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The purpose of the study is to compare problem based learning (PBL) and lecture-based learning (LBL) in Hong Kong secondary
students’ science achievement. Secondary One students were divided into two groups: group A (n = 37), was taught two topics: “Human Reproduction” and “Density” through PBL; group B (n = 38) was taught the same topics by LBL. Multiple choice questions and short structured response items were used to assess
students’ academic performance. Pre and post tests were categorized into three domains: knowledge, comprehension and application
according to Bloom’s Taxonomy (Bloom 1956). The results of this study suggest first that PBL is at least as effective as LBL in gaining the knowledge required to achieve
the syllabus’ learning objectives; secondly, the PBL group shows a significant improvement in students’ comprehension and
application of knowledge over an extended time. Seemingly, PBL is favored for knowledge retention compared to a more conventional
teaching approach, by these early adolescent children in Hong Kong. An ongoing longitudinal study on students’ interactions
will further determine whether students taught through PBL develop improved learning in relation to high order skills, in
a local situation which still tends to focus on factual recall but where higher skills are being demanded by systemic reform. 相似文献
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This paper reports the outcomes of an empirical study undertaken to investigate the effect of students’ cognitive styles on
achievement in measurement tasks in a dynamic geometry learning environment, and to explore the ability of dynamic geometry
learning in accommodating different cognitive styles and enhancing students’ learning. A total of 49 6th grade students were
tested using the VICS and the extended CSA-WA tests (Peterson, Verbal imagery cognitive styles and extended cognitive style analysis-wholistic analytic test—Administration guide. New Zealand: Peterson, 2005) for cognitive styles. The same students were also administered a pre-test and a post-test involving 20 measurement tasks.
All students were taught a unit in measurement (area of triangles and parallelograms) with the use of dynamic geometry, after
a pre-test. As expected, the dynamic geometry software seems to accommodate different cognitive styles and enhances students’
learning. However, contrary to expectations, verbalisers and wholist/verbalisers gained more in their measurement achievement
in the environment of dynamic geometry than students who had a tendency towards other cognitive styles. The results are discussed
in terms of the nature of the measurement tasks administered to the students. 相似文献
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This study contributes to research that characterises the affective learning that is evoked and taken on by students in response
to their perceptions of their contextual learning environments. Interview-discussions were held with lecturers of both introductory
and higher-level physics courses (n = 3) concerning how they formulated their patterns of teaching in terms of a particular conceptual framing that they considered
to best optimize making learning possible. Subsequently their students (n = 212) were asked with written questions, and some select follow-up interview-discussions, to describe what they expected
from ‘a good physics lecturer’. The relationships between these two things—the lecturer’s crafting of practice and the students’
expectations of quality teaching—were investigated. Results show that students’ expectations tend to match their lecturers’
practice, indicating that students are strongly influenced by a contextually based appreciation of ‘good’ teaching. 相似文献
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Ngai-Ying Wong Chi-Chung Lam XuHua Sun Anna Mei Yan Chan 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2009,7(2):363-382
The spiral bianshi curriculum, an improvement on bianshi teaching developed by Gu (2000) and in line with Marton’s theory of variation (Marton & Booth, 1997), was tried out in a primary school in Hong Kong. This improved theoretical framework for the spiral bianshi curriculum comprises
four types of bianshi problems—the inductive bianshi, the broadening bianshi, the deepening bianshi, and the applicative bianshi.
Based on this framework, the research team developed a set of teaching materials on the three topics of division of fraction,
speed, and volume. The materials were tried out in 21 Primary 6 classes (a total of 686 students) in a school. The effect
was compared with a reference group using standard textbook materials in Hong Kong. A series of instruments, pre-tests, and
post-tests were administered to gauge the effects on students’ performance in solving routine and non-routine problems, as
well as the affective outcomes including self-concept, attitude towards learning mathematics, approaches to learning, and
conceptions of mathematics. The intervention effects of the experimental design were examined by hierarchical regression analysis.
The research reveals that students using spiral bianshi teaching materials performed significantly better than their counterparts
using standard textbook materials. However, no significant differences were identified among affective learning outcome variables
despite the positive results on cognitive learning outcomes. The findings indicate that spiral bianshi curriculum has high
potential in enhancing students’ learning effectiveness. However, further studies are needed to map its strengths in detail. 相似文献
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As institutions are moving towards offering more online and distance education courses, scholars have reported that instructors
may have difficulty developing learning communities among students enrolled in these courses (DiRamio and Wolverton 2006). The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in students’ perceptions of a learning community when enrolled
in an online or on-campus introduction to counseling course. Participants were beginning graduate and advanced undergraduate
students interested in pursuing a higher education degree in counseling. Results indicated no significant difference in students’
perceptions of learning communities based on course format. 相似文献
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The present study aims to analyse the complex relationships between the relevant constructs of students’ demographic background,
perceptions, learning patterns and (proxy measures of) learning outcomes in order to delineate the possible direct, indirect,
or spurious effects among them. The analytical methodology is substantively framed against the studies of Richardson (British
Journal of Educational Psychology 76:867–893, 2006, Higher Education 54:385–416, 2007) that utilised a regression-based methodology to infer the possible causal relationships among the relevant learning constructs.
A composite research instrument, written in Chinese and derived from the Inventory of Learning Styles (ILS) and the Course
Experience Questionnaire (CEQ), was used to collect students’ feedback on their perceptions of the learning environment and
their learning patterns. Valid responses were obtained from 1,572 students studying at six institutions in the post-secondary
education sector in Hong Kong, a new response-context for both the CEQ and the ILS. In adapting the research instruments to
a new Chinese response-context, the findings are generally consistent with those reported in other published works (e.g. no
relationship between students’ demographic background and their satisfaction with the programme, and a significant relationship
between students’ exhibition of undirected learning patterns and low expected performance), but there are also some noteworthy
discrepancies. The findings therefore buttress the confidence with which an ILS-based General Theoretical Model of student
learning, adapted from Richardson (British Journal of Educational Psychology 76:867–893, 2006, Higher Education 54:385–416, 2007), may be used to conceptualise and interpret the dynamics of variation across different cultural response-contexts. While
the CEQ provides some valuable complementary insights, it is an instrument that requires further development in the response-context
of the present study. 相似文献
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Anne-Marie Nu?ez Elizabeth Murakami Ramalho Kimberley K. Cuero 《Innovative Higher Education》2010,35(3):177-190
Three female tenure-track faculty members at a Hispanic-Serving Institution explored how their cultural backgrounds inform
their pedagogical approaches toward equity. They drew upon Mills’s (1959) and Collins’s (1993) frameworks to examine how their personal biographies, local social contexts, and broader systemic institutions affect their
teaching processes for diverse students. These teaching processes include limiting assumptions about students, encouraging
students to consider their own personal biographies in relation to the social world, welcoming students’ multiple modes of
expression, serving as role models, and challenging inequities in schooling. They conclude with recommendations for enhancing
inclusivity in student learning and faculty development. 相似文献
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Joan Abbott-Chapman 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2011,38(1):57-71
Research studies of post-school education and training conducted in Australia and internationally have revealed a mosaic of students’ education and employment experiences, with a multiplicity of nonlinear pathways. These tend to be more fragmentary
for disadvantaged students, especially those of low socio-economic background, rural students, and mature aged students seeking
a ‘second chance’ education. Challenges faced by students in their transitions to higher education are made more complex because
of the intersection of vertical stratification created by institutional and sectoral status hierarchies and segmentation,
especially relating to ‘academic’ and ‘vocational’ education and training, and the horizontal stratification of regional,
rural and remote locations in which students live. If we are to achieve the equity goals set by the Bradley Review (Bradley
et al., Review of Australian Higher Education Final Report, 2008) we need to acknowledge and work with the complex realities of disadvantaged students’ situations, starting at the school
level. Interrelated factors at the individual, community and institutional level which continue to inhibit student take-up
of higher education places are discussed in the context of discursive constructions of ‘disadvantage’ and ‘choice’ in late
modernity. Research highlights the need to facilitate students’ post-school transitions by developing student resilience,
institutional responsiveness and policy reflexivity through transformative education. 相似文献
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In Finnish VET, students’ work experience is explicitly defined as workplace learning, instead of the practice of already
learnt skills. Therefore, vocational students’ learning periods in the workplace are goal-oriented, guided and assessed. This
paper examines the characteristics of students’ workplace learning and compares them with the characteristics of employees’
workplace learning. The data were collected with an Internet questionnaire from final-year vocational students (N = 3106). In total, 1603 students (52 %) answered the questionnaire. The data were analysed using quantitative methods. The
results indicate that features typical of employees’ workplace learning can also be found in student learning as well. However,
VET-related workplace learning has a number of characteristics that have not been brought to light in research on employees’
workplace learning thus far. We suggest that in developing educational practices it would be useful to draw on some of the
features of workplace learning such as the use of collaboration and shared practices; conversely for workplace practices it
would be useful to draw on some of the features of educational practices. For example, by utilising the structures of students’
workplace learning system presented in this study, learning at work could be transformed towards more goal-directed, guided
and assessed activity. 相似文献
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This study investigated the students’ learning process of the concept of concentration at the elementary school level in Taiwan.
The influence of different representational types on the process of proportional reasoning was also explored. The participants
included nineteen third-grade and eighteen fifth-grade students. Eye-tracking technology was used in conducting the experiment.
The materials were adapted from Noelting’s (1980a) “orange juice test” experiment. All problems on concentration included three stages (the intuitive, the concrete operational,
and the formal operational), and each problem was displayed in iconic and symbolic representations. The data were collected
through eye-tracking technology and post-test interviews. The results showed that the representational types influenced students’
solving of concentration problems. Furthermore, the data on eye movement indicated that students used different strategies
or rules to solve concentration problems at the different stages of the problems with different representational types. This
study is intended to contribute to the understanding of elementary school students’ problem-solving strategies and the usability
of eye-tracking technology in related studies. 相似文献
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Korean elementary school students’ English learning demotivation: a comparative survey study 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Tae-Young Kim 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2011,12(1):1-11
This study explores Korean elementary school students’ decreased motivation for English learning by analyzing the questionnaire
data obtained from 6,301 students in a large city in South Korea. The students’ school grades and their prior experience in
private institutes were considered as the major factors behind the decrease in their motivation. There was a statistically
significant and consistent decrease in the students’ satisfaction with their English learning experience; expectation of ultimate
success in English; and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation and integrative/instrumental motivation. Prior experience in attending
private institutes had a substantial impact on the students’ motivation. Those who attended private institutes (hakwons) exhibited higher levels of instrumental and intrinsic motivation. However, in terms of other motivational constructs of
integrative and extrinsic (parental, academic) motivation, private instruction had a negligible or negative impact. By comparing
the results with those of Lamb (2007), the present study proposes that Korean students should be made to internalize the beneficial role played by English so
that their English learning motivation can be maintained. 相似文献
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In this paper, we examine sixth grade students’ degree of conceptualization of fractions. A specially developed test aimed
to measure students’ understanding of fractions along the three stages proposed by Sfard (1991) was administered to 321 sixth grade students. The Rasch model was applied to specify the reliability of the test across
the sample and cluster analysis to locate groups by facility level. The analysis revealed six such levels. The characteristics
of each level were specified according to Sfard’s framework and the results of the fraction test. Based on our findings, we
draw implications for the learning and teaching of fractions and provide suggestions for future research. 相似文献
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Joanna O. Masingila Samson M. Muthwii Patrick M. Kimani 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2011,9(1):89-108
This study examined standard 6 and 8 (Standards 6 and 8 are the sixth and eighth years, respectively, of primary level schooling
in Kenya.) students’ perceptions of how they use mathematics and science outside the classroom in an attempt to learn more
about students’ everyday mathematics and science practice. The knowledge of students’ everyday mathematics and science practice
may assist teachers in helping students be more powerful mathematically and scientifically both in doing mathematics and science
in school and out of school. Thirty-six students at an urban school and a rural school in Kenya were interviewed before and
after keeping a log for a week where they recorded their everyday mathematics and science usage. Through the interviews and
log sheets, we found that the mathematics that these students perceived they used outside the classroom could be classified
as 1 of the 6 activities that Bishop (Educ Stud Math 19:179–191, 1988) has called the 6 fundamental mathematical activities and was also connected to their perception of whether they learned
mathematics outside school. Five categories of students’ perceptions of their out-of-school science usage emerged from the
data, and we found that 4 of our codes coincided with 2 activities identified by Lederman & Lederman (Sci Child 43(2):53,
2005) as part of the nature of science and 2 of Bishop’s categories. We found that the science these students perceived that they
used was connected to their views of what science is. 相似文献
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This paper refers to the development of a teaching innovation for the nature of science (NOS), for students aged 11–15, which
specifically focuses on the interrelationship between science and technology. The development of the teaching and learning
materials relied on inputs from three sources: the history and philosophy of science and technology, existing knowledge concerning
the teaching and learning about the NOS, empirical data on students’ initial ideas and difficulties about this topic. The
first served to provide an account for the various forms of interaction between science and technology, which, in turn, guided
the formulation of epistemologically coherent learning objectives. The second provided the pedagogical grounds on which to
base the design of the activities. The third facilitated the design of activities that build on students’ productive initial
ideas, while providing them with guidance to resolve the difficulties they tend to encounter. In this paper, we describe the
rationale underlying the teaching and learning materials and we describe the activity sequence they embody. 相似文献
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The purposes of this study were to investigate students’ conceptual learning outcomes and the effect of motivation on students’
conceptual learning outcomes in two different contexts: a Web-based and a classroom-based instruction, which incorporated
the Dual Situation Learning Model (DSLM). Nine classes of Grade eight students (N = 190) were involved in the study; five classes participated in a Web-based context and four classes in a regular classroom-based
context. The topic covered was chemical reaction. Students’ conceptual change outcomes were assessed using eight two-tier
pre/post conceptual tests during the instruction and the reaction rate integrated conceptual test at the end of the instruction.
Students’ motivation data were collected in the beginning and during instruction using the items from the Students’ Motivation
Toward Science Learning (SMTSL) questionnaire. The data were analyzed using ANOVA, ANCOVA, bivariate correlation, and multiple
regression analysis. Findings revealed that students’ motivational factors were correlated significantly with their conceptual
learning outcomes in both Web-based and classroom-based science teaching. In the Web-based context, students’ motivation during
the Web-based learning played a more important role on students’ conceptual learning outcomes than before learning. 相似文献
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This article addresses the controversy regarding the value of offering choices as a teaching practice. Inconsistent of results
regarding the effects of choice in various settings suggest that choice can be either motivating or de-motivating. Based on
the self-determination theory of motivation (Deci & Ryan, 2000), we propose that choice can be motivating when the options meet the students’ need for autonomy, competence, and relatedness.
For example, choice is motivating when the options are relevant to the students’ interests and goals (autonomy support), are
not too numerous or complex (competence support), and are congruent with the values of the students’ culture (relatedness
support). Given the many factors involved, it is not surprising that in some studies choice was not found to promote engagement.
However, when choice was offered in a way that met the needs of the students, it was found to enhance motivation, learning,
and well-being. 相似文献
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Elisabetta Robotti 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2012,80(3):433-450
In the field of human cognition, language plays a special role that is connected directly to thinking and mental development (e.g., Vygotsky, 1938). Thanks to “verbal thought”, language allows humans to go beyond the limits of immediately perceived information, to form concepts and solve complex problems (Luria, 1975). So, it appears language can be studied as a cognitive process (Chomsky, 1975). In this investigation, I study language as a means for making the cognitive process explicit. In particular, I analyze the role of the verbalization produced by pairs of students solving a plane geometry problem. The basic idea of my research is that, during the resolution process of a plane geometry problem, natural language can play roles beyond that of communication: Natural language can be seen as a tool for supporting students’ cognitive processes (Robotti, 2008), and, at the same time, it can also be seen as a researchers’ tool which allows us to shed light on the evolution of students’ cognitive processes. With regard to language as researchers’ tool, I show how natural language (in our case, students’ verbalization during resolution of a plane geometry problem) can be used by the researcher to make explicit, to study, and to describe the development of the students’ cognitive processes during the resolution process. To this end, I present a model I have developed that allows us to identify, in students’ verbalization, different phases of their cognitive processes. 相似文献
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This paper shows how the patterns of variation created in the teaching were critical in helping a class of Primary 3 students
in Hong Kong to learn about the colour of light, so that the students attained conceptual rather than procedural knowledge.
A ‘Learning Study’ approach was adopted, which is a Lesson Study grounded in a particular learning theory to improve teaching
and learning. This study, based on the learning theory of Variation advanced by Marton and Booth, was premised on three types
of variation: variation in students’ ways of experiencing what is to be taught/learnt (V1), variation in teachers’ ways of
dealing with the ‘object of learning’ (V2), and the use of ‘pattern of variation’ as a guiding principle of pedagogical design
to enhance students’ learning (V3). In planning the lesson, a conscious effort was made to create relevant patterns of variation,
i.e. varying certain critical aspect(s) while keeping other aspects of the object of learning invariant in order to help students
to discern those aspects. Comparison between the results of the pre- and post-test shows that there was significant gain in
the students’ learning outcomes with respect to the intended object of learning. The findings contribute knowledge to how
the Theory of Variation can be used in practice. It also illustrates how teachers can make use of this theoretical framework
to analyze their own teaching and thereby, develop an analytical awareness of teaching and learning. 相似文献