A Study on the Development of Faculty Dashboard Prototype Based on Learning Analytics for University Students' Competency Enhancement: A University of Engineering Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-74
Author(s):  
Yoonja Hwang ◽  
Insook Kim ◽  
Younkyung Seo
Author(s):  
O. Bukhanovskaya ◽  
N. Demcheva

Method of calculating the index of crisis of gratification has been developed on the basis of the complete survey of 995 students of medical university and 804 students of engineering university, determination of clinical and social parameters and factors related to the process of education in the specialized university. It included: a scale for the assessment of the degree of intellectual intensity, academic performance, stress situations related to the peculiarities of education. Reliable differences in values between groups of healthy students, students with preclinical and clinical forms of mental disorders are revealed as a result of calculation of the index of gratification. The authors conclude that satisfaction with the results of education has a significant impact on the mental health of university students.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-33
Author(s):  
Krishnan Isai Amutan Isai ◽  
Teoh Mel Lin ◽  
Hee Sio Ching ◽  
Ramalingam Selvajothi ◽  
Elanttamil Maruthai

It seems that many English language learners have deficiency to write persuasively. This portent has been observed among university students, particularly those from technical fields. Therefore, the present study examines the use of ethos, pathos and logos in persuasive email writing and determines if these features were used appropriately. The participants involved in this research were 43 third-year Malaysian engineering students. The task evaluated was persuasive email writing, and the data was obtained from an official university website forum. The data was analysed qualitatively by using Aristotelian rhetorical theory. The results show that there were some persuasive techniques used by the students in their email writing. It appears that the appeal to pathos was preferred highly in directly connecting with the emotions of the instructors. This was followed by appeals to ethos, where the students used their own ethicality and credibility to persuade the instructor into giving them an extension deadline of their classwork. The findings further revealed that appeal to logos were not used in a very persuasive manner, which could also due to avoiding logical fallacies. Therefore, the present study shows the engineering students prefer to link with emotions in their email writing in achieving their goals.   


Author(s):  
الرشيد يوسف عباس

مخلص البحث:يسعى هذا المقترح إلى تصميم منهج لتعليم اللغة العربية للجامعيين غير المتخصصين فيها، خاصة طلاب المعهد البترولي ب:)أبو ظبي(، وهم طلاب منخرطون في مجال الدراسات الهندسية نسبة لطبيعة المؤسسة التعليمية التي ينتمون إليها ولقد - -قررت اللغة العربية لهؤلاء الطلبة بوصفها متطلباً جامعياً يسعى إلى ربط الطالب الجامعي باللغة العربية قراءة، وكتابة، وتحدثًً.ويهدف هذا المقترح إلى تمكين الطالب الجامعي من القراءة السليمة الخالية من الأخطاء، وتحديد الأفكار الرئيسة للنص،فضلاًعن إقامة الححج وإبداء وجهات النظر، وكتابة مقالات متماسكة تعكس رؤيةً واضحةً، وقدرةً على عرض الموضوع،وتوظيف المعرفة اللغوية بأساليبها التركيبية والبلاغية في إنتاج نصوص مكتوبة، وتطبيق المعرفة اللغوية في تحليل وعرض كتاباتالآخرين بأسلوب يتسم بالسلامة اللغوية، والمهارة الفنية.الكلمات المفتاحية: الدارسون - حاجات الدارسي - تخطيط المنهج - المهارات الأنشطة. -Abstract:This paper tries to propose a syllabus design for teaching Arabic to university students who are not specializing in the language with special reference to the students of Petroleum College of Abu Dhabi. They are engineering students who have to fulfill the college requirement subject of Arabic that covers the reading, writing and conversation skills. The syllabus aims to enable the students to read correctly, identify the main ideas of the text, argue and state opinions, write a cohesive text that clearly reflects the idea, be able to present the topic, use linguistic knowledge with the structural and rhetorical styles in producing written text, apply linguistic knowledge in analyzing the writing of others with correct use of language and styles. The study discovered the need to set up such syllabus to teach Arabic specifically to non-specialist students in Arabic; the need analysis had also helped the students to give input on their own expectations; non-specialist students are in a more need to the Arabic language skills comparing to the others; they  need more practical use of the language then the knowledge about the language and the material content need to made relevant with the reality of the student life.Keywords: Students - Students’ Needs - Language planning – Skills – Activities.Abstrak:Kajian ini cuba untuk memberikan satu cadangan rekabentuk silibus untuk pengajaran bahasa Arab kepada para pelajar university yang dalam pengkhususan bukan bahasa Arab di Kolej Petrolium Abu Dhabi. Mereka terdiri daripada pelajar jurusan kejuruteraan yang perlu untk mengambil matapelajaran tersebut sebagai salah satu matapelajaran wajib universiti. Matapelajaran Bahasa Arab tersebut meliputi kemahiran membaca, menulis dan bertutur. Silibus yang dibuat menyasarkan para pelajar untuk mampu membaca dengan betul, mengenali isi utama sesuatu teks, berhujah dan mengemukakan pendapat, menulis satu teks yang kohesif dan jelas isinya, mampu untuk membentangkan tajuk tersebut, menggunakan pengetahuan bahasa dengan stail retorik dan struktur dalam menulis teks, menggunakan dalam menganialisa pendapat teks orang lain dengan menggunakan bahasa dan stail yang betul. Kajian ini mendapati bahawa terdapat keperluan untuk membuat silibus pengajaran bahasa Arab terutamanya kepada yang bukan pengkhususan. Kajian analisa keperluan juga membolehkan para pelajar mengemukakan jangkaan mereka terhadap silibus yang dibuat; pelajar bukan pengkhususan lebih memerlukan pendedahan aspek-aspek tertentu berbanding kepada pelajar lain, mereka juga memerlukan aspek praktikal bahasa lebih daripada aspek pengetahuan tentang ilmu bahasa dan kandungan silibus perlulah lebih relevan kepada realiti kehidupan pelajar.Katakunci: Pelajar -ٌ keperluan pelajar -ٌٌ perancangan bahasa -ٌٌ kemahiran -ٌ akitiviti.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1149-1157
Author(s):  
Mustafa Suphi Erden

AbstractThis study investigates the level of familiarity and interest of students towards social robotics through a survey conducted with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Students at Heriot-Watt University in the UK and Electrical Engineering Students at Xidian University in China. The results indicate that whereas there is no significant difference in the level of familiarity within the three groups of students and no significant difference in the level of interest between the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Students at Heriot Watt University, there is a statistically significant difference in the level of interest towards social robotics between the Heriot-Watt University and Xidian University Students. Xidian University Students demonstrate a higher level of interest towards social robotics. The qualitative analysis shows that many of the Xidian University Students are willing to perceive and have robots as companions whereas none of the Heriot-Watt University Students show such or similar tendency. This observation indicates that cultural background plays a significant role in interests and preferences of the students towards social robotics.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren Li ◽  
Kaiwen Sun ◽  
Florian Schaub ◽  
Christopher Brooks

Use of university students’ educational data for learning analytics has spurred a debate about whether and how to provide students with agency regarding data collection and use. A concern is that students opting out of learning analytics may skew predictive models, in particular if certain student populations disproportionately opt out and biases are unintentionally introduced into predictive models. We investigated university students’ propensity to consent to learning analytics through an email prompt, and collected respondents’ perceived benefits and privacy concerns regarding learning analytics in a subsequent online survey. In particular, we studied whether and why students’ consent propensity differs among student subpopulations by sending our email prompt to a sample of 4,000 students at our institution stratified by ethnicity and gender. 272 students interacted with the email, of which 119 completed the survey. We identified that institutional trust, concerns with the amount of data collection versus perceived benefits, and comfort with instructors’ data access were key determinants in students’ decision to participate in learning analytics. We find that students identifying ethnically as Black were significantly less likely to respond and self-reported lower levels of institutional trust. Female students reported concerns with data collection but were also more comfortable with use of their data by instructors . Students’ comments corroborate these findings and we discuss the implications of these concerns on educational data collection.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (SI4) ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
Sathiyaperba Subramaniam ◽  
Rozi Hanum Shaharudin ◽  
Nurul Bazilah Abdul Hamid ◽  
Nadiah Hanim Abdul Wahab

This study investigated the relationship between motivation and willingness to communicate (WTC) in English and motivation towards the WTC in English amongst pre-university Engineering students. The instruments used to investigate the motivation and the WTC in English and the correlation between motivation and WTC in English were administered amongst 109 respondents. There was a significant relationship between the variables. The multivariate regression results implied that 48.8% of WTC variance could be predicted from the motivation to communicate in English. The study provided important implications concerning the extension of the corpus of knowledge and pedagogical enhancement. Keywords: Motivation to communicate, Willingness to communicate, Engineering students eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6iSI4.2906  


Author(s):  
Jonas Vaclavek ◽  
Jakub Kuzilek ◽  
Jan Skocilas ◽  
Zdenek Zdrahal ◽  
Viktor Fuglik

Author(s):  
Warren Li ◽  
Kaiwen Sun ◽  
Florian Schaub ◽  
Christopher Brooks

AbstractUse of university students’ educational data for learning analytics has spurred a debate about whether and how to provide students with agency regarding data collection and use. A concern is that students opting out of learning analytics may skew predictive models, in particular if certain student populations disproportionately opt out and biases are unintentionally introduced into predictive models. We investigated university students’ propensity to consent to learning analytics through an email prompt, and collected respondents’ perceived benefits and privacy concerns regarding learning analytics in a subsequent online survey. In particular, we studied whether and why students’ consent propensity differs among student subpopulations bysending our email prompt to a sample of 4,000 students at our institution stratified by ethnicity and gender. 272 students interacted with the email, of which 119 also completed the survey. We identified that institutional trust, concerns with the amount of data collection versus perceived benefits, and comfort with instructors’ data use for learning engagement were key determinants in students’ decision to participate in learning analytics. We find that students identifying ethnically as Black were significantly less likely to respond and self-reported lower levels of institutional trust. Female students reported concerns with data collection but were also more comfortable with use of their data by instructors for learning engagement purposes. Students’ comments corroborate these findings and suggest that agency alone is insufficient; institutional leaders and instructors also play a large role in alleviating the issue of bias.


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