The main purpose of this diploma thesis is to obtain information on how Matfyz can improve its cooperation with high school students and their physics teachers to increase students' interest in physics. To obtain these information a questionnaire was sent to physics teachers, who had been mentioned by Matfyz students as teachers who had had a positive effect on them. The questionnaire itself consists of four parts - events for students, events for physics teachers, Mat- fyz activities, and teaching. The data was processed using both quantitative and qualitative methods, whereas larger part of research was build on quantitative methods. The collected data showed that according to respondents the most im- portant task is to focus on non-Prague students. Thus, organizers should organize events in various places in the Czech Republic or use modern technologies and organize events on-line (that also applies to events for physics teachers). High school students might also meet with scientists and university physics students, visit laboratories except for visitors' days (e. g. during excursions, internships) or have an opportunity to find out how physics in companies is used. Respondents expressed support for writing a new physics textbook on Matfyz, one containing more difficult parts for talented students.

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<p>  </p> <p>The dissertation study presented here explores what higher education instructors believe about problem-solving. Beliefs about problem-solving pedagogy and the influences that change pedagogical approaches in the post-secondary realm of physics education require more robust exploration. The level of change that occurs through the day-to-day teaching cycle and the support that garners improvement are essential aspects of teaching in higher education that need robust understanding.</p> <p>Insight into higher education could illuminate the transitional experience of students between high school and college-level physics. This study explores the beliefs of Indiana college and high school educators, all of whom teach college-level physics content, and probed how those beliefs shaped higher education instructional strategies and teaching philosophies. The study was conducted using a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach.</p> <p>The findings show that physics educators in college and high school learning environments lacked support explicitly geared toward them and physics. All the educators included in the study taught college-level physics. Four of the six participants were the only ones teaching physics in their schools. Despite the isolation, all participants noted the importance of peer-to-peer learning for themselves and their students, noting interactions with exterior training opportunities (e.g., educational conferences or online educator communities). However, the most crucial source of change in their teaching beliefs and approaches that the participants noted was the feedback they received from students.</p>

The "POWER - PLANT" deals with the rehabilitation of the former Central Power Conversion and Dale Schoeller (Nejedly I and III) in the village Libušín Mine. Will be newly designed for building the power plant technology with progressive fluidized bed boiler to biomass steam turbine with an output of 7 MW and absorption (trigeneration) unit producing heat, cooling and electricity, which also will function as a cooler primary circuits. The source of water for the power plant will not only former mining pit Nejedlý I which is currently flooded drinking water at about 12 ° C. This system uses high efficiency embedded fuel (biomass), which is ultimately required less. A greater proportion of electricity generated and part of the heat will be distributed to the public network. In most areas will be proposed publicly accessible greenhouses of steel-aluminum construction filled ETFE foil forming the heat insulating membrane filled with air. The reason is to create conditions for the cultivation of tropical and subtropical plants. Greenhouses will be connected to the absorption unit power (underground meanders through which water will circulate), the ventilation shaft mine and mine water - therefore it will be possible to manage the conditions of the internal environment of the building without the influence of the season and especially without mounting other technological devices. It will provide for cooperation with the absorption unit for cooling the primary circuit - therefore eliminating the need for cooling towers or fans. The project will build a detached departments of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Prague - Institute of progressive technologies and systems for energy and the Faculty of Agronomy and Natural Resources CULS. The reason is to allow students and scientists actively and in practice mainly participate in the operation and especially the development of the issue. The public in the area besides themselves open to the greenhouses indoor and outdoor thermal swimming. Part of the entrance hall is a bistro and foremost lecture hall. The aim is decentralized botanical-energy complex of buildings that produce electricity, heat, cooling, and biomass, and creating recreational, educational and research conditions.

Der Autor entwickelt, aus Sicht der Erwachsenenbildungswissenschaft, anknüpfend an den bisherigen Diskussionsprozess in Sachsen zur Einführung eines sächsischen (Weiter-)Bildungsberichts, anhand theoretischer Vorannahmen zur Steuerung im Weiterbildungsbereich sowie zur Weiterbildungsberichterstattung und anhand empirisch eruierter Empfehlungen einen Gestaltungsvorschlag für ein wissenschaftlich fundiertes Untersuchungsdesign zur Entwicklung eines sächsischen Weiterbildungsberichts. In der zugrunde liegenden empirischen Studie werden vorhandene (Weiter-)Bildungsberichte und durchgeführte Experteninterviews dahingehend analysiert, inwieweit sie Anregungen für einen indikatorenbasierten sächsischen Weiterbildungsbericht geben können. Hierfür werden mittels qualitativer Inhaltsanalysen deduktiv und induktiv gebildete Kategoriensysteme erarbeitet. Es wird deutlich, welche Themen ein sächsischer Weiterbildungsbericht in Bezug auf landesspezifische Erkenntnisinteressen, seine nationale Anschlussfähigkeit sowie in Bezug auf die vorhandene sachsenspezifische Datenbasis, abdecken könnte. Dabei werden Lücken in der Datenbasis aufgezeigt und Entwürfe für Datenerhebungsinstrumente vorgestellt, um die aktuell vorhandene Datenbasis schrittweise zu erweitern, zu vertiefen und aktuell zu halten. Die Arbeit endet mit Vorschlägen für weitere Projekt- und Forschungstätigkeiten.:Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbildungsverzeichnis III Tabellenverzeichnis III Anhangsverzeichnis V Abkürzungsverzeichnis VI Vorwort VII 1 Einleitung 1 2 Theoretischer Hintergrund 4 2.1 Steuerung im Weiterbildungsbereich 4 2.2 Weiterbildungsmonitoring und Weiterbildungsberichterstattung 11 2.2.1 Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer Weiterbildungsberichterstattung 14 2.2.2 Begriffliche Abgrenzung und Modellierung von Indikatoren 21 3 Untersuchungsdesign und methodisches Vorgehen 25 3.1 Ablauf dieser Untersuchung 26 3.2 Begründung für die Wahl dieser Methoden/Methodenkombination 30 3.3 Ablauf der Dokumentenanalyse 35 3.4 Resultierendes Kategoriensystem für eine Inhaltsanalyse 44 3.5 Vorbereitung und Ablauf der Experteninterviews 48 3.6 Aufbereitung und Auswertung der Experteninterviews 55 3.7 Betrachtung methodenspezifischer, inhaltsanalytischer Gütekriterien 58 4 Darstellung und Interpretation ausgewählter Forschungsergebnisse 60 4.1 Betrachtung ausgewählter Ergebnisse der Dokumentenanalyse 60 4.2 Betrachtung ausgewählter Ergebnisse der Experteninterviews 71 5 Darstellung und Begründung des Untersuchungsdesigns 80 5.1 Referenzrahmen für eine sächsische Weiterbildungsberichterstattung 81 5.2 Ablauf der Datenerhebung 87 5.3 Öffentlich vorliegende Datenbasis für Sachsen 89 5.4 Benötigte und mittelfristig verfügbare Datenbasis für Sachsen 99 5.5 Zusammengestellte Indikatoren für eine sächsische WB-Berichterstattung 101 5.6 Instrumente für Bevölkerungs- und Einrichtungsbefragungen 107 5.7 Betrachtung und Einhaltung von wissenschaftlichen Gütekriterien 112 6 Zusammenfassung, Fazit und Ausblick 116 7 Literaturverzeichnis 124 8 Anhang 139

Social-comparative feedback (i.e., providing a learner with information regarding his/her performance relative to a group average) has been shown to influence a learner’s psychological and behavioural outcomes during motor skill acquisition (Avila, Chiviacowsky, Wulf, & Lewthwaite, 2012; Eliasz, 2012; Lewthwaite & Wulf, 2010; McKay, Lewthwaite, & Wulf, 2012; Stoate, Wulf, & Lewthwaite, 2012; Wulf, Chiviacowsky, & Cardozo, 2014; Wulf, Chiviacowsky, & Lewthwaite, 2010, 2012; Wulf & Lewthwaite, 2016). This research indicates that motor skill acquisition is facilitated when learners believe they are performing better than the average, regardless of their actual performance. It has been suggested (Wulf & Lewthwaite, 2016) that a better-than-average mindset enhances psychological factors such as self-efficacy and motivation and in turn, actual behaviour. However, there is also evidence to suggest that self-efficacy (having state-like properties) and motivation (having both state and trait-like properties) are related in terms of their affective influence on learning (Bandura, 1997; Schunk, 1990, 1991, 1995) but the relationship between the two constructs and its subsequent outcomes remain unclear. Even though individual differences in motivation have been suggested to influence self-efficacy beliefs, they have been largely ignored in this line of research. There is also evidence to suggest that learners possessing high levels of motivation (whether that may be at a trait or state level) may not interpret feedback in the same manner (Aronson, 1992; Festinger, 1957; Frey, 1986; Harmon-Jones, 2012; Harmon-Jones & Harmon-Jones, 2002; Harmon-Jones, Harmon-Jones, Fearn, Sigelman, & Johnson, 2008; Harmon-Jones & Mills, 1999; Harmon-Jones, Schmeichel, Inzlicht, & Harmon- Jones, 2011; Steele, 1988). Therefore, the goal of this dissertation is use both theoretical and applied perspectives to examine the degree to which social- comparative feedback affects psychological and behavioural outcomes in highly- motivated learners (e.g., medical trainees) learning procedural skills. Independent of actual performance, we provided manipulated feedback information to novice pre-clerkship medical trainees while they were learning motor skills to suggest that they were performing better or worse than the average. The first study used a basic sequential key-press learning task (Eliasz, 2012) and a basic suturing task to explore the role of social-comparative feedback in medical trainees and tested whether features of the task were important (i.e., basic laboratory task or technical skill task) during the interpretation of this feedback. The second study used the same experimental paradigm to extend our results to a relevant medical education context (i.e., medical trainees learning basic suturing techniques). The final study examined whether the credibility of the feedback provider (i.e., expert versus peer) played a role in how social-comparative feedback was being internalized by novice medical trainees. Our initial study demonstrated that, compared to those receiving positive or no social-comparative feedback, medical trainees receiving negative social- comparative feedback during motor skill acquisition had significant difficulties in learning both the laboratory and technical skill task. These findings suggested that compared to other learners, novice medical trainees (a subset of highly-motivated learners), responded differently to social-comparative feedback. The second study replicated this pattern and revealed that medical trainees receiving below-average feedback during technical skill acquisition experienced significant detriments to their performance, learning and self-efficacy. Our final study found that regardless of the feedback source (hypothetical expert versus another peer), the experience of receiving negative social-comparative feedback impacted self- reported psychological measures and the immediate performance of a basic surgical technique. This dissertation provides, to the best of our knowledge, the first demonstration that medical trainees, a subset of highly-motivated learners, interpret social-comparative feedback differently than other learners studied in the literature. More specifically, receiving positive social-comparative feedback did not facilitate the learning process as found in previous studies with non-medical learners, while the delivery of negative social-comparative feedback, irrespective of task or feedback provider, was psychologically and behaviourally detrimental to novice medical trainees learning motor skills. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This dissertation includes three original studies designed to examine the effects of social-comparative feedback during skill acquisition in highly- motivated learners (e.g., medical trainees). Regardless of actual task performance, novice medical trainees who were provided with feedback during the learning process indicating that they were performing worse than the group average, experienced significant detriments to their psychological and behavioural outcomes. This effect was present regardless of the task being learned (i.e., key- pressing or suturing) or who was delivering the feedback (i.e., a hypothetical ‘expert’ or ‘peer’). Receiving better-than-average feedback did not result in any additional psychological and behavioural benefits. Contrary to the research with non-medical students, where “you are above-average” social-comparative feedback facilitates learning and “you are below-average” social-comparative feedback is no different than a control condition, these studies suggest that the experience of receiving below-average feedback during the learning process can be detrimental for highly-motivated novice learners. These findings are important to consider in both the context of feedback delivery and remediation as they provide evidence that novice medical trainees, regardless of the task and feedback provider, experience difficulty in receiving information that they are performing relatively poorly compared to their peers.

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