Attrition of Pre-service student science teachers under the Virtual, Open and Distance Learning mode at Bindura University of Science Education in Zimbabwe

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: DZIVA, DAIMOND, KUSURE, LOVEMORE, BHUKUVHANI, CRISPEN, MHISHI, MISHECK, MUVINDI, ISRAEL, ZUVALINYENGA, DORCAS, BASIRA, KISSWELL, BERDUT, ISEL R.
• Μορφή: Online
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Urray 2015
• Θέματα: Teaching practice, JATD, automatic, game descriptors; History, resonance, vibration, waves, cord; Comparatism, dietitian school, epistemic games, social practice of reference, didactic transposition; Serious games, education to sustainable development, experiential learning; Web simulation, experimental design, adaptive scaffolds, biology, high school; Inquiry, learning tool, social media and university students; Bac-3 and Bac + 3 project, chemistry, semiotic register, modelling process; Attrition, Science Teacher Education, Open and Distance Education, Pre-service Teachers; Teaching practices, JATD, didactic action, didactic game, practical epistemology; Analyse lexicométrique, analyse thématique, triangulation méthodologique, biodiversité, curriculum; Emotional and behavioural difficulties, social and emotional learning, teacher-student relationships; Aspects of adulthood, emerging adulthood, higher education students, roles of adults; Complex technological system, car, energy, environment, secondary education; Motivation, scientific career, school-university partnership, professional identity; Expert teacher, task, difficulty, prediction, technical drawing; Erasmus, student mobility, emerging adulthood, higher education, student development; Technical teaching, reform, Electric Engineering, French language, scientific subjects, difficulties; Ecological reasoning, nature’s predictability, two-tier questionnaire, nature views; Initial training, pedagogical knowledge learning, identification methodology, activity control feedback loop, aware and unaware learning; Force on the tooth, three dimensional perception, graphic representation, digital models; Teaching practices, TACD, practical epistemology, transactions, transistor; Critical Reflection, art in education, teachers’ education, university pedagogy, transformative learning; Student dropout, Greece, qualitative research, interview quality, stance of universalism; Immigrants, socio-economic status, habitus, educational aspirations and expectations, young people’s educational choices; Sentiment analysis, opinion mining, education, commercial systems, benchmark; Cognitive ergonomics, space ergonomics, computer laboratory; Science history, wave function, interpretation of quantum mechanics, epistemology; Listening, speaking, oral communication models, literacy practices; Vocational activities, descriptions, differences between teachers and practitioners, implications on education; Socioscientific issue, citizenship education, knowledge, play role, sustainable energies; Open Educational Resources (OER), Webquest, Sustainable Development; Situational Pedagogy, skills in professional communication, professional didactics; Abstraction, technicality, grammatical metaphor, nominalization, Systemic Functional Linguistics, History, Physical Science, Greek textbooks; Educational content, blackboard, morpho-dynamics, non temporalization of displacements in the gridlines

Student science teacher attrition under VODL has been a critical concern in the field of education for many years. Student teacher attrition is another term used for student teacher turnover, which are changes in student teachers’ status from Semester to Semester. Student Teacher turnover may include Student teachers leaving the course, or Student teachers leaving the university. This study sought to find out the major reasons for student teachers’ attrition under the VODL mode of delivery at BUSE through a survey gathering the perspectives of the students who have dropped out of this mode of teaching and learning. The collected data is analysed through the IBM SPSS v. 19. Situational factors are indicated in this study as the major reasons for student attrition under VODL. There is no correlation between the cited reasons for attrition to gender, age or program of study. It is recommended that any intervention mechanisms should put lecturers in the forefront as they are perceived by the former students as the most significant others.