Enhancing hots using problem-based learning and digital game in the context of Malaysian primary school

Learning in the 21st century emphasize on development of higherorder thinking skills such as problem-solving skills with substantial highlightwas given toward student-centred approach. Digital game and problem-solvingactivities are an ideal combination of student-centred approach which facilitateactive participation for students to practice and develop their thinking skills. Thisstudy was conducted to investigate the effect and the process of using digitalgame and problem-based learning skills to enhance higher order thinking skillsin primary school student in the context of Malaysia. A preliminary study wasconducted to 50 samples to collect data about their current higher order thinkingskills level. The result shows samples are good in identify problem and solution,but weak in decision making and reasoning. To study the effect of digitalgame and problem-based learning combined in enhancing higher order thinkingskills, a pre-test and post-test was conducted to 35 samples before and after threesessions of digital game problem-based learning section. After running a pairedsample t test upon the pre-test and post-test, the result show that the combinationof digital game and problem-based learning have significant effect in enhancinghigher order thinking skills. To understand samples’ learning process, reflectionjournal was used after each learning section and an interview was conductedfollowing the post-test. The data gathered indicate samples do enjoy learningwith digital games and problem-based learning, and they agreed the approacheshelp them to learn better. However, they expected for more exciting gamesand group activities in the future. This study opens a gateway for developingstudent-centred and fun learning approach that beneficial toward student’s higherorder thinking skills

THE USE OF HYDROCARBON KIT TEACHING AIDS FROM USED MATERIALS IN TGT LEARNING TO IMPROVE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES AND MOTIVATION AT RURAL SCHOOL

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the use of teaching aids hydrocarbon materials from used goods in learning with the TGT model to improve learning outcomes and student motivation at rural school. The research design used was a quasi-experimental design with a two-group posttest-only design. The research sample is 40 high school students in SMAN 9 Palu suburbs. Hydrocarbon teaching aids are in the form of KIT puzzles and molimod.. Hydrocarbon teaching aids have been validated by media experts and material experts and got very feasible result (91.5%). The research instrument used in this study was a test of hydrocarbon material and a learning motivation questionnaire. Data on learning outcomes and motivation were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics independent sample t-test. The results showed that the use of teaching aids for hydrocarbon materials from used goods in learning with the TGT model was effective in improving student learning outcomes because there were differences in learning outcomes tcount (2.46) > ttable (2.02) and the experimental group learning outcomes were higher than the control class. There are differences in learning motivation tcount (3.17) > ttable (2.02), but the difference in motivation is very small so that the learning motivation in the experimental group and the control class is almost the sam

Multimedia Development of English Vocabulary Learning in Primary School

In this paper, we describe a prototype of web-based intelligent handwriting education system for autonomous learning of Bengali characters. Bengali language is used by more than 211 million people of India and Bangladesh. Due to the socio-economical limitation, all of the population does not have the chance to go to school. This research project was aimed to develop an intelligent Bengali handwriting education system. As an intelligent tutor, the system can automatically check the handwriting errors, such as stroke production errors, stroke sequence errors, stroke relationship errors and immediately provide a feedback to the students to correct themselves. Our proposed system can be accessed from smartphone or iPhone that allows students to do practice their Bengali handwriting at anytime and anywhere. Bengali is a multi-stroke input characters with extremely long cursive shaped where it has stroke order variability and stroke direction variability. Due to this structural limitation, recognition speed is a crucial issue to apply traditional online handwriting recognition algorithm for Bengali language learning. In this work, we have adopted hierarchical recognition approach to improve the recognition speed that makes our system adaptable for web-based language learning. We applied writing speed free recognition methodology together with hierarchical recognition algorithm. It ensured the learning of all aged population, especially for children and older national. The experimental results showed that our proposed hierarchical recognition algorithm can provide higher accuracy than traditional multi-stroke recognition algorithm with more writing variability

Research on Teaching and Learning In Biology, Chemistry and Physics In ESERA 2013 Conference

This paper provides an overview of the topics in educational research that were published in the ESERA 2013 conference proceedings. The aim of the research was to identify what aspects of the teacher-student-content interaction were investigated frequently and what have been studied rarely. We used the categorization system developed by Kinnunen, Lampiselkä, Malmi and Meisalo (2016) and altogether 184 articles were analyzed. The analysis focused on secondary and tertiary level biology, chemistry, physics, and science education. The results showed that most of the studies focus on either the teacher’s pedagogical actions or on the student - content relationship. All other aspects were studied considerably less. For example, the teachers’ thoughts about the students’ perceptions and attitudes towards the goals and the content, and the teachers’ conceptions of the students’ actions towards achieving the goals were studied only rarely. Discussion about the scope and the coverage of the research in science education in Europe is needed.Peer reviewe

EBook proceedings of the ESERA 2011 conference : science learning and citizenship

This ebook contains fourteen parts according to the strands of the ESERA 2011 conference. Each part is co-edited by one or two persons, most of them were strand chairs. All papers in this ebook correspond to accepted communications during the ESERA conference that were reviewed by two referees. Moreover the co-editors carried out a global reviewing of the papers.ESERA - European Science Education Research Associatio