How Educational Practices Affect the Development of Life-long Learning Orientations in Traditionally-aged Undergraduate Students

2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Mayhew ◽  
Gregory C. Wolniak ◽  
Ernest T. Pascarella
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Learning Orientations

A checklist to help students analyze published articles in basic medical sciences.

1995 ◽  
Vol 268 (6) ◽  
pp. S21 ◽  
Author(s):  
P K Rangachari ◽  
S Mierson
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Reading Textbooks ◽  
Scientific Life ◽  
Basic Medical

Because critical analysis of published information is an essential component of scientific life, it is important that students be trained in its practice. Undergraduate students who are more accustomed to reading textbooks and taking lecture notes find it difficult to appreciate primary publications. To help such students, we have developed a checklist that helps them analyze different components of a research article in basic biomedical sciences. Students used the checklist to analyze critically a published article. The students were assigned an article and asked to write a paper (maximum 2 pages of single-spaced type) assessing it. This assignment has been found useful to both undergraduate and graduate students in pharmacology and physiology. Student responses to a questionnaire were highly favorable; students thought the exercise provided them with some of the essential skills for life-long learning.

scholarly journals Internet Connectivity and Accessibility in University Libraries: A Study of Access, Use and Problems among Faculty of Natural Sciences Students, University of Jos, Nigeria

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Abubakar ◽  
Rhoda Diyoshak
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Internet Connectivity ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The University

Abstract Objective – This study has the objective of establishing whether the undergraduate students of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Jos, have access to and use Internet facilities in the University library. Methods – A survey research design was adopted for this study and questionnaires were used in gathering data. Statistical methods used in the analysis include percentages, frequencies, and Chi-Square test for measuring the association of library visit and use of the Internet. Results – The analysis of the data and findings indicated that there is Internet connectivity in the library. The findings also revealed that few students (15.5%) use the computer and the Internet on a daily basis. The problems of slow Internet connection at peak periods and unsteady power supply were clearly identified. Furthermore, the analysis revealed that there is no association between the students’ library visits and their use of the Internet for most academic purposes, except for downloading articles. Conclusion – The presence of Internet connectivity in the library, does not translate to meaningful academic behaviour among the students. Therefore, sensitising and training of the students on Internet usage were recommended for better academic performance and life-long learning.

Developing Key Competences for Life-Long Learning through Virtual Collaboration

2016 ◽  
pp. 170-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Vinagre
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Virtual Collaboration ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Key Competences ◽  
The Impact

This study presents the findings from a group of forty-nine fourth year undergraduate students who were trained in a blended learning environment over two months in order to acquire base knowledge and hands-on experience about information and communication technologies (ICT) and their possible applications to the EFL classroom. The course was taught in English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) and participants worked in a wiki designed specially to facilitate discussion and collaboration in the foreign language. Data were gathered from the participants' answers to an end-of-course questionnaire that featured eight five-point Likert-scale questions and five open-ended questions; quantitative and qualitative analyses were then performed upon the answers. Our findings and discussions elaborate on the impact the course had on the participants' perceptions regarding the acquisition of key competences for life-long learning.

scholarly journals The Role of Quality in Higher Education and Lifelong Learning in Entrepreneurship Competencies of Undergraduate Students

Pedagogika ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 135 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-256
Author(s):  
Ali Asgari ◽  
Hossein Shokouhi Fard ◽  
Fatemeh Tirgoo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Quality ◽  
Statistical Population ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Correlational Research ◽  
Learning Competencies ◽  
Quality In Higher Education

The main objective of this research is to investigate the role of quality in higher education and lifelong learning competencies in entrepreneurship competencies of undergraduate students. The statistical population of this study was all undergraduate students. The descriptive correlational research method was used. For collecting data these questionnaires were used: the Liberal Entrepreneurship Competency Questionnaire (2007), Mantz Academic Quality in Higher Education (1995) and the Life-Long Learning of Wielkiewicz and Meuwissen (2014). The results showed that the entrepreneurial and lifelong learning competencies are at a good level. There is also a positive and significant relationship between lifelong learning and entrepreneurship competencies.

scholarly journals OS CLUBES DE CIÊNCIAS COMO CONTEXTOS DE FORMAÇÃO INICIAL DOCENTE: CONTRIBUIÇÕES A PARTIR DA PRODUÇÃO CIENTÍFICA DE UM COLETIVO PIBID

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 397-416
Author(s):  
Daniela Tomio ◽  
Edson Schroeder ◽  
Cintia Conzatti ◽  
Bruna Hamann ◽  
Natalia Bagatolli Pedron
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Teaching Knowledge ◽  
Teaching Community ◽  
Scholarship Program ◽  
Science Clubs

This research is developed in order to articulate understandings about the initial formation of teachers in contexts of Non-FormalEducation, the Science Clubs. Between the years 2014 to 2017, a group of scholarship holders from the Institutional Scholarship Program for Teaching Initiation, shared teaching experiences in Science Clubs and in their recorded path about their educational practices, disseminating them in publications. Therefore, we aim to elucidate, based on an analysis of the scientific production developed by this group about educational practices in Science Clubs, contributions to the training of teachers. For this, we carried out a bibliographic research, with a study of the scientific production of this collective and the interpretation of the data, considering a priori categories elaborated from the "five focuses of teacher learning" and "five positions for teacher training". 65 works were inventoried and worked, disseminated at local, national and one international events. Its analysis in the budgets interpret that the PIBID movement, in university-school relations, strengthened Science Clubs to become spaces with formative power, enabling undergraduate students experiences that mobilized the preparation of practical teaching knowledge (pedagogical composition) and its reflection (investigative recompositing); the interest in teaching (personal disposition), the cultivation of belonging to the teaching community and the development of the teaching identity (professional interposition) in articulations of Non Formal Education and the school.

scholarly journals Communicating and Sharing in the Semantic Web: An Examination of Social Media Risks, Consequences, and Attitudinal Awareness

10.28945/2150 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole A. Buzzetto-More ◽  
Robert Johnson ◽  
Muna Elobaid
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Results

Empowered by, and tethered to, ubiquitous technologies, the current generation of youth yearns for opportunities to engage in self-expression and information sharing online with personal disclosure no longer governed by concepts of propriety and privacy. This raises issues about the unsafe activities of teens and young adults. The following paper presents the findings of a study examining the social networking activities of undergraduate students and also highlights a program to increase awareness of the dangers of, and safe practices using, social media. According to the survey results, young adults practice risky social networking site (SNS) behaviors with most having experienced at least one negative consequence. Further, females were more likely than males to engage in oversharing as well as to have experienced negative consequences. Finally, results of a post-treatment survey found that a targeted program that includes flyers, posters, YouTube videos, handouts, and in-class information sessions conducted at a Mid-Atlantic HBCU increased student awareness of the dangers of social media as well as positively influenced students to practice more prudent online behaviors. A revised version of this paper was published in Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Life Long Learning Volume 11, 2015 as "Communicating and Sharing in the Semantic Web: An Examination of Social Media Risks, Consequences, and Attitudinal Awareness"

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