Changes in the process of teaching and learning can be both useful and nonuseful to enhance students learning. This work tried to show that current teaching methods not always meet the needs efficiently when it comes to improve students skills. For that, it relied on experiments with Language Programming subject matter s students. It did so because such a subject matter poses questions whose answers can be answered freely because its codes can be written in many ways , while its assessment is dichotomic. Teacher s didactic procedures, methodology applied in classes, programming language, and the time taken to develop the work proposed were the categories considered in the research. In an experimental group of students, Robert Mager s theory was applied to compare their learning. In such theory, instructional aims are supposed to provide a statement on the information students will get and on their understanding and ability to use them after the course ends. Conclusion is that students skills and performance were improved, that is to say, that there was an increase of knowledge, which can be measured and presented graphically by Rasch model. / Mudanças no processo de ensino e aprendizagem podem ser tanto benéficas quanto ineficazes para o aprendizado do aluno. Este trabalho buscou mostrar que métodos de ensino atuais não suprem com eficiência a necessidade de melhorar as habilidades discentes. Para tanto, recorreram-se a experimentos com alunos da disciplina Linguagem de Programação porque esta apresenta questões cujas respostas são livres ou seja, porque os códigos podem ser feitos de diversas maneiras , enquanto a avaliação é dicotômica. Avaliaram-se os procedimentos didáticos do professor, a metodologia usada nas aulas, a linguagem de programação e o tempo usado para desenvolver o exercício proposto. Em uma das turmas experimentais, a teoria de Robert Mager foi aplicada para comparar o aprendizado dos alunos. Nessa teoria, os objetivos instrucionais preveem a declaração sobre o que o aluno vai receber de informação e se as compreendeu para ser capaz de usá-las após o término do curso. Concluiu-se que houve melhoria na habilidade e no desempenho dos alunos, isto é, aumento no conhecimento mensurável e demonstrável graficamente pelo modelo de Rasch. / Doutor em Ciências

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Doctorat en sciences sociales, politiques et économiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

This thesis deals with organizational forms of teaching at higher professional schools. One of the aims of this work is to define these schools within the Czech educational system. The study of problems of organizational forms of teaching proceeds through categorisation of schools and subjects of study to education objectives. An important part of the study preceding the research itself are general theories of forms of teaching. These theories are supplemented with information on the forms of teaching at higher education institutions. The aim of the research is to find out which organizational forms of teaching are really used at higher professional schools from the point of time and a way of interaction of students in a classroom. The research also deals with out-of-school education. I used a form of qualitative research which was done at two Prague schools providing higher professional education. The design of qualitative research is a case study. Key words tertiary education, higher professional school, higher professional school legislature, forms of teaching, educational aims, professional experience, modular teaching

This research explores constructions and understandings of fluctuating or recurring impairments in Higher Education in the UK. It considers ways in which institutional discourses within one UK University have shaped policy and provision for disabled students, and how students with fluctuating or recurring impairments negotiate and enact identities in this context. For many students, impairments such as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/ myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), epilepsy or diabetes, for example, have the potential to vary in intensity, and thus impact, on participation in learning activities and on self-perception/ identity. With increasing disclosure, yet limited recognition, of such types of impairment comes a need for institutions to better understand changing impact in terms of inclusion and in observing anticipatory aspects of legislation, as well as furthering insight into how student identities are negotiated and constructed in an educational context. This research uses a social constructionist framework to explore constructions and subjectivities as regards fluctuating or recurring impairments, and comprises both staff and student perspectives. The staff perspective is based on the thematic narrative analysis of interviews with three members of staff, and is presented in conjunction with an example of institutional policy to highlight discourses drawn upon in constructing disability and disabled students. The impact of these discourses on institutional constructions and practice is key to the analysis. The student perspective is based on two phases of data collection: firstly, 24 semi-structured interviews with students who self-described a fluctuating or recurring impairment; and secondly, five students’ responses to six bi-weekly emails over the course of one academic trimester (January – April 2011). Summary data from the first phase is used to frame discussion on issues raised by students regarding institutional constructions and support. A ‘hybrid’ narrative analysis framework incorporating positioning analysis as well as both ‘big’ and ‘small stories’ has been used in analysing the phase two data. The approach considers the influence of institutional discourses on how students are positioned institutionally and position themselves, as well as ways in which performances of identity may be shaped. The thesis concludes by considering the implications of the research outcomes for Higher Education. In so doing, it notes the significance of policy implementation and cultural change, and makes recommendations for areas of focus in raising institutional awareness of fluctuating or recurring impairments within existing constructions of disability.

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The purpose of this study is to discover how courses in world history and United States history are taught in Southern California secondary schools. At this stage of the research the study of the history course instruction will be generally defined as an exploratory and investigative inquiry involving the interviews of the history faculty, analysis of their course offerings and syllabi content, and the overall teachers' course content preparation and knowledge.

The purpose of this project was to test the hypothesis that student enthusiasm, participation, and comprehension would increase when using cooperative learning techniques in a classroom context.

This research investigates the vision of excellence in secondary schools leadership in Ekurhuleni East District (Gauteng East District) and the existence of a vision of excellence in schools. A literature study investigated models of leadership related to vision of excellence and aspects of vision of excellence in school leadership. An empirical investigation used both a quantitative and qualitative research design to collect data from a purposefully selected and stratified sample of participants and secondary schools in the Ekurhuleni East District (Gauteng East Education District). A questionnaire and focus group interviews were used to gather data from the respondents. Data were analysed and interpreted using quantitative and qualitative approach. The findings of both the literature study and the empirical research on the above-mentioned vision of excellence in secondary schools leadership in Ekurhuleni East District revealed that there is a lack of support from school leadership and the School Management Team (SMT) in realising a vision of excellence in secondary schools leadership. The main challenges that were identified by qualitative method were the lack of support by both the district office and school management or school leadership. The realisation of the vision of excellence is dependent on how the information is managed and disseminated by the school leadership, principals and SMTs. It appears that the realisation of the vision of excellence would enhance the level of understanding of new developments in the education system including the curriculum change and technological advancement. / Educational Leadership and Management / M. Ed. (Education Management)

This thesis focuses on the teaching of the Czech language at scioschools. The theoretical basis of Czech language didactics and the problematicsof alternative education are discussed in the first part, while the second part characterizes the individual scioschools in terms of their general concept and teaching of Czech language. The thesis is fomulated as a case study and is methodologically based on observation, interviews and document analysis. Its aim is to provide a partial insight into the practice of Czech language teaching at scioschools and to answer how and with what goal is Czech language taught. It analyses whether some innovative methods and forms of work reflecting the current topics of Czech language didactics are applied and whether is there are any unifying concepts of Czech language teaching. While this work provides insight into these issues it concludes that scioschools aim to lead the students to so-called study autonomy. Scioschools do not work with a unified concept of teaching. It find that the current Czech language teaching practice - forms of teaching, application of innovative methods or aims are heavily influenced by the personality, knowledge and experiences of the teacher - tutor. KEYWORDS scioschools, alternative school, tutor, didactics of the Czech language, aims of...