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Handwriting development from 1st to 5th grade of elementary school
Kučerová, Olga ; Kucharská, Anna (advisor) ; Wildová, Radka (referee) ; Viktorová, Ida (referee)
TITLE Handwriting development from 1st to 5th grade of elementary school Author: Mgr. et Mgr. Olga Kučerová Department: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education Charles University Supervisor: Doc. PhDr. PaedDr. Anna Kucharská, Ph. D. ABSTRACT This dissertation project describes the development phases of the handwriting skills from 1st to 5th grade. The aim of this project is to describe the procedure of dynamic handwriting acquisition concerning two different alphabetic scripts used in Czech elementary schools. These include the traditional cursive script and alternative script that is Comenia Script. We focus on two different styles of penmanship, which are being taught in Czech elementary schools - cursive writing and manuscript writing. Our research sample includes two groups. The first group comprises writers who employ the cursive handwriting style of penmanship, whereas the second group considers the Comenia Script writer i.e. the manuscript style. The research consists of two parts - the theoretical and practical part. The theory defines the basic concepts related to handwriting skills and handwriting development. A substantial part focuses on both styles of penmanship - traditional cursive writing and Comenia Script. We depict their formal characteristics, circumstances of origin and the...
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The self-concept of university students with dyslexia
Lipčáková, Iveta ; Kucharská, Anna (advisor) ; Presslerová, Pavla (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the self-esteem of university students with dyslexia and its comparison with the intact population of university students. Further it focuses on the difficulties university students with dyslexia suffer, but also on their strengths and positive attributes. The aim of the work was also to find out whether there is a relation between the self-esteem of reading and the global self-esteem of individuals with dyslexia. A total of 51 respondents participated in my research, 23 of which belonged to the experimental group of university students with dyslexia. In the research, 2 questionnaires were used, namely The Reader Self-Perception Scale 2 (RSPS2) and Self-Liking/Self-Competence Scale-Revised Version (SLCS-R). In addition to these methods, also 4 open questions were used. Results of the research have shown that university students with dyslexia have more negative reading self-esteem than university students without dyslexia, but the differences in global self- esteem between the two groups are not statistically significant. It has been shown that within the individuals with dyslexia there is no significant positive relation between the reading self-esteem and global self-esteem. The main finding of this work is that, despite the difficulties caused by learning...
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Autism Spectrum Disorders - Sibling's Perspective
Tietzová, Alžběta ; Sotáková, Hana (advisor) ; Kucharská, Anna (referee)
The bachelor thesis aims to map sibling relationships of people with autism spectrum disorders and their intact siblings. The theoretical part deals with the issue of autism spectrum disorders and with the developments in the field of professional approach to this concept. The next section is focused on sibling relations and constellations in the majority population, followed by a section dealing with the influence of autism spectrum disorders on sibling relationships. Finally, I try to explain briefly the concept of social support. In the empirical part I present results of the qualitative survey implemented through interviews and a social support questionnaire. The research seeks to examine the problem of demanding coexistence of intact children and their siblings with autism spectrum disorders and to discover impacts of the disorder on mutual relationships of children, as well as on their relationships with parents and on the children's perceptions with respect to their future and the social support. KEYWORDS sibling relationships, sibling constellations, autism spectrum disorder, social support
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Text comprehension in primary school students - oral reading vs listening comprehension
Kubíková, Adéla ; Špačková, Klára (advisor) ; Kucharská, Anna (referee)
The main aim of the thesis are the mapping the level of understanding narrative text for student of fifth grade primary school with the typical development of reading skills. The thesis deal with the relationship between listening comprehension and reading comprehension. The thesis is traditionally divided into a theoretical and empirical part. The first part of the thesis prestnts the theoretical background research problems of comprehension the text. Attention is focused mainly on the domain of listening comprehension and reading comprehension, including a summary of the current state of knowledge about the relationship between both skills in foreign and Czech studies, as well as the diagnostics of reading and prerequisites that are reflected on the comprehensions the text. In the practical part are conclusions expected on its own research, which was attended by 40 students taught by the analytic-synthetic metod of reading, are compared with the results of the three year research project GAČR - Reading complrehension - typical development and its risks, where attended 59 students of fifth grade primary school taught by the same reading method. In addition to comprehension level will be monitored by level of basic language skills.
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Support for the development of reading literacy and the practice of Czech schools
Nešněrová, Pavlína ; Wildová, Radka (advisor) ; Kucharská, Anna (referee) ; Vykoukalová, Věra (referee)
TITLE: Support for the development of reading literacy and the practice of Czech schools AUTHOR: Mgr. Pavlína Nešněrová DEPARTMENT: Department of Primary Education PedF UK Prague SUPERVISOR: Prof. PaedDr. Radka Wildová, CSc. ABSTRACT: The subject of this dissertation thesis is the issue of reading literacy of pupils of primary education. The aim of the thesis is to analyze the quality of reading literacy of pupils of the first grade of elementary school through specifically focused questions and tasks and to elaborate a practical methodical manual for teachers on this topic. The research itself was realized through a didactic test aiming to determine the reading literacy status of pupils of 3rd, 4th and 5th year of elementary school through four groups of questions and tasks in terms of the ability to obtain and process information in various types of texts, texts. Based on the results, conclusions were formulated and discussion topics presented. The research findings were applied in a practical manual, which is part of the work, and which is intended to inspire teachers to work with literary texts in lessons. KEYWORDS: Reading literacy, primary education, targeted tasks, skills and competences, text information.
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The possibilities of supporting children and teenagers suffering from ADHD at school and outside
Horký, Hynek ; Kucharská, Anna (advisor) ; Presslerová, Pavla (referee)
The aim of the thesis named "The possibilities of supporting children and teenagers suffering from ADHD at school and outside" comes from author's personal experience with teenage students suffering from ADHD. The main goal of the thesis is to picture mentioned syndrome in the context of education of the students, therefore the thesis mainly focuses on teenagers and adults who suffer from this handicap. The text consists of two main parts. The ethology of the disorder is introduced in the first part as well as its symptomatology which changes from the childhood through the teenage years to adulthood. The possibilities of diagnostics and treatment are also mentioned - always with the focus on how could the school or the teacher be involved in the process of education. The other chapters are directly focused on the possibilities of the ADHD students' education and its' reflection in the current legislative system, from pre-school age to adulthood. The research study which is described in the second part, is based on questionnaires and semi-structured interviews answered by students and teachers at two types of higher educational institutions. The study was intended to show the relationship between students with ADHD and teachers and to examine, how the ADHD influences the learning abilities, the...
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School Counselling Centres - reality and expectations
Chrtková, Monika ; Kucharská, Anna (advisor) ; Kučerová, Olga (referee)
The thesis deals with the profession of school psychologist. We are wondering if there are any reasons that prevent or encourage the introduction of psychologists into schools. The first part of the thesis deals with the concepts of school psychology and school psychologist from the present and historical point of view. We are dedicated to the legislative anchoring of this profession and its ethical standards. We uncover the complex network of the school psychologist, including aspects that can be partaking of teachers' expectations of school psychologists. The second part of the thesis deals with the questionnaire survey which was carried out at the school, where the institution of the school psychologist is already established and where it is not. The data analysis was conducted the analysis. Through her, we found five areas of interest which affect expectations. The first area concerns the role of the school psychologist. The second area concerns of his work. The third is the idea of teachers about the " ideal " school psychologist. The fourth deals with the concerns of teachers and the fifth area concerns the financing of school psychologists. The main findings introduce together with the direct quote. In another part of the main findings offer a comparison between schools, which complement the...
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Written Expression among pupils at the fifth grade of basic schools
Karasová, Michaela ; Kucharská, Anna (advisor) ; Sotáková, Hana (referee)
This thesis is focused on mapping written expression among pupils at the fifth grade of basic schools. The thesis is divided into two parts - the theoretical part and the empirical part. The theoretical part of the thesis is devoted to the theoretical knowledge available about written expression and about disorder of written expression. Attention is paid here to the diagnosis of written expression and to the analysis of the available diagnostic tools that deal with testing of written expression. In the empirical part of the thesis, we are primarily focused on designing the test of written expression and its evaluation system. Our next goal was to verify the predictive value of the designed test of written expression on fifth grade pupils and to compare pupils' performance among themselves. Secondary goal of the thesis is to compare the results of the test by a statistical quantitative methodology and to subsequently discuss them in terms of gender, font pattern (Comenia Script font and bound font pattern) and the presence or absence of specific learning disorders. The partial goal is to verify the correlation of the results of the designed test. Data collection was conducted by a group administration. A total of six basic schools took part in research studies of the written expression. We have...
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Self-evaluation of reading
Bezecná, Andrea ; Kucharská, Anna (advisor) ; Presslerová, Pavla (referee)
This diploma thesis investigates the question of the development of reading skills and their relationship with the self-concept of an individual. The teoretical part describes a development of reading literacy from the view of language, because a development of reading closely depends on a language, in which an individual learns to read. Also, it describes a development of reading literacy from the view of variables, which can be found inside of an individual and his environment. Next, we focus on the development of self-concept and self-evaluation, and we describes the specifics of self- evaluation of reading at the end. In the empirical part, we analyse data that were obtained from an Research project of the GAČR, which was carried out in 2013-2015 by members of the working group at the Department of psychology and other specialist from the Department of primary pedagogy and Czech language on College of Education at Charles University in Prague. We analysed of a reading self-evaluation questionnaire of pupils in 3rd and 4th grade of primary school and we compare their scores in the questionnaire with their achievement in a couple of grammar tests which measure two basic components of reading - understanding and decoding. At the end we show examples of case studies of pupil with high and low...
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