scholarly journals Rotatory role-playing and role-models to enhance the research integrity culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Prieß-Buchheit ◽  
Arja Aro ◽  
Iliyana Demirova ◽  
Dirk Lanzerath ◽  
Pavel Stoev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Research Integrity ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Early Career ◽  
School Students ◽  
Train The Trainer ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Scientific Facts

The Path2Integrity project is a two-component coordination and support action to enhance research integrity cultures. Path2Integrity develops and fosters role-models and rotatory role-play scenarios for secondary school students, undergraduates, graduates, and early career researchers. A Path2Integrity campaign for scientific facts about research integrity and role-models, raises awareness of research integrity within secondary schools and universities. A complementary Path2Integrity handbook of instructions, which contains vivid stories involving research integrity and rotatory role-playing increases students’ ability to form judgements about the acceptance or rejection of norms in research. A train-the-trainer program shows how to use the Path2Integrity handbook of instructions, especially how to apply the handbook to the educators’ discipline and how to implement it into organisations. Partners from the Consortium have award-winning experience in creating those settings, which allows Path2Integrity to work with educational practices already in existence. Taking into account that different disciplines and different schools of thought are involved, it is the Consortium’s paramount concern, to ensure explicitly that the Path2Integrity handbook and campaign are based on optimal and systematic evidence-based decisions.

Hands-On Demonstrations for Natural Hazards

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce D. Malamud ◽  
Faith Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Small Group Discussions ◽  
The Subject

<p>Here we present several teaching demonstrations and hands-on activities for natural hazards. Many methods exist to actively involve students and local community participants, particularly when numbers are large, so that teaching is not just `receiving of information' via monologue talks and using powerpoint. These methods include (a) breaking up into small group discussions, (b) group ‘role playing’ exercises, (c) serious games, (d) hands-on activities, and (e) class demonstrations. This paper concentrates on the latter and includes demos/activities for (a) earthquakes, (b) landslides, (c) tsunamis, (d) volcanoes and (e) weather. Natural hazards demonstrations/activities presented here are mostly inexpensive, have been used in front of large university classes and smaller `break-out groups', and are also appropriate for secondary-school students, university students, and local community communications. We have found that as a teaching tool, students and community participants often become much interested and more excited about what they are learning if use is made of these 5-10 minute class demonstrations or activities, even if only peripherally related to the subject at hand. Resultant discussion with questions and comments by students keeps both the students and the lecturer motivated and intrigued about the subjects being discussed. Days, weeks, and months later, the students remember these `demonstrations', but to set these up takes time, effort, and resources of equipment, although not necessarily a large amount of the latter.</p>

scholarly journals A Youth-Leader Program in Baltimore City Recreation Centers: Lessons Learned and Applications

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela C. B. Trude ◽  
Elizabeth Anderson Steeves ◽  
Cara Shipley ◽  
Pamela J. Surkan ◽  
Priscila de Morais Sato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
School Students ◽  
Obesity Epidemic ◽  
Train The Trainer ◽  
Recreation Centers ◽  
American Children

Peer-led interventions may be an effective means of addressing the childhood obesity epidemic; however, few studies have looked at the long-term sustainability of such programs. As part of a multilevel obesity prevention intervention, B’More Healthy Communities for Kids, 16 Baltimore college students were trained as youth-leaders (YLs) to deliver a skill-based nutrition curriculum to low-income African American children (10-14 years old). In April 2015, formative research was used to inform sustainability of the YL program in recreation centers. In-depth interviews were conducted with recreation center directors ( n = 4) and the YLs ( n = 16). Two focus groups were conducted with YLs ( n = 7) and community youth-advocates ( n = 10). Barriers to this program included difficulties with transportation, time constraints, and recruiting youth. Lessons learned indicated that improving trainings and incentives to youth were identified as essential strategies to foster continuity of the youth-led program and capacity building. High school students living close to the centers were identified as potential candidates to lead the program. Based on our findings, the initial intervention will be expanded into a sustainable model for implementation, using a train-the-trainer approach to empower community youth to be change agents of the food environment and role models.

scholarly journals CLOSE-RANGE SENSING TECHNIQUES IN ALPINE TERRAIN

2016 ◽  
Vol III-6 ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
M. Rutzinger ◽  
B. Höfle ◽  
R. Lindenbergh ◽  
S. Oude Elberink ◽  
F. Pirotti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Summer School ◽  
Early Career ◽  
School Students ◽  
Range Sensing ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Remotely Piloted Aircraft ◽  
Close Range ◽  
Alpine Research ◽  
Aircraft System ◽  
The One

Early career researchers such as PhD students are a main driving force of scientific research and are for a large part responsible for research innovation. They work on specialized topics within focused research groups that have a limited number of members, but might also have limited capacity in terms of lab equipment. This poses a serious challenge for educating such students as it is difficult to group a sufficient number of them to enable efficient knowledge transfer. To overcome this problem, the Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2015 on close-range sensing techniques in Alpine terrain was organized in Obergurgl, Austria, by an international team from several universities and research centres. Of the applicants a group of 40 early career researchers were selected with interest in about ten types of specialized surveying tools, i.e. laser scanners, a remotely piloted aircraft system, a thermal camera, a backpack mobile mapping system and different grade photogrammetric equipment. During the one-week summer school, students were grouped according to their personal preference to work with one such type of equipment under guidance of an expert lecturer. All students were required to capture and process field data on a mountain-related theme like landslides or rock glaciers. The work on the assignments lasted the whole week but was interspersed with lectures on selected topics by invited experts. The final task of the summer school participants was to present and defend their results to their peers, lecturers and other colleagues in a symposium-like setting. Here we present the framework and content of this summer school which brought together scientists from close-range sensing and environmental and geosciences.

scholarly journals PARENTAL INFLUENCE ON DRUG AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KINANGO SUB-COUNTY, KENYA

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Misango Nathan Chapia ◽  
Mwaura Kimani ◽  
Naftali Rop
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Parental Influence ◽  
East African ◽  
African Region ◽  
School Students

<p>The United Nations office on Drug and Crime estimates that 200 million people worldwide abuse drugs. Africa is a major supplier of drugs such as cannabis and cocaine which are the most widely abused. Large hauls of cannabis and cocaine have been discovered in East African region. In Kenya, findings show that drug and substance abuse is a major social problem. A report of survey on drug and substance abuse by NACADA, revealed that 32.4% of people aged between 18-28 years have consumed alcohol or other type of drugs and substances. Majority of secondary school students are in the age bracket 14-22 years, the group that is most affected. Drug and substance abuse is partly responsible for the riots, strikes, destruction and burning of property in secondary schools. The prevalence rate of drug abuse in Kinango Sub-County was 20.3%. The purpose of the study was to investigate parental influence on Drug and Substance Abuse among Secondary School Students in Kinango Sub-County Kwale County. Erickson’s theory on social development and Bandura’s Social Learning Theory (SLT) helped in explaining the findings of the study. A survey research design was employed for the study with the study population comprising of all secondary school students, heads of guidance and counselling departments and deputy principals in Kinango sub-county totalling 4,964 people. Four public secondary schools were selected through stratified random sampling. The sample size comprised of 4 deputy principals, 4 heads of guidance and counselling departments of the selected schools and 384 students selected by random sampling. Data was collected through questionnaires and an interview schedule. Validity of the instruments was ensured by using expert judgement of my supervisors. A mixed research methodology was used during data presentation where both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to make inferences and draw conclusions. This was done with help of SPSS version 23. The overall reliability of all the instruments had Cronbach’s alpha of 0.842 which was above the minimum threshold of 0.7. Validity was determined by; the Kaiser- Meyer-Olkim (KMO) Measures of Sampling Adequacy and Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity. Values of 0.787 and 0.000 were obtained respectively, which are acceptable indexes. It was established that there is statistically significant influence of parental influence on drug and substance abuse among secondary school students in Kinango sub-County from hypothesis one (p˂ 0.05). The study recommended that parents should abstain from drugs because they are role models of their children and that guidance and counselling should be strengthen in schools.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0863/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals Linguodidactic aspects of studying rhetoric by secondary school students

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 174-181
Author(s):  
Olga Petryshyna ◽  
Tetiana Mykolenko ◽  
Mariana Sokol ◽  
Eleonora Palykhata ◽  
Volodymyr Misko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Theoretical Justification ◽  
Experimental Development ◽  
Final Performance ◽  
School Practice ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
Graduating Students

The theoretical justification, experimental development of methods of forming the rhetorical skills of seniors, its effectiveness checking is the aim of the research. The realization of this aim involves the implementation of related tasks: to determine the linguistic, paralinguistic and linguodidactic bases of the methodology of formation of rhetorical skills and abilities of secondary school students; to find out the state of studying rhetoric by graduating students: to analyze the current programs and textbooks in Ukrainian language for 10-11 grades of secondary school, to conduct a statement of rhetorical knowledge and skills, to identify its results; to develop an experimental method of mastering rhetorical knowledge, the formation of appropriate skills and abilities, to implement in school practice, to check its effectiveness. The final performance of creative tasks using the integrated nature of role-playing games, producing texts of different genres are the most effective forms of forming rhetorical skills.

scholarly journals CLOSE-RANGE SENSING TECHNIQUES IN ALPINE TERRAIN

2016 ◽  
Vol III-6 ◽  
pp. 15-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Rutzinger ◽  
B. Höfle ◽  
R. Lindenbergh ◽  
S. Oude Elberink ◽  
F. Pirotti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Summer School ◽  
Early Career ◽  
School Students ◽  
Range Sensing ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Remotely Piloted Aircraft ◽  
Close Range ◽  
Alpine Research ◽  
Aircraft System ◽  
The One

Early career researchers such as PhD students are a main driving force of scientific research and are for a large part responsible for research innovation. They work on specialized topics within focused research groups that have a limited number of members, but might also have limited capacity in terms of lab equipment. This poses a serious challenge for educating such students as it is difficult to group a sufficient number of them to enable efficient knowledge transfer. To overcome this problem, the Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2015 on close-range sensing techniques in Alpine terrain was organized in Obergurgl, Austria, by an international team from several universities and research centres. Of the applicants a group of 40 early career researchers were selected with interest in about ten types of specialized surveying tools, i.e. laser scanners, a remotely piloted aircraft system, a thermal camera, a backpack mobile mapping system and different grade photogrammetric equipment. During the one-week summer school, students were grouped according to their personal preference to work with one such type of equipment under guidance of an expert lecturer. All students were required to capture and process field data on a mountain-related theme like landslides or rock glaciers. The work on the assignments lasted the whole week but was interspersed with lectures on selected topics by invited experts. The final task of the summer school participants was to present and defend their results to their peers, lecturers and other colleagues in a symposium-like setting. Here we present the framework and content of this summer school which brought together scientists from close-range sensing and environmental and geosciences.

Research integrity training for early career researchers

2020 ◽  
pp. 318-332
Author(s):  
Margaux Kersschot ◽  
Iryna Degtyarova ◽  
Peter Novitzky
Keyword(s):  
Research Integrity ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers

scholarly journals Role model and prototype matching: Upper-secondary school students’ meetings with tertiary STEM students

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Lykkegaard ◽  
Lars Ulriksen
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Upper Secondary School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Matching Process ◽  
Prototype Matching ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Stem Students

Previous research has found that young people’s prototypes of science students and scientists affect their inclination to choose tertiary STEM programs (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). Consequently, many recruitment initiatives include role models to challenge these prototypes. The present study followed 15 STEM-oriented upper-secondary school students from university-distant backgrounds during and after their participation in an 18-months long university-based recruitment and outreach project involving tertiary STEM students as role models. The analysis focusses on how the students’ meetings with the role models affected their thoughts concerning STEM students and attending university. The regular self-to-prototype matching process was shown in real-life role-models meetings to be extended to a more complex three-way matching process between students’ self-perceptions, prototype images and situation-specific conceptions of role models. Furthermore, the study underlined the positive effect of prolonged role-model contact, the importance of using several role models and that traditional school subjects catered more resistant prototype images than unfamiliar ones did.

scholarly journals Exploring the Gender Gap in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), and Soft Skills, and Knowledge of Role of Models Among Students in Rural Uganda

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Angella Musiimenta ◽  
Wilson Tumuhimbise ◽  
Elly Bangumya ◽  
Aaron T Mugaba ◽  
Robert Mugonza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Team Work ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Negative Attitudes

Background: Globally, women’s representation in STEM fields remains significantly lower than that of men. Studies assessing the STEM gender gap in disadvantaged rural-based schools are lacking.Objective: To examine the gender differences in attitudes towards STEM and soft skills, and knowledge of role models among students of Nakivale secondary school in Nakivale refugee settlement, southwestern Uganda.Methods: We employed a cross sectional study design that administered pilot tested questionnaires to 111 secondary school students in Nakivale secondary school.Results: More girls than boys reported negative attitudes towards STEM. Both boys and girls demonstrated low attitudes towards the 21st century skills (such as goal setting, leadership skills, team work skills, time management and computer/internet skills), low intentions of pursuing STEM-related subjects in future, as well as limited exposure to STEM role models.Implication: Interventions to address girls’ negative attitudes towards STEM, improve students’ 21st century skills, develop students’ interest in STEM subjects/careers, and link students to role models are urgently needed especially in marginalized areas such as refugee settlements.

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