scholarly journals Improving Adolescents’ Attitudes towards Persons with Disabilities: An Intervention Study in Secondary Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4545
Author(s):  
Julián Álvarez-Delgado ◽  
Benito León-del-Barco ◽  
María-Isabel Polo-del-Río ◽  
Víctor-María López-Ramos ◽  
Santiago Mendo-Lázaro
Keyword(s):  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Evaluation Instrument ◽  
School Students ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Experimental Group

The relationship of disabled persons with their environment is fundamental. Attitudes towards them, understood as the social constructs of those around them, play a key role in a person’s development and future, as they are one of the fundamental elements that can facilitate or hinder the inclusion process. Our work examines the need to implement educational and awareness-raising actions and programs that contemplate intervention strategies based on education and direct contact with disabled persons. The main objective of the study was to analyze the effect of a Program for Changing Attitudes towards Persons with Disabilities on a group of secondary school students (11 to 15 years of age), assigning 770 to the experimental group and 105 to the control group. The evaluation instrument used was the “Brief Questionnaire of Attitudes towards Persons with Disabilities for Adolescents, CBAD-12A”. The results have demonstrated the efficacy of the intervention for the experimental group, as it was possible to attribute the changes in attitude to the effect of the Program. Specifically, an improvement in attitudes was found in all three factors of the questionnaire (Acceptance-Rejection, Competence and Opportunity) after the intervention.

scholarly journals The relationship of multiple intelligences and their impact on the academic achievement of the students of the elementary school in Hawat Bani Tamim: علاقة الذكاءات المتعددة وأثرها على التحصيل الدراسي لدى طالبات المرحلة الابتدائية بحوطة بني تميم

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amal Bint Hassib Khater Ibrahim ◽  
Badria bint Abdulrahman Al Saeed
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Multiple Intelligences ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Experimental Group

This study aimed to identify the relationship of multiple academic achievement intelligences among students of primary school has been using the curriculum Correlative; where it is applied by the presence of quotas to measure the impact of training reflected on the achievement of the students of primary school and the impact of professional development programs for teachers reflected on the development of psychological students skills and social and personal has been applied to research on a sample of primary school students in governorates Hawtat Bani Tamim in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia during the first semester of the year 2016/2017, and to achieve the objectives of the research were used theories of multiple intelligences for the two experimental and control group in the pre and posttests, and applied to study in the eye amounted to 10 students of the sixth grade primary number of students in the experimental, when you make achievement tests, and also after the outcome of the general capacity, resulted in findings about the existence of significant differences statistically at the level of (α = 0.01) in favor of the experimental group in the educational attainment of intelligence gained at remembering and understanding and skill to solve problems, the overall collection, also outperformed the experimental group to test general aptitude and every mental capacity levels at the level of significance (α = 0.01) has also reached The study to the existence of a positive correlation statistically significant at the level of (α = 0.01) between multiple intelligences and achievement among students of primary school.

scholarly journals The Effect of Using Computer Simulation on Students’ Performance in Teaching and Learning Physics: Are There Any Gender and Area Gaps?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Mhamed Ben Ouahi ◽  
Mohamed Ait Hou ◽  
Abdesselam Bliya ◽  
Taoufik Hassouni ◽  
El Mehdi Al Ibrahmi
Keyword(s):  
Computer Simulation ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Student’S T ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of using computer simulation on students’ performance in teaching and learning physical science, particularly the electrical Ohm’s law. A sample of 182 students classified into two groups–experimental (92) and control (90)–from two middle schools in Meknes city (one in the rural area and the other urban area) was the subject of a pretest and posttest evaluation. The outcomes of the administered test to both groups of students, control and experimental, were compared and analyzed using Student’s t-test and the Mann–Whitney U test with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The results obtained suggest that the experimental group register the best performances after the posttest than the control group ( p < 0.05 ). While no difference, in terms of performance, was signed according to gender in the experimental group ( p > 0.05 ), the urban students were more successful than the rural ones, with and without the use of simulations. In this respect, this study recommended using and practicing simulation software to improve and develop the performance of middle school students.

scholarly journals Physical Computing Strategy to Support Students’ Coding Literacy: An Educational Experiment with Arduino Boards

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1830
Author(s):  
Chih-Chao Chung ◽  
Shi-Jer Lou
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Program Design ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Physical Computing ◽  
Technical High School ◽  
Experimental Group

The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of introduction of the physical computing strategy of Arduino Boards in a program design course on coding literacy and the effectiveness of the application in technical high school students. This study selected two classes of twelfth-grade students enrolled in a program design course at a technical high school in Southern Taiwan as the samples. One class was the control group (43 students), and the other was the experimental group (42 students). During the 18-week course, the control group carried out a DBL (design-based learning) programming project, and the experimental group carried out the DBL programming project using the physical computing strategy of Arduino boards. Pre- and posttests and a questionnaire survey were carried out, while ANCOVA (analysis of covariance) was used for evaluation purposes. In the course, students in the experimental group were randomly selected for semi-structured interviews to understand their learning status and to perform qualitative analysis and summarization. This study proposed the physical computing strategy of Arduino boards, featuring staged teaching content, practical teaching activities, and real themes and problem-solving tasks. The results show that the coding literacy of students in the different teaching strategy groups was significantly improved. However, in the Arduino course on DBL programming, the students in the experimental group had a significantly higher learning efficiency in coding literacy than those in the control group. Moreover, according to the qualitative analysis using student interviews, Arduino boards were found to improve students’ motivation to learn coding and to aid in systematically guiding students toward improving their coding literacy by combining their learning with DBL theory. Thus, Arduino technology can be effectively used to improve students’ programming abilities and their operational thinking in practically applying programming theories.

Zoltán Kodály gives a hand to secondary school students in recorder performance and attitudes toward music in Turkey

2021 ◽  
pp. 025576142110059
Author(s):  
Alican Gülle ◽  
Cenk Akay ◽  
Nezaket Bilge Uzun
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Service Training ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Attitudes Toward Music ◽  
Experimental Group

Kodály-inspired pedagogy enables students to participate effectively in a music course by engaging in active musical interactions with folk songs and melodies. The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of Kodály-inspired pedagogy on recorder performance and attitudes toward music of secondary school students. A quasi-experimental design was used in the study. The experimental group was taught using Kodály-inspired pedagogy and the control group using the general music teaching methods for 9 weeks. A two-way mixed-design analysis of variance (ANOVA) and content analysis were used to analyze the data. A Recorder Performance Grading Key, music course attitude scale, and open-ended questions were used to collect the data. Consequently, the findings indicated that Kodály-inspired pedagogy had a significant effect on the students’ recorder performance but the researchers could not find a significant effect on students’ attitudes toward the music course. Moreover, students in the experimental group reported improvement in their recorder performance and attitudes toward music education. The researchers recommended including information about the implementation of Kodály-inspired pedagogy in music teacher textbooks, providing in-service training for teachers to enable them to use Kodály-inspired pedagogy.

scholarly journals The hospice as a learning space: a death education intervention with a group of adolescents

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ines Testoni ◽  
Lorenza Palazzo ◽  
Lucia Ronconi ◽  
Stefania Donna ◽  
Paolo Francesco Cottone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Education Intervention ◽  
Death Education ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
School Students ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Experimental Group

Abstract Background The denial of death in Western society deprives young people of the tools to derive meaning from experiences of death and dying. Literature shows that death education may allow them to become familiar with this topic without causing negative effects. This article describes the effects of a death education course with adolescents, wherein participants were given the opportunity to meet palliative doctors and palliative psychologists at school and in a hospice, where they were able to converse with the families of the dying. Methods This study used mixed methods and included an evaluation of a death education intervention with longitudinal follow-up of outcomes. The course involved 87 secondary school students (experimental group) aged between 16 and 20 years. We also recruited a control group of 76 similarly-aged students to observe differences. The variables we examined were: alexithymia, representation of death, value attributed to life and spirituality. These were measured with the following instruments: the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20, the Testoni Death Representation Scale, the Personal Meaning Profile and the Spiritual Orientation Inventory, respectively. To better understand how the students perceived the experience, we asked the experimental group to answer some open-ended questions. Their answers were analysed through thematic analysis. Results The study showed that death education and the hospice experience did not produce negative effects, but rather allowed students to decrease alexithymia, improving their ability to recognise and express emotions. Thematic analysis revealed that all participants perceived the experience as very positive. Conclusions Our findings affirm that death education programs can be successfully implemented in high schools, and that they can usefully involve local hospices and palliative care professionals, especially physicians and psychologists.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of the reflection-based reciprocal teaching approach for reading comprehension achievement in upper secondary school in Myanmar

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tun Zaw Oo ◽  
Andrea Magyar ◽  
Anita Habók
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Reciprocal Teaching ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Upper Secondary School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Experimental Group

AbstractThis study investigates the effectiveness of the reflection-based reciprocal teaching (RBRT) approach for Myanmar upper secondary school students’ reading comprehension in English. In the RBRT approach, the main frame is based on the reflective teaching model for reading comprehension (Oo and Habók in Int Electron J Elementary Educ 13(1):127–138, 2020), in which the reciprocal teaching method (involving questioning, clarifying, summarizing, and predicting) was applied. This study used cluster randomized trials. Two groups participated in the research: the experimental group, who were taught with the RBRT approach, and the control group, who were taught with traditional methods. Results showed that the RBRT approach has a strong effect on students’ English reading comprehension achievement. The experimental group increased its achievement on the posttest significantly, and the students’ results showed high effect size. It was also found that teachers’ reflection on the instructional context had a considerable impact on raising students’ reading comprehension achievement. The RBRT approach can be successfully applied in the classroom environment to develop students’ reading comprehension in English in Myanmar.

Stress and Adaptation in Families of Children with Visual Disabilities

1996 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 240-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yona Leyser ◽  
Antoinette Heinze ◽  
Gaylen Kapperman
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Visual Disabilities ◽  
Parent Questionnaire ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sources Of Support ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Experimental Group

Little research is available on families of children with visual impairments. The authors examined stress and coping in a sample of 130 families (experimental group) of visually impaired children who responded to a parent questionnaire and the Family Environment Scale (FES). A control group of 78 parents responded to FES only. Findings revealed that the experimental group experienced various stressors such as future concerns, financial concerns, concerns about services, and concerns about the social acceptance of the child. These families were less involved in intellectual and cultural activities and used less structure and organization than did the controls. In coping, many families used various formal and informal sources of support as well as personal coping strategies. Implications for practitioners and social service providers are discussed.

Basic English Speech Support And Pronunciation Skills Of Senior High School Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 662-671
Author(s):  
Henry Orbasayan Alperito ◽  
Cristobal Millenes Ambayon
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
High School English ◽  
Management Students ◽  
Basic English ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Senior High School Students

The Basic English Speech Support is audio with transcription which is composed of the features of pronunciation that is purposely compiled to enhance pronunciation skills specifically, the sounds of English, stress, intonation, and linking. It is applied within the study with the aim of measuring its effectiveness to the pronunciation skills of Senior High School students. The study is designed to evaluate, validate and determine the effectiveness of Basic English Speech Support to the Senior High School, Grade 12, Accountancy, Business and Management students in Libertad National High School. English-teacher Evaluators evaluated the audio and its transcription. The design involved the experimental group and the control group which were carefully selected through the randomization process. The data gathered were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential tools such as mean, standard deviation, and t-test. The results revealed that students from the experimental group got a higher mean gain compared to the control group. It was factually and statistically confirmed that the utilization of Basic English Speech Support served as a significant element in teaching pronunciation and evidently, advances better learning among Senior High School students.

Interventi psicologici a sostegno dell'imprenditoria femminile: evidenze empiriche di efficacia nel contesto italiano

RISORSA UOMO ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 455-470
Author(s):  
Annamaria Di Fabio ◽  
Letizia Palazzeschi ◽  
Francesca Camilli ◽  
Antonio Raschi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Competence Assessment ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
The Social ◽  
Experimental Group

The present work aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a competence assessment intervention for professional enterprising effected with entrepreneurs of the agriculture and textile craft sectors and carried out within the project Guidance Paths (Percorsi di orientamento), a three-year project supported by the Italian Ministry of Labour and the Social Policy. The study used an experimental group (55 participants) that received a competence assessment intervention and a control group (37 participants). The results showed a decrease in career decision-making difficulties and an increase in career decision- making self-efficacy in the experimental group suggesting the effectiveness of competence assessment for entrepreneurship of women.

GROUP WORK IN EVALUATION OF PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CARBOHYDRATES

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meliha Zejnilagić-Hajrić ◽  
◽  
, Adel Polutak ◽  
Ines Nuić ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Evaluation Group ◽  
Paper And Pencil ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Test Of Knowledge

In this research two different ways of students' reviewing their knowledge in chemistry about carbohydrates are described: group work and discussion with teacher. In experimental group (EG) students were working in groups on their assignments, while in control group (CG) discussion led by teacher was implemented. Results showed better EG students’ achievements on paper-and-pencil test of knowledge on the following class. Keywords: evaluation, group work, teacher-led discussion, carbohydrates.

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