{"title":"Criterion Validation of the Scales of Autonomy, Collaboration, Empathy, Problem-solving and Self-confidence of the 3SQ. Soft Skills Self-evaluation Questionnaire Adapted for Lower Secondary School","authors":"Stefano Scippo, Emiliane Rubat du Mérac","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2021-024-scme","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2021-024-scme","url":null,"abstract":"The Soft Skills Self-evaluation Questionnaire (3SQ, 41 items) was validated using the responses of 1216 Italian students attending the fourth and the fifth grade of upper secondary school (Lucisano & du Mérac, 2019a), demonstrating good psychometric properties (du Mérac & De Santis, 2020; du Mérac, Livi, & Lucisano, 2020). The adaptation of the 3SQ (40 items) for 8th-grade students was validated in Rome using the responses of 507 students, confirming the factorial structure, sufficient independence, and a good internal consistency (Cronbach alpha between .75 and .92 and 52.23% of the total variance explained). Here, we present the criterion-related validity of the five scales of the adapted 3SQ: Self-confidence, Autonomy, Problem-solving, Cooperation, Empathy. During a PhD research project (Scippo, 2021), these dimensions were also measured in Rome with other instruments, using a sample of 403 8th grade students. The analysis of the data confirms good reliability of the five scales (between .79 and .92), shows good indices of the confirmatory factor analysis of all the scales (RMSEA = .05, SRMR = .08), and reveals significant correlations (between .38 and .68) between the scales of the adapted 3SQ and the other scales measuring the same dimensions. In conclusion, this concurrent validity check reinforces the validity of the adapted 3SQ construct and, consequently, its usefulness for both research and guidance.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"179 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133410189","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":"L’affidamento familiare: le strategie educative elaborate dagli affidatari","authors":"Paola Ricchiardi, Cristina Coggi","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2021-024-rico","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2021-024-rico","url":null,"abstract":"Foster care is a condition of welcoming children with families in serious difficulty, legally regulated, aimed at guaranteeing to minors a suitable space for growth, and to families of origin the possibility of overcoming the problems so as to consent the return of the children. It is a challenging educational condition, to be deepened with research. The complexity of the backgrounds of origin and the co-presence of multiple risk factors in fact generate in children and young people in foster care, important difficulties in development, which foster families have to cope with, also with the support of specialists, services and associations. However, the skills that caregivers come to build over the years are valuable, deserving of pedagogical insights, so that good practices of positive parenting can be valued and shared. In this paper we will report the results of a survey, carried out with a national sample of 323 foster families. The study makes it possible to investigate the reasons for the custody prevision, the relationships with families of origin, the difficult life trajectories of the children in foster care (transitions, placements, discontinuities, years of foster care, continuation of relationships after foster care). In this way it is possible to identify the needs highlighted by the minors, the relevant problems that emerge and the promising strategies adopted by the foster families.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133770128","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":"Strategie e strumenti di valutazione formativa per promuovere l’apprendimento autoregolato: una rassegna ragionata delle ricerche empiriche","authors":"Irene Scierri","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2021-024-scie","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2021-024-scie","url":null,"abstract":"The area of research into the relationship between formative assessment and self-regulated learning is well established. Several studies have explored the connection between assessment and self-regulated learning, but the literature shows that there are still several lines of research to be explored, including examining which formative assessment practices actually help students improve their self-regulation skills and under which conditions. The paper presents a reasoned review of empirical studies, with experimental or quasi-experimental research design, that have examined the effect of formative assessment practices on self-regulated learning. The target population includes students from all levels of education. It was possible to classify two different ways of implementing formative assessment practices: a global approach and an analytical approach. Most of the reviewed studies recorded significant positive effects on self-regulation. The results and implications for future research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132073700","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":"Conflicts in Schools: Causative Factors and Resolution Strategies","authors":"Kathryn Rai, Rajinder Singh","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2021-024-rasi","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2021-024-rasi","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is an effort in reviewing and assembling the research findings of different researchers on the factors that cause conflicts in schools and the strategies adopted by schools for conflict resolution. The research is limited to certain databases only. The basis for selecting relevant literature for this study is their accessibility, language (English) and relevancy to the topic and only those research papers that highlight teacher-teacher conflicts and teacher-administration conflicts have been selected. The several factors that emerged from the study were classified as Structural and Personal factors only. The originality of this paper rests in an attempt to attract the attention of the research community towards the factors that lead to conflicts in schools and an insight into the strategies used by the school administration to resolve them. This study also recommends that school administrators be trained to identify at least some factors responsible for conflicts among their staff, even among the students of the school so that they can resolve it in a better way.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131206232","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}
Guido Benvennuto, Nicoletta Di Genova, Antonella Nuzzacci, A. Vaccarelli
{"title":"Scala di Resilienza Professionale degli Insegnanti: prima validazione nazionale","authors":"Guido Benvennuto, Nicoletta Di Genova, Antonella Nuzzacci, A. Vaccarelli","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2021-023-benv","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2021-023-benv","url":null,"abstract":"The article proposes the validation of a research tool, aimed at measuring the professional resilience of teachers. In scientific debate, the use of the resilience construct and an instrument aimed at detecting it is quite frequent, but there are few instruments to contextualize resilience in a strictly professional context. Professional Resilience of Teachers Scale [Scala di Resilienza Professionale degli Insegnanti – SRPI] can be usefully applied in stress and trauma situations that can be linked to personal experiences or emergency situations that cause teachers to face numerous unforeseen problems in their work and to implement, i.e. appraisal and coping strategies related to the concept of resilience. The SRPI was administered to a sample of 556 teachers from all school orders distributed throughout the national territory. Correlational and factor analysis made it possible to optimize the instrument, reducing the number of items from 39 to 28 and identifying the factors most involved in the proposed construct. The research confirmed high values of internal (α = .897).","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116452003","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":"Profile of Student Analytical Thinking Skills in the Natural Sciences by Implementing Problem-Based Learning Model","authors":"S. Suyatman, S. Saputro, W. Sunarno, S. Sukarmin","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2021-023-suya","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2021-023-suya","url":null,"abstract":"Analytical thinking skills are critical thinking skills and higher-order thinking skills that meet students’ demands in the 21st century. This study aims to analyze the student’s analytical thinking skills in the natural sciences, particularly in new and renewable energy. This study was a sequential explanatory design with quantitative and qualitative methods. Data was obtained from the interview, observation, and essay test to students of the Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Teacher Education Program Study at IAIN Surakarta (Indonesia) to determine a characteristic of the students’ analytical thinking skills. The results showed that the mean scores of the pre-test, post-test, and effect size were 54.34, 74.91, and 2.91, respectively. These results revealed that analytical thinking skills in the concept of new and renewable energy in the experimental group were higher than the control group. Innovative learning like PBL had a potential as the alternative method to increase the analytical thinking skills of student. These findings were expected to provide a general characteristic to lecturers and researchers on the students’ analytical thinking skills in higher education in the natural sciences, particularly in the concept of new and renewable energy by implementing the Problem Based Learning (PBL) model.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123597211","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}
I. Ismiyati, B. Kartowagiran, M. Muhyadi, Mar'atus Sholikah, S. Suparno, T. Tusyanah
{"title":"Understanding Students’ Intention to Use Mobile Learning at Universitas Negeri Semarang: An Alternative Learning from Home During Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"I. Ismiyati, B. Kartowagiran, M. Muhyadi, Mar'atus Sholikah, S. Suparno, T. Tusyanah","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2021-023-ismi","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2021-023-ismi","url":null,"abstract":"Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) pandemic influenced education systems throughout the world, including in Indonesia. It makes the universities and schools go online for their teaching-learning process. Therefore, mobile learning can be an alternative solution to carry out the teaching and learning process as suggested by the government. The purpose of this study was to explore empirically mobile learning acceptances based on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with satisfaction as the mediating variable. The population of this study is 250 Economics Education students at Universitas Negeri Semarang. The sample was taken by purposive sampling with the criteria of students who have used mobile learning in supporting their learning activities. Structural Equation Model (SEM) with AMOS 24 was performed to analyze quantitative data. The results showed that from 6 hypotheses, there are 5 accepted hypotheses; they are; perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and perceived interactivity have positive and significant effects on the intention to use mobile learning. The mediating variable (satisfaction) is successful to strengthen the influence between perceived ease of use and intention; and perceived usefulness and intention. However, satisfaction is rejected to mediate perceived interactivity and intention to use. Stakeholders should improve students’ satisfaction in their learning activities. The limitation of this study was the research results cannot be easely generalized in other contexts. In the future, other researchers can add other factors to examine better technology acceptance.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121288446","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":"Resoconto sul Convegno Internazionale in video-conferenza Rome Education Forum 2020 «Didattiche e didattica universitaria: teorie, cultura, pratiche alla prova del lockdown da Covid-19»","authors":"Bianca Briceag","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2021-023-bric","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2021-023-bric","url":null,"abstract":"The learning processes of the academic year 2019/2020 were characterized by a great change: the general suspension of teaching in presence and the synchronous and asynchronous start of lessons due to the spread of the Sars-Cov-2 virus (Covid-19). This change required teachers of all types and institutional grades to re-design educational activities using information and communication technologies. The International Conference on «Didactics and university didactics: Theories, cultures, practices» at the test of the Covid- 19 Lockdown, had as its objective the comparison between experts who have returned, on the basis of empirical evidences, a picture of the impact that the use of ICT has determined on the learning and socialization of pupils and on the autonomy of the various scholastic and university institutions.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122009067","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":"Uno strumento per l’orientamento differenziale in professioni di confine: educatore, insegnante, assistente sociale, psicologo","authors":"P. Ricchiardi, E. Torre","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2021-023-rito","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2021-023-rito","url":null,"abstract":"The choice of the university course to attend and therefore indirectly the professions connected to it, constitutes a complex operation for a student who finishes secondary school (Vulperhorst, 2020). This choice becomes more difficult if we are talking about courses of study that train border professions, as in the case of university courses in the socio-psycho- pedagogical field, assimilated, in the common feeling, to the point of confusing the borders. The accompaniment of secondary school students oriented towards these professions requires adequate tools for exploring the same, tools that allow them to analyze the congruence between their interests, skills, personal attitudes and the chosen professional profiles. For this purpose we have built and validated a tool for socio-psycho-pedagogical professions, to be used in differential orientation paths for students who need assistance in the discrimination of the paths that lead to the training of educators, teachers, psychologists and social workers. We will start the contribution with an analysis of the dysfunctional choice mechanisms that most typically lead to inappropriate choices in the study paths indicated, to then arrive at illustrating the original tool.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127050366","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 Effectiveness of a Program Based on Problem-Solving in Mathematical Problem Solving among Grade Ten Students","authors":"Ahmed Mohammed Al Kharusi, A. Al-Abed","doi":"10.7358/ecps-2021-023-khab","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2021-023-khab","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the impact of a program based on problem-solving in mathematical problem-solving among 10th grade students. The sample of this study consisted of (89) male and female students; Wadi Bani Kharous Basic Education School and Om Hakeem Basic Education School located in AlBatina South Governorate (Oman). The study followed the quasi-experimental research design with experimental group consisted of (48) students, and control group consisted of (41) students. The instructional materials of Polynomial and Algebraic Functions Unit and Trigonometric Functions Unit for Grade 10th were designed according to a program based on problem-solving. The problemsolving test was valid and reliable. The findings indicated that there were significant statistical differences in mathematical problem-solving test between the experimental and control group due to teaching method in favor of experimental group. The findings indicated that there were no significant statistical differences in mathematical problemsolving test between male and female students. The findings also indicated that there were statistical significance differences in mathematical problem-solving test due to the interaction between and teaching method and gender. The study recommended organizing training workshops for mathematics teachers to introduce programs based on problem solving, training them to build educational programs based on problem solving, and urging them to adopt it due to the positive impact it has shown in teaching mathematics.","PeriodicalId":407986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies (ECPS Journal)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124346428","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}