scholarly journals DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL THROUGH JIGSAW, MIND-MAPPING, AND ROUNDTABLE TECHNIQUES

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
Dwi Iswahyuni ◽  
Sri Kiswati
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Mind Mapping ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Almost All

Writing skill seems to be a difficult skill for many students. Whereas, they are demanded to be able to write at text level. This study investigates how students’ writing skill can be developed  through the combination of jigsaw, mind-mapping, and roundtable techniques. The aim of the study was to find out in what ways the combination of jigsaw, mind-mapping, and roundtable techniques can develop students’ writing skill. Moreover, this study belonged to a pre-experimental study and the instruments employed in this study were tests and field notes. The results of the study showed that almost all of the students made some improvements after the treatments. All aspects which comprised grammar; mechanics; style and quality of expression; organization; and content aspects were improved. In addition, the highest improvement belonged to grammar aspect (30.73%). Furthermore, based on the field notes, the students gave positive responses towards the treatments and the treatments were worthwhile for the development of the students’ writing skill. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that the combination of jigsaw, mind-mapping, and roundtable techniques can develop students’ writing skill in many ways including grammar, mechanics, vocabulary, organization, and content aspects.

scholarly journals THE USE OF PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT OF WRITING SKILL IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Iman Abdul Halim ◽  
Agustin Hartati ◽  
Zubaedah Wiji Lestari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Large Class ◽  
Research Finding ◽  
Portfolio Assessment ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Giving Feedback

The objectives of the research are to find out the use of portfolio assessment of writing skill in descriptive text and the challenges faced by the teacher in the use of portfolio assessment of writing skill in descriptive text in SMP Negeri 1 Pagelaran Cianjur. The type of the research is qualitative research with case study method. In collecting the data, the researcher uses field notes, observation checklist, open-ended questionnaire, and documentation. The data were analyzed by reducing the non useful data, displaying the data, and drawing conclusion. The researcher uses data triangulation to get the validity of the data. Based on the research finding, the teacher implemented almost all the procedures of portfolio assessment proposed by Brown & Abeywickrama, the teacher designed the purpose of portfolio, the teacher designed the material of portfolio, the teacher designed the time of portfolio, the teacher designed the time for reviewing, the teacher designed the place for portfolio. The challenges faced by the teacher in the use of portfolio assessment of writing skill in descriptive text that the teacher has difficulties in giving feedback in a large class, less in controlling and guiding the students, and the teacher did not use the rubric for assessing the writing skill of the student’s task.

Improvement Exposition Writing Skill through Contextual Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (04) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fani Lastianti Tiarasari ◽  
MS Zulela ◽  
Gusti Yarmi
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Action Observation ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Teaching Learning

This objective of this research was to improve the exposition writing skill through the contextual approach on fifth grade student of Kalisari 02 Elementary School East Jakarta. This research uses an action research method consisting if two cycles. Each cycle consists of four phases: planning, action, observation, and reflection. The subjects of the research were the students on fifth grade of Kalisari 02 Elementary School East Jakarta as many as 32 students. Data were collected through observation for each student during action of learning, field notes, and documentation. The result obtained average values of exposition writing skill are 64,69 at pre-research, increase to 67,19 the first cycle and 80,13 in the second cycle, whereas the student's score of all exposition writing indicators show significant improvement. The conclusion of this research was contextual approach is very effective to improve exposition writing skill. Not only that but applying contextual approach also can improve the quality of teaching-learning process and can improve student’s actively so it can build the active and pleasant situation in the teaching and learning process.

scholarly journals IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF TEACHERS’ TEACHING ADMINISRASTION PLANS THROUGH ACADEMIC SUPERVISING AT SMA IN KABUPATEN ROKAN HULU, RIAU PROVINCE

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
Parman Hasibuan
Keyword(s):  
Professional Competence ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
National Standard ◽  
Teaching Administration ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Almost All

The research was aimed at improving the teachers’ competence in managing their teaching administration effectively. At the beginning, it was found that majority of English teachers in SMA did not have complete the components of teaching Administration as suggested by the educational ministry regulation number 41/2007 in Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP). It was because almost all English teachers did not know what they should prepare for their administration fulfillment. The research is a case study. The data collection of the study was gained through the activities of pre-observation, field notes, real observation, colleague coaching or training, and documentation. Those data were then analyzed using table of scores in the professional competence instrument. The steps taken to overcome the teachers’ teaching administration problems are among others by doing some strategies of coaching, guiding, discussing and socializing the standardized process of Indonesian National Standard of Education to English teachers. As a result of the study, from almost zero to hero, the teachers’ understanding and competences aboutteaching administration fulfillment raised, ranging from 29% to 87% (at the beginning to the end of the study). School supervisors are recommended to do similar research activities to prove the truth of the findings. For teachers, particularly English teachers, it is suggested that they change their mind set in managing their jobs. Finally, it is expected that this study will have good contribution to enhance the English teachers’ competences in managing their jobs.

Physicochemical and bacteriological characterization of hospital effluents and their impact on the environment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chem Int
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Fecal Coliforms ◽  
Chemical Pollution ◽  
Hospital Effluents ◽  
Biological Contaminants ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Direct Discharge ◽  
Significant Chemical

Liquid effluents discharged by hospitals may contain chemical and biological contaminants whose main source is the different substances used for the treatment of patients. This type of rejection can present a sanitary potentially dangerous risk for human health and can provoke a strong degradation of diverse environmental compartments mainly water and soils. The present study focuses on the quality of the liquid effluents of Hassani Abdelkader’s hospital of Sidi Bel-Abbes (West of Algeria). The results reveal a significant chemical pollution (COD: 879 mgO2/L, BOD5: 850 mgO2/L, NH4+ : 47.9 mg/l, NO2- : 4.2 mg/l, NO3- : 56.8 mg/l with respect to WHO standard of 90 mgO2/L, 30 mgO2/L, 0.5 mg/l, 1 mg/l and 1 mg/l respectively). However, these effluents are biodegradable since the ratio COD/BOD5 do not exceeded the value of 2 in almost all samples. The presence of pathogen germs is put into evidence such as pseudomonas, the clostridium, the staphylococcus, the fecal coliforms and fecal streptococcus. These results show that the direct discharge of these effluents constitutes a major threat to human health and the environment.

Transformative Learning in Mastery-Oriented CS0 Course

2021 ◽  
pp. 234763112110072
Author(s):  
Srinivasan Lakshminarayanan ◽  
N. J. Rao ◽  
G. K. Meghana
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Guided Discovery ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Transformative Experiences ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Cognitive Levels ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Core Course

The introductory programming course, commonly known as CS1 and offered as a core course in the first year in all engineering programs in India, is unique because it can address higher cognitive levels, metacognition and some aspects of the affective domain. It can provide much needed transformative experiences to students coming from a system of school education that is dominantly performance-driven. Unfortunately, the CS1 course, as practiced in almost all engineering programs, is also performance-driven because of a variety of compulsions. This paper suggests that the inclusion of a course CS0 can bring about transformative learning that can potentially make a significant difference in the quality of learning in all subsequent engineering courses. The suggested instruction design of this course takes the advantage of the unique features of a course in programming. The proposed CS0 course uses “extreme apprenticeship” and “guided discovery” methods of instruction. The effectiveness of these instruction methods was established through the use of the thematic analysis, a well-known qualitative research method, and the associated coding of transformative learning experiences and instruction components.

scholarly journals Noise at the time of COVID 19: The impact in some areas in Rome and Milan, Italy

Noise Mapping ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 248-264
Author(s):  
Rosa Maria Alsina Pagès ◽  
Francesc Alías ◽  
Patrizia Bellucci ◽  
Pier Paolo Cartolano ◽  
Ilaria Coppa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sound Pressure ◽  
Traffic Noise ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
Acoustic Environment ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
Real Time Traffic ◽  
Italian Regions ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed in Italy at the end of January 2020, when the first positive cases for the virus were identified. At the beginning of March, the virus had spread to all Italian regions and on 10 March 2020 the lockdown phase began, limiting the movement of people and prohibiting almost all commercial activities, businesses and non-essential industries. As a result, millions of people were forced to stay at home, causing a drastic drop in traffic volume, which significantly changed the acoustic environment and air quality of cities. On 4 May 2020, the lockdown was partially lifted and activities were progressively reopened. Therefore, traffic gradually started to increase and, consequently, the noise emitted by motor vehicles. This behaviour was confirmed by the data collected by the DYNAMAP system, an automatic platform developed within the LIFE DYNAMAP project, providing real time traffic noise maps in terms of sound pressure levels and impacts at receivers (people and dwellings exposed to noise level bands). In this paper traffic and non-traffic-related noise events in the cities of Rome and Milan from March to May 2020 are analysed and compared to the corresponding values in 2019 to evaluate the effects of the lockdown period.

scholarly journals Research Regarding the Quality of Lambs Carcass Resulted from Tsigaia Purebred Compared with Hybrids of Tsigaia Ewes Crossed with Blanc du Massif Central Rams

2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Mihai Marian BORZAN ◽  
Dana PUSTA ◽  
Liviu BOGDAN ◽  
Alexandra TABARAN ◽  
Attila MATE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Massif Central ◽  
Live Body Weight ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

Abstract: The research aims to compare some qualitative characteristics of purebred Tsigaia lambs and Tsigaia crossed with Blanc du Massif Central lambs. The criteria assessed were: chemical composition of purebred and Tsigaia crossed meat, the live body weight, the slaughtering performance, the weight of different carcass cut. For almost all criteria chosen the crossed individuals registered better results.

scholarly journals Impact of Demerger on Shareholders’ Wealth

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranjit SINGH ◽  
Amalesh BHOWAL ◽  
Varun BAWARI
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Specific Character ◽  
Average Price ◽  
Share Prices ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Time Specific ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Total Wealth

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the change in the level of the wealth of the shareholders’ before the demerger and after the demerger.Design/methodology/approach – In the present study the data relating to share prices has been taken from the official website of Bombay Stock Exchange. Here the average of the six months price of the demerged company before demerger and average six months price or the average price upto 31st of July, 2007 has been collected of demerged and resultant company after demerger. Findings – It is found that after demerger there is increase in the total wealth of the shareholders in almost all the cases.Research limitations/implications – Given the nature of this study, generalizations cannot be made as the study is conducted in a bullish market. The time specific character of the subject matter is an opportunity for future longitudinal research.Practical implications – Presently de-mergers are creating enormous wealth for shareholders. It is because of the negative synergy. Due to the demerger this negative synergy is removed and the value is unlocked. However, Investors should differentiate between genuine attempts at value creation and de-mergers undertaken to create hype around the stocks. Stay away from dubious companies that want to manipulate prices. Investors should focus on the quality of management and corporate governance record of the companyOriginality/value – The study is the first of its kind and hence original in nature.Article Type: Research paperKeyword(s): Demerger, Demerged Company, Resultant Company, Negative Synergy, Shareholders Wealth.

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