Teaching Practices for Passive and Active Learning in Rural and Urban Elementary Teachers

• Autores: António M. Duarte, Belmiro Cabrito, Ana I. Figueira, José António Carrasco Monge
• Localización: Sisyphus: Journal of Education, ISSN-e 2182-9640, Vol. 3, Nº. 2, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Territorial Specificities of Teaching and Learning), págs. 134-154
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The goal of this study was to characterize, through a questionnaire, the degree of use of teaching practices related with passive and active learning in rural and urban elementary Portuguese teachers. Psychometric analysis of the questionnaire was conducted with a sample of 400 elementary teachers. For studying the degree of teachers’ use of teaching practices related with passive and active learning the questionnaire was applied to a second sample of 140 elementary teachers from urban and rural schools. Use of teaching practices was compared between these two groups through a t-test (independent samples). Main results suggest the existence of a differentiation between a «participatory» and a «non-participatory» form of teaching in the inquired teachers; an higher general use of the former compared with the use of the later; and an higher use of «participatory» teaching in rural teachers than in urban teachers.