scholarly journals Adjusting Lecture Style To Accommodate Student Reading Habits

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard R. Socash
Keyword(s):  
Reading Skills ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Limited Time ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Student Reading ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Difficult Challenge ◽  
Instruction Style ◽  
Determining Factor

The reasons behind the reading habits of undergraduate MIS students were examined to learn from the students’ point of view why many don’t read the textbook.  Willingness to work hard on homework and project assignments and an appreciation of what is expected of them appears to be in place.  However, carrots, sticks, ruses and requests all meet with limited success when used to encourage reading assigned material.   Four sections of a required business school 2000-level MIS course were asked to respond anonymously to a questionnaire covering the course, textbooks, instructors, and personal reading habits.  Follow-up discussions in the classroom and with individuals volunteering comments provided additional insight.  In open discussions, one is led to believe limited time is the principal determining factor affecting reading habits.  In the questionnaire, admitting to not understanding the textbook material followed by lack of interest in the subject exceeded limited time as the main reasons for not reading.  Lack of interest can often be overcome by changes in instruction style and emphasis.  Working around or compensating for deficient reading skills is a more difficult challenge.  An analysis of the findings is presented in this paper along with the author’s reactions and thinking on restructuring lecture sessions, reading assignments, and presentation practices for teaching undergraduate MIS courses.   

scholarly journals Requirements as Operational Metrics? – Case: Finnish Defense Forces

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Häyhtiö
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Performance Measurement System ◽  
Service Development ◽  
End User ◽  
Portion Control ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Operational Metrics ◽  
Reciprocal Value

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to study how requirements management could be utilized in connection to a service performance measurement system. Public private partnership (PPP) in Finnish Defence Forces’ (FDF) catering operations is studied as a case example. There are two research questions, which are studied: Firstly, do catering operations create KPI’s, which enable inter-functional co-operation and service development? Secondly, do these KPIs support both efficiency and effectiveness of PPP catering operations? Evidence from the previous studies on the subject indicates that there should be a single “power-by-the-hour” metrics unit, which enables a transparent follow-up of the performance-based operations. This research highlights requirements value in creation of economic efficiency and effectiveness from the end-user point-of view and reciprocal value creation between inter-functional service systems. This research’s results show that focus on portion control can produce information, which enhances inter-functional co-operation between PPP stakeholders.

scholarly journals Causes of Primary Stage Students’ Weakness in English Reading Skills

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Mohammad Alqomoul
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Method ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Primary Stage ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
English Reading ◽  
The Subject ◽  
English Students ◽  
Reading Texts

The present study aims to determine the reasons behind the primary stage students’ weakness in the English reading skills in Tafila Directorate of Education (Jordan). The study follows descriptive analytical method. The subject of the study consisted of the total number of the students in the first three grades in Tafila Directorate of Education (1253 male and female students). As for the sample, it was randomly selected to represent the subject of the study with a total number of (60 male and female students, 40 females and 20 males). The instrument was actually reading texts chosen from the English Students’ Books. The texts were chosen to meet the objective of the present study. After a careful follow-up of the researcher to the performance of the students in reading these texts and answering the questions based on them, he reached to some indicators which help him to draw conclusions. Based on the results of the study, the researcher reached to some recommendations.   Received: 12 October 2020 / Accepted: 26 December 2020 / Published: 17 January 2021

The effect of family and environment on the students' acquisition of reading habits

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-50
Author(s):  
Rahilə Mirzəli qızı Məmmədova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Student Reading ◽  
Moral Qualities ◽  
The Media ◽  
First Time

Kitab elə bir zəmidir ki, ondan hamı yesə də qurtarmaz Nizami Gəncəvi Reading plays an important role in the development of everyone as a person. Thus, through reading, people can further increase their worldview, life experience, morality, knowledge and skills, and the ability to speak. It is important for an individual to understand himself, his surroundings and the world, and to acquire the habit of reading. The child sees the world in the family, so the environment in which the child is first brought up is the family and parents. Since families are the first collective to influence the mental and physical development of children, their spiritual, cultural and moral qualities are also formed here for the first time. Along with all this, the child's acquisition of reading skills is closely related, first of all, to the efforts of teachers and the media, followed by the family. Since fiction books also give children a broader understanding of the world, they can be linked to a variety of topics in textbooks. Keywords: family, environment, student, reading, reading habits

scholarly journals Scientific skills in the physics learning process. A pilot study in secondary education

2020 ◽  
Vol 1674 (1) ◽  
pp. 012010
Author(s):  
C A Hernández-Suárez ◽  
A A Gamboa-Suárez ◽  
W R Avendaño-Castro
Keyword(s):  
Student Perception ◽  
National Level ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
School Level ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
High School Level ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scientific Skills ◽  
Perception Survey

Abstract The objective of this article is to identify the competencies of students studying the subject of natural sciences - physics at the high school level, in accordance with the curricular guidelines of the Ministerio de Educación Nacional de Colombia. Methodologically, it was based on a quantitative design, using a student perception survey. The results show, from the students’ point of view, that the teachers have knowledge of their discipline, but the follow-up and improvement of their pedagogical practice at the curricular, didactic and evaluation levels is questioned. It is questioned that the processes related to research and the scientific method are not linked to their classes, so that the students’ level of competences is not the ideal one according to what is established from the curricular orientations at a national level.

scholarly journals Lectura y educación en España: análisis longitudinal de las leyes educativas generales

2017 ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
Elena Jiménez Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
General Education ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Reading Literacy ◽  
Reading Habit ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Social Projection ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

Reading has emerged as one of the fundamental pillars of education in recent years, gaining a notorious relevance in consideration with other materials. Thus, the reading habit or reading skills are two of the most studied in recent decades and its social projection elements inevitably passes through the general education laws.In the present study, a comparative analysis of all the laws that emerged in Spain in the era of democracy, a spectrum that occupies nearly fifty years of history of the country, intending to trace how it is treated is made the subject of reading, reading habits and reading skills from the legal basis of education.For this purpose, a thorough search of the most important to narrow that field and tracking the results in terms of appointments to the chosen terms are analyzed keywords is performed. The findings are compelling because, for example, the keyword "read" not even once appear in any of the texts consulted, nor the term "reading literacy" that although it is morerecent, and it was used from the 2000, so that from 2002 to LOCE (although not enter into force because it was not his approach and results evaluated) and the following laws could have been raised. Perhaps if the legal basis from which the rights and duties of society are consolidated argument fails on the field of reading is normal, systematically, the Spanish students rate below average in international tests PISA and PIRLS.

scholarly journals The relationship between character viewpoint gesture and narrative structure in children

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-434
Author(s):  
FEY PARRILL ◽  
BRITTANY LAVANTY ◽  
AUSTIN BENNETT ◽  
ALAYNA KLCO ◽  
OZLEM ECE DEMIR-LIRA
Keyword(s):  
Reading Skills ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
First Session ◽  
Narrative Abilities

abstractWhen children tell stories, they gesture; their gestures can predict how their narrative abilities will progress. Five-year-olds who gestured from the point of view of a character (CVPT gesture) when telling stories produced better-structured narratives at later ages (Demir, Levine, & Goldin-Meadow, 2014). But does gesture just predict narrative structure, or can asking children to gesture in a particular way change their narratives? To explore this question, we instructed children to produce CVPT gestures and measured their narrative structure. Forty-four kindergarteners were asked to tell stories after being trained to produce CVPT gestures, gestures from an observer’s viewpoint (OVPT gestures), or after no instruction in gesture. Gestures were coded as CVPT or OVPT, and stories were scored for narrative structure. Children trained to produce CVPT gestures produced more of these gestures, and also had higher narrative structure scores compared to those who received the OVPT training. Children returned for a follow-up session one week later and narrated the stories again. The training received in the first session did not impact narrative structure or recall for the events of the stories. Overall, these results suggest a brief gestural intervention has the potential to enhance narrative structure. Due to the fact that stronger narrative abilities have been correlated with greater success in developing writing and reading skills at later ages, this research has important implications for literacy and education.

scholarly journals Lectura y educación en España: análisis longitudinal de las leyes educativas generales

2017 ◽  
pp. 79-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Jiménez Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
General Education ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Reading Literacy ◽  
Reading Habit ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Social Projection ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

Reading has emerged as one of the fundamental pillars of education in recent years, gaining a notorious relevance in consideration with other materials. Thus, the reading habit or reading skills are two of the most studied in recent decades and its social projection elements inevitably passes through the general education laws.In the present study, a comparative analysis of all the laws that emerged in Spain in the era of democracy, a spectrum that occupies nearly fifty years of history of the country, intending to trace how it is treated is made the subject of reading, reading habits and reading skills from the legal basis of education.For this purpose, a thorough search of the most important to narrow that field and tracking the results in terms of appointments to the chosen terms are analyzed keywords is performed. The findings are compelling because, for example, the keyword "read" not even once appear in any of the texts consulted, nor the term "reading literacy" that although it is morerecent, and it was used from the 2000, so that from 2002 to LOCE (although not enter into force because it was not his approach and results evaluated) and the following laws could have been raised. Perhaps if the legal basis from which the rights and duties of society are consolidated argument fails on the field of reading is normal, systematically, the Spanish students rate below average in international tests PISA and PIRLS.

A Modified Chair Geometry for Whole Body Counting

1976 ◽  
Vol 15 (05) ◽  
pp. 246-247
Author(s):  
S. C. Jain ◽  
G. C. Bhola ◽  
A. Nagaratnam ◽  
M. M. Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Marked Improvement ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Spatial Response ◽  
Body Counting ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Whole Body Counting ◽  
The Buddha

SummaryIn the Marinelli chair, a geometry widely used in whole body counting, the lower part of the leg is seen quite inefficiently by the detector. The present paper describes an attempt to modify the standard chair geometry to minimise this limitation. The subject sits crossed-legged in the “Buddha Posture” in the standard chair. Studies with humanoid phantoms and a volunteer sitting in the Buddha posture show that this modification brings marked improvement over the Marinelli chair both from the point of view of sensitivity and uniformity of spatial response.

Circulating matrix metaloproteinases as biomarkers in colorectalcancer

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (9) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Tumor Markers ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Tissue Inhibitors ◽  
Natural Tissue

The aim of this research is to offer comprehensive point of view related to perspective tumor markers called matrix metaloproteinases and their natural tissue inhibitors. Those markers are potentially useable mainly in postoperative follow-up in patients with colorectal cancer.

Sophie Laws, with Caroline Harper and Rachel Marcus. Research for Development: A Practical Guide. New Delhi: Vistaar Publications. 2003. xiii+475 pages. Paperback. Indian Rupees 450.00.

2003 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-172
Author(s):  
Mir Annice Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Policy Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Is Research ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Development Workers

To implement any successful policy, research about the subject-matter is essential. Lack of knowledge would result in failure and, from an economic point of view, it would lead to a waste of scarce resources. The book under review is essentially a manual which highlights the use of research for development. The book is divided into two parts. Part One informs the reader about concepts and some theory, and Part Two deals with the issue of undertaking research for development. Both parts have 11 chapters each. Chapter 1 asks the basic question: Is research important in development work? The answer is that it is. Research has many dimensions: from the basic asking of questions to the more sophisticated broad-based analysis of policy issues. The chapter, in short, stresses the usefulness of research which development workers ignore at their own peril.

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