SKKN Applying Azota to help 12 graders themselves revisefor GCSE exam

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

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. Reasons for the study

In the modern world, with the impact of 4.0 revolution, almost all fields of

the society has dramatical changes. In education, the 4.0 revolution has created a

change in teaching and studying. This requires education to adapt to the new

technical environment. It is required to shift from the physical education

environment that only focuses on imparting academic knowledge to the one that

needs renewing by providing learners with knowledge and skills, including a lot of

skills such as teamwork skills, creative thinking skills, critical skills and self-

study…. The 4.0 revolution in education also encourages and forces learners to

actively change and make them more active in learning.

Teaching in the modern world does not require only a paper, a pen, a board

and chalk to teach and study. To deliver learning content, today a lot of smart

technologies have been born to support teaching. A teacher is no longer merely a

person who provides knowledge, but also a person with sufficient professional

knowledge and skills, diligence in research and creativity in method innovation,

who can help students meet the requirements in the new modern world.

Recently, a lot of tools have been made to help students study and revise

effectively. Azota is one of the tools that the authors feel satisfactory because of its

effectiveness and convenience . For the reasons above, I would like to conduct the

Teaching Experience namely: “Applying Azota to help 12 graders themselves revise

for GCSE exam”

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. New points of topic

Revision programme for grade 12 in the class is carried out every year. With

5 sessions required in my school curriculum for English GCSE preparation, other

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people believe that it provides enough knowledge for learners. However, as it can

be seen in some recent years, the results are low and perhaps, it has not not only

provided enough knowledge but also created motivation and encouragement for

students. Self-study and self-revision for exam outside the class with books and

photocopied papers make students feel bored and stressed.

The solutions to improve students’ self-study have focused on a lot of

factors that can contribute to the better results for students.

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. Aims of the study

The aims of the research are as follow:

For the teachers:

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Design a wide range of interesting kinds of activities for revision.

Help students actively and eagerly participate in self-study.

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Help students improve some skills effectively and skillfully so that they

can get expected results.

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Provide as many trial tests as possible for students, help them recognize the

weakness and strength in each topic of the tests and then find the ways to improve it.

For the students:

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Know how to manage the time for study at home, forming the habit of self-

study which is an important skill for their life.

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Know how important the exam revision is for the GCSE exam.

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. Methods of the study

In this study, we use some following methods:

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Study some web tools.

Read materials relating to the topic.

Design suitable extra activities for students.

Collect information from students and teachers.

Learn from experience based on achieved results.

. Scope of the study

The grade 12 students.

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PART 2: CONTENT

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. Theoretical and practical background

.1. Theoretical background

.1.1. What is the concept of self-study?

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Study, study more, study forever” is a saying that contains a deep meaning

that our ancestors passed on to the next generation, a saying that is a testament to

the spirit of self-study and determination. To better understand the problem of self-

study, we need to understand what self-study is. There are many different concepts

about self-study, but each concept shows the high consciousness and self-

discipline of young people.

“Self-learning is brainstorming, thinking and using intellectual capacity

(observing, comparing, analyzing…) and sometimes muscles (when using tools)

and the main qualities of oneself (honesty, objectivity, forward-thinking,

perseverance, patience, passion for science) both motivation, emotion, human

outlook, and world view to occupy a certain area of knowledge that of humanity,

turning that field under its own” – According to Nguyen Canh Toan (1997), the

process of self-study.

“Self-study can be understood as a form of cognitive activity of an

individual to master the system of knowledge and skills conducted by the students

themselves in class, outside of the classroom according to or not according to the

curriculum and textbooks. According to regulations, self-study is a basic form of

teaching organization at university with high independence and personal nuances

as it has a close relationship with the teaching process” – according to Luu Xuan

Moi. 2000).

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.1.2. The importance of self – study for the exam.

Learning is a process of constant development and improvement, learning

and acquiring knowledge are the responsibility of every student. Being aware of

their own learning role, young people are constantly striving to improve their sense

of learning. Studying at school is not enough time for them to firmly grasp the

knowledge they have learned, so self-study outside the class is very necessary.

Self-study is a skill that parents always want their children to practice. There must

be an effective self-study method to achieve high quality results.

Self-study not only gives us results and knowledge about the lesson, but self-study

also helps us practice a lot of results around it.

Self-study will help you orient and plan positive and effective learning

results, it helps us to acquire knowledge actively. Self-study gives us good

qualities: Self-taught people will always feel that they are proactive in everything

else, giving themselves the spirit of desire to dominate knowledge, not hesitate in

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the face of difficulties, learning challenges. Self-study helps us to evaluate and

select important and useful knowledge, to improve our capacity. Therefore, self-

taught people are often very humble. They always want to know more.

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.1.3. What is Azota tool?

Azota is a technology software that helps teachers assign assignments, create

exam questions, and grade online – offline exams quickly. Azota develops

powerful automation and customization features that are easy to use for all users.

With Azota’s intelligent algorithm, teachers do not need to take many

operations to digitize exam questions. With just drag and drop, teachers can create

different types of questions: multiple choice, essay, gap filling, mixed test, group

questions… in a short time.

The great advantages of Azota:

Inspite of the appearance of many other learning applications, this

application is still favored because of the following reasons:

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Anti-cheat ability

Perhaps this is the biggest advantage that users appreciate about this

application. Because the application Azota developed mainly to help with the

problem of performing the test. Therefore, this is an application trusted by many

schools in assessing students. Through the tests, it can be seen that this software

supports very well in anti-cheat. Specifically, the inability to access other websites

during the test with the application. Thereby students are unable to ask for help

from friends or to look up information.

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Easy sync with Zalo

Users are easy to use the app and do not have to waste time creating a new

Azota account. Users can easily synchronize with the Zalo application to register

and log in. All personal information of Zalo is also very convenient for users.This

is a feature of marking multiple-choice quizzes in two forms: Marking from the

computer or marking from the scanned file.

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Teachers can create exam questions easily

With available files and questions, Azota is very helpful for teachers. It is

much easier to create exam questions or online assignments.

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Teacher do not take much time to grade

One more wonderful advantage to support teachers of this software is to

support grading. Azota is equipped with an auto grading system for instant results.

The test only needs to be submitted and learners can know the results immediately.

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There are learning statistics in Azota

Marking and statistics of study results are a series of outstanding advantages.