scholarly journals End-user satisfaction of technology-enabled assessment in higher education: A coping theory perspective

Author(s):  
K. R. Pillai ◽  
Pallavi Upadhyaya ◽  
Ashish Viswanath Prakash ◽  
Badrinarayan Srirangam Ramaprasad ◽  
H. V. Mukesh ◽  
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AbstractThe current study examines students’ coping process of a forced technological intervention in academic outcome assessment in a higher education setting. A mixed-method approach was used to study 246 post-graduate students’ post-usage behaviour of electronic tablet-PC exams and examined their end-user satisfaction. This is an empirical study grounded in the Coping Model of User Adaptation (CMUA). Respondents of the study comprise of post-graduate students, who were exposed to an innovative digital device for writing descriptive exams as a substitute to the conventional paper-mode exam. Data were analyzed using SPSS and Nvivo. Findings indicate that problem-focused coping has a significant influence on end-user satisfaction, and on the contrary emotion-focused coping is insignificant among the students. The study offers insights into those institutions, which are aspiring to advance with similar interventions in academic outcome assessment. The study contributes to the literature on technostress, coping strategy, and end-user satisfaction of ICT.

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisela Hildegard van Rensburg ◽  
Pat Mayers ◽  
Lizeth Roets

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Ana Rute Amadeu Santana ◽  
Ana Tiyomi Obara

Abstract: Environmental issues have triggered a complex relationship between society and nature. The role of environmental education is crucial to relate society, environment, biodiversity and sustainability. Current paper analyzes the concept of environmental education and sustainable development by post-graduate students in Education in Science and Mathematics of a Brazilian university. Qualitative research was undertaken in July 2014 by content analysis of the questionnaires and interviews (Lüdke e André, 1986) on the environmental theme. Current analysis showed that environmental education is intensely studied in primary education, albeit in a conservationist mode due to the lack of initial and continuous formation. Several participating students underlined that they had never taught environmental education in the primary school since they never had any contact with the discipline in their undergraduate course, a gap in initial formation. Although formation is urgent, it is greatly impaired and barriers have to be overcome. It is the case of one´s own formation, difficulties in interdisciplinary inclusion and the need of public policies in environmental education in higher education. Environmental education is increasingly being taught in all teaching levels for environmental sustainability, while professionals have improved their upgrading to contribute towards the long process in changes for a better life quality.Keywords: Sustainability. Teaching. Teachers´ Formation. Curricula and Higher Education. A PRÁTICA E A VISÃO DE PÓS-GRADUANDOS EM ENSINO DE CIÊNCIAS SOBRE EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL E DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL NUMA UNIVERSIDADE BRASILEIRA Resumo: As questões ambientais têm desencadeado uma relação complexa entre a sociedade e a natureza. Diante dessa realidade, é fundamental o papel da educação ambiental a fim de relacionar sociedade, ambiente, biodiversidade e sustentabilidade. Assim, este trabalho teve como objetivo analisar a visão de educação ambiental e do desenvolvimento sustentável pelos alunos do curso de Pós-Graduação em Educação para a Ciência e a Matemática de uma universidade brasileira. A pesquisa qualitativa foi realizada em julho de 2014, por meio da análise de conteúdo dos questionários e entrevista (Lüdke e André, 1986) acerca da temática ambiental. O estudo demonstrou que a educação ambiental é bastante trabalhada no ensino básico, no entanto, de maneira conservacionista, o que ocorre devido à ausência da formação, tanto inicial como continuada. Vários participantes destacaram que nunca havia trabalhado educação ambiental no ensino básico, simplesmente porque nunca tiveram contado com a disciplina na graduação, ou seja, ausência da formação inicial. Embora a formação seja uma necessidade iminente, ainda é barrada por muitos obstáculos que necessitam ser vencidos, como é o caso da própria formação, a dificuldade da inclusão interdisciplinar e a necessidade de políticas públicas da educação ambiental no ensino superior. Concluiu-se que a educação ambiental, vem ganhando espaços em todos os níveis de ensino em busca da sustentabilidade ambiental, os profissionais, têm buscado melhorar sua autoformação, para que possam contribuir nesse longo processo de mudanças para uma vida melhor.Palavras-chave: Sustentabilidade. Docência. Formação de Professores. Curriculo e Ensino Superior LA PRÁCTICA Y EL CONCEPTO DE POSTGRADO EN EDUCACIÓN PARA LAS CIENCIAS EN EDUCACIÓN AMBIENTAL Y DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE EN UNA UNIVERSIDAD BRASILEÑAResumen: Los temas ambientales han provocado una compleja relación entre la sociedad y la naturaleza. Ante esta realidad, el papel de la educación ambiental es fundamental para relacionar la sociedad, el medio ambiente, la biodiversidad y la sostenibilidad. Este trabajo tuvo como objetivo analizar la visión de la educación ambiental y el desarrollo sostenible por los estudiantes del curso de Postgrado en Educación para las Ciencias y las Matemáticas de una universidad brasileña. El estudio cualitativo se llevó a cabo en julio de 2014, mediante el análisis del contenido de los cuestionarios y entrevistas (Lüdke y André, 1986) acerca de los temas ambientales. El estudio mostró que la educación ambiental está bien trabajada en la educación básica, sin embargo, de uma manera conservada, lo que se produce debido a la falta de formación, tanto inicial como continuada. Varios participantes resaltaron que nunca habían trabajado la educación ambiental en la enseñanza primaria, simplemente porque nunca tuvieron contacto com esa matéria durante el pregrado, es decir, ausencia de formación inicial. A pesar de que la formación es una necesidad inminente, esta sigue siendo excluida por muchos obstáculos que deben ser superados, como la propia formación, la dificultad de inserción interdisciplinar  y la necesidad de políticas públicas de educación ambiental en la educación superior. Se concluyó que la educación ambiental ha ido ganando espacios en todos los niveles de educación en la búsqueda de la sostenibilidad del medio ambiente, los profesionales han tratado de mejorar su auto-aprendizaje para que puedan contribuir a este largo proceso de cambio de una vida mejor.Palabras clave: Sostenibilidad. Docencia. Formación docente. Programas de estudios y Educación Superior


Author(s):  
Eileen O'Donnell ◽  
Liam O'Donnell

Academic authors, researchers, PhD, Doctoral, and Master's students, write articles for journals, books, book chapters for inclusion in edited books, papers for conferences and conference proceedings, and so forth as a method of communicating and sharing scholarly research findings. This chapter reviews the supports necessary to learn how to effectively undertake research and successfully publish the findings. These supports could satisfactorily be provided through an e-learning portal or an e-learning platform. An e-learning module could be used to facilitate collaboration amongst staff, researchers, PhD, and post graduate students, who share similar research interests. Staff and students should be encouraged to develop a community of practice with fellow researchers as this relationship could provide beneficial peer support for as long as their research interests evolve and endure.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Salma Saraswati Dias ◽  
Yola Tiaranita ◽  
Fuad Nashori

College students are those people who educate themselves in university, that makes them have more knowledge than other students. But unfortunately, the more knowledge they have, the more they like to brag about themselves. Many people with higher education degree tend to brag about themselves to others in order to get appreciation, acknowledgement and respect. Those behaviors are against Islamic value that teaches us to be humble to others. This humility is called tawadhu’ in Islam. The purpose of this research is to find out the effect of religiousity and emotional intelligence to tawadhu’ in post-graduate students of UII. The subject of this research are 117 post-graduate students of UII. Based on double-regression in SPSS version 16, there is a correlation between religiousity and emotional intelligence to tawadhu’ with signification value of 0,000 (p<0,05) and F score of 14,294.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Makram Bou Hatoum ◽  
Reina El Mustapha ◽  
Christelle Nassar ◽  
Hayyan Zaheraldeen ◽  
Farook Hamzeh

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleg Serebryakov ◽  
Lyubov' Ushivceva

Considered questions of the course "Hydrogeology of oil and gas", which is offered to students of geological specialties. Describes the types of water in minerals and rocks, terms of origin, occurrence and movement; the formation of chemical, gas and bacterial composition of the water. The major hydrogeological provinces and characteristics of waters of separate fields. Thematic material is accompanied by test questions, practical tasks, tasks, drawings, tests and tables. Meets the requirements of Federal state educational standards of higher education of the last generation. For students, teachers, undergraduates, students majoring in 05.04.01 Geology, post-graduate students of geological, hydrogeological and other specialties, as well as for employees of fuel and energy complex and the production of hydrogeological and geological organizations.


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