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Author(s):
Editorial Board.
Page No : 1-2
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COVER
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Cover page, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2010, GU/NSE
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Author(s):
Editorial Board.
Page No : 3-3
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CONTENTS
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Contents, Vol. 7, No. 3, GU/NSE, 2010
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Author(s):
Liudmila Korozhneva.
Page No : 4-5
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NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION IN 21 CENTURE: A COMPETENCY-BASED AND INTEGRATIVE APPROACH
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Nowadays we can see the decrease of interest of youth to natural sciences and, accordingly, the low level of natural science knowledge. The modern problem of the theory and the practice of the learning in the schools is the problem of the formation of the competences. The investigators of this problem define various competences. According to the new approach to the content of the natural science education it is necessary to reconsider the process of teaching. One of possible ways is the teaching on the integrative base. The integrated teaching is based on interaction of aim, content, methods, forms and results of the teaching process. The substance of the integrated teaching consists of the necessity to unite the educational subjects of different cycles: natural science, humanitarian and art-aesthetic. It is explained so that in the contents of primary (elementary) education there are different aspects of study of the environment through subjects of a natural science, humanitarian and art – aesthetic cycle. The integrated lesson is a form of realization of the integrated teaching. The teachers of primary schools of Lithuania organize the new form of the integrated teaching. It is the integrated day and integrated week. The journal “Natural Science Education” invites the scientists and teachers to take part in discussion of problems of natural science education.
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Author(s):
Renata Bilbokaitė.
Page No : 6-13
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THE USE OF VISUALIZATION IN NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION PROCESS: THE METHODOLOGY FOR MEASURING INSTRUMENT
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Researches in visualization area are very popular in education studies. There were found out that visualization is useful in education as stimulating tool for perception, attention, memory and imagination processes. To explore this in reality, we need to have valid instrument which could prove statistically valid data about visualization use in education. The author of this article did not find the questionnaire which could involve mentioned things. According to this, there were made several pilot researches and statistical counts that proved the quality of constructed instrument. The aim of this article is to prepare and to test instrument (the questionnaire) for 9-10 grade students’ opinion about visualization use fostering cognitive, learning processes and motivation in scientific, geography and mathematics lessons.
Results. To reach the aim there were done pilot and diagnostic researches. There were participated 209 students in pilot research and 2708 students in diagnostic research. Results of pilot research enclosed categories and subcategories, which were compared to categories that were found in analysis of literature. Also, there was found out students’ meta-language, words, that enclose scientific definitions or analogues. According to results, questions were transformed in language that was common to research population aiming to get answers that are representing reality in education environment. The instrument was prepared to measure object in science education, also, it was adapted to measure object in mathematics and geography. There was tested content validity asking experts to evaluate whether each questions belongs to appropriate category. The results of evaluation were high and this leads to conclusion that instrument is valid in content aspects. Also, there was tested internal validity of instrument. Each scale of questionnaire has high Cronbach alfa coefficient and the whole instrument is also evaluated highly. The instrument is valid and it measures 9-10 grade students’ opinion about visualization use fostering cognitive, learning processes and motivation in scientific, geography and mathematics lessons.
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Author(s):
Vincentas Lamanauskas, Violeta Šlekienė, Loreta Ragulienė.
Page No : 14-27
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LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCE IN USING INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
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Using of ICT in the process of University studies is becoming very meaningful. On the one hand, the newest ICT are changing rapidly, on the other hand, we cannot deny that using them is inevitable. In the latter years, students better prepared in ICT field fill Lithuanian universities. However, such assertion is conditional. After graduating from comprehensive schools, students have quite good skills in ICT field. However, the ability of using computers or other computer equipment, devices and instruments is not the same as directly applying them for learning or study needs. University studies differ, in fact, from education process in comprehensive school. Student must constantly work with different information, be able to find it, analyse and so on. Moreover, all this requires self- independence. Quite often students encounter with serious information management difficulties: are not able to find necessary information, cannot use scientific information data basis, search systems and so on. Therefore, fixation of a current state, analysing in different sections and ways, is inevitably very important. It is necessary to constantly watch, research student and teachers’ demands in ICT appliance field.
Thus, the object of our research is the ability of the first and fourth-year undergraduates to use information and communication technologies. The aim of research is to gain information concerning the first and fourth-year students’ opinion on the application of ICT in the process of studies. The research A Student and Information and Communication Technologies was conducted in January – March, 2010. Research sample consisted of 663 respondents who were 1st year university students and of 322 respondents who were 4th year university students. In total – 985 respondents.
To collect the required data, an anonymous questionnaire including four main blocks was prepared. Questionnaire arranged by Australian researchers was used as a research instrument (Kennedy, Judd, Churchward, Gray, Kerri-Lee Krause, 2008). Questionnaire comprises four main blocks: demographic information (5 items), access to hardware and the Internet (13 items), use of abilities and skills with technology based tools (Computer: 11 items; Web: 18 items; Mobile phones: 8 items) and preferences for the use of technology based tools in University studies (19 items). Mentioned instrument was partially modified taking into account the study specifics of Lithuanian universities.
To analyze research data, the measures of descriptive statistics (absolute and relative frequencies, popularity/usefulness/necessity indexes) have been applied.
Generalizing the research Student and information communication technologies results, we can claim, that:
• Respondents have practically unlimited possibilities for using mobile phone, computer, internet and USB memory stick.
• Relatively new and rather expensive digital technologies, such as iPod touch, e-library, palm computer, GPS navigator and other are still slightly used.
• Computer has become the means of everyday necessity. It is intensively used both for studies and for leisure. Boys use more complex computer functions than girls do.
• Respondents usually use the internet for communication, information search and for e-mail services. Boys use the internet more variously than girls.
• Computer technology usage possibility analysis in the aspect of courses showed that statistically significant difference having existed between first year students, who have graduated from city and region schools, disappeared in the fourth course.
• The fourth year students comparing to the first year students are becoming more conscious and are using computer more for learning purposes, however, using computer for leisure (playing games, watching films, listening to music on the internet) is more characteristic to the first year students.
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Author(s):
Jūratė Armonienė.
Page No : 28-34
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THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL CONDITIONS AND EDUCATION ON STUDENTS’ HEALTH
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The paper, based on publications and scientific research of Lithuanian and foreign authors, presents the actual of health status and physical activity of young people. Scientific evidence has become compelling that a sedentary lifestyle carries a risk for the development of coronary artery disease, obesity, hypertension, and other chronic diseases of adulthood. These problems manifest during adulthood, they are lifelong processes with origins in pediatric years. Socialization processes and motivational factors should be emphasized to promote active lifestyles among the young.
The aim of the study to research pupils‘ physical activity and health at V-XI forms of the Basanavičiaus secondary school in Vilnius.
The tasks of the study were to investigate the scientific, pedagogical and medical literature on the chosen topic, to examine pupils‘ mental and physical working capacity per day and per week, to evaluate physical activity during leisure time and to find out the causes of the physical passivity.
The methods of investigation.
The following methods for the accomplishment of the study were used
The analysis of the literary sources (pedagogical, sociological, medical).
Pedagogical–sociological methods: questionnaire survey, interview, pedagogical experiment.
Statistical analysis.
Conclusion
Mental working capacity is influenced by the following factors: the teaching methods material, process of promotion, the organisation of the pupils daily routine, school anxiety, support within the family, rest, add charge during the lesson. It was established that different factors influence pupils‘ physical activity. The most important being the school conditions, aims of the activity and value orientations through which the social system regulates the behaviour of the personality. Pedagogical factors are also very important: daytime table, leisure, business.
The task of the school is to organize the learning process: to create a balance between intellectual and physical activities, to create a timetable which satisfies both the need for exercise and learning.
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Author(s):
Vincentas Lamanauskas.
Page No : 35-35
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INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE “INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SCIENCE EDUCATION-2010”
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An international scientific-practical conference “Information & Communication Technology in Natural Science Education-2010” was held in Šiauliai on November 11–14 this year. The conference was held at the Faculty of Education of Šiauliai University. The conference was organized by the Research Center for Science Education.
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Author(s):
Editorial Board.
Page No : 44-44
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