This dissertation explored ways that college students reflectively described the social influences related to their learning failures. This exploration was conducted using semi-structured interviews and Stake's multiple case analysis method. The findings from the interviews were used to develop a framework that describes the key social influence attributes of the learning failure experiences. The key attributes of the framework include: (a) roles, (b) context, and (c) phases. Each key attribute is discussed in detail. The framework serves as the means for exploring several related strands of research related to learning failure in a cohesive way, potentially enriching our understanding of these experiences. This improved understanding may lead to improved intervention designs and advisement strategies that could improve learning outcomes for students.

Learning motives and peculiarities of adaptation of schoolchildren with special needs and without them are analysed in the master work. It is surveyed, how social and educational environment influences schoolchildren with special needs emotional wellbeing and learning motivation.

Thesis in Afrikaans with summaries in Afrikaans and English / Die doel van hlerdie ondersoek is om die ekstrinsieke en intrinsieke oorsake van leermislukking met spesifieke verwysing na skole in die Windhoek stadsgebied te bepaal en om aanbevelings te doen hoe om leermislukking teen te werk. Leermislukking en druiping is onrusbarend hoog in skole in die Windhoek stadsgebied. Nadat die Ministerie van Onderwys die semi-outomatiese promoveringstelsel ingestel het, het druiping afgeneem maar leermislukking het toegeneem omdat leerders gepromoveer word sonder dat hulle sukses in die vorige graad behaal het. Volgens die literatuurstudie le die oorsake van leermislukking by die ouerhuis, die skool, die omgewing en in die leerder self. Die empiriese ondersoek toon ooreenkomste met die literatuurstudie wat betref die oorsake van leermislukking. Om die oorsake teen te werk - moet onderwysers beter opgelei word - moet die ouers meer bewus gemaak word van hulle rol in die leersukses van hulle kinders - is meer skoolgeboue en onderwysers nodig om kleiner klasse te bewerkstellig. / The purpose of this research is to establish the extrinsic and intrinsic causes of learning failure with specific reference to schools in the Windhoek municipal area and to make recommendations to counteract learning failure. Learning failure and grade failing are disconcertingly high in schools in the Windhoek municipal area. After the Ministry of Education implemented the semi-automatic promotion system, grade failing decreased, but learning failure increased because learners are promoted without achieving success in a prior grade. According to the literature study, the causes of learning failure are to be found in the home, the school, the environment, and the learner. Similarities regarding the causes of learning failure were found in the empirical investigation and the literature study. To counteract these causes • teachers should be better trained • parents should become more aware of their role in the learning success of their children • more school buildings and teachers are needed to limit class sizes.

The size and complexity of cloud computing systems makes runtime errors inevitable. These errors could be caused by the system having insufficient resources or an unexpected failure in the system. In order to be able to provide highly available cloud computing services it is necessary to auto- mate the resource provisioning and failure diagnosing processes as much as possible. Log files are often a good source of information about the current status of the system. In this thesis methods for diagnosing failures and predicting system workload using log file analysis are presented and the performance of different machine learning algorithms using our proposed methods are compared. Our experimental results show that classification tree and random forest algorithms are both suitable for diagnosing failures and that Support Vector Regression outperforms linear regression and regression trees when predicting disk availability and memory usage. However, we conclude that predicting CPU utilization requires further studies.

The purpose of this study was to explore how college students reflectively describe their learning failure experiences, along with the major themes of those experiences. Through a series of in-depth interviews, four narrative cases written from the perspective of two college students were developed. These four cases were then carefully analyzed and cross-examined to generate a deeper understanding of college student learning failures. This study explored approximately 78 themes related to these four cases, which led to the development of six key components of college student learning failure experiences: Recognizing Learning Failures, Evaluating Learning Failures, Attributions for Learning Failures, Self-Discovery Through Learning Failure, Past Experience and Future Expectations, and Social Influence. These components helped to define an initial framework for guiding future research into college student learning failure experiences.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:34:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcos Daniel Nemitz.pdf: 2977915 bytes, checksum: cf262ace27ae358a9d5b6cfa42b58ad9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-15 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This work was based in the psycho pedagogy periodical Brazilian Association Magazine of Psycho pedagogy, in the period 1982 2006. The periodical was considered the printed matter representative of the Brazilian Psycho pedagogy history, mostly because of the important role that is has played in the formation process of the psycho pedagogies and in the Psycho pedagogy as knowledge area in the Education field. In this research was used as theoretical reference Pierre Bourdieu s concept of field. This author understands field as a space in which it is established a competition relation. The dispute in this competition is the one for the authority monopolization and the scientific knowledge about the theme (Bourdieu, 1983). This research aim is the understanding of the printed matter as strategy for the constitution of the Psycho pedagogy as study area inside the Education field. The periodical is taken as research object and is been analyzed as dispositive to normatize the Psycho pedagogy practice, at the same time it is considered as a material support that permits to amplify the discussion within the Education field from a Psycho pedagogical point of view / Este trabalho foi desenvolvido sobre o periódico Psicopedagogia Revista da Associação Brasileira de Psicopedagogia, no período compreendido entre 1982 a 2006. O periódico foi considerado como o impresso representativo da história da Psicopedagogia no Brasil, principalmente pelo importante papel que tem desempenhado no processo de formação dos psicopedagogos, e na identificação da Psicopedagogia como área de conhecimento pertencente ao campo da Educação. Nesta pesquisa foi utilizado como referencial teórico o conceito de campo de Pierre Bourdieu. Para este autor, campo também é concebido como um espaço em que se estabelece uma relação de concorrência. A disputa estabelecida dentro desta concorrência refere-se à monopolização da autoridade e do saber científico sobre o tema. (Bourdieu, 1983) Esta pesquisa busca compreender o impresso como estratégia de constituição da área de estudos da Psicopedagogia dentro do campo da Educação. O periódico é tomado como objeto de pesquisa e analisado como um dispositivo de normatização da prática psicopedagógica, ao mesmo tempo em que é considerado como suporte material que permite ampliar a discussão existente dentro do campo educacional, de um ponto de vista psicopedagógico

Text in Afrikaans / Die doel van hierdie ondersoek is om die ekstrinsieke en intrinsieke oorsake van leermislukking met spesifieke verwysing na skole in die Windhoek stadsgebied te bepaal en om aanbevelings te doen hoe om leermislukking teen te werk. Leermislukking en druiping is onrusbarend hoog in skole in die Windhoek stadsgebied. Nadat die Ministerie van Onderwys die semi-outomatiese promoveringstelsel ingestel het, het druiping afgeneem maar leermislukking het toegeneem omdat leerders gepromoveer word sander dat hulle sukses in die vorige graad behaal het. Volgens die literatuurstudie lê die oorsake van leermislukking by die ouerhuis, die skool, die omgewing en in die leerder self. Die empiriese ondersoek toon ooreenkomste met die literatuurstudie wat betref die oorsake van leermislukking. Om die oorsake teen te werk • moet onderwysers beter opgelei word • moet die ouers meer bewus gemaak word van hulle rot in die leersukses van hulle kinders. • is meer skoolgeboue en onderwysers nodig om kleiner klasse te bewerkstellig. / The purpose of this research is to establish the extrinsic and intrinsic causes of learning failure with specific reference to schools in the Windhoek municipal area and to make recommendations to counteract learning failure. Learning failure and grade failing are disconcertingly high in schools in the Windhoek municipal area. After the Ministry of Education implemented the semi-automatic promotion system, grade failing decreased, but learning failure increased because learners are promoted without achieving success in a prior grade. According to the literature study, the causes of learning failure are to be found in the home, the school, the environment, and the learner. Similarities regarding the causes of learning failure were found in the empirical investigation and the literature study. To counteract these causes • teachers should be better trained • parents should become more aware of their role in the learning success of their children • more school buildings and teachers are needed to limit class sizes. / Educational Studies / M. Ed. (Spesiale Behoeftes Onderwys)

Text in Afrikaans / Die doel van hierdie ondersoek is om die ekstrinsieke en intrinsieke oorsake van leermislukking met spesifieke verwysing na skole in die Windhoek stadsgebied te bepaal en om aanbevelings te doen hoe om leermislukking teen te werk. Leermislukking en druiping is onrusbarend hoog in skole in die Windhoek stadsgebied. Nadat die Ministerie van Onderwys die semi-outomatiese promoveringstelsel ingestel het, het druiping afgeneem maar leermislukking het toegeneem omdat leerders gepromoveer word sander dat hulle sukses in die vorige graad behaal het. Volgens die literatuurstudie lê die oorsake van leermislukking by die ouerhuis, die skool, die omgewing en in die leerder self. Die empiriese ondersoek toon ooreenkomste met die literatuurstudie wat betref die oorsake van leermislukking. Om die oorsake teen te werk • moet onderwysers beter opgelei word • moet die ouers meer bewus gemaak word van hulle rot in die leersukses van hulle kinders. • is meer skoolgeboue en onderwysers nodig om kleiner klasse te bewerkstellig. / The purpose of this research is to establish the extrinsic and intrinsic causes of learning failure with specific reference to schools in the Windhoek municipal area and to make recommendations to counteract learning failure. Learning failure and grade failing are disconcertingly high in schools in the Windhoek municipal area. After the Ministry of Education implemented the semi-automatic promotion system, grade failing decreased, but learning failure increased because learners are promoted without achieving success in a prior grade. According to the literature study, the causes of learning failure are to be found in the home, the school, the environment, and the learner. Similarities regarding the causes of learning failure were found in the empirical investigation and the literature study. To counteract these causes • teachers should be better trained • parents should become more aware of their role in the learning success of their children • more school buildings and teachers are needed to limit class sizes. / Educational Studies / M. Ed. (Spesiale Behoeftes Onderwys)