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An evaluation of the use of a simulation game to teach a specific topographic map reading skillScrivener, J. G., n/a January 1980 (has links)
The field study examines the effect of the simulation game
Battle Squares on the learning of the map reading skill of
grid-reference determination by year 7 students. The effect of
ability level and sex differences on the acquisition of gridreferencing
skills were also examined. The simulation game
developed is a modification of the traditional children's
game Battleships. The modifications produced the major
features of the grid system used on Australian Survey Map
sheets without substantially altering the characteristics of
the game Battleships.
Two treatment groups played the simulation game, one group
having experienced both a pre test and a post test and the
other group only the post test. A third treatment did the
pre test and post test without experiencing the simulation
game.
Students in both treatment groups which experienced the simulation game showed significant gains in the learning of
grid-referencing skills. Students in upper ability level
groups gained significantly better scores on the post test
than students in lower ability level groups. Both upper and
lower ability level groups showed significant gains. Girls
performed significantly better than boys on the post test.
Both boys and girls showed significant gains as a result of the
simulation game experience. Ability level was a more important
moderating variable than sex difference in producing variations
in performance on the post test of grid-referencing skills.
The explicit educational aims of the simulation game were
effectively achieved in a short period of time, while maintaining
student motivation and interest. The success of the simulation
game in producing significant changes in grid referencing skills
would appear to have resulted from the frequent practise of
these skills the simulation game playing experience offers.
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Peer counselling in schools : an experimental study of human relations training in an A.C.T. high schoolSimic, Ann, n/a January 1982 (has links)
The main purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of
a human relations programme for high school students in Years 7, 8
and 9. The programme, based on the course devised by Varenhorst (1976;
Appendix B), was run as a non-assessable option for one semester in an
A.C.T. high school by the author, who was the counsellor at the school,
and a volunteer teacher. Humanistic, behavioural and cognitive methods
of implementation were used.
As well as trying to achieve more effective interpersonal relations
between students, so that they could more successfully relate and resolve
differences, a secondary aim was to try to make the counsellor's role
a more preventative rather than a largely remedial and crisis-laden one.
Twenty-eight students enrolled for the course. Fourteen were
assigned to the experimental group and experienced the human relations
programme; the fourteen in the control group undertook a variety of
other options they had chosen. Both groups completed pre- and postquestionnaires
from which quantitative data was gathered. As a check
on these quantitative results, post-study qualitative data were also
gathered from the experimental group.
The course taught verbal and non-verbal communication skills,
decision-making and problem-solving skills, particularly in relation to
such areas as the peer group, the family and the school. The ethics
of helping others experiencing problems in any of these areas was an
integral part of the course.
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The study showed that human relations skills can be taught,
although the findings were interpreted cautiously because of design
and methodological difficulties. The lack of randomisation and
reported, rather than behavioural, change per se are two areas which
restrict the generalisability of the results.
It is suggested that, to achieve more widespread gains, such a
course could be incorporated into the existing pastoral care programme
of the school in which all teachers and students took part. It is
further suggested that, for optimal effectiveness, parents and teachers,
as well as students, would need to be aware of, and know how to put into
practice, the skills taught in this programme and relate them to interaction
generally.
A first step was made by the experimenter towards widening the role
of the school counsellor away from crisis cases towards prevention of
problems. Ideally, the programme could be expanded to include teachers
and parents who could, in turn, become human relations educators, thus
serving the whole student population.
The teaching, learning and practising of skill became the main focus
of the programme. Although some peer counselling was involved in assignments,
time precluded an experimental study of effectiveness in this
applied area. All students but one wanted to proceed with this practical
work.
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Look who's talking? : NCEA and learning partnerships. A case study of a lesson. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Educational Management at UNITEC Institute of Technology [i.e. Unitec New Zealand] /Munro-Keene, Judy. January 2006 (has links)
Thesis (M.Ed. Mgt.)--Unitec New Zealand, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-132).
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The relationships among environmental attitude, locus of control, and environmental behaviour of form six students in Hong KongLai Yau, Suk-yin, Grace. January 1992 (has links)
Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 135-139). Also available in print.
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Within the pilot study in Hong Kong for the IEA second mathematics study a study of attitudes towards mathematics in the secondary schools /Ng, Kwok-chuen. January 1979 (has links)
Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1980. / Includes bibliographical refererence (leaf 83-87) Also available in print.
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Within the pilot study in Hong Kong for the I.E.A. second mathematics study an evaluation of the trial attitude scales /Tong, Shiu-ming. January 1979 (has links)
Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1980. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 70-74). Also available in print.
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An attempt to operate personal development group and evaluate its effects on interpersonal relationship amongst fourth form boys in an Anglo-Chinese secondary schoolWong, Chun-man. January 1980 (has links)
Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1980. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 115-122). Also available in print.
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Student counselling an innovation in Hong Kong secondary schools /Ho, Ling-mun, Joseph. January 1989 (has links)
Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 109-114). Also available in print.
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A comparison of the responses to English language paper 1 of those candidates in grade A and B with those in grade D and E in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination, 1982Law, Ping. January 1983 (has links)
Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1983. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 85-86). Also available in print.
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The effectiveness of educational television as a teaching aid in the junior secondary science curriculum in Hong Kong teacher perceptions and student responses /Lo Chang, Yuke-ling, Anne. January 1988 (has links)
Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 136-140). Also available in print.
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