Teachers' beliefs have been a fascinating topic for researchers for the amount of input they can provide for reflection and the improvement of the teaching and learning of English. This case study aims at identifying the beliefs held by a group of sixteen Chilean EFL teachers who work in public secondary education. A semi-structured interview and a Likert type survey are used to collect data from the participants. Semantic content analysis and the Atlasti qualitative software are used to transcribe, code, and segment data to then establish seven categories and six subcategories that depict what participants believe regarding English teaching and learning.
RESUMEN: El artículo presenta los resultados de la evaluación de logros académicos de 120 beneficiarios del programa Beca de Nivelación Académica implementado por la Universidad de Concepción. El propósito del programa es apoyar la retención y mejorar el rendimiento académico de estudiantes universitarios de primer año de origen socioeconómico vulnerable. Se utilizó una metodología cuantitativa y se definió un estudio correlacional, cuyos resultados indican que la retención alcanzó un 87%, mientras que el promedio de notas fue un 5.1, mejorando los resultados anteriores y logrando los indicadores comprometidos. La prueba de hábitos de estudios demostró constituir el mejor predictor del rendimiento académico. Estos resultados fueron complementados con dos focus group, que revelaron la alta valoración de los estudiantes hacia el programa como una instancia facilitadora de su adaptación a las exigencias universitarias. Finalmente, se reflexiona respecto a las políticas públicas que buscan fortalecer la equidad en la educación superior en Chile.
Resumen. El objetivo del artículo es identificar los factores que influyen en la deserción de estudiantes de pedagogía, considerando sus características individuales y académicas. El estudio se realizó con 531 estudiantes de la cohorte 2009. La investigación es de tipo cuantitativo, con un diseño explicativo, longitudinal y no experimental. La información se recolectó a partir de datos secundarios, los cuales fueron analizados según el método de análisis de supervivencia, modelados a través de la regresión de riesgos proporcionales de Cox. Los resultados demostraron que las variables individuales que explican la deserción de los estudiantes corresponden al sexo y la procedencia de la región del Bio Bio. Por otro lado, las variables académicas que explican la deserción universitaria corresponden al promedio de notas de enseñanza media, el lugar en la lista de seleccionados, provenir de un establecimiento secundario científico-humanista, el total de asignaturas inscritas, el último promedio curricular y la suspensión de estudios. Se concluye que las capacidades asociadas al nivel de logro de los resultados académicos y la gestión de apoyo social para los estudiantes, se constituyen en aspectos significativos para mantener el compromiso por permanecer en el programa académico. En la medida que las capacidades y la gestión de apoyo sean positivas, los estudiantes contarán con interacciones favorables que apoyarán su participación a nivel institucional, lo cual favorecerá su desarrollo intelectual y académico. Finalmente, se concluye que a nivel de política institucional resulta relevante gestionar el apoyo de las capacidades y la adaptación de los estudiantes, ya que se contribuirá en la generación de un equilibrio positivo entre la integración académica y social, a partir de la configuración de elementos que apoyarán el desarrollo de un contexto de motivación que permitirá mantener el compromiso de los estudiantes por el logro de la meta de graduación. Palabras clave: deserción estudiantil; educación superior; análisis de supervivencia; modelo de regresión Cox.[en] Explanatory factors the student teachers drop out rates Abstract. The aim of this study is to identify the factors that influence student-teachers drop-out rates, taking their individual and academic characteristics into account. The study was conducted on 531 student-teachers from the 2009 cohort. This is a quantitative and non experimental study of a
The instruments language teachers employ to assess student learning are rarely studied and they constitute a significant source of input of how learning and teaching are conceived. The aim of this research is to analyze 205 assessment instruments created by English teachers. This is an exploratory case study, in which the assessment principles of Authenticity, Validity, Fairness, Reliability and Practicality were analyzed within the context of the assessment instruments. The 205 assessment instruments were analyzed by using an analytic rubric, which considered the language assessment principles as criteria. Through the different analyses, it is possible to conclude that traditional assessment was favoured over authentic assessment and four different clusters reveal that language assessment principles manifest in different degrees in each type of instrument. Interestingly, although language learning is mainly about how people try to communicate with others, teachers are still stressing the assessment of grammar and vocabulary knowledge instead of helping students develop the skill of foreign language communication through key authentic assessment, self-assessment and peer-assessment techniques and procedures.
This article reports Chilean and Finnish foreign-language (FL) teachers' perceptions of teaching and study realities in their own FL classrooms. Communicative language teaching (CLT) is used as the teaching-studying-learning methodological framework of an international KIELO project (= the acronym for Finnish "kieltenopetus" meaning "language teaching"), whose online survey was used to collect data for this article. We aim at answering the following research question: What are the FL teachers' main approaches to teaching and studying in Chilean and Finnish FL classrooms and what is the FL classroom teaching and study reality like in these two countries? The data were collected from 83 Chilean and 147 Finnish FL teachers through an online survey covering 15 key themes of CLT and including 115 Likert-scale statements and 8 open-ended questions. In the descriptive data analysis, both Chilean and Finnish FL teachers claim that they encourage their students to use the target language considerably and that they use communicative oral tasks. For both groups of participants, however, teacher-centeredness and use of textbook score relatively high. The two-cluster analysis revealed a context-dependent cluster and a context-independent cluster. Context-dependent teachers tended to favor communicative oral tasks, real-life tasks and their own language tasks, whereas context-independent teachers favored more non-communicative tasks. Context-dependent teachers proved more student-centered than context-independent teachers. For Chilean and Finnish research participants, the use of mother tongue in foreign language classrooms appears to be an issue despite the growing need of foreign language communication.
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