scholarly journals High School Students as Citizen Scientists to Decrease Radon Exposure

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (24) ◽  
pp. 9178
Author(s):  
Ellen J. Hahn ◽  
Craig Wilmhoff ◽  
Mary Kay Rayens ◽  
Nicholas B. Conley ◽  
Emily Morris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
School Students ◽  
Radon Exposure ◽  
The University ◽  
Radon Testing ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Family Centered

Residents in rural Kentucky (KY) and suburban Ohio (OH) expressed concerns about radon exposure and lung cancer. Although 85% of lung cancer cases are caused by tobacco smoke, radon exposure accounts for 10–15% of lung cancer cases. Academic and community members from the University of KY and the University of Cincinnati developed and pilot-tested a family-centered, youth-engaged home radon testing toolkit. The radon toolkit included radon information, and how to test, interpret, and report back findings. We educated youth as citizen scientists and their teachers in human subjects protection and home radon testing using the toolkit in the classroom. Youth citizen scientists explained the study to their parents and obtained informed consent. One hundred students were trained in human subjects protection, 27 had parental permission to be citizen scientists, and 18 homeowners completed surveys. Radon values ranged from < 14.8 Bq/m3 to 277.5 Bq/m3. Youth were interested and engaged in citizen science and this family-centered, school-based project provided a unique opportunity to further the healthy housing and quality education components of the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Further research is needed to test the impact of student-led, family-centered citizen science projects in environmental health as part of school curricula.

Anxiety of High School Students Preparing for University during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 374-377
Author(s):  
Prapattra Hongwisat ◽  
Thanawat Wuthikanokkan ◽  
Nathakan Preechakansakul
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Respiratory Symptoms ◽  
The Other ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
School Students ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Online Form

Covid-19 are one of the viruses that were widely spreaded in 2019 and are still separate until nowadays. Thailand is one of the countries that are highly infected. The majority of people who are infected with this virus tend to have mild to severe respiratory symptoms. Furthermore, anyone can get sick, and it can lead to death. However, the most common symptoms of this virus are fever, cough, tiredness, and loss of taste or smell, on the other hand, characteristics in a minority of people, such as diarrhea and headaches. Due to the impact of the Covid-19 virus, people have to change their lifestyle to the online form. These changes have impacted mostly on economics and education in particular countries, so this problem also affects anxiety among high school students; who must prepare to apply to the university during the COVID-19 outbreak. In addition, we have collected 151 answers from high school students by surveying in order to know the feelings for entrance to the university during the pandemic situation. We found out that 81.3% of the students are highly affected by covid, and only 0.7% of students are slightly affected. We also found out that 55% of the students are worried about university entrance, and only 2.6% of the students were not worried at all. According to the result, most of the students in Thailand are facing the problem about their education and their entrance for the university which are caused by Covid-19. This may lead to illnesses like depression and anxiety. Keywords: Students, Learning, COVID-19, Thailand, University.

scholarly journals The Impact of Standards-Based Learning: Tracking High School Students’ Transition to the University

2020 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-269
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Guskey ◽  
Matt Townsley ◽  
Thomas M. Buckmiller
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
School Students ◽  
University Courses ◽  
The University ◽  
Implementation Of Standards ◽  
The Impact

This study sought to determine if the implementation of standards-based learning in high schools affects students’ transition to learning in university courses. Surveys and interviews with 13 students who had graduated from high schools implementing standards-based learning and who had completed their first academic semester at a midsize, private, Midwest university revealed no detrimental effects. The most frequently mentioned transition difficulties related to social issues and time management. Implications for implementing high school grading reforms are discussed.

Organization of the university educational environment in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
A. V. Zolotaryuk
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
School Students ◽  
Software Products ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The article reveals issues related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on various aspects of human activity. The necessity of transferring at the peak of diseases of educational institutions to the distance format of conducting classes is substantiated. Studying the articles of a number of authors, the high efficiency of distance learning for high school students and university students is noted; the forms of distance learning in various universities of the world and the problems of such learning are revealed; attention is focused on the possibilities of using a hybrid learning model in the educational process with preliminary recording of lectures on YouTube and conducting classes online using the Teams, Skype, Zoom technology platforms; an assessment of the perception of innovative digital technologies by teachers and students is carried out; it is proposed to submit practically significant, complex tasks for exams that require research and the use of competencies by students of several specialized disciplines.Considerable attention is paid to the organization of the educational process at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. It is noted that many problems of the transition to distance learning were avoided thanks to the advance, systematic and purposeful work to form the university digital environment. The general technological scheme of the educational process of the university in a pandemic is illustrated and disclosed in detail. Information about specialized programs and packages that support the educational process is provided. The role of 1C software products, 1C cloud solutions, which support many basic disciplines in various areas of student training, is especially noted. The possibilities and directions of students’ research work in the field of data analysis and machine learning are revealed. It is concluded that the transition of education to distance learning has not become critical for the Financial University. The University continues to train highly-demanded qualified personnel.

scholarly journals Biotechnology in the production of beverages: the teaching of chemistry from the production of aguardente de cagaita (Eugenia dysenterica)

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
K. B Oliveira ◽  
E. M. Garcia ◽  
G. D. Reis ◽  
H. A. Tarôco ◽  
J. O. F. Melo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cerrado Vegetation ◽  
Fruit Species ◽  
Yellow Color ◽  
Agricultural Use ◽  
Eugenia Dysenterica ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The diversity in the types of vegetation, Brazil is the second largest biome Cerrado, occupying 25% of the country, surpassed only by the Amazon. In Minas Gerais, the Brazilian state has about 10.3% of its area the Cerrado vegetation, covering mainly areas of the Upper and Middle Jequitinhonha. The flora of the cerrado has several fruit species with high potential for agricultural use, which are traditionally used by local people, and the fruits have high levels of sugars, proteins and minerals. Among the great diversity of plants and fruits present in the cerrado is the Eugenia dysenterica, popularly known as cagaita. The fruit is globular yellow color when ripe, slightly acid and can reach up to 4 cm long and up to 5 cm diameter. The work here exposed was led initially to a survey of state schools that have high school in the city of Sete Lagoas-MG. After this survey was chosen for the project development a nearby school of the Federal University of Sao Joao del Rei (UFSJ-CSL) for viability of the project and in which direction proved to be very available. 3rd year high school classes were chosen, totaling 55 students, selecting the students who had greater knowledge of the concepts studied and shown interest. Various activities with students have been developed, one of which is the application of a questionnaire in the first meeting, which enabled us to identify where the problems thereof. a booklet with texts followed fixation exercises and illustrative images on each topic worked in class and the students images developing the proposed project activities was developed. This study aimed to use a fruit of the Cerrado, cagaita to perform fermentation and subsequent distillation, to promote ownership of the concepts of chemistry, biochemistry and biotechnology in high school students. Through the questionnaire at the end of the project, it was possible to assess the relevance of their work and the impact on the training of students. The study proved to be very promising for the students and the school, where probably, future students of the University. It is important to emphasize that the development of the project was very promising because it allowed greater interaction of students with dynamic classes, practical and contextualized, allowing a greater learning of them.

The impact of explicit and implicit power motivation on educational choices

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert Maliszewski ◽  
Anna O. Kuźmińska ◽  
Grażyna Wieczorkowska-Wierzbińska ◽  
Anna Werner-Maliszewska
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Academic Major ◽  
Educational Choices ◽  
Business Majors ◽  
School Students ◽  
Power Motivation ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Implicit Power ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The aim of three studies was to examine the differences between business majors and non-business majors, in their level of implicit (measured by an Implicit Association Test [IAT], Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwarz, 1998) and explicit power motivation (measured by Power Motivation and Helping Power Motivation scales, Frieze & Boneva, 2001).It was predicted that there are no differences between these two groups in the general (implicit) level of power motivation, but that differences exist in the way it is explicitly expressed: through desire for leadership and prominence vs. desire for helping. Results of Study 1 indicated that business majors (management, N=79) declared a higher leadership motive and a lower helping motive than non-business majors (history, psychology, linguistics, N=62).Study 2 addressed question whether the above differences in power motivation stem from socialization at the university level or from pre-selection. The relationship between high school students’ (N=134) academic major preferences and their power motivation was tested. It was found that the more they were business-oriented, the higher their scores were on leadership, and lower on helping scales. In Study 3, business majors (economics, N=75) and non-business majors (psychology, N=82) completed the same questionnaire as participants in previous studies, as well as performed the IAT. Non-business majors declared stronger explicit helping motive, while business majors expressed stronger prominence and leadership motives. Furthermore, for non-business majors, IAT results could be predicted by their helping score. Implications and possible limitations of the presented results are discussed.

Communication satisfaction and trust among Turkish adolescent siblings

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-153
Author(s):  
Müge Çelik Örücü ◽  
Sühendan Er
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Communication Satisfaction ◽  
Age Difference ◽  
School Students ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
Dyadic Trust ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Trust Scale

The relationships that exist among brothers and sisters have been much less researched and observed than other kinds of family relationships. Thus, the impact of sibling dyads' gender and age difference on Turkish adolescents' communication satisfaction and trust was examined. The sample consisted of 272 (154 female, 118 male) Turkish high school students, all of whom were aged between 14 and 18 years and had 1 younger sibling. They were asked to complete the Sibling Communication Satisfaction Scale and the Dyadic Trust Scale. A significant gender difference was obtained for both trust and communication satisfaction, wherein females were more likely than males were to trust and be satisfied with their level of communication with their siblings, especially in the case of same-gender siblings. However, no significant result was found for age difference in terms of either trust or communication satisfaction.

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