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In the paper we will focus in detail on the field of literacy and its relationship to chosen cognitive theories and models of information processing, which have influenced the reading comprehension since the 50?s to these days. Reading comprehension is a very difficult process that uses analysis and synthesis of various text levels, it has a relational character. There are three basic types of connection that are necessary: connection between the phenomena of objective reality with text elements that refer to thes...

The quality of a training program can be identified both through its process of implementation and later through the actual activity of the trainee. During February-December 2013 the strategic project named “From start to success – national mentorship program for the professional insertion of teachers”, financed by the social European fund, was implemented. The program’s aim was to improve the professional insertion and the activity growth of junior teachers from the secondary education system through the ...

Implementation of learning organization requires continuous analysis of the current state and the continuous improvement. To be able to analyze the current state, it is necessary to know the criteria by which it is possible to evaluate. The paper describes method of self-assessment organization. First part of the article identifies criteria based on previous studies and literature. Subsequently the evaluation criteria are used in the process of creation of self-assessment method in terms of learning organization.

Background Assessment is an element appearing in any training-educational process. It enables to measure the level of reach of the educational process goals, as well as to adopt decisions leading to the increase of the effectiveness of the relevant activity. Assessment of the child with Down syndrome requires more focus from the assessor because such child has several disabilities at psychic-motor level which directly affect anything the child does, including the level of acquiring the elements taught and time spe...

Quality is a general term used in all areas, but has a specific character for each position, sector or area. In order to improve the quality, there are used techniques, methods and tools of quality. In the paper the authors propose to use and to adapt a model consecrated in industry, namely the DMAIC model, for improving the quality of educational process, in preschool institutions in Romania. Preschool period is the period of the fundamental procurement cycle, is called early educational period and its range in b...

Motivation is a thing that can increase students’ determination and interest in language learning. Working in non-native environment, but bearing in mind that our task is teaching a foreign language, we see some important goals of motivation in: • Fulfilling university requirements • Improving one’s education • Improving critical and creative thinking skills • Increasing job opportunities and salary potential • Increasing global understanding, etc. A teacher should put a strong focus on the studentвЂ...

Multicultural education represents a tool for positive utilization of cultural differences in the overall educational process. In this process, classrooms and schools become models of democracy and equality among people in society. In order to achieve such results, a large number of factors is required, starting with the teaching cadres that will act in accordance with the following rules: -Put the student in the focus, i.e. in the center of the overall teaching/learning process; -Promote human rights and show res...

As a model system of life long engineering and technology education in direction new production including additive technologies have been proposed three-dimensional model of quality providing continuous of educational and administrative kinds of activity at all levels such as school, technical school, university and postgraduate education. It was shown that the quality of life-long engineering and technology education in direction new production including additive technologies in present time it can provided when ...

Our undergoing research in action started half a year ago and focuses on pupils as well as teachers. The proposed article focuses on the teacher (author), whose main goal is to transform from transmissive education style to a constructivist one – specifically, the scheme-oriented education developed by M. Hejny and his team. We focus on the changes that take place in the pedagogical views of the teacher; their behavior patterns, teaching preparation, execution and evaluation, and in their relationship to mathema...

The quantitative reduction and qualitative deterioration of business ideas and projects carried out through business incubators (BI) affiliated with higher educational institutions leads to a need in strategic endeavors encouraging improvement in the quality of projects, promoting quick formation of professional project teams, and increasing the number of business projects incubated on innovative grounds. In order to solve this problem, we suggest defining and forming a new development strategy for business incuba...

In Macedonian, the process of zero derivation is prototypical, inflectional or marginal depending on the presence or absence of changes in the corresponding lexemes, respectively. In the prototypical type of the process, which is subject of this research, when nothing changes in the source and in the target lexeme and, in morphological terms, they are absolutely identical, of all directions; the most productive one is the zero derivation of nouns from verbs. This is due to the fact that Macedonian is a ‘verbalвЂ...

Purpose – Based on the communication skills of adults it can be made correlations between these skills and those of children, as a means of highlighting the importance of heredity in development, but also to highlight the importance of practicing communication from an early age. To improve communication skills of employees in order to increase performance across the organization, you can make different training, personal development activities etc. Communication is the mediator between people and also the mediat...

In this study the emphasis of selecting a school and profession is put onto the family role in educational and professional guidance in order to help the students to obtain the necessary information for further education, by the help of their parents, more efficiently and more functionally. The study was conducted in Virovitica and Podravina County with two groups of subjects and included 1.063 children—555 of them were eighth grade students of elementary school and 508 were first grade students of secondary sch...

The article contains the first observation over the discourse of the popular psychology practiced on the women's sites from the point of view of the persuasive potential of linguistic metaphoric means. Scientific research of Golovin A.V.[1] is devoted to the analysis of persuasiveness, which claims that, being universal strategy of a text formation; persuasive strategy determines the use of certain sets of linguistic means both as rational persuasion as emotional effect. The goal of the paper is to investigate the...

The paper deals with the issue of the contribution of the education system in Slovakia in terms of its functioning and financing. Slovak Republic has undergone since 1989 a complex process of transformation that has touched almost every component of society. Important role in this regard has played a topic of education, which took place several changes. First, the central management has been translated into the creation of authorities in the system, but which is struggling with several problems. The aim of our pap...

A complex phenomenon in terms of psychological, sociological and legal aspects, adoption is a means of solving family problems of the child. It can also be a source of family problems if the rights of those involved in the adoption and especially if the fundamental rights and interests of the children are not respected. Adoption can be defined as the legal operation which creates filiation and civil kinship relationships between those stated by the law. Imposing the legal figure of adoption in the social life, the...

Pupil evaluation is an expression of teacher professional competence and thus becomes an important topic in preparatory teacher education. However, students? pedagogical thinking is influenced by the real situation in schools where pedagogical training takes place. The key person is the faculty teacher trainer who - in the role of a mentor - supports the implementation of theory into practice. In the presented essay the authors outline the similarities and differences between the theoretical and practical approach...

The paper on the professional self-concept of a pre-service teacher presents the results of the qualitative research into the professional self-concept of students (n=204) at the Faculty of Education at Masaryk University in Brno, the Czech Republic. The research presented is a grounded theory research using a multi-method approach for collecting data. Thus, the free response was proven to be a valid tool for studying professional self-concept. The part of the paper in which the results are presented highlights th...

The European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 notes that one in six of the European working age population, approximately 80 million people, are classified as disabled. The rate of poverty for this group is 70% higher than the average and this is partly due to limited access to employment. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities underlines the importance of inclusive education as a means of enabling disabled people "to participate effectively in a free society". The Education and Training 2020 St...

Both teachers and parents aim obtaining educational success, but the perspectives and the meanings assigned to it by each of these two parts are different. The ideal state is achieved when the both parties work together for the benefit of the student, when both have the same objective, namely: achieving the educational success. This paper presents an applied research study, focused on primary school pupils’ educational success, pupils that are attending courses in mass education schools. The purpose of this stud...

In inclusive education, pupil assessment is understood as one of the system elements which support inclusion. The concept of evaluation should therefore be consistent with the overall conception of a school, its values (mission, vision, goals) and principles. In this paper, we present the results of research aimed at mapping approaches to the assessment of pupils in "inclusive" primary schools within the context of inclusive education principles. The study also defines the characteristics of pupil assessment in an...

The requests which are imposed to handball players and teams at this moment are of the highest level in matter of technical-tactical content, related with a superior physical and psychological particularities of each player. Trends and characteristics of modern handball are shaped based on the handball played by best teams in the national, European or World championships. The aim of this research is to analyze the performance of the best 4 teams qualified in the final tournament organized by the European Federatio...

Process oriented quality management systems are applied by successful business enterprises. With the process approach these organisations can manage their operations effectively. The defining of organisational processes is useful to understand what organisation really does, the measurement of these processes helps to identify development opportunities or necessity. So the organisations can use quality improvement projects based on data and indicators which provide increasing organizational performance greatly. The...

The primary objectives of this paper are as follows: 1) to analyze the challenges, priorities and modern trends in training vocational educators in Russia; 2) to describe the experience of implementing innovative teaching methods in the educational process at Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University while training vocational educators; 3)to assess the efficacy of the pedagogy through qualitative and quantitative students’outcomes; 4) to discuss our experience and give recommendations for organizing trainee...

The intent of this paper is to highlight the topical problems of relationship between families and schools within the Czech environment due to deliberate action on targeted socialization of young people. In accordance with the objectives of the grant project no. IGA_PdF_2015_007 called Puberty - part of the sex educational system in the Czech and Chinese education we introduce to input information about the problems of relationship between family and school. We see that as fundamental building part for making the ...

In 2008 a curricular reform took place in Slovakia. This reform brought the ISCED 1 curriculum model to Slovak primary schools for the first time. In general, we may say that this reform cancelled the centralized model and established a two-level curriculum model. After seven years, it is clear that neither teachers nor executive workers at primary schools accepted the reform. Many negative responses have appeared calling for the re-establishment of the centralized curriculum model. The goal of this paper is to de...

The research into structural changes in national languages has been conducted on the basis of three languages (German, French and Russian). The results demonstrate that the expansion of anglicisms in the system of each language under consideration has been proved in all spheres of speech activity of national communities: from elementary verbal means to complex speech structures. While the English language penetrates the German and French languages more or less smoothly due to their common origin, the process of in...

Quality self-assessment provides the pupil with a feedback about the course of learning, the results achieved and the fulfilment of the desired objectives. Self-assessment of pupils with specific learning disabilities represents a very demanding component of the teacher’s activity in Russian languages teaching as second foreign language. The self- assessment method may have a significant impact on the student’s motivation to learn; his/her further performance, self-confidence and self-respect. The research inv...

In paper attempts to analyze the differential stress stability of the schoolboys by mean of the Russian company "Ramen" instrument. As an indicator of stability are considered a heart rate variability of the circulatory system. The observed incomplete development of the autonomic system schoolboys linked to their small physical activity, in particular, improper organization of school and sectional sessions of physical education and poor organization of work and rest of students. The correlation in health schoolboy...

application in science classes for fifteen-year-old pupils in a real teaching process. In the paper introduction the definition of IBSE (Inquiry-Based Science Education) from the perspective of didactics of different scientific disciplines and with respect to educational psychology is presented. The authors also discuss theoretical foundations of IBSE and the development of ideas and theoretical paradigms reflected in IBSE. Attention is also paid to the curricular aspects related to the elements of IBSE. The last ...

Managing data collection for any research project can be a time consuming task. It can quickly become overwhelming if you’re collecting data on thousands of human subjects and have additional requirements of reporting results at multiple levels of analysis and producing thousands of standardized reports for many research stakeholders. As a result, more time is spent managing data than using data; taking precious time away from research. My team at the International Data Evaluation Center has developed reusable s...

During the last ten years, Slovakia has been undergoing a very significant reform of its school system. The basic social condition for meeting the goals of the reform lies in the attitude of teachers towards the implementation of the reform and the curriculum. The authors present some of their research findings proving that the teachers in Slovakia did not fully understood the real goals of the reform, mainly in the area of implementing the dual-level curriculum.

I would like to present the biography and thought of Anna Tenenbaum (born 22nd of December 1900). Anna Tenenbaum was one of the first women students at the Jagiellonian University who were officially allowed to study. Although, as a Jewish women, she was discriminated, she successfully finished her studies and made PhD. in philosophy in 1926 and even started to work at the university. She did a PhD in strict philosophy and the topic of her dissertation was devoted to Descartes – ‘Psychologia zwierzeca u Descar...

Youth and old age are very important stages of human life, which are different but which should be perceived to be of equal value. The research conducted in the Czech Republic indicates that the largest intergenerational gap lies between the young generation and the older population. This gap has continuously been widening, especially in connection with the entirely different ways of life of these two generations. The Czech society has not yet desisted from various negative prejudices and claims concerning seniors...

The fast progress in science and technology causes the global changes in teaching and learning process and requirements to qualification of a modern engineer. To meet the modern era requirements, the high engineering education system sets an objective to prepare competitive specialists and to establish conditions for professional qualities elaboration and personal enhancement. International cooperation extension and globalization processes that require high-level communication skills determine the need for lifelon...

One of the important sources of knowledge of the student teacher is not only the theoretical knowledge acquired in the theoretical preparation, but also the practical experience gained during practices. This practical student experience is used when educating without realizing it. Part of the knowledge has a hidden, tacit character. The definition of tacit knowledge is "tacit knowledge is capable of developing, initially not realised or less realised prerequisite to structuring the experience of the students or te...

Children’s education, and, by extension, the education of the young, represents a permanently topical problem in an age of conflicts and overturning of the value axis. For this reason, old pedagogical principles and elements are being made actual again, preserving their content, verified through the experience of many generations. Such an element is also the inner silence, acquired through prayer, and which represents a spiritual state specific of the Christian way of living and, consequently, an element specifi...

The twenty-first century has brought about a new type of society, the information-based society. Although this type doubtless provides a lot of opportunities for development and self realization, which are the top needs, according to Maslow hierarchy, we cannot but notice the existing downside as well. What is being promoted as a life motto worldwide is the combination of pragmatism and hedonism, which especially appeals to the youth. Such a combination presupposes that young people faced with overload of availabl...

Purpose: the aim of this research is to fulfill a comprehensive analysis of the static balance of visually impaired people. This experimental study wishes to improve balance by applying some differentiated operational modules, created in accordance with the results obtained in the initial evaluation. Methods: in this study we used as method the differentiated instruction. In special schools, because of the low number of the pupils from each class, the differentiated instruction becomes a prime element for orientin...

Article will include research of existing best practices of cooperation amongst High Education Institutions (HEIs), Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), science institutions and public. Continued with more recent research findings in project Nordic-Baltic Network for Internationalization of SMEs NOBANET and EKOSOC-LV State Research programme of Latvia, Part 5.2.2. Final findings will also include field research on most appropriate model for successful cooperation to improve education of 21st century entrepreneurs.

This study aims to establish the level of self-esteem at young people who are active and who practice regularly physical activities. The methodology used in this study is an instrument developed in 1965 by the american sociologist Morris Rosenberg, Self-Esteem Scale. This is a ten item scale which reveals information about what people think about their own person, about how satisfied are about themselves, if they think they have qualities that are equally proficient in doing things as well as others or better than...

Background The mean is the instrument used to act for reaching the targeted goal. In the field of physical education and sport, it is defined as a motor action of instrumental value, designed and programmed to reach the goals specific for different motor activities. The physical exercise is the main mean for the physical education and sport. The means used in teaching swimming are of special nature due to the horizontal position designated to practicing, the special aquatic breathing, the pressure always exercised...

Purpose: the aim of this research is to perform an analysis of the level of strength for visually impaired pupils. This experimental study wishes to improve strength through the use of differentiated instruction. Methods: the study was realized during 2014 – 2015 scholar year, during the physical education lessons. The subjects of this research were pupils from the 6th grade (boys and girls) from the Gymnasium Special School for visually impaired pupil, Bucharest, Romania. For the experimental study, a number of...

This study is part of a complex research about the quality of life and aims to obtain information about most preferred activities in their spare time, on how much time students allocate for practicing physical activities and what motivates them chose to have an active life-style instead of a sedentary one. The methodology used in this study is an instrument we’ve developed, a 21 item questionnaire with 6 questions with open answers and 15 questions with closed answers (having 4 response options). The results obt...

The paper presents an experimental research of processing isolated foreign language words in code non-restricted settings carried out with bilingual (Komi-Permyak-Russian native speaking) and monolingual (Russian native speaking) classroom English learners. The received results are discussed from the point of view of bilingual advantage in foreign language acquisition.

The description of a vineyard in the Hebrew Scripture gives us an accurate picture of a vineyard in Old Israel but also of a vineyard as metaphor. Grapes and wine are metaphors for the relationship between God and Israel, the Torah as Word of God, instruction and Covenant and their implications. Yavne, a Hebrew centre for instruction and rabbinic authority, is mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud most often referring to rabbis who taught in the „vineyard of Yavne". Moreover, the space intended for scholars meeting...

Verbal and non-verbal communication elements are widely studied especially in political discourses. This is predetermined by the fact that the political evidences or truth very often could be deciphered only after analyzing the non-verbal elements. The presupposition that political TV talk shows could be an excellent media revealing the possible incoherence between the verbal and non-verbal communication (body language) fostered this research. The format of these shows often provokes politicians to reveal or hide ...

The paper focuses on the significance and need to develop critical thinking in the educational process on the basis of the documents and recommendations of the Slovak government and of the Ministry of Education as well as on practical experience. The contribution assumes that the repetition of facts and information does not mean their comprehension. Information is processed only if a learner is able to explain, connect and use the acquired knowledge. The paper presents several methods of critical thinking applied ...

The aim of the paper is to describe the attitudes to identifying and developing talents in Slovak enterprises. The research in developing talents in the business environment is based on two research questions: 1. We assume every business pays attention to their key employees and organizes all activities to promote their development. 2. Businesses pay attention to succession planning, the aim of which is to ensure the continuity of talents for key positions defined. For purposes of statistical processing, we used m...

Discourse markers are elements of the language that have grammatical-syntactic, conversational-pragmatic and cognitive function. The first function is evident in the different parts of speech used as discourse markers and their position in the context, the second one explains that these elements aim to start and sustain conversation as one of their basic roles, and the last function requires the markers to fill in slots that naturally exist in language, by using the cognitive abilities about which elements would s...