Teacher’s World: Journal of Education and Research, 2022
Due to the global pandemic, there has been an emergency shift in higher education of Bangladesh f... more Due to the global pandemic, there has been an emergency shift in higher education of Bangladesh from face-to-face to fully online mode. This quick and somewhat unplanned change in the mode of teaching-learning has created a lot of challenges for both the teachers and the students. It is evident that the students, especially the public university students are mostly suffering because of this change. This qualitative study thus focuses on the perceptions of the students of University of Dhaka about this new way of teaching and learning and its effects on their lives. The finding reveals that most of the challenges are regarding infrastructural conditions, economic condition, mental wellbeing and teacher-student relationship. This study also explores possible solutions for these challenges and ways to incorporate online or blended education strategies in the higher education system of Bangladesh.
Handbook of Research on Acquiring 21st Century Literacy Skills Through Game-Based Learning
Game-based pedagogies use games for achieving learning outcomes by guiding the learners through s... more Game-based pedagogies use games for achieving learning outcomes by guiding the learners through specific tasks, which can be digital and/or non-digital and can promote deep meaningful learning. Therefore, the design of game-based learning helps learners to engage in the meaning-making process and ensure better participation. As the boundaries of classroom learning become blurred through blended or hybrid learning approaches, game-based learning enhances digital literacies for digital natives to prepare them for building a knowledge economy. By exploring existing literature, this chapter highlights how technology can support teachers and learners to go beyond their existing pedagogical boundaries by focusing on ways games may serve as digital sources of learning. It also explores the role game-based pedagogies and digital learning design frameworks play in enhancing learner engagement, collaboration, and cultural understanding.
Designing Effective Distance and Blended Learning Environments in K-12
Emergency remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic has opened the door for everyone not only... more Emergency remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic has opened the door for everyone not only to see the prospect of blended teaching and learning but also to understand how critical it is to incorporate technological development to enhance learning and access to education. While face-to-face in-classroom teaching and learning methods help children and young people in developing vital social, communicative, developmental, and digital competencies, it is also critical to embrace the digital transformation that is happening around everyday life and throughout society. Based on secondary data, this chapter explores the key challenges and opportunities for policy and practice in resource-constrained contexts. This chapter utilizes Bangladesh as a case study to elicit the transition and transformation process of teaching and learning at the primary and secondary education levels in the global south during the emergency.
International Journal of Current Science Research and Review, 2020
Performance Management is a very important task for the management of an educational institution.... more Performance Management is a very important task for the management of an educational institution. However, this concept is not yet widely acknowledged by most of the educational institutions of Bangladesh. This small-scale qualitative study thus focused on performance management in Bangladeshi schools. The main objective of this study was to explore head teachers’ perception about performance management, their roles in performance management and the challenges that they face while managing performance. Six secondary school head teachers were selected through convenient sampling and were interviewed using semi- structured interview guide. The findings revealed that the head teachers’ concept about performance management is not very clear and they mostly measure teachers’ performance on the basis of students’ scores in the examinations. Results also showed that head teachers sometimes fail to provide effective feedback on teachers’ performance which in turn hampers the teachers’ produ...
Mentoring, being a widely excepted concept around the globe is a must in the field of education. ... more Mentoring, being a widely excepted concept around the globe is a must in the field of education. However, this concept is yet not formally introduced in the education sector of Bangladesh. Mentoring service, at the moment is mostly needed for the undergrad level students of Bangladesh. Thus the purpose of this study is to explore the perception of the teachers and the students about mentoring as well as the potential barriers of formally introducing mentoring. This small scale qualitative study has been carried out in five universities of Bangladesh where the total number of respondents were fifteen including five teachers and ten students. Data was collected using semi-structured interview schedule and was analysed thematically. Findings suggest that most of the teachers and students are not quite aware of the concept of mentoring, thus proper training, infrastructural development, awareness raising programs should be conducted before formally introducing mentoring for the students.
Innovation of new methods and techniques in assessment is always a desire for this 21st century. ... more Innovation of new methods and techniques in assessment is always a desire for this 21st century. Educators and teachers are trying their best to innovate new assessment techniques for sharpening students’ intelligence. Following this trend the Government of Bangladesh has also introduced creative question using the idea of Bloom’s revised taxonomy from 2011 at secondary level. However, is the technique really being creative enough to judge students’ creativity, is a question. This study tried to give some insights for the answer of that question. The objectives of this study were to examine the reflection of Bloom’s revised taxonomy in the social science questions of Secondary School Certificate Examination of Dhaka board and to compare the level of applying Bloom’s revised taxonomy in the questions before and after creative question has been set. The study was descriptive in nature and was primarily based on document analysis. Secondary School Certificate Examination question papers of Social Science of Dhaka board of the years 2009 to 2012 had been analyzed for the study. The findings were that in the year 2009 and 2010 most of the objective type questions were based on knowledge and understanding. On the other hand for subjective type questions few questions were found from understanding and analyzing besides knowledge based questions. A quite different scenario was in 2011 and 2012 where importance had been given to knowing, understanding, applying and analyzing in both subjective and objective questions; however, evaluating and creating was ignored again. So, for a quality education it has been suggested to use all the sub-domains of Cognitive domain of Bloom’s revised taxonomy in all the subjective ad objective questions of every subject of secondary level of Bangladesh.
Teacher’s World: Journal of Education and Research, 2022
Due to the global pandemic, there has been an emergency shift in higher education of Bangladesh f... more Due to the global pandemic, there has been an emergency shift in higher education of Bangladesh from face-to-face to fully online mode. This quick and somewhat unplanned change in the mode of teaching-learning has created a lot of challenges for both the teachers and the students. It is evident that the students, especially the public university students are mostly suffering because of this change. This qualitative study thus focuses on the perceptions of the students of University of Dhaka about this new way of teaching and learning and its effects on their lives. The finding reveals that most of the challenges are regarding infrastructural conditions, economic condition, mental wellbeing and teacher-student relationship. This study also explores possible solutions for these challenges and ways to incorporate online or blended education strategies in the higher education system of Bangladesh.
Handbook of Research on Acquiring 21st Century Literacy Skills Through Game-Based Learning
Game-based pedagogies use games for achieving learning outcomes by guiding the learners through s... more Game-based pedagogies use games for achieving learning outcomes by guiding the learners through specific tasks, which can be digital and/or non-digital and can promote deep meaningful learning. Therefore, the design of game-based learning helps learners to engage in the meaning-making process and ensure better participation. As the boundaries of classroom learning become blurred through blended or hybrid learning approaches, game-based learning enhances digital literacies for digital natives to prepare them for building a knowledge economy. By exploring existing literature, this chapter highlights how technology can support teachers and learners to go beyond their existing pedagogical boundaries by focusing on ways games may serve as digital sources of learning. It also explores the role game-based pedagogies and digital learning design frameworks play in enhancing learner engagement, collaboration, and cultural understanding.
Designing Effective Distance and Blended Learning Environments in K-12
Emergency remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic has opened the door for everyone not only... more Emergency remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic has opened the door for everyone not only to see the prospect of blended teaching and learning but also to understand how critical it is to incorporate technological development to enhance learning and access to education. While face-to-face in-classroom teaching and learning methods help children and young people in developing vital social, communicative, developmental, and digital competencies, it is also critical to embrace the digital transformation that is happening around everyday life and throughout society. Based on secondary data, this chapter explores the key challenges and opportunities for policy and practice in resource-constrained contexts. This chapter utilizes Bangladesh as a case study to elicit the transition and transformation process of teaching and learning at the primary and secondary education levels in the global south during the emergency.
International Journal of Current Science Research and Review, 2020
Performance Management is a very important task for the management of an educational institution.... more Performance Management is a very important task for the management of an educational institution. However, this concept is not yet widely acknowledged by most of the educational institutions of Bangladesh. This small-scale qualitative study thus focused on performance management in Bangladeshi schools. The main objective of this study was to explore head teachers’ perception about performance management, their roles in performance management and the challenges that they face while managing performance. Six secondary school head teachers were selected through convenient sampling and were interviewed using semi- structured interview guide. The findings revealed that the head teachers’ concept about performance management is not very clear and they mostly measure teachers’ performance on the basis of students’ scores in the examinations. Results also showed that head teachers sometimes fail to provide effective feedback on teachers’ performance which in turn hampers the teachers’ produ...
Mentoring, being a widely excepted concept around the globe is a must in the field of education. ... more Mentoring, being a widely excepted concept around the globe is a must in the field of education. However, this concept is yet not formally introduced in the education sector of Bangladesh. Mentoring service, at the moment is mostly needed for the undergrad level students of Bangladesh. Thus the purpose of this study is to explore the perception of the teachers and the students about mentoring as well as the potential barriers of formally introducing mentoring. This small scale qualitative study has been carried out in five universities of Bangladesh where the total number of respondents were fifteen including five teachers and ten students. Data was collected using semi-structured interview schedule and was analysed thematically. Findings suggest that most of the teachers and students are not quite aware of the concept of mentoring, thus proper training, infrastructural development, awareness raising programs should be conducted before formally introducing mentoring for the students.
Innovation of new methods and techniques in assessment is always a desire for this 21st century. ... more Innovation of new methods and techniques in assessment is always a desire for this 21st century. Educators and teachers are trying their best to innovate new assessment techniques for sharpening students’ intelligence. Following this trend the Government of Bangladesh has also introduced creative question using the idea of Bloom’s revised taxonomy from 2011 at secondary level. However, is the technique really being creative enough to judge students’ creativity, is a question. This study tried to give some insights for the answer of that question. The objectives of this study were to examine the reflection of Bloom’s revised taxonomy in the social science questions of Secondary School Certificate Examination of Dhaka board and to compare the level of applying Bloom’s revised taxonomy in the questions before and after creative question has been set. The study was descriptive in nature and was primarily based on document analysis. Secondary School Certificate Examination question papers of Social Science of Dhaka board of the years 2009 to 2012 had been analyzed for the study. The findings were that in the year 2009 and 2010 most of the objective type questions were based on knowledge and understanding. On the other hand for subjective type questions few questions were found from understanding and analyzing besides knowledge based questions. A quite different scenario was in 2011 and 2012 where importance had been given to knowing, understanding, applying and analyzing in both subjective and objective questions; however, evaluating and creating was ignored again. So, for a quality education it has been suggested to use all the sub-domains of Cognitive domain of Bloom’s revised taxonomy in all the subjective ad objective questions of every subject of secondary level of Bangladesh.
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