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Pedagogical Agents for Fostering Question-Asking Skills in Children
Question asking is an important tool for constructing academic knowledge, and
a self-reinforcing driver of curiosity. However, research has found that
question asking is infrequent in the classroom and children's questions are
often superficial, lacking deep reasoning. In this work, we developed a
pedagogical agent that encourages children to ask divergent-thinking questions,
a more complex form of questions that is associated with curiosity. We
conducted a study with 95 fifth grade students, who interacted with an agent
that encourages either convergent-thinking or divergent-thinking questions.
Results showed that both interventions increased the number of
divergent-thinking questions and the fluency of question asking, while they did
not significantly alter children's perception of curiosity despite their high
intrinsic motivation scores. In addition, children's curiosity trait has a
mediating effect on question asking under the divergent-thinking agent,
suggesting that question-asking interventions must be personalized to each
student based on their tendency to be curious.Comment: Accepted at CHI 202
Developing the scales on evaluation beliefs of student teachers
The purpose of the study reported in this paper was to investigate the validity and the reliability of a newly developed questionnaire named âTeacher Evaluation Beliefsâ (TEB). The framework for developing items was provided by the two models. The first model focuses on Student-Centered and Teacher-Centered beliefs about evaluation while the other centers on five dimensions (what/ who/ when/ why/ how). The validity and reliability of the new instrument was investigated using both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis study (n=446). Overall results indicate that the two-factor structure is more reasonable than the five-factor one. Further research needs additional items about the latent dimensions âwhatâ âwhoâ âwhenâ âwhyâ âhowâ for each existing factor based on Student-centered and Teacher-centered approaches
How should we conduct ourselves? Critical realism and Aristotelian teleology : a framework for the development of virtues in pedagogy and curriculum
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Critical Realism on 19 June 2018, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2018.1484653. Under embargo until 19 December 2019.Faced with the marketization of Higher Education in England, pedagogy is under pressure in ways that often undermine lecturersâ deeply held values. For instance, this pressure results in the reduction of significant aspects of teaching to narrow metrics and requires universities to operate within intrusive structures that subordinate their pedagogical aims to profit-orientated objectives. In this paper, I analyse the way that people can preserve their agency in this pedagogical context. I guide my analysis with a framework that combines critical realism with Aristotelian virtue ethics and MacIntyreâs ideas of qualities within human practices. I suggest the kinds of qualities that might assist faculty to preserve and advance rich pedagogical projects in the current circumstances. Finally, I use a critical realist morphogenetic approach to argue that people may be able to resist losing their way when faced with ubiquitous performativity regimes.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio
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Coordinating visualizations of polysemous action: Values added for grounding proportion
We contribute to research on visualization as an epistemic learning tool by inquiring into the didactical potential of having students visualize one phenomenon in accord with two different partial meanings of the same concept. 22 Grade 4-6 students participated in a design study that investigated the emergence of proportional-equivalence notions from mediated perceptuomotor schemas. Working as individuals or pairs in tutorial clinical interviews, students solved non-symbolic interaction problems that utilized remote-sensing technology. Next, they used symbolic artifacts interpolated into the problem space as semiotic means to objectify in mathematical register a variety of both additive and multiplicative solution strategies. Finally, they reflected on tensions between these competing visualizations of the space. Micro-ethnographic analyses of episodes from three paradigmatic case studies suggest that students reconciled semiotic conflicts by generating heuristic logico-mathematical inferences that integrated competing meanings into cohesive conceptual networks. These inferences hinged on revisualizing additive elements multiplicatively. Implications are drawn for rethinking didactical design for proportions. © 2013 FIZ Karlsruhe
EFL teacher agency in mediating the socialisation of multilingual learners
English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers are seemingly ideally placed to mediate the successful socialisation of multilingual learners into the new school environment for two major reasons. Firstly, as they have effective command of both L1 and L2 and often have experience of living abroad, they tend to exhibit higher levels of openness to new situations, empathy and understanding of the difficulties faced by multilingual learners. Secondly, the English class can itself be a platform for mutual understanding where learners are able to develop both English communication skills and intercultural competence (cf. Hopp, Jakisch, Sturm, Becker & Thoma 2020; Krulatz, Neokleous & Dahl 2022). As English is the language of instruction, it also has the potential to maintain levels of multilingual competence among those learners who already speak English as their heritage language (Banasiak & OlpiĆska-SzkieĆko 2021), e.g. migrant children returning from the UK/Ireland. Drawing on data from a larger project (Rokita-JaĆkow, Wolanin, KrĂłl-Gierat & Nosidlak 2022), which consisted of interviewing 23 primary school EFL teachers in various contexts, this paper analyses the possible factors that impact teacher agency in the socialisation of multilinguals. It has been found that teacher agency in that respect appears to stem from teachersâ plurilingual competence and prior teaching experience. Surprisingly, personal experiences of intercultural encounters (e.g. time spent living abroad) or verbalised empathy, had little impact on teacher agency. This finding implies that even language teachers find it difficult to put themselves in the position of the multilingual learner and need specialist training in order to work with multilingual learners, which may convey an important message for educational decision-makers with reference to the formulation of future teacher education guidelines and curricula
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