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APPLICATION OF DATA MINING FOR PREDICTING SUCCESS IN LEARNING
The work deals with creating of model to predict the performance of students during the study using data mining, and analysis of factors affecting the achieved level of performance. The model which is created on the bases of socio-demographic data on students, and data on their behavior and attitudes towards learning and teaching process organization as a whole, seeks to classify students in one of two categories of performance. Performance is measured by students average grade achieved in the period of study. We tested two methods of data mining as follows: logistic regression and decision trees. We considered that the presented model would be served as a test for creation of broader base of updated data by usage some of the information tools, and that on the basis of this model will be defined a number of attributes that would relatively reliable predict the study preformance
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A FAIRY TALE IN A MODERN TEACHING PROCESS
This work deals with some new possibilities of including a fairy tale in a modern teaching process. The fair ytale has always had a very specific and important role in education and it has always dealt with universal problems of men. Considering that today the growing up of a child has been conditioned by the laws and needs of contemporary consumer society promoting some instant values, it is necessary to search for the new possibilities of revitalization and revalorization of the fairy tale in the life and education of the child. Some new teaching tendencies including interdisciplinary and thematic connection of contents from different areas provide opportunities of adequate includig fairy tale in teaching process, considering artistic nature of this literаry genre.
STUDY PROGRAMME OF CLASS INSTRUCTION IN THE FUNCTION OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA FROM DEMOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE
The first and the basic setting of the relevant parties and features of study programme of class instruction in educational system of Republic of Srpska, consists in general of the knowledge of its true meaning and multiple meanings.There are many documents and recommendations from which comes few very important attitudes at an international level about the nine-year elementary school and its class instruction.In the current and future elementary school for a period of nine years ,an interaction of formal and informal education is necessary.Connectivity is particuralry important and versatile and the natural transition from lower to middle and higher level of unique nine-year education, as a forms of connectivity also of primary school education with preschool ,high school and higher school education. Significance of this scientific-exploratory work is in insight of an existing state and it gives vision of development of demographic potentials of school population in interaction with socio-economic development of Srpska. General hypothesis (that arises from the purpose of research)is that the studied advent is classified as one of the key components of overall development of Srpska and it is a consequence of demography,which demands a new access in development projection of mentioned advent.Expected results in this research have special value to social community ,such as development of school population at all levels and interdependence with socio-economic development of the Republic of Srpska.During research on balance of school population at all levels ,development of an advent is followed from the moment of database disposition,and explorations need to give certain recommendations ,for the first time,on harmnonization of educational backgrounds who study at academic institutions with needs of labor market in Republic of Srpska,and also ensuring high quality of the work process at higher school organizations and its outputs-profile and capacity of highly educated professionals.
IDENTIFICATION OF GIFTED STUDENTS IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS AND THE TEACHING PROCESSS
Gift is still pretty mysterious term for most of students and their parents. Teachers, educators and parents are not so much interested in scientific basis of gift as they are interested in the way that gift is manifested in real life, how to identify the gifted ones and how to help them to improve their gifts more. The concern for gifted children today is concern for development of science, culture and social life tomorrow. The aim of this work is to expand the knowledge about the structure of gift, identification of gifted children and how to organize teaching process with them. Current position of gifted children in primary school Republic of Srpska will be also shown here.
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE IN IMPROVING THE COMPETENCES OF THE TEACHERS, EDUCATIONALISTS AND STUDENTS
The document called “European framework of key competences” is of great importance for harmonizing the educational systems of the European Union countries, particularly in terms of quality standardization of acquisition of students’ key competences. In the educational institutions in our country, activities are still more focused on defining the framework of key competences and less on development of the strategies for their development. In this paper, we shall point out to certain practical work experience in the development of the students’ key competences which are organized as part of the project called “School and competence development- how to learn and how to live with others.” We shall also present the concept of the teachers and associates’ professional development which is based on partnership, and conducted by the system: learn and practice, demonstrate the acquired competence- use what you have learnt, help others learn, plan and continually develop students’ key competences.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHERS IN THE FUNCTION OF RAISING QUALITY OF EDUCATION PROCESS
Continuous improvement of the educational system and its compliance with the requirements of modern society necessarily requires improving the quality of the teaching process through innovation and professional development. Professional development of teachers is process that refers to the continuous development of knowledge, skills and abilities and contribute to improving the quality of work, strengthening motivation and develops the system of evaluation and self-evaluation . Professional development of teachers is an open, dynamic and ongoing process that involves the transfer of new knowledge from various professional fields and disciplines into the world of practice and monitoring European trends in terms of improving the quality of education. On the basis of themes and target groups, professional development programs, we analyzed the accredited programs offered to the Catalogue of Professional Development for Education for 2010/2011 school year, which actualizes the application of innovation in the teaching process. Application of innovations in teaching is examined through self-evaluation, which provides objective data about the quality of schools in all major segments.
PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CHILD ABUSE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
This work has been produced out of the need to closely explain and enlighten the complex problem of domestic violence and possible pedagogical implications of the nurturing function of a family. The context in which the violence has been noted is not clear enough as well as the dangers of its possible consequences. The idea itself has been supported by the empirical data that have been collected with the purpose of updating and completing discoveries in this area. We also want to compare them with the existing claims of other authors and to connect them with some actual theses in modern pedagogical theory. Through the review of the known empirical facts about families in our surroundings, we will attempt to answer the question of what impact violence and abuse has on the development of marital and family relations, on the child behaviour toward other people in the environment and on the personal growth. We assume these areas to be essential when it comes to the influence of violence on the inner power of family relations.
THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS CONCERNING PUPIL’S STATUS AND THEIR PERSONALITIES IN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS
Personality of a pupil in modern school is one of the basic key points for a new school paradigm and for concepts of support of development in which children are figures of proper development instead of being „watchers and listeners“. That kind of challenge for modern school will bring different attitude and understanding and trustful environment, above all trust in power which every child possesses in oneself. The point is to abandon conception of “forcement“ in schoolwork by intrusion of „will and choices of adults“, even if they are the teachers. In this paper, there will be discussions about „abuse of authority“, functions of teachers and parents through example of „bad relations“ towards children, and frequent usage of insults in relationships, even when it is absolutely unacceptable, and on possible acts how to accept personality of pupil in school work as equal „actor“ in school activites.
Author starts with the assumption that early pre-school learning (early start) and the highquality introduction of student into learning processes provide the academic future of an individual and the community. He follows and analyzes the well-known authors' thesis that explain importance of early start for the successful academic and life career of the comming generations. In addition, his claims are supported by his own research results that showed great significance of parental instruction in determining the early start (β = 0,39, significant at level of 0,001) in comparison to the creation of learning conditions and negative attitudes toward learning. Until recently, there has been a generally accepted thesis in Balkans that children should firstly be satisfied with playing, and later on to start learning. It is a theory based on the assumption that learning is hard, painful and unpleasant. However, if we combine learning and playing, then the early learning of letters and digits is something that children will enjoy in. If the school, at the same time, is capable of continuting the education of children in easy learning, there is a viable optimism that we can motivate children to love learning and to create a nation of enthusiastic students. No matter how small is the nation that succeeds in this, it will be at the top of the most developed nations in the world. This, of course, is applicable to all citizens who live in this kind of environment, attending this kind of schools and preschool institutions, regardless of their skin color, religion or nationality.
PRIMARY EDUCATION IN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES - VISION AND PERSPECTIVE
Dissatisfied with the current school conditions, even more with uncertainty of its future, with evident delay comparing to fast transformation of European school system, poor achievements in our schools accoording to PISA data, Stara Pazova City Hall has started a project: Formation, situation, development and perspectives of the school system. All the schools have supported this research and actively participated. The projection of their future development is of special importance. Worried about retrogression and failure of our pupuls, as well as with dissatisfaction of their parents, questions are being raised: How to make a successful school? That is why the project is being orientated towards 5-year-plan development with the aim to enter better future with high-quality schooling. The project has been completed. It consists of the development programmes of all schools, support for schools from the health, culture, social care institutions and other local organizations. The aim is to gather all the schools in the interaction with work and creativity of others. Method of reconstruction helps to transform schools from present unfavorable condition A to better condition B in the next five days without ’overturns’, ’breakage’, ’stresses’ or any other losses and obstacles in their work.
SCHOOL PARADIGM IN A DIALOGUE BETWEEN MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM
Modernism is an age which pulled away teaching and learning from their private sphere and significantly contributed to their institutionalization. The world of modernism, which is based on the designation o f work, trains and educates according to the plans and objectives, and prepares and disciplines for work and the cultural ways o f behavior in a favorable form and by the hand o f trained and loyal personnel. Introducing didactics into the schools has been characterized by the raise o f rationalization, objectivizing the norms and values, and legally regulating the personal conditionality. At the same time, it is also characterized with the individualization, e.g. that the education identifies a subject, which is cultivated at the same time, which means integrated in the constellation o f circumstances o f a modern culture. Postmodernism agitated the hope into the necessary and growing potential o f advancement according to the models and whishes o f modernism. Time has changed and teaching and learning today are in the sign o f necessary reflection about those changes, what has been analyzed in the paper. Postmodernism means neither the end o f modernism, nor the paradisiacal situation. Social situation, in which people live in the contemporary world, has been has been distinguished with the ambivalent phenomena o f the postmodernism, which are manifested in contradictoriness that becomes more and more uncontrolled and in the disruption between 'I want' and ' I should".
INTRODUCING THE POEM „AN OLD VUJADIN’’ USING DOMINANT LITERARY CHARACTER
Creative approach in teaching literature is much closer to the nature of a literary work than it is the case with normative approach which is very much present in our primary schools. Creative approach enables expressing specificities of every literary work. One of the most rewarding models of creative approach is to introduce a literary work using dominant literary character. The model can be used in cases with an art built character. We will show here a possible structure of a lesson introducing the epic poem ‘’An Old Vujadin’’ in the fifth grade, using dominant literary character.
For citizens of Serbia, in long term, there is no more important interest than a successful school. What is its quality, where is its place on the European educational space of the domestic and foreign markets of knowledge and skills, and how its graduated pupils rank in further education and employment that is the main national question. Contemporary school is located on the crossroad of the two epochs: finished epoch of the second millennium and its old fashioned traditional school which resists and refuses to leave, and at the beginning of the third millennium a clear vision and concept of a successful school has been activated that hardly infiltrates, refuses to withdraw, maintains on the road to the successful school. Where is our school now, what must be and can be changed in our conditions, what new to introduce, how to overlook changes, how to correct and direct them toward processes of its qualitative transformation? There are two problems: first relates to the fact that during last twenty years the official educational policies have lacked strength, often knowledge to reality, and meet them, if needed confront; the second problem is that a huge army of teachers and professors failed to establish their uncompromising attitudes toward phenomena of school crisis. They honestly notice it, but they relate to it leniently considering it temporary. Greater uncertainty for the future of our schools lies in relations to accelerated technological development, huge social transformations and evident backwardness in relation to modernisation of European schools. These are axiomatic reasons for discussion about school crisis, its unsatisfactory social and pedagogic ambient, and possible exit from that unfavourable state and necessary entry in well thought through and deep transformations. The objective is to answer the question: first, why the quality has been jeopardised, second how to achieve a successful school in our conditions?
EDUCATIONAL WORK IN KINDERGARTEN AND SCHOOL – THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTINUITY IN THE CHOICE AND REALISATION OF TASKS
Educational work in kindergarten and school includes complex actions of educators and teachers. The quality of their activities largely determines the development and achievements of each child (pupil). Education as the process involves the complementary activities of adults in the planning and implementation tasks, so that an educator prepares best children for school, and then a teacher continues meaningful educational work with them. In how far is this necessity really realized in the institutional system of preschool and school education? What are the starting points of educators and teachers for planning educational work with children? Those educational tasks are considered as priority? In seeking for answers to these questions, this paper presents the current pre-school educational programs work in Serbia. Subsequently, the results of research conducted among teachers and educators are presented. The aim was to determine the educational tasks they considered as a priority, how they decide on them and whether there is a connection in their implementation between preschool and school. The results confirmed that educators and teachers must cooperate more in the selection and implementation of these tasks, in order to achieve continuity in a single system. The final part provides recommendations to overcome this problem, with the possibility of actions of educators and teachers.
DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO THE PRESCHOOL EDUCATION IN EUROPE
Roots of the preschool education in Europe are in the works of J. A. Komensky, R. Owen, F. Fröbel, R. Steiner, M. Montessori, L. Malaguzi and other authors. The most typical are systems of M. Montessori, Waldorf`s pedagogy and Regio Emilis. It is necessary to know and to understand them very well for deciding which is the most suitable for our use as model of kindergarten`s programme. Every of them has comparative advantages which is possible to implement in our education of preschool children.
SCHOOL IN THE SOCIOLOGICAL KEY OF GLOBALIZATION
This essay deals with modern concepts of education and schools as theoretical premises of European concept of education. Education is a subsystem of a social system which expands in space and time of globalization. There is no valid concept, no idea or paradigm about the role of school today and the real goals of education. The aim of European concept of education is to homogenize national systems of education for the purpose of better and more equal education of ``European workforce``. European concept of education neglects humanistic dimension of education, reducing it to its economic and functional dimension. In countries with the process of transition that already accepted Bolonja concept of education it should be useful to hear some critics of that project.
PRESCHOOL EDUCATION CURRICULUM OF THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA AS A MODERN MULTIFUNCTIONAL CURRICULUM
The reform of the elementary school and entering six-year old children into first class imposed a need for creation of a “firm” program of a preschool upbringing and education. This paper presents first national program of preschool upbringing and education of Republika Srpska as a modern multifunctional curriculum. Besides a review on the situation in preschool education in past two decades in this area, the author states essential elements of contemporary preschool curricula (direction of planning on learning goals, their hierarchy and control of their fulfillment). Structure and content of the Program has been described in the paper, in order to emphasize its main characteristics and qualities: child in the center of activities, direction of aims toward development aspects (physical development; socio-emotional and personality development; intellectual development; development of speech, communication and creativity), goals concreted through the network of outcomes, partner relationships teacher – child – parent; small group work, in learning centers. The program led to final distancing from teaching and academic contents of learning, which opened completely new space for teachers’ work, putting children needs and interests in the first place and creating the kindergarten to match the child. Based on the various classifications of preschool curricula, the Program can be defined as an open cognitive-developmental program with humanistic meta-orientation, which partially corresponds to process – model curriculum. The author’s goal was to point to the importance of the application of this program in preschool institutions, which finally enabled preschool education, along with the Law on preschool upbringing and education, to become the first link in the united upbringing and educational system of the Republika Srpska.
ARTISTIC PROCEDURE OF IVO ANDRIC'S STORIES
In Andric's literary commitment primarily as the narrator suggests the majority of critics who are engaged in work of this writer. This paper will discuss the key elements underlying the art of storytelling Ivo Andric, thanks to which his work grew into a higher form of truth about man and the world.
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MARRIAGE IMPACT ON DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIAN
The demographic situation of the Republic of Serbian as well as in most of the Balkan countries is not satisfactory. We are witnessing the final phase of demographic transition characterized by a negative natural increase as a consequence of the slow socioeconomic development and tertiarization of society with a negative impact on the reproductive potential of the population. Marriage is still highly valued in our society, but with the character of all the delays in later years it carries a number of implications for the offspring and the movement of the total population in the country. This study aims to analyze the demographic situation in the Republic of Serbian, to find out how marriage as a life style affects how the birth of the Individual and global level. A survey was conducted among the young population of mature, how they see the current situation, what are the reasons for the realized or unrealized playback.
This paper discusses Copices autobiographical prose for children: Mornings of blue mallow and The head of the, feet on the Black Horse, with the emphasis of understanding culture model in which a man growing up, from childhood to adulthood. In this connection, explains the Copices attitude towards story and writnesses and testimony as its own exit to freedom.
PARENT - PARTNER IN PRESCHOOL INSTITUTION
In recent decades there have been many social changes that inevitably affect at the family, and at preschool institution. The author examines the role of parents and tries to answer the question: "How to involve parents in the life and work of preschool institution and make them true partners?" The paper highlighted the need for active involvement of all participants in the upbringing - educational process in improving the partnership of preschoolinstitution and family, and the use of all available resources of the whole society, with the aim of development of children in according with their needs, characteristics and interests.
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REVIEW RESEARCH OF INFLUENCE OF EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT OF MARTIAL SPORTS DEVELOPMENT OF MOTOR SKILLS IN CHILDREN YOUNGER SCHOOL AGE
For the sake of the work we started a meta-analysis in order to collect the results of research relating to the impact of the experimental treatment of martial arts on the development of motor skills in children younger school age in our region and beyond. The analysis of the research leads to the conclusion that the use of martial arts training positively affect the development of motor abilities and skills, there is a significant improvement at the end of the experimental treatment in all measured variables of motor abilities, and that an experimental treatment training significantly affects the development of motor skills in young athletes. Motor abilities of athletes are at a significantly higher level compared to non-athletes, for continuous and programmed process of exercise contributes to much-needed development of the young man in the motor, functional and health terms. Motor skills are crucial for the development of competitive efficiency athletes younger school age the explosive strength, coordination, muscular endurance, and the dominant status of strength and endurance. Continuous and programmed treatment martial arts contributes to proper development of a young man.
PARENTS´ ROLE AND THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARDA CHILDREN IN THE PERIOD OF SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGES
Social-economic changes that follow rapid scientific and technological development affect the system of education and children's upbringing. As the modern society changes many roles including the parents' roles change as well as their attitude towards children. Parents as well as their attitude towards children are not only very important but also irreplacable factor of children's succesfull growth and upbringing process. According to that, the aim of this work is to test how often parents help their children in learning and how interested they are in organization of the learning process. Using the analysis of variances we tested if there is statistically important difference in the presence of some specific orientation in the students' learning process depending on not only frequency of their parents' involvment in that process but also on their interest in the process of their children's learning organization. Obtained results show that there is statistically important difference among mentioned variables. The students whose parents normally have interest in their school success show more expressive specific orientation unlike the students whose parents are not interested in their learning at all. Also, students who normally get help from both of their parents have equally expressed specific orientation unlike those who get help from none of their parents.
PRECISION PERFOMANCE OF MUSIC FROM SHEET MUSIC AT YOUNGER SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN
The paper presents results of a research carried out in 2015 in the city of Bijeljina. The study included a sample of 200 fifth grade students from eight classes of primary schools. Precision of perfoming music from sheet music is determined by measuring. The study was conducted in order to determine level of knowledge in the field of musical literacy of fifth grade girls and boys. Emphasis is placed on importance of folk songs in the musical literacy of students in class teaching. The results show that there are statistically significant differences in the reported ability of performing music from sheet music between subjects younger school age in relation to gender. Based on the resulsts of the X2 test, it is concluded that there are differences in the reported ability of performing music of performance in relation to gender.
ROLE OF SONGS IN THE TEACHING OF MUSIC CULTURE
The paper discusses with the singing of songs intended for children younger school age. Special attention is focused on a methodical approach in working with students in lower grades of elementary school. It was concluded that vocal reproduction has an extremely important role in the music and the comprehensive development of children of early school age. Singing develops aesthetic views and music taste. The educational objective of learning song includes the development of rhythm and hearing, expanding the scope of voice, intonation fixing, mastering the basics of vocal techniques. Students are trained to perceive and evaluate the true quality of the beautiful, unison, harmonious authentic in music. Special attention is paid to the implementation of the songs that are part of the traditional folk art. The paper gives examples which are suitable for use in classroom teaching and points to the need for grater representation of vocal reproduction in working with children of junior school age.
INOVATION OF TEACHING IN COMBINED CLASSES
Existence of combined departments today is the reality of a large number of schools, children and teachers not only in our country but also in the world, as well as model of educational practice that has been innovated and reaffirmed in recent years. It is also increasingly advocating due to a number of benefits that it provides. Teacher in combined classes is the key to planning, design and management of different activities for students on their way to keep the attention on learning. Effectiveness and efficiency is based on the development of exciting and stimulating activities, whose needs is about to please innovative teaching models. Therefore, the combined classes should not be understood as a relic of the past or a necessary evil due to the underdevelopment of rural areas, but the opportunity that each child receives adequate pedagogical conditions of designed environment for quality education in its immediate neighborhood and the natural and social environment. The paper emphasizes the importance of innovating teaching in combined classes.
SOCIAL PARADIGM OF EARLY EDUCATION AND FAMILIES
The paper discusses the issue of early education of children in the light of the social context that is observed through political, economical and cultural conditionality of early education and community programs that aimto support early education program with emphasis on the program for early childhood development in the Republic of Srpska. Also the family is taken into consideration, as one of the most important factors in the life of a child,in the family it achieves some of it’s most important primary and secondary needs, adopted attitudes and values and form habits that will follow later in life. Role of the family has been observed in the upbringing of the child based on the parents’ commitment to parental roles and severity of certain aspects of children’s development. The paper points to a wider range of social actors and institutions that may support early education, and the importance of family involvement in early education of children who achieve different effects on certain aspects of child’s development.
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IMPACT OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGY CHANGES ON UNDERSTANDING OF GIFTEDNESS PHENOMENON
This paper gives brief overview of historical development of understanding of origin and nature of giftedness. Several various approaches to phenomenon of giftedness have been developed since the beginning of giftedness studying. It ranges from mystical belief in “supernatural divine origin”, through psychodynamic, where giftedness is a result of tension between conscientious and subconscious, then cognitive, which consider it as a part of mind, to modern view which points to the importance of particular personality traits, creative processes as well as way of creation of creative products, but also environment where individual live and act. The aim is to present the way science and technology change, even radically, the view and approach to almost all shapes of human creation and conscience, as well as in understanding the giftedness.
VIEWS AND EXPERIENCES OF STUDENTS ON SOFTWARE KIND OF INDIVIDUALIZATION IN TEACHING NATURE
This research was part of a larger empirical research that included the didactic experiment with parallel groups, in which he confirmed the effectiveness of Software forms of individualization. Accordingly, the aim of this study was related to the analysis of the attitudes and experiences of students (user software form individualization) of applied learning model and the effects of such work in the teaching of natural science. The study included 125 fifth-grade students, was used descriptive methods and techniques of interviewing. Data were analyzed by statistical methods and displayed textual and graphical way. The results affirmed the positive outlook and the willingness of students to applied software of individualization accepted as an effective model of learning.