scholarly journals Does Gamifying Homework Influence Performance and Perceived Gameful Experience?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4829
Author(s):  
Ahmed Hosny Saleh Metwally ◽  
Maiga Chang ◽  
Yining Wang ◽  
Ahmed Mohamed Fahmy Yousef
Keyword(s):  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Educational Settings ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Control

There is a growing body of literature that recognizes the importance of applying gamification in educational settings. This research developed an application to gamify students’ homework to address the concern of the students’ inability to complete their homework. This research aims to investigate students’ performance in doing their homework, and reflections and perceptions of the gameful experience in gamified homework exercises. Based on the data gathered from experimental and control groups (N = 84) via learning analytics, survey, and interview, the results show a high level of satisfaction according to students’ feedback. The most noticeable finding to extract from the analysis is that students can take on a persona, earn points, and experience a deeper sense of achievement through doing the gamified homework. Moreover, the students, on the whole, are likely to be intrinsically motivated whenever the homework is attributed to factors under their own control, when they consider that they have the expertise to be successful learners to achieve their desired objectives, and when they are interested in dealing with the homework for learning, not just achieving high grades.

scholarly journals Measurement of Plasma Glutathione S-Transferase in Hepatocellular Damage in Pre-Eclampsia

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 483-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Kumtepe ◽  
B Börekçi ◽  
H Aksoy ◽  
K Altinkaynak ◽  
M Ingeç ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liver Function Tests ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Glutathione S Transferase ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Hepatocellular Damage ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Plasma Glutathione ◽  
High Concentrations ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Control

Glutathione S-transferase (GST) is a cytosolic enzyme found in high concentrations in the liver. We investigated the value of plasma GST measurements in pre-eclamptic patients. A total of 80 patients (40 in the pre-eclampsia group and 40 in the control group) were recruited. All patients were evaluated for GST, alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase and lactate dehydrogenase. Pre-eclampsia was defined as the occurrence, after 20 weeks' gestation, of a diastolic blood pressure greater than 90 mmHg on two or more occasions at least 4 h apart, and concomitant proteinuria greater than 0.3 g/l over a 24-h urine collection period. There was no statistical difference between the pre-eclampsia and control groups in terms of ALT, gestational age, maternal age or number of previous pregnancies; a significant difference was found between the pre-eclampsia and control groups in terms of GST. Pre-eclampsia represents a significant cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Accurate assessment of hepatocellular damage is essential in the clinical management of these patients. GST levels in pre-eclamptic patients were found to be much higher (131.98 IU/l) than in control patients (68.67 IU/l), and this high level suggests hepatocellular damage. We concluded that measurement of plasma GST might provide an earlier and much more sensitive indicator of hepatocellular damage than other liver-function tests.

scholarly journals PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ TRAINING FOR THE INNOVATIVE EXTRACURRICULAR WORK

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-32
Author(s):  
Nataliia Onyshchenko ◽  
Nataliia Serdiuk ◽  
Valentyna Krykun
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Research Results ◽  
General Index ◽  
High Level ◽  
Teachers Training ◽  
And Control ◽  
Students Satisfaction

The research proves that the level of pre-service teachers’ readiness for innovative extracurricular work at school will be increased together with the general index of their satisfaction with the extracurricular work at university after the implementing the designed holistic program of their training. The participants of the pedagogical experiment were 148 students, divided into experimental and control groups; the experts were 18 teachers of Philological Faculty of the Hryhorii Skovoroda University in Pereiaslav and 10 General Secondary Schools teachers (Pereiaslav, Ukraine). After implementation of the program, 27% of participants were ready for innovative extracurricular work at the high level, 62% of students increased their level of readiness for innovative extracurricular work to the middle one. The suggested program also increased the students' satisfaction with the extracurricular work at university. On the basis of the research results, the authors suggest methodical recommendations for educators.

scholarly journals Volitional Effort Formation in Senior Preschool Children with Speech Impairments Using Visual Modeling

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-84
Author(s):  
Olga Shilova ◽  
Olga Piskun
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Speech Impairments ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Visual Modeling ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Control Stage ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group

The aim of this research is to investigate the process of volitional effort formation in senior preschool children with general speech underdevelopment (GSU) by visual modelling. The study was conducted using theoretical and practical methods and methods of mathematical statistics. The main indicators of volitional effort formation were determined at the ascertaining stage using methods developed by Smirnova (2005). Methods were partially adapted for 5-year-old children with GSU, and a map of observations was made. Based on the results of observations of children in experimental and control groups (a total of 38 children), pupils were allocated into four categories according to their behavior in direct educational activities. At the control stage of the study, (after the special work on volitional effort formation by visual modeling) children in the experimental group demonstrated positive dynamics in volitional regulation. The number of children, achieved a high level in volitional effort formation, has increased, and the number of children with a lower average level has decreased, moreover, none of the pupils remained at a low level. The results of the study showed the effectiveness of the work on volitional effort formation using the method of visual modeling.

Study of the level of patriotic education of adolescents in a youth center

2021 ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
Tatyana E. Manger ◽  
Yulia V. Vasilieva
Keyword(s):  
Control Groups ◽  
Behavioral Indicators ◽  
Patriotic Education ◽  
Cognitive Semantic ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
High Level ◽  
Emotional Value ◽  
Additional Education ◽  
And Control

We substantiate the importance and the phenomenon of patriotic education in institutions of additional education, the role of the teacher in the development of patriotic feelings in adolescents. The main indicators of the patriotic upbringing of adolescents include cognitive-semantic, emotional-value and behavioral indicators. The study analyzes the activities of the Li-petsk youth center, which revealed an extensive material and technical base and a high level of qualifications of teachers, but at the same time the institution lacks a patriotic education program. Also, an experimental work was carried out with the participation of adolescents (12–14 years old), parents and teachers, consisting of three stages. At the ascertaining stage, it is established that the level of patriotism among adolescents is lower than among adults (mostly low), which is due to the Soviet system of patriotic education. On the basis of the developed social and pedagogical technology and the patriotic program “I am a patriot” at the formative and ascertaining stage, the diagnostics of the results of the level of development of patriotic feelings of the experimental and control groups is carried out, which demonstrated an increase in the values to the middle and high levels. The results of the experimental search work indicate a positive dynamics in the development of indicators of patriotic education in adolescents with the use of folk art.

scholarly journals The impact of participation in music on learning mathematics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylwia Holmes ◽  
Susan Hallam
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Reasoning ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Learning Mathematics ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Music And Mathematics ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

Music psychologists have established that some forms of musical activity improve intellectual performance, spatial–temporal reasoning and other skills advantageous for learning. In this research, the potential of active music-making for improving pupils' achievement in spatial– temporal reasoning was investigated. As spatial–temporal skills are considered to be high-level mathematical abilities, this study also aimed to explore if learning music might have an effect on pupils' achievement in mathematics, and whether spatial–temporal reasoning plays a role in this process. The study had a quasi-experimental design in which groups of children aged 4 to 7 participated in a music programme containing a variety of musical, predominantly rhythmical, activities. Parallel classes made up control groups. Throughout the intervention, pupils' attainment in mathematics, reading, writing and spatial–temporal reasoning was recorded and compared between the music and control groups. The findings of the project supported the hypothesis that music instruction has an impact on the development of spatial–temporal skills. A statistically significantly greater progression was observed in most of the intervention groups, as compared in all periods of measurement to the control groups. The attainment in general mathematics did not always differ between the intervention and control groups but the analyses provided evidence of a consistent and statistically significant enhancement in learning mathematics between the youngest participants of the programme. This knowledge could inform pedagogical practice, while further research in this area could offer more insight into the association between music and mathematics.

scholarly journals Grand Corruption in the Contracting Out of Public Services: Lessons from a Pilot Study in Colombia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Keefer ◽  
Benjamin Roseth
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
The Political ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Corrupt Behavior ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Control ◽  
Operator Behavior

Do targeted transparency interventions reduce corrupt behavior when corrupt actors are few and politically influential; their behavior imposes small costs on numerous individuals; and corrupt behavior is difficult to observe? Results from a study of informal audits and text messages to parents, meant to curb corruption in the School Meals Program of Colombia, suggests that they can. Theory is pessimistic that transparency interventions can change the behavior of actors who exert significant influence over supervisory authorities. Moreover, inherent methodological obstacles impede the identification of treatment effects. Results substantiate the presence of these obstacles, especially considerable spillovers from treated to control groups. Despite spillovers, we find that parental and operator behavior are significantly different between treatment and control groups. Additional evidence explains why operator behavior changed: out of concern that systematic evidence of corrupt behavior would trigger enforcement actions by high-level enforcement agencies outside of the political jurisdictions where they are most influential.

Effects of Computerized Instruction on Mastery and Generalized Use of Commas Strategies by Students With LD

2019 ◽  
pp. 016264341987814
Author(s):  
Jean B. Schumaker ◽  
Lisa D. Walsh ◽  
Joseph B. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Computerized Instruction ◽  
Generalize Complex ◽  
Sentence Construction ◽  
Software Program ◽  
Students With Ld ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Control

The effects of an interactive multimedia (IM) software program for teaching comma strategies to students with learning disabilities (LD) were determined with regard to the students’ sentence-editing and sentence-construction skills. Students with LD at the middle-school and high-school levels were randomly selected in their intact cohorts for the experimental and control groups. Results showed that the experimental students completed the software program and readily learned information about and mastered the comma strategies. Additionally, experimental students at both school levels significantly outperformed the control students with regard to the percentage of correct commas inserted in an editing task. Moreover, they inserted significantly fewer incorrect commas. They also outperformed the control students with regard to the construction of complete sentences containing correct comma usage when prompted to write certain kinds of sentences while writing about a topic. Furthermore, both cohorts of experimental students with LD significantly outperformed their corresponding age groups of students who participated in validating the editing task. Therefore, this study indicates that students with LD can learn and generalize complex writing skills through the use of an IM program at a high level of quality.

scholarly journals PARENTAL AUTOAGGRESSION: THE LINK WITH SUICIDAL ACTIVITY OF THEIR POSTERITY

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-96
Author(s):  
A V. Lukashuk ◽  
A V. Merinov
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
The Moment ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group

The number of suicides worldwide is growing steadily and suicide in adolescents have a distinct tendency to increase. At the moment there are many approaches that attempt to explain the true causes of suicides in children and adolescents. The authors paid special attention to the consideration of family background as a causal factor in the consolidation of self-injurious patterns in children and adolescents. The results of their study show that in families where parents have a high level of self-aggression, adolescents are more likely to exhibit suicidal behavior. For example, the number of suicide attempts in the experimental and control groups - 20,96% and 4,16% respectively. In the experimental group authentically more often Neuilly autoaggressive patterns, for example, exposure to physical violence in groups of 25,81% vs. 3,33%, the and the application of self-harm of 25,81% vs. 8,33%. The data obtained for a fresh look at the principles of preventive schemes teenage suicidology.

A Curation Activity-Based Self-Regulated Learning Promotion Approach as Scaffolding to Improving Learners’ Performance in STEM Courses

2021 ◽  
pp. 073563312110565
Author(s):  
Qi Wang ◽  
Yan Peng ◽  
Huimin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Task Completion ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
And Task

Self-regulated learning (SRL) is an important method in STEM courses that can help learners acquire knowledge by discovering, organizing, and integrating materials. However, learners may not perform well without scaffolding, which results in purely participation in tasks without solid knowledge acquisition. To guarantee SRL effectiveness, scaffolding that can support learners’ knowledge discovery, organization and integration is needed when curation is introduced to support high-level cognition in STEM courses focusing on these facets. The researchers analyzed the advantages and procedures of curation and developed a curation tool and a curation activity-based SRL mode. To verify the effects of the proposed tool and mode, 64 Grade 7 students were involved and assigned to the experimental and control groups and learned with specific tasks. The results revealed that the experimental group showed interest in the mode and achieved better learning outcomes. Learners in the experimental group also submitted higher-quality practical work that demonstrated the effectiveness of the mode. Moreover, this approach promoted deep thinking without increasing the learners’ cognitive load. Finally, this study provided an innovative scaffolding tool and mode for SRL that leveraged learners’ knowledge acquisition and task completion. This idea has positive implications for future SRL research.

Conjugated Linoleic Acid Causes a Marked Increase in Liver α-Tocopherol and Liver α-Tocopherol Transfer Protein in C57BL/6 J Mice

2010 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei-Min Chao ◽  
Wan-Hsuan Chen ◽  
Chun-Huei Liao ◽  
Huey-Mei Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Antioxidant Enzymes ◽  
Linoleic Acid ◽  
Conjugated Linoleic Acid ◽  
Thiobarbituric Acid ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Protein Levels ◽  
Transfer Protein ◽  
And Control

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a collective term for the positional and geometric isomers of a conjugated diene of linoleic acid (C18:2, n-6). The aims of the present study were to evaluate whether levels of hepatic α-tocopherol, α-tocopherol transfer protein (α-TTP), and antioxidant enzymes in mice were affected by a CLA-supplemented diet. C57BL/6 J mice were divided into the CLA and control groups, which were fed, respectively, a 5 % fat diet with or without 1 g/100 g of CLA (1:1 mixture of cis-9, trans-11 and trans-10, cis-12) for four weeks. α-Tocopherol levels in plasma and liver were significantly higher in the CLA group than in the control group. Liver α-TTP levels were also significantly increased in the CLA group, the α-TTP/β-actin ratio being 2.5-fold higher than that in control mice (p<0.01). Thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances were significantly decreased in the CLA group (p<0.01). There were no significant differences between the two groups in levels of three antioxidant enzymes (superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, and catalase). The accumulation of liver α-tocopherol seen with the CLA diet can be attributed to the antioxidant potential of CLA and the ability of α-TTP induction. The lack of changes in antioxidant enzyme protein levels and the reduced lipid peroxidation in the liver of CLA mice are due to α-tocopherol accumulation.

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