Teaching Thermodynamics to First-Year Students by the Single-Axiom Approach

The aim of this research was to find out the ability of the first year students in speaking by using storytelling at MAS. Al-Jam’iyatul Wasliyah. The design of this research was descriptive research. The population of this research was 20 students of XC class in the first grade at MAS. Al-Jam’iyatul Wasliyah. In selecting the sample the writer used random sampling technique. The total number of the sample was 12 students. The data was collected by using oral test. The researcher only measured the ability of students’ speaking in storytelling by considering five components of speaking: (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, fluency, and comprehension). And their speaking had been recorded by using phone recorder. From the result of analyzing the data, the researcher found that the students’ speaking ability by using storytelling was moderate. It proved by the fact that 4 students (33.33%) classified as high ability, 4 students (33.33%) classified as moderate ability, and 4 students (33.33%) classified as low ability. Based on the data, the students’ score were bigger in the high and moderate level than in the low ability level. Based on the research finding, the English teacher is suggested to consider the five components in scoring speaking ability (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, fluency, and comprehension). The students are suggested to do more practice in pronunciation and fluency, because they dominantly speak incorrect pronunciation and have pauses in the sentences. Students are also suggested to enrich their vocabulary by using storytelling.

THE EFFECT OF USING NOTING INTERACTING SUMMARIZING AND PRIORITIZING STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN READING COMPREHENSION

REGISTER Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed ◽

10.24114/reg.v2i4.694 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Maruh Sianturi And Berlin Sibarani

Keyword(s):

Reading Comprehension ◽

Experimental Design ◽

Null Hypothesis ◽

Alternative Hypothesis ◽

Control Group ◽

First Year ◽

Teaching Reading ◽

First Year Students ◽

Level Of Significance ◽

Experimental Group

This study was aimed at finding out the effect of using Noting, Interacting, Summarizing, and Prioritizing Strategy on Students’ Achievement in Reading Comprehension. This study was designed with the experimental design. The population of this study was the first year students at academic 2013/2012 of SMA swasta YP St. Paulus Martubung, Medan. There were fourty students taken as the sample of the research. The sample was divided into two groups: the first group (20 students) as the experimental group and the second group (20 students) as the control group. The experimental group was taught by Using Noting, Interacting, Summarizing, and Prioritizing Strategy, while the control group was taught by using conventional method. The instrument for collecting the data was multiple choices which consisted of 40 items. To obtain the reliability of the test, the researcher used Kuder -Richardson (KR-21) formula. The calculation showed that the reliability of the test was 0.75. The data were calculated by using t-test formula. The result of the analysis shows that t-observed (4.98) was higher than t-table (2.025) at the level of significance (α) 0.05 and the degree of freedom (df) 38. Therefore, the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It meant that teaching reading comprehension by using Noting, Interacting, Summarizing, and Prioritizing Strategy significantly affects reading comprehension.

REVERSE ENGINEERING: TENSION RATCHET DISSECTION PROJECT

Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) ◽

10.24908/pceea.v0i0.3726 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Jeremiah Vanderlaan ◽

Josh Richert ◽

James Morrison ◽

Thomas Doyle

Keyword(s):

Reverse Engineering ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Measurement Techniques ◽

First Year ◽

Stepping Stones ◽

First Year Students ◽

Final Project ◽

Undergraduate Study ◽

Solid Edge ◽

Part Modeling

We are a group of engineering students, in our first year of undergraduate study. We have been selected from one thousand first year students and have competed and won the PACE competition. All engineers share a common general first year, but we have been accepted into Civil and Mechanical engineering. This project was assigned as the final project in the Design and Graphics course. The project we are tasked with, called the Cornerstone Design Project, is to first dissect a product, discover how it works, dimension each part and create a fully assembled model using CAD software (Solid Edge V20 in our case). As part of discovering how it works we must benchmark it so the device can be compared with competing products. The goal of the project is to develop a full understanding of part modeling and assembly in Solid Edge, learn proper measurement techniques, and learn the process of reverse engineering and product dissection. All of these tasks were stepping stones to help us fully understand how the device, and all its components, work.

Refining Contrapuntal Pedagogy: Reflections on Teaching Warsan Shire’s “Home” and W.H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues” to First-Year Students

Education as Change ◽

10.25159/1947-9417/7506 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 24 ◽

Author(s):

Bridget Grogan

Keyword(s):

Racial Identity ◽

Teaching Practice ◽

Human Experience ◽

First Year ◽

First Year Students ◽

Poetic Voice ◽

Teaching Poetry ◽

Approach To Teaching ◽

The University ◽

The Way

This article reports on and discusses the experience of a contrapuntal approach to teaching poetry, explored during 2016 and 2017 in a series of introductory poetry lectures in the English 1 course at the University of Johannesburg. Drawing together two poems—Warsan Shire’s “Home” and W.H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues”—in a week of teaching in each year provided an opportunity for a comparison that encouraged students’ observations on poetic voice, racial identity, transhistorical and transcultural human experience, trauma and empathy. It also provided an opportunity to reflect on teaching practice within the context of decoloniality and to acknowledge the need for ongoing change and review in relation to it. In describing the contrapuntal teaching and study of these poems, and the different methods employed in the respective years of teaching them, I tentatively suggest that canonical Western and contemporary postcolonial poems may reflect on each other in unique and transformative ways. I further posit that poets and poems that engage students may open the way into initially “less relevant” yet ultimately rewarding poems, while remaining important objects of study in themselves.

Perfectionism in the transition to university: Comparing diathesis-stress and downward spiral models of depressive symptoms

10.31234/osf.io/5fdr8 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Shelby L. Levine ◽

Marina Milyavskaya

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Poor Mental Health ◽

First Year ◽

First Year Students ◽

Personal Standards ◽

Downward Spiral ◽

Personal Standards Perfectionism ◽

Spiral Model ◽

Diathesis Stress Model

Transitioning to university may be especially difficult for students who expect perfection from themselves. Self-critical perfectionism has consistently been linked to poor mental health. The current study compares a diathesis-stress and a downward spiral model, to determine why self-critical perfectionism is detrimental for mental health during this transition. First-year students (N=658) were recruited prior to beginning university in August and contacted again in October, January, and April. Participants completed measures on perfectionism, stress and depressive symptoms. Evidence was found for a downward spiral model with self-critical perfectionism, but not a diathesis-stress model. Students higher in self-critical perfectionism were more likely to experience increased stress and depressive symptoms in a circular and additive manner. Conversely, students higher in personal standards perfectionism experienced less stress and subsequent depressive symptoms. This research provides a theoretical model for why self-critical perfectionism is related to poor mental health outcomes which become sustained over time.

SELF-ISOLATION DURING THE COVID-19 PERIOD AS A RESOURCE FOR SELF-DEVELOPMENT

Поколение будущего: сборник избранных статей Международной студенческой научной конференции (Санкт-Петербург, Июль 2020). ◽

10.37539/pb186.2020.81.96.003 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Галина Николаевна Травинова ◽

Дарья Сергеевна Головченко

Keyword(s):

Free Time ◽

First Year ◽

Moral Self ◽

First Year Students ◽

Self Development ◽

Development Analysis

Самоизоляция актуализировала использование свободного времени в качестве ресурса саморазвития. Анализ результатов анкетирования позволил выявить достижения и трудности интеллектуального и нравственного саморазвития студентов-первокурсников. Self-isolation actualized the use of free time as a resource for self-development. Analysis of the questionnaire made it possible to identify the achievements and difficulties of the intellectual and moral self-development of first-year students.

A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Academic and Social Integration and Commitment on Retention

NASPA Journal ◽

10.2202/0027-6014.1094 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 1-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Cheryl Beil ◽

Carol A. Reisen ◽

Maria Cecilia Zea ◽

Robert C. Caplan

Keyword(s):

Longitudinal Study ◽

Social Integration ◽

Academic Integration ◽

Research University ◽

First Year ◽

First Year Students ◽

First Semester ◽

Academic And Social Integration ◽

Private Research

This longitudinal study predicted retention from academic integration, social integration, and commitment to remain in college in a sample of first-year students at a residential, private research university. When assessed separately, first-semester reports of commitment mediated the effects of both academic and social integration on retention six semesters later.

College Adjustment Experiences of First-Year Students: Disengaged Athletes, Nonathletes, and Current Varsity Athletes

NASPA Journal ◽

10.2202/0027-6014.1831 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 44 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

John R. Lubker ◽

Edward F Etzel

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

College Adjustment ◽

Academic Adjustment ◽

Athletic Identity ◽

Total Sample ◽

First Year ◽

First Year Students ◽

Freshman Year ◽

First Year College ◽

Varsity Athletes

The freshman year of college is usually acknowledged as a stressful time of social and academic adjustment. During this period, first-year students face many social and intellectual challenges. For high school athletes, the combined impact of college transition plus disengagement from sport can further complicate first-semester adjustment and may also affect first-year retention. Together, this complex phenomenon may diminish self-concept, challenge ones felt sense of being an athlete, and elicit emotional responses usually associated with college and elite athlete disengagement resulting in a negative adjustment to the college environment. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the differences in the reported athletic identity and college adjustment patterns of first-year college males and females (N = 317) and how disengagement from sports may affect these variables. Three status groups were used in this study: disengaged athletes (DAs; n = 133), high school senior nonathletes (n = 106), and current first-year college varsity athletes (n = 78). Significant differences were observed between groups in reported level of athletic identity where disengaged high senior athletes had significantly different scores than both college athletes and high school nonathletes. This finding may warrant an investigation on how we conceptualize the terms athlete and nonathlete. The investigation into college adjustment patterns found that first-year females reported higher academic adjustment to college than males in the total sample. Specifically in the DA athlete group, significant differences in college adjustment for both gender and level of athletic identity were found. For this group, significant differences in college adjustment were found related to the nature of disengagement and perceived level of social support. Potential applications of these findings for college personnel and future directions related to research are explored.