The problem of this thesis is to make a comparative analysis of the student body of North Texas State Teachers College during the fall semester of the 1942-43 session. This analysis involves a consideration of such factors as chronological age, academic classification and major, parental occupation, scholastic load, membership in campus organizations, grade point average, participation in outside employment, and the interrelationships of these factors as they affect college students.

Determination of gains made in reading comprehension and the relationship of these gains to the academic success of 545 college freshmen of North Texas State Teachers College is the main consideration of this study.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-01-10T11:29:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Graziella Jones Caccavale Mofarrej.pdf: 1569936 bytes, checksum: 603c257a82121a3c3867d5b4befc486c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-10T11:29:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Graziella Jones Caccavale Mofarrej.pdf: 1569936 bytes, checksum: 603c257a82121a3c3867d5b4befc486c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-14 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / In the complex contemporary world with its constant changes and in front of an exhaust of the traditionalist thought, we feel the need to develop new ways of thinking, understanding and acting. Hence, this thesis emphasizes conflicting situations commonly seen as a negative event, as opportunities of construction of dialogue. This work developed a qualitative/research-intervention inside post-modern paradigms, utilizing the social constructionist perspective as a theoretical referential. The study was conducted from an investigation about the way teachers from the seventh and eighth grade of middle school, would position themselves in a public school in the outskirts of Sao Paulo, towards conflicting situations caused between them and the adolescent students. Considering the adolescence as a significative phase in the process of changes and the school as an environment that enables the occurrence of conflicts and new learning, it was proposed as the main objective, to present facilitating practices of dialogue to the teachers, in order to offer better connection and understanding between them and the students, favoring the shared responsibilities between both parts towards situations of conflict. It is intended then to enable a more significant learning associated with the concepts of Culture of Peace promoting a more optimal and liberating education identified with the four pillars of education according to the Delors Report (UNESCO). It was organized five meetings, as an open group, of which seven teachers took part. The material used to sensitize was a film which talks about conflicts between one teacher and his students. All participants from the group were invited to narrate their personal experiences on conflict in their professional every-day life, identifying themselves with the main conflictive points presented in the film. Subsequently, the teachers were presented through experiences to the principles of Non Violent Communication, developed by Marshall Rosenberg, as a tool used to deal with relationships on a more careful way, as well as other experiences based on dialogical practices. All the narratives taken were analyzed, categorized and interpreted according to the theory that supports this work. Six months later a questionnaire was applied in order to evaluate the impact of this intervention. The results were analyzed according to the social poetics, revealing some remarkable moments, which characterized the construction of a new meaning in the relations between them. We can see, though, difficulties expressed by teachers concerned with essentialist postures and the influences dictated by the distorted marks of today‟s society, including the devaluation of their role. The experiment showed that continuous work would be necessary in order to implement changes, but dialogical proposals can be used to improve the relations between teachers and students towards the Culture of Peace / No complexo mundo contemporâneo com suas constantes e sucessivas transformações e diante de um esgotamento do pensamento tradicionalista, percebe-se a necessidade de se desenvolver novas formas de pensar, perceber e atuar. Neste sentido, esta dissertação, dá ênfase a situações conflituosas, comumente conotadas negativamente, como oportunidades de construção de diálogo. Neste trabalho foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa-intervenção/qualitativa dentro do paradigma pós-moderno, utilizando-se a perspectiva construcionista social como referencial teórico. O estudo foi conduzido a partir de uma investigação sobre o posicionamento de professores de sétimo e oitavo ano do ensino fundamental II de uma escola pública da periferia de São Paulo, frente a situações conflituosas geradas entre eles e seus alunos adolescentes. Considerando a adolescência como uma fase significativa no processo de mudanças, e a escola como um ambiente propício para a ocorrência de conflitos e para novos aprendizados, se propôs, como principal objetivo, apresentar práticas facilitadoras de diálogo aos professores, a fim de propiciar melhor conexão e entendimento entre eles e seus alunos, favorecendo a responsabilidade compartilhada entre ambos frente a situações de conflito. Intenciona-se desta forma, possibilitar uma aprendizagem mais significativa e sintonizada com os conceitos da Cultura de Paz promovendo uma educação mais plena e libertadora, identificada com os quatro pilares da educação, conforme o Relatório Delors para a UNESCO. Foram realizados cinco encontros, configurados como grupo aberto, dos quais participaram sete professoras. Foi utilizado, como material de sensibilização, a exibição de um filme que trata especificamente de conflitos entre professor e adolescentes no contexto escolar. Todas as participantes do grupo foram convidadas a narrarem suas experiências pessoais de conflitos em seu cotidiano profissional, identificando-as com os principais pontos conflitivos apresentados no filme. Posteriormente as professoras foram apresentadas, por meio de vivências, aos princípios da Comunicação Não Violenta, desenvolvida por Marshall Rosenberg, como uma ferramenta utilizada no cuidado dos relacionamentos, assim como a outras vivências baseadas nas práticas dialógicas. Todas as narrativas colhidas foram analisadas, categorizadas e interpretadas à luz da teoria que fundamenta este trabalho. Seis meses após, foi aplicado um questionário de avaliação do impacto desta intervenção. Os resultados foram tratados de acordo com a poética social, revelando alguns momentos marcantes que puderam caracterizar a construção de um novo sentido na relação entre professores e alunos. Pode-se constatar, entretanto, muitas dificuldades por parte das professoras concernentes a posturas essencialistas, e às influências ditadas pelas distorcidas marcas da sociedade atual, inclusive a desvalorização de seu papel. A experiência mostrou que a continuidade no trabalho seria necessária para se efetivarem mudanças, mas que propostas dialógicas podem ser úteis na melhora da relação entre professores e alunos, caminhando na direção da Cultura de Paz

The purpose of this study was to: (a) develop a comprehensive plan consisting of a series of logical steps based upon recommendations derived from psychometric, measurement, and research literature and utilize the plan to develop a Likert-type scale to provide valid and reliable measures of the attitude of preservice and inservice elementary school teachers toward computers; (b) administer the developed scale to selected preservice elementary school teachers; and (c) investigate relationships between attitude toward computers and selected teacher variables. The comprehensive plan consisted of the following steps: (a) develop theory of construction, (b) establish conceptual framework, (c) create item pool, (d) develop trial scale, (e) administer trial scale, (1) conduct item analysis, (g) select items, (h) construct final scale, (i) test for homogeneity, (j) determine reliability, (k) test for unidimensionality, (l) administer final scale, and (m) infer validity. The plan was utilized to develop the Evans Scale for Computer Attitude (ESCA). Validity was inferred utilizing construct-related evidence, which included the manner in which the scale was developed, studies of scale internal structure, prediction and conformation of a general factor, replication of factor structure, relationship of scale scores to nontest variables, relationship of scale scores to similar and dissimilar constructs, comparison of scores with experimental intervention, comparison of known-group responses. An alpha reliability coefficient was found to be 0.96 on two occasions. It was concluded that: (a) the ESCA provided valid and reliable measures of the computer attitude of preservice and inservice teachers at the elementary school level, (b) the comprehensive plan was effective for the development of a Likert-type scale for measuring the attitude toward computers of preservice and inservice teachers at the elementary school level, (c) preservice teachers in the Masters of Arts in Teaching Program (MAT) in Elementary Education at Oregon State University as a group had positive attitude toward computers, and (c) computer attitude of elementary MAT preservice teachers was significantly related in a positive direction with computer experience and in a negative direction with age. / Graduation date: 1995

Vi lever idag i ett mångkulturellt samhälle som är i ständig rörlighet, något som gjort att också den svenska skolan ser annorlunda ut än för bara några år sedan. Mitt i denna rörlighet så har också lärarnas uppgift vidgats och satt de i en kontext som kräver mer, men kanske också även ger mer? Denna uppsats är en studie om lärarnas upplevelser om att vara en del utav en mångkulturell skolkontext. Hur upplever de sin arbetsplats, hur ter sig bemötandet mellan lärare och elev, och vilka konsekvenser talar de om vad gäller ungdomarnas integreringsprocess? / Today we live in a multicultural society that is in constant movement, which means that also the Swedish school system looks different than just before a few years ago. In the midst of this movement, also the teachers' roles has expanded, putting them in a context that requires more, but perhaps also gives more? This paper is a study on teachers' experiences of being a part of a multicultural school context. How do they experience their workplace, how does the response between teacher and student take form, and what impact are they talking about in terms of theese young people's integration process?

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

The proposed research will be justified by a study in the context of teacher and student in the distance modality, aiming to realize the impacts that may be reflected the quality of academic work and professional identity of educators in training context. Therefore, he stressed the need to investigate what students think of the 8th semester of Pedagogy from the University Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), within the Open University of Brazil (UBA)-mediated Virtual Learning Environment-Learning Free (MOODLE) about the training offered, not neglecting the institutional context and the way in which these students are found. Therefore, this project was to problem the following question: What skills and practices developed in distance education modality for the initial training of educators, considering the experience of UFSM UAB in the system? Thus, the aim of this research was to investigate the skills and practices developed in the modality of training in distance education to students in final course, with reference to the preparation for future role as educators. The methodology relied on the principles of quantitative-qualitative research, working with quantitative data derived from surveys educational, but analyzed using qualitative bias. For collection and processing of data were used surveys collectively constructed and arranged in accordance with the Google Docs, being available for the subjects participating in the virtual learning environment Moodle. The theoretical study based the interpretation and discussion of results, highlighting the skills and pedagogical practices, guiding principles of research. We emphasize that the work provided a significant learning about distance education, specifically the Pedagogy Course EaD UFSM, from which we glimpse a process of teaching and learning that involves seeking to develop skills oportunizem that the constitution of the pedagogue mediator in the transformation of information into knowledge always taking into account the interactions, exchanges and interests of prospective students. We also see that view the development of educational practices, however not always been possible activities that allow the appropriation of this action. And yet, we identified the human-technological ambience set the course provides a good quality in initial teacher training, involving knowledge and own teaching, considering the important part of the training process and integrating theory and practice. / A pesquisa proposta justificou-se por ser um estudo no âmbito da formação docente e discente na modalidade a distância, visando perceber os impactos que podem estar se refletindo na qualidade do trabalho acadêmico e na identidade profissional dos pedagogos nesse contexto formativo. Para tanto, ressaltou a necessidade de investigar o que pensam os estudantes do 8º semestre do curso de Pedagogia a distância da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), no âmbito da Universidade Aberta do Brasil (UBA) mediado pelo Ambiente Virtual de Ensino-Aprendizagem Livre (MOODLE) a respeito da formação oferecida, não descuidando do contexto institucional e do curso em que estes alunos se encontram. Portanto, o presente projeto teve como problema a seguinte questão: Quais as competências e práticas desenvolvidas na modalidade EaD para a formação inicial dos pedagogos, considerando a experiência da UFSM no âmbito do sistema UAB? Dessa forma, a proposta da pesquisa foi investigar as competências e práticas desenvolvidas na modalidade em EaD para formação dos estudantes em final de curso, tendo como referência o preparo para a futura atuação como pedagogos. A metodologia empregada apoiou-se nos princípios da pesquisa quantiqualitativa, trabalhando com dados quantitativos oriundos de enquetes educativas, porém analisados por meio de viés qualitativo. Para a coleta e tratamento dos dados foram usadas enquetes construídas coletivamente e organizadas de acordo com a ferramenta Google Docs, sendo disponibilizadas para os sujeitos participantes no ambiente virtual de aprendizagem Moodle. O estudo teórico embasou a interpretação e discussão dos resultados, com destaque às competências e práticas pedagógicas, eixos norteadores da pesquisa. destacamos que o trabalho realizado possibilitou uma aprendizagem significativa acerca da Educação a Distância, especificamente do Curso de Pedagogia EaD da UFSM, a partir do qual vislumbramos um processo de ensino aprendizagem que envolve e procura desenvolver competências que oportunizem a constituição do pedagogo mediador na transformação da informação em saber sempre levando em conta as interações, trocas e interesses dos futuros alunos. Percebemos também, que consideram importante o desenvolvimento de práticas pedagógicas, no entanto nem sempre foram possíveis atividades que permitissem a apropriação dessa ação. E ainda, identificamos que a ambiência humano-tecnológica configurada no curso proporciona uma boa qualidade na formação inicial docente, envolvendo saberes e fazeres próprios da docência, considerando-a parte importante do processo formativo e integrando teoria e prática.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:57:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rogerio Fernando Pires.pdf: 10758384 bytes, checksum: f0759370cd755a65395aa4b16d481cfe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-14 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study aims to investigate how teachers conceive the concept of function, as this concept is reflected in their work in the classroom in high school and in higher education and how this notion is understood by the students of these two levels of education. Results of external evaluations, our experience as a mathematics teacher in high school , as well as results of other research, pointed to the existence of difficulties for the students to understand this concept. Therefore, our theoretical basis based mainly on Records Representation Semiotics Raymond Duval, the assumptions present in the search The function concept as a prototype for problems in learning Mathematics, Shlomo Vinner and teachers knowledge of Maurice Tardif. However, analysis of the data also relied on studies, such as Sfard (1992), Sierpinska (1992) and Norman (1992). The research was conducted with one hundred twenty-eight students and ten teachers from two public schools and a public university located in São Paulo. Of all students , seventy-three attending the 1st and 3rd grades of high school and the fifty-five attending Higher Education degrees in Mathematics , Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Already teachers, eight were active in high school and two in college. The information that formed the corpus for the analysis were collected through two lists of activities (tests I and II) held at different times by all students, a questionnaire about the profile, also responded by students; creating situations/activities referring to the concept of function and interview with teachers. The research answered the question: "What conceptions of function expressed by teachers high school and higher education and how they reveal themselves in their teaching? Conceptions that this concept emerge at the time these students two levels of education perform activities related to that notion?" The results showed that much of what is done by the student is a reflection of teacher practice, since many of the strategies present in the activities proposed by teachers were identified in student productions. Some teachers showed to believe, according to the classification proposed Sfard, pointed to the operational and pseudoestrutural, and other transiting between operational and structural. In turn, students, those of high school, oscillated between operating and pseudoestrutural, the Higher Education at the end of the study show some consistency in their responses, which indicated that the ideas were not limited to operational aspects, however it was not possible to observe whether there was a reification of the concept. Also it was observed that the majority of participants (teachers and students) saw function as a process, rather than an object / Este estudo tem por objetivo investigar como os professores concebem o conceito de função, como essa concepção se reflete em seu trabalho em sala de aula nos Ensinos Médio e Superior e como essa noção é compreendida pelos alunos desses dois níveis de ensino. Resultados de avaliações externas, nossa experiência como professor de Matemática no Ensino Médio, como também resultados de outras pesquisas, apontavam para a existência de dificuldades por parte dos estudantes na compreensão desse conceito. Para tanto, nossa base teórica fundamentou-se principalmente nos Registros de Representação Semiótica de Raymond Duval, nos pressupostos presentes na pesquisa The function concept as a prototype for problems in Mathematics learning, de Shlomo Vinner, e nos saberes docentes de Maurice Tardif. Contudo, a análise dos dados também se apoiou em estudos como o de Sfard (1992), Sierpinska (1992) e Norman (1992). A pesquisa foi realizada com cento e vinte e oito estudantes e dez professores de duas escolas estaduais e uma universidade pública situadas no interior de São Paulo. Do total de estudantes, setenta e três cursavam a 1.ª e a 3.ª séries do Ensino Médio e os cinquenta e cinco do Ensino Superior cursavam as licenciaturas em Matemática, Física, Química e Biologia. Já os professores, oito atuavam no Ensino Médio e dois no Ensino Superior. As informações que constituíram o corpus para a análise foram coletadas por meio de duas listas de atividades (testes I e II) realizadas em momentos distintos por todos os estudantes, um questionário a respeito do perfil, também respondido pelos alunos; criação de situações/atividades referentes ao conceito de função e entrevista realizada com os professores. A pesquisa respondeu à questão: Quais as concepções de função manifestadas por professores dos Ensinos Médio e Superior e como elas se revelam em suas propostas de ensino? Que concepções desse conceito emergem no momento em que estudantes desses dois níveis de ensino realizam atividades relacionadas a essa noção? . Os resultados apontaram que muito do que é feito pelo estudante é reflexo da prática do professor, uma vez que muitas das estratégias presentes nas atividades propostas pelos professores foram identificadas nas produções dos estudantes. Alguns docentes mostraram concepções que, segundo a classificação proposta Sfard, apontavam para a operacional e a pseudoestrutural, e outros transitavam entre a operacional e a estrutural. Por seu turno, os estudantes, aqueles do Ensino Médio, oscilavam entre a operacional e a pseudoestrutural; os do Ensino Superior, ao final do estudo, mostram certa consistência em suas respostas, o que apontava que as concepções não se limitavam apenas a aspectos operacionais, porém não foi possível observar se houve a reificação do conceito. Também pôde-se observar que a maioria dos participantes (professores e alunos) enxergava função como um processo, e não como objeto

The purpose of this study was to determine and compare the academic advising needs of students as perceived by students and faculty advisors through faculty advising functions in the six teachers' colleges in Bangkok, Thailand. Fifteen faculty advising functions were included in a questionnaire validated by a panel of three judges. The questionnaires were distributed to students and faculty advisors in the six teachers' colleges by two selected research assistants. A total of 180 faculty advisors and 540 junior and senior teacher training students at the six teachers' colleges in Bangkok, Thailand, were selected using stratified random sampling. The usable and complete questionnaires received included 109 from faculty advisors (60.56 per cent) and 350 from students (64.81 per cent). The t-test, the Kendall's Coefficient of Concordance W, and the Spearman's Coefficient of Rank Correlation were employed to determine and compare the differences, the agreements, and the relationships of academic advising needs of students as perceived by students and faculty advisors, respectively. Analyses of the data revealed that students and faculty advisors in the six teachers' colleges in Bangkok, Thailand, perceived a mismatch between student advising needs now being fulfilled and student advising needs that should be fulfilled. Apparently, the academic advising programs in the teachers' colleges were not meeting the student needs. However, for student advising needs which should be fulfilled, both students and faculty advisors ranked personal, vocational and career, and academic areas very high. Overall, students and faculty seemed to agree on the advising needs which should be fulfilled.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the views of upper elementary mathematics teachers and students about the use of manipulatives in teaching and learning mathematics. This study is a qualitative case study. The participants of this study were four elementary mathematics teachers in a private school and their 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students. The data were collected through one-to-one interviews, observations and analyzing documents consisting of annual plan, daily plan, notebooks of students, and the field note that the researcher kept throughout the study. This study revealed that although all the teachers advocate the use of manipulatives in teaching mathematics, they use traditional teaching techniques in their classes. They mentioned different factors affecting their use of manipulatives in teaching mathematics such as not knowing how to use them, grade level, availability of materials, time constraints, students&rsquo / reactions (seeing them as a toy or not being accustomed to them), school administration, classroom management, not finding materials appropriate for the subject being taught and classroom size. In fact, these are the factors that are seen on the surface level. This study indicated that even when teachers are provided with training about the use of manipulatives, supported by the school administration, and provided with manipulatives, the use of manipulatives is largely determined by their views / beliefs about the nature of mathematics, how students can learn mathematics, the effect of manipulatives and their knowledge in using them. Students seemed to like learning by using manipulatives. When conditions were arranged for learning, they were willing to learn through manipulatives.