Introducing computer-based concept mapping to older adults     

Iñaki Calvo  Ana Arruarte  Mikel Larrañaga  Julián Gutiérrez 《Educational gerontology》2017,43(8):404-416

The dramatic eruption of information and communication technology has had a remarkable effect on modern life, including the capacity to help older adults improve their quality of life and remain independent longer. However, while technology use is generally widespread, there is an observable underutilization by older people. There is sound evidence that older adults can learn and acquire computer skills just like younger people do, although they might need more time to reach a similar level of mastery. Concept maps (CMs) are considered to be an efficient creativity tool, as they allow the user’s view to be drawn over any domain or issue. An experiment was conducted with older adults using CM-ED (a concept map editor). The experiment had a twofold objective. The first objective was to measure how certain characteristics of the participants (gender, age, background) affect both their performance with such a tool and the quality of the CMs they developed. The second objective was to determine whether CM-ED is suitable for older people.  相似文献   

An integral perspective on teacher evaluation: a review of empirical studies     

Tuytens  Melissa  Devos  Geert  Vanblaere  Bénédicte 《Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability》2020,32(2):153-183

Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability - Teacher evaluation has been used for decades in schools as a human resource management practice to hold teachers accountable and to help them...  相似文献   

Meaningful Experiences in Physical Education and Youth Sport: A Review of the Literature     

Stephanie Beni  Déirdre Ní Chróinín 《Quest (Human Kinetics)》2017,69(3):291-312

The purpose of this research is to review the literature about young people’s meaningful experiences in physical education and youth sport. We reviewed 50 empirical peer-reviewed articles published in English since 1987. Five themes were identified as central influences to young people’s meaningful experiences in physical education and sport: social interaction, fun, challenge, motor competence, and personally relevant learning. These themes provide future direction for the design and implementation of meaningful physical education and youth sport experiences. We also highlight the need for the development of pedagogies that facilitate and promote meaningful engagement in physical education and youth sport settings.  相似文献   

Examining entrepreneurial attributes of Latin American female university students     

Marcia Villasana  Rafael Alcaraz-Rodríguez  Mario Moisés Alvarez 《Gender and education》2016,28(1):148-166

The phenomenon of women engaging in entrepreneurship is expanding and becoming acknowledged as a valuable resource that must be institutionally and socially supported. Through entrepreneurship education, female students, as potential entrepreneurs, can develop and strengthen those skills and behaviours identified as characteristic of successful entrepreneurs. This paper explores four attributes associated with entrepreneurship (creativity, problem management, risk management, and self-confidence) of 1838 undergraduate students from 11 universities in Latin America (Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Uruguay) and one in Spain, used as a control group. By comparing the results for the male and female student population, self-confidence appears as an attribute that is present at the same level in both groups; statistically significant differences were reported for the other three attributes (creativity, problem management, and risk management). Entrepreneurship programmes can utilise such information to strengthen in female students those attributes for successful engagement in entrepreneurial activity.  相似文献   

Why students need to be prepared to cooperate: a cooperative nudge in statistics learning at university     

Céline Buchs  Ingrid Gilles  Jean-Philippe Antonietti  Fabrizio Butera 《教育心理学》2016,36(5):956-974

Despite the potential benefits of cooperative learning at university, its implementation is challenging. Here, we propose a theory-based 90-min intervention with 185 first-year psychology students in the challenging domain of statistics, consisting of an exercise phase and an individual learning post-test. We compared three conditions that manipulated the exercise phase: individual work, cooperative dyadic instructions (structuring three basic components of cooperative learning: positive goal interdependence, individual responsibility and promotive interactions) and cooperative dyadic interactions (the three basic components with an additional cooperative nudge, namely explaining why and how to cooperate in this task) in order to test whether a progressive increase in benefits occurs as the cooperative structure is reinforced. Results indicated a linear trend in individual post-test learning and competence perception, from individual work to cooperative instructions to cooperative interactions. Competence perception mediated the effect of experimental conditions on learning. The results highlight the benefits of the cooperative nudge.  相似文献   

The tools of quality in electronic engineering education     

C. T. Medrano  M. Ubé  I. Plaza  A. Blesa 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2002,27(4):325-337

The university lecture rooms are the main work places where universities can develop their intermediary function between students and society. This function can be influenced by some factors: diploma curriculum, entrepreneurial environment and teacher research. The primary objective of this paper is to integrate these three factors in the lecture room. For that purpose, we started a new field in our centre: the innovation of quality in education. This field will provide the students with a work methodology in agreement with the professional world and will allow continuous improvement in the educational methodology. The experimental intervention was based on the application of the tools of quality to the problem-solving in telecommunications engineering. As a result, we detected the most significant troubles and we obtained guidelines to improve the design and development of the laboratory practices. Two main conclusions were obtained. First, we show that these quality techniques have been revealed as a powerful educational tool for continuous improvement. Second, the students made a good valuation of this way of making them approach their future engineering work. This work will lead us to new activities in the same field.  相似文献   

An assessment of the sources of the reversal error through classic and new variables     

Carlos Soneira  José Antonio González-Calero  David Arnau 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2018,99(1):43-56

We present two empirical studies with 241 and 211 pre-service teachers that evaluate the explanatory power of word order matching and static comparison as models for the reversal error. We used tasks consisting of generating an algebraic equation representing a comparison given in a verbal statement. We introduce the types of magnitude involved in the statement as variables of analysis, something that was not previously tackled in previous works. Our results show that there are no statistical differences in the production of reversal errors depending on the information included in the name used to designate the variable, and that there are statistical differences depending on the syntactic configuration as well as the type of magnitude involved in the statement. The interpretation of these results indicates that both word order matching and static comparison have some potential as explanatory models for the reversal error, and that neither one of them, alone, is enough to completely explain the phenomenon.  相似文献   

Does education need strategic piloting?     

Sylvain Lourié 《Prospects》1989,19(2):257-267

Entered Unesco in 1965 and held among others the following posts: Co-operative Programme World Bank; Director Educational Policy and Planning; Unesco Special Educational Adviser to six governments in Central America; Adviser attached to the Assistant Director-General for Education responsible for studies on educational futures and coordination of Unesco's Major Project on Education in Latin America and the Caribbean; Director, International Institute for Educational Planning. Since 1988, he has been Assistant Director-General for Planning, Budgeting and Evaluation, Unesco. Author of numerous articles in professional journals on economics of education and educational policy and of a book: Educational Development: Strategies and Decision-making in Central America.  相似文献   

L’Elève Face à la Tâche: Problèmes à Résoudre,Difficultés à Surmonter     

Gérard Vergnaud 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》1987,2(1):15-21

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The influence of aspirations on higher education choice: a telecommunication engineering perspective     

José María Cubillo-Pinilla  Joaquin Sánchez-Herrera  Waldo S. Pérez-Aguir 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2006,31(4):459-469

This paper analyses the influence of external factors that affect the decision-making process in the selection of telecommunications engineering studies. Particularly, we have studied the influence of factors related to the generation of expectations about the studies. A survey was conducted on a sample of 701 male and female telecommunications engineering students. The results show the existence of a direct relationship between the choice of telecommunications studies in non-vocationally oriented students and their expectations of finding a job more easily, getting higher salaries and more prestige. On the other hand, non-vocationally oriented students show similar academic performance to that of vocationally oriented students.  相似文献