scholarly journals Teachers’ Consideration in Technology-Integrated Lesson Design – A case of Indonesian EFL Teachers

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (18) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Finita Dewi ◽  
Nenden Sri Lengkanawati ◽  
Pupung Purnawarman
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Lesson Design ◽  
Instructional Activities ◽  
Technology Tools ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Design Activities

Abstract— The ubiquity of technology offers promising benefits of its integration in educational sector. Yet, little is known about the rationale underlying teachers’ decisions concerning their educational uses within the constraints of daily classroom practice. This study aims at exploring teach-rs’ consideration in choosing certain technology tools in the context of technology-integrated lesson design activities. Data were obtained through a focus group discussion during the lesson design which was followed by a semi structured interview. Findings for this study have enhanced the under-standing of some aspects that teachers put into consideration while designing technology-integrated lessons; identifying goals, analyzing learners, planning instructional activities, and choosing the technology tools. In addition, the findings of this study also postulate that during the lesson design activities, teachers need to be triggered by some cognitive prompts in order to sup-port them making some decision on the learning objectives, the stag-es of activities, and the technology tools they need to integrate.

scholarly journals The Multifaceted Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dentists in Tamil Nadu, India: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nesa Aurlene ◽  
R Sindhu ◽  
A Haripriya
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Dental Treatment ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Dental Clinics ◽  
The Government

Introduction: India has become the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) epicentre with the highest number of COVID-19 cases being reported each day. This has caused a major impact on healthcare workers including dentists across the country. Most dental clinics in Tamil Nadu were closed during the initial two months of draconian lockdown enforced by the Government of India (GOI). As partial lockdown measures were introduced over the subsequent months, dental clinics have started functioning and receiving patients for emergency dental treatment. Aim: This study was done among dentists practicing in Tamil Nadu amidst the COVID-19 pandemic to understand how the pandemic has impacted their professional and personal lives. Materials and Methods: A qualitative study using online focus group discussion was conducted among 32 dentists practicing in Tamil Nadu, India using a structured interview guide in the month of July 2020. After data collection, the focus group discussions were transcribed manually and an inductive thematic analysis was performed using Braun and Clarke’s six phases for thematic analysis. Results: Three major themes were identified after the thematic analysis namely limitations of off-campus distance learning, challenges faced in dental practice during the COVID-19 pandemic and social life impacts of COVID-19 among dentists. Conclusion: Dentists in this study felt that the COVID-19 pandemic was negatively impacting their dental practices owing to lack of clarity in COVID-19 protocols, lack of patient awareness, high cost of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), increasing overhead expenses, ergonomic difficulties in treating patients while wearing PPE, patients’ unwillingness to pay higher charges for treatment under COVID-19 protocols and fear of contracting COVID-19. Majority of participants in this study did not report any negative impacts of social isolation as many of them had stayed with their families during the lockdown.

scholarly journals Evaluative Study of Plagiarism in Post Graduate Research in Punjab, Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol V (II) ◽  
pp. 10-21
Author(s):  
Muhammad Moin ◽  
Muhammad Arshad Dahar ◽  
Muhammad Imran Yousuf
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
The Public ◽  
Evaluative Study ◽  
Graduate Research

The purpose of the present study is to highlight the seriousness and explore the level of awareness of postgraduate students regarding plagiarism, HEC plagiarism policy and practice. The research design used in the study was convergent mixed method. The population of the study was comprised of all the postgraduate students and supervisors of the public sector universities of Punjab. The sample of this study consisted of 64 supervisor and 272 postgraduate students from Punjab. Three research instruments; questionnaires, semi-structured interview and focus group discussion guidelines (FGDs) were used to collect the data. The results of the study indicated that students were aware about plagiarism but unaware of the plagiarism policy except that the similarity index of the dissertation. Study recommends arranging awareness about plagiarism to the teachers, students and administrators through orientations, various workshops, trainings and seminars.

scholarly journals From Knowledge Sharing to Reflective Thinking: Using Focus Group to Promote EFL Teachers’ Reflectivity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majid Farahian ◽  
Farshad Parhamnia
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Constructive Feedback ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Master Of Arts

Educational research literature has underscored the key role of collaboration and interaction among teachers. As such, the present study, as its main objective, sought whether knowledge sharing in a reflective focus group improved English as a foreign language(EFL) student teachers’ reflective practice. In addition, it explored the benefits and challenges to knowledge sharing in a reflective focus group. To this end, a survey of reflective practice, and a semi-structured interview were employed to investigate research questions. Eleven Iranian Master of Arts (MA) students who were, at the same time, EFL teachers in languages schools served as the participants of the study. The results indicated that the focus group platform could enable EFL teachers to improve their reflective practice through interaction with colleagues. Among other factors, receiving constructive feedback, and recognizing the possible relationship between theory and practice were the benefits of knowledge sharing through reflective practice. Regarding the barriers to using reflective focus group, various inhibitors were reported by the participants that can be classified into personal, institutional, and educational factors. The implications of the study are also presented.

scholarly journals PEMAGANGAN LUAR NEGERI TENAGA KERJA: PROSES, PENDAPATAN, DAN ALIH TEKNOLOGI

Populasi ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agus Joko Pitoyo
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Focus Group Discussion ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Process Mechanism ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Returning Home

This study is aimed to investigate the mechanism of abroad apprenticeship labour program, including income rate, to understand the process of transferring knowledge, and to portray its implementation to regional development. There are at least three aspects will be discussed, firstly, to understand the process of apprenticeship overseas; secondly, to evaluate their income and economic activities after returning home; and thirdly, to evaluate how the local government involves in empowering ex-apprentice labour overseas. The research employed several methods for getting data such as structured interview by using questionnaire, focus group discussion, in-depth interview, tracking, and observation. This study indicated that (I) Apprenticeship process mechanism is not fully transparent yet; (2) Their income are relatively high, however, looking at their job they are still absorbed in 3D jobs (dirty, dangerous, difficult); (3) Several arising problems set the volunteer in low bidding position, and (4) process of transferring knowledge they got from overseas is vague.

scholarly journals Diversity Of Desired And Observed Levels Of Qualities Among Teacher Candidates Perceived By Private School Management

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Imran Yousuf ◽  
Naveed Sultana ◽  
Muhmmad Naseer-ud-Din ◽  
Sajid Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Group Discussion ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Private School ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
The Difference

The trend of enrolment in private schools is growing rapidly. The criteria of quality for teacher candidates is complex one, great value is placed for oral interviews along with other formal techniques of selection process. The present study focused to investigate the desired and observed levels of qualities for teacher candidates perceived by their employers at private educational institutions in Pakistan. Interviews of personnel involved in selection process, a focus group discussion and a survey were used as the research method. After semi-structured interview with 20 employers the initial three levels of dimensions of qualities for teacher candidates i.e. dimensions of educational and professional knowledge; dimensions of teaching and professional skills; and dimensions of values and attitudes were developed and kept for  focus group discussion. In this way six qualities for each dimension were finalized and the survey was conducted to rate the desired and observed levels of 18 items. A total number of 139 responses were available through this survey. The mean of desired and observed responses for each item was calculated. The difference between means, standard deviations and t-values were also calculated. The differences in mean values for desired and observed levels for all three categories indicate that employers of private schools are not satisfied with the output of teachers training programs.

scholarly journals The Influence of the Richness of Emotive-Cutural Lexicon in Coloring the Politeness Form of Speech and Politeness Gradation of the Coastal Javanese Society in Pati District

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 08023 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Suryadi ◽  
Tiani Riris
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Color Variant ◽  
Usage Area ◽  
Selection Of

The focus of this research was to widen the richness of emotive-cultural lexicon which is grow rapidly in the usage area of coastal Javanese, especially in Pati District. By the variant of emotive-cultural lexicon will be found the uniqueness form of politeness and the gradation of politeness in the speaker walks of life. The location of this research was concentrate in Pati District. The selection of respondent and informant by using purposive sampling. The research design was survey and case study. The data collection was done by structured interview, in-depth interview, and focus group discussion. The data was analyze using the connection of emotive-cultural lexicon toward the form of politeness speech, so that the direct substance sorting became the main device in the analysis. The research findings are the power of emotive-cultural lexicon becomes the spirit of speech politeness form for Javanese coastal society in the region of Pati. This spirit also developes the gradation of politeness for the speaker. Lingually, this gradation is determined by the color/variant of emotive-cultural lexicon than the power of extralingual.

scholarly journals Reflection as a Way to Grapple TPACK Complexity for EFL Teachers

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 894-903
Author(s):  
Yunica Rhosiana Sari ◽  
Sumardi Sumardi
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Teaching With Technology ◽  
Lesson Design ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Professional Development Workshop ◽  
Cognitive Awareness ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
The Government

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) is a framework to develop the theory to practice in teaching with technology. Therefore, the teacher, as a practitioner of TPACK implementation, has a responsibility to implement the knowledge effectively. This study investigates the meta-cognitive awareness produced by teachers who participate in TPACK lesson design workshops. This process involves some reflection tools, focus group discussion, and reflective journal as a platform for doing the reflection. This study documented teachers’ stories during three interviews as they created their TPACK lesson design. The detailed data was from three Indonesian teachers. Those teachers participated in the process of research from the professional development workshop to the focus group interview. The data indicated the details of their experience in reflecting and determining on their professional knowledge. These findings show that during the reflection, the teachers start to realize each aspect of TPACK in three stages. These findings are useful for the government to establish professional development workshops in the technology education field. The researcher explored the implications of this analysis for teachers to effectively design the lesson and future researchers.

scholarly journals Action Learning for Crime Prevention: Implications for Community Safety

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Nomazulu Ngozwana ◽  
Lindiwe Ngcobo ◽  
David Jele
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Action Learning ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Community Safety ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis

Crime prevention is everyone’s responsibility – law enforcement officers, community members, social groups, businesses and governments who all need to be sensitized about prevention strategies for ensuring community safety. Interpretive paradigm was used within a qualitative research approach. We adopted a descriptive research design. A semi-structured interview guide was used to collect data from all the participants that were purposively chosen. Six crime prevention officers, that were selected using snowball sampling, were individually interviewed. Data were further collected from twenty-eight members of community policing forums in three focus group discussions and six members of the inner council in the fourth focus group discussion. Qualitative thematic analysis was used. The findings revealed that some community policing forum members abused their skills and knowledge to commit crime than fight it. The findings demonstrated that community policing is effective in reducing crime. However, it transpired that the forums faced several challenges such as: lack of airtime to make calls, lack of incentives to motivate members, female members experiencing difficulty at night because they were afraid while others were not released by their partners to go to work. Although the community policing forums enhanced social change towards crime in various communities, there are negative implications for women serving as members of the forums.

scholarly journals PERAN PEREMPUAN NELAYAN DALAM USAHA PERIKANAN TANGKAP DAN PENINGKATAN EKONOMI RUMAH TANGGA PESISIR TELUK JAKARTA

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurlaili Nurlaili ◽  
Rizky Muhartono
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Group Discussion ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Fish Catch ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Urban Villages

Teluk Jakarta memiliki wilayah pesisir yang menjadi salah satu sumber mata pencaharian. Salah satu aktor pada wilayah pesisir adalah kaum perempuan. Perempuan pesisir memiliki peran penting dalam rumah tangga nelayan. Pada aktivitas ekonomi rumah tangga, perempuan pesisir ikut berkontribusi bahkan terkadang mendominasi. Tulisan ini menggambarkan peran perempuan nelayan dalam rumah tangga nelayan pesisir Teluk Jakarta. Penelitian dilakukan di Teluk Jakarta di dua kecamatan yaitu Cilincing dan Penjaringan, tiga Kelurahan di Cilincing (Marunda, Cilincing dan Kalibaru) dan dua kelurahan di Penjaringan (Kamal Muara dan Muara Angke). Metode analisa data yang digunakan adalah metode deskriptif kualitatif dengan teknik pengumpulan data adalah wawancara terstruktur, wawancara mendalam (indepth interview), observasi dan diskusi kelompok terbatas (Focus Group Discussion/FGD). Kajian studi literatur juga dilakukan untuk memperkaya tulisan. Perempuan pesisir Teluk Jakarta memiliki peran dalam aktivitas usaha perikanan. Pada usaha perikanan tangkap, perempuan berperan pada tahap persiapan yaitu mempersiapkan perbekalan melaut (ransum) dan membantu perbaikan jaring, pasca melaut yaitu memilah hasil tangkapan ikan dan memasarkannya. Pada kegiatan budidaya kerang hijau, perempuan pesisir di Teluk Jakarta berperan pada tahap pasca panen yaitu memilah kerang hijau, mengupas (memipil), merebus dan memasarkannya. Pada usaha pengolahan hasil perikanan, perempuan pesisir Teluk Jakarta berperan pada keseluruhan proses pengolahan ikan dan pemasarannya. Peran perempuan yang strategis dalam tiap tahapan kegiatan usaha perikanan menjadikan perempuan sebagai titik tumpu dalam program pembangunan. Melihat besarnya peran perempuan dalam kegiatan usaha perikanan, maka dalam setiap program pemberdayaan masyarakat di pesisir Teluk Jakarta harus melibatkan perempuan. Title:Role of Women Fisheries in Fishery and Establishment of Household Economics Jakarta BayJakarta Bay has a coastal area of which become one of the sources of livelihood. One of the actors in coastal areas is women. Coastal women play significant role in the fisher’s household. They contribute even dominate the fishers daily household activities. This paper describes the role of women fishers in the coastal of Jakarta Bay. The research was conducted in Jakarta Bay in two sub-districts (Cilincing and Penjaringan), three urban villages in Cilincing (Marunda, Cilincing and Kalibaru) and two urban villages in Penjaringan (Kamal Muara and Muara Angke). Data were collected through structured interview, in depth interview, observation and focus group discussion. Data were analyzed using qualitative descriptive method. Furthermore, this paper enriched with literature review. Coastal women of Jakarta Bay play significant roles in fishery business activity. In the capture fisheries, they prepare food and supplies before sailing and help repairing the net, thereafter, they sort the fish catch and sell them. Women also play their role in shellfish cultivation especially in the post-harvest stage such as sorting out the green shell, peeling, boiling and selling. While in the processing business of fishery products, the women of Jakarta Bay coast play their role in the whole process of fish processing and its marketing. Therefore, women in Jakarta Bay become a fulcrum of the development program, and it is necessary to involve women in every community empowerment program on the coast of Jakarta Bay.

scholarly journals The Design of Unique Lexicon Formation of Javanese Speech in Semarang Lower Class Society

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 14021
Author(s):  
M. Suryadi ◽  
Sri Puji Astuti
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Sampling System ◽  
Class Society ◽  
Dissemination Area ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Selection Of

The research was aimed to design the formation of Javanese speech unique lexicon in Semarang lower class society. The design involved the phoneme sequence pattern and phoneme mapping in the lexicon structure. The location of the research was in the dissemination area of Semarang language in Semarang. The selection of informant used purposive sampling system. The design of the research was survey and case study. The data collection was done by structured interview, in-depth interview, and focus group discussion (FGD). The data was analyzed using agih method by changing technique of phoneme sequence, re-order of phoneme form, and harmonization of phoneme devices.The finding of this research is a design which take a form as a method that can be used to design the new forming of lexicon that categorized as the unique lexicon, all at once as the model of lexicon enrichment.

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