Attitudes Of School Children Research Articles

School rules and children's attitudes to discipline

(1988). School rules and children's attitudes to discipline. Educational Research: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 3-8.

A Study of Instruction in Track and Field (II)

In physical education in elementary school track and field is included in the program components. However for schoolchildren, this teaching material should not be utilized just as a play or a kind of physical activity. The teacher's responsibility and role is to categorize track and field as it is.Track and field requires several skill- values (characteristics), e.g., run fast, jump long and high, throw far, etc. Since these required skill- values are close to basic motor skills, and simple form of body movement, schoolchildren who have poor physical power and skill tend to lose their interest in track and field. Therefore it is required that the teacher should recognize these factors and try to motivate them to keep their interest in this activity.It sometimes happens that the teacher changes the learning contents according to his personal interest in track and field. In other words, he may change objectives, teaching materials, skill components, teaching methods, and time distribution. As the result of this, the teacher tends to fail to motivate the schoolchildren to have interest and enjoyment in track and field since the class is managed to meet the teacher's interest not schoolchildren's one. Thus the teacher should prepare teaching program based on the schoolchilren's physical power, skill level, interest in this activity.When track and field is adopted as a teaching material, the followings are required for the teacher:1. To recognize and grasp the standard of the grade and the class.2. To realize and recognize each schoolchild's physical power and skill characteristics in track and field.3. To understand and recognize the schoolchildren's attitude based on daily classes and learning process toward physical activity problems.4. To adopt playful factors into learning processes and lead schoolchildren to experience true satisfaction, enjoyment, strictness in play since track and field in elementary program is the fundamental stage which leads to competi tive track and field.5. To inspire competitive mind in schoolchildren through running, jump, etc. with classmates.6. To demonstrate running, jump, etc. with schoolchildren in the process of learning, and be friends with them.7. To understand each schoolchild objectively and recognize their relationships.8. To ask some schoolchildren to demonstrate and add verbal instruction if the teacher can not demonstrate. In this case slides or videos are useful.It seems that for making meaningful instruction, understanding of the schoolchildren's mind and bodies, and mutual appreciation between the teacher and them are required. Also it is necessary for the teacher to instruct the schoolchildren with his deep understanding of track and field in order to make the learning effective.

Conservation Attitudes of Schoolchildren in the Kondoa District of Tanzania

Conservation Attitudes of Schoolchildren in the Kondoa District of Tanzania

School children's attitudes towards the handicapped

This study set out to determine the attitude of a group of normal British 13-year-old school children towards handicapped people while avoiding problems of previous research. As has been shown in previous studies it was demonstrated that the children's attitudes to the physically handicapped were more positive than those towards the mentally handicapped. Whereas there were very few sex differences indicating that males were more negative to the handicapped in general than females, there were a number of contact differences. Children who knew or interacted with a handicapped person were by-and-large more positive in their attitudes than those who had little or no contact with handicapped people. The results of this study are discussed in terms of the integration of handicapped and non-handicapped school children.

Schoolchildren's attitudes to disability

Schoolchildren's attitudes to disability

Validating the Schoolchildren's Attitude toward Authority and Authoritarianism Scales

Validating the Schoolchildren's Attitude toward Authority and Authoritarianism Scales

The Construction and Validation of a Questionnaire for Measuring Attitudes Towards Learning Foreign Languages

ABSTRACT A questionnaire was constructed for measuring the attitudes of schoolchildren towards learning French. Factor analysis revealed a primary factor accounting for over 60% of the total variance, and an empirical validation study showed that the attitudes of children who obtained high scores on teachers’ ratings of attentiveness and enthusiasm were significantly better than those given low ratings. A subsequent replication using a large sample of pupils provided a clarification of the factor structure, and the results of an independent study of attitudes towards learning German showed that the questionnaire can easily be adapted to measure attitudes towards learning other foreign languages as well as French.

Initial Effect of Calculators in Elementary School Mathematics

The purpose was to determine the effect availability of calculators to students and availability of calculator-related curriculum resources, consultant resources, and in-service workshops to teachers had on elementary school children's attitudes and achievement in mathematics, Grades 2-6. Fifty classes Grades 2-6 were selected from five mid-western states and randomly assigned to Calculator and No Calculator treatments. The treatments were in effect for 67 school days over a period of 18 weeks. Results indicate no measurable detrimental effects for calculator use. Children grew significantly on basic facts and achievement regardless of use of calculators in class.

Children's Attitudes toward Females in Sports: Their Relationship with Sex, Grade, and Sports Participation

Abstract The purpose of the study was to measure grade school children's attitudes toward female involvement in sports and their relationship with participation, sex, and grade level. A Likert-type questionnaire (CATFIS) was administered to 106 girls and 264 boys in grades 3–6 at the beginning of their participation (P) in a YMCA-sponsored sports program. Similarly, 344 girls and 287 boys in grades 3–9 who did not participate (NP) in this sports program were administered the questionnaire in their school classrooms. Five months later the P group and the NP group (only grades 3–6) were retested to investigate whether attitude change occurred. The results of the study indicated that females at all grade and participation levels had significantly more favorable attitudes than the males. At grades 3 and 4 male P and NP were quite similar in their attitudes, as were female P and NP, but at grades 5 and 6 the attitudes of each sex group diverged. Male NP were more positive than male P, while female NP were less...

Schoolchildren's Attitudes Toward Fallout and Shelters

Schoolchildren's Attitudes Toward Fallout and Shelters