Les effets de l'utilisation d'un didacticiel sur les apprentissages de l'anglais langue seconde chez des élèves à risque : une expérience à l'école secondaire La Calypso d'Amos

Considérant notre travail d'enseignante auprès de plusieurs élèves du premier secondaire de notre école dans le domaine de l'apprentissage de l'anglais langue seconde, la motivation et le succès de nos élèves nous préoccupent. Étant donné leur intérêt à utiliser l'ordinateur, nous croyons que l'intégration de cet outil dans notre enseignement est une opportunité qui permettrait de développer de manière positive les apprentissages de nos élèves à risque. La présente recherche a pour but d'évaluer les effets de l'utilisation d'un didacticiel sur les apprentissages de l'anglais langue seconde chez les élèves à risque en secondaire I, à l'école secondaire La Calypso d'Amos et cela par l'intermédiaire du rôle du sentiment d'efficacité personnelle et de la motivation. Notre cadre de référence s'appuie sur la vision du Ministère de l'Éducation du Québec et les principes directeurs qui orientent l'apprentissage de l'anglais langue seconde (MEQ, 2000; 2002); sur le processus d'enseignement et d'apprentissage, sur les concepts de motivation scolaire (Viau, 1994); de motivation en langue seconde (Gardner, 1983; 1985) et de sentiment d'efficacité personnelle (Bandura, 1994; 2003). Nous y mentionnons quelques avantages à intégrer l'ordinateur dans l'apprentissage de la langue seconde. La synthèse de la recension des écrits nous amène à suggérer l'hypothèse que les élèves bénéficiant de l'utilisation du didacticiel ont un meilleur sentiment d'efficacité personnelle et une meilleure motivation à apprendre la langue seconde, donc de meilleurs résultats scolaires que les élèves n'utilisant pas le didacticiel. Les résultats scolaires des élèves ainsi que des informations générales et des données relatives à leur motivation à apprendre une langue seconde et à leur sentiment d'efficacité personnelle (questionnaire) ont été recueillis avant, pendant et après l'expérimentation. Des analyses descriptives de l'échantillon, de comparaison des deux groupes à l'étude et de vérification des hypothèses de recherche ont été effectuées. Les conclusions de notre étude portent à croire que l'utilisation du didacticiel a un effet bénéfique sur les résultats scolaires des élèves à risque de notre étude et que même sur une courte période d'un mois à raison d'une fois par semaine, cet instrument s'est avéré efficace. En observant les résultats non concluants au niveau des liens suggérés dans nos hypothèses, nos résultats indiquent qu'il existe un lien entre la motivation et le sentiment d'efficacité personnelle, et que seul le sentiment d'efficacité personnelle est corrélé avec les résultats scolaires ce qui laisse supposer que la motivation pourrait influencer le succès par l'intermédiaire du sentiment d'efficacité personnelle. Il se pourrait aussi que dans le cas de nos élèves, l'enseignement traditionnel semble suffisant pour maintenir la motivation nécessaire à l'apprentissage de l'anglais langue seconde dans la classe d'anglais

Performative Wearables: Bodies, Fashion and Technology

This thesis argues that wearables are inextricably performative. By this I mean that performance—human and nonhuman performance such as those encountered both on and off stage, as well as social performance and the performance of fashion and technology—contribute to the creation and meaning of wearables. With this aim in view, the thesis explores performance from four research angles: a framing of the birth of wearables in a performative context; a theoretical analysis of wearables as somatically, aesthetically, and technologically constituted via the performative; a historical back-dating of pre-computational wearables stemming from Modernist performative fields; and the in-situ case studies of contemporary wearables creations. It is my goal to demonstrate that wearables are performative across transversal timelines, materials, styles, fabrication processes, and body expressions. Using references from the art-research labs currently involved in developing fashion-tech and wearables—as an important counterbalance to industry’s contributions to wearables—I ask this central question: how can concepts of performance elucidate wearables? I look toward performance as a key thread that follows wearables’ beginnings to the current, contemporary technological culture embedded in media arts and experimental contributions to the field. Why? Because wearables are more than the sum of the technologies they incorporate, they are the result of their admixtures of fashion, bodies, display, and transformation (in both human and technological form). In short, wearables are active, (a)live, and hence both the objects themselves and the individuals wearing them participate in the co-creation of their performance. Performance is complex—striding as it does across disciplines from the technological and engineering; to the human and unscripted—and for this reason it is richly suited to the challenges encountered when describing wearables. Performance is the key pathway, in my opinion, through which we can gain stronger insight into the stakes, meanings, messiness, desires, and technological innovations that are being developed in wearables in artistic labs past, present and future

Patient and provider perspectives regarding criteria for patient prioritization in two specialized rehabilitation programs

To increase fairness and equity in access to rehabilitation services, a strategy emerging from the literature is patient prioritization. Selecting explicit prioritization criteria is a complex task because it is important to simultaneously consider the objectives of all stakeholders. The of this study was to compare service users’ and service providers’ perspectives regarding patient prioritization criteria in two rehabilitation programs. We conducted a multiple case study in two rehabilitation programs, i.e., a driving evaluation program and a compression garment manufacturing program. We sent a web-based survey asking two groups (patients and providers) to individually produce a set of criteria, then individual answers were coded and combined in a single set of criteria. Stakeholders identified a total of 32 criteria to prioritize patients. Some criteria, such as age, occupation, functional level, pain, absence of caregiver, and time since referral, were considered important by both stakeholders in both programs. Patients and providers tended to have similar opinions about criteria to prioritize patients in waitlists. Taking into consideration the opinions of all stakeholders concerning prioritization criteria is an important part of the decision-making process. Experience Framework This article is associated with the Quality & Clinical Excellence lens of The Beryl Institute Experience Framework (https://www.theberylinstitute.org/ExperienceFramework). Access other PXJ articles related to this lens. Access other resources related to this lens

COVID-19 symptoms at hospital admission vary with age and sex: results from the ISARIC prospective multinational observational study

Background: The ISARIC prospective multinational observational study is the largest cohort of hospitalized patients with COVID-19. We present relationships of age, sex, and nationality to presenting symptoms. Methods: International, prospective observational study of 60 109 hospitalized symptomatic patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 recruited from 43 countries between 30 January and 3 August 2020. Logistic regression was performed to evaluate relationships of age and sex to published COVID-19 case definitions and the most commonly reported symptoms. Results: ‘Typical’ symptoms of fever (69%), cough (68%) and shortness of breath (66%) were the most commonly reported. 92% of patients experienced at least one of these. Prevalence of typical symptoms was greatest in 30- to 60-year-olds (respectively 80, 79, 69%; at least one 95%). They were reported less frequently in children (≤ 18 years: 69, 48, 23; 85%), older adults (≥ 70 years: 61, 62, 65; 90%), and women (66, 66, 64; 90%; vs. men 71, 70, 67; 93%, each P < 0.001). The most common atypical presentations under 60 years of age were nausea and vomiting and abdominal pain, and over 60 years was confusion. Regression models showed significant differences in symptoms with sex, age and country. Interpretation: This international collaboration has allowed us to report reliable symptom data from the largest cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19. Adults over 60 and children admitted to hospital with COVID-19 are less likely to present with typical symptoms. Nausea and vomiting are common atypical presentations under 30 years. Confusion is a frequent atypical presentation of COVID-19 in adults over 60 years. Women are less likely to experience typical symptoms than men