scholarly journals Basket cases

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
1969 ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
Jane Lawrence ◽  
Rachel Hurst
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
First Year ◽  
Teaching Methodologies ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Cultural Teaching ◽  
The University

The studio described here comprises the second semester of the first year interior design and architectural course at the University of South Australia. It builds upon the first semester pedagogy based on memory and off-campus teaching. The studio consists of three projects employing an alliance between typology and gastronomy as a means to design and initiates cross cultural teaching methodologies. This submission will focus on the second and pivotal project titled basket case.

The Use of Applets in an Engineering Chemistry Course

2010 ◽  
pp. 108-118
Author(s):  
B.M. Trigo ◽  
G.S. Olguin ◽  
P.H.L.S. Matai
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The University

This chapter deals with the use of Applets, which are examples of software applications, combined with a specific methodology of teaching, based on Paulo Freire’s education concepts. According to his methods, co-creation between its participants is fundamental for the effectiveness of learning process. In that way, to promote a cooperative learning, the Applet should have interactive features. The Chemistry course of Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, in which students take in the first semester of the first year of the engineering course, was the case study. First, a research with the teachers of the Chemical Engineering Department was carried out, to identify the main problems and difficulties teachers and students face. Then, a topic was selected to be explored with the Applet, which was developed and applied to a small group of students. To identify the success of this experiment a questionnaire was created and the results are presented in this chapter. Some conclusions were drawn and the interactive features of the Applet received a positive feedback.

scholarly journals Opening statement

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
1969 ◽  
pp. 4-5
Author(s):  
Marina Lommerse
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Architecture Education ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
Inaugural Meeting ◽  
South Wales ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Royal Melbourne Institute ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University

Interested Australian universities with Interior Design/Interior Architecture degrees held an inaugural meeting in Sydney in 1996 to elicit interest in an association to advocate Interior Design/Interior Architecture education and research. In 1997 IDEA was formalised to encourage and support excellence in the discipline. This is the Inaugural publication of the annual ‘IDEA Referred Design Scheme’, one of the activities the IDEA committee promotes. Participating universities include: Curtin University of Technology, Queensland College of Art, Queensland University of Technology, Northern Territory University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, University of New South Wales, University of South Australia and the University of Technology Sydney.

Use of Symbaloo Edu for Improving Information Management Processes in Work by Modules

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Biel ◽  
Ester Pérez ◽  
Carmen Rodrigo ◽  
Ana Serrano
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Personal Learning Environment ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Digital Competencies ◽  
The University ◽  
Development Engineering

The case presented in this paper is framed within the context of Work by Modules taken during the first year-first semester of the Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering Degree at the University of Zaragoza, and its objective is to improve the processes involved in information management required to perform this work. For this purpose, the design of a personal learning environment (PLE) is proposed, using Symbaloo Edu. This tool provides methodological support to select and organize information sources, and its use favours collaborative work while helping to develop digital competencies, providing students with an environment that complements formal learning. Results show that between 70 and 75% of the students viewed PLE as a tool that made them feel more active and autonomous in their learning process.

Loneliness and the Development of Social Relationships in Malaysian University Students

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Intan H. M. Hashim ◽  
Siamak Khodarahimi
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
University Students ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
First Semester ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

In this study we investigated loneliness and how social relationships develop in university students. Participants were 67 first-year students beginning their first semester in a university in northern Malaysia. We collected information regarding respondents' background, their descriptions of the social network at the university, and their level of loneliness. The study was conducted in 2 parts over a 10-week period; at 4 weeks after their registration and then at 14 weeks after their registration. Findings suggest development of friendship was still in progress and loneliness had increased at Time 2.

scholarly journals The role of guidance in student engagement with chemistry studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Piia Valto ◽  
Piia Nuora
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Study Skills ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Chemistry Students ◽  
Orientation Course ◽  
Students First ◽  
Extensive Effort ◽  
The University

During recent years, the Department of Chemistry at the University of Jyväskylä has made an extensive effort to support chemistry students’ first study year. The first-year curriculum includes enhanced study counselling course, intensive orientation course and support for academic study skills via a specific course.  In this study, the effects of the revisions were studied by exploring the chemistry students study continuation and what factors contributed to it.  In 2015 to 2017, data were collected from first-year chemistry students (n = 106), who completed a questionnaire at the beginning and at the end of their first semester. The results show that the percentage of dropout rates after the first year decreased. Students’ current challenges are different than they have been previously, thus putting new demands on their guidance. The results of the study indicate that students value guidance and study counselling especially at the beginning of their studies.

scholarly journals First semester academic performance: The importance of early indicators of non-engagement

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Van der Meer ◽  
Stephen Scott ◽  
Keryn Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Grade Point Average ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Retention Strategy ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
The University

Success, progression and retention of students are goals of many university strategic directions and policies. For many decades it has been recognised that the greatest focus in any retention strategy should be on first-year students. University of Otago too has goals around student success. The Strategic Plan of the institution also identified that in the context of a fiscally constrained environment, all of our activities and processes need to be assessed for efficiency and effectiveness.  To this end, a pilot was undertaken in one area of the university to identify possible indicators of first-year students’ non-engagement in the first semester and their possible impact on the first semester academic performance. The findings suggest that there are indeed some indicators that predict Grade Point Average at the end of the first semester.

scholarly journals Bridging the gap to first year health science: Early engagement enhances student satisfaction and success

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jyothi Thalluri
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Attrition Rate ◽  
First Year ◽  
Core Knowledge ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
First Semester

Student academic success and positive satisfaction in first year health sciences programs is shaped by their transition experience. An introduction to core knowledge, study skills, and engagement with staff and students has historically been overlooked, but this has been newly recognised as a contributor to first year success, especially with mass higher education of students from diverse backgrounds. The University of South Australia ‘Preparing for Health Sciences’ workshop was designed to assist the student transition into health science programs. The workshop improved confidence and enthusiasm in starting university (56% pre- and 95% post-workshop), and 97% considered the workshop effective overall. Introduction to biological principles was widely considered to be beneficial (87%). The attrition rate after the first semester in 2014 was 7.6%, which is appreciably lower than the standard 12% in science-based courses. These findings demonstrate that an introductory workshop does greatly assist in the transition of students into their health science programs.

scholarly journals Predicting Undergraduate Level Students’ Performance Using Regression

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-139
Author(s):  
S Akuma ◽  
H Abakpa
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
First Year ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
University Environment ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Cumulative Grade Point Average ◽  
Moderating Factors ◽  
The University

Students’ academic performance in the university environment changes from one academic year to another as they climb up the ladder of their academic programme. Predicting students’ academic performance in higher educational institutions is challenging due to the lack of a central database of students’ performance records. The other challenge is the lack of standard methods for predicting students’ performance and other moderating factors like physical, economic and health that affect students’ progress. In this work, we predicted students’ performance based on previous academic results. A model to predict students’ performance based on their Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) was developed using Linear Regression Algorithm. A dataset of 70 undergraduate students studying Computer Science was analyzed and the results show that the model was able to predict the 4th year CGPA of the Students using the previous Cumulative Grade Point of the past three years with an accuracy of 87.84%, and a correlation of 0.9338. This study also identified students’ second semester CGPA in the first year and their first semester CGPA in the second year as the most important CGPAs that affect the accuracy

scholarly journals The Importance of First Semester Seminars for At-Risk First-Year Students: Analysis of Student Skills and Time Spent on Class Preparation

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 510
Author(s):  
David E. Reed ◽  
Guinevere Z. Jones
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
At Risk ◽  
First Year ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
First Semester ◽  
High School To College ◽  
Transition From High School ◽  
The University

The high-school-to-college transition can be difficult as students are adapting to a multitude of academic and social changes simultaneously. The University of Wyoming has created a first-semester program targeted at development of student skills for at-risk students using paired first-year seminar classes. Using student survey data from both pre- and post-course series, students were asked how important they thought academic and non-academic skills were as well as how much preparation time they were spending outside of class. Results from this work show large changes in the importance of skills and time spent studying during the transition from high school to college. This highlights the need to focus specifically on teaching skills to help students through the transition and suggests that not all skills are equal and data shows that students take longer than one semester to match their expected and actual amounts of time they spend outside of class studying.

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