scholarly journals 321 Socio-demographic factors associated with attitudes towards animals among first-year veterinary students

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Jesse Robbins ◽  
Rebecca Parsons ◽  
Anna Johnson ◽  
Matthew Jorgensen ◽  
Jared Danielson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Animal Mind ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Baseline Information ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors

Abstract Veterinarians are seen as experts in matters relating to animal welfare and ethics. However, relatively little is known about veterinary students’ attitudes and beliefs towards animals. To begin to address this gap, we surveyed the freshman class of veterinary students at a major U.S. veterinary college (n = 125) to examine their views on the ethics of various forms of animal use, their beliefs about the extent to which different species are capable of experiencing emotions (AKA ‘belief in animal mind’) and their beliefs about the degree to which humans and non-human animals are similar. The 20-item attitudes towards animal scale showed high internal consistency (a = 0.91, CI95 [95% Confidence Interval] 0.89, 0.93). Preliminary multiple regression analyses indicated female (vs male) students held more positive attitudes toward animals (b = 0.35, P = .005). Growing up in a household where animals were raised for food was associated with less positive attitudes (b = -0.30, P = .006). More liberal political ideology was associated with more positive attitudes towards animals (b = 0.17, P = < .0001). Female students also believed animals were capable of experiencing a greater diversity of emotions (b = 126.96, P = 0001). Neither socioeconomic status (P = 0.65) nor having a pet as a child (P = 0.12) were associated with attitudes towards animals or belief in animal mind. However, childhood pet ownership was associated with greater perceived similarity between human and non-human animals (b = 1.38, P = 0.01). Subsequent analyses will assess whether taking a required, introductory course in animal welfare has any effect on these measures. Eventually these data could provide baseline information for longitudinal analyses exploring how student attitudes and beliefs about animals are affected as they progress through the veterinary curriculum.

Attitudes towards animals and belief in animal mind among first-year veterinary students before and after an introductory animal welfare course

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-418
Author(s):  
JA Robbins ◽  
JA Danielson ◽  
AK Johnson ◽  
RL Parsons ◽  
MW Jorgensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
First Year ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Sociodemographic Variables ◽  
Animal Mind ◽  
Food Animal ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Students Attitudes

Veterinarians are increasingly looked to for guidance on matters relating to animal welfare, yet little is known about US veterinary students' attitudes and beliefs about animals. In 2019, we surveyed all first-year veterinary students at a major US veterinary college (n = 123) before and after taking a required one-credit introductory animal welfare course. Attitudes were measured using the Pests, Pets and Profit (PPP) scale and belief in animal mind (BAM) was measured using an ad hoc measure adapted from previous work. Pre- and post-course comparisons indicated the introductory animal welfare course had no immediate effect on veterinary students' attitudes or BAM. Veterinary students' attitudes were most positive for animals considered pets, followed by pests and those used for profit. Students believed most species possess a wide variety of mental capacities, including many secondary emotions often considered uniquely human (eg guilt, embarrassment, jealousy). Sociodemographic variables consistently associated with more positive attitudes towards animals were: female gender, vegetarianism and liberal political ideology. Preferring a career involving large or food animal practice was consistently associated with less positive attitudes towards animals. Belief in animal mind explained 3% of the variation in attitude scores, whereas sociodemographic variables explained 49% of variation in attitude scores. Female gender, vegetarianism and preferring small (vs large or food animal practice) were all associated with greater BAM scores. Understanding veterinary student attitudes towards animals and beliefs about the mental capacities of animals is important when evaluating a veterinarian's ability to adhere to their oath.

scholarly journals GRADUATE STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS MOBILE LEARNING AT KING KHALID UNIVERSITY (SAUDI ARABIA)

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Education Data ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes And Perceptions ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Students Attitudes

Mobile Learning (mLearning) has become an influential educational technology in higher education. With the internet and other technological developments, mLearning makes it possible for students to learn, collaborate, and share ideas with each other. However, mLearning student acceptance is critical to its effectiveness. Attitudes toward learning is a vital factor in deciding whether or not students are ready to use mLearning for academic purpose. Student attitudes may identify strengths and weaknesses of mLearning and facilitate development of the technology. This qualitative study aims to investigate graduate students’ attitudes and perceptions toward using mLearning in education. Data were collected by conducting interviews with fourteen graduate students enrolled in masters and doctoral programs in the College of Education at King Khalid University (KKU), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Generally, graduate students in education disciplines had positive attitudes toward mLearning and expressed a desire to use it in their future educational settings. Students perceived mLearning to be valuable for academic purposes, noting the convenience of being able to access course materials, the ease of communicating with other students and professors at their own pace, and the flexibility mobile devices offer over desktop or laptop computers. However, students identified a few usability issues like small screen size and keyboards, and additional cost of mobile devices and the corresponding cost of Internet access as constraints for using mobile devices for learning.

scholarly journals Familiarity and Interest in Working with Livestock Decreases the Odds of Having Positive Attitudes towards Non-Human Animals and Their Welfare among Veterinary Students in Italy

Animals ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Mariti ◽  
Federica Pirrone ◽  
Mariangela Albertini ◽  
Angelo Gazzano ◽  
Silvana Diverio
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Companion Animals ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Normal Behaviour ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Species Type ◽  
Potential Impact

We investigated the attitudes of veterinary students towards animals and their welfare in Italy. Regression analyses revealed predictors that are significant in differentiating students’ scoring tendency based on their gender, familiarity, and intention to work with a specific animal species, type of diet, and membership in an animal rights association. Female students, who were mostly familiar with pets and aspired to work with species other than livestock, following an animal-free diet and being a member of an animal rights association, had a significantly greater odds of having a high Animal Attitude Scale score (AAS), i.e., very positive attitude towards animals, versus a less positive attitude. Conversely, the familiarity with livestock and preference for working with livestock significantly increased the odds of a low AAS. Overall, students considered all of the Brambell Report’s Five Freedoms important for animal welfare protection. However, students scored higher for companion animals than for livestock, particularly regarding the freedom to express normal behaviour and the absence of fear and distress. This study suggests that veterinary students place less importance on the psychological aspects of welfare for livestock, and there is a tendency for students who are mostly familiar, or aspire to work, with livestock to have a less positive attitude towards non-human animals and their welfare. These findings should be considered within the veterinary educational curriculum due to their potential impact on animal welfare.

Attitudes of Turkish veterinary students towards farm animal welfare

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-330
Author(s):  
E Çavuşoglu ◽  
E Uzabaci
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Farm Animal Welfare ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
Medicine Education

People's awareness of livestock welfare has increased in recent years and veterinarians have a critical role to play in maintaining and improving these standards. The aim of this study was to explore the attitude of veterinary students to livestock welfare and an online questionnaire was utilised to gauge the opinions of students from the Bursa Uludag University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Turkey. A five-point Likert scale covered judgments ranging from 'Strongly disagree' to 'Strongly agree.' Female students were found to have a higher score for questions related to the welfare of livestock than males. It was also found that students yet to undertake courses in clinical science and animal welfare, ie first and second years, gave higher scores than third, fourth and fifth years who had completed both of these. Moreover, students having owned or dealt previously with livestock provided lower animal welfare scores than their counterparts who had done neither. Seemingly, the sensitivity of veterinary students decreases during the latter stages of their education. To conclude, we suggest further investigation into the extent to which veterinary medicine education influences students' attitudes to animal welfare as they progress through the course.

scholarly journals Students' Attitudes and Beliefs Regarding the Use of E-Portfolio as an Alternative Form of Assessment: Results from a Pilot Survey in Greek Primary Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Vasiliki Zafiropoulou ◽  
Maria Darra
Keyword(s):  
First Trimester ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
School Year ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Assessment Skills ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Experimental Group

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the contribution of the eportfolio to the development of positive attitudes and beliefs of students towards school and learning, as well as to the acquisition of self-assessment skills by students. The method used is the experiment using an experimental and a control group and two pre and post measurements. The survey was carried out during the first trimester of the school year 2016-2017 and a sample of 40 pupils of the second grade of the elementary school in the city of Rhodes. The findings of the survey show that students of both groups after the end of the intervention have a more positive attitude towards school and learning, but the experimental group that utilized the eportfolio has even higher rates of positive responses. In addition, in relation to the contribution of the eportfolio to the development of self-assessment skills by students, the students of the e-portfolio experimental group evaluated their performance higher than their teacher's assessment.

scholarly journals 317 Survey of veterinary student attitudes toward animal welfare and pain

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. 7-7
Author(s):  
Miriam S Martin ◽  
Angela Baysinger ◽  
Abbie Viscardi ◽  
Michael Kleinhenz ◽  
Lily Edwards-Callaway ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Pain Scores ◽  
Veterinary Student ◽  
Ethics Course ◽  
Veterinary School ◽  
Veterinary Curriculum

Abstract Discrepancies in the background and training of veterinarians regarding the painfulness of procedures across species may impact their decision to use analgesia. The objective of this study was to investigate veterinary student attitudes toward pain and animal welfare. An electronic survey instrument was developed to assess demographic information, perceptions of animal welfare, concern with specific animal welfare issues, and estimation of pain scores on a scale of 1–10 for certain procedures and conditions. A subset of 131 responses from veterinary students were analyzed from an ongoing study involving 14 colleges of veterinary medicine in the United States and Canada. Results suggest that females believed more strongly that an animal welfare and ethics course should be part of the veterinary curriculum than males (P = 0.03). Respondent preparedness to discuss certain welfare topics differed based on background (farm/ranch, rural or urban community) (P ≤ 0.03) and year of veterinary school (P ≤ 0.02). Respondent willingness to administer pain management also differed by background (P = 0.04). Whether respondents had observed a veterinarian in practice properly administer pain medication to a food animal also differed by area of interest, background, and year in veterinary school (P ≤ 0.03). Assigned pain scores for bovine dystocia, bovine acute metritis, canine tail docking and porcine castration also differed by background (P ≤ 0.03). These data show that gender, background and the year of veterinary school should be considered when developing and standardizing the delivery of animal welfare topics across the veterinary curriculum.

scholarly journals REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: ATTITUDE TOWARDS PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-166
Author(s):  
Maison ◽  
Aprizal Lukman ◽  
Nurdatul Jannah ◽  
Dodi Setiawan Putra ◽  
Tari Okta Puspitasari
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Educational Psychology ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Biology Teachers ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes Towards Science ◽  
Students Attitudes

Purpose of the study: The attitudes of students when learning are behaviors that can be learned from psychology. This study aims to determine the comparison of students' attitudes towards physics and biology in Adhyaksa 1 Senior High School in Jambi City and the State Senior High School 8 in Batanghari Regency, Indonesia. Methodology: The sample used was 282 students consisting of 140 students at Senior High School Adhyaksa 1 Jambi, and 142 students at Senior High School 8 Batanghari, and this type of research was a comparative quantitative study with a survey design. The instrument used was a questionnaire, and the data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Main Findings: The results obtained indicate that there are differences in the attitudes of students at senior high school Adhyaksa 1 Jambi with Senior high school 8 Batanghari with a ratio of 0.046 attitudes toward physics and 0.032 attitudes toward biology. Shows that students' attitudes toward physics and biology have some comparisons in the Batanghari region and the Kota Jambi. Applications of this study: These findings can contribute to the realm of psychology to enhance students' positive attitudes towards physics and biology subjects in secondary education institutions, especially in the Indonesian region. Negative attitudes towards science, especially towards physics and biology such as those found in senior high schools in the Batanghari Regency and Jambi City, need to be pursued to become positive attitudes. Novelty/Originality of this study: The novelty of this research is to explore the quality psychology knowledge of students for Physics and biology teachers, especially in education. Besides, to find out how students' attitudes towards science, especially physics and biology. In this case, the student attitudes towards physics and biology in the Batanghari Region and Jambi City.

scholarly journals Attitudes towards the Use of ICT in Costa Rican University Students: The Influence of Sex, Academic Performance, and Training in Technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 282
Author(s):  
José-Antonio García-Martínez ◽  
Eduardo-José Fuentes-Abeledo ◽  
Eduardo-Rafael Rodríguez-Machado
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
University Students ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Affective Component ◽  
Probabilistic Sampling ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Students Attitudes

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are being used more and more as part of teaching processes in both formal and informal settings. In this regard, it is important to understand university students’ attitudes towards using ICT as they will shortly form part of the productive sector of society. The aim of this study was to analyze student attitudes during their final years pursuing various degrees at a university in Costa Rica. We used a non-experimental transactional design and probabilistic sampling that involved 1187 students. We used a questionnaire containing a Likert-type scales to measure attitudes, which was structured according to affective, cognitive, and behavioral components. The results showed positive attitudes in general, with higher scores in the cognitive and behavioral components, and moderate scores in the affective component. In addition, we found differences in attitudes according to sex, prior training in technology, and academic performance.

scholarly journals The Effect of Multipass Strategy and Students’ Attitude Toward Their Reading Comprehension at the Tenth Graders of SMAN 2 Lubuk Alung

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Desrimayuti Desrimayuti
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Reading Scores ◽  
Experiment Research ◽  
Reading Tests ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Tenth Graders ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Academic Year

This study aims to determine the effect of multipass strategies and student attitudes on students' reading comprehension in historical recount texts. The design of this research is Quasi Experiment Research with a 2x2 factorial design. The population of this research is the students of class X SMAN 2 Lubuk Alung Academic Year 2018/2019. Reading tests and student attitude questionnaires were used as research instruments. Then, the research data were analyzed using the T-test formula and Two-Way ANOVA. The results of this study indicate that (1) students taught with multipass strategies have better reading scores than students taught with ordinary strategies, (2) students taught with multipass strategies with positive attitudes have better reading values than students taught with ordinary strategies, (3) students taught with multipass strategies with negative attitudes have better reading scores than students taught with common strategies, and (4) there is no interaction between the two teaching strategies (multipass strategies and ordinary strategies) and students 'attitudes towards students' reading comprehension.

scholarly journals Ranking of Production Animal Welfare and Ethics Issues in Australia and New Zealand by Veterinary Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelia Cornish ◽  
Andrew Fisher ◽  
Teresa Collins ◽  
Chris Degeling ◽  
Rafael Freire ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Veterinary Education ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Production Animals ◽  
Live Export

The importance of animal welfare and ethics (AWE) within the veterinary education should reflect community concerns and expectations about AWE, and the professional demands of veterinary accreditation on the first day of practice (or ‘Day One’ competences). Currently, much interest and debate surrounds the treatment of production animals, particularly around live export. To explore the attitudes to AWE of veterinary students in Australia and New Zealand, a survey was undertaken to (i) understand what students consider important AWE topics for initial production animal competence; and (ii) ascertain how these priorities correlated with gender, area of intended practice and stage-of-study. The results from 575 veterinary students showed that all students ranked strategies to address painful husbandry procedures as the most important issues on their first day in production animal practice. Additionally, it was found that the importance students assigned to an understanding of human–animal interactions declined as they progressed through the veterinary course. In contrast, the importance of an understanding of euthanasia issues for production animals increased for male students as they progressed through the course, and remained consistently high in females. Females also gave higher ranking to the importance of understanding production animal stress associated with transport, and ranked strategies to address painful husbandry procedures more important than did males. These findings should help the development of AWE teaching resources that address students’ attitudes and competence and that can be delivered when students are most receptive.

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