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Future professional trajectory of students at grammar schools
Barochová, Jana ; Voňková, Hana (advisor) ; Papajoanu, Ondřej (referee)
The work is focused on desision-making about the next university studies and future profession of the students at grammar schools and maps the situation in our country and the situation in foreign countries, especially Europen, it is focused on comparison of posibilities of studies in the Czech Republic and in Europe.. The research took place in the time period of November - October 2018 in Pilsen region. The main objective of the exploration was to map the situation of the desision-making about future profession of the students of grammar schools. The partial objectives were to map the reasons that influence the most the desision-making about future profession, to discover the differences between students of four-year and more-year form of the schools and what is the proportion of the students who change their high school during their studies at grammar school and to find the proportion of the students who want to continue their stuies at university. The paper analyses the opinions of the respondents - students of the graduation grades of two grammar schools and the data gived by the leaders of these schools. Nine schools (of fifteen in Pilsen region) were addressed and two took the part of the research (22,22 %). It was found out that the strongest motivations to choose the profession are...
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Job Satisfaction of English Teachers in the Czech Republic
Altınkalp, İrem ; Voňková, Hana (advisor) ; Zvírotský, Michal (referee)
Despite the burgeoning interest in foreign language learning and teaching practices, the research on English teachers' job satisfaction has remained rather scarce, particularly in the Czech context. The current diploma thesis, hence, has aimed to provide insights into the determinants of job satisfaction, with respect to English teachers working at primary and secondary schools. The thesis is categorized into two parts, a theoretical part and a practical part. The theoretical part of the study covers the term job satisfaction. It identifies and analyzes existing research to present definitions and major theories and to provide guidance and basis for the research. Then, it expounds both international and Czech literature on job satisfaction among teachers, highlighting the need for conducting the research. The practical part displays the methodology, covering data collection tools and the sample selection. Next, the findings are presented and discussed to shed light on the issue and to recommend adjustments in the subject matter to improve and prosper English language education in the Czech Republic. KEYWORDS Job satisfaction, English teachers, Czech Republic, primary schools, secondary schools, English teachers' salary
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Current Approaches to English Teacher Education as Reflected in Trainees'Teaching Practice
Holý, Tomáš ; Hofmannová, Marie (advisor) ; Voňková, Hana (referee)
This work deals with the English language teacher training approaches administered at the Department of English Language and Literature of the Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague. The work seeks answers to which aspects of teacher competence are developed by each of the approaches. As almost half of the trainees involved in the research had a previous teaching experience, the role of teaching experience on the development of teaching skills is also examined. Teacher trainees' written reflections on their teaching practice are analyzed using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. The results are related to current trends in teacher education.
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Edukometrie - Item response theory
Voňková, Hana
Title: Measurement of Education - Item Response Theory Author: Hana Křížovská Department: Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics Supervisor: Prof. Ing. František Fabian, CSc. Supervisors' e-mail address: he has not Abstract If we want to study abilities of certain pupils or other people in a given area, we can give them a didactial test, which would consist of items testing the abilities in question. The goal is then to determine the qualities of the people (ability parameter) and the relative difficulty of the questions (parameters of the questions) on the basis of the answers. Further we estimate how would a pupil, who have passed just one part of the test (assuming we have the item parameters of the whole test), would perform in the rest of the test. This is the research area of the Item Reponse Theory (IRT). In the introductory section the reasons are given for why we should use the IRT rather than the classical test theory for evaluating didactical test results, althought it's not regulary done in our country. The dichotomous Rasch model, which is one of the main IRT models, is described in detail. First the model is derived and then its main features presented. For the case of Rasch models we also demonstrate the most used methods of estimation of the ability and difficulty parameters....
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The Anchoring Vignette Method and its use for increasing the comparability of self-assessments of ICT knowledge and skills
Hrabák, Jan ; Voňková, Hana (advisor) ; Černochová, Miroslava (referee) ; Prokýšek, Miloš (referee)
This dissertation deals with the use of the Anchoring Vignette Method in educational research carried out to establish the level of information and communication technology (ICT) knowledge and skills, with the focus on Czech upper-secondary school students. The theoretical part describes curricular documents that define the ICT knowledge and skills. In the Czech Republic that means mainly the Framework Educational Programmes. Attention is also paid to the international document DigComp. The Anchoring Vignette Method with the focus on nonparametric approach of this method is described in detail too. The author also provides an overview of available Czech and foreign bibliography on ICT knowledge and skills research - including the International Computer and Information Literacy (ICILS, 2013 and 2018) - and on the use of the Anchoring Vignette Method in educational research. The empirical part includes the description of the steps taken in formulating anchoring vignettes, this being an integral part of the Anchoring Vignette Method, in accordance with the curricular documents of the Czech Republic, and the steps taken while formulating anchoring vignettes on the basis of the international document DigComp. The verification of the fulfilment of the Anchoring Vignette Method assumptions (vignette...
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Non-mathematical world of mathematics textbook for 6th grade of lower secondary schools and in the area of financial literacy
Moraová, Hana ; Bendl, Stanislav (advisor) ; Hošpesová, Alena (referee) ; Voňková, Hana (referee)
The aim of the dissertation thesis is to study the non-mathematical content of textbooks of mathematics. Textbooks of mathematics are not only a pedagogical document but also a cultural artefact that is produces in a particular society with its own cultural norms. While working with a textbook of mathematics, pupils come across many images of everyday life. Yet, since the main goal of a mathematics textbook is to help pupils gain knowledge and skills in mathematics, not much attention is paid to textual (non-mathematical, cultural) content. This means that pupils almost on everyday basis visit a world that tries to awaken the illusion of being "real", of being model of reality but in fact is a model for what is perceived as normal. The question asked in the presented research is what images of everyday life pupils come across while working with Czech textbooks of mathematics and whether there are differences among textbooks by different authors in this respect. Within the frame of this research, five sets of textbooks for 6th grade of lower secondary schools and four textbooks for 9th grade (only the chapter on financial mathematics, an area closely connected to everyday life) were analysed with respect to their non-mathematical, cultural content. The method used in the research comes out of the...
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Children and Youth Olympics: Analysis of time series of first-grade pupils' sports performance
Hedbávná, Simona ; Voňková, Hana (advisor) ; Čapek Adamec, Martin (referee)
The thesis called Children and Youth Olympics: Analysis of time series of first-grade pupils' sports performance deals with the importance of physical activities of junior pupils attending elementary schools. The aim of this thesis is to describe the current status of children's physical capability as it is reported in professional literature. The data found there are compared with the children's physical ability performance measured in the case of the first-grade pupils at elementary schools. The thesis is focused on describing the Czech Olympic Committee project which is called Children and Youth Olympics. A unique sports event is derived from it - Velké Opatovice First- Grade Children Olympics. The text deals with the importance of sports, physical and olympic education and their integration in the Framework Education Program for the Basic Education. The research part of the thesis contains the analysis of the youngest pupils' sports performance. It introduces the data gathered from the First-grade Children Olympics result lists. They are in the form of the sports results linear trends from the period 2000 - 2017. The events in question are 50 and 400 metres run, cricket ball throw and long jump from the site. The research results have shown the improvement in running. It means in the speed and...
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Education of teacher students in the field of ICT
Štefáčková, Petra ; Voňková, Hana (advisor) ; Čapek Adamec, Martin (referee)
This thesis deals with the problematics of education of teacher students in the field of ICT. The theoretical part focuses on mapping of the current situation of the pregraduate qualification in the field of ICT of teacher students that do not study ICT as their specialty. It presents the results of the ICILS 2013 research, which are connected to the Strategií digitálního vzdělávání do roku 2020 (Digital Education Strategy for 2020). This program should affect the qualification in the field of ICT of teacher students and the whole concept of teaching ICT in schools. The empirical part focuses on quantitative questionnaire research carried out at the Faculty of Education, Charles University. The goal of the research was to find out if the students are being educated in the field of ICT; if they are being encouraged to use ICT, and if they are interested in ICT. ICT subjects are not compulsory at the Faculty of Education, thus the only students that are being educated in these subjects are those ones who show interest and choose them as elective courses. The thesis includes a chapter on suggestions for practical use, which among other includes the current form of fulfillment of item 3 from the Strategie digitálního vzdělávání do roku 2020 (Digital Education Strategy for 2020) - Provide conditions for...
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