scholarly journals Motivation Research and Development of Educational and Cognitive Activity of Technical University Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3730-3734
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Petroleum Engineering ◽  
School Students ◽  
Interactive Teaching ◽  
Technical High School ◽  
Combined Use

The article is devoted to the problem of the motivation development of educational and cognitive activity of technical high school students. The article presents the results of the research on the motivation development of educational and cognitive activity of students of the direction 21.03.01 “Petroleum Engineering” of the Surgut Institute of oil and gas (a branch of the Industrial University of Tyumen in Surgut). As a result of the research, a method of stimulating the development of motivation of educational and cognitive activity of students was proposed, based on the combined use of interactive teaching methods with various pedagogical techniques. The article also discusses the characteristics of the students’ motives of their educational activities, as they directly affect the quality of professional training, the formation of the professional personality.

The Role of Pre-College STEM Education in Student Enrollment in Petroleum Engineering

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nayef Alyafei ◽  
Afsha Shaikh ◽  
Mohamed Gharib ◽  
Albertus Retnanto
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Petroleum Engineering ◽  
School Students ◽  
Gas Industry

Abstract Final-year high school students are faced with a difficult decision when selecting their undergraduate major of choice. Often, the decision is made even more difficult by uncertainty about what different majors entail. Petroleum engineering in particular is a discipline that is generally not explored within high school classrooms and therefore students lack understanding about the roles of engineers in the oil and gas industry. To combat this uncertainty, this paper explores the potential of running pre-college project-based learning programs to increase high school students’ interest in and familiarity with pursuing various undergraduate STEM disciplines and careers. More specifically, this paper provides an insight into two case studies of novel STEM education programs, developed to enhance a group of high school students’ understanding of petroleum engineering. The programs were designed to increase students’ interest in learning about the selected petroleum engineering concepts, namely polymer flooding to enhance oil recovery and multiphase fluid flow in porous media, while simultaneously providing an understanding of the current global challenges faced by the oil and gas industry. The program also aimed to engage students in learning and applying fundamental engineering skills to relatable real-world issues. These project goals will help facilitate the desire, commonly seen in recent years, of developing countries to increase their oil and gas production. This program was applied during the Summer Engineering Academy program offered by Texas A&M University at Qatar, which provides an innovative educational space for high school students. The program was conducted with the main objective of allowing the students to understand the basic concepts of petroleum engineering via short lectures as well as laboratory experimentation. Students in Grades 9-11 spent 10 days learning about petroleum engineering applications that integrated science, engineering, and technology where they designed, built, and tested an experimental setup for understanding various processes in petroleum engineering. Students were expected to solve a common problem faced in the petroleum industry. At the end of the program, the students gained an understanding of the issues and recommended unique solutions to these problems in the form of oil-recovery based projects presented to a panel of experts. This program attempted to build bridges between the STEM education pipeline of rapidly developing countries, such as Qatar, and the new demand for talent in the oil and gas sector. The details of this novel program are presented, including the content, preparation, materials used, case studies, and the resulting learning outcomes.

scholarly journals The Professional Training Motives of Ukrainian Students on Specialty "Tourism" At Technical University: Gender Index

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4S) ◽  
pp. 107-114
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
School Students

In the article the problem of quality of preparation of specialists on tourism in the context of higher education. Found that the problem of the quality of training of specialists in tourism, hotel, and restaurant business in numerous studies abroad suggests mandatory inclusion into the educational process use of different curricula, the formation of motivation of learning, considering the requirements of employers. Many studies have revealed the motives of students of various countries to encourage them to study on the programmed for hospitality and tourism. Most of the foreign studies have found out what motivates students to choose and study in the hotel business and tourism program. In foreign studies, the influence of gender features and the course of students' professional training on the differences in the motivation of training for Scientific and Technological Progress were also studied. Study of the motivation of studying in foreign studies is aimed at studying the motives and advantages of students from different countries, who have chosen to study the program scientific and technological revolution and Scientific and Technological Progress. We studied the importance of the motives “educational and cognitive”, “professional”, “working”, “obtaining a diploma”, “prestige of the university”, “approval of others”, “legal aspects”, “material support” for students of the specialty “Tourism”. It confirmed that the motives of educational and professional activity of students of the specialty "Tourism" are related to the success of specialized disciplines. Statistically significant gender differences were identified in the success of the training of junior high school students in practice and in all the specialized disciplines studied. It is shown that the most significant motives of professional training for Ukrainian students of the specialty "Tourism" are the motive "working", "professional" motives and the motive "obtaining a diploma". Studying the gender differences of students in motivation for studying in the field showed that the motive of "material supply" and "professional" motives are significant for Ukrainian men, and the motives for "obtaining a diploma" and "Prestige of Higher Educational Institutions" are significant for Ukrainian women.

scholarly journals One Song, Many Voices: Dementia and The Power of Music

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 775-775
Author(s):  
Debra Sheets ◽  
Stuart MacDonald ◽  
Andre Smith
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Social Connection ◽  
School Students ◽  
Choral Singing ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Care Partners

Abstract Choral singing is a novel approach to reduce dementia stigma and social isolation while offering participants a sense of purpose, joy and social connection. The pervasiveness of stigma surrounding dementia remains one of the biggest barriers to living life with dignity following a diagnosis (Alzheimer Society of Canada, 2018). This paper examines how a social inclusion model of dementia care involving an intergenerational choir for people living with dementia, their care partners and high school students can reduce stigma and foster social connections. Multiple methodologies are used to investigate the effects of choir participation on cognition, stress levels, social connections, stigma, and quality of life. Results demonstrate the positive impact of choir participation and indicate that this socially inclusive intervention offers an effective, non-pharmacological alternative for older adults living with dementia in the community. Discussion focuses on the importance of instituting meaningful and engaging dementia-friendly activities at the community level.

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.

Comparing the characteristics of EFL students’ multimodal composing and traditional monomodal writing: The case of a reading-to-write task

2021 ◽  
pp. 136216882110467
Author(s):  
Hyejin Cho ◽  
YouJin Kim
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
School Students ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
Multimodal Composing ◽  
Language Classrooms ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
The Relationship

Although digital multimodal composing (DMC) is receiving increasing attention in language classrooms, the extent to which it contributes to students’ writing practices is controversial. In order to understand the affordances of DMC compared to traditional monomodal writing in school contexts, it is pertinent to compare DMC and traditional writing using academic integrated-skills tasks. The current study aims to investigate the relationship between the quality of Korean high school students’ multimodal composing and that of the same students’ traditional monomodal writing, as well as content and language alignment. Thirty-one Korean high school students carried out a summary-reflection task through DMC and traditional monomodal writing. After reading a short fable by Aesop, students summarized and reflected on the text. While students used only one mode in traditional writing (i.e. English text), they utilized multiple modes in DMC (e.g. pictures, movies). Students’ task outcomes were scored using analytic rubrics, and texts were coded in terms of the content and linguistic features students retrieved from the text (i.e. alignment) and their degree of reflection. The results showed that there were no statistically significant differences in the quality, content and language alignment, or amount of reflection in writing outcomes between students’ DMC and traditional monomodal writing.

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