Medium of instruction and students' learning approaches in the subject economics at the post-secondary level

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi-lok Chan
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Level ◽  
Medium Of Instruction ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
The Subject

Molecular Modeling as the Spark for Active Learning Approaches for Interdisciplinary Biology Teaching

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Taly ◽  
Francesco Nitti ◽  
Marc Baaden ◽  
samuela pasquali
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Molecular Modeling ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Poster Presentation ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Origin Of Life

<div>We present here an interdisciplinary workshop on the subject of biomolecules offered to undergraduate and high-school students with the aim of boosting their interest toward all areas of science contributing to the study of life. The workshop involves Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science and Biology. Based on our own areas of research, molecular modeling is chosen as central axis as it involves all disciplines. In order to provide a strong biological motivation for the study of the dynamics of biomolecules, the theme of the workshop is the origin of life. </div><div>All sessions are built around active pedagogies, including games, and a final poster presentation.</div>

"There is no space for being German": Portraits of Willing and Reluctant Heritage Language Learners of German

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roswita Dressler
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Heritage Language Learners ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Language Identity ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
German Speaking Country

Some heritage language learners (HLLs) are comfortable identifying themselves as such, while others are decidedly reluctant to adopt this term (Piño & Piño, 2000). HLLs in this paper are defined as those students having a parent or grandparent who speaks German or those who have spent a significant part of their childhood in a German-speaking country (as suggested in Beaudrie & Ducar, 2005, p. 13). This paper highlights case studies of six HLLs of German at the post-secondary level who are participants in a motivation study (Dressler, 2008). Three students are ‘willing’ HLLs. The additional three case studies are of students that I will call ‘reluctant’ HLLs of German, and this paper explores the reasons behind their reluctance and the components of self-identification, which include language identity (Block, 2007; Pierce, 1995); language expertise; affiliation and inheritance (Leung, Harris, & Rampton, 1997); cultural artifacts (Bartlett, 2007) and positioning (Block, 2007).

scholarly journals Teaching Programming Using the Robot-Based Learning Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-28
Author(s):  
Stephanus Mberema Kangungu ◽  
Maizatul Hayati Mohamad Yatim
Keyword(s):  
Learning Theory ◽  
Educational Development ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Educational Robotics ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Current Generation ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Subject

This paper discusses learning theories, STEM, educational robotics as well as the current generation of students found in classrooms by reviewing previous and current academic literature on these topics, to assist in ascertaining the current advancements and theories related to the Robot-based learning approach as well as how these advancements have helped improve this approach and enabled educators to better make use of it. Furthermore, this paper reviews previous academic literature on computer programming to discuss the current learning approaches in use and the kind of learning tools being utilized. Once this topics are reviewed the reader can have a clear picture of the learning approach, what learning theory does it belong too, the type of students found in the classroom as well as what motivates them and the subject that is being taught as well as the different learning tools for this subject. The reader will also learn why improving the effectiveness of how programming is learned helps create more students good in STEM and how it assists in realising the Malaysian Educational Development Plan. This paper reviewed literature from the year 2014 and above as the information is more relevant and current, except for literature that is from a leading or renowned individual in any field that is being discussed in this dissertation.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of Parenting Styles on Personality Traits of Children at Secondary Level

2020 ◽  
Vol V (III) ◽  
pp. 133-141
Author(s):  
Aqsa Saleem ◽  
Imran Latif Saifi ◽  
Sadia Noreen
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Psychological Term ◽  
Development Of Students

Parenting style is basically a psychological term that leads us to the approaches that were used by the parents to bring up their childrens in their childhood. The main focus of the study was to explore the effectiveness of parenting styles on the personality of children at the secondary level. Objectives of the study were to explore the effectiveness of parenting styles on the personality of children at the secondary level and to recommend proposed parenting styles for the development of students personality of children at the secondary level. This study followed a mixed method in nature and followed survey design. All the children of class 10 and their parents were the population of the study from the government and private schools of Faisalabad city. It is highly recommended that parents may be provided awareness session to now the importance of their parenting styles and their impact on the personality traits of their children. It is recommended that the government may provide funds and also provide technical facilities. More researches may be conducted on the subject cited above. Curriculum agencies may develop a curriculum on the subject so everybody may have an idea about parenting style also.

scholarly journals Modelling human active search in optimizing black-box functions

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (23) ◽  
pp. 17771-17785
Author(s):  
Antonio Candelieri ◽  
Riccardo Perego ◽  
Ilaria Giordani ◽  
Andrea Ponti ◽  
Francesco Archetti
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Bayesian Learning ◽  
Surrogate Models ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Bayesian Optimization ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Function Learning ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Function ◽  
Exploration Exploitation

AbstractModelling human function learning has been the subject of intense research in cognitive sciences. The topic is relevant in black-box optimization where information about the objective and/or constraints is not available and must be learned through function evaluations. In this paper, we focus on the relation between the behaviour of humans searching for the maximum and the probabilistic model used in Bayesian optimization. As surrogate models of the unknown function, both Gaussian processes and random forest have been considered: the Bayesian learning paradigm is central in the development of active learning approaches balancing exploration/exploitation in uncertain conditions towards effective generalization in large decision spaces. In this paper, we analyse experimentally how Bayesian optimization compares to humans searching for the maximum of an unknown 2D function. A set of controlled experiments with 60 subjects, using both surrogate models, confirm that Bayesian optimization provides a general model to represent individual patterns of active learning in humans.

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