scholarly journals Innovation Strategies for Improving the Quality of Students’ Educational Research Project in the Ph.D. Programme of Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Nwakpa

This study investigated innovative strategies for improving the quality of students’ research projects in the Ph.D programme of Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria. To achieve this purpose, two research questions and one null hypothesis guided the study. The population for the study consisted of twenty (20) professors and one hundred and thirty (130) senior lecturers, totaling one hundred and fifty (150) respondents who teach Ph.D students all of the faculty of education, Ebonyi State University. The sampling technique adopted for this study was the total census technique due to the smallness and manageability of the population. Questionnaire titled “Innovative Strategies for Improving Students’ Research Dissertation Questionnaire” (ISISRDQ) was used to collect data from the respondents. The instrument was validated by three experts in measurement and evaluation of the department of science education of Ebonyi state University. Re-reliability of the instrument was tested using cronbach Alpha statistic and it yielded an index of 0.84 which was adjudged high enough for measuring the consistency of the items. The method of data collection was done by the researcher alone by going to the individual respondent’s office for distributing and collecting the copies of the questionnaire, and this exercise lasted for two weeks. The method of data analysis includes mean, standard deviation and t-test. The results of the study revealed some innovative strategies to be adopted and used to improve students’ research projects. Based on the findings, it was recommended that lecturers in the Universities should ensure that students’ research projects are organized in accordance with the suggested innovative strategies.Key Words: Innovative, strategies, improve, quality, students, educational research programme, university.

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Novita Anugrah Listiyana ◽  
Dedi Rusdi

This study analyzed the relationship between humans as users of the system and application software as object an inseparable relationship. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of variable quality system to the perception of the quality system, the effect of perceived quality system and quality of information on the intensity of use and user satisfaction, and the influence of the intensity of use and user satisfaction of the impact of individual performance. This research is an empirical study using purposive sampling technique in data collection. Data were collected through  questionnaires to 39 BMT’s operational employees. Then, performed an analysis of the data obtained used path analysis. This included: testing hypotheses through path analysis. The results of tests performed using path analysis to get the results that each variable in the model of equation 4 had a coefficient with a positive direction. This means that the improvement of the quality of the system will be able to improve the quality of information for the individual impact of the use and satisfaction of employees through the use of the system.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 557-568
Author(s):  
Neni Wahyuni ◽  
Idhar Yahya ◽  
Sirojuzilam .

This study aims to empirically prove the effect of taxation knowledge, tax supervision, tax socialization, taxpayer awareness, and quality of tax services on individual taxpayers' annual tax return reporting with tax sanctions as a moderating variable. Respondents in this study were 100 individual taxpayers registered at Pratama West Medan. The sampling technique in this research is using the purposive sampling technique. The data used are primary. The data analysis tool used is SEM-PLS. The study results indicate that tax knowledge and tax service quality significantly affect reporting individual taxpayers' annual tax returns at the Pratama Medan Barat Tax Office. Tax sanctions are able to moderate the effect of taxation socialization on the reporting of the annual tax return of individual taxpayers at the Pratama Medan Barat Tax Office. However, it cannot moderate the effect of tax knowledge, tax supervision, taxpayer awareness and quality of tax services on the reporting of individual taxpayers' annual tax returns at the Pratama Medan Barat Tax Office. Keywords: tax knowledge, tax control, tax socialization, tax awareness, tax service quality, tax sanction, individual taxpayers' annual tax return reporting.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
Nathanael Sitanggang ◽  
Putri Lynna A. Luthan ◽  
Abdul Hamid K.

The research aims to study the students' personal total quality at universities in Medan, Indonesia. The research method is a survey at four universities in Medan namely the State University of Medan, North Sumatra Muhammadiyah University, HKBP Nommensen, and the Islamic University of North Sumatra. The respondents amounted to 380 students who have been determined proportionally through random sampling. The research instrument was a questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 0.82. Results of the study found that 31.05% variable quality of students belong to the category of the personal total which is very high and 67.37% belong to a high category. However, there is 1:58% total quality of students classified categorized as low. The results were found to give instructions to the universities to keep working to improve students' personal total quality as the individual characteristics. The individual characteristics of students are very important to note the whether the increase due to the individual characteristics affects work motivation, performance, career development, and job satisfaction.


Author(s):  
Adolpho Ribeiro Netto

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muh. Zukri Malik ◽  
Suriyani . ◽  
Nur Fajriani

Background: The need of supportive care is a care to be given in order to enhance the life quality of the patients with a serious life-threatening disease such as breast cancer. Generally, the patients are really worried and have severe anxiety related to their disease. The quality of life becomes really important in curing the breast cancer. The life quality is the ability to have normal life in accordance with the individual perception about the objective and hope of the breast cancer patients. Method: Thisis anobservationalresearchwithcross-sectionalstudydesign.Thestudywasconducted in 2019 and required as many as 40 respondents. The samples were selected by using purposive sampling technique. The data were gathered by questionnaire then processed by SPSS and analyzed by statistical test of Chi-square with the significance degree of 95% (α=0,05). Result: The result showed that there was significant correlation between the need of supportive care (p<0,000) and the life quality of the breast cancer patients. Conclusion: There was association of the supportive careandthelifequalityofthebreastcancerpatientswiththevalueofp=0,000<α0.05.


Conciencia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-135
Author(s):  
Ermi Sola

This study aimed to determine whether there was a correlation between the level of students’ understanding of SBM (School Based Management) and students’ attitudes towards SBM in the Department of Educational Administration, Faculty of Education, Makassar State University. This research was a correlational research. The total population was 180 students and 42 of them were selected as samples taken through purposive random sampling technique. The research data were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The results showed that there was a significant correlation between students' understanding and their attitudes towards SBM. It can be concluded that the higher the level of students’ understanding of School Based Management, the more positive their attitude towards School Based Management.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Fitriana Tjiptasari

The development of information technology has provided many changes in all aspects of online and offline life. This development requires the readiness of all lines to adjust to the needs of the changes, which are to support the realization of good government administration and the improvement of the quality of public services. This study aimed to determine the perceived usefulness of digital archive management using Dinamic Filing Information Systems (SIKD). The study used a descriptive quantitative approach. Data collection technique used questionnaires and was measured using the Likert scale. The instrument validity test used logical validity with expert judgment; reliability was measured using the Alpha Cronbach formula with coefficient value 0.796. Subjects of the study were a total of 19 educational staff of the Faculty of Education Yogyakarta State University. The result revealed that 78.9% of respondents claimed that Dinamic Filing Information Systems (SIKD) improved their performance. 94.8% of respondents stated that SIKD improved user productivity, and all respondents acknowledged that their perfomance increased due to the use of SIKD. Thus, SIKD provides the performance of an archive information system which is useful for archive management in Faculty of Education Yogyakarta State University and users are satisfied with this SIKD. 


2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-134
Author(s):  
Rugaiyah Rugaiyah

This study aims to obtain information on the implementation of e-learning in Education Basic Courses (MKDK) at State University of Jakarta. The study was conducted at the Faculty of Education from May through November 2012. The population of the study covered lecturers and students of MKDK and the samples were selected by proportional purposive sampling technique. The data were collected using questionnaire and supported by interview guide. The results show that majority of the lecturers implement e-learning by using laptops and LCD, majority of the faculty do not use CD and OHP as teaching aids, hotspot network availability and the access very poor in almost all buildings, e-learning greatly assists students to understand the course material, almost all of the students have laptops and modems to support the lecture, most of the students use mobile phones to access the course material, and e-learning can facilitate students to access material unhindered by time and place, more efficiently, easily, quickly and effectively. The students need e-learning using blog / skype / youtube supported by professional lecturers, learning should be easily accessible and not boring.


Author(s):  
Consuelo Vélaz de Medrano Ureta ◽  
Nuria Manzano Soto ◽  
Belén Fernández D’andrea ◽  
Belén Fernández D’Andrea

RESUMENEl artículo presenta el proceso y resultados obtenidos en esta investigación cuyo objetivo era analizar los procesos y criterios utilizados por distintos organismos europeos para valorar los proyectos de investigación educativa presentados a las convocatorias públicas y el tipo de seguimiento utilizado para controlar los avances y calidad de los proyectos que se financiaron. El trabajo de recogida de datos se centró en las instituciones de investigación educativa más representativas de Inglaterra (National Fun-dation for Educational Research, NFER), de Francia (Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique,INRP) y de la Comisión Europea (a través de todos los programas de investigación educativa). Los resultados obtenidos se centran en un análisis de contenido que nos permitió extraer los criterios utilizados más profusamente para valorar la calidad de los proyectos de investigación educativa.ABSTRACTThe article presents the process and results obtained in this research, which aims to analyse the processes and criteria used by different European organisms to weight educational research projects presented for public grants, and the type of follow up used to control the progress and quality of the projects that got financial support. The data gathering process focussed in the educational research institutions more representatives in England (National Foundation for Educational Research, NFER), de Francia (Institut National de Reserche Pédagogique, INRP) and the European Comission (through alleducational research programs). Results obtained focus in a content analyses that allows us extract the criteria more widely used to weight the quality of educational research projects.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Adelyn Alista Utami ◽  
Aldri Frinaldi

The big challenge facing bureaucracy is how they are able to carry out activities efficiently and effectively. Therefore, so far bureaucracy has been identified with convoluted performance, structure that is too large, full of collusion, corruption and nepotism, and there are no definite standards. Padang State University has currently carried out bureaucratic reform agendas from 2010 to 2014. Although not yet comprehensive and very well organized, the change agenda has been implemented and the results have been felt by employees and related stakeholders. However, the long road to bureaucratic reform continues, the challenges and problems of the bureaucracy have not been completely completed, requiring solutions and solutions to solve bureaucratic problems and create a professional bureaucracy. This study aims to determine the direct and indirect effects of work culture, professionalism and work motivation variables on the quality of work of educational staff at Padang State University. The method used is a quantitative method, with a survey approach. The study population was all education staff employees in the rector of Padang State University. The number of research samples was determined using the Slovin formula. The number of research samples as many as 160 people were determined by proportional stratified random sampling technique. The instrument used was a questionnaire that had been tested for validity and reliability. This study found that partially and simultan, work culture variables, professionalism and work motivation had a direct and indirect influence on the quality of work of educational staff at Padang State University.


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