Interests Of School Students Research Articles

The Effect of a Climate Change Monitoring Program on Students’ Knowledge and Perceptions of STEAM Education in the Republic of Korea

Background:South Korea has recently started to implement a STEM-like approach in K-12 education, titled STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics), to train the next generations of students to be innovators. As this approach has been shown to increase educational success, it is vital to prepare and develop interest in middle school students to participate in STEAM. This study examined the impact of hands-on global climate change monitoring projects that follow the six structured inventive thinking (SSIT) approach on the knowledge and perceptions of STEAM content by middle school students.Materials and methods:The participants in the study were 68 grade 7 students from a middle school in Seoul, Korea. Employing a quasi-experimental design, the participants were measured on their STEAM knowledge and perceptions before and after participation.Results:The findings indicate that students who participated in global climate change monitoring activities not only reported gains in their STEAM content knowledge but also showed an improvement in their perceptions of STEAM subjects. This latter was more pronounced for female middle school students than for male students.Conclusions:This study suggest that carefully designed projects comprised of SSIT-based environmental activities can be effective at the middle school level.

A pedagogical example of second-order arithmetic sequences applied to the construction of computer passwords by upper elementary grade students

The purpose of this paper is (1) to present how general education elementary school age students constructed computer passwords using digital root sums and second-order arithmetic sequences, (2) argue that computer password construction can be used as an engaging introduction to generate interest in elementary school students to study mathematics related to computer science, and (3) share additional mathematical ideas accessible to elementary school students that can be used to create computer passwords. This paper serves to fill a current gap in the literature regarding the integration of mathematical content accessible to upper elementary school students and aspects of computer science in general, and computer password construction in particular. In addition, the protocols presented here can serve as a hook to generate further interest in mathematics and computer science. Students learned to create a random-looking computer password by using biometric measurements of their shoe size, height, and age in months and to create a second-order arithmetic sequence, then converted the resulting numbers into characters that become their computer passwords. This password protocol can be used to introduce students to good computer password habits that can serve a foundation for a life-long awareness of data security. A refinement of the password protocol is also presented.

Evaluating visual programming environments to teach computing to minority high school students

This paper discusses a nine-month research study to determine which of two programming environments, Alice or Android App Inventor, have a greater impact on high school student's interest and learn...

Improving students' skills, knowledge and abilities in computer programming

This project describes findings on a three-year project to increase High School students' attitude and interest in computing careers by focusing on computer programming. Our approach involves using...

Sequential attrition of secondary school student interest in IT courses and careers

PurposeThis paper aims to present results of interviews with Australian students in junior, middle and senior secondary‐school. It also aims to provide a current insight into the declining diversity of the information technology (IT) student cohort that is not captured in the existing literature. Educational psychology theories of self‐efficacy shed light on the development of like and dislike towards aspects of IT, it also seeks to consider the career choice decision‐making theories and models to understand the cost‐benefit dimensions of career choice in young people in the twenty‐first century. Socio‐cultural factors that condition young women for their expected role in society also apply to career choice and build a theoretical framework for the research.Design/methodology/approachQualitative research methodology of semi‐structured focus group interviews were conducted with students of both genders from three different year levels. The interviews were analysed using a meta matrix approach aligned with themes suggested in the literature.FindingsThis research found that IT rarely entered their schematic repertoire of possible future careers, a schematic repertoire strongly influenced by parental opinion and habitus at all stages of education. While it would appear that there is a deficit in student knowledge of what an IT career involves beyond that of the most stereotypical portrayal of a programmer, this deficit of knowledge is evident in both genders. While it would appear that there is a deficit in student knowledge of what an IT career involves beyond that of the most stereotypical portrayal of a programmer, this deficit of knowledge is evident in both genders. This research found a pattern of factors specific to Information Technology that encouraged some males to choose this career path and a pattern of inhibiting factors that had a stronger negative impact on young women than young men.Research limitations/implicationsIt is apparent from this study that the lack of women in IT is not necessarily a gender issue, but an issue embedded in the image of the IT discipline, an image of lower status than most other professional careers. It is apparent from this study that the lack of women in IT is not necessarily a gender issue, but an issue embedded in the image of the IT discipline, an image of lower status than most other professional careers.Practical implicationsA positive implication is that there is little differentiation between the genders in IT use, despite greater confidence in technical ability residing with males.Social implicationsA lack of diversity in a workforce is detrimental to creativity and future design. IT professionals, industry and academics need to work together to engender greater interest in this discipline and increase their focus on parents of students.Originality/valueThis paper adds to current theory by suggesting that parents remain the primary influencers to student career and course choices. A second important contribution to current theory is the perpetuation of the poor image that students hold of the IT profession.

High School And University Students Interest For Sport in Cluj - Napoca

Purpose. Sports facilities, services and equipment, professional competence of the instructors, teachers and coaches with the requirements and needs of the population have become an important and current research theme. The research purpose is to obtain data at the following categories: motivation and satisfaction received from a sporting activity, quality of service and identify the benefits achieved. Methods. The method has been applied in the form of sociological survey questionnaire applied directly to high school or university students, or through the Internet. Results. Responses to questions were entered into SPSS, and was calculated the arithmetic average, median, mode and deviations from central tendencies, univariate analysis. Conclusions. Reasons to practice sports by subjects interviewed are: health, fitness, hedonic aspects and aesthetic aspirations. The time given movement is about an hour and a half. Team games are appreciated. The deployment conditions of sports activity are unsatisfactory. Advertising and quality of services, athlete’s recovery and the ambience of sporting bases may influence the attitude for those who do not want to sweat for healthy life.

Making youth excited about STEM education

This paper describes a three-year effort, to increase Middle School students' attitude and interest in STEM careers by focusing on programming and thus gaming. Generally, the project shows promise ...

IT-Adventures: A Program to Spark IT Interest in High School Students Using Inquiry-Based Learning With Cyber Defense, Game Design, and Robotics

The IT-Adventures program is dedicated to increasing interest in and awareness of information technology among high school students using inquiry-based learning focused on three content areas: cyber defense, game design programming, and robotics. The program combines secondary, post-secondary, and industry partnerships in educational programming, competitive events, and service learning projects targeted at high school students to accomplish its goals. This paper provides details about the IT-Adventures program as well as the capstone event for students-the IT-Olympics. Project assessment findings, such as differences between students who compete in different content areas, and descriptive measures about the participants are also provided.

Education for Everyday People: Obstacles and Opportunities Facing the Obama Administration

In this essay, Gloria Ladson-Billings describes her reaction to Barack Obama's election and her desire to share these historic moments with folks she considers "everyday people." She then looks to the future of education in the United States and highlights obstacles to the Obama administration's meaningful engagement with education issues. Ladson-Billings uses the frame of interest convergence to suggest that this new administration has the opportunity to engage in pragmatic politics and to put forward polices that simultaneously promote both the interests of public school students—particularly those from disenfranchised communities—and national interests. She illustrates this argument through a chronicle imagining a future discussion among the president's cabinet. Finally, she closes by describing the power of the president's inauguration for uniting diverse communities and broadening the definition of everyday people.

Analyzing Geology textbooks for secondary school curricula in Greece and Spain: Educational use of geological heritage

The teaching of geology as a separate discipline in secondary school curricula has been progressively reduced during the last 20 years in European countries. In the case of Greece and Spain, National Education laws have set geology as a supplementary matter of biology, geography and environmental sciences. However, geology and Earth sciences are not subsidiary items of these "natural science" disciplines. This secondary role assigned to geology is creating serious concern among geologist community due to the substantial drop of geology contents in Secondary school curricula, which will presumably produce a consequent drop of geology students in universities and the lack of geologists in the society. A proposal is made for using geological heritage as an educational tool and incorporating it to textbooks. This means using relevant points of geological and palaeontological heritage, as well as erosional features and fossil sites and relevant remains to illustrate natural processes and the History of Earth. This might provide a valuable instrument to create social and political concern for both Earth sciences and geological heritage, as well as to raise interest and enthusiasm in Secondary school students for the knowledge of Earth.

The Role of Cognitive Conflict in Developing Students’ Understanding of Average

Two strands of research motivate this study. One is the interest in school students’ development of understanding of the concept of average, historically part of the mathematics curriculum and prominent in the statistics curriculum introduced in the early 1990s. The other is the belief of some educators that students learn meaningfully when experiencing cognitive conflict that challenges incorrect or incomplete understandings. This study presented 58 students in Grades 3, 6, and 9 with a series of questions about the concept of average. After initial levels of response were observed, students were presented with alternative responses on video from other school students and asked to choose which best resolved the task at hand. Initial responses confirmed the levels of understanding in an earlier study based on the same questions. Responses after the experience of cognitive conflict were either at the same level as before or higher, with no student finally agreeing with a lower level response. The results are compared with longitudinal change in relation to average and change resulting from cognitive conflict in relation to other areas of chance and data. Implications of the research are considered.

The Views of Youth on Their Educational Rights: A Case Study of Secondary Students from two Northern Ontario High Schools

A case study is reported involving 32 applied and academic program student volunteers aged 15–18 years from two high schools located in Northern Ontario, Canada. Students were interviewed regarding a number of educational policy and school climate issues. The study examines perceptions of rights as an aspect of the school learning environment. The need for greater school community and additional supports for struggling students was voiced by students across both program groups. Students strongly endorsed either a meritocratic or an equalitarian perspective on rights issues with both philosophies represented to some extent in both program groups. Surprisingly, students across both program groups expressed little interest in their education rights or their legal rights generally. The importance of fostering school community and student interest in rights issues is discussed. Also considered is the role of the social science researcher in providing youth a forum for the discussion of social policy issues.

The Vocational Interests of Hispanic, African American, and White Middle School Students

Relatively little is known about the vocational interests of middle school students, particularly those of minority students. In this study, the Strong Interest Inventory was administered to 570 6th-, 7th-, and 8th-grade students in an urban middle school. The major racial groups studied were African American, Hispanic, White, and Spanish Primary Language (SPL) students. Comparisons among racial groups indicated that Spanish Primary Language students expressed significantly higher interests on several of the General Occupational Themes when compared with Hispanic and White students.

The Experience Factor in Computer Anxiety and Interest

The shift towards a computerized society is stimulating active research in students' expressed computer anxiety and computer interest. This study examined how experience in computer usage influences the manifestation of computer anxiety and computer interest in high school students. Data collected from 426 students in Western Australia showed a clear gradation in the decline of anxiety level with increase in the number of years of experience. The results further showed that irrespective of experience, the subjects had high scores favoring the items “I think a computer can be very interesting” and “If my family had a home computer, I would probably use it more than any one else.” There was a significant difference in the views of the students on such items as “A computer can be a boring companion,” “People managed before without computers, so computers are not really necessary now,” and “People who like computers are not often sociable.” The educational implications of these and other interesting findings of the study are drawn.

Management Education Drifts into the 21st Century

* breadth of curriculum and pedagogical techniques to broaden the scope of the interests of business school students; * greater attention to the external environment (e.g., government relations, societal trends, legal climate, and international developments) of business and management; * serious, intensive consideration of the international dimensions of business education; * recognition that our society is increasingly service and information driven; * integration of curricula across functional areas; and * additional education in interpersonal and communication skills.

An analysis of the Health Interests of rural middle school students: Development of health education content in Soo-Dong school

An analysis of the Health Interests of rural middle school students: Development of health education content in Soo-Dong school

The Interests of Secondary School Students and Their Choice of a Future Occupation

The current school reorganization, based on linking up schooling and production work, provides broad opportunities for helping students to make a conscious choice of their future occupation. It is the school's duty to give them every assistance in this vitally important matter by studying and developing their individual inclinations and their interest in certain school subjects and types of work. The experience of older generations demonstrates how much these interests and inclinations influence future activity. As a rule, the interest which children and youth take in certain school subjects determines, to a considerable degree, their choice of occupation and leaves an indelible imprint on their entire mature working life.

Health Needs and Interests as a Basis for Selecting Health Content in Secondary Schools

Abstract A valid and reliable inventory was developed for measuring the health needs and interests of secondary school students. Four adaptations to the inventory were administered to students, parents, health teachers, and physicians. Results indicate a common core of health interests among high school students. Health needs as expressed by high school girls and boys are markedly different. The parents, health educators, and medical doctors were in agreement on the basic health needs of the high school student. The adult and student portions of this sample were in some disagreement on what the high school child needs to learn about health.

A Study Relating to the Change in the Newspaper Reading Interests of Secondary School Students Since the Entrance of the United States into World War Ii

A Study Relating to the Change in the Newspaper Reading Interests of Secondary School Students Since the Entrance of the United States into World War Ii