Relation between Understanding Students Differences and Effects of Home Background on Educational Development of Secondary School Students

Well, we meet again, today we are going to discuss about the relationship between Felder's Journal and Chikweru's Journal. Of course, we all know that they have discussed indeed a very different matter, but in truth, writer did not picked out second journal just because of simple curiosity; there are connection which makes both journal is very related towards student academical performance which writer personally wished that this 2 journals will create a new perspective on students. Why they are doing this? Why they are like this? Why, Why, and Why, anything that is happening on your students, you can understand them even more by simply reading the two journals.

First Journal : Understanding Students Differences

This journal simply is all about the development of the students itself, without considering external factors which caused them become them. To put it simply, This journal just simply elaborate 3 main points which are: 

• Learning styles
• Learning orientation
• Intellectual development

The journals properly elaborated each meaning of 3 points, learning styles is how students properly learn, learning orientation is why students want to learn, and intellectual development is all about how students construct their own knowledge. However, as we have said before, this journal has not able to elaborate why learning styles, orientation, and intellectual development of each students are different? Which of course, brought writer to another research journal titled as  Effects of Home Background on Educational Development of Secondary School Students

Second Journal : Effects of Home Background on Educational Development of Secondary School Students

The curiosity why students are so unique and why we have variety of them could be explained by their own unique home background. Their economy status, how much brothers and sisters do they have, the social status of their parents, the intelligence of their parents, those are why students have their own differences; which of course no wonder it would be challenging for us if we want to understand them one by one properly.

Uniquely, writer can draw conclusion from this journal which is :

A singular children who has a very competent parents is having a greater chance of success academically rather than children who has brothers or sisters. 

Well, that is the brief discussion that writer could bring for today, if you are so interested on reading them, don't forget to visit writer's previous articles and check them on your own.

Good luck!

Luthfi’s Review Understanding Student Differences Part 3

Hello there, fellow English Education Students! Welcome to the third review of Understanding Student Differences. Last week we have talked about the ‘blue print’ about what this journal going to be, we all know this journal will speak 3 important key points which are:

Learning Style

Approaches to Learning and Orientation to Studying

Intellectual Development

However, on this occasion we will talk about the methodology of this journal, yup before going deep into the journal we must know what methods did Professor Richard used for this journal? Knowing its methodology surely will help us understand the journal comprehensively. So, put your attention and check it out!

The journal will describe how student learn and their determined skill by it through variety of assessment, the assessment result will be considered as data later on. The data is indeed guaranteed to be reliable and valid which means there will be consistent result whether if the test has been repeated and the purpose of the data has serve its purpose properly.

The journal will use Olds, Moskal, and Miller analysis on data reliability and validity, which are:

Text-retest reliability: This will be a proper tool to test the stability of the data and research

Internal consistency reliability: Data should be correlated relationship with the main purpose of the journal with the necessary quantities.

Scale orthogonality: the scales for the instrument to test the reliability and validity of the data are independent

Construct validity: The instrument will indeed has a relevant result exactly like the purpose of this journal.

Also, in each point of this journal, Professor Richard will offer us a future research question that could be our inspiration to choose what topic you should choose for your research? For example, in the end of Learning Styles section, as you can see, Professor Richard has given us 11 eleven further study questions; indeed this journal will be helpful for all of us. Good luck!

Luthfi’s Review: Understanding Student Differences Part 2

Hallo there, fellow English Education Students! Today, I will tell you the second part of Understanding Differences review; yup, this journal indeed will be the best journal for you if you are planning to become a teacher someday, especially if you are going to manage large classes; this remarkable journal written by Professor Richard M. Felder shall give you a new perspective of handling your students one by one and in the end, we hope you guys will able to optimize your students’ potential.

Well, after we had talked about the introduction of this paper, which was the declining interest of senior high school students into engineering, then we are going to talk about the next part which would be the theories or literature review; overall this part we will talk about the orientation and introductory details of this paper which would be explained on the next review.

The first thing you should know according to this journal that there are 3 key points which differs students thus determining their differences; the three key points are:

1.      Learning Styles

2.      Approaches to Learning and Orientation to Studying

3.      Intellectual Development

However, spoiler alert, even though you have manage to understand every single of the key points, this journal stated that it would be unrealistic to use an adapted teaching strategy in order to suit your students’ preferences in learning styles to intellectual development; teacher should use a variables method in every learning session and shall not be rigid in the terms of learning method, which means that teacher should change his teaching method regularly, by regularly changing it, it would help your students who have preference on particular learning method and will give a new challenge to those who believe such learning method is quite difficult for them.

Learning Styles

Learning styles include:

·         Cognitive aspect

·         Affective aspect

·         Psychological behaviours aspect

Which will determine how our student shall respond to learning. For example, some students are:

·         Comfortable with theories and abstraction

·         Comfortable reading alone

·         Comfortable with active learning

·         Comfortable with lectures and visual presentation

·         Comfortable with discussion

However, all of the learning styles indeed have their own strengths and weaknesses and if one student being served with a comfortable leaning style; it would be a pleasure for him, if one student being served with a contrary learning style; it shall be a challenge for him.

Approaches to Learning and Orientation to Studying

In terms of learning there are 3 options for students to approach them, which are:

·         Reproducing Orientation

Student who has this orientation will only learn by memorization, mechanical substitution, and note; there will be no creativity in this approach therefore student would have a slight chance to comprehensively understand about the learning material; this approach called Surface Approach

·         Meaning Orientation

Student who has this orientation will try to explore every branches and possibilities about one particular learning material, thus he will try to ask any questions in order to comprehensively understand about the material; this approach called Deep Approach

·         Achieving Orientation

Student who has this orientation will indeed do anything in order to get the highest grade they can, taking a deep approach or a surface approach; depends on the situation which will determine their approach; this approach called Strategic Approach

Intellectual Development

Every student has their own unique in terms of intellectual development. However, this development could be put simply as how students’ think whenever they received a learning material; will they just simply agree or will they ask a question and try to explore any options for that material rather than solely relying on teacher’s explanation? Spoiler alert, it is mandatory for teacher to develop their students’ development into the level where they have an urge to explore and ask any possibilities about one particular material.

Well, that is all the 3 key points of student differences, I hope it shall be helpful for you, especially if you want to understand your students even better. Next, we will explore learning styles more deeply. Good luck!

*This writing is just review and has been paraphrased; disclaimer would be all belong to Professor Richard M. Felder

References

Felder, M. R. (2005). Understanding Student Differences. Carolina State University. ResearchGate

Luthfi's Review : Understanding Student Differences Part 1

It's been a long time since writer latest posts; it's been a busy time indeed a college life when you miss the time when you can sleep under 9 pm; good old times. However, writer has been busy not for nothing, writer has been doing a writing of research proposal with the subject of teacher and counseling. In other words, writer has been reading some journal that related to writer's proposal. One of the journal that writer has been reading that indeed could be a good information for the audience, especially for teacher or future teacher, would be Understanding Student Differences. Here is the complete information of the journal :

Author__.: Richard M. Felder & Rebecca Brent 

Year____.: 2005

Publisher_:  ResearchGate 

City___...: State of North Carolina

Title____.: Understanding Student Differences

The journal is indeed useful especially for us who wants to be a teacher in the future. Which is why in this section, writer would divide the review into many parts so the audience could understand the review properly; on this occasion writer would provide with the abstract and introduction review; why Professor Richard and his partner Rebecca wanted to do a research about the subject. 

Abstract 

In the abstract, authors explained that how students have different motivation, attitudes, orientation, response, to learning; which concludes that every students is indeed have their own differences. The statement before concludes that if teacher able to understand students differences properly then the better learning session would be as teacher would understand the differences and adapt to the most suited learning styles, approaches, and even understand their intellectual development levels. This research also is a development from a previous research in each categories, thus reviewing its effect on pedagogical implication, hence will suggest the reader about potential further study. (Felder, R. M & Brent, R, 2005)

Introduction

Authors have explained that there are problems that have happened in their country, which would be the declining interest of engineering students. Students lose interest because of so many factors, some believe because engineering is difficult, and some believe because their instructor was not competent enough to teach engineering. Which concludes that, instructors and faculty should improve their way of teaching as if they don't improve anything, many students would lose interest hence, it would be difficult to produce a good engineer.  

Students have different background, strength, weakness, and motivation which concludes that students will have so many differences and requires proper method in order to teach them and motivate them. Also, with those differences students would have their own learning style which may be a consideration for teacher to change their teaching style with the proper style; however, it would be impossible for teachers to suit their teaching style for each students, hence the task of teaching would be complex and would not generate an optimum outcome.

In the history of North Carolina University, instructor usually use one teaching method and rarely change it. This would create a boring situation among students, thus would affect student's motivation on learning, hence students might lose interest on the subject.

Teachers should understand student's differences, which means their diversity. Diversity could be a gender and ethnicity on student performance. However, there are 3 important aspect in student diversity which are : 

1. Learning Style
1. Learning style is how students perfectly fitted to receive information and process them. It could be by simply reading a theory, or doing observation, or doing practice, or just simply hear some lectures from the lecturer. Learning style would affect students interest and performance on the subject, thus determining their outcome. 
2. Approaches to Learning and Orientations to Studying
1. Every students have their own approaches and orientation in learning, some of them just love to learn the surface and use the subject to pass the exam, some of them would take a deep approach and will explore the subject with questions and observation in order to truly understand the subject comprehensively, some of them just be strategic thus will do anything they can do in order to achieve a certain goal.
3. Intellectual Development
1. After teachers understand students preferences on learning style and approaches, teachers could finally observe their intellectual development as students intellectual development may varies to one another. Some would prefer believe in absolute truth and some believe the truth should be questioned; the development would be important to determine their future especially if they want to be come an engineering student. 

(Felder, R. M & Brent, R, 2005) 

Well, that is all the review that i have been re-phrase straightly from the journal. Now, we know that there are 3 important aspects teachers should know in order to properly generate a better outcome in teaching. This information should be used and considered to be affect your teaching style and counseling method. Never give up to improve, and put your students as your priority in teaching. next writer will review about the learning style, so stay tune, good luck!.