scholarly journals The role of word frequencies in detecting unfamiliar terms and their effect on response quality

Psihologija ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Slavec ◽  
Vasja Vehovar
Keyword(s):  
Low Frequency ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
The Other ◽  
International Exchange ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Exchange Students ◽  
Text Corpora ◽  
Drop Out Rate ◽  
The University

Research into cognitive aspects of survey response has indicated unfamiliar terms as one of the psycholinguistic determinants of question comprehensibility problems. In this paper the estimates of wording familiarity based on text corpora for the English and Slovenian languages were used to detect potentially incomprehensible wordings in two web survey questionnaires for international exchange students at the University of Ljubljana, one for incoming (English) and the other for outgoing students (Slovenian). Two versions of the questionnaire were developed for each language, one with low-frequency (complex) and the other with high-frequency (improved) wordings, and compared in a split-ballot experiment. The results show a lower drop-out rate and a decreased subjective perception of difficulty for the improved language versions.

Tâches, interaction et présence à distance

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-74
Author(s):  
Christelle HOPPE
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Pedagogical Choices ◽  
The One ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In

This article presents the highlights of the learning experience within the teaching-learning scheme of French as an additional language as it was proposed to international students at the university to ensure pedagogical continuity during the health crisis between April and June 2020. Through vignettes that give an overview of the course, it proposes, on the one hand, to reflect on the pedagogical choices that were made in order to measure their effects effectively. On the other hand, it looks at the role of the tasks and the way in which they stimulate interaction, articulate or organise the cognitive, conative and socio-affective presence at a distance in this particular context. What emerges from the experience is that the flexible articulation of a set of tasks creates an organising framework that helps learners to shape their own curriculum while supporting their engagement. Overall, the pedagogical organisation of the device has led to potentially beneficial creative and socio-interactive use.

Innovation in Innovation: The Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations

2003 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Etzkowitz
Keyword(s):  
Triple Helix ◽  
The Other ◽  
Government Relations ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Technological Level ◽  
The University ◽  
University Industry ◽  
Endogenous Process ◽  
Rules Of The Game

Innovation is increasingly based upon a “Triple Helix” of university-industry-government interactions. The increased importance of knowledge and the role of the university in incubation of technology-based firms has given it a more prominent place in the institutional firmament. The entrepreneurial university takes a proactive stance in putting knowledge to use and in broadening the input into the creation of academic knowledge. Thus it operates according to an interactive rather than a linear model of innovation. As firms raise their technological level, they move closer to an academic model, engaging in higher levels of training and in sharing of knowledge. Government acts as a public entrepreneur and venture capitalist in addition to its traditional regulatory role in setting the rules of the game. Moving beyond product development, innovation then becomes an endogenous process of “taking the role of the other”, encouraging hybridization among the institutional spheres.

Re-Examining the Role of Interscholastic Sport Participation in Education

2004 ◽  
Vol 94 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1447-1454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zenong Yin ◽  
Justin B. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Cognitive Test ◽  
Interscholastic Sport ◽  
Drop Out Rate

The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationships of interscholastic sports participation with locus of control, self-concept, cognitive test scores, and school dropout in adolescents via a secondary analysis of National Educational Longitudinal Study 1988 (NELS:88). Subjects were 1,883 students who completed all measurements in 8th grade (1988), at Follow-up 1 (10th, 1990), and Follow-up 2 (12th, 1992). Scales utilized to measure locus of control, self-concept, and cognitive ability were developed by the National Center for Educational Statistics. Dropout was assessed through school records and contact with participants. At baseline and Follow-up 1, students self-reporting sport participation displayed higher self-concept and locus of control; however, these differences were no longer observed at Follow-up 2. Drop-out rate for boys at Follow-up 2 was significantly lower for students reporting interscholastic sport participation at baseline or at Follow-up 1. Similarly, drop-out rate for girls at Follow-up 2 was significantly lower for students reporting interscholastic sport participation at baseline or at Follow-up 1. These findings support the presumed positive role of sport participation for adolescents in American schools.

scholarly journals The university, the city and the clown: A theological essay on solidarity, mutuality and prophecy

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan De Beer
Keyword(s):  
Public University ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Liberation Theologian

This essay is informed by five different but interrelated conversations all focusing on the relationship between the city and the university. Suggesting the clown as metaphor, I explore the particular role of the activist scholar, and in particular the liberation theologian that is based at the public university, in his or her engagement with the city. Considering the shackles of the city of capital and its twin, the neoliberal university, on the one hand, and the city of vulnerability on the other, I then propose three clown-like postures of solidarity, mutuality and prophecy to resist the shackles of culture and to imagine and embody daring alternatives.

scholarly journals ‘The Crucible of the Malayan Nation’: The University and the Making of a New Malaya, 1938–62

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 1149-1187 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. STOCKWELL
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
The University ◽  
Second World

AbstractLike so many features of the British Empire, policy for colonial higher education was transformed during the Second World War. In 1945 the Asquith Commission established principles for its development, and in 1948 the Carr–Saunders report recommended the immediate establishment of a university in Malaya to prepare for self-government. This institution grew at a rate that surpassed expectations, but the aspirations of its founders were challenged by lack of resources, the mixed reactions of the Malayan people and the politics of decolonisation. The role of the University of Malaya in engineering a united Malayan nation was hampered by lingering colonial attitudes and ultimately frustrated by differences between Singapore and the Federation. These differences culminated in the university's partition in January 1962. In the end it was the politics of nation-building which moulded the university rather than the other way round.

Role of Tablets as Mood Elevators in the Perception Towards Green Schools

2019 ◽  
pp. 69-97
Author(s):  
Rekha Verma ◽  
Atul Razdan
Keyword(s):  
School Curriculum ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Educational Module ◽  
Green Schools ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Drop Out Rate ◽  
Green School ◽  
Depth Interviews

A green school basically integrates nature into school (mainly through academics, operations, and student/teacher and community engagement) with incorporated natural substance to school educational module. The sole purpose of green schools is to inculcate healthy and nature friendly initiatives with integrated environmental course content in school curriculum. Research shows that environmental training and education might enhance a normal learner's classroom execution and diversified impact on individual's personality as environmental knowledge can make ordinary learners extraordinary. Green schools aim at decreasing the drop-out rate in schools by introducing environmental education as an interesting subject with aspects of learning by doing. Students of Class 6th, 7th, and 8th standard use tabs/tablets for submitting their assignments, tests, and quiz/assessment exams enabling them to be tech-savvy generation. This research will address this issue through a qualitative research and in-depth interviews of students of different green schools of Gujarat.

scholarly journals The Role of Continuous Education Programs Organized by Saudi Universities in Literacy—A Case Study of King Saud University

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Haya Saad Abdulla Al Rawaf ◽  
Azza Khalil Abdel Fattah ◽  
Fadia Yousif Abdel Megeid ◽  
Rania Mohammed Aziz Nazmy ◽  
Sarah Nasser Alarifi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Continuous Education ◽  
King Saud University ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
The University

This study aims at highlighting the role of Continuous Education Programs at the Saudi Universities in Religious, Social, and Health Literacy; King Saud University was taken as an example. To achieve the goals of the study two questionnaires were distributed among two samples from King Saud University; (101) of students, and (9) of continuous education centers’ directors. Results showed that continuous education programs presented in religious awareness development do not contribute sufficiently in developing them. However; continuous education programs have favorable role in community’s social culturing. Also, continuous education programs contribute, at medium degree, in community’s health culturing. On the other hand; people in charge agree that the investment revenue in financing continuous education programs is minor as well as financing offered by the University. In light of the study results, the researchers recommended paying more attention to present more continuous education programs of concern as to individuals’ needs through cooperation with the research center in the University to perform survey studies targeted to define the individuals’ needs in terms of religious, social and health issues.

scholarly journals The Effects of Social Networks on Employment and Inequality

2004 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 426-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoni Calvó-Armengol ◽  
Matthew O Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
The Other ◽  
Duration Dependence ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Drop Out Rate ◽  
Job Opportunities

We develop a model where agents obtain information about job opportunities through an explicitly modeled network of social contacts. We show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents. Moreover, unemployment exhibits duration dependence: the probability of obtaining a job decreases in the length of time that an agent has been unemployed. Finally, we examine inequality between two groups. If staying in the labor market is costly and one group starts with a worse employment status, then that group's drop-out rate will be higher and their employment prospects will be persistently below that of the other group.

HILDEGARDIAN PROPHECY AND FRENCH PROPHECY COLLECTIONS, 1378–1455: A STUDY AND CRITICAL EDITION OF THE “SCHISM EXTRACTS”

Traditio ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 453-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAGDA HAYTON
Keyword(s):  
Critical Edition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hildegard Of Bingen ◽  
University Of Paris ◽  
John Of Rupescissa ◽  
The University

This article offers a study and critical edition of a group of passages (here called the “Schism Extracts”) that were compiled from the apocalyptic prophecies of Hildegard of Bingen and heavily annotated in response to the Great Western Schism (1378–1417). The article argues that the Extracts were created by someone with ties to the University of Paris to illuminate a French perspective on the Schism and that they circulated primarily within a Parisian milieu—both among masters at the university and among members of religious houses in and around Paris. The article outlines the main contents and themes of the Extracts and the manuscript contexts in which they are found, including five prophecy collections. While one prophecy collection is known to have been compiled by the Parisian master Simon du Bosc, it is here argued that three of the other collections were produced by Pierre d'Ailly or someone within his circle of associates. Many of the prophetic writings selected for these collections thematically concern the eschatological and reformist role of France and a future holy angelic pope (the pastor angelicus). These include the writings of John of Rupescissa, and parallels between the Extracts and John's reading of Hildegard suggest that the compiler of the text was well-versed in John's apocalyptic thought.

The Mechanisms of Passive Ear Defenders

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 13-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Paurobally ◽  
J. Pan
Keyword(s):  
Sound Absorption ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Active Noise Control ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
The Other ◽  
Frequency Noise ◽  
Transmission Characteristics ◽  
Active Noise ◽  
Theoretical Predictions

In this paper a model of the sound transmission characteristics of a conventional circumaural passive ear protector is presented for low frequency noise. It includes the effects of porous sound absorption material within the device as well as sound leakage. A theoretical study based on the model shows that the presence of sound absorption material effectively acts to increase the volume compliance of the system, thus decreasing its resonance frequency. The role of leakage on the other hand is mainly to shift the resonance to a higher frequency depending on the equivalent leakage diameter. Experimental results are provided in support of the theoretical predictions. The model is useful in providing an understanding of the mechanisms of conventional passive ear defenders and can be employed to guide their design. The modelling can also be extended to study and aid in the development of communication and active noise control ear protectors.

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