THE DIAGNOSING SITUATIONS’ PRESENTATION AT DETERMINING THE LEVELS OF THE DEVELOPMENT COMPASSION OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

This article is devoted to the pedagogical diagnostics’ problem of the compassion development in primary school children. The main objective of the article is to present the diagnostic situations to determine the levels of compassion development in primary school children in the educational activities and to present the results of the survey based on the use of this material. The aim of the empirical study was to determine the initial levels of compassion development in primary school children in the educational activities using the diagnostic situations and specially compiled tasks. The methods of empirical research were the survey, qualitative and quantitative analysis of the survey results. As a result of testing, processing and interpretation of the survey results on the basis of the presented diagnostic situations revealed that currently only 12% of primary school children are ready to show compassion.

THE RESEARCH OF EMPATHIC ABILITIES IN PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN AS A STRUCTURAL ELEMENT OF THE CATEGORY “COMPASSION OF THE PUPIL”

The article deals with one aspect of the problems of development compassion in children. It outlines from positions of the system approach are researched empathic abilities of primary school children as one of the structural elements (substructures) in the category “compassion pupil”. The article contains the results of diagnosing the level of empathic abilities of primary school children. We have installed that a child with a developed ability to empathy tends more to the manifestation of gracious behavior and only 14% of primary school children are predisposed to the implementation of the merciful act.The article is intended for a wide range of readers and those, who are interested in pedagogy.

THE PEDAGOGICAL TOOLS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPASSION OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH REGARD TO THEIR PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES

The article contains the development of pedagogical tools of the compassion in the primary school children in the educational process with regard to their psychotypes. It also includes examples of learning activities for primary school teachers

THE CRITERIA, INDICATORS AND LEVELS OF THE DEVELOPMENT COMPASSION OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

The article presents the criteria and the nominate indicators to measure the development levels of compassion primary school children by using a standardized observation of their educational activities. The article contains conceptual characteristics of the levels of development compassion of primary school children. The article is intended for a wide range of readers and those, who are interested in Pedagogy

The Experimentally Justified Opportunity of Psychological Imitation by Primary School Children of Moderators' Merciful Behavior

The article theoretically and empirically examines the possibility for psychological imitation of moderators’merciful behavior by schoolchildren. The conclusions have been drawn on the basis of the questionnaire analysis, field-proven reliability and internal consistency by means of SPSS Statistics. The authors have come to the following conclusions: firstly, primary school moderators do not always show an example of compassionate behavior to their disciples; secondly, moderators need to rethink their life position and the opportunity to correct it in order to reveal a perfect example of compassionate behavior for children; thirdly, the moderator should monitor his behavior in front of the children and manage negative emotions working with the pupils; finally, the moderators’ level of personal aggressiveness  should be checked during his professional assessment test

THE PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERSTANDING OF COMPASSION AS A METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATION FOR ITS FORMATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

The relevance of the article is determined by the need for a philosophical aspect in the study of the category "compassion" for the discovery and understanding of new pedagogical possibilities of educational activity in primary school. The purpose of the article is to convey to the pedagogical community the quintessence of the philosophical positions reflecting the ideas of compassion in world culture.The methodology of the present study was the civilizational and axiological approaches; the historical and genetic method (theoretical), the study of the experience of educational organizations and personal pedagogical experience in school (empirical) were used in the work.The authors concluded that compassion in the process of education should be perceived as a priority of moral health of the pupils. The compassion is "stored" in the "collective unconscious" of humanity, reflecting the thoughts and feelings common to all people, resulting from their common emotional past.  For formation at pupils of compassion it is essential to cause them emotional response created by the teacher, the pedagogical situation, that there is some "moral habit" ("emotional skill"), a member of the "Super-Ego" personality, in other words, conscience. The authors show the ways and methodical means that provide awakening, raising from the depths of the subconscious some innate need to do goodness, the desire to help.

Robust estimation of bacterial cell count from optical density

Optical density (OD) is widely used to estimate the density of cells in liquid culture, but cannot be compared between instruments without a standardized calibration protocol and is challenging to relate to actual cell count. We address this with an interlaboratory study comparing three simple, low-cost, and highly accessible OD calibration protocols across 244 laboratories, applied to eight strains of constitutive GFP-expressing E. coli. Based on our results, we recommend calibrating OD to estimated cell count using serial dilution of silica microspheres, which produces highly precise calibration (95.5% of residuals <1.2-fold), is easily assessed for quality control, also assesses instrument effective linear range, and can be combined with fluorescence calibration to obtain units of Molecules of Equivalent Fluorescein (MEFL) per cell, allowing direct comparison and data fusion with flow cytometry measurements: in our study, fluorescence per cell measurements showed only a 1.07-fold mean difference between plate reader and flow cytometry data