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Journal of Advanced Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2019
The paper deals with the use of quantitative text analysis for the processing of Czech verbal com... more The paper deals with the use of quantitative text analysis for the processing of Czech verbal communication within psycholinguistic and psychodiagnostic disciplines and description of the process. It focuses on the application of a computer-assisted linguistic procedures, which aims to classify and quantify formal characteristics (e.g., morphology, semantics etc.) of recorded texts. These systems analyze vast amounts of content data and it also facilitates the comparison of the results with other data, e.g., with information about the communicators, such as their personality characteristics (personality traits, motivation etc.). These methods are employed within the CPACT research (Computational Psycholinguistic Analysis of Czech Text), which is carried out from 2016 at the University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic (EU), and which aims to enrich the current state of knowledge of the psycholinguistic analysis of texts and using advanced procedures for the Czech language processing. The paper describes relevant aspects of its methodology, the theory and the quantitative analysis specifics.
Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, Jun 12, 2018
The West Slavic languages are close enough for their speakers to use their mother tongues when co... more The West Slavic languages are close enough for their speakers to use their mother tongues when communicating with each other. In 1966, Einar Haugen referred to this type of communication as ‘semicommunication’. To this date, research into the mutual intelligibility of the semicommunication of West Slavic languages has been conducted exclusively by sociolinguistic methods. The presented paper, therefore, uses the mathematical-linguistic methods proposed by Moberg, Gooskens, Nerbonne, and Vaillette [Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006: Selected papers from the 17th CLIN Meeting, p. 51–66 (2007)] to measure the mutual intelligibility of semicommunication. These methods are based on calculating the conditional entropy. The calculations are realized on the phonetic and graphemic planes of Czech, Slovak, and Polish. Conditional entropies were the lowest between Czech and Slovak. Between both the languages and Polish they were much higher. The asymmetry of the mutual intelligibility was confirmed for every studied relationship. Its extent was varied for each. The differences between content and function words, and various styles of material were also explored. The measurements in this research proved, in agreement with Moberg et al., that conditional entropy correlates with mutual intelligibility. The general conclusions mostly confirm the sociolinguistic conclusions. In many cases, the conclusions have been refined and supplemented.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2011
ABSTRACT Neither the knowledge type tested (semantic or procedural knowledge) nor students... more ABSTRACT Neither the knowledge type tested (semantic or procedural knowledge) nor students' preference for learning semantic or procedural knowledge has any major impact on the results of mathematic knowledge tests. The student's relation to the subject is of more importance. These results were obtained from analysing tests in Discrete Mathematics in terms of the type of task and the student cognitive style (N= 151). Psychological memory theory (Cirino, Morris, Morris, 2007) is the theoretical basis for task typology whereas the cognitive style theory applied to teaching mathematics (Rittle-Johnson, Star, 2007) is the theoretical basis for student typology. The analysis was carried out under real learning conditions that make students concerned with test results. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Dr. Zafer Bekirogullari.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014
This research shows that it would be very appropriate to divide the teaching of geometry into dif... more This research shows that it would be very appropriate to divide the teaching of geometry into different levels according to van Hiele theory. Secondary schools, with regard to their specialization, should determine what levels they want to achieve, and adapt teaching geometry to that goal. Our research also shows that Van Hiele levels are equally suitable for both genders.
The paper deals with the use of computational linguistics methods for text analysis and with the ... more The paper deals with the use of computational linguistics methods for text analysis and with the applications of its outcomes in psychological disciplines, in particular in psychodiagnostics. The text presents a brief description of psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and quantitative text analysis, followed by an overview of specific tools used for text analysis. Finally, we explore the possibilities for future research in computational linguistics methods and methods of quantitative text analysis, both on a specifically psychological, as well as on a more general scale.
Psychologický ústav, Filozofi cká fakulta, Masarykova univerzita v Brně, Ústav primární a preprim... more Psychologický ústav, Filozofi cká fakulta, Masarykova univerzita v Brně, Ústav primární a preprimární edukace, PdF, Univerzita Hradec Králové, Katedra informatiky a kvantitativních metod, PdF, Univerzita Hradec Králové, Česká republika
The standard method researchers use for processing of free answers/essay is categorizing these st... more The standard method researchers use for processing of free answers/essay is categorizing these statements by researcher, , which brings to the process side (unconscious) influence of the researcher and his subconscious bias the results expected or even desired direction. In this publication were analyzed the automated methods that minimize unintentional distortion by researcher. Comparative analysis of methods for automatic detection lemma prototype of free answers/essays was tested on two data sets. In the publication there was first described the concept of prototypical category, its properties and mathematization of these properties. On this basis, methods for detection prototypical lemma have been tested, based on the following perspectives: linguistic, statistical, geometric, and network one. The analysis shows that automatic detection based linguistic model by 2h-point and the method of detection based on the transfer of data into a text network based on common-lemma occurrenc...
Učebnice poskytuje přehled, objasnění a procvičení základních algoritmických konstrukcí využívaný... more Učebnice poskytuje přehled, objasnění a procvičení základních algoritmických konstrukcí využívaných ve strukturovaných i objektově orientovaných jazycích.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to uncover some of the psychological context of information literacy... more The purpose of this paper is to uncover some of the psychological context of information literacy. It focuses on the connection between cognitive dispositions (IQ) and information behavior of preliterate children. The results show that pre-school children are able to extract information on subjects which are interesting for them from all available sources -ranging from traditional media such as books or magazines, modern digital media (computer, DVD) to natural conditions in which children live (city, nature). Surprisingly, the radio is used very rarely. If we compare subjective replies supported by the method of graphic scaling, we can see that gifted preschoolers obtain statistically significantly smaller share of information from TV or computer. It is also true that gifted children gain information on subjects interesting for them from a wider range of various media sources, they do not stick only to one of them (they do not sit "only" in front of a TV or a computer).
Lexical track of the family concept. The use of network analysis, frequency analysis and open cod... more Lexical track of the family concept. The use of network analysis, frequency analysis and open coding for implicit theories of family research. The publication focuses attention on the topic of implicit understanding of the term "family". Theoretical background is based on an etymological analysis of the concept of family, the George Lakoff´s theory of prototypes and current knowledge from the field of folk psychology. There were extracted 12 expected attributes of the concept of family. The main part of the publication presents the results of research. The research group consists of three strata: professional teachers, students of education and pupils of primary school. Data were subjected to three types of analyzes: frequency analysis, network analysis and open coding. There were detected 8 attributes of implicit theories of the family (humanity, nuclearity, genocentricity, paidocentrism, egocentricity, interdependence, territoriality and presentivity). As the crucial con...
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015
The family as a topic is an essential part of primary school curriculum in the Czech Republic. Th... more The family as a topic is an essential part of primary school curriculum in the Czech Republic. The present study describes the expressions used by teachers (N=219) to define the term family and the possible implicit theories behind the definitions. A total of 513 expressions were used by the respondents to define family, the ten most frequent ones being: člověk, ten, dítě, skupina, spolu, žít, blízký, rodič, my a rád (man/human being, this, child, group, together, live, close, parent, we and like). The initial analysis suggests that the teachers' implicit understanding of the concept of family is associated with 1) parenthood and blood kinship, 2) emotional relations (love each other), 3) the co-existence in the household. The teachers' implicit understanding is based on egocentric and pedocentric view (the family equals mainly me-child and my parents or me-parent and my children). The lexical trace makes it evident that the implicit understanding is deeply embodied in language (the expressions that occur to us are commonly used ones, which restricts the final concept) and that it reflects the changing socio-cultural discourse (for example, the modern concept of family is typically nuclear, based on partnership, which is a result of the postponement of parenthood, other phenomena include emancipation, economic independence, independent housing with variable individualized features, such as pets as a part of family structure). Czech teachers do not use in their definitions concepts like education, nation, culture or religion which sometimes appear in theoretical academic concepts of family.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015
The paper deal with the quality of the cooperation between families and school. The aim of the re... more The paper deal with the quality of the cooperation between families and school. The aim of the research was to find out how parents evaluate the cooperation between them and a school and how they see their children are prepared for the further studies. Method: non-standardized questionnaire, research sample: (N=176) the parents of children aged 10 to 15 years, parents age from 30 to 57. Partial results show that mothers feel to be more informed then fathers and mothers are more aware of the child's satisfaction in school. Furthermore, it has been proved that even older the child is, even worse evaluation the parents give to the level of its education. Parents of girls are significantly more persuaded that school prepares them better for further studies. The worse assessment children have, the lower parental satisfaction with the education is and these parents also think that their child is not properly prepared for future studies. Thereafter are commented in the paper expectations of parents and their requirements toward the school.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012
The article deals with the issue of experimental use of mood induction procedures (MIPs), in part... more The article deals with the issue of experimental use of mood induction procedures (MIPs), in particular the induction of anger, fear and sadness. Three techniques were utilized during the research on the sample of 41 university students using the "blind" experimental setting. The setting includes presentation of emotional stimuli for sadness induction (emotional film clips), manipulative strategy for anger induction (interaction with human confederate) and real-life situation for induction of fear (examination situation). The paper also briefly presents the research EH (Emotionality in Handwriting, the Institute of Psychology of Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno, 2010) which is a follow-up to a study focused on the effects of a given emotional state on formal parameters of handwriting (on metric characteristics of handwriting). Apart from general commentary on induction methods, the design of the EH experiment is described, including description of each mood induction procedure method, course of the experimental setting and summary of results obtained from participants by self-description scales. The research results are also significant in that the emotional changes studied may provide vital information on behavioural and personality characteristics. This subject has been for a long time more or less neglected by current research tendencies. The article also provides a commentary on possibilities of development of the method within psychological disciplines.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012
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Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015
This paper focuses on the results of a pilot study based on the van Hiele theory of geometric thi... more This paper focuses on the results of a pilot study based on the van Hiele theory of geometric thinking at Czech secondary schools. The van Hiele theory describes how young people learn geometry. It postulates five levels of geometric thinking. Usiskin later tested the ability of the van Hiele theory to describe and predict the performance of students in secondary school geometry. Our pilot study aimed to verify the test structure of the Usiskin´s test in the Czech secondary schools, and to compare the outcomes with American results.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014
The aim of this research purpose is to gain information about how the teachers understand the ter... more The aim of this research purpose is to gain information about how the teachers understand the term family. The aim of this contribution is to document inventory descriptors which are used by teachers for description and explanation of this term. he research was participated by teachers from practice of studying a combined study of pre-primary and primary education (N=45, age: from 20 to 52). There were identified 31 categories used for a description and family evaluation. Individuals have reported an average of 4.95, at least 1 and not more than 9 different categories. The frequency shows that the "hidden" categories are: hetero/homosexual, city/village and Czech/minority. Within the framework of teaching we reveal some blind spots to students and we try to enrich towards open and freer explicit the interpretation of the concept and a better orientation at the problematic of its elaboration for children and pupils within the framework of cross-cutting theme of A child and a family. Teachers should be therefore able to explain to pupils all types of families and thereto in an acceptable, sensitive and, if possible, a positive way.
Journal of Advanced Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2019
The paper deals with the use of quantitative text analysis for the processing of Czech verbal com... more The paper deals with the use of quantitative text analysis for the processing of Czech verbal communication within psycholinguistic and psychodiagnostic disciplines and description of the process. It focuses on the application of a computer-assisted linguistic procedures, which aims to classify and quantify formal characteristics (e.g., morphology, semantics etc.) of recorded texts. These systems analyze vast amounts of content data and it also facilitates the comparison of the results with other data, e.g., with information about the communicators, such as their personality characteristics (personality traits, motivation etc.). These methods are employed within the CPACT research (Computational Psycholinguistic Analysis of Czech Text), which is carried out from 2016 at the University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic (EU), and which aims to enrich the current state of knowledge of the psycholinguistic analysis of texts and using advanced procedures for the Czech language processing. The paper describes relevant aspects of its methodology, the theory and the quantitative analysis specifics.
Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, Jun 12, 2018
The West Slavic languages are close enough for their speakers to use their mother tongues when co... more The West Slavic languages are close enough for their speakers to use their mother tongues when communicating with each other. In 1966, Einar Haugen referred to this type of communication as ‘semicommunication’. To this date, research into the mutual intelligibility of the semicommunication of West Slavic languages has been conducted exclusively by sociolinguistic methods. The presented paper, therefore, uses the mathematical-linguistic methods proposed by Moberg, Gooskens, Nerbonne, and Vaillette [Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006: Selected papers from the 17th CLIN Meeting, p. 51–66 (2007)] to measure the mutual intelligibility of semicommunication. These methods are based on calculating the conditional entropy. The calculations are realized on the phonetic and graphemic planes of Czech, Slovak, and Polish. Conditional entropies were the lowest between Czech and Slovak. Between both the languages and Polish they were much higher. The asymmetry of the mutual intelligibility was confirmed for every studied relationship. Its extent was varied for each. The differences between content and function words, and various styles of material were also explored. The measurements in this research proved, in agreement with Moberg et al., that conditional entropy correlates with mutual intelligibility. The general conclusions mostly confirm the sociolinguistic conclusions. In many cases, the conclusions have been refined and supplemented.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2011
ABSTRACT Neither the knowledge type tested (semantic or procedural knowledge) nor students... more ABSTRACT Neither the knowledge type tested (semantic or procedural knowledge) nor students' preference for learning semantic or procedural knowledge has any major impact on the results of mathematic knowledge tests. The student's relation to the subject is of more importance. These results were obtained from analysing tests in Discrete Mathematics in terms of the type of task and the student cognitive style (N= 151). Psychological memory theory (Cirino, Morris, Morris, 2007) is the theoretical basis for task typology whereas the cognitive style theory applied to teaching mathematics (Rittle-Johnson, Star, 2007) is the theoretical basis for student typology. The analysis was carried out under real learning conditions that make students concerned with test results. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Dr. Zafer Bekirogullari.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014
This research shows that it would be very appropriate to divide the teaching of geometry into dif... more This research shows that it would be very appropriate to divide the teaching of geometry into different levels according to van Hiele theory. Secondary schools, with regard to their specialization, should determine what levels they want to achieve, and adapt teaching geometry to that goal. Our research also shows that Van Hiele levels are equally suitable for both genders.
The paper deals with the use of computational linguistics methods for text analysis and with the ... more The paper deals with the use of computational linguistics methods for text analysis and with the applications of its outcomes in psychological disciplines, in particular in psychodiagnostics. The text presents a brief description of psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and quantitative text analysis, followed by an overview of specific tools used for text analysis. Finally, we explore the possibilities for future research in computational linguistics methods and methods of quantitative text analysis, both on a specifically psychological, as well as on a more general scale.
Psychologický ústav, Filozofi cká fakulta, Masarykova univerzita v Brně, Ústav primární a preprim... more Psychologický ústav, Filozofi cká fakulta, Masarykova univerzita v Brně, Ústav primární a preprimární edukace, PdF, Univerzita Hradec Králové, Katedra informatiky a kvantitativních metod, PdF, Univerzita Hradec Králové, Česká republika
The standard method researchers use for processing of free answers/essay is categorizing these st... more The standard method researchers use for processing of free answers/essay is categorizing these statements by researcher, , which brings to the process side (unconscious) influence of the researcher and his subconscious bias the results expected or even desired direction. In this publication were analyzed the automated methods that minimize unintentional distortion by researcher. Comparative analysis of methods for automatic detection lemma prototype of free answers/essays was tested on two data sets. In the publication there was first described the concept of prototypical category, its properties and mathematization of these properties. On this basis, methods for detection prototypical lemma have been tested, based on the following perspectives: linguistic, statistical, geometric, and network one. The analysis shows that automatic detection based linguistic model by 2h-point and the method of detection based on the transfer of data into a text network based on common-lemma occurrenc...
Učebnice poskytuje přehled, objasnění a procvičení základních algoritmických konstrukcí využívaný... more Učebnice poskytuje přehled, objasnění a procvičení základních algoritmických konstrukcí využívaných ve strukturovaných i objektově orientovaných jazycích.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to uncover some of the psychological context of information literacy... more The purpose of this paper is to uncover some of the psychological context of information literacy. It focuses on the connection between cognitive dispositions (IQ) and information behavior of preliterate children. The results show that pre-school children are able to extract information on subjects which are interesting for them from all available sources -ranging from traditional media such as books or magazines, modern digital media (computer, DVD) to natural conditions in which children live (city, nature). Surprisingly, the radio is used very rarely. If we compare subjective replies supported by the method of graphic scaling, we can see that gifted preschoolers obtain statistically significantly smaller share of information from TV or computer. It is also true that gifted children gain information on subjects interesting for them from a wider range of various media sources, they do not stick only to one of them (they do not sit "only" in front of a TV or a computer).
Lexical track of the family concept. The use of network analysis, frequency analysis and open cod... more Lexical track of the family concept. The use of network analysis, frequency analysis and open coding for implicit theories of family research. The publication focuses attention on the topic of implicit understanding of the term "family". Theoretical background is based on an etymological analysis of the concept of family, the George Lakoff´s theory of prototypes and current knowledge from the field of folk psychology. There were extracted 12 expected attributes of the concept of family. The main part of the publication presents the results of research. The research group consists of three strata: professional teachers, students of education and pupils of primary school. Data were subjected to three types of analyzes: frequency analysis, network analysis and open coding. There were detected 8 attributes of implicit theories of the family (humanity, nuclearity, genocentricity, paidocentrism, egocentricity, interdependence, territoriality and presentivity). As the crucial con...
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015
The family as a topic is an essential part of primary school curriculum in the Czech Republic. Th... more The family as a topic is an essential part of primary school curriculum in the Czech Republic. The present study describes the expressions used by teachers (N=219) to define the term family and the possible implicit theories behind the definitions. A total of 513 expressions were used by the respondents to define family, the ten most frequent ones being: člověk, ten, dítě, skupina, spolu, žít, blízký, rodič, my a rád (man/human being, this, child, group, together, live, close, parent, we and like). The initial analysis suggests that the teachers' implicit understanding of the concept of family is associated with 1) parenthood and blood kinship, 2) emotional relations (love each other), 3) the co-existence in the household. The teachers' implicit understanding is based on egocentric and pedocentric view (the family equals mainly me-child and my parents or me-parent and my children). The lexical trace makes it evident that the implicit understanding is deeply embodied in language (the expressions that occur to us are commonly used ones, which restricts the final concept) and that it reflects the changing socio-cultural discourse (for example, the modern concept of family is typically nuclear, based on partnership, which is a result of the postponement of parenthood, other phenomena include emancipation, economic independence, independent housing with variable individualized features, such as pets as a part of family structure). Czech teachers do not use in their definitions concepts like education, nation, culture or religion which sometimes appear in theoretical academic concepts of family.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015
The paper deal with the quality of the cooperation between families and school. The aim of the re... more The paper deal with the quality of the cooperation between families and school. The aim of the research was to find out how parents evaluate the cooperation between them and a school and how they see their children are prepared for the further studies. Method: non-standardized questionnaire, research sample: (N=176) the parents of children aged 10 to 15 years, parents age from 30 to 57. Partial results show that mothers feel to be more informed then fathers and mothers are more aware of the child's satisfaction in school. Furthermore, it has been proved that even older the child is, even worse evaluation the parents give to the level of its education. Parents of girls are significantly more persuaded that school prepares them better for further studies. The worse assessment children have, the lower parental satisfaction with the education is and these parents also think that their child is not properly prepared for future studies. Thereafter are commented in the paper expectations of parents and their requirements toward the school.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012
The article deals with the issue of experimental use of mood induction procedures (MIPs), in part... more The article deals with the issue of experimental use of mood induction procedures (MIPs), in particular the induction of anger, fear and sadness. Three techniques were utilized during the research on the sample of 41 university students using the "blind" experimental setting. The setting includes presentation of emotional stimuli for sadness induction (emotional film clips), manipulative strategy for anger induction (interaction with human confederate) and real-life situation for induction of fear (examination situation). The paper also briefly presents the research EH (Emotionality in Handwriting, the Institute of Psychology of Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno, 2010) which is a follow-up to a study focused on the effects of a given emotional state on formal parameters of handwriting (on metric characteristics of handwriting). Apart from general commentary on induction methods, the design of the EH experiment is described, including description of each mood induction procedure method, course of the experimental setting and summary of results obtained from participants by self-description scales. The research results are also significant in that the emotional changes studied may provide vital information on behavioural and personality characteristics. This subject has been for a long time more or less neglected by current research tendencies. The article also provides a commentary on possibilities of development of the method within psychological disciplines.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012
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Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015
This paper focuses on the results of a pilot study based on the van Hiele theory of geometric thi... more This paper focuses on the results of a pilot study based on the van Hiele theory of geometric thinking at Czech secondary schools. The van Hiele theory describes how young people learn geometry. It postulates five levels of geometric thinking. Usiskin later tested the ability of the van Hiele theory to describe and predict the performance of students in secondary school geometry. Our pilot study aimed to verify the test structure of the Usiskin´s test in the Czech secondary schools, and to compare the outcomes with American results.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014
The aim of this research purpose is to gain information about how the teachers understand the ter... more The aim of this research purpose is to gain information about how the teachers understand the term family. The aim of this contribution is to document inventory descriptors which are used by teachers for description and explanation of this term. he research was participated by teachers from practice of studying a combined study of pre-primary and primary education (N=45, age: from 20 to 52). There were identified 31 categories used for a description and family evaluation. Individuals have reported an average of 4.95, at least 1 and not more than 9 different categories. The frequency shows that the "hidden" categories are: hetero/homosexual, city/village and Czech/minority. Within the framework of teaching we reveal some blind spots to students and we try to enrich towards open and freer explicit the interpretation of the concept and a better orientation at the problematic of its elaboration for children and pupils within the framework of cross-cutting theme of A child and a family. Teachers should be therefore able to explain to pupils all types of families and thereto in an acceptable, sensitive and, if possible, a positive way.