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Václav Dobiáš; Václav Šimandl; Jirí Vanícek – Informatics in Education, 2024
The paper discusses an alternative method of assessing the difficulty of pupils' programming tasks to determine their age appropriateness. Building a program takes the form of its successive iterations. Thus, it is possible to monitor the number of times such a program was built by the solver. The variance of the number of program builds can be…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Computer Science Education, Programming, Task Analysis
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Abdülkadir Kabadayi; Martin Skutil – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2024
Plagiarism poses a significant challenge to academic integrity, and the advent of digital technologies has prompted the widespread adoption of plagiarism detection tools. This cross-cultural study investigates teachers' perspectives on the use of plagiarism-detection tools for sustainable education in the contexts of the Czech Republic and Turkey.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Plagiarism, Technology Uses in Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Josef Kundrát; Karel Recka; Martina Litschmannová; Adéla Vrtková; František Baumgartner; Tereza Benešová; Karel Paulík; Lenka Skanderová; Tomáš Fabián; Helena Beranová; Dominika Ullmannová – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
We have developed a new interactive instrument that uses psychological distance (represented by visual distance) together with the metaphors of size and temperature to assess liking and influence among primary school students. To test its concurrent validity, we compare its results with an established sociometric instrument. Furthermore, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Measurement Equipment, Figurative Language
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Costello, Eamon; Johnston, Keith; Wade, Vincent – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This research investigated how the bug tracker database of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Moodle is developed as an application of crowd work. The bug tracker is used by software developers, who write and maintain Moodle's code, but also by a wider public world of ordinary Moodle users who can report bugs. Despite many studies of the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Computer Software, Cooperation
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Magdaléna Závodná; Katerina Kostolányová – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2023
In today's modern age, digital technologies are an essential part of everyone's life, so students must learn to use them in primary school. The specific competences defined in the European Digital Competence Framework DigComp 2.1 (2017) are divided into six areas. The Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic has subsequently drawn on this…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Digital Literacy, Guidelines
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Jiri Panek; Benjamin Hennig; Jonathan Huck; Karl Benediktsson – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
Geospatial technologies have revolutionised the field of hazard research as well as geography field-courses, providing powerful tools to analyse and visualise geospatial data for decision-making purposes. This paper presents a case study of Paper2GIS, an application for field data collection tested during an international field course in…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Geographic Information Systems, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research Methodology
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Marta Matulcikova; Daniela Brevenikova – NORDSCI, 2023
The aim of the research paper is to identify types of learners based on the Fleming VARK learning styles and selected learning models applicable in formal university education. The focus is on two higher education fields of study, namely Social, economic and law sciences (6213 and Education (7605 Economics and Management) Teacher Training and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Teaching Methods, Computer Software, Higher Education
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Klimova, Blanka; Polakova, Petra – Education Sciences, 2020
Mobile devices have penetrated all spheres of human activities, including education. Previous research has shown that smartphones are becoming widely used in learning as they can improve knowledge retention and increase student engagement. The purpose of this study was to discuss students' perception of the use of a mobile application aimed at…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Electronic Learning
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Mazouchová, Aneta; Jedlicková, Tereza; Hlavácová, Lucie – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2021
This paper aims to reveal the beliefs of students and fresh university graduates about teaching statistics during their university studies with focus on using statistical software. The objective is to detect the approach of faculties to statistics education and to find out which didactic materials and teaching methods are mainly used. Students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistics, College Students, College Graduates
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Mekota, Tomáš; Marada, Miroslav – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
Digital technologies are essential for almost all human activities, so children should learn to work with them at schools. Some studies of the effect of using computers, tablets or cell phones at schools have been carried out, but in Czechia, where the research was conducted, the number of such studies is very low. We wanted to examine how tablets…
Descriptors: High School Students, Teaching Methods, Computer Uses in Education, Handheld Devices
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Rosa, Premysl; Petrášková, Vladimíra – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2017
In the Czech Republic one of the key tasks of an education system is to ensure the financial literacy of citizens. Scarcely any topic of the school curricula is undergoing such rapid and frequent changes as the topic of financial issues. Therefore, its teaching requires new approaches that would dynamically respond to the current situation. This…
Descriptors: Money Management, Preservice Teachers, Instructional Materials, Teacher Education Programs
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Blažek, Jirí; Pech, Pavel – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2019
The paper deals with searching for synthetic solution supported by the means of dynamic geometry. It consists of two parts. The first one describes how software influences searching for synthetic solutions of geometric problems. The second one describes a small pilot experiment in which students of Faculty of Education solved two more difficult…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Geometry, Validity, Mathematical Logic
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Fuglík, Viktor; Tochácek, Daniel – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2019
The paper reports on the concept, implementation and findings of qualitative research focused on an electronic portfolio. The research aimed to explore the use of an electronic portfolio in the learning process of lower-secondary school pupils in the Czech Republic concerning their career choice. The primary research question was defined as…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Secondary School Students, Portfolios (Background Materials), Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Gybas, Vojtech; Kostolányová, Katerina; Klubal, Libor – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
The aim of this paper is to describe one of the learning option for pupils with special educational needs with the support of ICT in the educational area Man and Nature, "a basic knowledge of chemistry." Form of experimental teaching is not commonly used in elementary school special education. With the support of ICT, specifically the…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Elementary School Students, Chemistry, Teaching Methods
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Katerina Chroustová; Martin Bílek; Andrej Šorgo – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2017
The aim of this research was to empirically validate constructs for evaluation of teachers' attitudes toward usage of educational software in chemistry teaching. Questionnaire with items transformed from UTAUT (Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology) and other technology acceptance theories were filled in by 556 Czech chemistry…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Computer Software
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