Classroom Social Climate and Student Absences and Grades; that's the title of the article my group members and I worked on for our journal article presentation. This article is dated 1978. a research done by Rudolf H. Moos.
I found myself reading the article, Grade-Level, Gender and Ethnic Differences in Attitudes and Learning Environment in High School Mathematics by Gloria as I was reading the Moos article.
The Gloria article is set in 2005 and it shows how much the Educational research area has grown in terms of instruments and the way in which researchers conduct their research. From just being quantitative, studies have evolved to being both quantitative and qualitative.
The emergence of the CES led to the sprouting of other instruments such as the WIHIC and SLEI. Instruments custom made for the western environment and culture have been adapted and validated to suit and to be used in the Asian settings.
Though the settings and tools have changed, the fundamentals still remain; to enable educators to better comprehend the kind of learning environments they create and provide practical suggestions to improve on the learning environments for the betterment of their charges.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Thoughts on Group Presentations
Being part of the group which studied on Moos one can not deny the impact of his work on the Learning Environment.
However, after sitting through the presentations, we could appreciate the work of others such as Murray and Lewin who had started way before Moos.
Fraser has succeeded Moos in leading the journey on Classroom Learning Environment.
Though interested in different aspects, everyone of them has played a major part. Moos with his Classroom Environment scales, Fraser and his SLEI, Lewin with his Force Field Analysis and Murray's TAT.
All of these have some kind of effect in the researches done in Asia as many Asian researchers tend to modify the instruments crafted by westerners for use in their countries.
This trend has deprived Asia of its own researchers developing their own tools.
Are these tools designed for western Learning Environments effective in assessing our Asian Learning Environments?
Will there be a change in this trend?
Will Asia have its own developed tools to assess the Learning Environments in Asia?
However, after sitting through the presentations, we could appreciate the work of others such as Murray and Lewin who had started way before Moos.
Fraser has succeeded Moos in leading the journey on Classroom Learning Environment.
Though interested in different aspects, everyone of them has played a major part. Moos with his Classroom Environment scales, Fraser and his SLEI, Lewin with his Force Field Analysis and Murray's TAT.
All of these have some kind of effect in the researches done in Asia as many Asian researchers tend to modify the instruments crafted by westerners for use in their countries.
This trend has deprived Asia of its own researchers developing their own tools.
Are these tools designed for western Learning Environments effective in assessing our Asian Learning Environments?
Will there be a change in this trend?
Will Asia have its own developed tools to assess the Learning Environments in Asia?
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