scholarly journals Educação a distância: dificuldades dos alunos do primeiro ano do curso Licenciatura de Ciências Biológicas da Universidade Estadual de Maringá / Distance Learning: Difficultiesof First Year Students in the Biological Sciences in the Universidade Estadual de Maringá

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaise Francielle De Sousa Roth ◽  
Dulcinéia Ester Pagani Gianotto
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Biological Science ◽  
First Year ◽  
State University ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
Teacher Students ◽  
On Line ◽  
The University

ABSTRACTThe system of distance learning has been increasing in Brazil since the lastyears. This type of learning comes up trying to open the doors of the University. The public isthose people who work or give up to their studies, and want to study in alternative time. The students are able to study at home with the help of instruments like Internet and other tools, sharing  knowledge,  changing  significantly  the  interaction  between  teacher-students-knowledge.  The  State  University  of Maringa has started up the Distance learning since 2005, with the course of Pedagogy. Afterwards, the attempt wasto build the Pedagogic Politic Project to implement the distance course in Biological Science, in 2008. The biology students havestarted in 2010, with the challenge to understand the dynamic of work and study online, also the autonomy of their studies.  The  object  of  this  work  is  to  analyze  the  first  year  students’  report  in  Biological  Science  about  the  academic activities. The reports showed some difficulties with the online platform for the students, also organizational problems to the public and itself institution.RESUMOA Educação a Distância no Brasil tem crescido nos últimos anos. Essa modalidade de ensino surge objetivando ampliar o acesso ao ensino superior, atendendo, principalmente, estudantes adultos e trabalhadores que necessitam encontrar espaços de tempo alternativos para os estudos. Trata-se de uma modalidade de ensino que usa as ferramentas da tecnologia de informação e comunicação para compartilhamento de conhecimento, produzindo transformações significativas na interação professor-aluno-conhecimento. A Universidade Estadual de Maringá principiou as suas atividades de ensino a distância a partir de 2005, com os cursos de pedagogia e, em 2008 iniciou a construção do Proje-to Político Pedagógico para a implantação do curso de licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas. No ano de 2010, os alunos encetaram o curso, com o desafio de compreender a dinâmica da plataforma on-line de trabalho e também o desenvol-vimento da autonomia para estudar. Este trabalho consiste em analisar os relatos dos alunos do primeiro ano do curso de licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas, sobre a realização de suas atividades acadêmicas. Foram observadas algumas dificuldades com relação ao uso da plataforma on-line pelos estudantes, além de problemas organizacionais do público acadêmico e da própria instituição para a realização do curso nesta modalidade.

scholarly journals Features of Adaptation of Non-Resident Students to the University Learning Environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
Olga Viktorovna Bodenova ◽  
Lyudmila Pavlovna Vlasova
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
First Year ◽  
Adaptation Period ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
State University ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Resident Students ◽  
New Type ◽  
The University

The article is devoted to the overview of one of the most current problems that arise in the process of supporting the adaptation of students. The paper reveals the content of the adaptation process, its content and procedural characteristics, describes the types and stages, and directions of diagnostics. The aim of the work is to identify the features of adaptation in first-year students, including the description of the specifics of difficulties of non-resident students’ adaption. The study was conducted at the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology “Petrozavodsk State University” with first-year students studying in the fields of education 44.03.02 Psychological and pedagogical education, 44.03.01. Pedagogical education, 44.03.03 Special (defectologic) education. The following methods were used to test the hypothesis: «I am a student» survey, «Scale of subjective well-being» method, analysis of documents (medical records of students), quantitative and qualitative analysis. The results of the study. Analysis of the results of the study showed that non-resident students have both general and specific difficulties of adaptation due to the breakdown of previous family and friendships, lack of emotional support, difficult living conditions, a new neighborhood, a new type of settlement, etc. The obtained results are used for development and implementation of measures to support students during the adaptation period.

scholarly journals ADAPTATION OF FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS TO TRAINING CONDITIONS AT UNIVERSITY: EXPERIENCE, PROBLEMS, PROSPECTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-41
Author(s):  
Семен Резник ◽  
Semen Reznik ◽  
М. Черниковская ◽  
M. Chernikovskaya ◽  
Е. Носова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
First Year ◽  
State University ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Federal Districts ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
University Experience ◽  
The University

<p>The article is devoted to the problem of adaptation of first-year students to the conditions for mastering educational programs at the university. It is based on the results of monitoring of students of Russian higher educational institutions within the framework of the research "Change in Composition and Life Priorities of Students of Higher Educational Institutions and Their Social Stability ", executed by the Penza State University of Architecture and Construction. More than 400 students from 13 state universities in 5 federal districts of Russia took part in the monitoring.</p><p>The article features the results of monitoring of Russian students concerning their readiness for higher educational institutions. The results of the monitoring showed that the problem of adaptation of first-year students is a major issue, which still remains a subject for discussions while being the foundation of education in junior courses. The paper defines the concept of adaptation, presents the types and functions of the student's social adaptation and summarizes the conclusions of the study. Some proposals to improve the adaptation of first-year students have been developed and implemented.</p>

scholarly journals Subjective well-being of students enrolled in different fields of study

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Anna Gennad'evna Samohvalova ◽  
Elena Viktorovna Tikhomirova ◽  
Oksana Nikolaevna Vishnevskaya ◽  
Natalia Sergeevna Shipova
Keyword(s):  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Year ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
State University ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Degree Of Satisfaction ◽  
The University

The article deals with the problem of subjective well-being as an important component of the psychological well-being of an individual. The degree of satisfaction with life among university students enrolled in different areas of training is analysed; the specificity of subjective perception by first-year students of their own success in various spheres of life is revealed. The study involved 230 first-year students of Kostroma State University, enrolled in four different areas of study. The results of the study showed that students at the beginning of their professional path, regardless of the direction of training in which they study, rather highly assess the degree of their success in life; are self-confident, plan their lives and set goals for the future. At the same time, the degree of subjective well-being of students is low; students are not completely satisfied with their life and their place in it; they are instead focused mainly on the emotional richness of their own life. The leading motives of students are professional motives that affect the effectiveness of educational activities and are associated with assessing their own success in life. It was found that ideation innovativeness is insufficiently developed among freshmen; they prefer to work within established rules, are more focused on solving a problem than on finding it, and have difficulty applying and analysing new ideas. Revealing the specifics of the subjective well-being of freshmen who entered the university in different areas of training allows outlining the prospects for psychological and pedagogic support of students at all stages of training in the framework of increasing the level of their psychological well-being in the educational environment of the university.

The First-Year Seminar: A Program Evaluation of Students’ Public-Affairs Awareness

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Ethical Leadership ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
First Year ◽  
State University ◽  
First Semester ◽  
The Public ◽  
The University ◽  
First Year Seminar

Similar to the public-welfare aim of many universities, Missouri State University (MSU) was granted a specific statewide public affairs mission in 1995 comprising three pillars: community engagement, cultural competence, and ethical leadership. Since the implementation of this mission, the university has engaged in various efforts to promote and foster public-affairs awareness among students, including through its first-year seminar (FYS). This article details a study conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the FYS in enhancing students’ public-affairs awareness. The researchers solicited input from students in the first and last weeks of their first semester at MSU using the Public Affairs Scale–Short Survey (PAS-SS) as well as other questions. The study sample consisted of 540 students who completed both the pre- and post-surveys. The researchers found that students’ public-affairs awareness in the cultural competence domain increased during the FYS program, but not in community engagement or ethical leadership. Additionally, there were significant differences in public-affairs awareness over time between first-generation students enrolled in specialized sections and those who were not. No significant differences were found in public-affairs awareness between faculty- and staff-taught sections or between sections with a peer leader and those without. The article concludes with a brief discussion of the study findings and a consideration of implications for future practice.

scholarly journals MODERN METHODS OF TEACHING PHILOSOPHY AT THE UNIVERSITY AND THEIR PEDAGOGICAL MEANINGS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 391
Author(s):  
Artem Verle
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
University Education ◽  
First Year ◽  
Teaching Philosophy ◽  
State University ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
The University

The dynamism and uncertainty of modern social life is a challenge for the entire education system and for philosophy as an educational discipline, in particular. The relevance of the work is associated with new requests for a new philosophical understanding of the world and life in university education. In this work, using theoretical analysis methods based on practical teaching experience, we propose an innovative approach to teaching philosophy as a technique and practice of public dialogical practice, built on the wonderment and rethinking of the ordinary and stereotypical. The purpose of this study is the theoretical and methodological justification of teaching methods of philosophy, oriented on the actualization of thinking here-and-now. The research methodology is based on a combination of general scientific theoretical methods and empirical methods of observation and comparison. The practice of applying the teaching methods described in the work is experimental. The development, testing and adjustment of the described philosophy teaching practices took place during the last 3 years of work at Pskov State University among first-year students of the undergraduate department of the Faculty of Finance and Economics. The complex use of this kind of techniques for students in philosophy classes in the experimental groups, in comparison with the results in the control groups, with other conditions being equal, yielded the following results: students in the experimental groups consistently showed better average results than students in control groups. 

Self-government of russian and chinese students, adapting to study at the university

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. I. Petanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Students ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
First Year ◽  
State University ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Peking University ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

This text presents the results of cross-cultural study of the structure and degree of self-government on the example of Russian and Chinese first — year students: 93 Russian students studying at St. Petersburg state University; 60 Russian first-year students of Peking University, and 127 Chinese students of the faculty of Economics of Peking state University. The General tendencies for all respondents in the content of the most expressed and less formed operations of self-government of respondents are revealed. It was found that only 5 % of all respondents have a high level of selfgovernment. The highest rates of students were found in the operation «forecasting», and the lowest were the indicators for the operation «selection of the criterion for assessing the quality.» Significant differences between the compared groups of first-year students were found by the operation «quality assessment criteria» in Russian students studying at St. Petersburg state University (at home) and abroad (at Peking University).

A Local Area Network for Medical Research; Planning, Realization and Experience

1991 ◽  
Vol 30 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Schosser ◽  
C. Weiss ◽  
K. Messmer
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Word Processing ◽  
Local Area Network ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Test Installation ◽  
Cost Performance ◽  
The Public ◽  
On Line ◽  
The University

This report focusses on the planning and realization of an interdisciplinary local area network (LAN) for medical research at the University of Heidelberg. After a detailed requirements analysis, several networks were evaluated by means of a test installation, and a cost-performance analysis was carried out. At present, the LAN connects 45 (IBM-compatible) PCs, several heterogeneous mainframes (IBM, DEC and Siemens) and provides access to the public X.25 network and to wide-area networks for research (EARN, BITNET). The network supports application software that is frequently needed in medical research (word processing, statistics, graphics, literature databases and services, etc.). Compliance with existing “official” (e.g., IEEE 802.3) and “de facto” standards (e.g., PostScript) was considered to be extremely important for the selection of both hardware and software. Customized programs were developed to improve access control, user interface and on-line help. Wide acceptance of the LAN was achieved through extensive education and maintenance facilities, e.g., teaching courses, customized manuals and a hotline service. Since requirements of clinical routine differ substantially from medical research needs, two separate networks (with a gateway in between) are proposed as a solution to optimally satisfy the users’ demands.

Refining Contrapuntal Pedagogy: Reflections on Teaching Warsan Shire’s “Home” and W.H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues” to First-Year Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget Grogan
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Poetic Voice ◽  
Teaching Poetry ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

This article reports on and discusses the experience of a contrapuntal approach to teaching poetry, explored during 2016 and 2017 in a series of introductory poetry lectures in the English 1 course at the University of Johannesburg. Drawing together two poems—Warsan Shire’s “Home” and W.H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues”—in a week of teaching in each year provided an opportunity for a comparison that encouraged students’ observations on poetic voice, racial identity, transhistorical and transcultural human experience, trauma and empathy. It also provided an opportunity to reflect on teaching practice within the context of decoloniality and to acknowledge the need for ongoing change and review in relation to it. In describing the contrapuntal teaching and study of these poems, and the different methods employed in the respective years of teaching them, I tentatively suggest that canonical Western and contemporary postcolonial poems may reflect on each other in unique and transformative ways. I further posit that poets and poems that engage students may open the way into initially “less relevant” yet ultimately rewarding poems, while remaining important objects of study in themselves.

Criteria and indicators associated with adaptation to the educational process of first-year students at the university

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
Evgeniya N. Popova
Keyword(s):  
Research Topic ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
First Year ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Adaptive Potential ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Self Development ◽  
The University

The issue of adaptation of modern first-year students to the educational process at the university is one of the current pedagogical tasks. Successful adaptation significantly affects the quality of received education, the degree of formation of personal and professional qualities, contributes to the development of motivation, self-education, and self-development. The purpose of the research is to substantiate the criteria, indicators, and levels of adaptation of first-year students to the learning process at the university. The material for the study was the domestic scientific sources of studying the peculiarities of the adaptation process of students to educational activities in higher education. Research methods: analysis and generalization of psychological-pedagogical and educational-methodical literature on the research topic. We determine as the main criteria for the adaptation of first-year students to the university, the adaptive potential and professionally important qualities of students, consider these concepts, their structure, and their basic properties. On the basis of the analysis and generalization of the existing indicators of the implementation of the adaptive potential, we formulate the author's indicators for determining the level of its development. The degree of formation of professionally important qualities of students are low, medium, and high levels of development of emotional intelligence, negative communicative attitude, intellectual lability, and stress tolerance.

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