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Extracurricular activities encourage a child’s integral development, creative abilities and interests. In school, all students opt for an extracurricular activity according to their abilities, needs and interests. A determinant of freedom of choice regarding students’ choice of an extracurricular activity respects the educational needs of every child, student and adult; the need to respect each …

The center for quality assurance of the University of Split organized an online survey in which teachers from all university constituents shared their experiences with student evaluations of teacher effectiveness. Within this survey, the teachers responded to three types of questions: about students, teacher and teaching quality. Out of the 1,833 teachers employed at the …

Today, both in Europe and Croatia, the bibliography and offi cial documents inform us about the society of knowledge. Such society, besides the ‘producers’ of knowledge implies its ‘transmitters’as well. The social task of teachers is indeed the transfer of knowledge and culture from older to younger generations. This work briefl y analyzes the results …

Various competences are required of a contemporary teacher, including those related to good cooperation with parents/families, as well as parents´ pedagogical education. In order to investigate the level of teachers´ competence in the stated segment of their educational work, a pilot-research was conducted on the sample of 85 primary school teachers employed in primary schools …

By means of examination discussed in this paper, we wanted to determine teachers’ estimation in recognizing the victims of domestic violence and neglected students. The examination was conducted at the end of the 2005, in the area of Split and some smaller towns from Split hinterland. The questionnaire was composed of fi ve questions. The …

The goal of this study was to determine whether teachers and students use art textbooks in the lower grades of elementary school (which textbooks are used, why, who decides on the choice of the textbook, and in which part of the class the textbook is used). We also researched teachers’ opinion about the importance of …