scholarly journals Play in Three Acts

2022 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-146
Author(s):  
Michelle Yeo ◽  
Mark Lafave
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Reflective Process ◽  
Therapy Program ◽  
Writing Students ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Reflective Practitioners ◽  
Athletic Therapy ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Therapy Education ◽  
Written Reflection

In some fields, written reflection is commonplace whereas in others it is uncommon. While athletic therapy education aims to produce reflective practitioners, written reflection is not a typical pedagogy employed. In 2014, the athletic therapy program at our institution began the implementation of a clinical presentation (CP) approach to facilitate competency-based curriculum requirements. This innovation to pedagogy required a reimagined approach to teaching, learning, and assessment. We describe one aspect of a larger SoTL study on this transformation, inquiring into the development of reflective practice through reflective writing. Students were asked to regularly reflect on their experiences in the clinic or field as part of their program. In this qualitative component of the study, we were able to gain insight into how students perceived the reflective process, how that evolved over their program, what were enablers and barriers to their reflection, and what was the role of feedback in their learning. The characteristics of student perceptions in each year, which followed a learning arc which we describe sequentially as “confused, conflicted, and convinced,” is explored, along with implications for pedagogy in assisting students to develope reflective professional practice.

scholarly journals Content Validation of Athletic Therapy Clinical Presentations in Canada

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Lafave ◽  
Michelle Yeo ◽  
Khatija Westbrook ◽  
Dennis Valdez ◽  
Breda Eubank ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Therapy Program ◽  
Clinical Presentations ◽  
Difficulty Scale ◽  
High Altitude Cerebral Edema ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Athletic Therapy ◽  
Difficulty Index ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Programs

Context: Competency-based education requires strong planning and a vehicle to deliver and track students' progress across their undergraduate programs. Clinical presentations (CPs) are proposed as 1 method to deliver a competency-based curriculum in a Canadian undergraduate athletic therapy program. Objective: Validation of 253 CPs. Setting: Canadian universities/colleges and clinical practices. Patients or Other Participants: Six Canadian Athletic Therapists Association-accredited program directors and 6 athletic therapists with at least 10 years of experience working in both field and clinical athletic therapy settings. Intervention(s): We surveyed 12 experts who rated the importance and difficulty of 253 CPs using a 100-mm and electronic visual analog scale with extremely important at 1 anchor and irrelevant at the other end. Difficulty was measured in a similar manner anchored by extremely difficulty and extremely easy. Main Outcome Measure(s): Descriptive statistics for importance and difficulty were tabulated on all CPs. An importance-difficulty index was calculated as a mean score of both importance and difficulty scores. Results: Data were converted into quartiles to represent a 4-point categorical importance scale to mimic the original categories from the Ebel procedure (ie, essential, important, acceptable, and questionable). Difficulty was likewise converted into quartiles representing a 4-point categorical difficulty scale. Mean importance scores ranged from 99.3 for airway management (ie, most important) to 54 for high altitude cerebral edema (ie, less important). Clinical presentation difficulty scales ranged from 89.8 for biceps contusion (ie, easier) to 21.2 for decompression illness (ie, harder). Conclusions: These 253 CPs are thought to be representative (ie, valid) of the athletic therapy scope of practice in Canada. To our knowledge, CPs have not been developed in the athletic therapy context prior to this research. We anticipate more will be identified as these CPs are used to align teaching, learning, and assessment within competency-based athletic therapy programs in Canada.

scholarly journals La influencia de las competencias genéricas en la empleabilidad laboral inicial. Caso de estudio en la UANL.

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Paola González Duéñez ◽  
Joel Mendoza Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Job Skills ◽  
Phase Iii ◽  
Study Phase ◽  
Generic Competencies ◽  
Effect Model ◽  
Aeronautical Industry ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Teaching Learning

Abstract. Currently the aeronautical industry demand human resource that is highly competitive with excellent abilities, skills and job skills that allow the growth of this industry in Mexico. UANL offers the educational program in Aeronautical Engineering and because is a program designed under the new competency-based education model, it is necessary to measure the employability of students working under this new teaching-learning process, such as is achieved and even provide feedback to continually improve any area of opportunity in the transition of students during their training. This research presents a cause-effect model where independent variables are considered classified generic competencies: instrumentals, social interaction and integrative, and the dependent variable initial workforce readiness. Todefine the variables, objectives and hypotheses we did an analysis of competency-based international models. Variables were operationalized to design and determine the reliability of the measuring instrument performing the content validity with 12 experts on the competency model. To test the hypothesis of educational program were selected 103 students usingPhase I, II and III as field study. Phase I is an assessment of students, Phase II is an evaluation with teachers and Phase III is the opinion of employers. Finally, we present the results of analysis of the direct influence of generic skills: instrumentals, social interaction and integrative and professional-labor performance work called initial workforce readiness.Keywords: employability, generic competencies, initial workforce readinessResumen. Actualmente la industria Aeronáutica demanda recurso humano que sea altamente competitivo con excelentes capacidades, destrezas y aptitudes laborales que permitan el crecimiento de esta industria en México. En la UANL se oferta el programa educativo de Ingeniero en Aeronáutica y por ser un programa diseñado bajo el nuevo modelo educativo basado en competencias, es necesario medir la empleabilidad de los estudiantes  que trabajan bajo este nuevo proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje, de tal forma de que se logre mejorar continuamente e inclusive retroalimentar cualquier área de oportunidad en el tránsito de estudiantes durante su formación. En esta investigación se plantea un modelo causa-efecto en el que se consideran como variables independientes las competencias genéricas clasificadas en: instrumentales, de interacción social e integradoras; y la variable dependiente la empleabilidad laboral inicial. Se realizó un análisis de los modelos internacionales basados en competencias, definiéndose las variables, los objetivos y las hipótesis. Se operacionalizaron las variables para diseñar y determinar la confiabilidad del instrumento de medición realizándose la validez de contenido con 12 expertos sobre el modelo por competencias. Para probar las hipótesis se seleccionaron 103 estudiantes del PE aplicando Fase I, II y III como estudio de campo. La Fase I es una evaluación de estudiantes, la Fase II es evaluación con profesores y la Fase III es la opinión de los empleadores. Finalmente se presentan los resultados del análisis sobre la influencia directa entre las competencias genéricas: instrumentales, de interacción social e integradoras y el desempeño profesional-laboral llamado empleabilidad laboral inicial.Palabras clave: competencias genéricas, empleabilidad, empleabilidad laboral inicial

scholarly journals Indonesian Freshmen’s Challenges in Collaborative Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic:A Reflection of a Procedural Writing Class

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Listyani
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Education Program ◽  
English Language ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Language Education ◽  
English Language Education ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Writing Students ◽  
Teaching Learning

One of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the world of education is the implementation of online learning. Almost all teaching/learning activities must be changed and adjusted with the virtual classes. One among other activities commonly done in an English language education program is group work or collaborative work between or among students. Due to the pandemic situation, this particular activity should also be done online. This study aims to describe freshmen’s perspectives on collaborative work done in a Procedural Writing class. The teacher of the writing class randomly paired the students to work collaboratively. There is only one research question in this study: What challenges do Procedural Writing students experience in doing collaborative learning during the pandemic COVID 19? Data were derived from reflections that fourteen (14) Procedural Writing students at an English Language Education Program (ELEP), UKSW, Indonesia, wrote in the sixth week of Semester II/ 2020-2021 academic year, and from interviews with two participants who said that they were not happy with collaborative learning. Findings showed that in general, the freshmen felt that collaborative work helped them write better, they got more ideas, helped in their grammar, and exchanged knowledge. Only two students felt unhappy due to misunderstanding and ideas which were not delivered successfully. This study will hopefully be useful for writing teachers, practitioners in education, as well as students so that they will have a wider horizon of what writing students feel and experience in collaborative learning during this pandemic era.

scholarly journals Control of students' autonomous learning in competency-based teaching of mathematics

2019 ◽  
pp. 24-31
Author(s):  
S. N. Gorlova ◽  
E. A. Makarova
Keyword(s):  
Training System ◽  
Autonomous Learning ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Subject Knowledge ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
Teaching Function ◽  
State Educational ◽  
Teaching Learning

Federal State Educational Standards of Higher Education have designated a reorientation from the subject-knowledge education model to the competency-based one, when the goal is to develop students' personal and professional features with an emphasis on their autonomous learning. Universality and generality of requirements for the results of studying the bachelor’s programme in Pedagogical Education does not exclude, but assumes the subject’s orientation of the competencies formulated when implementing specific areas of training. This requires rethinking the functionality of all components of the training system, including the contents. It is the very aspect that remains insufficiently revealed for competency-based teaching of mathematics. The vector of a significant part of studies is directed towards the search for effective educational technologies. Meanwhile, continuity in nurturing competencies requires considering professional orientation on teaching-learning the subject. Reviewing mathematical contents is also vital as the proportion of students’ autonomous learning is getting increased. The article substantiates the role and significance of mathematical contents in arranging control of students' autonomous learning. Keeping in mind the priority of control’s teaching function, it is proposed to make up tasks that contribute to assessing not only knowledge, but also experiential and motivational components of competences.

scholarly journals Autonomous Learners: How Competency-Based Curriculum could Accelerate EFL at English Education Department

LEKSIKA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Jati Suryanto
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
English Education ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Autonomous Learning ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Long Life ◽  
Ultimate Objective ◽  
Student Centred Learning ◽  
Teaching Learning

This paper will explore the implementation of the Competency-Based Curriculum at the Department of English Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta,  in reaching the goal of creating autonomous learners. Autonomous Learner is the ultimate objective in teaching learning processes. It is the beginning of the long-life learning processes. By creating autonomous learners, the process of achieving better graduate quality will be more effective and efficient. To reach the goal of producing autonomous learners, the Department of English Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta,  focuses its curriculum on the graduate abilities in “thinking how to think” and “learning how to learn” through the Competency Based Curriculum.Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) is the teaching learning planning which bases its objectives on the students’ competences. To achieve the ultimate goal of language learning the Department of English Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta needs to choose the relatively most effective curriculum and method of teaching for the students. Therefore, the department chooses CBC that applies student centred learning (SCL) to achieve the autonomous learning model. The department also applies constructivism approach which enhance the students curiosity to accelerate the autonomous learning in the student centred learning.   

Learning Transdisciplinary Collaboration: Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Successes and Areas for Improvement in Transdisciplinary, Problem-Focused Honors Seminar Courses

2021 ◽  
pp. 1932202X2110611
Author(s):  
Anne-Lise Velez ◽  
Stephanie N. Lewis ◽  
Raymond C. Thomas ◽  
Desen S. Ozkan
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Research University ◽  
Mission Statement ◽  
Honors Students ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Honors College ◽  
Global Context ◽  
College Mission ◽  
Faculty Relationships ◽  
Competency Based

The honors college at a large land-grant research university developed transdisciplinary courses to provide undergraduate opportunities for small, student-centered classes and collaborative problem engagement in a global context. In these courses, students engage principles of competency-based education and inquiry-based learning combined with instruction in transdisciplinarity and decision-making tied to the college mission statement and course learning outcomes. As an observational study, we surveyed 91 honors students from 12 transdisciplinary courses over three semesters, asking five-point Likert scale questions and open-ended perspective questions at the beginning and end of each semester. Participants predominantly identified as White (74%), male (57%), senior-level students (67%), and represent 34 majors. Findings emphasize outcomes of lasting faculty relationships and opportunities to explore interests outside students’ majors, which respondents report influencing their academic development. Students also report areas for curricular improvement in developing research skills and engaging problem-focused experiences. We describe new offerings made to address findings.

Canadian Athletic Therapists' Association Education Task Force Consensus Statements

10.4085/11015 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Lafave ◽  
Glen Bergeron ◽  
Connie Klassen ◽  
Kelly Parr ◽  
Dennis Valdez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Task Force Report ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Program Accreditation ◽  
Adoption And Implementation ◽  
Consensus Statements ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Athletic Therapy ◽  
Therapy Education

Context: A published commentary from 2 of the current authors acted as a catalyst for raising some key issues that have arisen in athletic therapy education in Canada over the years. Objective: The purpose of this article is to report on the process followed to establish a number of consensus statements related to postsecondary athletic therapy education in Canada. The consensus statements should act as a future plan for entry-level athletic therapy education. Design: Content validation for consensus statements. Setting: Video-conference meetings at 7 Canadian postsecondary colleges/universities. Patients or Other Participants: Canadian Athletic Therapists' Association (CATA) program directors and CATA leaders from education, certification, and program accreditation committees. Main Outcome Measure(s): A Delphi method and modified Ebel procedure were used to gather opinions from participants about athletic therapy education. Results: We created 10 consensus statements, with a series of caveats that are presented in this article. All components received at least 80% consensus from the expert validation group. Conclusions: The final Education Task Force Report was created and content was validated by a group of experts in the topics associated with every consensus statement. The final report was presented to the CATA Board of Directors for adoption and implementation.

scholarly journals Nursing education: seeking critical-reflexive education and professional competencies

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 755-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kênia Lara Silva ◽  
Roseni Rosângela de Sena
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Active Subject ◽  
Professional Profile ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Teaching Learning

The study describes changes that are noted in students during training and which contribute to define a professional profile. We carried out a descriptive-exploratory study with a qualitative approach, based on dialectics as a theoretical-methodological framework. The data was obtained from documented analysis and through focal groups with teachers, students and service nurses. The results show the student's position as an active subject in the teaching-learning process, through a movement of transformation of academic structures. A correlation was found between the movement that seeks students' greater political, active and critical participation as a way of determining and guiding the profile of the generalist nurse and greater social insertion. We conclude that, despite efforts, training guidelines and the definition of the professional profile in the study settings is directed at the demands of the labor market, and that competency-based training is still incipient.

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