Grade Students Of Secondary School Research Articles

Improving Students' Activities and Achievement Using the Themed Worksheets Through Discovery Learning

Preliminary studies showed the low activity of students in science learning with classical learning completeness of 22%. This study aimed to improve students’ learning activities and learning achievements through discovery learning assisted by themed worksheets. This study improved previous research related to the implementation of discovery learning to improve the learning quality. The research was designed using the classroom action research method and was carried out in three cycles, involving 32 second grade students of secondary school. Experts validated interview, observation, and questionnaire sheets, and the test items were validated statistically. This study showed that discovery learning assisted by themed worksheets improved the average student activity to 93% and the average science learning achievements to 71.61% with a classical completeness rate of 78%. Students also accepted the themed worksheets with very high satisfaction. This study did not examine the students’ character, the correlation between activity data and student learning discovery, neither did it accommodate students with special needs. These results can be a reference for teachers to improve the quality of learning, especially for schools in rural areas that have limited technological infrastructure.
 Keywords: class action research, discovery learning, learning achievements, students’ activities, themed worksheets

DAAFA’IYATU ATTA’LIIM WA’ALAAQOTUHAA BISTII’AABI QOWAAIDI ALLUGAH AL’AROBIYYAH BIMA’HAD SABIILIL ALMUKMININ

One of the general principles of teaching Arabic grammar is that the learner must feel the need for the rules and feel their usefulness, and the need for internal motivation. Research question: Is there a relationship between learning motivation and comprehension of Arabic grammar among eleventh grade students in the secondary stage at Sabeel Al-Muminin Institute in Najai? Its aim is to find out the relationship between learning motivation and comprehension of Arabic grammar among eleventh grade students in the secondary stage at Sabeel Al-Muminin Institute in Najai. The method used is the quantitative method of the relational type, and the method of analyzing the data used is a statistical method with the symbol Product Moment. As a result of the research, there is a relationship between learning motivation and comprehension of Arabic grammar among eleventh grade students in secondary school at Sabeel Al-Muminin Institute in Nagai, with a correlation coefficient value of 0.808, and the relationship is strong in the same direction. The reciprocal hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected. In conclusion, there is a strong relationship between learning motivation and comprehension of rules.

The Effect of Project-Based Learning Approach on Lesson Outcomes, Attitudes and Retention of Learned in Secondary School Music

In this study, the effect of the project-based learning approach applied in the 6th grade music lessons of the secondary school on the students' learning outcomes and their attitudes towards the music lesson was examined. The study was carried out according to the pretest-posttest design with a control group, which is one of the semi-experimental models. The experimental and control groups of the study consisted of 44 (22+22) 6th grade students in secondary school. In the collection of study data, secondary school 6th grade music acquisition test and attitude scales towards music lesson were used. In the experimental group, the project-based learning approach was applied, and in the control group, experimental procedures were applied for 6 weeks in accordance with the instructions of the secondary school 6th grade music lesson curriculum of the Ministry of National Education. In the study, research measurement tools were applied to the experimental and control groups as pretest, posttest and retention test. According to the research findings, students in the experimental group to whom project-based learning approaches were applied achieved significantly higher music lesson achievements, attitudes and retention scores compared to their peers in the control groups.

The Examination of the Concept Images of 7th Grade Students in Secondary School about Algebraic Expression and First-degree Equations with One Unknown

Bu araştırmanın amacı ortaokul 7. sınıf öğrencilerinin cebirsel ifadeler ve birinci dereceden bir bilinmeyenli denklemlere ilişkin kavram imajlarının incelenmesidir. Araştırmanın örneklemini Marmara Bölgesi’nde bulunan bir devlet okulunda öğrenim gören 71 ortaokul 7. sınıf öğrencisi oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmada öğrencilerin kavram imajlarının ortaya çıkarılabilmesi amacıyla hem nicel hem nitel verilerin toplandığı karma yöntem araştırması kullanılmıştır. Toplanan verilerin analizi betimsel analiz ve içerik analizi yardımı ile yapılmıştır. Araştırmanın bulgularına bakıldığında, cebirsel ifade kavramına ait öğrencilerin imajlarının genel olarak; en az bir bilinmeyen içeren işlem, bilinmeyen ve eşitlik, bilinmeyen ve sayı kategorilerinde toplandığı görülmektedir. Araştırmanın diğer boyutu olan birinci dereceden bir bilinmeyenli denklem kavramına ilişkin öğrencilerin kavram imajlarının ise genel olarak; bilinmeyeni bulma, bilinmeyen/harf, bir bilinmeyen kategorilerinde toplandığı görülmektedir. Araştırmanın sonucunda ortaokul 7. sınıf öğrencilerinin cebirsel ifade ve birinci dereceden bir bilinmeyenli denklem kavramlarını çoğu zaman birbirinin yerine kullandıkları ve bu kavramlara ait yanlış ya da eksik imaj oluşturduklarından dolayı kavram yanılgılarına düştükleri görülmüştür.

THE USE OF STUDENT TEAM ACHIEVEMENT DIVISION TO FACILITATE STUDENTS IN READING COMPREHENSION

This research scrutinizes how Student Team Achievement Division facilitates and affects students in reading comprehension. A pre-experimental design was applied in this research, and it was conducted in six meetings; by giving pretest, four treatments, and posttest. It involved thirty six of the tenth grade students of secondary school at Lubuklinggau, South Sumatera, in Indonesia who attended reading comprehension class. The data were collected by using reading test that was given twice for students; pre-test and post-test were given before and after treatments. The finding of this research disclosed that the students’ average in pretest was 60.00 and in posttest their average score were increased to be 75.00. Based on the result of the paired t-test calculation, it was found that t-obtained 8.196 was higher than t-table 1.684 as the critical value. It meant that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. In other words, the use of Student Team Achievement Division was significantly effective to facilitate and affect the students in reading comprehension.

The Influence of the Mastery of Function Words on Students’ Reading Ability

This study is an ex-post facto research which aims to find out the influence of the mastery of function words on reading ability of the seventh grade students of secondary school and to find out how the reading ability between students with adequate function words’ mastery and students with inadequate function words’ mastery is. The samples used in this research were two groups of students who have adequate and inadequate function words’ mastery. Each group consists of 30 students that is chosen by using stratified random sampling. In analysing the data, researcher used Independent Sample t-Test. The result shows that the mastery of function words significantly influences students’ reading ability. It is found that there is significant difference of students’ reading ability between students with adequate mastery in function words with those having inadequate mastery in function words. It is found that students with adequate function words’ mastery have better and higher ability in reading than students having inadequate function words’ mastery.

The Relationship Between Social Anxiety Levels and Self Esteem, Parental Attitudes, Perfectionism Traits of Seventh and Eighth Grade Students in Secondary School

The Relationship Between Social Anxiety Levels and Self Esteem, Parental Attitudes, Perfectionism Traits of Seventh and Eighth Grade Students in Secondary School

Argümantasyon Tabanlı Bilim Öğrenme Yaklaşımının Öğrencilerin Matematik Başarılarına Etkisi

The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of the Argument Based Science Learning (ABSL) approach on 9th grade students of secondary school on mathematics achievement in terms of functions. The study sample consists of 22 students in Bayburt who study in the 9th grade in a high school during the 2012-2013 academic year. A quantitative method was used in the study and the study consisted of a single experimental group with pre-test and post-test weak experimental design. As a data collection tool; Achievement Test (FAT) developed by the researcher and Mathematics Reasoning Approach (MRA) student template are used as data collection tools. The SPSS 18.0 package program was used in the analysis of the data obtained from the pre-test post-test for the Functional Achievement Test. The skewness and kurtosis values for the normality condition, which is the condition of the parametric, were examined between -1 and +1 and the paired sample t-test was performed. The skewness and kurtosis values of the Functional Achievement Test, which are separated into categories, are between -1 and +1 and the paired sample t-test is used. The correlation between scores in MRA reports and scores in FAT post-test test was examined. According to the results obtained from the research, it was determined that there is a significant difference in favor of the end test when evaluating the achievement test results applied to the students before and after the functions based on the Argument Based Science Learning approach. A moderate, positive significant relation was found between MRA report scores and FST posttest scores (r=.614).

THE STUDY OF THE PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF 9-11TH GRADE STUDENTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL

There are presented results of a study of age and sexual development of the neuro-psychiatric sphere in 9-11th grade students of secondary school. An analysis of the peculiarities of the formation of the neuropsychic sphere in students has revealed a significant improvement in cognitive functions and psychomotorics, a reduction in school disadaptation in girls and boys, in groups, continuing and discontinuing their education, among schoolchildren with bad habits and without them, among modern adolescents compared with students of same age 10 years ago. The continuation of the maturation of the neuropsychic sphere of adolescents in a complex with their socio-psychological adaptation has been established. Risk factors of mental development disorders in senior students are revealed. For the first time, there was obtained data of a comparative analysis of the psychophysiological development of adolescents related to their peers 10 years ago. There were developed age-gender standards of psychophysiological features of schoolchildren aged of 15-17 years, which are of practical importance for modern psychohygiene and school psychology when working with senior students.

페루 도시빈곤지역 청소년의 문제음주행동에 대한 학교 건강증진 프로그램의 효과

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between a school health promotion program and problem drinking behaviors. Methods: The participants in this study were 1st-5th grade students in secondary school in Lima and Callao, Peru. We conducted pre- and post-surveys in 2014 and 2017, respectively, to assess the effect of a school health promotion intervention. The school health promotion intervention was implemented from 2015 to 2017 in four schools, and two schools were taken as control groups in collaboration with the Korea International Cooperation Agency. Randomized stratified sampling was performed to analyze 971 participants in the experimental group and 585 in the control group. The homogeneity test was conducted before the intervention. A chi-square test and logistic regression analysis were performed. The participants in this study were 1 to 5 grade students in secondary school in Lima and Callao, Peru. We conducted a pre-intervention survey in 2014 and post-intervention survey in 2017 to assess the effect of a school health promotion intervention. The school health intervention was implemented from 2015 to 2017 in 4 schools, and two schools were taken as control groups in collaboration with Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). A randomized stratified sampling was performed to analyze 971 subjects in the experimental group and 585 subjects in the control group. The homogeneity test was conducted before the intervention. Chi-square test and logistic regression analysis was performed. Results: First, 35.7% of the students had experienced drinking more than once in their lifetime and 59.2% had experienced drinking in the last year. Among the 556 students who had experienced drinking, 21.9% had CRAFFT scores of 2 or more for problem drinking. Second, there were differences in general and problem drinking based on “gender,” “academic performance,” “part-time job,” “depression,” “smoking,” “drugs,” “sexual experience,” “school truancy,” and “violence or harassment from school friends.” Third, the proportion of problem drinkers was 15.2% in the experimental group and 32.1% in the control group; problem drinking was significantly higher in the control group. Finally, the risk of problem drinking in the control group was significantly increased by about 2.8 times as compared with the group receiving the intervention through the school health promotion program. Conclusion: The school health promotion program had a statistically significant effect on the improvement of adolescent drinking behaviors. Schools should strengthen health promotion and education to stimulate comprehensive activities to prevent drinking, smoking, and other substance abuse among adolescents.

Determining Levels of 8th Grade Students of Secondary School to Understand Cognitive Structures and Concepts Concerning Concepts of Fundamental Citizenship

Purpose of this study is to determine cognitive structures, conceptual knowledge and misconceptions of the 8th grade students concerning concepts of citizenship through a word association test. In direction of this purpose, a word association test consisting of democracy, sovereignty, independency, freedom, right and responsibility concepts have been applied to 175 8th grade students who studied at 3 secondary schools in Trabzon province during 2017-2018 school years. Conceptual networks have been formed in direction of responses of the students to these concepts, and cognitive structures of the students have been demonstrated. It has been concluded as a result of the study that students associate concept of democracy mostly with equality, right, justice concepts. They associate concept of sovereignty with freedom, nation, independence concepts and concept of independency with freedom, flag and liberty concepts. They also associate concept of freedom with independency, justice, liberty concepts and concept of right with freedom, nation and sovereignty concepts. They associate again concept of responsibility with task, duty and work concepts. It has been determined as a result of the study that a good part of the students can make sentences involving scientific information about freedom, independency and responsibility concepts and they have no misconceptions about these concepts. It has been determined that a limited number of students have misconceptions about the concept of right. As for one of the important results of the study, most of the students have misconceptions about the concept of sovereignty.

Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos. Experiencia didáctica en Educación Secundaria implementando las TIC en la asignatura Aprender, Emprender y Prosperar

La aplicación del Aprendizaje basado en proyectos y el uso de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) es una novedad en Educación Secundaria, ya que cada día se perpetúan más los métodos de enseñanza tradicionales que generan ambientes educativos conductistas y que restringen el desarrollo de la autonomía moral e intelectual del estudiantado. No obstante, en el presente estudio llevado a cabo en la asignatura Aprender, Emprender y Prosperar con estudiantes de 10mo grado de Educación Secundaria, se demostró que esta estrategia y recurso didáctico es propicio para generar aprendizajes significativos y útiles para la vida, además, permiten que el estudiantado desarrolle aptitudes y actitudes emprendedoras durante su formación en Educación Secundaria, al aplicar sus conocimientos en la resolución de los problemas de su comunidad. El abordaje metodológico de la investigación se realizó adoptando los fundamentos teóricos del paradigma sociocrítico e investigación acción para la realización de transformaciones educativas, y predominó el enfoque cualitativo por las técnicas e instrumentos de investigación aplicados.

A Research on The Improvement of Persuasive Writing Skill of Sixth Grade Students in Secondary School

Today's communication possibilities bring along directive communication. Certain groups, institutions, or people can use communication to persuade for their special purposes. When Turkish main language curriculums were examined, even though the persuasive writing takes place at the elementary school level, it does not take place at the secondary school level. Contrary to this situation in Turkey, in the main language curriculums of many countries such as South Korea, China Hong-Kong, Singapore, Canada, Ireland, Australia, and the USA there is a systematic and important place at elementary and secondary school level for persuasive writing. In this research, moving from the lack of this writing skill at secondary school level, an action research process based on the question can the persuasive writing skills of 6th-grade students in secondary school be improved in Turkish lesson? was carried out. For this purpose, a persuasive writing education program was prepared using a process - based writing model. This program was applied 15 weeks (34 class hours) in a class of 18 students and the effect of the program on the students was followed. Research questions are as follows: What is the opinion of students about persuasion before persuasive writing education? What is the effect of persuasive writing education on the ability of students to create the persuasive text? How is the relationship between persuasive text analysis and persuasive text creation? What are the views of students about persuasive writing education? What are the problems encountered in the research process? The data in the study were obtained from student products, evaluation rubric for persuasive text, analysis texts, checklist, student and researcher diary. In data analysis SPSS 23 and NVivo-11-Pro programs were used. In the direction of the findings, text creation and text analysis ability of 6th-grade students developed in the process and that there is a meaningful relationship between these skills. Moreover, it was seen that students did not succeed at the expected level in applying counter opinions and source items of persuasive expression in the process of text creation and text analysis, and there was no significant progress with the education process in spelling and punctuation. On the other hand, it has been found that students are level for “elaboration, transition words” and very good level for title, introduction, development, result, thesis, supporting opinions, emotional orientation, repeat, call, justification, “requirement statements. After analyses of researcher and student diaries, the themes have been reached that can increase productivity in education.

Okumaya Yönelik Tutum Ölçeği: Ölçek Geliştirme Çalışması

Bu calisma ile ortaokul 5 ve 6. sinif ogrencileri icin Okumaya Yonelik Tutum Olcegi gelistirmek amaclanmistir. Arastirmanin orneklemini Kars il merkezinde bulunan, rastgele secilen ortaokullarda 5 ve 6. siniflarda ogrenim goren 370 ogrenci olusturmaktadir. Olcme aracinin gelistirilmesi sureci, (1) acimlayici faktor analizi ve (2) dogrulayici faktor analizini icerecek sekilde iki asamada gerceklestirilmistir. Analiz sonuclarina gore, olcegin 26 madde ve 1 alt boyuttan olustugu belirlenmistir. Bu alt boyut, okuma tutumu olarak adlandirilmistir. Daha sonra olcme aracinin ic tutarligi Cronbach Alpha ile hesaplanmis ve bu veri setinden elde edilen sonuclarin oldukca yuksek guvenirlige sahip oldugu gorulmustur.

The Effect of Carrying out Writing to Learn Activities on Academic Success of Fifth Grade Students in Secondary School on the Subject of "Force and Motion"

The Effect of Carrying out Writing to Learn Activities on Academic Success of Fifth Grade Students in Secondary School on the Subject of "Force and Motion"

The Effect of Planning Pattern of Analysis, Design, Production, Implementation and Evaluation with the E-Learning Approach on Achievement Motivation of Progress in Third Grade Students of Secondary School in English Courses

Background : An appropriate teaching method is the most important bases of quality. Several psychologists believe that learning opportunities should be organized so that each student can engage in activities based on their ability. Establishing an e-learning environment (Analysis) (ADDIE) is a proof of this claim. This study is aimed at investigating the effect of educational design model on evaluation, implementation, development, and design with the focus of e-Learning on the achievement motivation of students at the third grade of high school. Methods : This study employed quasi-experimental methods. 2477 students from third grade in high school of education office in Sari, region 1 in the 2012 - 2013 academic year. Using multi stage cluster sampling method, two classes with sample size of 49 students were selected and were randomly divided into experimental group (26 persons) and control group (23 persons). For data collection, Hermans achievement motivation test (1970) and researcher made questionnaire in English course were utilized. Data analysis was carried out by descriptive and Analysis of covariance statistics (ANCOVA). Results : Results showed that the use of educational design model (P < α = 0.01), with the focus of e-Learning enhances the achievement motivation of students at the third grade of high school in English course. Conclusions : Because of the influence of educational design model to increase student motivation, it seems that using this teaching method is useful in education.

The Relationship between Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies and Success of Science of the 5th Grade Students in Secondary School

In this study, the relationship between metacognitive awareness of reading strategies and success of science of 5 th grade students in secondary school is aimed to reveal. In this sense, using levels of students' reading strategies, the relationship between these strategies and their success of science and also whether these strategies varies according to certain demographic characteristics is investigated. Turkish version –adapted by Ozturk (2012)- of reading strategies scale which was originally developed by Mokhtari and Reichard (2002) was used for that purpose. 5 point likert scale consists of 30 items. The scale consists of three factors including General Reading, Problem Solving Based Reading Strategies and Supportive Reading Strategies. The study was conducted with the participation of 241 secondary school students in the 5th grade. The final grades of students in science classes were taken as a basis as a measure of success. In this study, methods of descriptive statistics including; frequency, percentage and averaging analysis, T-test, Anova and Scheffe tests for the detection of differences between independent variables and Pearson correlation analysis to determine the level and direction of the relationship between the two variables were performed. As a result of analyses, i t was found that students have moderate levels of metacognitive awareness about each reading strategies. I t was seen that students have higher levels of metacognitive awareness in terms of Problem Solving-based Reading Strategy rather than General Reading Strategies and Supportive Reading Strategies. Students' metacognitive awareness of reading strategies were found to vary in favor of girls and moderate and meaningful relationships have been identified between their awareness and success in science classes

Components of Excellence and its Effects on Developing Achievement and Attitude in Mathematics among Secondary School Students

The study aimed to build a suggested strategy in light of Connectivism theory to develop the components of excellence in mathematics, and measure its effect on developing achievement and attitude among secondary school students. The study depended on the experimental design, two groups (pre-post); also the sample was selected randomly among first grade students in secondary school. The unit quadrilaterals have prepared in using proposed strategy. The instrument of study included: questionnaire of components of excellence in mathematics, achievement test, and questionnaire of attitude. The main findings were there are significant differences between the average grades of the experimental and controlling group in post application of questionnaire of excellence, achievement test and attitude questionnaire in favor of the experimental group students. In light of the results, the recommendations were including: applying connectivism theory in teaching mathematics to develop components of excellence in mathematics. All of these points have supported developing achievement and attitude toward mathematics.

Components of Excellence and its Effects on Developing Achievement and Attitude in Mathematics among Secondary School Students

The study aimed to build a suggested strategy in light of Connectivism theory to develop the components of excellence in mathematics, and measure its effect on developing achievement and attitude among secondary school students. The study depended on the experimental design, two groups (pre-post); also the sample was selected randomly among first grade students in secondary school. The unit quadrilaterals have prepared in using proposed strategy. The instrument of study included: questionnaire of components of excellence in mathematics, achievement test, and questionnaire of attitude. The main findings were there are significant differences between the average grades of the experimental and controlling group in post application of questionnaire of excellence, achievement test and attitude questionnaire in favor of the experimental group students. In light of the results, the recommendations were including: applying connectivism theory in teaching mathematics to develop components of excellence in mathematics. All of these points have supported developing achievement and attitude toward mathematics.

Parental rearing practices from the perspective of adolescents

This paper discusses the phenomenon of parenting in families with adolescents. Special emphasis is placed on the exploration of the concept of parenting rearing practices through the dimensions of parental emotional warmth, control and monitoring. Based on that, starting from the standpoint about the importance of child's perception of parental behaviour, this paper presents the results of the research aimed at examining adolescents' view of parental rearing practices. The instrument used in the research consisted of three subscales (emotional warmth, monitoring, control), as well as the questions about socio-demographic variables. The sample included 154 second grade students of secondary school, i.e. adolescents. The findings have shown that adolescents perceived parental warmth as the most present and parental monitoring and control as less present parental rearing practice. Mother's parental rearing practices were perceived as significantly more present compared to those of the father. Also, it was found that the gender of respondents is a significant variable in the perception of parental rearing practices, while family characteristics (family social status, family structure, parent's educational level and the number of children in the family) have not been proved as statistically significant variables. The concluding part emphasizes the need for further research of the factors that determine father's role in the family with adolescents, and the need to develop parent's awareness of the benefits related to adolescent's self-disclosure in the process of parental monitoring.