scholarly journals Active entrepreneurship education and the impact on approaches to learning: Mixed methods evidence from a six-year study into one entrepreneurship educator’s classroom

2020 ◽  
pp. 095042222097531
Author(s):  
Vic Curtis ◽  
Rob Moon ◽  
Andy Penaluna
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Student Approaches To Learning ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Surface Learning ◽  
The Impact

Taking an active and experiential approach to teaching is often assumed to be the best way to promote learning. However, the empirical evidence to support this assertion in entrepreneurship education is inconclusive, and current practice suggests that delivery in higher education is still quite passive and traditional. This 6-year, mixed method study sets out to demonstrate that, in a final-year International Entrepreneurship module at a UK university mapped through the lens of ‘about’, ‘for’ and ‘through’ entrepreneurship, a more innovative, active, experiential and constructively aligned approach to teaching, learning and assessment impacts positively on students’ deep and surface approaches to learning. Students viewed the module as significantly more active than passive and the level of deep learning was significantly greater than the level of surface learning. Additionally, the more active approach was significantly correlated to increased deep learning and reduced surface learning. Students highlighted the active teaching approach and the creation of videos for a local company as part of the authentic assessment as catalysts for deeper learning approaches. The study provides empirical evidence that active entrepreneurship education has a positive impact on student approaches to learning.

scholarly journals Preferences for deep-surface learning: A vocational education case study using a multimedia assessment activity

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Hamm ◽  
Ian Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Learning Preferences ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Assessment Activity ◽  
Surface Learning ◽  
Deep And Surface Learning

<span>This research tests the proposition that the integration of a multimedia assessment activity into a Diploma of Events Management program promotes a deep learning approach. Firstly, learners' preferences for deep or surface learning were evaluated using the revised two-factor Study Process Questionnaire. Secondly, after completion of an assessment exercise comprising a multimedia presentation with digital images and oral commentary, the respondents' self-described approaches to learning were collected using semi-structured interviews. Using these two data sets, learners preferred and implemented learning approaches were compared. Results show that whilst the multimedia assessment exercise did not prohibit the adoption of a deep learning approach, it tended to enable the adoption of both deep and surface learning approaches. In addition to informing our understanding of the relationship between deep and surface learning preferences and the implementation of a multimedia assessment item, the data gathered also provide some clues related to the sorts of factors that the respondents considered and how they responded to these factors in their undertaking of the assessment exercise.</span>

scholarly journals A Review of Computer-Aided Expert Systems for Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 2764
Author(s):  
Xin Yu Liew ◽  
Nazia Hameed ◽  
Jeremie Clos
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Main Process ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Conventional Methods ◽  
The Impact

A computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) expert system is a powerful tool to efficiently assist a pathologist in achieving an early diagnosis of breast cancer. This process identifies the presence of cancer in breast tissue samples and the distinct type of cancer stages. In a standard CAD system, the main process involves image pre-processing, segmentation, feature extraction, feature selection, classification, and performance evaluation. In this review paper, we reviewed the existing state-of-the-art machine learning approaches applied at each stage involving conventional methods and deep learning methods, the comparisons within methods, and we provide technical details with advantages and disadvantages. The aims are to investigate the impact of CAD systems using histopathology images, investigate deep learning methods that outperform conventional methods, and provide a summary for future researchers to analyse and improve the existing techniques used. Lastly, we will discuss the research gaps of existing machine learning approaches for implementation and propose future direction guidelines for upcoming researchers.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE METHODS IN IMPACT STUDIES

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (02) ◽  
pp. 123-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL LORZ ◽  
SUSAN MUELLER ◽  
THIERRY VOLERY
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Impact Studies ◽  
Entrepreneurial Attitudes ◽  
The Impact

The majority of studies that analyze the impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial attitudes, intentions, and venture activities report positive influences. However, several scholars have recently cast doubts about research methods and the generalizability of entrepreneurship education impact studies. In this study, we conducted a systematic literature review of the methods used in entrepreneurship education impact studies. Our results uncover significant methodological deficiencies and question the overwhelmingly positive impact of entrepreneurship education. Based on this evidence, we propose a series of recommendations to improve the reliability and validity of entrepreneurship education impact studies and we outline promising topics which are currently under-researched.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurship Education in Nigeria Tertiary Institutions and its Impact on Students’ Entrepreneurial Career Intentions. A Study of Students at Federal Polytechnic Ekowe

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurotimi Maurice Fems
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Career Intention ◽  
Laboratory Technology ◽  
The Impact

 Purpose: Entrepreneurship education as an influencer of graduate entrepreneurial intention is gaining massive attention amongst practitioners, policy makers and academics across the globe. The proliferation of entrepreneurship courses in universities around the world is evident of this wide acceptance of entrepreneurship education as a strategy for graduate entrepreneurship. The purpose of this research paper is to ascertain the impact entrepreneurship education has on students’ entrepreneurial career intentions.Methodology: The article includes a review of literature in entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention to gain background knowledge. This research is a qualitative, interpretive phenomenological study and relies on narrative as a means of knowing, and as a form of communication. The scope of the study is year one students at the Federal Polytechnic of Oil & Gas Ekowe in the departments of Computer Science, Science Laboratory Technology and Statistics. The questionnaire was designed in a semi-structured way and distributed to students to return after 7 days to allow for proper articulation of narratives.Findings: A total of 42 students participated in the interview and 42 returned. 28.57% representing 12 students showed intention to start a business, 40.48% (17 students) desire to get a job after graduation while 13 students (30.95%) are unsure what they want to do after graduation. The results indicate that entrepreneurship education has a positive impact on students’ entrepreneurial career intention but other than EE, it was also revealed from participants’ narratives that age, prior experience and parents’ status have positive influence on graduate entrepreneurial decisions.Implication of Findings: Findings will aid curriculum designers and educational policy makers to scrutinize and re-examine EE programmes and how they are taught to enhance practice.Originality: Narratives and storytelling methods are not the common methods adopted in entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention research. More research should be carried out using this method to validate results from this approach.

Student Learning in an Online Environment

2011 ◽  
pp. 224-234
Author(s):  
Rodney Arambewela
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
Technology In Teaching ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Orientations ◽  
Surface Learning

The increasing class sizes, changing expectations, diversity and mobility of students and the use of computer technology in teaching have challenged universities, world over, to review educational courses and delivery to provide a more satisfying learning experience to students. Understanding how students learn is essential in this process and continuous enquiry into teaching practices for their effectiveness towards enhancement of student learning outcomes is therefore considered a vital strategy. This chapter discusses an exploratory study on the differences in the learning approaches of a group of students in a second year marketing course in an Australian university. E-learning system remains the primary communication and the learning resource of these students. Results indicate that there are no significant differences in the study approaches of students but on average they seem to demonstrate deep learning than surface learning although they may differ in terms of the learning contexts. The study also reveals that in comparison female students and older aged students seem to demonstrate deep learning orientations than surface learning orientations.

Mixed Approaches to Learning in the Flipped Classroom: How Students Approach the Learning Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margrét Sigrún Sigurðardóttir ◽  
Thamar Melanie Heijstra
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Surface Approach

Flipped teaching is a trend within higher education. Through flipped teaching the learning environment can be altered by moving the lecture out of the classroom through online recordings, while in-classroom sessions focus on active learning and engaging students in their own learning process. In this paper, we used focus groups comprised of male students in a qualitative research course with the aim of understanding the ways in which we might improve active student engagement and motivation within the flipped classroom. The findings indicated that, within the flipped classroom, students mix surface and deep-learning approaches. The online recordings, which students interact with through a surface approach, can function as a stepping stone toward a deep-learning approach to in-class activities, but only if students come to class prepared. The findings therefore suggest that students must be made aware of the importance of preparation prior to flipped classroom in-class activities to ensure the active learning process is successful. By not listening to the recordings (e.g., due to technological failure, as was the case in this study), students can result in only employing a surface approach.

scholarly journals MUHASEBE EĞİTİMİ ALAN ÖĞRENCİLERİN DERİN VE YÜZEYSEL ÖĞRENME YAKLAŞIMLARININ ÇEŞİTLİ DEĞİŞKENLER AÇISINDAN İNCELENMESİ

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meryem ÖZTÜRK
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
School Type ◽  
Preference Order ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Accounting Courses ◽  
Surface Learning ◽  
And Gender

The purpose of the study is to determine whether there is a relationship between the learning approaches of the accounting students and demographic variables, the attendance to accounting courses and the daily repetition of accounting courses. In the scope of the study, a questionnaire was applied to Atatürk University Erzurum Vocational School Accountancy and Tax Applications Program students. According to the results of study, it was determined that there was a statistically significant relationship between the students' deep learning approach and daily repetition of accounting subject, the high school type they graduate and classroom level; it was determined that there was a statistically significant relationship between the students' surface learning tendency and gender, university preference order, attendance to accounting courses and daily repetition of accounting courses. When compared to the first-year students second-year students have higher deep learning tendencies and when compared to the other students, the students who graduated from the Open Education High School have higher than deep learning tendencies. The surface learning tendencies of the students who prefer the program in the first order is higher than those who prefer the program in the next order and the surface learning tendencies of man students is higher than female students. In addition, while deep learning tendency of students who daily repetition of accounting courses have a higher degree than other students, surface learning tendencies are lower.

scholarly journals The Impact of Public Expenditure on Economic Growth: A Review of International Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-101
Author(s):  
Sheilla Nyasha ◽  
Nicholas M. Odhiambo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Government Spending ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Government Expenditure ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Research background: Although a number of studies have been conducted on the relationship between public expenditure and economic growth, it is difficult to tell with certainty whether or not an increase in public expenditure is good for economic growth. This lack of consensus on the results of the previous empirical findings makes this study of paramount importance as we take stock of the available empirical evidence from the 1980s to date. Purpose: In this paper, theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between government expenditure and economic growth has been reviewed in detail. Focus was placed on the review of literature that assessed the impact of government spending on economic growth. Research Methodology: This study grouped studies on the impact of public expenditure on economic growth based on their results. Three groups emerged – positive impact, negative impact and no impact. This was followed by a review of each relevant study and an evaluation of which outcome was more prevalent among the existing studies on the subject. Results: The literature reviewed has shown that the impact of government spending on economic growth is not clear cut. It varies from positive to negative; with some studies even finding no impact. Although the impact of government spending on economic growth was found to be inconclusive, the scale tilts towards a positive impact. Novelty: The study provides an insight into the relationship between public expenditure and economic growth based on a comprehensive review of previous empirical evidence across various countries since the 1980s.

scholarly journals Impact of Monetary Policy on Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence in Vietnam

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tang My Sang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Money Supply ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
The Impact

Through the secondary data collected from 2009 to 2018, the research used Var method to test the impact of monetary policy on economic growth in Vietnam. The results show that there is a relationship between the variables of monetary policy and economic growth, in which the money supply has a positive impact at a high significant level, interest rates have a negative impact on Vietnam economic growth. From the results obtained, the research proposed solutions for operating monetary policy.

scholarly journals English teachers' self-efficacy beliefs and students learning approaches

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farhad Mazlum ◽  
Fereshteh Cheraghi ◽  
Mahdi Dasta
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Autonomy Support ◽  
First Grade ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Classroom Structure ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Surface Learning

<div><p class="hppag28TextAbstract">This study aimed at investigating the direct and indirect effects that teachers' self-efficacy beliefs exert on students' learning approaches via affecting their perceptions of classroom structure. The sample included 40 English teachers and 240 first-grade female students from high schools in Iran. To collect data, three questionnaires were applied: (a) Self-Efficacy Beliefs Questionnaire was answered by the teachers, and (b) Study Process Questionnaire and Survey of Classroom Structure Goals were given to the students. Path analysis revealed that, via Motivating Tasks, Mastery Evaluation, and Autonomy Support, teachers' self-efficacy beliefs had an indirect and positive effect on students' deep learning approaches but an indirect and negative effect on their surface learning approaches. Also, teachers' self-efficacy beliefs affected students' deep learning approaches directly and positively but their surface learning approaches directly and negatively.  Moreover, it was found that Motivating Tasks, Mastery Evaluation, and Autonomy Support had direct and positive effects on students' deep learning approaches but direct and negative effects on their surface learning approaches. All the relationships between model variables were statistically significant. The results tend to verify that students' perception of classroom structure plays a mediating role between teachers' self-efficacy beliefs and students' learning approaches.</p></div>

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