scholarly journals Design of a teachers’ training workshop for improving technology integration skills

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhuri Mavinkurve ◽  
Mahesh Patil
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Circuit Simulation ◽  
Peer Instruction ◽  
Training Workshop ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Circuit Simulator ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Applied Education ◽  
Teachers Training ◽  
The Impact

Educationists and researchers recommend integration of simulations in classrooms to promote student-centric constructivist learning. The simulations need to be carefully designed toward improvement ofconceptual understanding of students. In this paper, we report on a training workshop for teachers with the specific goal of imparting simulation integration skills for classroom teaching. In the workshop, we used SEQUEL, a freely downloadable circuit simulator, and focused on electronic circuits taught typically at the second-year undergraduate level. We applied education technology principles as well as constructivist alignment methods to design the workshop. In particular, collaborative learning strategies such as think-pair-share and peer instruction were covered specifically for the intended simulation integration. Furthermore, application of the flippedclassroom model in the context of circuit simulation was explained to the participants. We report on the workshop design in detail and report the impact of the training  workshop on integration skills of the teachers. We found that teachers (N=15) perceived the workshop to be usefulin designing their aligned lesson plans. Teachers also reported their field study in which they found improved motivation of students to solve  electronics circuit problems.

scholarly journals Using Peer Instruction Pedagogy for Teaching Dynamics: Lessons Learned from Pre-Class Reading Quizzes

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Miller-Young
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Peer Instruction ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Small Group Discussions ◽  
Negative Comments ◽  
Cognitive Principles ◽  
Second Year ◽  
First Time

Peer Instruction (PI) is a widely used pedagogy which generally includes the use of two main teaching strategies: student pre-class preparation with an associated online quiz, and active in-class engagement including small-group discussions about conceptual questions. As an instructor trying this pedagogy for the first time, my purpose was to investigate both students’ learning and attitudes in my first/second year engineering dynamics course, using their answers to the reading quizzes as the main source of data. In short, students with the highest quiz marks did well in the course, indicating successful reading and learning strategies. Similarly, students with the lowest quiz marks attained lower overall marks. Students who did less well in the course were also more negative about the PI format (the class size of 17 did not allow for statistical analysis). Negative comments tended to be related to an expectation that the teacher should lecture more, indicating less understanding of cognitive principles. These results will provide a baseline for evaluating future teaching efforts which will include examining whether more directly encouraging deep learning strategies will be more effective for student learning.

scholarly journals Impact of a sensitization program on prescription order writing skills of second year MBBS students: a prospective study

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 906
Author(s):  
Subhashini R. ◽  
Bhuvaneswari K. ◽  
Umamaheswari A.
Keyword(s):  
Prospective Study ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Generic Prescribing ◽  
Second Year ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Prescription Writing

Background: Incomplete and erroneous prescriptions affect the effective management of patients. The undergraduates of today are the physicians of tomorrow. Hence, the need for inculcating good prescription writing practice from undergraduate level to improve quality of healthcare. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of a sensitization program on the effective prescription writing skills of second year MBBS students.Methods: This prospective study was conducted between January and November 2017 among 149 second year medical students. The prescriptions by students were assessed prior to and after a sensitization program which emphasized on the importance of each component of the prescription, need for generic prescribing and rational use of drugs.Results: After the sensitization program, there was significant improvement in mentioning of all components (p<0.05) except for route of administration, instructions, and health advise which were still deficient. The rationality in prescribing was analyzed by scoring vital drug related information on a scale of 12. Majority of inscriptions (72%; n=107) were rational after the program. There existed a weak positive correlation (r=0.15) between students’ knowledge of drugs assessed by theory examinations and scores of prescriptions assessed in practical examinations.Conclusions: The sensitization program served as an effective strategy in improving knowledge regarding every component of the prescription and enhanced the prescription writing skills at the undergraduate level. This could help prevent deficiencies in health care arising from errors in prescribing.

scholarly journals The Impact of Database Technology on Learning Physics at Undergraduate Level

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 5336-5338
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Learning Abilities ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Computer Technologies ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Database Technology ◽  
The Impact

With the advent of the computer technologies, the learner’s capabilities are increased. An effective system of learning leads to result in the learner’s abilities, development of their competencies and transformation of their interests. Students undergoing undergraduate programmes are learning the subject matter effectively and interacting on content easily with the support of various kinds of computer technologies. If the learners are rightly oriented about the technology in learning, it will certainly be a helping tool in uplifting the learning abilities. Database technology is an emerging technology used in many fields. The researcher developed software using database technology with the objective to find out level of performance in learning among the undergraduate students who are opting physics as main subject. To study the effect of database technology as compared to the conventional methods of learning, the investigator adopted Two group Experimental design where two groups were treated with different learning strategies. A sample of 71 undergraduate students from 4 Arts and Science Colleges in Thanjavur district of Tamilnadu state in India are selected for the study. The present study is an attempt to examine the impact of database technology on learning physics at undergraduate level. The researcher employed experimental method for the study. Data were analyzed using Z-test. Findings reveal that there is a significant difference in the usage of database technology among male and female students, rural and urban students and Tamil and English medium students. This software can be used to store, retrieve and update the selected content from the electronic resources.

The Analyses of Learning Strategies in English as a Second Language: Theoretical Classification and Measurement Test

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-129
Author(s):  
Asti Gumartifa ◽  
◽  
Indah Windra Dwie Agustiani
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
English Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
The Impact

Gaining English language learning effectively has been discussed all years long. Similarly, Learners have various troubles outcomes in the learning process. Creating a joyful and comfortable situation must be considered by learners. Thus, the implementation of effective learning strategies is certainly necessary for English learners. This descriptive study has two purposes: first, to introduce the classification and characterization of learning strategies such as; memory, cognitive, metacognitive, compensation, social, and affective strategies that are used by learners in the classroom and second, it provides some questionnaires item based on Strategy of Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) version 5.0 that can be used to examine the frequency of students’ learning strategies in the learning process. The summary of this study explains and discusses the researchers’ point of view on the impact of learning outcomes by learning strategies used. Finally, utilizing appropriate learning strategies are certainly beneficial for both teachers and learners to achieve the learning target effectively.

scholarly journals Socio-economic consequences of mental distress: quantifying the impact of self-reported mental distress on the days of incapacity to work and medical costs in a two-year period: a longitudinal study in Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Müller ◽  
Manuela Bombana ◽  
Monika Heinzel-Gutenbrenner ◽  
Nikolaus Kleindienst ◽  
Martin Bohus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Mental Distress ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Routine Data ◽  
Medical Costs ◽  
First Year ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background Mental disorders are related to high individual suffering and significant socio-economic burdens. However, it remains unclear to what extent self-reported mental distress is related to individuals’ days of incapacity to work and their medical costs. This study aims to investigate the impact of self-reported mental distress for specific and non-specific days of incapacity to work and specific and non-specific medical costs over a two-year span. Method Within a longitudinal research design, 2287 study participants’ mental distress was assessed using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). HADS scores were included as predictors in generalized linear models with a Tweedie distribution with log link function to predict participants’ days of incapacity to work and medical costs retrieved from their health insurance routine data during the following two-year period. Results Current mental distress was found to be significantly related to the number of specific days absent from work and medical costs. Compared to participants classified as no cases by the HADS (2.6 days), severe case participants showed 27.3-times as many specific days of incapacity to work in the first year (72 days) and 10.3-times as many days in the second year (44 days), and resulted in 11.4-times more medical costs in the first year (2272 EUR) and 6.2-times more in the second year (1319 EUR). The relationship of mental distress to non-specific days of incapacity to work and non-specific medical costs was also significant, but mainly driven from specific absent days and specific medical costs. Our results also indicate that the prevalence of presenteeism is considerably high: 42% of individuals continued to go to work despite severe mental distress. Conclusions Our results show that self-reported mental distress, assessed by the HADS, is highly related to the days of incapacity to work and medical costs in the two-year period. Reducing mental distress by improving preventive structures for at-risk populations and increasing access to evidence-based treatments for individuals with mental disorders might, therefore, pay for itself and could help to reduce public costs.

scholarly journals Involvement of medical students in a surgery congress: impact on learning motivation, decision-making for a career in surgery, and educational curriculum

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Alkatout ◽  
Veronika Günther ◽  
Sandra Brügge ◽  
Johannes Ackermann ◽  
Magret Krüger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Educational Curriculum ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Surgical Career ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Digital Surgery ◽  
The Impact

SummaryDuring the preclinical period of medical school, the clinical relevance of theoretical knowledge is given little attention. Medical students of the second year were invited to participate in an interdisciplinary congress for robot-assisted and digital surgery. The students had to evaluate the impact of the congress on their learning motivation, decision-making for a career in surgery, and relevance for their educational curriculum. Participation in the congress increased their learning motivation for preclinical subjects, and significantly increased their interest in a surgical career. Most students considered active involvement in medical congresses a valuable supplement to the medical curriculum. Congress participation during the preclinical period was ranked positively by medical students. Greater learning motivation and enthusiasm for the pilot teaching project as well as for surgical disciplines were registered. Thus, early involvement of medical students in scientific congresses should be an integral part of their educational curriculum.

scholarly journals Simulating language knowledge across the EU: language regimes, language learning and consequences for linguistic disenfranchisement

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Civico
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Skills Acquisition ◽  
Linguistic Distance ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThe objective of this paper is to develop an simulation model able to test different language education orientations and their consequences for the EU population in terms of linguistic disenfranchisement, that is, the inability of citizens to understand EU documents and parliamentary discussions should their native language(s) no longer be official. I will focus on the impact of linguistic distance and language learning. Ideally, this model would be a tool to help EU policy makers make informed decisions about language practices and education policies, taking into account their consequences in terms of diversity and linguistic disenfranchisement. The model can be used to force agents to make certain choices in terms of language skills acquisition. The user can then go on to compare different scenarios in which language skills are acquired according to different rationales. The idea is that, by forcing agents to adopt certain language learning strategies, the model user can simulate policies promoting the acquisition of language skills and get an idea of their impact. In this way, the model allows not only to sketch various scenarios of the evolution of language skills among EU citizens, but also to estimate the level of disenfranchisement in each of these scenarios.

scholarly journals Enhancing Learning Through Reflection– A Case Study of SEEU

SEEU Review ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brikena Xhaferi ◽  
Gezim Xhaferi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Good Tool ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Learning through reflection is one of the most interesting experiences that students might have. It is considered a very good tool for self-assessing learning. It is believed that “teachers who promote reflective classrooms ensure that students are fully engaged in the process of making meaning” (Costa and Kallick, 2008, para.5). Dewey (1991) was among the first researchers who based his work and research on the positive roles that reflection plays in fostering self-reflection and critical thinking. He has defined it as an active, persistent and careful consideration of any belief. Reflections give students opportunities to think and reflect about their learning and note down the obstacles they might face during this process. The present study aims to investigate the impact of journal writing in promoting critical-thinking skills, and its impact on enhancing learning. The study uses two instruments, a student refection journal and an interview. Also, Marzano’s New Taxonomy of Educational Objectives developed in 2000 was used in the third phase of the study. This Taxonomy contains Three Systems: the Self-system, the Metacognitive system and the Cognitive system. The overall study results show that reflection journals help students to become more independent learners, reflect on their learning experiences and identify the most useful learning strategies. Most importantly, all study participants hold positive attitudes towards reflection and they consider it as a valuable tool which can increase learning.

Bonding Social Capital, Afghan Refugees, and Early Access to Employment

2021 ◽  
pp. 019791832110002
Author(s):  
Matteo Vergani ◽  
Ihsan Yilmaz ◽  
Greg Barton ◽  
James Barry ◽  
Galib Bashirov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Afghan Refugees ◽  
Employment Success ◽  
The Third ◽  
Early Access ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The Impact

This IMR Research Note examines the impact of the level of bonding social capital on access to employment among newly arrived Afghan refugees in Victoria (Australia). Based on a mixed-methods analysis of biographical interviews with 80 Afghan refugees, it examines their use of social capital, year by year, during the first three years after their arrival. Our analysis shows that higher levels of bonding social capital are associated with greater success in finding employment during the first and second year of settlement. In the third year, however, bonding social capital for Afghan refugees in Victoria is no longer a significant predictor of employment. This Research Note helps clarify inconsistent findings in the literature on the effects of social capital on obtaining employment by suggesting that bonding social capital’s impact on refugee employment success changes significantly across the first three years after arrival. This finding has important implications for migration policy and the prioritization of resources toward services for newly arrived refugees.

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