Otilia Clipa

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• Assoc.Prof. PhD.
• Professor (Associate) at Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava

Socio-emotional competence it is considered one of the very important aspect of practicing the teaching profession and an significative factors for work performance, Although initial academic training is an important indicator of a trajectory that can lead to success and self-efficacy in the workplace, it is the continuous development of skills tha...

This study aims to assess the impact of managerial style on job satisfaction among teaching staff. The objectives include identifying factors that hinder the effective performance of teachers, examining key positive and negative interactions between managers and teachers, and exploring correlation between the managerial style and teachers’ job sati...

Self-assessment has a significant place among modern assessment types. More importantly, self-assessment plays an essential role in pre-service teacher training, as it facilitates comprehensive learning and prepares future educators effectively. Thus, this paper aims to analyse the potential of self-assessment in teacher education. The study examin...

The paper presents the most comprehensive and large-scale global study to date on how higher education students perceived the use of ChatGPT in early 2024. With a sample of 23,218 students from 109 countries and territories, the study reveals that students primarily used ChatGPT for brainstorming, summarizing texts, and finding research articles, w...

Empathy plays a pivotal role in fostering harmonious development among children. The present study aimed to explore the relationships among empathy, friendliness, and group inclusion in third and fourth-grade students, as well as to identify factors influencing students' inclusion or exclusion within peer groups. The study involved 78 students from...

This study investigates how modern strategies, particularly the application of cooperative learning, influence children's motivation, communication skills, and self-esteem. The first part presents a theoretical overview of collaborative learning, drawing on models and theories from the literature. The second part outlines the research methodology,...

n ultimii ani există numeroase dezbateri referitoare la problematica educației timpurii, ca tematică prioritară pentru domeniul social, subliniindu-se astfel importanța intervenției educaționale la vârste foarte mici, începând chiar de la momentul nașterii. În perioada aceasta se discută tot mai mult în politicile educaționale europene și naționale...

Capitolele volumului subliniază care sunt programele de formare inițială din Europa sau din lume care pregătesc buni profesioniști în educație timpurie, care sunt modalitățile de formare și de ce este nevoie de investiții în abordarea metodică, științifică a acestei vârste.Capitolele sunt alcătuite din abordări teoretice realizate prin trimiteri ac...

This research aims to measure the level of integration of ICT in teaching, learning, and assessment practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. We propose measuring teachers’ attitude, self-efficacy, and skills in using technology because the quality of education during the pandemic was influenced by these factors. An online questionnaire was distribut...

Theories of development point out that childhood experiences are relevant across the lifespan, and that the parent-child relationship is essential for a child's physical and psychological wellbeing. The aim of this study is to investigate whether parental abandonment influences self-conscious emotions such as guilt and shame. This quasi-experiment...

Domestic chores are a topic of great interest for couple relationships since they are a source of conflict between intimate partners. The purpose of the present research is to investigate offering and asking for help with domestic chores and the respondents’ tendency to be intuitive or verbal or to do chores alone. A vignette applied to children an...

This study investigates how compatibility and perceived enjoyment affect the link between intention to use and actual technology use in Romanian preschool education, building on earlier studies. Methods: 300 participants were invited to participate in this research from 15 Romanian counties. 182 preschool teachers’ questionnaires were utilized for...

Recent findings suggest that quarantine adversely affects an individual's wellbeing. Social isolation generally leads to many negative psychological outcomes in child development and to significant shifts in parent-child relationships. The aim of the present research was to investigate three aspects of parenting during the COVID-19 quarantine: what...

The value of digital competence increased during pandemic time and for millions of people have been forced to work or learning from home, their communication and training done in on-line system. If the internet was celebrated because it sometimes maintains the normal life of individual and countries, the pandemic underline digital inequalities, the...

Studies on the determinants of school results have shown that they depend largely on the context of learning. Concerning the pandemic, teachers have been forced to find online teaching methods, which leads us to the central issue of this study of whether the effectiveness of online education depends on teachers’ digital skills. Therefore, in this s...

The study aimed to investigate the correlation between the students’ type of motivation (extrinsic/intrinsic) and their attitude toward the ethics of the use of information technologies, as well as the individual differences in students’ unethical Internet use concerning intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations. There was used the Internet...

The monograph presents the results of international research activities on the pedagogical education and professional training development in the modern socio-cultural environment. Theoretical and methodological principles of the professional training for future specialists in the field of pedagogy and educational policy strategy during socio-econo...

The monograph presents the results of international research activities on the pedagogical education and professional training development in the modern socio-cultural environment. Theoretical and methodological principles of the professional training for future specialists in the field of pedagogy and educational policy strategy during socio-econo...

The monograph presents the results of international research activities on the pedagogical education and professional training development in the modern socio-cultural environment. Theoretical and methodological principles of the professional training for future specialists in the field of pedagogy and educational policy strategy during socio-econo...

Our study aims to identify students’ attitudes towards the use of mobile technologies (MT) during learning activities in higher education. Data were collected using the Mobile Technologies Questionnaire/MTQ, a ten-item brief questionnaire that was designed to determine attitudes towards the use of mobile technologies in the learning process among u...

This paper aims to explore the potential role of Master’s of Education dissertation/thesis work in developing twenty-first century skills. A total of 600 education professionals studying Master’s of Education programmes in five countries – Poland, Portugal, England, Latvia, and Romania – were surveyed. The findings have revealed that participants r...

Countless studies have shown that there is a connection between anxiety felt during exams and school performance. We as individuals are exposed to failure in the moment of an exam and for those who are not familiar with the context, the opportunity to fail is more probable to happen. The goals of this study are: to identify the relation between exa...

Abstract The research objective was highlighting the importance that the headmaster’s leadership style and the organizational environment have on teachers’ perception regarding work performance achievement. Thus, it is to be analysed whether those who are appointed in management positions understand the true meaning of the task they have and the s...

A self-administered measurement tool was developed and validated to provide data regarding ethical attitude of university teachers for a sustainable education. The research was based on several factors involved in forming attitudes towards the unethical information technology use. The sample: 334 Romanian teachers’ respondents who teach in the high...

The study focused on the issue of increasing communication efficiency between school and family using the online environment. The aim of the study is to evaluate to what extent the online communication environment can improve the process of communication between school and family. The study is quantitative, based on the questionnaire method. Two qu...

The aim of this study was to elaborate a scale to measure In-service Teachers’ Attitudes about Inclusive Education (ITAIE). The 18-item scale was developed using a sample of 264 in-service teachers. Factor analysis indicated five categories: 1) the psychosocial competences of teachers, (2) the psycho-pedagogical advantages of the inclusive educatio...

Universitatea Ștefan cel Mare din Suceava Rezumat În general, eșecul școlar este privit ca o consecință negativă a unor acțiuni și comportamente ale elevului. Povara eșecului școlar este pusă, de multe ori, pe umerii acestuia, el fiind afectat pe plan cognitiv, emoțional, motivațional, profesional și social. În capitolul de față se prezintă concept...

The relationship between master’s thesis work and teachers’ professional development has rarely been explored empirically, yet. Drawing upon a larger study, this paper investigates how teachers who were studying for or who have recently graduated from Master of Education programmes offered in five countries – Poland, Portugal, England, Latvia, Roma...

Evaluarea cadrelor didactice din învățământul preșcolar-(re)sursă a stressului profesional Conf. univ. dr. Otilia CLIPA, Facultatea de Științe ale Educației, Universitatea Ștefan cel Mare din Suceava, Romania 1. Introducere Profesia de cadru didactic este una determinantă și poate deveni determinantă pentru dezvoltarea comunității în care formează...

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Childhood education is a very important issue for society or any other community development, which aims at adjusting to nowadays and perspective tendencies. Contemporary pedagogy acknowledges that education at very fragile age determines the harmonious development of the personality and a very good social integration. That is the reason for the im...

Abstract: Problem Statement: We have approached the main line of the theoretical and investigative characteristics for university education such as they appear within scientific literature in the science of education area. Nowadays is more and more present within educational field the using of ICT. Purpose of Study: The aim of our research is to...

Abstract The study aims to capture the level of anxiety towards testing in primary school pupils (N = 307) depending on gender and class (age). The instrument used is the Wave and Benson Test Level Anxiety Test in 2004, which contains 25 items, grouped into three subscales: thoughts, automatic reactions, distracted behavior. The analysis of the res...

In recent researches the leadership style and motivation are very important issues for educational process. This paper intends to identify the relations between leadership and motivation for teacher from Bucovina County. The study was done in 2018 and our sample was 140 teachers. The research instruments were the Achievement Motivation Inventory (S...

Cartea descrie formele, metodele de evaluare din invatamantul universitar.

Cartea detaliaza dermersurile investigative asupra valorii autoevaluarii prezente in invatamantul universitar.

The aim of this study is associating leadership style and motivation in order to achieve performance in teaching. Does a certain leadership style positively correlate with motivation, so that it can determine the teacher’s performance at his job? Representative parameters were used in order to quantify the degree of motivation the teacher exercises...

Sommario In Europa il 20% dei bambini in età scolare sperimenta problematiche sociali, emotive e comportamentali all'interno dei contesti educativi. È quindi urgente proporre contesti capaci di promuovere il benessere, tramite i docenti. Il tema della resilienza e dello sviluppo delle competenze nei bambini assume un ruolo centrale come azione di i...

The article wants to describe the perceived stressors for teacher from Romania and the appropriate modalities for reducing this professional stress. We try to investigate the perceptions of teacher upon the evaluation as a stress factor and the solutions for this stress. For this study we apply a questionnaire which was administrated to 120 teacher...

The aim of this study is associating leadership style and motivation to achieve performance in teaching. Does a certain leadership style positively correlate with motivation, so that it can determine the teacher's performance at his/her job? Representative parameters were used to quantify the degree of motivation the teacher puts into his/her work:...

L’ultimo capitolo della seconda sezione presenta un’esperienza in Romania, presso la Stefan cel Mare University, Suceava: Otilia Clipa offre un excursus di letteratura sul concetto di “buon docente”, presentando lo studio di caso della propria organizzazione per la valutazione dell’azione didattica, comprendente self-assessment, peer-assessment, va...

In recent years, considerable attention has been paid in European debates on teacher education to upgrade teaching qualifications at the master’s level. However, still little is known about the usefulness of master’s level preparation for teachers’ professional practice. This study seeks to add to the existing body of knowledge by exploring student...

The aim of the contribution is to analyze advantages and disadvantages of open educational resources (OER) in higher education underpinning elaboration of a new research question. Comparative study was applied. The study was carried out in February 2016. Data was collected via semi-structured interviews. The sample included seven educators from dif...

The need to cope with the raising expectations which the society has from the education, compels the teachers to enlarge the limitations of the traditional education system in order to discover, filter and implement new teaching and assessment methods by which it could harness the cognitive and emotional potential of all the children they work with...

English for Academic Purposes courses are being constanly modernised. One of the areas of modernisation implies use of webinars as Information and Communication Technologies including webinars serve as an innovative technology within English for Academic Purposes course. Webinars have become an indispensable tool in ensuring online educational env...

Webinars have become an indispensable tool in higher education. However, educators’ experience in use of webinars has not been analysed. The aim of the present contribution is to analyse educators‘ experience in use of webinars in higher education underpinning elaboration of a hypothesis on use of webinars in higher education. The meaning of the ke...

The main goal of this paper is to investigate the roles and the methods of teacher evaluation from the perspective of the teachers. The questionnaire consisted of 82 items. The sample comprises 421 teachers from primary and preschool level from ROMANIA and SPAIN. Teachers consider the assessment purpose is depending on several factors. In terms of...

The article wants to describe the stressors for teacher for preschool level from Bucovina County. We try to investigate the perceptions of teacher upon the stress factors and the solutions for this stress. In this study we apply a questionnaire which was administrated to 150 teachers who teach in kindergartens from two Romanian counties. The resear...

The main objective of this editorial is the underlying of the transdisciplinary approach and the specific ways of putting into practice the interdisciplinary and communicative action in education. In order to do this we tried to do radiography of the theoretic characteristics as they are showed in the documents and the researches from the studied l...

The study intends to figure out a relationship between the emotional intelligence, self efficacy and other personality traits on the one hand, and work mentality and work satisfaction on the other hand. The study is going to find out if work satisfaction and work mentality is correlated with personal traits of teachers. The research is done on samp...

Nowadays, ubiquitous technologies - devices surrounding us - claim a new, natural and intuitive interaction paradigm. This challenge becomes more emphases when it is about so-called "generation of digital learners" because their particular need to experience technology as an integrated component of their usual development scenario. However, despite...

Problem Statement: We have approached the main line of the theoretical and investigative characteristics for university education such as they appear within scientific literature in the science of education area. Nowadays is more and more present within educational field the using of ICT. Purpose of Study: The aim of our research is to establish th...

Childhood education is a very important issue for society or any other community development, which aims at adjusting to nowadays and perspective tendencies. Contemporary pedagogy acknowledges that education at very fragile age determines the harmonious development of the personality and a very good social integration. The emotional and social skil...

Family and school are very important factors in pupils moral conduct formation. The role of this partnership becomes moreover a priority and a necessity. We tried by means of our study to prove that this partnership can have a positive effect when school gets involved in forming the moral standards by actions involving with pupils’ families. The re...

The study intends to figure out a relationship between the emotional intelligence, the satisfaction with life on the one hand and the work mentality and general job satisfaction of the Romanian teachers on the other hand. The study is going to find out if the emotional intelligence is correlated with positive attitude towards work and with a genera...

We intend to research if the useless of learning diary are important for development of metacognitive strategies and if these are influenced by the level of motivation for learning and by the evaluation process. The sample of our study comprised 92 students from the first year at Faculty of Science of Education and it was developed during 2008 -201...

Problem Statement: We have tried to figure out radiography of the theoretical and investigative characteristics of the academic assessor such as they appear within the documents and the researches from the scientific literature. Purpose of Study: The main goal of the paper is to investigate the portrait of the academic assessor from the perspective...

Problem StatementWe have approached the main line of the theoretical and investigative characteristics for teacher evaluation such as they appear within scientific literature in the science of education area.Purpose of StudyThe main goal of the paper is to investigate the purposes of teacher evaluation from the perspective of the teachers and the i...

The evaluation has a very important impact on the entire process of academic training. The learning style, the metacognitive strategies, the depth, will depend on the ways in which the students will be assessed, but the process can also be reversed. This paper intends to identify the optimal ways and methods of assessment for students from the Facu...

We appreciate that the educational work has to count on the profound knowledge of causes, conditions and favoring factors and especially of those that prevent the improving of university education quality. If we agree with the principle of centering the teaching –education process on the student, then the deciphering the individual mechanisms of th...

The main question of the study is about the professional competence of the teachers for providing emotional learning frames within the classroom. The study intends to revise the most important training needs of the Romanian teachers regarding the emotional education. We try to clarify if there is any perceived need, if these needs differ in terms o...

En aquest article presentem una síntesi d’alguns dels resultats obtinguts en una investigació sobre la percepció de l’alumnat sobre la freqüència d’avaluació acadèmica, duta a terme amb estudiants de diverses universitats públiques i privades romaneses. L’objectiu fonamental d’aquesta investigació va ser analitzar el procés de l’avaluació acadèmica...

En este artículo presentamos una síntesis de algunos de los resultados obtenidos en una investigación acerca de la percepción del alumnado sobre la frecuencia de evaluación académica, realizada con estudiantes de varias universidades públicas y privadas rumanas. El objetivo fundamental de esta investigación fue analizar el proceso de la evaluación...

This paper intends to present the outcomes of a research done in order to make a diagnosis of the level of response provided by Romanian school for the students emotional and social development needs. The investigation was carried on through a survey and it tried to figure out the answer of the following question: What are the teachers and parentsp...