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Author(s):
Editorial Board.
Page No : 1-2
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COVER
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Cover page, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2019, SPVK/EPMQ
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Author(s):
Editorial Board.
Page No : 3-3
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CONTENTS
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Contents, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2019, SPVK/EPMQ
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Author(s):
Rita Makarskaitė-Petkevičienė.
Page No : 4-8
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EVALUATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOL: WE WILL GO FURTHER, OR GO BACK TO WHERE WE WERE?
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The topic of a journal editorial article is inspired by the radio programme and discussion in FB groups. Primary school teachers and student parents split into two groups. Some of them are for going back to primary school student achievement evaluation by marks. The others think that descriptive evaluation suits very well for this age students and shows real child’s achievements, individual progress. The latter are sure that Lithuania goes in the right way, the way that progressive Scandinavian countries have chosen. An interview with a primary school teacher-expert, reveals difficulties which primary school teachers encounter evaluating students’ progress. Also, descriptive evaluation necessity is emphasized both for the student and parents, and teacher.
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Author(s):
Vaiva Grabauskienė, Oksana Mockaitytė-Rastenienė.
Page No : 9-29
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AN EXPRESSION OF MATHEMATICAL CONNECTIONS IN MULTIPLICATION-RELATED THINKING IN THIRD AND FOURTH GRADES OF PRIMARY SCHOOL
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Mathematical comprehension is closely related to a cognition of mathematical connections. A multiplication is a mathematical operation characterized by complex mathematical connections. Students are early introduced with the multiplication. Therefore, in primary school, not so developed cognition of mathematical connections may become a reason for difficulties in Maths.
A functionality of concept is based on a view to a multiplication. The analysis scientific literature revealed that a thinking of multiplication can be either additive or multiplicative.
Additionally, the multiplication learning has a variety of additive and multiplicative explanations. Because they use different specificity of visualization, the models are not equally suitable for teaching children about different properties of multiplication. Based on research, in Math classes, students are only introduced with few of the models, not covering a whole variety of them.
In the research, a paper and pencil type of survey consisted of 157 participants from 3rd and 4th Grades, eight different classes from four different schools. The students had to fill the table explaining multiplication of 5 x 12 in a form of writing and drawing.
The quantitative analysis of results has showed that in Grades 3 to 4, the additive view to multiplication is much more prevalent, in comparison to the multiplicative reasoning. The array model is used often but not in an extensive way. The students do not know other types of multiplicative type models. In conclusion, the results showed that students of Grades 3rd and 4th knew not enough about the mathematical connections. Therefore, teachers should pay more attention to teaching students various ways of visualizing, for children, to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the multiplication process.
Acknowledgement. This work was supported by a grant (No. 09.2.1-ESFA-K-728-01-0040) from the ESFA.
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Author(s):
Michael Jesuarho Okagbare.
Page No : 30-37
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ASSESSING THE MANAGEMENT OF INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMMES IN SOUTH-SOUTH NIGERIAN STATE UNIVERSITIES
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The main aim of this research was to assess the management of Instructional Programmes in State universities in South-South Nigeria. The research employed a descriptive survey research design. One research question and one null hypothesis guided the research. The population consisted of 13,741 academic and senior administrative staff from 6 State Universities in South-South Nigeria. The Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to determine the sample size. In the second stage sampling, Proportionate Stratified Sampling Technique was used with each University serving as a stratum to obtain the number of staff members that is proportionate, which resulted in the sample size of 389 respondents. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire designed by the researcher. Cronbach Alpha statistic was used to determine the internal consistency of the items. The result of the research, among others, showed both academic and administrative staff perceived that State Universities manage their staff personnel to a high extent or relatively well and that there was a significant difference between the mean rating scores of academic and administrative staff on the extent to which staff personnel are managed in State universities of South-South Nigeria. Academic and administrative staff perceived that financial resources were managed in State universities in South-South Nigeria relatively well. This means that the relative difficulties perceived to have been encountered by the products of State Universities in South-South Nigeria are either environmental or a result of other variables or dynamics that require deciphering for further research. The result showed that State governments, university managements, parents, scholarship boards, etcetera may confidently send their wards to State universities of South-South Nigeria also called the Niger Delta, for inculcation of university goals. The Study recommended among others that governments, and managements of State universities should increase grants (capital and recurrent) to universities, as this would help the universities to acquire facilities that would ensure the attainment of the universities mandate and vision.
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Author(s):
Akmaral Sabitollayevna Magauova, Zhamilya Targynovna Makhambetova .
Page No : 38-41
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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN THE TRAINING OF DOCTORAL STUDENTS
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Al-Farabi Kazakh National University became the first University in Kazakhstan to sign the Bologna Declaration (Italy) on September 16, 2003 and today holds the leadership in international rankings. According to the research of the international Agency QS, in the ranking of the best universities of the world KazNU takes 220 place. In the global ranking "UI Green Metric Ranking of World Universities" University took 172 place and thus entered the top 200 most environmentally friendly universities in the world. In February 2014, al-Farabi Kazakh National University was entrusted to lead the Global hub of the United Nation Academic Impact (UN Academic influence) on sustainable development.
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Author(s):
Vincentas Lamanauskas.
Page No : 42-48
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3rd INTERNATIONAL BALTIC SYMPOSIUM ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION “SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: CURRENT CHALLENGES AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS (BalticSTE2019)”: SYMPOSIUM REVIEW
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Two years after the second international BalticSTE symposium passed very quickly and here the third international science symposium is already a history too. On the 17th -20th of June this year, the 3rd International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education BalticSTE2019 took place in Šiauliai. The topic of the Symposium was “Science and Technology Education: Current Challenges and Possible Solutions”. More than 50 scientists from 20 countries participated in the symposium. Comparing with the symposium which took place in 2017, the geographical distribution of the participants is significantly wider. Ukrainian, Serbian, Romanian, Malaysian researchers participated in the symposium for the first time.
Natural science education requires constant researcher attention in the rapidly changing technological age, new educational methodologies and innovative educational approaches. The symposium reporter analysed topic spectrum is wide – from global warming of the climate, climate change to philosophical methodological and education evaluation questions.
One of this international symposium ideas is – to show that Baltic region countries also actively participate in natural science and technology education research, especially in STEAM context. The second idea is that Baltic countries as well as other small regions of the world need corresponding close communication and cooperation.
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Author(s):
Editorial Board.
Page No : 49-50
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