Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5958/2230-7311.2014.00004.x
E. Azizi, Sadeghali Movahedmanesh
The present study is an attempt to assess the Level of Self-Regulated Learning Strategies among Bachelor Science Degree Students with Different Combination of Subjects who affiliated to University of Mysore. Convenience sampling technique was used to select the Colleges in Mysore city. Proportion random sampling technique was used to draw final year from different types of colleges giving representation to their Gender and Different Combination of Subjects. Totally 254 Students were selected according to the table of Krejcie and Morgan. The Motivational Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) was employed to assess the Level of SRLS in total and component wise. Descriptive statistics have been employed to analyze the data descriptively. The findings indicated majority of Students have exhibited average Level of SRLS in total and in all its Scales.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5958/2230-7311.2017.00002.2
Amit Ahuja
In science education, teaching methodologies focussing on developing scientific attitude among students facilitate them in scoring academically high and thus scientific attitude may work as determinant of academic performance of students. A descriptive survey was conducted on 208 students of secondary school students in Delhi. The data analysis showed that there was gender difference, in the favour of girl students, with respect to scientific attitude and science achievement scores. A significantly positive co relation between scientific attitude and science achievement scores of students was found. Interaction effects also supported these findings.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5958/2230-7311.2016.00027.1
Sheojee Singh
‘A recent survey of five rural schools and five urban schools by the author revealed a startling fact regarding the new challenges for teacher education in India. It was found in the survey that despite the greater flow of funds and availability of better technology, the teachers who bring excellent results are the ones who had the burning desire to help children learn better, which the author calls the software of excellence in teaching learning. The commitment to put in sustained efforts needed for improving the performance of learners at all levels was found missing among a majority of the teachers surveyed, who for one reason or the other were found busy in compiling reports and distributing funds at the expense of the vital teaching learning interactions. This paper discusses the related challenges of public education in India and tries to present an alternative plan of action in order to meet the challenges of global economic exploitation of the masses in the guise of welfare measures. It concludes with asserting the crucial need for reform from within the system of teacher education to rejuvenate the system for making it self-sufficient and self sustained in terms of quality input-output for the educational resurgence of the country. The author is of the opinion that simply by providing funds and recruiting teachers somehow is not going to help achieve the goals of quality education for all; rather a meaningful and alert mechanism of supervision, with active partnership of local bodies is the need of the hour to make the system work. Citing from the work of Dr. James Tooley (2009), the author points out that the way to meet the challenge is a systemic reform, at the centre of which is a paradigm shift in the training of teachers and re-orientation of educational administrators for their new and more complicated roles as sincere facilitators for lifelong learning of their students.’
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5958/2230-7311.2014.00017.8
P. Paul, Asok Kumar, E. Poovammal, K. Dangwal
Information Science is one of the important term in this new millennium. Information Science is applicable in so many sector and domain and departments. As Information Science is a mainly deal with information activities; such as collection, selection, organization, processing, management and dissemination and thus it is needed each and every where; directly and indirectly. Information Science is most interdisciplinary field and combines with so many other domain and discipline for better information processing and management. Virtually, the perception on Information Science differs generation wise or according to the age. Today Information Science is treated as most important domain of Applied Science but earlier it is also treated as domain of Social Science and describes various characteristics of this domain with changing scenario. Information Science and various perceptions on this domain is also illustrated in this paper in brief manner.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5958/2230-7311.2017.00009.5
V. Parkash
Teacher professional development has taken place in isolation and has been dependent upon input from outside “experts” (Sandholtz, A companion of direct and indirect professional development activities. Professional development for teachers is the range of formal and informal processes and activities that teachers engage in both inside and outside of the school, in order to improve their teaching knowledge and skills. As an alternative, collaborative action research actively involves teachers in professional reflection, validates educators as producers of knowledge, and recognizes their role in professional development and decision making. The value of teacher research is well documented (Cochran–Smith & Lytle, Inside outside: teacher research and knowledge, Teachers College Press, New York, 1993) but unless deliberate attempts to share findings are established, the products of teacher research often remain within individual classrooms. Strategies to develop collaborative research capabilities are needed. The ultimate goal of teacher professional development is improving student learning outcomes. Research indicates that teachers have control over many factors that influence motivation, achievement and behavior of their students. Therefore, professional development focusing on effective classroom management will enhance a teacher's skills and performance in the classroom. Skills such as effective classroom management are vital to teaching and require common sense, consistency, a sense of fairness and courage. The skills also require that teachers understand the psychological and developmental levels of each student. The ability of teachers to organize classrooms and manage the behavior of their students is critical for achieving positive educational outcomes. Although sound behavior management does not guarantee effective instruction, it establishes the environmental context that makes good instruction possible. Reciprocally highly effective instruction reduces, but does not eliminate, classroom behavior problems. Effective classroom management competencies also significantly influence the persistence of new teachers in the classroom. Effective classroom management requires a comprehensive approach that should include structuring the school and classroom environment, actively supervising student engagement, implementing classroom rules, enacting procedures that encourage appropriate behavior, using behavior reduction strategies and collecting and using data to monitor student behavior and modifying classroom management procedures. Therefore in teacher preparation programs greater emphasis needs to be placed on preparing teachers to be competent and efficient at managing today's classrooms with their diverse range of learners. This approach means not only giving pre-service teachers the intellectual understanding of the issues involved but also providing them supervised experience related to components of classroom management. The purpose of this
教师的专业发展是在孤立的情况下进行的，依赖于外部“专家”的投入(Sandholtz，直接和间接专业发展活动的伴侣)。教师的专业发展是教师在学校内外从事的一系列正式和非正式的过程和活动，以提高他们的教学知识和技能。作为另一种选择，合作行动研究积极地让教师参与专业反思，确认教育者作为知识的生产者，并承认他们在专业发展和决策中的作用。教师研究的价值得到了充分的证明(Cochran-Smith & Lytle, Inside - outside: teacher research and knowledge, Teachers College Press, New York, 1993)，但是，除非建立了有意识的分享发现的尝试，否则教师研究的成果往往停留在个别教室里。发展合作研究能力的战略是必要的。教师专业发展的最终目标是提高学生的学习成果。研究表明，教师可以控制影响学生动机、成就和行为的许多因素。因此，以有效的课堂管理为重点的专业发展将提高教师的课堂技能和表现。有效的课堂管理等技能对教学至关重要，需要常识、一致性、公平感和勇气。这些技能还要求教师了解每个学生的心理和发展水平。教师组织课堂和管理学生行为的能力对于取得积极的教育成果至关重要。虽然良好的行为管理不能保证有效的指导，但它建立了使良好的指导成为可能的环境背景。反之，高效的教学减少，但不能消除课堂行为问题。有效的课堂管理能力也显著影响新教师在课堂上的持久性。有效的课堂管理需要一个全面的方法，包括构建学校和课堂环境，积极监督学生的参与，实施课堂规则，制定鼓励适当行为的程序，使用行为减少策略，收集和使用数据来监控学生的行为，修改课堂管理程序。因此，在教师培训项目中，需要更加重视教师的培训，使他们能够胜任和有效地管理当今的课堂，并拥有各种各样的学习者。这种方法不仅意味着让职前教师对所涉及的问题有理智的理解，而且还为他们提供与课堂管理组成部分相关的监督经验。本文的目的是提供与教师专业发展相关的研究和建议，特别是针对课堂管理领域，以提高学习成果
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5958/2230-7311.2016.00040.4
V. Trivedi
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5958/2230-7311.2017.00072.1
Nidhi Chadha
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5958/2230-7311.2016.00036.2
D. .. Kauts
The present study was designed to study academic stress and emotional intelligence among college students. In order to conduct the study, six degree colleges of Jalandhar city were selected randomly. From these six colleges, 300 students were selected randomly for the study. The scale of emotional intelligence and academic stress i.e. Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS) by Anukool Hyde, Sanjyot Pethe &Upinder Char (2001) and Bisht Battery of stress scale (BBSS) by Abha Rani Bisht (Almora) were administered on selected sample. Thus the data obtained was analysed using descriptive statistics. Relevant means, S.D's, t values &3x2 ANOVA were computed to draw the conclusions. The analysis of data significantly concluded that the students from science stream experience high stress as compared to students from humanities and commerce streams. Further it was found that emotional intelligence of students has got significant effect on their academic stress. The students with low emotional intelligence reported high academic stress as compared to the students with high emotional intelligence.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5958/2230-7311.2017.00001.0
A. Kaur, Jubilee Padmanabhan
Specific Learning Disorder (SpLD) as a ‘Disorder’ has started attaining considerable attention recently because of the felt need to ensure timely identification and intervention for the betterment of the present and future suffering of such children. For achieving this purpose, better understanding of every aspect of SpLD is very essential for the teachers, as he/she has the responsibility towards such students being specially able children and it is necessary to guide and train them in proper direction. While highlighting the need and importance of early identification of the students with specific learning disorder, this paper will focus on the various tools and techniques for the screening of SpLD; national and international level programs and policies and school based interventions that can facilitate the learning which can give wings to the dreams of such students.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5958/2230-7311.2016.00043.X
M. Kumar
Every year we celebrate December 14 as World Energy Conservation day, however the deliberations in academic and diplomatic discussions have not yielded the desired results in terms of conservation of energy resources in the world. On the other hand, the energy requirements of the world are supposed to rise in future and so is the need for efficient use as well as conservation of the available resources of energy. The amount of energy to be used, the type of resources to be harnessed and the pattern of unorganised or organised distribution of the energy are largely determined by the culture of the societies. The argument put forth in this research paper is that the rising consumer culture in modern societies is leading towards reckless use of energy resources. There is a dire need for refocusing on the critical theories that target the capitalist model of development and try to understand the forces which undermine the critical thinking skills of the individuals. The goal of energy conservation is very difficulttte achieved in the culture of consumerism. This article thus questions the energy scenario of the world based upon the Conflict and Critical perspectives in sociology.
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