Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T20:32:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 VIRIDIANA ALVES DE LARA.pdf: 7829412 bytes, checksum: 02eb5d664945edc317a9d201f1349118 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-05-09 / This paper presents an analysis of the conceptions of the learning teachers in the early years of public schools in one municipality of Paraná. Qualitative, descriptive, research aimed to analyze the conceptions assessment of teacher learning in the early years of elementary school, the learning cycle. The research is theoretically based on the epistemological, historical and pedagogical assumptions of educational assessment and learning, built from the contributions of Franco (1990), Rodrigues (1994), Fernandes (2005), Afonso (2005) Dias Sobrinho (2003, 2008), Luckesi (2011), Lopes and Silva (2012), Hadji (2001), Guba; Lincoln (2011), among others. The survey of the production of theses and dissertations on evaluation about learning in the early years is the state of the art produced around this object of study. The methodological procedures used in data collection were the questionnaire and interview. The collected data were organized and analyzed by the Collective Subject Discourse - DSC developed by Lefèvre and Lefèvre (2005). The survey results showed that most teachers has a formative conception about assessment of learning, although there are some remnants of the traditional design where the most valued is the exam results and tests than the daily evaluation processes. In the analyzed discourses became evident that there is a collective effort of teachers to break with the objectivist conception of assessment traditional of learning assessment. It can be concluded that the conceptions of these teachers move in a emancipatory perspective, based on the critical-dialectical, in that posture consider some fundamental aspects: the use of formative assessment to support student learning and teacher's education planning, the emphasis of the role of student and teacher in formative evaluation processes with the use of self-assessment and interactive feedback in the teaching and learning process: diversity of assessment tools that teachers use during the process of teaching and learning, the understanding of the student's mistake as to the suitability of the possibility of teaching and learning, and finally, the record of students performance in relation to the objectives proposed in the opinions from the trial of elements of their everyday learning. / Este trabalho apresenta uma análise das concepções de avaliação da aprendizagem dos professores dos anos iniciais de escolas públicas de um município paranaense. De natureza qualitativa, do tipo descritiva, a pesquisa objetivou analisar as concepções de avaliação da aprendizagem dos professores dos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental, no ciclo de aprendizagem. A pesquisa se fundamenta teoricamente sobre os pressupostos epistemológicos, históricos e pedagógicos da avaliação educacional e da aprendizagem, construídos a partir das contribuições de Franco (1990) Rodrigues (1994), Fernandes (2005), Afonso (2005), Dias Sobrinho (2003, 2008), Luckesi (2011), Lopes e Silva (2012), Hadji (2001), Guba; Lincoln (2011), entre outros. O levantamento da produção de teses e dissertações sobre avaliação da aprendizagem nos anos iniciais constitui o estado da arte elaborado em torno deste objeto de estudo. Os procedimentos metodológicos utilizados na coleta de dados foram o questionário e a entrevista. Os dados coletados foram organizados e analisados à luz do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo – DSC, desenvolvido por Lefèvre e Lefèvre (2005). Os resultados da pesquisa evidenciaram que a maioria dos professores tem uma concepção formativa de avaliação da aprendizagem, embora ainda existam alguns resquícios da concepção tradicional em que mais se valorizam os resultados de provas e testes do que os processos avaliativos cotidianos. Nos discursos analisados há evidências de um esforço coletivo dos docentes para romper com a concepção de avaliação objetivista e com as práticas tradicionais de avaliação da aprendizagem. Pode-se concluir que as concepções desses professores caminham numa perspectiva emancipatória, assentada na postura dialético-crítica, em que se consideram alguns aspectos fundamentais: a utilização da avaliação formativa como suporte para a aprendizagem dos alunos e para o planejamento de ensino do professor; a ênfase do papel do aluno e do professor nos processos avaliativos formativos com a utilização da autoavaliação e do feedback interativo no processo de ensino e aprendizagem; a diversidade de instrumentos avaliativos que os professores utilizam durante o processo de ensino e aprendizagem; a compreensão do erro do aluno como possibilidade à adequação do processo de ensino e aprendizagem; por fim, o registro do desempenho dos alunos em relação aos objetivos propostos nos pareceres a partir do julgamento de elementos de suas aprendizagens cotidianas.

Organisationens mål är att de gäster som kommer till hotell/konferensanläggningen skall bli behandlade som kungar. Affärsidén i organisationens lyder: "Ursäkta ers majestät! Hos oss är alla gäster kungar". För att få gästerna att känna sig som kungar krävs samarbete, intresse av arbetsplatsen, kvalitetstänk, kommunikation och förståelse mellan personalen. Studien är en fallstudie i förbättringsarbete och skall ge organisationen verktyg att använda i förbättringsarbetet. Syftet med studien är att identifiera förbättringsområden inom en organisations verksamhet som ska prioriteras. Ett förbättringsområde ska vidareutvecklas som ett projekt. Det förbättringsområde som valts ut är att studera hur kommunikationen fungerar på arbetsplatsen samt att hitta verktyg för att kunna förbättra och förnya arbetssättet på arbetsplatsen. Målet med studien är att undersöka hur organisationen kan: 1) Förbättra kommunikationen 2) Öka samarbetet 3) Fokusera mer på det positiva De metoder som använts har varit observationer, dokumentationer som dels primär källa samt tidigare fem intervjuer som sekundär källa. Teorin är grundad på förbättringsarbete, kommunikation, ledarskap, lärande organisationer och organisations lärande cykeln. Det framgår fortsatt att just samarbetet och kommunikationen är det som organisationen talar om. De centrala delarna i resultatet visade : Kommunikationen behöver förbättras då personalen har svårt att nå fram till varandra samt att de talar om varandra och inte med varandra. Samarbetet är en mycket viktig del för organisationen och personalen upplever att det finns en del att göra för att få samarbetet att fungera bättre både medarbetare emellan och mellan medarbetare och ledning. Fokusera på det positiva då det finns negativa tendenser som organisationen präglas av då det framgår att stress förekommer mer och att personalen ser att arbetet fungerar sämre. De slutsatser som studien visar är att organisationen behöver se över sitt ledarskap och göra det tydligare. Förbättringsarbetet som har påbörjats bör fortsätta som en del i organisationens kontinuerliga förbättringsarbete. Organisationen behöver också arbeta mera med kvalitetsverktyg. / The organization’s goal is that the guests who come to the hotel/conference establishment should be treated like kings. The business idea of the organization is: "Excuse me your majesty! With us, all guests are kings. In order to make the guests feel like kings requires cooperation, interest of the workplace, quality awareness, communication and understanding among the staff. This study is a case study of improvement work and should give the organization the tools to use in the improvement process. The study aims to identify areas for improvement within an organization’s activities that should be prioritized. One area for improvement will be further developed as a project. The improvement area selected is to study how communication works in the workplace and to find tools to improve and innovate approaches in the workplace. The goal of this study is to examine how the organization can: 1) Improve the communication 2) Increase cooperation 3) Focus more on the positive The methods used have been the observations, documentation, and the primary source and previous five interviews as a secondary source. The theory is based on improvement, communication, leadership, learning organizations and organizational learning cycle. It appears that just continued cooperation and communication is what the organization talking about. The central parts of the results indicate: 1. The communication needs to be improved since the staff finds it difficult to reach each other and that they talk about each other instead of with each other. 2. Cooperation is a very important part of the organization and staff feels that there is a lot to do to make cooperation work better for both employees themselves and between employees and management. 3. Focus on the positive, since there are negative trends that the organization is characterized by stress being more frequent and that the personnel perceive that work functions less well. Where it appears that stress occurs more and that the staff sees that the work function less well. There are tendencies that collaboration, participation and communication do not function so well and that there are missing parts in the communication. The study shows conclusions that the organization needs to see over their leadership and to do it clearer, the work on improvement that has been started should continue as a part in the organization in a continuous work and that the organization lacks a part equipment to work after. The conclusions of the study shows that the organization needs to review their leadership and make it clearer. The improvement work that has begun should be continued as a part of the organization’s continuous improvement efforts. The organization also needs to work more with quality tools.

The purpose of the study is to explore relationships among elementary school students&amp / #8217 / gender, relevant prior knowledge, meaningful learning orientation, reasoning ability, self-efficacy, locus of control, attitudes toward science and achievement in genetics in learning cycle and traditional classrooms. The study was conducted on 213 8th grade students from eight classes of two public elementary schools in Ankara in 2005-2006 Spring-semester. Students in the experimental group (N=104) received learning cycle instruction that helps students acquire conceptual understanding of scientific concepts, and the students in the control group (N=109) received traditional instruction. The students were given Genetics Achievement Test as a pre-test before and as a post-test after the instruction. Students were also given Learning Approach Questionnaire that measures students&amp / #8217 / learning orientations and Test of Logical Thinking that determines students&amp / #8217 / reasoning abilities. Students&amp / #8217 / levels of self-efficacy, locus of control and their attitudes toward science also were measured. One-way ANOVA analysis revealed that learning cycle instruction improved students&amp / #8217 / achievement in genetics compared to traditional instruction. Stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed that in learning cycle classrooms, the main predictors of achievement in genetics were students&amp / #8217 / meaningful learning orientation (49.6%) and their attitudes toward science (11.8%). In traditional classrooms, students&amp / #8217 / attitudes toward science (44%) and reasoning ability (9.8%) were the main predictors of achievement while remaining 5.7% of the variance explained by relevant prior knowledge, locus of control and meaningful learning orientation. This study revealed that different variables may be important for 8th grade students&amp / #8217 / genetics achievement in learning cycle and traditional classes.

The main purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of 5E learning cycle model based on constructivist theory approach over traditionally designed chemistry instruction on ninth grade students&rsquo / understanding of acid-base concepts. Sixty tenth grade students from two classes of a chemistry course taught by the same teacher in Ankara Atat&uuml / rk Anatolian High School 2004-2005 spring semester were enrolled in the study. The classes were randomly assigned as control and experimental groups. Students in the control group were instructed by traditionally designed chemistry instruction whereas students in the experimental group were taught by the instruction based on constructivist approach. Acid-Base Concepts Achievement Test was administered to both groups as a pre-test and post-test in order to assess their understanding of concepts related to acid-base. Students were also given Attitude Scale Toward Chemistry as a School Subject at the beginning and end of the study to determine their attitudes and Science Process Skill Test at the beginning of the study to measure their science process skills. The hypotheses were tested by using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and t-test. The results indicated that instruction based on constructivist approach caused significantly better acquisition of scientific conceptions related to acid-base and produced significantly higher positive attitudes toward chemistry as a school subject than the traditionally designed chemistry instruction. In addition, science process skill was a strong predictor in understanding the concepts related to acid-base.

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of instruction based on 5E learning cycle model over traditionally instruction on students&amp / #8217 / understanding of acid-base concepts. Also, the effect of instruction on students&amp / #8217 / attitude toward chemistry as a school subject and the effect of gender difference on understanding of acid-base concepts and attitudes toward chemistry were investigated. During the second semester of 2007-2008, 130 eleventh grade students from six classes of two different high schools attended this study. The classes were randomly assigned as control and experiment groups. Students in the control groups were instructed by traditional instruction whereas students in the experimental groups were taught by 5E model. Attitude Scale Toward Chemistry as a School Subject and Acid-Base Concept Test were administered as a pre and post-tests. In addition, Science Process Skill Test and Views on Science-Technology-Society instrument was utilized. The hypotheses were tested by using two-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The results revealed that 5E Model caused a significantly better understanding of acids and bases than the traditional instruction. In addition, these models of instruction developed the similar attitude toward science as a school subject. Science process skill was a strong predictor in understanding the concepts. On the other hand, no significant effect of gender difference on understanding the acids and bases and on students&amp / #8217 / attitudes toward chemistry as a school subject was found. The results of Views on Science-Technology-Society gave a picture of the students&amp / #8217 / views on nature of science.

This study aimed to investigate the relationships among high school students&rsquo / relevant prior knowledge, meaningful learning orientation, reasoning ability, self-efficacy, locus of control, attitudes toward biology and achievement in human circulatory system in learning cycle and traditional classrooms. This study was conducted with 2 teachers and 4 classes and total of 60 11th grade students in the private high schools at &Uuml / mitk&ouml / y district of Ankara in the fall semester of 2008-2009 academic years. One class of each teacher was assigned as experimental group and treated with 5E learning cycle instruction and other class was assigned as control group and treated with traditional instruction. At the beginning of the study, both teachers were trained for how to implement 5E learning cycle instruction in the classrooms. The Human Circulatory System Achievement Test was applied twice as pre-test and after treatment period as a post-test to both experimental and control groups. Learning Approach Questionnaire was used to measure students&rsquo / approach to learning and Test of Logical Thinking was used to measure reasoning abilitiy of students. Students&rsquo / levels of self-efficacy, locus of control and their attitudes toward biology also were measured. The data obtained from the administration of post-test were analyzed by using ANOVA. The statistical result indicates that learning cycle instruction improved students&rsquo / achievement in human circulatory system compared to traditional instruction. Stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed that in learning cycle classrooms, the main predictors of achievement in human circulatory system were students&rsquo / reasoning ability (45.8%) and their prior knowledge (15.9%). In traditional classrooms, students&rsquo / meaningful learning orientation (40%) and locus of control (9.8%) were the main predictors of achievement. This study indicated that different variables may be significant for 11th grade students&rsquo / human circulatory system achievement in learning cycle and traditional classes.

The aim of study was to investigate the effect of context-based approach (CBA) through 5E learning cycle (LC) model over traditional instruction on students&rsquo / understanding, achievement, and chemical literacy on chemical reactions and energy concepts. The effect of instruction on students&rsquo / motivation to learn chemistry and the factors of motivation questionnaire were also explored. Additionally, the effect of gender difference was investigated. Six eleventh grade classes with 187 students taught by three teachers from two public Anatolian high schools of Ankara in 2011-2012 fall semester were enrolled in this study. Each teacher had experimental and control group. These classes were assigned randomly as experimental and control groups. The experimental groups were treated with CBA through 5E LC model, control groups were treated with traditional instruction. Chemical reactions and energy concept test and chemistry motivation questionnaire were administered as pre- and post-tests to groups. Achievement test and open-ended chemical literacy items on chemical reactions and energy were administered as post-tests to all groups. Science process skill test was administered to all groups at the beginning of the instruction. Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) was used for the analysis of data. The results revealed that CBA through 5E LC model was superior to traditional instruction on students&rsquo / understanding, achievement, and chemical literacy in the chemical reactions and energy unit. Although, students&rsquo / overall motivation scores did not changed across the groups, experimental groups intrinsic motivation and relevance of learning chemistry to personal goals was superior than control groups. No gender difference was found.

The main purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of instruction based on 5E learning cycle model over traditionally designed chemistry instruction on tenth grade students&rsquo / understanding of acid-base concepts. Fifty- six tenth grade students from two classes of a chemistry course taught by the same teacher in Atat&uuml / rk Anatolian High School 2003-2004 spring semester were enrolled in the study. The classes were randomly assigned as control and experimental groups. Students in the control group were instructed by traditionally designed chemistry instruction whereas students in the experimental group were taught by the instruction based on 5E learning cycle model. Acid-Base Concepts Achievement Test was administered to both groups as a pre-test and post-test in order to assess their understanding of concepts related to acid-base. Students were also given Attitude Scale Toward Chemistry as a School Subject at the beginning and end of the study to determine their attitudes and Science Process Skill Test at the beginning of the study to measure their science process skills. The hypotheses were tested by using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and t-test. The results indicated that instruction based on 5E learning cycle model caused a significantly better acquisition of scientific conceptions related to acid-base produced significantly higher positive attitudes toward chemistry as a school subject than the traditionally designed chemistry instruction. In addition, science process skill was a strong predictor in understanding the concepts related to acid-base.

Submitted by Graciete Pereira (gracietedourado@hotmail.com) on 2016-09-12T20:10:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PROJETO DE INTERVENÇÃO.pdf: 1472054 bytes, checksum: cf8cca7ec6b84f647b0258c7d88caec5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Auxiliadora da Silva Lopes (silopes@ufba.br) on 2016-09-14T17:32:34Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 PROJETO DE INTERVENÇÃO.pdf: 1472054 bytes, checksum: cf8cca7ec6b84f647b0258c7d88caec5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-14T17:32:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PROJETO DE INTERVENÇÃO.pdf: 1472054 bytes, checksum: cf8cca7ec6b84f647b0258c7d88caec5 (MD5) / O tema desse projeto foi o processo de elaboração e implantação da proposta curricular da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Irecê, organizada em Ciclos de Aprendizagem. O estudo teve como objetivo investigar quais foram os fatores facilitadores e dificultadores da implantação da proposta curricular na ótica dos professores participantes. O resultado da pesquisa fundamentará a proposta de intervenção que tem como objetivo a implantação da nova Proposta Curricular, organizada em Ciclo de Formação Humana. Para tal, foi utilizada a pesquisa de campo, com abordagem qualitativa e a técnica de grupo focal. É apresentado um breve histórico do processo de elaboração das duas propostas curriculares, onde se aborda questões sobre as consequências da sua utilização e as possíveis leituras que podem ser feitas a partir de um currículo “imposto” e dialogo sobre o papel do professor como mediador em uma proposta prescritiva. A pesquisa mostrou que a forma como se implanta uma proposta curricular determina o seu sucesso ou o seu fracasso, pois os professores não são meros executores. Eles interpretam e acrescentam à cultura escolar, criando e recriando as suas práticas, para tanto faz-se necessária uma formação em exercício de qualidade e, na época, a formação que foi oferecida era pontual e precedente, onde primeiro se aprendia e depois executava. Ouvir e compreender o professor e as suas necessidades dá um novo rumo à formação em exercício e a forma de ver e pensar a educação no município. Esse trabalho foi feito como um panô africano, um tipo de artesanato de origem africana em que vários retalhos, de diferentes tamanhos e cores são reunidos para representar uma cena e contar histórias através de imagens. Assim, foi escolhido a proposta curricular implantada na rede Municipal de Ensino de Irecê como a parte significativa dessa história, como a imagem a ser trabalhada, a parte que será redesenhada, relembrada, repensada, pesquisada e a proposta curricular em ciclo de Formação Humana como a parte que será alvo da intervenção. À medida que os fios das memórias dos professores foram sendo puxados, foi sendo tecido os panôs e entendendo as dificuldades para se implantar uma proposta curricular, os desafios dela advindos, bem como o crescimento pessoal e profissional dos atores envolvidos. / ABSTRACT The theme of this research is the process of elaboration and implementation of the curricular proposal from the Public Education of Irecê, organized in Cycles of Learning in the period from 2000 to 2004. The study aimed to investigate of the facilitator and difficultator factors in the process of implementation on the Curricular Proposal on teacher’s optical participants. The result shall justify the implementation of new Curricular Proposal, organized into Human Formation Cycle, which is the intervention project of the Professional Master’s Degree in Education. To this end, I used field research with qualitative approach and focal group. I present a brief history of the process of elaboration, aboard issues on consequences of their use and the possible readings that can be made from a "forced" curriculum and I dialogue on the role of the teacher as mediator in prescriptive proposal. We know that the way he deploys a curricular proposal determines your success or failure, because teachers are not mere executioners. They interpret and add the school culture, creating and recreating their practices. And, at the time, the formation that was offered was punctual and precedent, where first learned and then ran. In this context, to hear and understand the teacher and their needs gives a new direction to in-service formation and the way of looking and thinking about education. This research was done as an African panô, a type of workmanship of African origin in several flaps, of different sizes and colors are brought together to represent a scene and tell stories through images. So, I chose the curricular proposal implemented in the Public Education of Irecê as the significant part of this story, as the image to be processed, the part I want to repaint, remember, rethink, search and intervene. As the threads of memories of teachers were being pulled, we were weaving panôs and understanding the difficulties, in order to deploy a proposal, her challenges arising, as well as the professional growth of the actors involved.

Many learners find the study of introductory computer programming difficult. This is also true of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and we need an improved understanding of how they learn programming. After reviewing the constructivist approach to teaching and learning and investigating ADHD, this study explored strategies for constructive learning of introductory programming. The aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Karplus learning cycle to teach introductory programming. This was done through qualitative research from an interpretive perspective. Action research techniques were employed and data analysed using grounded theory methods. Four major constructivist teaching categories emerged, all of which support the use of the Karplus cycle. It is concluded that the three-phase Karplus cycle can be used to assist these learners learn introductory programming. However, it needs to be understood more broadly and the middle phase broken into two subphases to ensure effective learning. / Mathematical Sciences / M. Sc. (Mathematical Sciences)