scholarly journals Effects of Life – Skills Counseling In Enhancing Self-Sufficiency among High School Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Surma, S ◽  
Sampathkumar ◽  
Surma, S
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
The Self ◽  
School Students ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Counseling Intervention ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Group Life ◽  
Experimental Group

The purpose of the present paper is to know the effectiveness of life-skills counseling intervention in enhancing self-sufficiency of high school students. Life-skills counseling is an educational approach, which is used to inculcate the essential life-skills in an individual to meet the challenges of everyday life.  It is also known to be very effective and appropriate for present day scenario.  It is easily adaptable for larger groups.  High School students are in the stage of adolescence.  High school students face a wide variety of problems out of which the major ones are lack of self-sufficiency, inability to manage emotions, decision-making skills etc.  The present study involves 300 high school students (150 Boys and 150 Girls) who are selected from various schools in Mysore city corporation limit. High School Personality Questionnaire (HSPQ) was administered to find out the personality problems of high school students.  Experimental design has been applied and Life-skills counseling intervention has been given for the experimental group.  Life-skills counseling was found to be very effective in enhancing the self-sufficiency of high school students.

scholarly journals Improve student career certainty using self-information

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1480-1494
Author(s):  
Syarifuddin Dahlan ◽  
Evalia Idris ◽  
Eko Susanto
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Career Counseling ◽  
The Self ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Career Certainty ◽  
Experimental Group

This study aims to examine the effectiveness of counseling interventions using self-information to increase student career certainty. This study was conducted with a quasi-experimental pre-test–post-test non-equivalent group design. The number of subjects was 94 high school students, out of which 44 were male and 50 were female; the experimental group consisted of 39 people and the control group consisted of 55 people. The Self-information used in this study was provided through the Self-Directed Career Exploration Inventory, while research data was obtained through the Career Plan Certainty Scale. The results showed that career counseling services using self-information were effective in helping high school students to increase their career choice certainty. The mean score of the students of the specialization group in the experimental group increased and was significantly different from the mean score of the students in the control group. In addition, the mean score for the study plans of male and female students was not significantly different.   Keywords: Career certainty, self-information, career counseling, career intervention.

scholarly journals Physical Computing Strategy to Support Students’ Coding Literacy: An Educational Experiment with Arduino Boards

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1830
Author(s):  
Chih-Chao Chung ◽  
Shi-Jer Lou
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Program Design ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Physical Computing ◽  
Technical High School ◽  
Experimental Group

The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of introduction of the physical computing strategy of Arduino Boards in a program design course on coding literacy and the effectiveness of the application in technical high school students. This study selected two classes of twelfth-grade students enrolled in a program design course at a technical high school in Southern Taiwan as the samples. One class was the control group (43 students), and the other was the experimental group (42 students). During the 18-week course, the control group carried out a DBL (design-based learning) programming project, and the experimental group carried out the DBL programming project using the physical computing strategy of Arduino boards. Pre- and posttests and a questionnaire survey were carried out, while ANCOVA (analysis of covariance) was used for evaluation purposes. In the course, students in the experimental group were randomly selected for semi-structured interviews to understand their learning status and to perform qualitative analysis and summarization. This study proposed the physical computing strategy of Arduino boards, featuring staged teaching content, practical teaching activities, and real themes and problem-solving tasks. The results show that the coding literacy of students in the different teaching strategy groups was significantly improved. However, in the Arduino course on DBL programming, the students in the experimental group had a significantly higher learning efficiency in coding literacy than those in the control group. Moreover, according to the qualitative analysis using student interviews, Arduino boards were found to improve students’ motivation to learn coding and to aid in systematically guiding students toward improving their coding literacy by combining their learning with DBL theory. Thus, Arduino technology can be effectively used to improve students’ programming abilities and their operational thinking in practically applying programming theories.

Basic English Speech Support And Pronunciation Skills Of Senior High School Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 662-671
Author(s):  
Henry Orbasayan Alperito ◽  
Cristobal Millenes Ambayon
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
High School English ◽  
Management Students ◽  
Basic English ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Senior High School Students

The Basic English Speech Support is audio with transcription which is composed of the features of pronunciation that is purposely compiled to enhance pronunciation skills specifically, the sounds of English, stress, intonation, and linking. It is applied within the study with the aim of measuring its effectiveness to the pronunciation skills of Senior High School students. The study is designed to evaluate, validate and determine the effectiveness of Basic English Speech Support to the Senior High School, Grade 12, Accountancy, Business and Management students in Libertad National High School. English-teacher Evaluators evaluated the audio and its transcription. The design involved the experimental group and the control group which were carefully selected through the randomization process. The data gathered were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential tools such as mean, standard deviation, and t-test. The results revealed that students from the experimental group got a higher mean gain compared to the control group. It was factually and statistically confirmed that the utilization of Basic English Speech Support served as a significant element in teaching pronunciation and evidently, advances better learning among Senior High School students.

scholarly journals Self-efficacy of osteoporosis preventive behaviors and its predictors in Iranian adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Ghelichkhani ◽  
Mojgan Mirghafourvand ◽  
Elahe Bahrami-Vazir ◽  
Esmaeil Vali ◽  
Azam Mohammadi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
General Linear Model ◽  
The Self ◽  
Preventive Behaviors ◽  
School Students ◽  
Osteoporosis Knowledge ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Female High School

AbstractIntroductionAlmost all the bone mass in females is accumulated during adolescence and especially in the years immediately following menstruation. Self-efficacy plays an important role in moderating the relationship between knowledge and behavior. This study aimed to determine the self-efficacy of osteoporosis preventive behaviors and its predictors in female high school students.MethodologyThis descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was conducted on 330 female high school students in Saveh, Iran during 2016–2017. A two-stage cluster sampling method was used to select the participants. Data were collected using a socio-demographic questionnaire, the Osteoporosis Knowledge Test (OKT) and the Osteoporosis Self-Efficacy Scale (OSES). A general linear model was used to determine the self-efficacy predictors of osteoporosis preventive behaviors.ResultsThe mean [standard deviation (SD)] of the total OKT score was 11.08 (4.08) of attainable range from 0 to 32. The mean (SD) of the total OSES score was 121.97 (37.36) of attainable range from 0 to 200. The mean (SD) of the exercise and calcium subscales of OSES were 58.39 (22.56) and 63.57 (21.02), respectively. There were significant relationships between the total OKT score with the total OSES score (r = 0.16, p = 0.003) and its subscales, including exercise (r = 0.16, p = 0.002) and calcium (r = 0.11, p = 0.03) scores. According to the adjusted general linear model, the variables of economic status, educational level and osteoporosis knowledge were predictors of the self-efficacy in the studied students.ConclusionFindings suggested that most of the students had moderate levels of knowledge and self-efficacy regarding osteoporosis preventive behaviors; therefore, improving the knowledge and self-efficacy of this group can play a significant role in promoting their health.

scholarly journals Do students need more information to leave the beaten paths? The impact of a counseling intervention on high school students’ choice of major

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim G. Piepenburg ◽  
Lukas Fervers
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Counseling Intervention ◽  
Choice Of Major ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
The Impact

AbstractDespite an almost endless list of possible study programs and occupational opportunities, high school students frequently focus on pursuing a small number of well-known study programs. Students also often follow gender-typical paths and restrict their attention to study programs in which the majority of students consists of same-gendered people. This choice pattern has far-reaching consequences, including persistent gender segregation and an undersupply of graduates in emerging sectors of the industry. Building on rational choice and social psychological theory, we argue that this pattern partly occurs due to information deficits that may be altered by counseling interventions. To assess this claim empirically, we evaluated the impact of a counseling intervention on the intended choice of major among high school students in Germany by means of a randomized controlled trial (RCT). We estimate the effect by instrumental variable estimation to account for two-sided non-compliance. Our results show that the intervention has increased the likelihood that participants will consider less well-known or gender-atypical study programs, particularly for high school students with lower starting levels of information. Supplementary analyses confirm that a positive impact on information seems to be one of the relevant causal mechanisms. These results suggest that counseling services have the potential to guide high school students to less gender-typical and well-known majors, possibly reducing gender segregation and smoothing labor market transitions after graduation.

scholarly journals Re- Enforcing Factors Related to Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages amongst High School Students in the North Central Province, Liberia

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
Joseph Nyan Gono ◽  
Dora O. Akinboye
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Training Model ◽  
Reliability Coefficient ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Life Skills Training ◽  
School Students

This study endeavored to establish trends in the re-enforcing factor related to the consumption of alcoholic beverages among high school students in Liberia, using an experimental research design. A sample of 440 students from two selected schools was determined using Cochran’s formula. A sixteen item questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 0.70 was administered to the 440 students to identify those who drink alcohol. Applying G Power formula, 84 students were randomly selected out of the 170 students who drink alcohol as participants. Another validated questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 0.76 was used to collect data from the field. Descriptive statistics and t-test were used to analyze the data. The study concludes that the use of the Alcohol and Life Skills Training Model, which was employed to the experimental group is an effective educational tool to prepare students to make responsible decision about abstaining from drinking alcoholic beverages than the HIV/ AIDS Model which was employed to the control group. It is therefore recommended that the Government of Liberia should adopt the Alcohol and Life Skills Training Model into the National High School Curriculum in order to prevent and control the consumption of alcohol by students in high schools. Secondly, researchers and the Ministry of Education in conjunction with other Ministries such as Health and Youth should conduct further research on a wider scale on alcohol consumption among the youth, including the in-school and the out of school adolescents in Liberia.

scholarly journals The Influence of Guided Inquiry Learning Using Flash Based Invertebramedia on the Senior High School Students’ Learning Achievement

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anifatussholihah Anifatussholihah ◽  
Nur Rahayu Utami ◽  
Niken Subekti
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Inquiry Learning ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Guided Inquiry ◽  
School Students ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Senior High School Students

This research aims to know the influence of guided inquiry learning with flash based Invertebramedia on the learning outcome of senior high school students. The research was done in SMA N 1 Pamotan using Quasi Experimental Design. The sample of the study was X MIPA 1 class (experimental group) and X MIPA 2 class (control group) which was taken by purposive sampling technique. The results showed that there were increasing of cognitive’s learning outcome of the experiment group was 80% and control group was 34.2%. There was a significant difference in the average of cognitive learning outcomes of the experimental group and control group. Analysis of affective and psychomotor aspects showed that learning outcome the experimental group higher that the control group. So, the activity of students during learning process was enchancement. The average of the student’s questionnaire responses after joining the learning was 84.9% in good criteria. The teacher and the students also gave good responses on the implementation of the learning in general. The conclusion of the research is the application of guided inquiry learning with Invertebramedia based on flash influence on high school student’s learning outcomes.

The Effects of Task-Based Instruction on High School Students’ Writing Outcomes

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
Task Based Instruction ◽  
Experimental Group

The goal of this study was to see whether task-based instruction could enhance EFL students' writing fluency and accuracy. Sixty grade 11 students from two complete classrooms at Dai An High School in Tra Vinh Province, Vietnam, participated in this research. The experimental group was taught to write essays using task-based training, whereas the control group was trained using product-based training. Writing skills were assessed before and after the exam. The fourteen-week intervention with task-based training showed significant improvements in post-test scores for the experimental group. The current study also developed a fresh and innovative teaching strategy to help local teachers enhance their performance.

Integrating Blended Learning into Situational Writing for Vocational High School Students

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsiu-Ling Yen ◽  
Shi-Jer Lou ◽  
Ru-Chu Shih
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Writing Instruction ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Experimental Group

This study aims to explore vocational high school students’ attitudes toward integrating blended learning into situational writing, and the learning effectiveness of that integration. A total of 84 vocational high students were divided into an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group received writing instruction through an online platform, whereas the control group received writing instruction in traditional classrooms. Attitude toward writing and writing performance were assessed before and after the experiment. Also, learning satisfaction survey was conducted afterwards. The findings of this study reveal that results of the post-test total scores and behavior are significantly higher than the pre-test total scores and behavior results for both the experimental and control groups. Particularly, organization, language usage, and the overall performance in the students’ writings are significantly improved. Scores for affection and behavior and total scores for attitude toward writing are significantly higher for the experimental group than for the control group. Both groups show significant satisfaction with the instructional method, interactivity, and total grades.

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