The problem of this study is to determine a profile of the typical industrial arts major at North Texas State University, based on scores made on the American College Testing Program Battery, and to compare this profile with profiles of four other local subgroups. ACT scores representing nine categories of student information were analyzed from a total sampling of 286 North Texas State University students of the Industrial Arts Department, School of Business Administration, School of Education, and College of Arts and Sciences. Data were from tests administered during regular ACT testing sessions in 1966-67.

Cette étude propose une approche centrée sur l’activité de l’élève telle que définie et expériencée en cours d’Education Physique et Sportive. Il s’agit d’accéder à ce qui fait sens pour lui/elle lorsque confronté à une situation de résolution de problème, étant entendu que la démarche menée est inductive, participante et internaliste. Le contexte de l’étude se place dans un cycle complet de Course d’Orientation (T = 16h de pratique effective ; 8 séances) mené par un enseignant expert de l’approche réflexive et de l’APSA, auprès d’une classe optionnaire de 19 élèves (âge moyen 17ans ½). Trois études sont menées afin de caractériser le fonctionnement des élèves confrontés à l’épreuve de Baccalauréat et à sa préparation. La première étude porte sur l’analyse de la performance à différents moments du cycle. La seconde étude porte sur les interactions entre profils moteurs, verbaux et réflexifs des élèves à partir des traces écrites de leur activité. La troisième étude s’intéresse, à partir d’un test ante/post cycle inspiré de la théorie des intelligences multiples de Gardner, à cerner l’évolution des capacités déclarées par les élèves. Les résultats montrent que les élèves voient leurs profils évoluer avec une réussite variable au cours du cycle ; ces profils s’expriment en contexte en fonction des situations d’apprentissage, des ressources mobilisées et de l’interprétation des relations carte/milieu naturel. Un suivi de cas permet d’individualiser les résultats qui viennent à la fois questionner la manière dont est abordée l’APSA Course d’Orientation et les stratégies complexes déployées par les élèves / This study focuses on the student’s activity as defined and experienced in Physical Education. The target was to reach what makes sense for him/her when confronted with a problem solving task. The method used an inductive, participative and internalist approach. The study’s context was an optional full learning cycle of Orienteering (T= 16 hours duration; 8 sequences; n = 19 students 17 and half years old) taught by an expert teacher on critical thinking approach and on this sport practice. Three studies are expected to characterize the student functioning when confronted with the Baccalaureat examination and preparation. The first study layed on the analyzis of the performance at different moments of the learning. The second study was on the interactions between student motor, verbal and reflective profiles from the written reports of their activity. The third study was based on the pre/post test inspired from Gardner’ theory of the multiple intelligences: it helped describing the evolution of the declared capabilities of the students. Results showed that student profiles evolve according to a variable success all along the learning cycle; these profiles express within the situated context according to the learning tasks, the mobilized resources and the interpretation of the relationship between the map and the effective natural environment. A case study allowed individualizing the observations so as to question at a time the way Orienteering has to be taught and the complex strategies used by students

No / This book explores the module design experiences and practices of academics employed within one UK university, and during a period of social and economic change in which university staff are designing and delivering curricula for changing student populations, with different profiles and expectations than previous generations. The book raises issues such as why, in a climate of reduced resources, staff increase their own workloads by re-writing lectures to accommodate changing student needs, and how institutional practices that are used to encourage curriculum innovation are often having a perceived opposite effect. It will appeal to academic staff, students of higher education studies, and policy-makers within the education sector.