This paper describes a teaching experience based on ludic environments: video game and 3D animation environment, to provide students with a motivating environment for the first computer programming ...course. One problem that exists in many Latin American countries is that educators who teach the basic programming course find that for most students, computer programming is a completely new subject. We found that an approach based on ludic environments that takes into account the styles of visual and kinesthetic learning to teach basic programming concepts is more effective and motivating.
There is a growing interest in the use of computer-based learning environments to enhance learning in higher education, but the implications of this on the improvement of metacognition in higher ...education have yet to be adequately explored. In the current study, 175 students who enrolled in an introductory psychology course were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (computer-assisted vs. self-managed). In the computer-assisted condition, besides the lecture delivered four hours per week and for three months in total, students took a set of assignments based on evidence-based teaching in a computer-based environment. The control group, however, took these assignments as in-and-out class activities without using a computer environment. An assessment based on Bloom’s taxonomy was utilized to obtain metacognitive and competency scores for both groups. The results of the study showed that the students who completed the structured learning assignments as computer-based, self-learning environment showed better metacognition performance than those in the self-managed group, who did not engage with the online platform, even though there was no significant difference between the groups regarding competence on the course’s learning objectives. The current experiment offers an empirical validation for why instructors should use technology as a self-regulatory tool that enhances students’ metacognitive performance and competence of learning outcomes.
The urgency of the problem of the study is conditioned by the prevailing trends of the labor market's development, modifying the structure of the professional personality's ideals from the ultimate ...goal of striving for the standard of professional culture of values to the norms of corporate behavior, in which it is identified more with the particular organization that provides an opportunity to earn, rather than a nominal professional group (teachers, doctors, engineers, etc.). Student's unrealized professional ideals are manifested in their self-alienation from the profession, which is appropriate to the education obtained, and becomes one of the factors increasing the number of "hidden" ones (not working on a specialty) among the unemployed graduates. The established trends in the course of research are responsible for finding ways to solve the urgent problem. In this regard, this paper is focused on the scientific substantiation of pedagogical resources' set of professional ideals' management of modern high school student. The leading method of research of the problem is the simulation method allowing introducing of new discourse of professional culture's values into the semantic content of the professional ideals of students and produce theoretic - methodical substantiation of the established set of pedagogical tools to manage this process. The paper reveals the content of the values of professional ideals (the values of professional culture, professional traditions, choice experience of professional ideal), identifies the destructive features of modern modifications of professional ideal (corporate culture norms), justifies a set of pedagogical professional tools to manage professional ideas (pedagogical system of high school, based on innovative principles of self-organization, partner communication "student - teacher", interdisciplinary nature, self-transformation; innovative pedagogical technologies, focused on the formation of a stable student's self-identity), proves the productivity of the identified set of pedagogical tools in the management of professional ideals (the willingness of students to self-identification; self-organization and self-transformation of professional ideals; creative transfer of professionally significant knowledge on different kinds and scope of activities; inclusion in the different types of creative activities). Paper Submissions can be useful for teachers, researchers, managers, methodologists, post-graduates and university students.
This article discusses the use of cartographic heritage of native populations of Hispanic America as a pedagogical tool for teaching social sciences in a historical context in which the colonization ...not only implied the economic exploitation of the continent but also the subordination of the cosmologies of these populations. The indigenous and local knowledge was either eliminated or instrumentalized for economic purposes. The mis-valorization of the indigenous cartographic heritage was closely linked to its assessment under the occidental epistemological and ontological schemes that reduced it to a set of practices, superstitions or approximate and imprecise convictions. At the same time, facing the risk of losing their land, from the beginning of colonial period, native populations came to use plans and maps to represent the lands on which they had the right to use and to support their petitions to the colonial authorities. This tradition to attribute to cartographic heritage a strategic role continues in a socio-political environment marked by the emergence of indigenous social movements claiming their territorial rights. In this historical process, using the indigenous cartographic heritage as a pedagogical tool for teaching history and geography was marginalized compared to its strategic -legal function to subvert relations of power.
In this issue of CJEM, Mater and colleagues evaluated the diagnostic test characteristics of plain radiographs in the form of a shunt series and CT scanning of the head to determine whether children ...have cerebrospinal shunt malfunction.5 These authors chose a clinical assessment as the reference standard, and specifically defined shunt malfunction as the decision of the neurosurgeon to perform a shunt revision.
The purpose of this article is aimed at the development of pedagogical tools and methods of forming students' competencies in the course of higher education. The submitted paper presents the ...potential of information technology in forming professional competencies of the university students providing the students' classroom and individual organization. The grounds for the presented paper have become the ideas of competence-based approach, the system of modern didactic principles that intensify the students' learning and cognitive activities. The article describes the structure of modern e-learning system that satisfies the federal state educational standards and contributes to the students' professional competencies. This article is intended for the educators, researchers, heads of educational institutions engaged in the development of academic syllabi and pedagogical tools to provide university students with professional competencies.
Teaching About Psychological Disorders Sheen, Mercedes; AlJassmi, Maryam A.; Jordan, Timothy R.
Teaching of psychology,
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This study compares the traditional use of case studies against the novel use of discussion boards to teach naive students in the United Arab Emirates about anxiety disorders. Sixty-six female ...students from an abnormal psychology class were randomly assigned to either the case study condition (CSC) or the discussion board condition (DBC). Students read about anxiety disorders and at the end of the class rated their experience based on four learning outcomes. In each instance, students in the DBC rated their learning outcomes significantly higher than students in the CSC. This suggests that incorporating discussion boards as a pedagogical tool can add a new dimension for engaging student interest, fostering knowledge development, and increasing empathy.
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<p class="x---" xml:lang="en-US">In this paper, based on our experimental work, presented research results subjectivity formation of professional future officers. Authors vayut substantiation, the ...main criteria to evaluate this work, considering the results, lead their own views on the matter. Based on the data obtained in the course of pedagogical experiment formulated conclusions. The scientific results obtained by the authors can be successfully implemented in educational practice of military high school.
Latrophobia, defined as the morbid and irrational fear of doctors or hospitals, makes medical or hospital visits extremely challenging for those who suffer from it. For many people, the cause of ...Latrophobia or its milder forms, including dislike and anxiety, is often rooted in childhood. Therefore, a large number of children's books deal with and illustrate the topic of a “doctor’s visit”, in order to reduce the anxiety through pedagogical methods combined in the narrative. The aim of the study is to investigate the extent to which selected children's books highlight latrophobia and try to reduce it by educational means. One focus is an analysis and an evaluation of the individual works combined with a comparison of the different methods of individual books. The main aim is to prove that children’s books can have the capability to reduce latrophobia. Materials and methods. The research examines 10 international children’s books dealing with doctor (dental) visits. A field test covering 63 children (21 with potential latrophobia) provides information for pedagogical values within these books. Furthermore, a subjective assessment combined with the ongoing survey filters (un)valuable methods and approaches. Results. More than half of the 21 children showed improved results concerning their feeling of being afraid before and after reading the book(s). Nevertheless, the assessment of the books showed that there are strong differences concerning the approach of “anxiety”. The methods used in the stories to reduce anxiety are numerous, debatable (in terms of success), and even frightening (from the perspective of child readers). The pictures and the atmosphere of the story can be pointed out as major factors for pedagogically valuable content. Conclusions. Although a major part of the examined books leveraged to reduce latrophobia, there are also some books which showed no or even worse effect. Due to the depicted representations of anxiety in the books, a counterproductive effect cannot be ruled out. Children's books, which should have a pedagogically positive effect of latrophobia minimization, must be compulsorily examined in advance by parents.
The article presents a retrospective analysis of the cooperation of a physician-pathologist I. A. Sokolyanskiy and filmmaker A. P. Dovzhenko in the aspect of development of visual impairment. In ...particular, the paper reveals the effect of the use in cinematic special education funds.
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