Public university orientation for high-school students. A quasi-experimental assessment of the efficiency gains from nudging better career choices

2020 ◽  
pp. 100945
Author(s):  
Barbara Cavalletti ◽  
Matteo Corsi ◽  
Luca Persico ◽  
Enrico di Bella
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Career Choices ◽  
Public University ◽  
Efficiency Gains ◽  
School Students ◽  
Experimental Assessment ◽  
Quasi Experimental

scholarly journals The Effect of Using Peer Assessment Training on Writing Performance among Arab EFL High School Students in Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdallah Mohammad Salem Almahasneh ◽  
Samsiah Abdul-Hamid
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
School Students ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
English As Foreign Language ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Assessment Training

Peer assessment training has appeared as potential new tools for enhancing Arab English as foreign language (EFL) high school students on writing performance. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of using peer assessment training on writing performance among Arab EFL high school students. One hundred and twenty students aged fifteen and sixteen years old participated in this study with an equal number of male and female students. The students were from two Arab high schools in Malaysia. This study employed a quasi-experimental research design. Data was collected using Analytical Marking Scale (Alderson, et al., 1995) to assess student’s writing performance in the pretest and posttest. The result of this study shows that there is a significant difference in the writing performances between the experimental and control groups at P < 0.001. The findings suggests that students who have been exposed to peer assessment training write a better draft compared with those students who were only given conventional training in writing an essay, and without the benefit of peer feedback.

scholarly journals The effect of silent short movie on EFL writing achievement of Vocational High School students

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Rahmani Ayu Rinda Kartika ◽  
S. Susilo ◽  
Muhammad Natsir
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Writing Achievement ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Efl Writing ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Short Movie

The purpose of the study was to investigate whether or not there is a significant effect of silent short movie on EFL writing achievement of the vocational high school students. This study was quasi-experimental using a nonrandomized control group, pretest-posttest design. There were 61 students who were selected randomly from the 10 classes of tenth-graders of the 6th State Vocational School in Samarinda. The instruments used in the study was writing test. The result revealed that the vocational high school tenth grade students who were taught by silent short movie (M = 8.01, SD = .32) got significantly different achievement in EFL writing than did the vocational high school tenth grade students who were not taught by silent short, t(58) = -2.22, p = .030. This result suggests that the writing aspects which the students significantly outperformed were text organization, sentence formation, grammar, vocabulary, mechanics, and tidiness.

scholarly journals Teaching Solar System Topic through Predict-Observe-Explain-Apply (POEA) Strategy: A Path to Students’ Conceptual Change

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ugi Supriatna ◽  
Achmad Samsudin ◽  
Ridwan Efendi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Solar System ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Difference

The misconception of the Solar System topic is still found in students so that it becomes one of the obstacles in the learning process. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of the implementation of Predict-Observe-Explain-Apply (POEA) learning to change the junior high school students' conception in the Solar System topic. Quasi-experimental research with the non-equivalent control group design was conducted in one of the private junior high schools in Bandung city. Samples were selected based on the test of the average significance of the pretest score of the population. Furthermore, 30 students of the experimental class and 32 students of control class were selected. The research instrument, which consisted of 15 four-tier diagnostic test questions about Solar System were used to collect data before and after treatment. The tests were analyzed quantitatively by using the Mann-Whitney statistical test to determine the significance of the difference in the acceptable conception changes (Acceptable Change) of students in the experimental class with changes in the conception of students in the control class. The results of the research show that the implementation of POEA learning is significantly more effective than POE learning in changing the conception of Solar System topic. The findings of this study can be an alternative for junior high school teachers in planning learning about the Solar System, especially in an effort to change students' misconception about the Solar System.

scholarly journals Teacher Recruitment: Factors That Predict High School Students’ Willingness to Become Teachers

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 282
Author(s):  
Steven S. Christensen ◽  
Randall S. Davies ◽  
Scott P. Harris ◽  
Joseph Hanks ◽  
Bryan Bowles
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Predictive Modeling ◽  
Career Choices ◽  
Teacher Recruitment ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
School Students ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Career Option

This study examines factors that influence high school students’ willingness to consider teaching as a career. Using predictive modeling, we identified five factors that are highly predictive of a students’ willingness to consider teaching and their belief that teaching is their best career option. Results indicated that high school students were more likely to consider teaching when they had confidence in their ability to be good teachers, when family members and others encouraged them to become teachers, and when they felt their community supported teachers. Most of those who considered teaching thought of themselves as average students. Less impactful factors included gender and pay. Additionally, this study found students less likely to consider work conditions for teachers when making career choices.

scholarly journals Preventing Pregnancy in High School Students: Observations From a 3-Year Longitudinal, Quasi-Experimental Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 (S1) ◽  
pp. S97-S102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gelfond ◽  
Nicole Dierschke ◽  
Diana Lowe ◽  
Kristen Plastino
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Experimental Study ◽  
High School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Quasi Experimental

scholarly journals Effects of a pilates school program on hamstrings flexibility of adolescents

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 302-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noelia González-Gálvez ◽  
María Carrasco Poyatos ◽  
Pablo Jorge Marcos Pardo ◽  
Rodrigo Gomes de Souza Vale ◽  
Yuri Feito
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Effect Size ◽  
Small Proportion ◽  
T Test ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Hamstring Flexibility ◽  
Experimental Group

INTRODUCTION: Low levels of hamstring flexibility may trigger certain acute and chronic pathologies and injuries. Poor flexibility is observed among teenagers and several authors have recommended the use of specific programs in this population to improve flexibility levels. The Pilates Method (PM) may be an appropriate intervention to achieve this purpose and has rarely been used with this population. Objective: Study was to assess changes in the flexibility of hamstrings after running a didactic PM unit for high-school students.METHODS: This research was developed through a quasi-experimental design. The sample consisted of 66 high-school students divided into experimental group (EG=39) and control group (CG=27). The intervention was carried out 2 times a week for six weeks. Each session lasted 55 minutes divided into three parts: warm-up, main part and cool down. Hamstring flexibility was assessed using the toe-touch test. Paired Student t-test and t-test for independent samples were applied. The size of the effect (d) was determined.RESULTS: The EG showed significant provident in hamstring flexibility (+3.54±3.9cm). The effect size was low (d>d>0,2<0,53), which means that a small proportion of participants improved their results. The control group did not have significant changes after the intervention. In the experimental group, both boys (+3.38± 3.7cm) and girls (+3.85 ± 4.2cm) showed significant improvements. The effect size was low for boys (d>d>0.2<0.53), which means that a small proportion of participants improved their results, and high for girls (d>1.15) which means that a large proportion of participants improved their results.CONCLUSION: This study showed that six-weeks of Pilates training in Physical Education classes has significantly improved the hamstrings flexibility among adolescents.

scholarly journals Pengaruh pembelajaran process oriented-guided inquiry learning berkonteks isu-isu sosiosaintifik dalam pembelajaran asam basa terhadap keterampilan berargumentasi siswa SMA kelas XI

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arum Setyaningsih ◽  
Sri Rahayu ◽  
Fauziatul Fajaroh ◽  
Parmin Parmin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
Inquiry Learning ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Guided Inquiry ◽  
School Students ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Process Oriented ◽  
The Difference

Kemampuan berargumentasi merupakan salah satu aspek dalam kemampuan berliterasi sains. Rendahnya skor pada survei PISA siswa Indonesia menunjukkan rendahnya kemampuan mereka dalam berargumen. Untuk mengatasi masalah tersebut, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perbedaan keterampilan berargumentasi dan kualitas argumentasi siswa yang dibelajarkan dengan model pembelajaran Process Oriented-Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) berkonteks isu-isu sosiosaintifik, POGIL, dan konvensional pada materi asam basa. Rancangan penelitian adalah eksperimen semu posstest only design. Sampel terdiri dari tiga kelas di salah satu SMAN di Kota Malang. Data diperoleh dari hasil tes keterampilan berargumentasi tertulis siswa. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya perbedaan yang signifikan secara statistik terhadap keterampilan berargumentasi siswa di ketiga kelas penelitian (p=0.000). Kualitas argumentasi dianalisis menggunakan kerangka analitik Osborne. Pencapaian level argumentasi siswa kelas POGIL berkonteks isu-isu sosiosaintifik lebih tinggi daripada kelas POGIL dan konvensional. The effect of process oriented-guided inquiry learning with socioscientific issue contexts on high school students’ argument skills  AbstractThe argumentation ability is one of aspect of scientific literacy. The low scores on PISA survey of Indonesian students showed their low ability in argumentation. To address this problem,  this study aims to investigate the difference of students’argumentation skills who were taught using POGIL with socioscientific issues context, POGIL, and conventional learning. Research design was quasi-experimental postest only design. The sample consisted of three classes of a public senior high school in Malang. The data were obtained from students’ written argumentation. The result of this study showed significantly different statistic on students’argumetation skills in three classes (p=0,000). The quality of students’argumetation were classified using analytical framework by Osborne. Achievement of the argument level of POGIL class students contexted sociosaintific issues higher than POGIL class and conventional class.

scholarly journals Application of Pólya's problem solving to the study of angles in fourth grade high school students

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Author(s):  
Rogel Rafael Rojas Bello ◽  
Esterlin Marysol del Rosario
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
School Students ◽  
Intact Group ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Experimental Type

In this research, a study is made of the effect of the application of Pólya's problem-solving heuristic on the development of geometric skills and its impact on academic performance. In the intervention, the topic of angles was developed, to a section of 25 fourth grade high school students in an educational center in the Municipality of Yamasá of the Monte Plata Province in the Dominican Republic. A quasi-experimental type design with a quantitative approach and correlational scope was used, with a non-probabilistic sample, with an intact group and a pre-test and post-test design. The results show that, through Pólya's problem-solving heuristic, students expanded their skills in geometry that greatly increased learning about angles. Corroborated by a growth in the average of the grades from 62.4% that was obtained in the pre-test, to 83.7% that was reached in the post-test, showing statistically that there are significant differences. It stands out that the Pólya heuristic was highly valued by the students under study, therefore, it is believed that it had a positive influence on the benefit of their learning about angles. In addition, the results of the post-test reveal that there is no relationship between the sex of the group under study and the scores obtained when the Pólya heuristic is applied.

scholarly journals Career Guidance and Its Implications for Students’ Career Choices: The Case of Public Senior High Schools in Ghana

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-69
Author(s):  
Joshua-Luther Ndoye Upoalkpajor
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Career Choices ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Government

As an individual goes through Senior High School education, s/he encounters situations which require them to take appropriate educational, vocational and social decisions. This highlights the need for guidance and counselling services in learning institutions. Its importance cannot be overstated. Research has shown that young people think about careers within the context of life more than in terms of qualifications and training. This study explored the knowledge of senior high school students in the Agona East district, about career counselling and how career guidance has been of benefit to them. The qualitative approach of descriptive survey using the purposive sampling technique was adopted. The data gathered was analysed using two main themes consisting of several sub-themes. It emerged from the study that for each occupation, different interests, abilities, personality traits and professional values are required. The findings also revealed that career counselling helps students to link what they learn to their interests, capacities, aspirations, and match these with existing opportunities. Going forward, the study recommends that schools                    assist students to identify their interests and make them aware of the importance of academic qualifications in making career choices. It further recommends to policy makers; especially the government of Ghana, to reinforce Guidance and Counselling programmes in senior high                       schools.

scholarly journals Keefektifan problem posing dan problem solving ditinjau dari ketercapaian kompetensi, metode, dan sikap matematis

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Ahmad Nasrullah ◽  
Marsigit Marsigit
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Mathematical Method ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Problem Posing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Group Design ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Quasi Experimental

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan dan membandingkan keefektifan pembelajaran problem posing dan  problem solving ditinjau dari ketercapaian kompetensi dasar, metode matematis, dan sikap matematis siswa SMA. Penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian eksperimen semu dengan desain Nonequivalent (Pretest and Posttest) group design. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas X SMA Negeri 1 Sakra Lombok Timur yang terdiri dari tujuh kelas. Dari tujuh kelas tersebut, dipilih secara acak dua kelas sebagai kelas eksperimen. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan sebagai berikut. 1). Pendekatan problem posing dan problem solving efektif ditinjau dari ketercapaian kompetensi dasar, metode matematis, dan sikap  matematis siswa SMA. 2). Ada perbedaan keefektifan pendekatan problem posing dan problem solving ditinjau dari ketiga variabel dependen secara simultan. 3). Pendekatan problem solving lebih efektif dibandingkan dengan pendekatan  problem posingditinjau dari ketercapaian kompetensi dasar dan kemampuan metode matematis. 4). Tidak ada perbedaan keefektifan kedua pendekatan pembelajaran ditinjau dari sikap  matematis siswa SMA.Kata Kunci: pendekatan problem posing, problem solving, ketercapaian kompetensi dasar, metode matematis, sikap matematis siswa. The effectiveness of problem posing and problem solving in terms of basic competence attainment, mathematical method, and mathematical attitude AbstractThis study aims to describe and compare the effectiveness of problem posing and problem solving approaches in terms of mathematics basic competence attainment, mathematical method, and mathematical attitude of senior high school students. This study was a quasi-experimental study using the nonequivalent pretest and posttest group design. The population was the  X grade students of State Senior High School 1 of Sakra Lombok Timur that consisted of seven classes. The sample was two classes selected randomly from all Year X classes. The results of the study are as follows. 1) Problem posing and problem solving approaches are effective in terms of the mathematics basic competence attainment, mathematical method and mathematical attitude of Senior Hogh School students. 2) There is a different effect of problem posing and problem solving approaches on all dependent variables simultaneously. 3) Problem solving approach is more effective than problem posing in terms of the basic competence attainment and mathematical method. 4) There is no different effect of problem posing and problem solving approaches in terms of student mathematical attitude.Keywords: problem posing approach, problem solving approach, mathematics basic competence attainment, mathematical method, mathematical attitude.

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