Tanya ChichekianUniversité de Sherbrooke | UdeS · Department of Pedagogy
Tanya Chichekian
PhD Educational Psychology
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Introduction
Tanya Chichekian is a professor in the department of pedagogy at Université de Sherbrooke. She has completed a doctoral degree in Learning Sciences at McGill University. Her current research program focuses on the transfer of motivation across formal and informal learning environments. She’s also interested in the development of tools measuring computational thinking skills in higher education
Additional affiliations
July 2016 - March 2019
Position
- Professor (Associate)
Description
- I teach graduate courses in the Professional Master of Education online program
September 2012 - May 2013
Position
- Part-time instructor
Description
- EDPE 602--Uses of Research Findings in Education EDPE 697/698--Special Activity (supervision of MEd students' capstone projects)
Education
August 2011 - June 2014
August 2009 - April 2011
August 1995 - April 1999
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Publications (64)
This chapter presents the role of passion in education. It first introduces the concept of
passion and the predominant theory on passion, the Dualistic Model of Passion (DMP;
Vallerand, 2010, 2015; Vallerand & Houlfort, 2019). According to this model, passion is
a strong inclination for an important, meaningful, and self-defining activity in which...
Background
Despite its obvious relevance to computer science, computational thinking (CT) is transdisciplinary with the potential of impacting one's analytical ability. Although countless efforts have been invested across K‐12 education, there is a paucity of research at the postsecondary level about the extent to which CT can contribute to sustain...
This cross-sectional research aimed to investigate a passion transmission model in the field of education as perceived by teachers and students. As per the Dualistic Model of Passion, the tested model posited that teachers' passion for teaching and the autonomy support they provide would influence students’ passion for a discipline through the emot...
A presentation for the technological innovation session
Based on previous studies examining the generalizing effects of motivation between different contexts, this study sought to extend this idea by investigating the extent to which students’ contribution to a community through their participation in extracurricular activities would produce ripple effects from their situational motivation (that is moti...
This study examined how educational robotics fostered college students’ computational thinking (CT) skills in virtual and in-person learning environments. Students from traditional (N = 33) and active-learning (N = 35) classrooms completed surveys over three time points and took part in robotics navigation challenges in mixed learning environments....
This technological innovation is an outcome based on a call for action to develop a more holistic understanding of computational thinking during problem-solving. Given that the potential to facilitate the transfer of computational thinking skills to more complex and novel problems is critical in higher education, the goal of this innovation was to...
This study examined how educational robotics fostered college students' computational thinking skills in virtual and physical learning environments. Students from a traditional (N = 33) and an active-learning (N = 35) classroom completed surveys, problem-solving tasks, and robotics navigation challenges in virtual and physical learning environments...
This study was interested in the level of correspondence between high school students’ self-perceptions of academic competence and achievement. The objectives were to (a) identify different profiles of students in terms of correspondence between perceptions of general academic competence and achievement in language arts and mathematics, (b) describ...
In accordance with the Dualistic Model of Passion, a passion transmission model was examined in which teachers’ passion and autonomy support were hypothesized to influence students’ passion for a subject matter via positive and negative emotions. In Study 1, a path analysis with 208 teachers through an online recruitment showed that teachers’ auton...
Persistence is generally viewed a unitary construct measuring the extent to which people pursue a goal often in the face of adversity. Here, we propose two different forms of persistence, rigid and flexible, that take origins in different determinants and lead to different activity and life outcomes. Based on the Dualistic Model of Passion (Vallera...
We tested if distinct combinations of harmonious passion and obsessive passion for sport were associated with outcomes within sport, academics, and in one’s life. We analysed data from the Student-athlete Well-being and Achievement Project (SWAP), a study in which intercollegiate student-athletes (N = 298) completed assessments of harmonious and ob...
We tested if distinct combinations of harmonious passion and obsessive passion for sport were associated with outcomes within sport, academics, and in one’s life. We analyzed data from the Student-athlete Well-being and Achievement Project (SWAP), a study in which intercollegiate student-athletes (N = 298) completed assessments of harmonious and ob...
Persistence involves the intention to maintain efforts when faced with obstacles and challenges, in order to achieve a specific goal. The Rigid and Flexible Persistence Scale (RFPS) is a self-report measure that assesses persistence that is theoretically derived from the premises of the Dualistic Model of Passion. The aim of the present research wa...
In this phenomenological study, we conducted open-ended, semi-structured interviews with four Indigenous female students in medicine regarding their experiences interacting with university resources. Peer mentorships, opportunities for clinical experiences in proximity to Indigenous communities, and an appointed Indigenous contact person were the r...
AI-powered technologies are increasingly being developed for educational purposes to contribute to students’ academic performance and overall better learning outcomes. This exploratory review uses the PRISMA approach to describe how the eectiveness of AI-driven technologies is being measured, as well as the roles attributed to teachers, and the th...
The present research investigated a passion transmission model (PTM) from
the perspectives of both students (N = 200) and teachers (N = 208). In accordance with
the Dualistic Model of Passion (DMP), we examined the PTM in which teachers’
passion and autonomy support were hypothesized to influence students’ passion via
positiveand negative emotions....
This project investigated how a robotics learning activity fostered college students’ computational thinking in two engineering physics classes offered online during COVID-19 lockdown. Specifically, we examined changes in students’ CT skills and attitudes, as well as their interest in robotics over time and the extent to which prior coding experien...
This study examined the effects of an Arduino microrobot activity on college students’ interest in robotics through three specific objectives: (1) determining how students’ conceptual understanding regarding the basics of microcomputing and computer programming changes after engaging in an engineering robotics learning module, (2) assessing the imp...
When it comes to accessibility to healthcare and medical education, inequalities prevail within ethnically diverse populations, especially among Indigenous Peoples. The main objective of this qualitative study was to explore how Indigenous female medical students’ motivations played a role in their pursuit of a medical career. We use the Self-Deter...
This paper presents a new perspective on persistence and how it relates to passion and outcomes in the field of education. Based on the Dualistic Model of Passion (Vallerand, 2015), we propose the existence of two types of persistence – flexible and rigid that are specific to the activity one is passionate about. Flexible persistence takes origin i...
Cet article présente les résultats d’une étude ayant pour objectif l’élaboration et la validation d’une échelle de mesure de la professionnalisation des étudiants et étudiantes universitaires en sciences de la santé. Des éléments de preuve de contenu, de processus de réponse et de structure interne de cette échelle ont été apportés au fil de l’étud...
This article presents the results of a study aimed at constructing and validating a scale for measuring the professionalization of health sciences students. Evidence of the content, response process, and internal structure of the scale was provided throughout the study, including data collection from 561 undergraduate and graduate students from fou...
The current research demonstrates a novel approach to investigating the role ofperceived teacher and parental autonomy support in college students’ ( N = 970 with376 males, 594 females) passion for science. Based on the Dualistic Model of Passionwhich posits the existence of a harmonious (HP) and obsessive (OP) passion, weadopted a 2 x 2 model (Gau...
Depuis un an, on a tous vécu un « moment pédagogique ». Cet instant précis où, en classe ou dans un bureau, malgré les mesures sanitaires et quel que soit le dispositif, le temps s’arrête, la pandémie nous semble loin, et on sent que l’on tient quelque chose de précieux sur le plan pédagogique. Le genre de bon coup, de révélation et de frissons péd...
This paper explores the need to build a reciprocal partnership with Indigenous Peoples and develop culturally-relevant strategies that foster academic motivation among Indigenous youth. The objectives of this study were to describe education professionals’ perceptions regarding: (1) the challenges Indigenous students face when transitioning to post...
This paper presents a new perspective on persistence and how it relates to passion and outcomes in the field of education. Based on the Dualistic Model of Passion (Vallerand, 2015), we propose the existence of two types of persistence - flexible and rigid that are specific to the activity one is passionate about. Flexible persistence takes origin i...
Based on the Dualistic Model of Passion postiting the existence of a harmonious (HP) and obsessive passion (OP), we investigated the effects of teacher and parental autonomy support on college students' passion for science (n = 970). Receiving autonomy support from both sources (i.e., a dual support) was related to higher levels of OP and HP, where...
This study examined the effects of an Arduino microrobot activity on college students’ understanding of microcomputing, programming, as well as interest in robotics. Participants (n = 58) were recruited from Engineering Physics courses and surveyed before and after a 4-lab sequence about Arduino microcomputing. Significant increases were observed i...
AI-powered technologies are increasingly being developed for educational purposes (Pedro et al., 2019) with recent studies showing how they contribute to increased academic performance and overall better learning outcomes among
students (Luckin et al., 2016). Despite its effectiveness in terms of performance outcomes, very few make their way as app...
Les applications des recherches en Intelligence Artificielle font de plus en plus partie des solutions émergentes en pédagogie (UNESCO, 2019). Malgré de récentes études démontrant comment ces applications contribuent à l’amélioration des apprentissages pour les étudiants (Laanpere et al., 2014; Luckin et al., 2016; Mayer-Schönberger & Cukier, 2014;...
Études post-secondaires: en faisons-nous assez pour les jeunes autochtones ?
http://theconversation.com/unrealistic-striving-for-academic-excellence-has-a-cost-111731
Republished in University Affairs https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/unrealistic-striving-for-academic-excellence-has-a-cost/
This study investigated 27 chemistry professors’ perceptions of learning in undergraduate education and their suggestions for adopting an inquiry-based pedagogical approach to teaching and learning. Semistructured interviews revealed that two thirds of participants perceived undergraduate learning in traditional ways such as the acquisition of basi...
The purpose of the present study was to propose and test an academic persistence model incorporating the role of passion and persistence in students’ academic performance in sciences, intentions to pursue a science education, and overall psychological wellbeing. The model was based in relation to the dualistic model of passion (Vallerand et al., 20...
Seventy-four students in three different Grade 9 classrooms of high-performing learners from the same suburban, comprehensive secondary school, completed a questionnaire focused on their preferences for a friend to stand by his or her position in case of a disagreement, to maintain their own position themselves, and to modify their own stance. Each...
This review synthesized what the research tells us about teachers’ self-efficacy for the enactment of inquiry-based instruction in the classroom. We selected 33 empirical studies that met specific search criteria. Teachers with previous inquiry experiences, including the completion of inquiry-based methods courses in teacher-education and previous...
This longitudinal study of six first-year teachers focused on conceptualizations of inquiry-based pedagogy, self-efficacy for inquiry-based teaching, and its actual enactment. Data included a self-report survey of self-efficacy for inquiry-based instruction, individual interviews at the beginning and end of the year, and five distributed classroom...
This chapter overviews the articulation of inquiry in the three International Baccalaureate (IB) levels, Primary Years (ages 3�12), Middle Years (11�16), and the Diploma Program (16�18) that is widely accepted by universities for matriculation. It reviews inquiry-based instruction in the publicly available IB research literature. The IB advocates i...
Participants included 112 Year 1 and 54 Year 4 undergraduate preservice teachers, 21 continuing education students, and 18 honors psychology students. The programs provided different exposure to inquiry. Groups were compared on the importance attributed to specific building blocks (strategic demands) of inquiry instruction and learning, and prescri...
This collaborative concept-mapping exercise was conducted in a second-year mathematics methods course. Teachers’ visual representations of their mathematical content and pedagogical knowledge provided insight into their understanding of how students learn mathematics. We collected 28 preservice student teachers’ concept maps and analyzed them by co...
In this chapter, we address the teaching-research nexus in undergraduate education by presenting a range of initiatives for instructional improvement through activities that require integrated, individual, and collaborative efforts in and across disciplines. We present theoretical and practical arguments of the theory of social constructivism in su...
Tools are needed to track the elements of students’ successful engagement in inquiry. The McGill Strategic Demands of Inquiry Questionnaire (MSDIQ) is a 79-item, criterion-referenced, learner-focused questionnaire anchored in Schön’s model and related models of
self-regulated learning. The MSDIQ addresses three phases of inquiry engagement—planning...
Contemporary curricular reform efforts are underway in many countries toward
adopting and implementing inquiry-based approaches to teaching and learning on
a provincial and national level. Buzzwords associated with inquiry-based pedagogy
have been used to express similar ideas in bilingual educational communities, but
rarely with a direct one-to-on...
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Where can I find good examples of teaching vignettes that I can use in interviews with teacher educators (professors who teach in the faculties of education)? I am specifically looking for teaching vignettes that illustrate scenarios of how the design of learning activities can foster the development of computational thinking in preservice teachers.
I am interested to know if anyone has conducted online studies with a hierarchical linear modelling design in the field of education involving teachers and their students or in a similar field involving coach/mentor/supervisor and their athletes/employees? What platforms have you used and how has it been compatible with data privacy? What kind of ethical issues have you encountered?
Since the start of the pandemic, there has been an unprecedented rapid shift to online teaching. While many technological tools facilitated such a transfer, certain pedagogical elements fell in the cracks. Course design was one of them.
To what extent have you modified and adapted the design of your course(s) in terms of the expected learning outcomes, your instructional approach, and the assessment of objectives or competencies?
Hello academic peeps!
Since the pandemic has your passion for teaching increased, decreased, or remained unchanged? If possible, please elaborate on your response.
Thanks!
I am interested to know how do you design virtual learning experiences that leverage existing online resources and customize them to your instructional needs. What are the problem areas where technology might be able to support them?
What is the simplest way to compare two ROC curves and their respective AUC for a paired design (measured on the same subject)? I use R to perform statistical analyses, but I am also familiar with SPSS. Thanks!
As COVID-19 has forced academia to react instantly to the dynamics of teaching and learning, I am curious to find out how you have been able to transfer complex ideas that you would normally teach in person to a virtual learning environment?
How and where do you spend your yearly professional development funds?
