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International Baccalaureate Teachers’ Perspectives On Integrating Approaches To Learning Skills To Enhance Transdisciplinary Learning, Nancy Macharia

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Abstract

The International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum recognizes approaches to learning skills(ATLS) as an integral part of the Primary Years Programme (PYP) framework. This vital element of learning is designed to be embedded in the program standards and practices of the inquiry-based IB curriculum. After an evaluation visit by the IB school visit team members in 2017, a report was shared with the international primary school (IPS) study site located in Southeast Asia, which indicated that teachers were encountering challenges in consistent integration of ATLS to enhance transdisciplinary learning, which is the problem of this study. The purpose of this qualitative …

The Development Of Prerequisite Skills And Concepts From Task-Based Interviews In Calculus Students With Low-Levels Of Prerequisite Skills, Nicholas Wong

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This task-based interview study examined the development of prerequisite skills and concepts and calculus skill and concepts of students who entered a first-semester calculus course with a low level of prerequisite skills. The participants in this study completed three task-based interviews with two tasks in each interview. The research question addressed by this study was, To what extent do task-based interviews reveal students’ prerequisite skills and conceptual understanding for applications of the derivative and how do these skills and understanding develop for students who have been classified as having low levels of prerequisite skills upon entering a calculus course? The …

Responsive Scaffolding Of Knowledge Building Discourse With Ongoing Analytics Support, Hyejin Park

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

A need for current science education has emerged in enhancing students’ deep involvement in scientific practices in core disciplines. Students are encouraged to improve crosscutting concepts and disciplinary core ideas through authentic science practice through constructing theories about the real world, generating questions, conducting investigations, revising theories, and communicating and collaborating. A new education model addresses these needs by transforming classrooms into collaborative knowledge building communities. However, there are challenges confronting the education system: (a) helping students build high responsibility to contribute to their collaborative inquiry progress and (b) supporting teachers to act as co-learners. To address these challenges, this …

Dificultades En El Aprendizaje De Conceptos Químicos Relacionadas Con Las Disoluciones En Un Grupo De Estudiantes De Grado Once, Carmenza Bernal Soriano, Jhon Jairo González Orozco

Maestría en Docencia

La presente investigación tiene como propósito identificar las dificultades en el aprendizaje de conceptos químicos asociados a las disoluciones que debido a su complejidad presentan 26 estudiantes de grado 11 del colegio distrital Manuel Cepeda Vargas de la localidad octava de la ciudad de Bogotá. Por tanto se consideró pertinente centrar este estudio en torno a ¿cuáles son las principales dificultad en el aprendizaje que presenta un grupo de estudiantes en la apropiación de los conceptos del tema de las disoluciones? Para ello se realizó una revisión de algunos autores en el marco teórico y se justificó el por qué …

Relaciones Entre La Formación Integral Y La Educación Ética Y Moral: Una Mirada Desde El Liceo Hermano Miguel La Salle, Iván Darío Blanco Nieto, Sergio Alexander Galeano Hernández, Cristy Yuranny Marroquín Abril, Wilman Orlando Sepúlveda Sepúlveda

Maestría en Docencia

Este proyecto inicia en el marco del Macro-proyecto de Formación Integral propuesto por la Universidad de La Salle e inscrito en la línea investigativa Cultura, Fe y Formación en Valores; el cual interpretó las relaciones entre la Formación Integral y la Educación Ética y Moral y analizó el caso particular del Liceo Hermano Miguel La Salle (LHEMI). Con el proceso de investigación realizado, se abordó en primer lugar, las ideas, conceptos y prácticas que los docentes de la institución expresaron sobre las unidades de análisis establecidas, en segundo lugar, se establecieron relaciones entre la Formación Integral y la Educación Ética …

Relaciones Entre La Formación Integral Y La Educación En Derechos Humanos En El Colegio Estanislao Zuleta I.E.D, Jorge Alejandro Bonilla Rojas, Jeimmy Marcela Garavito Morales, Aneida Patricia Padilla Casas, Edilbrando Santana Murcia

Maestría en Docencia

La presente investigación se enmarca en el macro proyecto “Formación Integral”. La cual se llevó a cabo en el colegio Estanislao Zuleta I.E.D, ubicado en la localidad quinta de Usme, contando con la participación de 13 docentes y 3 directivos docentes. Se plantea como principal objetivo interpretar las relaciones que establecen los docentes entre la Formación Integral (FI) y la Educación en Derechos Humanos (EDH). La investigación se define dentro de un enfoque cualitativo, en donde se planteó para su aplicación un estudio de caso, el cual permitió recoger y conocer información en torno a las ideas, conceptos y prácticas …

Relaciones Entre Formación Integral Y Educación Para La Paz: Perspectivas De 20 Educadores Participantes En La Estrategia Distrital Niños, Niñas Y Jóvenes Constructores De Paz, Olga Esperanza Cantor Galindo, Gina Viviana Lara Sánchez, Martha Liliana Linares Alvarado, Natalia Irene Otálora Tolosa

Maestría en Docencia

El presente trabajo es fruto de un proceso investigativo dado entre los años 2013 y 2015 en la Maestría en Docencia de la Universidad de la Salle, llevada a cabo en la línea de investigación Cultura, Fe y Formación en Valores a la luz del Macroproyecto “Formación Integral” y dirigida por la maestra Rosa Ludy Arias Campos, el cual estuvo orientado a interpretar las relaciones entre la Formación Integral y la Educación para la Paz, a partir de las ideas, conceptos y prácticas de 20 educadores (docentes, directivos docentes y docentes orientadores) que participaron en la estrategia distrital “Niños, Niñas …

Integrating Service-Learning Into Undergraduate Students' Curricula: Recommendations For Best Practices, Neivin Mahmoud Marzouk Shalabi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Several recent studies have revealed that there is increasing individualism and declining interest in politics and civic engagement among college students. Accordingly, many scholars called for reinvigorating the civic mission of higher education. This thesis study examines academic service-learning as an effective pedagogy for promoting students’ civic engagement. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the best ways of integrating service-learning into the curricula of undergraduate students. Using McCarthy’s (2003) conceptual framework, the “Concept of Triangles,” this study provides a comprehensive review of literature on the theoretical underpinnings, partners, and relationships of academic service-learning. The results of the study …

Improving Mathematical Skills And Attitudes Of Second And Third Graders Through Cooperative Learning., Carolyn P. Upson

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The aim of this practicum was to eliminate primary grade students' negative perception that mathematics is difficult and to assist students in developing and understanding of number concepts and computational skills. Students in the targeted group were heterogeneously grouped into teams of three. Students were given a math pretest before implementation. Determine skilled deficient areas and a post-test after implementation to define skill improvement areas. Students were also administered a pre/post attitudinal survey to ascertain the students attitude toward before, and after the implementation. The outcome of this practicum was encouraging. The objectives stated at the beginning of implementation were …

Concept Attainment Through Negative Instances, David Allen Isom

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study is twofold: 1. To investigate the reported conclusions of several experiments in the area of concept attainment that have utilized the Hovland (1952) information processing model; 2. To explore implications of the above model, specifically those pertaining to subjects concept attainment performance over successive presentation of different concepts derived from the same experimental universe.

Developing Concepts Through The Use Of Pictures, Ellen Louise Anderson

All Master's Theses

One of the purposes of this study was to show how concepts could be strengthened through the use of slides and accompanying discussion questions which were aimed at developing a child's thinking. The questions would be directed toward the development of three levels of thinking: concrete, abstract and critical.

A Comparative Analysis Of State Courses Of Study In Character Education, Robert Burnett

Master's Theses

The purpose of this study is to determine what the state Departments of Education have done to carry out definite programs in character education in elementary and secondary schools. This problem is limited to special courses of study in character education issued by certain State Departments of Education. According to the United States Bureau of Education at Washington, D. c., only six of the forty-eight states have prepared special courses of study in this field. In this study a comparative analysis is made of these courses of study as to character traits and objectives, methods of procedure in developing the …