scholarly journals Agricultural organizations as participants in professional and public accreditation of staff training quality in agricultural economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 00145
Author(s):  
F.T. Nezhmetdinova ◽  
G. R. Fassakhova ◽  
N. Kh. Sharypova ◽  
L. M. Faizrakhmanov
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Staff Training ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Agricultural Producers ◽  
External Assessment ◽  
Training Quality ◽  
Effective Instrument ◽  
Training Professional

Modern changes in agricultural market raise the issue of staffing quality. However, there is a real gap between the needs of specific agricultural producers and those workers who come to this sphere after graduating from agricultural universities. There is a number of ways and forms to decrease this gap. One of these tools is an independent external assessment of the quality of learning outcomes in the form of professional and public accreditation, conducted by employers. At the same time, it has not yet become an effective instrument in Russian, but there are some legislative grounds for it. The paper presents the analysis of successful international experience of professional and public assessment of agricultural educational programs, including the universities of North America. In the context of the globalization of agriculture, the implementation of new technologies and food security provision, the introduction of the best practices of public and professional accreditation into the Russian system of training professional agrarian personnel is of particular importance.

scholarly journals Utah Tuning Project

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Randall S. Davies ◽  
David Williams
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Individual Institution

<p>Tuning is a faculty-driven initiative designed to improve the quality of higher education by establishing transparent and fully assessable learning outcomes and proficiencies for degrees, discipline by discipline. Unlike many other initiatives in the United States which function within an individual institution, the Utah Tuning Project involved all institutes of higher education within the state of Utah. The purpose of this paper is to document the findings from an evaluation of a multiyear project targeting four undergraduate degree programs involved in a tuning initiative. A summary of recommendations and best practices is provided, along with the challenges and benefits to individuals and programs engaged in this process.</p>

MANAGEMENT AND FUNDING FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE IN THE CURRICULA OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-100
Author(s):  
Ibiwumi A Alade
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Sustainable Culture ◽  
Worldwide Phenomenon ◽  
Quality In Education ◽  
Culture Of Quality

The pursuit of quality in education has become a worldwide phenomenon. This stems from the astronomical demand for higher education, as well as the rising integration of relevant emerging educational reforms in the Nigerian curricula. Despite the efforts at promoting best practices in ensuring quality of achievement and learning outcomes, the management and funding of higher education have been criticised for being regressive in recent years. On this premise, this article examines management and funding for quality assurance in the curricula of higher education in Nigeria. The article appraises the concerted actions of management and quality control agencies that are involved in the transformation of the higher education landscape in Nigeria. Some reform measures, which have gained entrance into Nigerian higher education, are also enunciated with a critique of the dire financial situation of higher education in Nigeria, as evidenced by some financial reports from appropriate sources. Similarly, the issue of quality echoed frequently in Nigerian higher education is critically examined. Some of the submissions in the end include the need for the installation of a sustainable culture of quality reforms management and use of adequate financial sharing formula with a view to proving curricula output of higher education in Nigeria.

scholarly journals Efectos de la utilización de los videojuegos en un programa de mejora del equilibrio en mujeres de 60 años o más (Effects of the use of videogames in a balance improving programme for women of 60 or over)

Retos ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 93-95
Author(s):  
Carlos Salazar Martínez ◽  
Manuel Villar Ortega ◽  
Juan A. Párraga Montilla ◽  
Rafael Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Balance Training ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Calidad De Vida ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
Training Quality

Actualmente el sector de población de los adultos mayores cobra especial importancia, por lo que tenemos que trabajar para aumentar el conocimiento sobre el mantenimiento y mejora de su calidad de vida. Entre los factores que la determinan incidiremos en evitar la dependencia, que el adulto mayor se pueda valer por si mismo, siendo una de las causas fundamentales de esta falta de movilidad las caídas. Para ello proponemos un sistema de entrenamiento del equilibrio que une ejercicios de suelo con la práctica de videoconsola como forma de potenciar los efectos positivos de dicho entrenamiento. Además del acercamiento a las nuevas tecnologías de un sector de población tradicionalmente apartado de las mismas, este estudio demuestra la utilidad de las mismas para mejorar en equilibrio. Los resultados muestran que la utilización de la videoconsola mejora los resultados obtenidos en un entrenamiento de equilibrio basado en ejercicios con espalderas, sobre colchonetas y sobre plataformas inestables de goma llenas de aire.Palabra clave: equilibrio, videoconsola, adultos mayores, entrenamiento, calidad de vida.Abstract: Nowadays the population sector of senior citizens has become very important. For that reason we need to work to increase our knowledge of how to keep and improve the quality of their lives. Among the factors that influence this quality we need to avoid dependency so that these citizens can look after themselves, being falls one of the main causes of their lack of mobility. For that reason we propose a balance training programme that combines floor exercises and videogames practise as a way to foster the positive effects of that training. Apart from bringing new technologies closer to a group of people who have little to do with it, this study shows the usefulness of these new technologies to improve balance. The outcome shows that the use of a videogame console improves the results obtained in a balance training programme based on exercises on wall bars, mats and unstable rubber platforms full of air.Key words: balance, videogame console, senior citizens, training, quality of life.

scholarly journals Designing remote education in a VUCA world

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Anand Pultoo ◽  
Avinash OOJORAH
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Remote Education ◽  
School Closures ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Remote Learning

The goal of this article is to identify and share the best practices and innovations to enable teaching and learning to take place during times of VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) such as the coronavirus pandemic. This will help lay the foundations for more inclusive and equitable approaches to education when the crisis subsides. The main response to school closures is to dive headlong into academic cyberspace and remote learning, creating a human-machine symbiosis. Ideally, specific contents, learning outcomes, and a set of instructions are desirable. Different media and technologies can be used to assist students to learn in different ways and achieve different outcomes, thus also individualizing learning more. Technologies can be compared along several characteristics. These characteristics form a basis for analyzing new technologies, to see where they fit within the existing environment, and to evaluate their potential benefits and limitations. Nowadays, technologies have a tendency to become more ‘communicative’ and ‘media rich’, thus offering educators and students powerful tools to attain desired learning outcomes.

Un nuovo modello per l'agricoltura in Valle di Non, fra risparmio idrico e tutela ambientale

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Alberto Zambotti
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Agricultural Producers ◽  
Spring Frost ◽  
Quality Of Water ◽  
Adequate Quality ◽  
Local Water ◽  
The University

The southern slopes of the Alps are facing a changing climate. This is acutely perceived in areas ideally suited to highquality agriculture, such as the Val di Non, in the northern Italian Province of Trento. Here agriculture has been constantly improving in technology and management. Drip irrigation now covers 100% of fruit tree cultivation, notably apple and cherry representing 90% of the over 8,000 hectares of farmed land.Cooperative management of resources, both in irrigation and land management, underpins and strengthens the agricultural sector in the Province of Trento. The Province's primary legislative control over agriculture and environmental protection maximizes the legislator's closeness to the interests and needs of agricultural producers and economic actors. This article illustrates the norms regulating agriculture and environmental protection in the Province of Trento. Secondly, it presents the ongoing complex research aimed at striking a new balance between environmental concerns (namely, the preservation of the quality of water streams in Val di Non) and growing demand for water for local agricultural production. The needto provide adequate water supply for agriculture conflicts with the necessity to guarantee minimum flow levels in local water streams, as provided for by law (environmental flow), as well as to preserve adequate quality of flowing water. The article proposes to connect existing irrigation infrastructure – irrigation networks, reservoirs and pumping stations. Itanalyzesa range of issues – parasite management; insurance against spring frost; labor protection; processing and marketing of produce. It connects with local research centers – the University of Trento for climatological research, the Mach Foundation for agronomic research and the Kessler Foundation for the application of new technologies to data harvesting and management.

scholarly journals Survey Attention and Self-Reported Political Behavior

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Michael Alvarez ◽  
Yimeng Li
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Reliable Measurement ◽  
Response Quality ◽  
Survey Responses

Survey research methodology is evolving rapidly, as new technologies provide new opportunities. One of the areas of innovation regards the development of online interview best practices, and the advancement of methods that allow researchers to measure the attention that subjects are devoting to the survey task. Reliable measurement of subject attention can yield important information about the quality of the survey response. In this paper, we take advantage of an innovative survey we conducted in 2018, in which we directly connect survey responses to administrative data, allowing us to directly assess the association between survey attention and response quality. We show that attentive survey subjects are more likely to provide accurate survey responses regarding a number of behaviors and attributes that we can validate with our administrative data. The best strategy to deal with inattentive respondents, however, depends on the correlation between respondent attention and the outcome of interest.

scholarly journals Study of the Training Accreditation in a Moroccan Engineering School: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 225
Author(s):  
Zhor Ouzzine ◽  
Souad Ajana ◽  
Soumia Bakkali ◽  
Imane Msitef
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Mechanical Design ◽  
International Level ◽  
Accreditation System ◽  
Integrated Production ◽  
Assessment Of Learning ◽  
National School ◽  
Training Quality ◽  
Engineering Training

This work aims to improve engineering training quality in Morocco, especially the learning outcomes assessment.At first, we have to examine what should be evaluated. In this context, we reviewed the different accreditation related to the Higher National School of Electricity and Mechanics (ENSEM) between 2007 and 2018 using the SWOT decision-making method. We considered the Mechanical Design and Integrated Production (CMPI) branch as the study sample.Then, we compared the ENSEM CMPI program to a list of learning outcomes chosen after our benchmark analysis.Our objective through this study is to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the Moroccan engineering accreditation system, especially regarding the learning outcomes. This work will allow us to propose improvements in the quality of engineering training, principally in the assessment of learning outcomes, to enable the Moroccan diplomas to align with the international level and meet the great challenges facing globalization.

Vocation Education Quality from Demand Side’s Perspective: The Case of Transport Technology Universities in the North of Vietnam

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1089-1097
Author(s):  
Nguyen Quynh Hoa ◽  
◽  
Phung Chu Hoang ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Training ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Quality Outcomes ◽  
The North ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Management Capacity ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Training Quality ◽  
And Training

Quality outcomes from vocational education and training (VET) are fundamental to ensuring a skilled workforce and supporting a productive economy. The quality of vocational training from the demand’s perspective is defined as meeting the customer specification, needs or requirements. Using the method of Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Multiple Regression Analysis to get the analytical results of 275 respondents as graduates of University of Transport and Communication, University of Transport Technology (the two universities training on transportation in the North of Vietnam), the results show that factors are measured by the observed variables in the study that ensure reliability and relevance. The descriptive statistics result of vocational training quality is 3.28, while all independent variables are at average level (between 3.1 to 3.48) with the highest value related to the quality of the teacher and the lowest are facilities and training programs and management capacity of university. However, the regression results show that the qualification of the teacher, material facilities and training program, management capacity and job opportunities at the training school do not affect the quality of the training while “Learners-NH” have a great positive effect and the labor market information has a negative effect on the training quality of the school significantly. Base on those data, some policy recommendations have been given out in order to improve the training quality of transport technology universities in the north of Vietnam in particular and the vocational training quality of Vietnam in general.

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