G. Domenici, V. Biasi, Federica Wolf, Conny De Vincenzo
{"title":"Valutare il cambiamento di competenze e atteggiamento professionale a seguito del corso di formazione iniziale per insegnanti di sostegno","authors":"G. Domenici, V. Biasi, Federica Wolf, Conny De Vincenzo","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2022-026-dome","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2022-026-dome","url":null,"abstract":"Attitudes and expectations are key factors to consider in teacher training in general and specialist support teachers in particular. The research conducted at the Unicamillus University of Rome, of which some of the procedural results achieved are presented here, highlights the importance of the role that the levels of perceived self-efficacy play in promoting the learning of trainee teachers. This contribution illustrates, in particular, the procedure and the results of a survey conducted on the participants of a specialization course for support with the aim of detecting the attitudes and expectations of teachers before and after the training experience. In this regard, at the beginning and at the end of the course, teachers were given online questionnaires prepared ad hoc for the collection of socio-demographic information and their opinions on the training course; on both occasions, the teachers responded to the Teacher Self-Effectiveness Scale to assess the impact of the training received. The contribution that specific teaching and organizational methods – such as lessons, workshops, internships – have made in ensuring the qualification of the training course was also analyzed. The results showed a significant increase in the perception of self-efficacy at the end of the training, in particular in self-efficacy in involving students, in self-efficacy in teaching strategies and in self-efficacy in classroom management. Furthermore, the teachers were satisfied with the training received and considered the activities proposed during the course to be useful. Investigations of this type can contribute to a better characterization of training courses for support.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133979102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La ricerca empirico-sperimentale educativa e la professionalità del docente per migliorare la scuola inclusiva","authors":"G. Spadafora","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2022-026-spad","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2022-026-spad","url":null,"abstract":"The paradigm of the inclusive school is becoming, especially in the European educational research, a fundamental point of reference. In this paper the author analyzes the different didactic models of teacher’s professionalism in the Italian school since the riforma Gentile of 1923 until the contemporary debate concerning the school of the autonomy. In particular, he highlights the importance of the scientific meaning of the teacher’s professionalism which derives from the paradigm of the sciences of education established by John Dewey’s book «The sources of a science of education» of 1929. In the contemporary research it is fundamental, in the school of autonomy, to analyze a teacher’s professionalism based on the last results of educational experimental empirical research. In this perspective the teacher, but also the headmaster, must develop his/her educational action between the governance and didactics in the school of autonomy not only as «an investigator», as Dewey’s theory proposed, but as an expert of a transdisciplinary competence based on the contents of the subject matter, didactics, governance, and some aspects of educational experimental empirical research to improve new possibilities of an inclusive school.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133280078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life Satisfaction and Engagement among University Undergraduates: A Moderated Mediation Model of Academic Self-efficacy and Life Orientation","authors":"A. Akanni","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2022-025-akan","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2022-025-akan","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the conditional indirect effect of optimism in the interplay between life satisfaction and student engagement through academic self-efficacy. Participants were 166 (mean age = 21.72, σ = 2.71, ♀ = 57.8%) university undergraduates, who responded to an online survey containing Student Engagement Scale, Satisfaction with Life Scale, General Academic Self-Efficacy Scale and Life Orientation Test-Revised. Data were screened for normality and intercorrelation using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation statistical tool. Both the direct and indirect effects were estimated using the AMOS Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) procedure while the conditional indirect effect was ascertained using the Hayes (2018) Process Macro. Results showed that life satisfaction, academic self-efficacy and optimism were independent predictors of student engagement. The indirect effect of academic self-efficacy in the life orientation - student engagement link was also significant. The study concluded that the conditional indirect effect of optimism in the association between life satisfaction and student engagement via academic self-efficacy was stronger for low optimistic undergraduate students.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116451688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le competenze di cittadinanza dei volontari del Servizio Civile Universale. Uno studio empirico","authors":"Paolo Di Rienzo, A. Manfreda","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2022-025-dima","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2022-025-dima","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the results of the research on citizenship competences of civil service operators, carried out with the participation of the Third Sector National Forum and with Arci Civil Service. The issue of citizenship competences and their enhancement is considered crucial both from the policy level and from the point of view of international studies. Eleven focus groups were conducted, aimed at volunteer operators, distributed in ten different Italian regions, for a total of 56 participants. All the discursive material produced was recorded and transcribed and made suitable to be subsequently subjected to statistical analysis, conducted in particular through correspondence analysis and cluster analysis. The choice of the method, and consequently of the tool, for the treatment and analysis of the data arose from a semiotic theoretical perspective. The data obtained from the analysis and interpretation of the speeches produced in the focus groups tell us that competence is mainly assumed as a synonym of knowledge, especially for what concerns civic competences. Even with respect to the meaning and role that the volunteer seems to assign to communication competences, the control of emotions and interpersonal skills, it seems necessary to problematize the development of these competences, considering how much the activities related to the world of volunteering have a high relational and emotional content.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122399821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La necessità della continuità educativa nel contesto della guerra in Ucraina. Una proposta del Parlamento Europeo","authors":"Massimiliano Smeriglio","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2022-025-smer","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2022-025-smer","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"66 21","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114005581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relationship between Reflective Disposition and Persistence in Education","authors":"Peter Robinson","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2022-025-robi","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2022-025-robi","url":null,"abstract":"Getting students to engage in reflective thought is a «wicked» problem in teaching. Students may demonstrate a resistance to any form of reflection, analysis or critical thought and instead automatically default to surface approaches which are non-productive in academic contexts. This resistance may involve an aversion which leads to students not persisting to higher levels of education and dropping out. The present study investigates the relationship between the resistance to reflective processing and persistence in education using the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) and some additional survey items aimed at testing surface processing tendencies in non-academic contexts. It provides support for the hypothesis that a general aversion to reflective processing appears to inhibit academic progression and correlates with drop-out from courses midstream. It closes by suggesting that aversion to analytical thinking may be a threshold issue that needs to be addressed separately before students can progress to any challenging content.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132492618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Orientare gli atteggiamenti dei futuri docenti verso interventi efficaci: ristrutturare misconcezioni e punti di vista didattici ingenui","authors":"Sergio Miranda","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2022-025-mira","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2022-025-mira","url":null,"abstract":"The research on the teaching effectiveness and on the behaviour of expert teachers from an evidence based perspective allows today to envisage articulated training models that can accompany students-aspirants or teachers themselves from a preliminary theoretical moment of first familiarization with effective models, to their operational use and up to an evaluation of the improvement obtained on their pupils. A delicate point concerns the gap between the preconceptions on teaching with respect to those of who can be considered «expert teachers». This work takes up previous studies related to the use of a questionnaire, created to evaluate this gap, in order to reduce it by means of feedbacks, before starting the trainee to practical applications to be conducted in the laboratory or in the class. By proposing an iterative version of this tool within university teaching courses, the work also focuses the concordances common to the various applications carried out over the years, that highlight a network of clichés and stereotypes rooted in the school culture, which represents a restraining factor for the adoption of attitudes of greater efficacy.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"294 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116403290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Norton, C. Giudici, Marilena Fatigante, C. Zucchermaglio
{"title":"When in Rome, Not All International Students Do as the Romans Do. A Survey-based Typification of International Students’ Experiences and Profiles at Sapienza University of Rome","authors":"L. Norton, C. Giudici, Marilena Fatigante, C. Zucchermaglio","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2022-025-nort","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2022-025-nort","url":null,"abstract":"Universities often consider international students as a homogeneous group, that is of value for internationalisation purposes. Yet, migratory paths, cultural encounters, motivations and expectations make the experience of these students much varied and highly differentiated. Acknowledging this diversity allows to go beyond aggregate statistics and to assess specific needs and constraints. The present study focuses on the Italian context, introducing a quali-quantitative survey developed to investigate the variety of experiences and profiles of international students enrolled at Sapienza University of Rome. An analysis of multiple correspondence was applied to the survey’s responses. Results were triangulated with qualitative data collected in previous steps of the research, confirming the reliability of the survey and its capacity to discriminate different profiles. Three groups were identified (the «transnational migrants», the «international students», and the «invisible» ones), revealing a series of specificities, and a particular group as most vulnerable. Results are discussed highlighting the need to implement inclusive policies.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124259457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Importance of Teacher-Student Relationship for Distance Learning During Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"Emiliane Rubat du Mérac, C. Şensin, S. Livi","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2022-025-dume","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2022-025-dume","url":null,"abstract":"Online education has become mandatory in all countries since the Covid-19 pandemic. In order to provide practical inspiration for schools to improve online learning and teaching efficacy, and satisfaction, we explored the distance learning experience of 427 upper secondary school students in Italy. Rather than focusing on the relevance of digital tools and abilities, as most e-learning studies do, we focused on the function and influence of the teacher-student relationship and how online learning affects that connection. The study’s findings revealed that even if the technology was the central focus of upgrading the educational system, the satisfaction for the Distal Learning education is heavily based on teachers’ ability to maintain a high-quality relationship. Indeed, the quality of the relationship is a far better predictor of student satisfaction, with online education satisfaction having substantially higher coefficients than technology satisfaction, even controlling for both teachers’ and students’ technological knowledge. We also found a significant moderating effect in the interaction between quality of the relationship and technology satisfaction, implying that when students are satisfied with the technology used in online education, a high-quality relationship with teachers can boost satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125368918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Psychoeducational Stress Management Interventions on Students Stress Reduction: Systematic Review","authors":"Talal Bani Ahmad, M. Meriç, M. Ayasrah","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2022-025-hass","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2022-025-hass","url":null,"abstract":"Students can be a vulnerable group for stress. A psycho-educational program is one of the strategies to facilitate students’ adjustment and manage stress. This systematic review will integrate the effects of psychoeducational interventions on the level of stress among students. Pubmed, CINAHL, Science Direct Scopus databases were used to find potentially relevant published articles. The title and abstracts are used firstly to screen studies using inclusion and exclusion criteria before going to the next stage of the reviewing of complete articles. A total of eleven articles were selected based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. All articles in this sample were assessed using an instrument to assess overall quality. Study setting, sample size, study interventions, outcome measure/methods of delivery, and results were assessed and extracted. In all of the studies reviewed, the intervention groups experienced significantly greater reductions in perceived stress and symptoms of anxiety and depression. Our review highlights the importance of stress management programs, and the findings from this systematic review indicated that these programs were generally effective for optimizing the stress process and improving coping capacity with stressors.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133804474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}