Shall We Continue Keeping High School Courses in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum?

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Sönmez
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
School Education ◽  
High School Education ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
And Mathematics

Since the entrance of the graduates of technical high schools to engineering programs is hindered, in application, the graduates of general or science high schools only are accepted to engineering education. For these students, four years are not sufficient to teach the basic and the related application courses of the profession. Looking at the existing curriculum of mechanical engineering, it can be seen that in the 1st Year, the physics and chemistry courses repeat the content of the ones given in high school education. The current approach considers the students as they come to university with inadequate and incomplete knowledge and therefore not ready to follow the engineering science courses. This approach underestimates and denies the high school education contrary to the main objective of its curriculum. The main objective of high schools (secondary schools) is expressed in the Laws and Regulations with such a statement: “General high schools do not prepare students for a specific profession but rather for higher education”. Today, the existing curriculum of Mechanical Engineering is to be renewed by some new science and application courses to satisfy the demands of labor market. However, the total course credit limit prevents such a renewal. In the face of this dilemma, the answer to this question becomes important: Should the university really repeat high school physics and chemistry? In science high schools and in science branch of general high schools the science and mathematics courses have the major importance. The students are well educated on physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics. They are provided with the necessary science and mathematics background that is required in engineering education. Although only the well-educated graduates of science and general high schools are admitted to engineering programs and the students are already ready to follow the engineering science courses thanks to their high school background, unfortunately in some universities (in Turkey in all) science courses part of engineering curricula is filled by physics and chemistry courses with the same content of the ones taught in high school.

scholarly journals Developing balanced scorecard model for vocational high school education

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Apri Winge Adindo
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Internal Model ◽  
School Education ◽  
High School Education ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
Validation Experiment ◽  
Vocational High Schools

The objective of the study was to find an appropriate Balanced Scorecard model to be implemented in the vocational education management and to test the effectiveness of balanced scorecard internal model for the vocational high school education. The method that the researchers implemented in the study was the research and development designed by Borg & Gall. The data in the study were gathered by means of in-depth interview, observation and documentary analysis in the five prominent vocational high schools from the Province of Southeast Sulawesi. The informants in the study were selected by means of snowball sampling. The data validity was tested by the triangulation technique. The First Stage and the Second Stage of model validation/ experiment was implemented by means of Delphi technique and the validation/experiment of both stages involved 50 leaders from the state and the private vocational high schools in the Province of Southeast Sulawesi. The study showed that the appropriate Balanced Scorecard model for the vocational high school educational management has been a system that might be implemented for identifying and for measuring the main performance of vocational high schools through four perspectives namely the financial perspective, the customer perspective, the internal process perspective and the learning and growth perspective. Balanced Scorecard model for the vocational high school education has met the criteria of quite high internal effectiveness model and has belonged to the good criteria. As a result, the Balanced Scorecard model might be implemented as the model of vocational high school managerial implementation.Keyword: balanced scorecard, vocational high school and vocational high school performance PENGEMBANGAN MODEL BALANCED SCORECARD UNTUK PENDIDIKAN SMKAbstrakTujuan penelitian ini adalah mengembangkan model Balanced Scorecard yang cocok untuk diterapkan dalam pengelolaan pendidikan kejuruan dan menguji keefektifan internal model Balanced Scorecard untuk pendidikan SMK. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah penelitian dan pengembangan (R&D) rancangan Borg & Gall. Data penelitian dikumpulkan melalui wawancara mendalam, observasi, dan analisis dokumen pada lima SMK Unggul di Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara. Informan penelitian ditetapkan dengan snowball sampling. Keabsahan data diuji dengan teknik trianggulasi. Uji coba/validasi model Tahap 1 dan Tahap 2 menggunakan teknik Delphi dengan subjek penelitian sebanyak 50 orang pimpinan SMK dari 15 SMK Negeri dan SMK Swasta di Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara. Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa model Balanced Scorecard yang cocok untuk mengelola manajemen SMK adalah suatu sistem yang digunakan untuk mengenali dan mengukur kinerja utama SMK melalui empat perspektif Balanced Scorecard meliputi perspektif keuangan, pelanggan, proses internal, pembelajaran dan pertumbuhan. Model Balanced Scorecard yang dikembangkan untuk pendidikan SMK yang diajukan telah memenuhi kriteria keefektifan internal model yang tinggi dan termasuk kategori sangat baik, sehingga layak digunakan sebagai model pelaksanaan manajemen SMK.Kata kunci: balanced scorecard, SMK, dan kinerja SMK

scholarly journals Assessing The Contribution of The People’s Education Program (Prodira) Policy Toward Senior High School Education Performance in Gorontalo Province

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Arwildayanto Arwildayanto Arwildayanto
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Good Condition ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Education ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
High School Education ◽  
Education Performance

The purpose of the study is to assess the effectiveness of people’s education program (PRODIRA).The study used a mixed research methods approach with concurrently embedded, combinationmodel of the qualitative and quantitative methods. The data were collected using interview,documentation and observation techniques from respondents who included headmasters, teachers,exchequers, students’ parents and school committee members in senior high schools, vocationaland Islamic senior high schools (SMA/SMK/MA) in Gorontalo Province. The results indicated thatthe implementation of PRODIRA program by the Provincial Government of Gorontalo has beeneffective in enhancing quality of performance of Senior High School Education (SLTA ) in GorontaloProvince as reflected in the increase of knowledge index, increased availability of SMA/SMK/MAinstitutions, percentage of schools that are categorized as being in good condition and a declinein school dropout rates.

scholarly journals Do social inequalities in smoking differ by immigration status in young adults?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
J Kalubi ◽  
Z Tchouaga ◽  
A Ghenadenik ◽  
J O'Loughlin ◽  
K L Frohlich
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Preventive Intervention ◽  
School Education ◽  
High School Education ◽  
Social Gradient ◽  
Current Smoking ◽  
The Difference

Abstract Background Tobacco use accounts for half the difference in life expectancy across groups of low and high socioeconomic status. The objective was to assess whether social inequalities in smoking in Canada-born young adults are also apparent among same-age immigrants, a group often viewed as disadvantaged and vulnerable to multiple health issues. Methods Data were drawn from the Interdisciplinary Study of Inequalities in Smoking, a longitudinal investigation of social inequalities in smoking in Montreal, Canada. The sample included 2,077 young adults age 18-25 (56.6% female; 18.9% immigrants). Immigrants had been in Canada 11.6 (SD 6.4) years on average. The association between level of education and current smoking was examined separately in immigrants and non-immigrants in multivariate logistic regression analyses controlling for covariates. Results Twenty percent of immigrants were current smokers compared to 24% of non-immigrants. In immigrants, relative to those who were university-educated, the adjusted odds ratio (OR) (95% confidence interval) for current smoking was 1.2 (0.6, 2.3) among those with pre-university or vocational training, and 1.5 (0.7, 2.9) among those with high school education only. In non-immigrants, the adjusted ORs were 1.9 (1.4, 2.5) among those with pre-university or vocational training and 4.0 (2.9, 5.5) among those with high school education. Conclusions Despite a mean of over 10 years in Canada, young adults who immigrated to Canada did not manifest the strong social gradient in smoking apparent in non-immigrants. Identification of factors that protect immigrants from manifesting marked social inequalities in smoking could inform the development of smoking preventive intervention sensitive to social inequalities in smoking. Key messages A social gradient in smoking apparent in Canada-born young adults was not observed in same-age immigrants. Factors that protect immigrants against social inequalities in smoking should be identified.

scholarly journals Impact of Race and Socioeconomics Disparities on Survival in Young-Onset Colorectal Adenocarcinoma—A SEER Registry Analysis

Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 3262
Author(s):  
Mark M. Aloysius ◽  
Hemant Goyal ◽  
Niraj J. Shah ◽  
Kumar Pallav ◽  
Nimy John ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Colorectal Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Private Insurance ◽  
School Education ◽  
Cox Proportional Hazards Model ◽  
High School Education ◽  
Cancer Specific Survival ◽  
Young Onset ◽  
The Impact

Introduction: We aimed to assess the impact of socio-economic determinants of health (SEDH) on survival disparities within and between the ethnic groups of young-onset (<50 years age) colorectal adenocarcinoma patients. Patients and Methods: Surveillance, epidemiology, and end results (SEER) registry was used to identify colorectal adenocarcinoma patients aged between 25–49 years from 2012 and 2016. Survival analysis was performed using the Kaplan–Meir method. Cox proportional hazards model was used to determine the hazard effect of SEDH. American community survey (ACS) data 2012–2016 were used to analyze the impact of high school education, immigration status, poverty, household income, employment, marital status, and insurance type. Results: A total of 17,145 young-onset colorectal adenocarcinoma patients were studied. Hispanic (H) = 2874, Non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaskan Native (NHAIAN) = 164, Non-Hispanic Asian Pacific Islander (NHAPI) = 1676, Non-Hispanic black (NHB) = 2305, Non-Hispanic white (NHW) = 10,126. Overall cancer-specific survival was, at 5 years, 69 m. NHB (65.58 m) and NHAIAN (65.67 m) experienced worse survival compared with NHW (70.11 m), NHAPI (68.7), and H (68.31). High school education conferred improved cancer-specific survival significantly with NHAPI, NHB, and NHW but not with H and NHAIAN. Poverty lowered and high school education improved cancer-specific survival (CSS) in NHB, NHW, and NHAPI. Unemployment was associated with lowered CSS in H and NAPI. Lower income below the median negatively impacted survival among H, NHAPI NHB, and NHW. Recent immigration within the last 12 months lowered CSS survival in NHW. Commercial health insurance compared with government insurance conferred improved CSS in all groups. Conclusions: Survival disparities were found among all races with young-onset colorectal adenocarcinoma. The pattern of SEDH influencing survival was unique to each race. Overall higher income levels, high school education, private insurance, and marital status appeared to be independent factors conferring favorable survival found on multivariate analysis.

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