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

• Main Authors: António M. Duarte, Belmiro Cabrito, Ana I. Figueira, José António Carrasco Monge
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de Lisboa 2015-12-01
• Series: Sisyphus
• Subjects: Active-passive learning; Approaches to learning; Rural education; Urban education
• Online Access: https://revistas.rcaap.pt/sisyphus/article/view/7891

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.