‘teach’ our research participants, it was during the analysis of data from the research
project, that we began to realise the potential of research to create opportunities for learning. In this paper we speculate
on the ‘conditions’ of knowledge production and suggest that the dialogic nature of interviews and focus group discussions
can offer pedagogical spaces for learning. Research designs that incorporate opportunities for participants to re-tell narratives
over periods of time, may position participants as experts in knowledge production and may reposition them and researchers
in more equitable power relations. We present an example of one participant's narrative together with our interpretations
to explore how research potentially offers ‘evidence’ of learning. While this is tentative only, we suggest there is a need
to create spaces for pedagogy in the design and execution of educational research. 相似文献
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Responsible Leadership 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Vivienne Collinson 《The Educational forum》2013,77(2):124-132
The world in which educational leaders operate is changing—from one dominated by national interests to one of a global community. In this transition, schools must prepare the present generation of young people to participate as active citizens of the global community, rather than as spectators or tourists. Schools face major challenges as they prepare their charges for a world which requires (a) agreements among nations to share in managing the earth's fragile ecology; (b) sharing ideas on human, cultural, and economic capital and on manufacturing and medical technologies to improve the quality of life for all people; and (c) guarantees of global peace and security. Schools need to target their curriculum toward preparing youngsters with the desperately needed understandings, perspectives, and skills this global transition will demand. A different kind of school leader will be required—a multidimensional leader that understands the various dimensions of the learning tasks which schools must cultivate. In turn, these leaders must have a moral vision of what is required of them and of the whole community. A moral vision of taking proactive responsibility for making this kind of learning a reality is required. 相似文献
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In this study, students’ perceptions of the classroom learning environment in Arab elementary schools were investigated. The
sample included 261 students from Grades 5 and 6. The questionnaire was developed at an Arab college of teacher education
by 16 fourth-year student teachers who were completing their studies toward a BEd degree. Articles on classroom learning environment
were distributed to the students, who then wrote items to assess learning environment. The items were evaluated for content
validity in relation to the Arab school culture, language, teachers’ teaching, students’ learning styles, teacher–student
relations, order and organisation, discipline and behaviours. The Classroom Learning Environment of Elementary Students (CLEES)
questionnaire consists of 32 items in four scales: Teacher’s Image, Group Work, Students’ Participation, and Order and Organisation.
The CLEES was used in a pilot study in two Grade 5 and 6 classes in order to validate it. The student teachers administered
the questionnaire to students in elementary schools. Data were analysed using SPSS (e.g. factor analysis and one-way ANOVA)
to validate the CLEES. No significant differences were found between boys and girls in classroom learning environment. However,
significant differences in CLEES perceptions were found between students from different grades (Grade 5 vs. Grade 6), age
groups and schools. The results are explained in the discussion section in relation to the characteristics of their schools. 相似文献