“This is what you need to be learning”: an analysis of messages received by first-year mathematics students during their transition to university

Kouvela, Eirini; Hernandez‐Martinez, Paul; Croft, Tony

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“…Instead, the teachers of first-year engineering mathematics courses should build on their high self-efficacy and a relatively positive view of mathematics, and pay much attention to supporting students in accommodating the new mathematical culture. Like Kouvela et al (2018) and Jablonka et al (2017) point out, the challenges are essentially related to communication. If students get a feeling that their problems during the transition from secondary to tertiary mathematics education are acknowledged and respectably taken into account by their teachers, then their self-efficacy may improve on a more realistic basis in this process.…”

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“…Further, becoming a freshman engineering student involves stepping into a new stage in life with new rules and expectations in a new educational setting. This transition affects both how a student perceives mathematics and his/her self-efficacy in mathematics (Bengmark, Thunberg, & Winberg, 2017;Jablonka, Ashjari, & Bergsten, 2017;Kouvela, Hernandez-Martinez, & Croft, 2018).…”

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“…The transition from secondary to tertiary mathematics education has been considered in several studies. For example, recent studies (Bengmark et al, 2017;Jablonka et al, 2017;Kouvela et al, 2018) report on the success-factors in the transition to university mathematics, and how a right kind of communication helps students to accommodate themselves to a new environment, and on engineering students' problems with the changing criteria for what counts as a legitimate mathematical activity.…”

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Swedish first-year engineering students’ views of mathematics, self-efficacy and motivation and their effect on task performance

Tossavainen

Rensaa

Johansson

2019

International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and

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We examine a group (N = 88) of Swedish first-year engineering students, their motivation, self-efficacy, and beliefs about the nature of mathematics, and how these relate to their task performance in mathematics. In our data, engineering students who emphasized the exact reasoning in their view of mathematics performed significantly better in a set of mathematical tasks than those who emphasized the applications of mathematics. Similarly, the higher self-efficacy and the intrinsic and utility values of mathematics relate to better performance in the tasks. In general, the students' task performance was quite modest in relation to the expressed self-efficacy and motivational values.

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Swedish first-year engineering students’ views of mathematics, self-efficacy and motivation and their effect on task performance

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Johansson

2019

International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and

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“…Esta relação indica a necessidade de um certo nível de estímulo para a otimização na execução de uma atividade, e que se os estímulos forem muito baixos ou muito elevados haverá prejuízo em relação à execução da atividade, tendo esta lei sido citada e identificada em várias pesquisas sobre treinamentos .233 em equinos e outras espécies (Staal, 2004;Olczak, Olczak et al, 2016;Valenchon et al, 2017Valenchon et al, , 2017. De forma semelhante, o modelo de zonas de aprendizado de Senninger (Figura 1) aponta para a importância de um nível ótimo de estímulo (na denominada zona de crescimento), o qual, sendo muito reduzido (zona de conforto) ou muito elevado (zona de pânico) causaria prejuízo ao aprendizado e execução de atividades (Kouvela, Kouvela et al, 2017, 2017. Estes autores explicam, segundo o modelo de Senninger, que a zona de conforto consiste em preocessos e situações que são familiares aos indivíduos, envolvendo reduzidos níveis de ansiedade e estresse, permitindo um nível estável de performance, mas poucas oportunidades de aprendizado.…”

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Otimizando o desempenho e o bem-estar de equinos usados em atividades esportivas

Schmidek¹

2018

Revista Brasileira De Zoociências

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Optimizing the performance and welfare of horses in sports activities. Horses are born athletes. Throughout their evolution, they have been trained in a really arduous way, as the less skilled individuals in running and jumping over natural fences -which were on their escape routes from predators -certainly left fewer offspring, if any. Although the domestication of the equines occurred since a long time ago, to this day they continue to present the main characteristics of their ancestral ones: they are group animals, scared and afraid of predators, that feel insecure when alone and that spend much of their day walking and grazing. In nature, it is difficult to identify environments or days in the life of living beings, with the absence of some type or degree of stress. Many of the knowledge and learning of the equines that occur in nature or from human training involve some degree of stress, which indicates to be a trait whose optimal values are intermediate. Regarding skills learned trought some stress degree, it seems that the learning of the horse does not occur when the stress (or pressure) occurs, but at the moment of its relief. Thus, the more immediate the pressure relief, the more efficient the learning will be. There seems to be a consensus that relaxed and motivated horses have improved learning outcomes and more fearful horses are more influenced by the training system. We could sum up in minimal pressure, immediate, long and frequent relief of pressure, repetition of exercises, consistency in asking the exercises, and finish the training section in a positive way, with correctness, even if an easy task as the main strategies or tools for equine training. In practical terms, the best training for each horse involves improving the communication between human and equine, both in terms of understanding the urges and fears of each horse, drawing up an individualized training plan, and adopting rational training techniques.Resumo. Cavalos são atletas natos. Ao longo de sua evolução, foram treinados de forma realmente árdua, pois os indivíduos menos habilidosos em correr e saltar por cima de obstáculos naturais -que haviam em suas rotas de fuga de predadores -certamente deixaram menor número de descendentes, se é que deixaram alguns. Ainda que a domesticação dos equinos tenha ocorrido há muito tempo, até hoje esses animais continuam a apresentar as principais características dos equídeos ancestrais: são sociais, por natureza assustados e com medo de predadores, que se sentem inseguros quando sozinhos e que passam grande parte do dia andando e pastejando. Na natureza, dificilmente se identificam ambientes, ou dias, na vida dos seres vivos em que não tenha havido algum tipo ou grau de estresse. Muitos dos aprendizados dos equinos, quer ocorram na natureza, ou no convívio com humanos, envolvem algum grau de estresse, que indica ser um fenômeno biológico cujo ótimo são valores intermediários. Em aprendizados que envolvam algum grau de estresse, o aprendizado do equino parece não se dar no momento em que ocorre ...

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“…As a recognised part of social life, transitions have become an important focus for educational research. For more than 20 years the transition of undergraduate learners during their first year of study has received widespread international attention (Halamandaris & Power, 1997;Johnson, Greer Cavallaro & Watson, 2004;Kouvela, Hernandez-Martinez, & Croft, 2018;Leathwood & O'Connell, 2003;Reay, 2002). This extensive work determines the transition to university is a very particular and distinctive type of transitional process (Field, 2012).…”

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Visualising the experiences of working part time postgraduates: A meteoric juggling of worlds

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“This is what you need to be learning”: an analysis of messages received by first-year mathematics students during their transition to university

Cited by 23 publications

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Swedish first-year engineering students’ views of mathematics, self-efficacy and motivation and their effect on task performance

Swedish first-year engineering students’ views of mathematics, self-efficacy and motivation and their effect on task performance

Otimizando o desempenho e o bem-estar de equinos usados em atividades esportivas

Visualising the experiences of working part time postgraduates: A meteoric juggling of worlds

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