{"title":"Assessment Climate and Mastery Goal Orientation Nexus: The Mediating Role of Academic Self-efficacy","authors":"K. Asamoah-Gyimah","doi":"10.11648/J.TECS.20210604.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.TECS.20210604.12","url":null,"abstract":"It is often said that the quickest way to change students learning is to change the assessment system, suggesting that classroom assessment practices might be potent in their effects on students. The principal aim of the study was to investigate the indirect effect of assessment climate on mastery goal orientation through students’ self-efficacy. Descriptive cross-sectional survey design was adopted for the study where six College of Education institution’s students within the Central, Eastern and Western regions of Ghana were targeted. Utilizing disproportionate quota sampling technique, a total of 254 students were sampled to serve as respondents. Data were collected using classroom assessment environment questionnaire, achievement goal questionnaire and self-efficacy scale. The instruments were all adapted from the literature and validated using data from the Ghanaian context. The two hypotheses in the study were tested using Hayes (2013) mediation analysis. Findings revealed that assessment climate was a significant predictor of mastery goal orientation among College of Education students, however, the study found no supporting evidence for an indirect effect of assessment climate on mastery goal orientation through self-efficacy. The study recommends that management of academic environment should as a matter of policy institute measures that would expose and updates tutors on the state of the art assessment regime that builds motivational believes among students.","PeriodicalId":417229,"journal":{"name":"Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129602298","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":"Conflict and Integration: A Qualitative Study on the Dormitory Life Experience of Freshmen","authors":"Liao Kangli","doi":"10.11648/J.TECS.20210604.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.TECS.20210604.11","url":null,"abstract":"Dormitory is an important place for college students to live and study. Dormitory life is the starting point for college students to adapt to collective life. Paying attention to the dormitory life experience of freshmen will help colleges and universities improve and optimize their dormitory management strategies, so as to improve the overall level of serving students. Using qualitative research methods, this paper analyzes the dormitory life experience of 50 freshmen in Jiujiang University. The study found that the dormitory life experience of freshmen has significant characteristics of conflict and integration. The dormitory life conflict is mainly affected by living habits, personality differences, communication barriers, interest disputes, interest concepts, growth background and so on Learning and cooperation can well promote the integration between dormitory members. The conflict between dormitory members is not irreconcilable, and the transformation from conflict to integration can be realized under certain conditions. Therefore, the dormitory management of colleges and universities needs to minimize or dilute the factors that cause conflicts among dormitory members, strengthen or highlight the factors that promote the integration of dormitory members, such as collective activities, dormitory gatherings, casual communication, food sharing, learning cooperation, actively create a dormitory living atmosphere of unity, harmony, equality and cooperation, and finally realize the transformation from conflict to integration.","PeriodicalId":417229,"journal":{"name":"Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125203776","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 Concept and Development Strategies of the Primary Teachers’ Practical Knowledge","authors":"Chen Na","doi":"10.11648/J.TECS.20210603.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.TECS.20210603.14","url":null,"abstract":"Teachers’ practical knowledge (TPK) has become a research field of teacher education, but it has not been paid enough attention in the early stage of its formation, which is not conducive to the comprehensive and in-depth study of the development of TPK. The purpose of this study is to arouse enough attention of normal university students to acquire TPK, and to have a tool for in-depth analysis of the quality of TPK. This study mainly uses documentary method. By combing existing studies, this paper points out the disadvantages of naming TPK as the same as the stage of teachers’ professional development, and demonstrates the necessity of putting forward the concept of Primary Teacher’s Practical Knowledge (PTPK). It believes that PTPK has its own value and may be owned by all teachers, rather than the exclusive label of ordinary students and novice teachers. This paper describes and demonstrates the connotation, characteristics and value of PTPK based on a three-dimension framework which composed of representation, structure and level. PTPK truly needs to be optimized but neither in a linear way nor static superposition of experience, instead of diversified in representation form. From the dynamic perspective of the generation mechanism of TPK, this paper puts forward two development strategies of PTPK with the nature of “deliberation”: one is to criticize the PTPK temporarily away from the situation via explicit the PTPK in three representation, guide interns in a systemic structure and teach the theoretical courses focus on cultivating higher thinking; the other is to put it back in the context for testing by creating both virtual and real situations.","PeriodicalId":417229,"journal":{"name":"Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127466595","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":"Practice and Research on Group Teaching in Agricultural Application-oriented Universities","authors":"Feng Shasha, Zhang Xiaohong, Tian Xiaoming","doi":"10.11648/J.TECS.20210603.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.TECS.20210603.13","url":null,"abstract":"Agricultural application-oriented colleges and universities often have great differences in the composition of students and uneven learning ability. The traditional classroom teaching mode dominated by teachers leads to low attendance and rise rate of students. How to give full play to students' enthusiasm and initiative and what teaching methods can improve the quality and effect of teaching are urgent problems to be solved. Combined with the author's teaching practice in agronomy related majors, this paper intends to carry out group teaching in the teaching of different courses such as subject basic courses, professional courses and practical courses, and use specific cases to illustrate the four aspects of curriculum design, group basis, project driven group teaching implementation and how to evaluate the effect of group teaching. The results show that group teaching has changed the situation that only teachers teach, mobilized students to actively participate, promoted the cognition, digestion, mastery and absorption of knowledge and skills in professional practice and independent thinking through division of labor and cooperation within groups and competition and answer between groups, and accumulated practical experience for future graduation design and future work, It is conducive to promoting the all-round development of students' comprehensive quality. Through the research of this project, we explore a set of scientific and effective group teaching methods for undergraduate agriculture related education in Colleges and universities.","PeriodicalId":417229,"journal":{"name":"Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116316953","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}
Susuoroka Gabina, Bernard Jagri, Atar Alphaa Mohammed, Abu Ahmad Anass, A. Abdul-Mumin, Evelyn Agyei, Cheyuo Boniface Domonaamwin
{"title":"Factors Affecting Efficient Teaching and Learning of Mathematics in Senior High Schools in Wa","authors":"Susuoroka Gabina, Bernard Jagri, Atar Alphaa Mohammed, Abu Ahmad Anass, A. Abdul-Mumin, Evelyn Agyei, Cheyuo Boniface Domonaamwin","doi":"10.11648/J.TECS.20210603.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.TECS.20210603.11","url":null,"abstract":"A survey design was adopted in this study. Three senior high schools were randomly chosen for this study. Thirty (30) mathematics tutors and 100 learners were involved in the study. The Purpose of the study is to find out the factors that affect the actual teaching and learning of mathematics in senior high schools. To achieve this, three major questions were answered: (1) What quality teachers are teaching mathematics in our senior High schools? (2) What feelings do senior High School students display regarding the teaching and learning of mathematics? (3) What issues affect the efficient utilization of available instructional resources in the teaching of mathematics at the senior high schools? Questionnaire were used to collect data for the study. The results of the study showed that inadequate teaching and learning resources and quality tutors are some of the factors affecting the effective instruction and learning in mathematics the classroom at SHS level. From the results, the following were recommended; interactive methods of teaching mathematical concepts need to be used by mathematics teachers. In addition, stakeholders need to provide adequate teaching and learning resource to the various senior high schools.","PeriodicalId":417229,"journal":{"name":"Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123895559","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":"An Empirical Study on the Influence of Dormitory on College Students' Social Network: Based on Social Network Analysis","authors":"Wu Ling, Liao Kangli","doi":"10.11648/j.tecs.20210602.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.tecs.20210602.14","url":null,"abstract":"Student dormitory is an important place for students' daily life and study, and also the forefront of Ideological and political education. This paper takes the students of class a1418 and class A1332 in Jiujiang University as the research objects, and uses the social network analysis method to carry out the tracking experimental research on students' daily social interaction. It is found that the dormitory is the key variable of the clustering effect of students' network community. This study shows that dormitory plays a key role in the formation and change of College Students' social network. Dormitory is the most important factor in the clustering of social network. As the most important place for college students' Extracurricular behavior, dormitory's influence is not limited to the life level, but further penetrated into the class, which is the most important basic organization of college learning, This finding provides an empirical basis for us to further integrate the boundaries of dormitory and class, dormitory and classroom, study and life, education and teaching, management and service, ideological education and professional education. It is suggested that in the daily management and teaching organization of college students, full attention should be paid to the role of the dormitory, and the dormitory should be effectively combined with the classroom, so as to form a college career mode of \"learning life, learning life\".","PeriodicalId":417229,"journal":{"name":"Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133563349","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":"School Climate Indices as Predictors of Teacher Job Satisfaction and Performance in Oyo State, Nigeria","authors":"Ibikunle F. Akinnola, A. Oredein","doi":"10.11648/J.TECS.20210602.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.TECS.20210602.12","url":null,"abstract":"School climates indices as predictors of teacher job satisfaction and performance in Oyo State of Nigeria were investigated in this study. The school climate indices include; school laboratories, libraries, classrooms and instructional materials. This was a descriptive survey research which was questionnaire based. The population of the study was all public secondary school teachers in Oyo State, Nigeria. Multi-stage using cluster and simple random sampling techniques to select a total of one thousand and five hundred (1500) teachers (male and female) from the selected public secondary schools for the study. Three research questions and six hypotheses were postulated. Hypotheses were tested at 5% level of significance. The data collected for the study were analyzed using descriptive analysis, Multiple Regression analysis, MANOVA, Pearson Product Moment Correlation and t-test. Among others, the study revealed that the level of teachers’ job satisfaction was lower than the performance with the overall weighted average of 2.380 and 2.702 respectively. Only 11.7% public secondary schools in Oyo State, Nigeria were able to meet up with the UNESCO recommended student-teacher ratio. Also, there exist a significant combined influence of school climate indices on the teachers’ job satisfaction and performance (F=11.919; P<0.05). As a result of the findings, it was recommended that government should allocate sufficient fund in the budget for the provision of instructional materials, modern libraries, and well equipped laboratories to create a good school climate in public secondary schools. Also, the suggested UNESCO student-teacher ratio should be adhering to.","PeriodicalId":417229,"journal":{"name":"Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130156625","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":"An Investigation into Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK): Teachers’ Views on Knowledge","authors":"R. Lyu","doi":"10.11648/j.tecs.20210602.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.tecs.20210602.11","url":null,"abstract":"Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) has been given a lot of attention in the academic field in recent years, inparticular in the field of teacher cognition and teacher knowledge. This research aimed to investigate the views on language (regarded as one aspect of PCK) shown in the practices of six Chinese in-service teachers teaching College English at two universities in the south of China by using a qualitative multiple case study approach. The existing literature guided the current research, which investigated teachers’ views on knowledge to guide language teacher education and development in mainland China. The results of the data analysis in this study revealed that the participant teachers were generally experienced in their use of declarative knowledge, but possibly unskilled in their use of strategic knowledge. To summarize, views on knowledge encompasses teachers’ creative ways of thinking and their personal understanding of the discipline of teaching. It is the teachers’ ability to endow declarative knowledge with personal significance. Views on knowledge include teachers’ personal wisdom that transforms procedural knowledge into strategic knowledge (the ability to solve problems in classroom teaching practice). It entails teachers’ constant updating and development of their personal pedagogical knowledge in the teaching practice of particular subject matter.","PeriodicalId":417229,"journal":{"name":"Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124752866","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 Causes of the Lack of Independent Personality of Contemporary College Students and Its Educational Countermeasures","authors":"Han Shuai","doi":"10.11648/J.TECS.20210601.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.TECS.20210601.15","url":null,"abstract":"Only with independent personality can we have inner freedom, spiritual independence, our own judgment standard and rational judgment. Independent personality is a mature expression of a person. Independent personality is also an important manifestation of a country's civilization progress. Independent personality embodies the independence of personality and affects a person's thought and behavior. The lack of independent personality will lead to problems in college students' studies, life and emotion. Because the cultivation of independent personality of college students is very urgent, can be said to be urgent. In school education, social education, family education pay attention to the overall development of college students, in self-education pay attention to their own promotion, then it is possible to become a mature, stable, full of self-esteem, self-confidence, self-love and independent college students, can truly adult and become the pillars of society. Only with independent personality can we have inner freedom, spiritual independence, our own judgment standard and rational judgment. Independent personality is a mature expression of a person. Independent personality is also an important manifestation of a country's civilization progress. This paper discusses the reasons for the lack of independent personality of college students from four aspects: society, school, family and self, and puts forward some research countermeasures from these four aspects.","PeriodicalId":417229,"journal":{"name":"Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126822763","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 Construction of Blended Teaching Mode of Cooking Technology Course Under the Background of \"Gold Course\"","authors":"Li Rui, P. Lianrong","doi":"10.11648/J.TECS.20210601.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.TECS.20210601.14","url":null,"abstract":"Under the trend of \"Internet+Education\", the online and offline blended teaching mode has become an important direction of teaching reform. This article takes the course \"Cooking Technology\" as an example to build an online and offline blended teaching mode, and investigates the application of blended teaching in the teaching of applied undergraduate courses. Using empirical analysis and interview methods, the article found that the curriculum teaching of \"Cooking Technology\" has insufficient combination of theory and practice, single teaching mode, poor teaching effect, and heavy teaching tasks. Base on the principle of student-centered, pedagogical coherence, integration of theory and practice, this article designs the blended teaching activities for the \"Cooking Technology\" course from the three major links, which is the pre-course phase, in-class stage and after-school phase. This article puts forward the issues that should be focus on interaction in blended learning and teaching, establishing a reasonable and sound appraisal method, pay attention to the percentage of online instruction used, so as to provide reference and reference for the construction of \"golden courses\" of culinary majors and other majors. Finally, the study found that the blended teaching can better cultivate students' autonomy in learning and solve the basic problems that most students are not interested in learning.","PeriodicalId":417229,"journal":{"name":"Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115155344","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}