International Journal on Lifelong Education and Leadership
Even though many students and teachers tend to minimize its relevance, didactic self-assessment i... more Even though many students and teachers tend to minimize its relevance, didactic self-assessment is one of the most important components of the instructive-educational process. It can be defined as the students’ ability to make value judgments about their own academic performance, based on sound logical and psychological arguments. The development of students' self-assessment skills is supported by a number of socio-psychological factors such as: perceived self-efficacy, relevant individuals’ opinions - teachers, parents, etc. as well as by certain pedagogical factors such as: the teacher's didactic style, teaching/learning strategies, type(s) of assessment used, particulars of the information/content taught, etc. The aim of this research was to assess students’ awareness of the importance of training self-assessment skills for their ongoing professional and personal development. The research sample was made up of 336 students from 4 different faculties of the University of O...
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference Education Facing Contemporary World Issues (Edu World 2022), 3-4 June, 2022, University of Pitești, Pitești, Romania
Self-assessment in the school environment can be defined as the students’ ability to make valuabl... more Self-assessment in the school environment can be defined as the students’ ability to make valuable judgements about their own academic performance, either by reference to the teacher’s educational goals, previous academic results, or the academic performance of other colleagues. The formation of such self-assessment skills is strongly influenced by a number of internal and external psycho-pedagogical factors, including chronological age, motivation for learning, level of cognitive development, perceived self-efficacy, the teacher's teaching style, the social status of the student's family, their group affiliation, etc. Starting from this point, the purpose of the present research was the analysis of the students’ degree of awareness of the role of perceived self-efficacy in the formation of objective didactic self-evaluation skills. The research sample consisted of 108 students, currently attending the Psycho-Pedagogy and Methodology Study Program courses at the University o...
Problems of Education in the 21st Century, Feb 25, 2015
The school curriculum includes the learning experiences students are invited to go through in an ... more The school curriculum includes the learning experiences students are invited to go through in an organized and systemic way. The curriculum has two main parts, the core curriculum and the school based curriculum (SBC) respectively. The latter one concerns the learning experiences, which school provides in addition to the minimum experiences that all students should gain and it can be achieved through optional school disciplines. However, education research has shown that the way these optional disciplines are chosen often expresses the teachers' options rather than those of the students. The main aim of this study was to analyze the subjective perception of upper-secondary school students with regard to the status of optional disciplines within the SBC. The sample consisted of 121 students, who study in 4 uppersecondary schools from Oradea, Bihor County, Romania. The instrument used was a questionnaire, and the implementation period was October-December 2014. The results show that the reasons why students choose a certain optional discipline are related to their need for personal and professional development. The most important subjects students want to study are foreign languages and sports activities, and the favored forms of organization include extracurricular and applied activities.
Problems of Education in the 21st Century, Dec 15, 2014
In Romania, the curriculum is traditionally strongly based on disciplines, the teachers being pri... more In Romania, the curriculum is traditionally strongly based on disciplines, the teachers being primarily specialised in one discipline only. Developing transferable competences requires new ways of teaching and learning, which transcend the traditional boundaries among disciplines. As they are being developed, these competences become important factors in the process of learning competences specific to certain disciplines, while also help the individual to adapt to the dynamics of a complex reality. Thus, given the importance of transferable competences, along with the reform of the curriculum, in the Romanian educational system optional disciplines were also included. The aim of this study was to analyse that, although there is a legislative framework, the development of activities that include multiple learning objectives or results that cross the traditional boundaries among disciplines, is still poor. The strategy used for the study was a complex one. It combined both quantitative research methods and qualitative ones: literature review (framework documents on educational policies), a statistic analysis, a questionnairebased survey. The results have demonstrated the need for change in school organization and culture, so that the transferable competences acquired become indeed competences for life.
Due to several reasons foreign and/or second language teaching is not necessarily a course book d... more Due to several reasons foreign and/or second language teaching is not necessarily a course book driven activity-learners' needs should be prior to syllabus requirements. The present study introduces four different ways of using script-based drama in language teaching. Examples that come from the author's teaching experience are supported by methodological reasoning of colleagues' articles from all over the world. Encouragement to apply the techniques introduced to those who teach minority languages, Boyash and Romani is one of the main goals of this paper.
Although is a key institution in the community, involved in the social and economic development o... more Although is a key institution in the community, involved in the social and economic development of the region, by providing quality educational services, the school cannot develop today without building relations with the authorities, with the parents, the NGOs or with the representatives of public institutions. This article aims to present the results of a research, starting form the question: is it possible to extend the learning communities from the school to local community level in Romania (by involving all relevant actors in this process: headmasters and principals, teachers, students, parents, NGO representatives, representatives of the City Council, other public institutions)? The focus group method and the analysis of empirical data, collected from 25 directors of representatives schools in terms of management and quality of teaching, led to the conclusion that, although invested with the same social roles, schools operate in different communities and the level of developme...
he individual that our society needs. The article aims to capture the relationship between the ne... more he individual that our society needs. The article aims to capture the relationship between the new curriculum and the new goals of the national education policies in the spirit of European citize nship. The research emphasizes the materialization of the necessary cha nges in the Romanian education system: the formation of compete nces with large transfer possibilities, adapting the curriculum to the knowledge society, to change, to post modernity, improving ef ficiency of emotional learning to achieve an increased EQ, for the social and emotional education of the European citizen, moving from the academic culture of theoretical type to functional culture, from monoculture to intercultural and multicultural appr oach, from theoretical education to pragmatism, to emphasizing the applied character of learning, from the instructive/informa tive character to the formative one.
Adolescența reprezintă cea mai complicată perioadă a vieții umane. Mulți specialiști pot spune că... more Adolescența reprezintă cea mai complicată perioadă a vieții umane. Mulți specialiști pot spune că in acest moment o persoană devine matură din punct de vedere fizic, intelectual sau moral, dar niciodată din cel emoțional. Aceasta inseamnă că există un risc mare ca un adolescent să se implice in anumite activități periculoase, deoarece există o inadvertență intre posibilitățile lui reale și dorințele sale. De exemplu, unii adolescenți pot fi implicați in consumul abuziv de alcool / droguri, manifestă comportament verbal sau fizic agresiv, prezintă dificultăți in comunicarea cu părinții sau cu alți adulți, ajung la eșec sau chiar abandon școlar și așa mai departe. In astfel de circumstanțe, părinții și profesorii au o misiune foarte dificilă de a incerca să-i convingă pe acești adolescenți că asemenea conduite nu sunt bune pentru dezvoltarea lor și, in general, pentru intreaga societate. In lucrarea de față vom incerca să analizăm unele caracteristici ale dezvoltării adolescenților ș...
The desideratum of postmodern education is the forming of human beings who are capable of judging... more The desideratum of postmodern education is the forming of human beings who are capable of judging. In this regard, learning means doubting, criticizing. Metacognitive training facilitates the approach whereby students are taught how to learn, how to process the information, how to think independently and effectively. But, metacognitive knowledge, which is knowledge about one’s own way of thinking, of understanding, and of learning, must be doubled by a metacognitive behavior, which aims at the strategies and the abilities used to plan, to organize, and to adjust one’s own learning activities. This case study aimed, on the one hand, to assess teachers’ awareness about the role of metacognitive strategies in teaching and, on the other hand, to understand how teachers use metacognitive strategies in their work with students in order to achieve performance. The research was conducted in secondary schools from Bihor county, Romania. In the case of teachers, a self-report instrument was u...
Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies, 2022
Didactic self-assessment represents students' ability to make value judgments on their own ac... more Didactic self-assessment represents students' ability to make value judgments on their own academic performances obtained as a result of the instructive-educational process. Developing self-assessment competences in the virtual environment represents a major challenge, given that teachers' regulatory intervention to ensure the objectivity of the process is very limited. The aim of the present study conducted on a sample of 139 students from the University of Oradea, Romania was to identify how the implementation of an interactive teaching approach may contribute to the formation of student self-assessment competences as objectively as possible. The results obtained showed that most students tend to underestimate themselves in exams due to a lack of confidence in their own abilities due to insufficient preparation for the subjects studied. However, the use of specific strategies for the development of self-assessment competences can lead to their improvement but only if they ...
ICT plays a very important role in education, as, on the one hand, it improves the educational at... more ICT plays a very important role in education, as, on the one hand, it improves the educational attainment of students and, on the other hand, it contributes to a better communication between the education agents, while also speeding up students' personal development. By using educational software adjusted to the specific nature of different types of disabilities, the benefits of ICT can be very well exploited in special education too. The impact can be a significant one, both in the therapeutic process and in the educational one, and the literature in the area has recorded several examples of successes achieved by students with disabilities assisted by ICT. In Romania, however, few studies have been conducted so far to assess the way ICT is used by teachers in their work with students having different types of disabilities. For that reason, the main aim of the present research was to identify to what extent pre-university teachers are open and prepared to use ICT applications in...
New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017
Educational, vocational, and social inclusion is one of the fundamental principles that ensure pe... more Educational, vocational, and social inclusion is one of the fundamental principles that ensure people with disabilities a chance to have as a normal life as possible. In turn, accessibility is one of the most important components of inclusion and could be defined as the right of people with disabilities to benefit of the same products and services as all other community members. According to government data from 2015, in Romania 752 931 were people with disabilities, 60 289 were children and 13.9% had various forms of visual impairment. For these people, any limitation in accessibility means isolation and discrimination. On the other hand, education and new technologies can increase the accessibility of people with visual impairment to quality products and services in society. Therefore, the purpose of this research was the identification of attitude and training level of teachers in the educational process accessibility for students with visual impairment using ICT. The sample cons...
Contemporary culture is mainly a culture of image. We get our information seeing. Examination of ... more Contemporary culture is mainly a culture of image. We get our information seeing. Examination of images is free, while reading is impelled by the necessity of browsing the whole text. The image seems more appropriate than the text when trying to communicate easy and quickly. The speech calls for articulated language, expressed through a symbolic set of oral or written codes that we must master. Understanding an image requires less work and fewer skills than reading a text. This paper aims to highlight how messages are perceived and received within the educational activities, through the two types of communication, iconic and logical-linguistic. The instrument used in conducting the research was represented by a questionnaire consisting from objective and subjective items, applied to students from high schools in Oradea. Besides these questionnaires, a key role in the study was played by the knowledge gained while observing lessons held by students of the University of Oradea within ...
Each school is part of the community and at the same time, a provider of education services. This... more Each school is part of the community and at the same time, a provider of education services. This makes school a Learning Community for both teachers and students. While in the case of students this is a mission accomplished, in that of teachers’ things seem to be a bit more difficult. The latter ones should see themselves as members of a Professional Learning Community (PLC), where each teacher should cooperate with the other to achieve common goals, engage in common research activities for the progress of their school, take part in evaluating school results and propose plans to improve them etc. This research aimed to identify teachers’ perception of the role of school as a Professional Learning Community, to identify how school boards support and encourage this idea through participative management and to identify lines of joint research in which teachers are involved. The instrument used was a questionnaire having 30 close-ended items, administered to pre-university teachers fro...
The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2019
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-No... more This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-No... more This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
International Journal on Lifelong Education and Leadership
Even though many students and teachers tend to minimize its relevance, didactic self-assessment i... more Even though many students and teachers tend to minimize its relevance, didactic self-assessment is one of the most important components of the instructive-educational process. It can be defined as the students’ ability to make value judgments about their own academic performance, based on sound logical and psychological arguments. The development of students' self-assessment skills is supported by a number of socio-psychological factors such as: perceived self-efficacy, relevant individuals’ opinions - teachers, parents, etc. as well as by certain pedagogical factors such as: the teacher's didactic style, teaching/learning strategies, type(s) of assessment used, particulars of the information/content taught, etc. The aim of this research was to assess students’ awareness of the importance of training self-assessment skills for their ongoing professional and personal development. The research sample was made up of 336 students from 4 different faculties of the University of O...
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference Education Facing Contemporary World Issues (Edu World 2022), 3-4 June, 2022, University of Pitești, Pitești, Romania
Self-assessment in the school environment can be defined as the students’ ability to make valuabl... more Self-assessment in the school environment can be defined as the students’ ability to make valuable judgements about their own academic performance, either by reference to the teacher’s educational goals, previous academic results, or the academic performance of other colleagues. The formation of such self-assessment skills is strongly influenced by a number of internal and external psycho-pedagogical factors, including chronological age, motivation for learning, level of cognitive development, perceived self-efficacy, the teacher's teaching style, the social status of the student's family, their group affiliation, etc. Starting from this point, the purpose of the present research was the analysis of the students’ degree of awareness of the role of perceived self-efficacy in the formation of objective didactic self-evaluation skills. The research sample consisted of 108 students, currently attending the Psycho-Pedagogy and Methodology Study Program courses at the University o...
Problems of Education in the 21st Century, Feb 25, 2015
The school curriculum includes the learning experiences students are invited to go through in an ... more The school curriculum includes the learning experiences students are invited to go through in an organized and systemic way. The curriculum has two main parts, the core curriculum and the school based curriculum (SBC) respectively. The latter one concerns the learning experiences, which school provides in addition to the minimum experiences that all students should gain and it can be achieved through optional school disciplines. However, education research has shown that the way these optional disciplines are chosen often expresses the teachers' options rather than those of the students. The main aim of this study was to analyze the subjective perception of upper-secondary school students with regard to the status of optional disciplines within the SBC. The sample consisted of 121 students, who study in 4 uppersecondary schools from Oradea, Bihor County, Romania. The instrument used was a questionnaire, and the implementation period was October-December 2014. The results show that the reasons why students choose a certain optional discipline are related to their need for personal and professional development. The most important subjects students want to study are foreign languages and sports activities, and the favored forms of organization include extracurricular and applied activities.
Problems of Education in the 21st Century, Dec 15, 2014
In Romania, the curriculum is traditionally strongly based on disciplines, the teachers being pri... more In Romania, the curriculum is traditionally strongly based on disciplines, the teachers being primarily specialised in one discipline only. Developing transferable competences requires new ways of teaching and learning, which transcend the traditional boundaries among disciplines. As they are being developed, these competences become important factors in the process of learning competences specific to certain disciplines, while also help the individual to adapt to the dynamics of a complex reality. Thus, given the importance of transferable competences, along with the reform of the curriculum, in the Romanian educational system optional disciplines were also included. The aim of this study was to analyse that, although there is a legislative framework, the development of activities that include multiple learning objectives or results that cross the traditional boundaries among disciplines, is still poor. The strategy used for the study was a complex one. It combined both quantitative research methods and qualitative ones: literature review (framework documents on educational policies), a statistic analysis, a questionnairebased survey. The results have demonstrated the need for change in school organization and culture, so that the transferable competences acquired become indeed competences for life.
Due to several reasons foreign and/or second language teaching is not necessarily a course book d... more Due to several reasons foreign and/or second language teaching is not necessarily a course book driven activity-learners' needs should be prior to syllabus requirements. The present study introduces four different ways of using script-based drama in language teaching. Examples that come from the author's teaching experience are supported by methodological reasoning of colleagues' articles from all over the world. Encouragement to apply the techniques introduced to those who teach minority languages, Boyash and Romani is one of the main goals of this paper.
Although is a key institution in the community, involved in the social and economic development o... more Although is a key institution in the community, involved in the social and economic development of the region, by providing quality educational services, the school cannot develop today without building relations with the authorities, with the parents, the NGOs or with the representatives of public institutions. This article aims to present the results of a research, starting form the question: is it possible to extend the learning communities from the school to local community level in Romania (by involving all relevant actors in this process: headmasters and principals, teachers, students, parents, NGO representatives, representatives of the City Council, other public institutions)? The focus group method and the analysis of empirical data, collected from 25 directors of representatives schools in terms of management and quality of teaching, led to the conclusion that, although invested with the same social roles, schools operate in different communities and the level of developme...
he individual that our society needs. The article aims to capture the relationship between the ne... more he individual that our society needs. The article aims to capture the relationship between the new curriculum and the new goals of the national education policies in the spirit of European citize nship. The research emphasizes the materialization of the necessary cha nges in the Romanian education system: the formation of compete nces with large transfer possibilities, adapting the curriculum to the knowledge society, to change, to post modernity, improving ef ficiency of emotional learning to achieve an increased EQ, for the social and emotional education of the European citizen, moving from the academic culture of theoretical type to functional culture, from monoculture to intercultural and multicultural appr oach, from theoretical education to pragmatism, to emphasizing the applied character of learning, from the instructive/informa tive character to the formative one.
Adolescența reprezintă cea mai complicată perioadă a vieții umane. Mulți specialiști pot spune că... more Adolescența reprezintă cea mai complicată perioadă a vieții umane. Mulți specialiști pot spune că in acest moment o persoană devine matură din punct de vedere fizic, intelectual sau moral, dar niciodată din cel emoțional. Aceasta inseamnă că există un risc mare ca un adolescent să se implice in anumite activități periculoase, deoarece există o inadvertență intre posibilitățile lui reale și dorințele sale. De exemplu, unii adolescenți pot fi implicați in consumul abuziv de alcool / droguri, manifestă comportament verbal sau fizic agresiv, prezintă dificultăți in comunicarea cu părinții sau cu alți adulți, ajung la eșec sau chiar abandon școlar și așa mai departe. In astfel de circumstanțe, părinții și profesorii au o misiune foarte dificilă de a incerca să-i convingă pe acești adolescenți că asemenea conduite nu sunt bune pentru dezvoltarea lor și, in general, pentru intreaga societate. In lucrarea de față vom incerca să analizăm unele caracteristici ale dezvoltării adolescenților ș...
The desideratum of postmodern education is the forming of human beings who are capable of judging... more The desideratum of postmodern education is the forming of human beings who are capable of judging. In this regard, learning means doubting, criticizing. Metacognitive training facilitates the approach whereby students are taught how to learn, how to process the information, how to think independently and effectively. But, metacognitive knowledge, which is knowledge about one’s own way of thinking, of understanding, and of learning, must be doubled by a metacognitive behavior, which aims at the strategies and the abilities used to plan, to organize, and to adjust one’s own learning activities. This case study aimed, on the one hand, to assess teachers’ awareness about the role of metacognitive strategies in teaching and, on the other hand, to understand how teachers use metacognitive strategies in their work with students in order to achieve performance. The research was conducted in secondary schools from Bihor county, Romania. In the case of teachers, a self-report instrument was u...
Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies, 2022
Didactic self-assessment represents students' ability to make value judgments on their own ac... more Didactic self-assessment represents students' ability to make value judgments on their own academic performances obtained as a result of the instructive-educational process. Developing self-assessment competences in the virtual environment represents a major challenge, given that teachers' regulatory intervention to ensure the objectivity of the process is very limited. The aim of the present study conducted on a sample of 139 students from the University of Oradea, Romania was to identify how the implementation of an interactive teaching approach may contribute to the formation of student self-assessment competences as objectively as possible. The results obtained showed that most students tend to underestimate themselves in exams due to a lack of confidence in their own abilities due to insufficient preparation for the subjects studied. However, the use of specific strategies for the development of self-assessment competences can lead to their improvement but only if they ...
ICT plays a very important role in education, as, on the one hand, it improves the educational at... more ICT plays a very important role in education, as, on the one hand, it improves the educational attainment of students and, on the other hand, it contributes to a better communication between the education agents, while also speeding up students' personal development. By using educational software adjusted to the specific nature of different types of disabilities, the benefits of ICT can be very well exploited in special education too. The impact can be a significant one, both in the therapeutic process and in the educational one, and the literature in the area has recorded several examples of successes achieved by students with disabilities assisted by ICT. In Romania, however, few studies have been conducted so far to assess the way ICT is used by teachers in their work with students having different types of disabilities. For that reason, the main aim of the present research was to identify to what extent pre-university teachers are open and prepared to use ICT applications in...
New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017
Educational, vocational, and social inclusion is one of the fundamental principles that ensure pe... more Educational, vocational, and social inclusion is one of the fundamental principles that ensure people with disabilities a chance to have as a normal life as possible. In turn, accessibility is one of the most important components of inclusion and could be defined as the right of people with disabilities to benefit of the same products and services as all other community members. According to government data from 2015, in Romania 752 931 were people with disabilities, 60 289 were children and 13.9% had various forms of visual impairment. For these people, any limitation in accessibility means isolation and discrimination. On the other hand, education and new technologies can increase the accessibility of people with visual impairment to quality products and services in society. Therefore, the purpose of this research was the identification of attitude and training level of teachers in the educational process accessibility for students with visual impairment using ICT. The sample cons...
Contemporary culture is mainly a culture of image. We get our information seeing. Examination of ... more Contemporary culture is mainly a culture of image. We get our information seeing. Examination of images is free, while reading is impelled by the necessity of browsing the whole text. The image seems more appropriate than the text when trying to communicate easy and quickly. The speech calls for articulated language, expressed through a symbolic set of oral or written codes that we must master. Understanding an image requires less work and fewer skills than reading a text. This paper aims to highlight how messages are perceived and received within the educational activities, through the two types of communication, iconic and logical-linguistic. The instrument used in conducting the research was represented by a questionnaire consisting from objective and subjective items, applied to students from high schools in Oradea. Besides these questionnaires, a key role in the study was played by the knowledge gained while observing lessons held by students of the University of Oradea within ...
Each school is part of the community and at the same time, a provider of education services. This... more Each school is part of the community and at the same time, a provider of education services. This makes school a Learning Community for both teachers and students. While in the case of students this is a mission accomplished, in that of teachers’ things seem to be a bit more difficult. The latter ones should see themselves as members of a Professional Learning Community (PLC), where each teacher should cooperate with the other to achieve common goals, engage in common research activities for the progress of their school, take part in evaluating school results and propose plans to improve them etc. This research aimed to identify teachers’ perception of the role of school as a Professional Learning Community, to identify how school boards support and encourage this idea through participative management and to identify lines of joint research in which teachers are involved. The instrument used was a questionnaire having 30 close-ended items, administered to pre-university teachers fro...
The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2019
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-No... more This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-No... more This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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