Biology Teachers’ Perspective On Change Of Curriculum Policy: A Case For Implementation Of “Independent” Curriculum,
2023
Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta
Biology Teachers’ Perspective On Change Of Curriculum Policy: A Case For Implementation Of “Independent” Curriculum, Kintan Limiansi, Suranto Aw, Paidi Paidi, Caly Setiawan
The Qualitative Report
Curriculum change is one way of adapting education in the face of various scientific and technological developments. These changes lead to different views from numerous educational actors, one of which is teachers. This study aims to explore biology teachers' perspectives on curriculum change in Indonesia. A qualitative phenomenological study with semi-structured interviews explored the biology teachers' perspectives. The interview results were analyzed using the thematic analysis method with ATLAS.ti 22 software to determine themes. The results showed four themes from biology teachers' perspectives on curriculum change, which are (1) the factors affecting independent curriculum implementation; (2) the teachers' concerns; (3) …
Understanding Early Cognitive Development: Using Pat Early Years To Support Student Learning,
2023
Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
Understanding Early Cognitive Development: Using Pat Early Years To Support Student Learning, Sandra Knowles
2021-2030 ACER Research Conferences
The correlation between early cognitive and psychosocial development is well established. For this reason, some measurement tools, such as UNICEF’s Early Childhood Development Index (ECDI2030), provide a single score as an overall indicator of a child’s development because performing poorly in one area is likely to mean inadequate development across all areas. While these broad indicators can be useful at a system level, understanding children’s development in discrete domain areas is essential for meaningful intervention. This presentation will explore how measurement tools, such as ACER’s Progressive Achievement Tests (PAT) for the Early Years, can be used to support targeted intervention …
The Contribution Of Learning Trajectories To Enacting The Early Years Learning Framework V2.0,
2023
University of New England
The Contribution Of Learning Trajectories To Enacting The Early Years Learning Framework V2.0, Caroline Cohrssen
2021-2030 ACER Research Conferences
The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia v2.0 (EYLF) guides pedagogy and practice with children aged from birth to 5 years and states that ‘over time, children engage with increasingly complex ideas’. With 5 learning outcomes and 8 principles of practice, this requires educators to be highly skilled in facilitating children’s engagement with increasingly complex ideas. It also assumes that all educators recognise children’s demonstrations of understanding, and know what knowledge (or capabilities) likely preceded this understanding, and what comes next. As a framework, this specific information is missing from the EYLF. Learning trajectories may assist educators to recognise demonstrations …
Mathematical Mindsets: Fostering Student Engagement And Positive Mindsets Through The Use Of Challenging Tasks,
2023
Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
Mathematical Mindsets: Fostering Student Engagement And Positive Mindsets Through The Use Of Challenging Tasks, Alison Hall
2021-2030 ACER Research Conferences
This paper explores the planned use of challenging mathematical tasks. These tasks provide the opportunity for students to improve mathematical thinking by working on problems that they do not yet know how to answer. This research involved a heterogeneous class of year 3 students from a Catholic parish primary school in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. A rubric was also developed to use in conjunction with these tasks, to support discussions with students, broaden their strategies in finding solutions and thereby improve their conceptual understanding. These pedagogical approaches were found to support the improvement of both students’ conceptual understanding in …
Assessment Is Coming And The Early Childhood Sector Must Lead The Way,
2023
Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
Assessment Is Coming And The Early Childhood Sector Must Lead The Way, Dan Cloney
2021-2030 ACER Research Conferences
Assessment is a core component of quality early childhood practice. It is explicitly highlighted in the new Early Years Leanring Framework V2.0 and is a standard within Quality Area 1 of the National Quality Standard. In everyday early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings, and in initial teacher education, assessment is often limited to observational and narrative-driven approaches. Recent reviews of the literature highlight that there are few other assessment tools readily available to educators. What assessment looks like in early childhood is changing. The Commonwealth, as part of the Preschool Reform Funding Agreement, is developing, trialling, and implementing a …
Partnerships In Early Childhood Education: Engaging Families In Professional Conversations,
2023
Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
Partnerships In Early Childhood Education: Engaging Families In Professional Conversations, Simone Griggs, Greta Rollo
2021-2030 ACER Research Conferences
Effective monitoring of learning and development involves integrating multiple perspectives from a child’s parents, carers, family, and their educators. A collaborative approach between educators and families not only recognises the family’s critical importance in their child’s life but it has also been shown to benefit children with learning difficulties, delays and behavioural concerns (Parenting Research Centre, 2012; Prior et al., 2011). Efforts made towards the integration of multiple perspectives can also support stronger inclusion of diverse families into communities of early childhood education and care. However, discussions with parents and carers about issues regarding their children’s development can be a …
Research Conference 2023: Becoming Lifelong Learners. Proceedings And Program,
2023
Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
Research Conference 2023: Becoming Lifelong Learners. Proceedings And Program, Kylie Burns (Ed.)
2021-2030 ACER Research Conferences
We know learning in the early years sets the foundations for people’s ongoing academic, cognitive and socio-emotional development. Education across those formative first 12 years is currently segmented, with children often starting fresh in new systems. How can each of us make learning in the early childhood and primary years more effective? Research Conference 2023 will examine research around how we can improve the continuity of learning from birth to 12 years. It will bring together leading international and Australian researchers to provide insights into the best ways to identify, conceptualise, develop and assess these new linkages for learning.
Developing A Learning Progression For Teachers To Support Effective Thinking And Self-Regulation,
2023
Brisbane Grammar School
Developing A Learning Progression For Teachers To Support Effective Thinking And Self-Regulation, Hannah Campos Remon, Adam Kuss
2021-2030 ACER Research Conferences
Brisbane Grammar School has undertaken four years of systematic research to develop a learning progression to support teachers in the development of their students’ capacity for learning, including self-regulation. The learning progression offers a comprehensive, learning-focused tool for teachers to consider how their students are developing as learners over time. Whilst it is not intended to be prescriptive or exhaustive, or to produce a grade for ‘learning’, it offers a purposeful sampling of important components of effective thinking.
The Impact Of Dog-Assisted Wellbeing Interventions On Student Motivation And Engagement In The School Setting,
2023
University of New South Wales
The Impact Of Dog-Assisted Wellbeing Interventions On Student Motivation And Engagement In The School Setting, Yvonne Howard
2021-2030 ACER Research Conferences
This poster summarises a proposed mixed methods study conducted by a researcher teacher to understand the impact of a therapy dog working in a co-educational day school through two research questions: What are the social and emotional benefits of a school-wide dog-assisted wellbeing intervention for students? How does a dog-assisted wellbeing intervention influence students' motivation and affective engagement at school?
More Than Phonics To Teach Spelling,
2023
Department of Education Victoria
More Than Phonics To Teach Spelling, Clare Iacono
2021-2030 ACER Research Conferences
This poster presents research into using more than phonics to teach students, in the middle primary school years, to spell. It uses document analyses and grounded theory to consider two research questions: Could instruction in metacognition and self regulation also improve skills in spelling? Is there evidence of instruction in metacognition and self regulation in current spelling lessons?
Transdisciplinary Stem Enactment: An Exploratory Case Study In The Queensland Context,
2023
Parklands Christian College
Transdisciplinary Stem Enactment: An Exploratory Case Study In The Queensland Context, Kristie Schulz
2021-2030 ACER Research Conferences
Enacting STEM education in Australian schools is an ambitious task, in a climate of unclear definitions and little implementation advice. Should STEM education simply refer to an umbrella-term of subjects that Australian students need to improve in, or could a cross-disciplinary pedagogy that engages students in authentic problem-solving be realised? This poster outlines a project in which Parklands Christian College designed and enacted a transdisciplinary student-centred ideology of STEM education in 2017. The program has continually evolved using a transdisciplinary pedagogical framework.
Seeing In: Qualitative Shifts In Children’S Critical Understanding Of Their Artworks,
2023
The University of New South Wales
Seeing In: Qualitative Shifts In Children’S Critical Understanding Of Their Artworks, Janna Adams Tess
2021-2030 ACER Research Conferences
This poster outlines research to better understand the continuity of children’s learning in primary school Visual Arts, so that art can be better taught and learned. Research Questions include: What do children’s critical judgements of the meaning and value of their artworks reveal about their role and development as artists? How do these critical judgements change from early to late childhood?
Wellbeing Policies And Practices Within A Primary School Context,
2023
University of New South Wales
Wellbeing Policies And Practices Within A Primary School Context, Lyle Righetti
2021-2030 ACER Research Conferences
This poster outlines research to explore current mental health and wellbeing policies and programs for primary-aged students, and to examine primary teachers’ perceptions of school-based social and emotional learning (SEL) practices in relation to wellbeing policies and programs.
Teaching, Teaching, Wherefore Art Thou? Exploring The Artistry In Teaching,
2023
University of Wollongong
Teaching, Teaching, Wherefore Art Thou? Exploring The Artistry In Teaching, Sean Casham
2021-2030 ACER Research Conferences
Teachers do unforgivably complex work, and part of this complexity is the artistry in teaching practice. This poster outlines research on artistry in teaching involving a literature review and a qualitative multi-site case study design across New South Wales, ACT and the Northern Territory.
Student Drawings: An Ai-Eschewed Means To Show Curriculum-Based Change,
2023
The Excellence Centre
Student Drawings: An Ai-Eschewed Means To Show Curriculum-Based Change, Anne Knowles
2021-2030 ACER Research Conferences
This poster focuses on the use of drawings as a way to illustrate change. It presents research undertaken in the Pacific Group of Christian Schools (PGCS) exploring how supplementing curriculums with Personal Viewpoints Pedagogy (PVP) practices has led to change in self-prioritisation which positively influences prosocial behaviour. This Poster reports the use of student representations of thinking through drawings to provide evidence of this change. It shows that student-generated drawings could be used to gauge other-focused thinking, represented as self-conceit, conditional, unconditional, and sacrificial choices in response to socially problematic situations. Learner-generated drawings are a non-textual format offering a window …
A Comparison Of Mantel-Haenszel And The Area Difference Between Item Characteristic Curves Index Techniques For Detecting Differential Item Functioning,
2023
King Saud University
A Comparison Of Mantel-Haenszel And The Area Difference Between Item Characteristic Curves Index Techniques For Detecting Differential Item Functioning, Eqbal Darandari Phd, Muna A. Almeri
International Journal for Research in Education
The study is aimed at comparing between Mantel-Haenszel-MH chi-square and the area difference between three item characteristic curves Index -3ICCs by using Raju’s index to detect the differential item functioning DIF in post-graduate general aptitude test according to gender variable. The study sample of (2280) students was distributed equally between male and female groups. The MH techniques revealed a uniform DIF in (43) items, equal to (45%) of the items in post-graduate general aptitude test. 3ICCs technique, revealed a uniform DIF based on gender in two items, equals to (2%) of item's test. MH technique revealed more efficiency in detecting …
Learning In Context: Exploring Student Cognitive Maps,
2023
United States Air Force Academy
Learning In Context: Exploring Student Cognitive Maps, Kevin Davis, Eric J. Tucker
Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology
This study examines how concept-by-concept learning can provide students with a robust conceptual cognitive map for the area under study. In-context learning indicates that students understand how individual concepts are related and apply to real-world situations. Our results show that insights can be gained from understanding the degree of in-context learning in a course. Faculty can use this information to guide instruction in real time and make curriculum adjustments. This approach is also helpful because it can be replicated in any course to develop knowledge about students’ conceptual understanding.
B/Lv Laboratory Accessibility Technology Adapted For Neurodiverse Chemistry Students,
2023
Landmark College
B/Lv Laboratory Accessibility Technology Adapted For Neurodiverse Chemistry Students, Christin B. Monroe
Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities
Text-to-speech technology is a common accommodation available for students with disabilities. Despite the ubiquitous nature of text-to-speech, this technology has not been explored in laboratory settings for neurodiverse college students. This study explores the adaptability of laboratory accessible text-to-speech technology (originally developed for blind/low vision (B/LV) students) for neurodiverse students. Students were asked to provide general feedback about the usability and effectiveness of the technology using Likert surveys. The students also answered open-ended questions about how the technology could be adapted to be more neurodiverse friendly. Overall, more than 50% of the students found the technology useful but had specific …
Faculty Achievements, September 2023,
2023
Otterbein University
Faculty Achievements, September 2023, Otterbein University
Faculty Achievement Reports
No abstract provided.
Unpacking And Illustrating Coiro’S Multifaceted Heuristic Of Digital Reading Through The Development Of The Cot-R Assessment,
2023
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Unpacking And Illustrating Coiro’S Multifaceted Heuristic Of Digital Reading Through The Development Of The Cot-R Assessment, Jodi Pilgrim, Sheri Vasinda
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Although much research exists on digital reading, confusion about literacy terminology persists. Inspired by a recent article in Reading Research Quarterly, the authors explore a multifaceted heuristic of digital reading developed by Julie Coiro. The heuristic, which offers a way to systematically organize, label, and define complex terms, concepts, and practices related to digital reading experiences, served as a reference point to examine the authors’ journey of defining digital reading. Highlighting three aspects of Coiro’s heuristic--text, activity, and context--the authors begin by describing the development of an authentic online reading assessment instrument (COT-R), which focuses on elementary students’ processes of …
