Anna Tirpakova
Biographic Data
| ID | 1107949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Tirpakova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Tirpakova |
| SIGNATURE | TIRPAKOVA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tomas Bata University in Zlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4432-3528 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Improving Teacher Evaluation Practices
Aim. In the paper the authors present results of piloting the tools for assessment of a teacher ́s competence to identify psychological and social aspects of learners, which is one of ten key competences to which they developed sets of evaluation tools. Among the designed tools were: observation Assessment Sheets for the evaluators, Self-Assessment Sheets for the observed teachers, and Record Sheets to carry out subsequent PostObservation Intervi…
Measuring the quality of life university students and its predictors as a basis for its applied research. Cross-country evidence
The paper is focused on the quality of life of university students in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Spain and its indicators and predictors. University students represent a specific demographic group due to a combination of age, education, and health. Paper has several goals. The first goal is to determine the value of the quality of life of university students in the mentioned countries and to determine the degree of their si…
Distance Learning of Geographic Information Systems Using Google Classroom
Distance education at universities during the COVID-19 pandemic was implemented through various so-called learning management systems (LMSs). These environments are primarily used for teacher–student communication, assignment, and sharing of learning materials, testing, and assessment. This article aims to evaluate the Google Classroom environment’s perception by university students of the courses Teaching Academic Subjects and Geography, forced …
Adaptation Difficulties of Children at the Beginning of School Attendance Based on the Optics of Primary School Teachers
The presented paper is devoted to finding out and analyzing the opinions of primary education teachers on the causes of the unsuccessful adaptation of current schoolchildren to the beginning of systematic education. To find out the above issues, pedagogical research was carried out at selected primary schools in Slovakia. The implementation of the research and the subsequent analysis of the research results confirmed that the length of teachers' …
The impact of emotionally competent stimuli on language lexis retention
The objective of this study was to determine whether or not positive emotional stimuli enhance the learning of new foreign language vocabulary among learners with different learning styles. The stimuli were presented in English classes to the experimental group for eight weeks. Vocabulary knowledge was tested in the control and experimental groups before and after the intervention. Participants’ learning styles were detected by a validated questi…
Social Capital as a Predictor of Quality of Life
In the paper, we understand social capital as a variable that affects the quality of life. A variable whose change affects another variable is called a predictor. The paper is based on Putnam's understanding of social capital with the dimensions of trust, norms and networks. Trust is considered the most important dimension, and for the purposes of the paper social capital is identified with trust. Quality of life is a holistic concept with two di…
Teaching Congruences in Connection with Diophantine Equations
The presented paper is devoted to the new teaching model of congruences of computer science students within the subject of discrete mathematics at universities. The main goal was to create a new model of teaching congruences on the basis of their connection with Diophantine equations and subsequently to verify the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed model experimentally. The teaching of congruences was realized in two phases: acquisition…
How Kindergarten Teachers Assess Their Own Professional Competencies
One of the requirements of Education 4.0 is that students and practitioners should be involved in the creation of the content of study plans. Therefore, in the present research we focused on identifying the further educational needs of kindergarten teachers. Teachers’ educational needs were divided into four dimensions: ‘content knowledge’, ‘diagnostic knowledge’, ‘didactical knowledge’, and ‘classroom management knowledge’. In parallel, we disco…
Positive emotional stimuli in teaching foreign language vocabulary
Positive emotional stimuli, when compared to neutral memories, persist longer in memory and are recalled with greater accuracy and readiness, which might be rather significant in foreign language learning. The primary objective of this study was to determine whether or not positive emotional stimuli enhance remembering of new foreign language vocabulary. The pre-test/post-test design was applied, and both declarative and procedural vocabulary kno…
Evaluation of story maps by future geography teachers
The paper presents pedagogic experiment focused on teaching future geography teachers to work with story maps with the use of three applications (Knight Lab StoryMapJS, Esri ArcGIS StoryMaps, and Google Tour Builder). The experiment was carried out by questionnaire form at two Slovak universities. The respondents were students of the geography teacher training program, whose task was to select and learn one of the mentioned applications to create…
Optimization of children’s transition from preschool and family environment to the first grade of primary school in Slovakia by implementation of an adaptation programme
The presented contribution is devoted to the issue of children‘s transition from kindergarten and family environment to the first grade of primary school. This period is accompanied by several changes which bring about various adaptive difficulties for some children. An adaptation programme has been developed to mitigate or eliminate the difficulties, aimed at optimising the conditions in the transition period. In order to verify the effectivenes…
Nonnative EFL Teachers' Speaking Anxiety
The current study aims to fill the gap in the current literature by focusing on the wide scale of nonnative English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' perceptions and opinions in the specific context of a post-Communist country. It focuses on the link between five demographic variables (age, the length of English language study, English teaching experience, stay in English-speaking countries, and the intensity of communication with English nat…
Reducing student teachers' foreign language pronunciation anxiety through psycho-social training
Reducing student teachers' foreign language pronunciation anxiety through psycho-social training
Positive emotional stimuli in teaching foreign language vocabulary
Positive emotional stimuli, when compared to neutral memories, persist longer in memory and are recalled with greater accuracy and readiness, which might be rather significant in foreign language learning. The primary objective of this study was to determine whether or not positive emotional stimuli enhance remembering of new foreign language vocabulary. The pre-test/post-test design was applied, and both declarative and procedural vocabulary kno…
Evaluation of story maps by future geography teachers
The paper presents pedagogic experiment focused on teaching future geography teachers to work with story maps with the use of three applications (Knight Lab StoryMapJS, Esri ArcGIS StoryMaps, and Google Tour Builder). The experiment was carried out by questionnaire form at two Slovak universities. The respondents were students of the geography teacher training program, whose task was to select and learn one of the mentioned applications to create…
Optimization of children’s transition from preschool and family environment to the first grade of primary school in Slovakia by implementation of an adaptation programme
The presented contribution is devoted to the issue of children‘s transition from kindergarten and family environment to the first grade of primary school. This period is accompanied by several changes which bring about various adaptive difficulties for some children. An adaptation programme has been developed to mitigate or eliminate the difficulties, aimed at optimising the conditions in the transition period. In order to verify the effectivenes…
Nonnative EFL Teachers' Speaking Anxiety
The current study aims to fill the gap in the current literature by focusing on the wide scale of nonnative English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' perceptions and opinions in the specific context of a post-Communist country. It focuses on the link between five demographic variables (age, the length of English language study, English teaching experience, stay in English-speaking countries, and the intensity of communication with English nat…
Reducing student teachers' foreign language pronunciation anxiety through psycho-social training
Nonnative EFL Teachers' Speaking Anxiety
The current study aims to fill the gap in the current literature by focusing on the wide scale of nonnative English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' perceptions and opinions in the specific context of a post-Communist country. It focuses on the link between five demographic variables (age, the length of English language study, English teaching experience, stay in English-speaking countries, and the intensity of communication with English nat…
Optimization of children’s transition from preschool and family environment to the first grade of primary school in Slovakia by implementation of an adaptation programme
The presented contribution is devoted to the issue of children‘s transition from kindergarten and family environment to the first grade of primary school. This period is accompanied by several changes which bring about various adaptive difficulties for some children. An adaptation programme has been developed to mitigate or eliminate the difficulties, aimed at optimising the conditions in the transition period. In order to verify the effectivenes…
Teaching Congruences in Connection with Diophantine Equations
The presented paper is devoted to the new teaching model of congruences of computer science students within the subject of discrete mathematics at universities. The main goal was to create a new model of teaching congruences on the basis of their connection with Diophantine equations and subsequently to verify the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed model experimentally. The teaching of congruences was realized in two phases: acquisition…
How Kindergarten Teachers Assess Their Own Professional Competencies
One of the requirements of Education 4.0 is that students and practitioners should be involved in the creation of the content of study plans. Therefore, in the present research we focused on identifying the further educational needs of kindergarten teachers. Teachers’ educational needs were divided into four dimensions: ‘content knowledge’, ‘diagnostic knowledge’, ‘didactical knowledge’, and ‘classroom management knowledge’. In parallel, we disco…
Positive emotional stimuli in teaching foreign language vocabulary
Positive emotional stimuli, when compared to neutral memories, persist longer in memory and are recalled with greater accuracy and readiness, which might be rather significant in foreign language learning. The primary objective of this study was to determine whether or not positive emotional stimuli enhance remembering of new foreign language vocabulary. The pre-test/post-test design was applied, and both declarative and procedural vocabulary kno…
Evaluation of story maps by future geography teachers
The paper presents pedagogic experiment focused on teaching future geography teachers to work with story maps with the use of three applications (Knight Lab StoryMapJS, Esri ArcGIS StoryMaps, and Google Tour Builder). The experiment was carried out by questionnaire form at two Slovak universities. The respondents were students of the geography teacher training program, whose task was to select and learn one of the mentioned applications to create…
The impact of emotionally competent stimuli on language lexis retention
The objective of this study was to determine whether or not positive emotional stimuli enhance the learning of new foreign language vocabulary among learners with different learning styles. The stimuli were presented in English classes to the experimental group for eight weeks. Vocabulary knowledge was tested in the control and experimental groups before and after the intervention. Participants’ learning styles were detected by a validated questi…
Social Capital as a Predictor of Quality of Life
In the paper, we understand social capital as a variable that affects the quality of life. A variable whose change affects another variable is called a predictor. The paper is based on Putnam's understanding of social capital with the dimensions of trust, norms and networks. Trust is considered the most important dimension, and for the purposes of the paper social capital is identified with trust. Quality of life is a holistic concept with two di…
Distance Learning of Geographic Information Systems Using Google Classroom
Distance education at universities during the COVID-19 pandemic was implemented through various so-called learning management systems (LMSs). These environments are primarily used for teacher–student communication, assignment, and sharing of learning materials, testing, and assessment. This article aims to evaluate the Google Classroom environment’s perception by university students of the courses Teaching Academic Subjects and Geography, forced …
Adaptation Difficulties of Children at the Beginning of School Attendance Based on the Optics of Primary School Teachers
The presented paper is devoted to finding out and analyzing the opinions of primary education teachers on the causes of the unsuccessful adaptation of current schoolchildren to the beginning of systematic education. To find out the above issues, pedagogical research was carried out at selected primary schools in Slovakia. The implementation of the research and the subsequent analysis of the research results confirmed that the length of teachers' …
Improving Teacher Evaluation Practices
Aim. In the paper the authors present results of piloting the tools for assessment of a teacher ́s competence to identify psychological and social aspects of learners, which is one of ten key competences to which they developed sets of evaluation tools. Among the designed tools were: observation Assessment Sheets for the evaluators, Self-Assessment Sheets for the observed teachers, and Record Sheets to carry out subsequent PostObservation Intervi…
Measuring the quality of life university students and its predictors as a basis for its applied research. Cross-country evidence
The paper is focused on the quality of life of university students in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Spain and its indicators and predictors. University students represent a specific demographic group due to a combination of age, education, and health. Paper has several goals. The first goal is to determine the value of the quality of life of university students in the mentioned countries and to determine the degree of their si…
Psychology (11 works) · Mathematics education (9 works) · Foreign language (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Medical education (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Quality (philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works)