Pub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.33225/balticste/2021.135
A. Rissanen, K. Saastamoinen
The National Defense University (NDU) trains officers to develop their academic and professional skills. To accomplish this, the university offers two mandatory courses on methodological training for military technology students for master level education. The first course was theoretically oriented, and the second course was practically oriented. These both master-level methodology courses emphasize practice oriented mathematical skills, which officers use in their operative decision-making and statistical analysis. This study focuses on student-centered learning methodologies linked to teachers’ observations from current and previous course implementations. Results in this study described the outcome from the first run of the revised curriculum. We collected data from students’ course reports and the university’s standard student evaluation of teaching (SET). According to the SET, the course 2 which was practically oriented course, where groups worked on more significant projects gained higher value among students. In conclusion, we recommend that teachers continue using student-centered learning methodologies to technical students as much as possible. Theoretically underscored courses should also contain more practical examples. Keywords: distance education, flipped learning, learning by doing, research methodology, student-centered learning
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Pub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.33225/balticste/2021.39
Ilva Cinite, G. Barinovs
Education research has repeatedly shown that active learning in physics is pedagogically more efficient than traditional lecture courses. Widespread application of the active learning is slowed down by the lack of data on the performance of the active learning in widely varying circumstances of different educational systems. We measured the level of understanding of basic physics concepts using Force Concept inventory for students who enrol at different universities in Latvia in calculus-based and non-calculus-based groups and compared the student performance to the pre-test results elsewhere in the world. We measured the growth of concept inventory test results and studied the dependence of the growth on the teaching approach used by university lecturers. About 450 undergraduate students from 12 groups of science and engineering courses taught by 8 lecturers were involved in the study at three universities in Latvia. The Force Concept Inventory multiple-choice test was translated to Latvian and used for pre-/post-tests. The pre-test results showed that the maximum of the distribution of correct answers for non-calculus groups is around 20%, which is the value obtained by the random guessing of test answers, whereas the pre-test results of calculus-based groups was about 50% of correct answers. The test score after taking post-test confirmed that the growth of students’ tests results is closely related to the teaching approach chosen by lecturer, showing that in order to provide physics graduates with a good conceptual understanding of physics, student centred teaching approach was crucial. The use of concept inventories in undergraduate physics education to measure the progress of learning appears to be particularly important in the current situation with a small number of students in physics and a critically small number of future physics teachers, when efficiency of teaching is of crucial importance. Keywords: STEM education quality, conceptual understanding, student-centred approach
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Pub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.33225/balticste/2021.16
P. Bussotti
This research deals with a possible use of history of mathematics in mathematics education. In particular, history can be a fundamental element for the introduction of the concept of integral through a problem-centred and intuitive approach. Therefore, what follows is dedicated to the teaching of mathematics in the last years of secondary schools, where infinitesimal calculus is addressed. The thesis here proposed is that the resort to Archimedes’ use of exhaustion method and to Newton’s initial lemmas expounded in his Principia Mathematica are useful means to reach a genetic comprehension of the concept of integral. Hence, two demonstrations by Archimedes and two lemmas by Newton are used to prove such thesis. A further idea here proposed is that history of mathematics can be of help for an interdisciplinary education. Keywords: interdisciplinary education, mathematics education, science history, secondary schools
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Pub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.33225/balticste/2021.07
Markéta Bartoňová, Dana Kričfaluši
Integrated teaching is teaching in which the educational contents of subjects are interconnected. Connections can be discussed in a specialized integrated subjects e.g., Integrated science. Integrated science is a subject that connects knowledge from chemistry, biology, physics, geography, and geology. One topic is discussed from a different point of view, and students should transform their theoretical knowledge in practice. Worksheets can serve as a teaching material that can provide help to students as well as teachers and guide students on their path to knowledge. But how should a worksheet look like and how should the tasks be designed? This contribution describes a suggested method for making a worksheet for integrated (science) teaching that we call CCCTER. CCCTER is abbreviation for choose, connect, create, try, evaluate, remade. The method implements the national Framework education program for secondary general education (grammar schools) in the process of making the tasks. The principles choose, connect, and create are demonstrated. It provides a sample task of a worksheet for integrated (science) teaching. Keywords: methodology for creating worksheets, integrated science, integrated teaching
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Pub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.33225/balticste/2021.144
Dušica D. Rodić, Saša A. Horvat, Tamara N. Rončević, Snežana S. Babić-Kekez
Examining students' inclinations to use algorithms and rules to solve a task was a fruitful area of research in chemical education in the last four decades. This research aimed to examine whether students read the task request carefully, considering its meaningfulness, or they approach it mechanically, applying a set of algorithms by default. The research sample consisted of students majoring in chemistry teaching at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences who were in their final year of bachelor studies. The study was conducted during two academic years. The main instrument consisted of five quantitative problems, and each of the problems contained deceptive information that made the calculation nonsensical. The results revealed that most students applied an algorithmic approach without paying attention to the meaningfulness of the task requirements. Additionally, it has been shown that students rely heavily on memorizing formulas without a proper understanding of underlying concepts. Keywords: algorithms, conceptual understanding, quantitative problems
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Pub Date : 2021-09-09DOI: 10.33225/balticste/2021.32
Mihail Calalb
A new didactical approach named "Learning by Being" (LBB) is proposed and its correlation with current educational paradigms in science teaching is analysed. The key idea in LBB is the assumption by the students of cognitive goals, and three components are mandatory in LBB: a) student’s personal learning effort, b) student – teacher mutual feedback and c) metacognition. In other words, the ownership of cognitive goals and students’ deep intrinsic motivation. Several didactic approaches, used within LBB, are analysed: independent research that has an impact factor on cognitive achievement equal to 83%; knowledge of success criteria (impact factor – 113%); ability to reveal similarities and patterns (impact factor – 132%). The core of LBB is guided learning effort that corresponds to the notion of teacher–student harmonic oscillator when both things – guidance from teacher and student’s effort – are equally important. Keywords: conceptual understanding, learning by being, ownership of cognitive goals, science learning.
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