Qualitative Development of Students’ Digital Skills by Integrating a Spreadsheet Software in First Year Introduction to Engineering and Seminar Course

The Introduction to Engineering (ITE) and Industrial Seminar and Profession (ISP) courses conducted at School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, are integrated courses which implement the Cooperative Problem-based Learning (CPBL) methods in the same semester. Based on this integrated courses, the main aim of this paper is to investigate the qualitative impact of spreadsheet hands-on seminar on the first year students' digital skill. At the beginning of the semester, students are given sustainability-based project to work on, which requires them to collect and to report the data in a series of presentations and written reports. In order to present those data, they need to use analysis tools such as a spreadsheet software. The students are introduced with some in-depth applications of the Microsoft Excel software through the seminar sessions in the ISP course. With the knowledge that the students gain, they are expected to implement it in the CPBL project. A qualitative approach has been adopted to implement the study. Student’s reflections were used as the data source to identify common attributes that they have managed to gain from seminar sessions. This study has found that all students had primarily learned about digital skills. They perceived hand-on activity during the seminar as a good platform to acquire knowledge on basic calculation and developed learning skill on Excel. Moreover, students recognized the skills they are learning will be useful in other courses and future careers.

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A Progressively Advancing Curriculum for Robotics Education – The Case of Toin University of Yokohama –

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics ◽

10.20965/jrm.2006.p0215 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 215-221

Author(s):

Yasuo Hayashibara ◽

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Takeshi Agui ◽

Takahiro Ito ◽

Motoyoshi Ohaba ◽

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Keyword(s):

Practical Experience ◽

First Year ◽

Trial And Error ◽

First Year Students ◽

Robotics Education ◽

Hands On ◽

Elective Course ◽

Second Year ◽

Real World Problems ◽

Mobile Machine

We detail an educational program implemented at Toin University of Yokohama in which lab and workshop courses on automated mechanics, from basics to applications, are offered consecutively during the first three undergraduate years. Engineering is a discipline concerned with practical real-world problems, but students rarely have the chance to gain enough practical experience to effectively understanding engineering. At our department, first- to third-year students may take several hands-on courses for fabricating machines – first-year students build an automatic mobile machine, second-year students write computer programs to control the position of a robot, and some third-year students design and fabricate an entire robot from the bottom up. An elective course on robot fabrication enables students to choose individual theme. Students experience failures and discover better ways by trial and error through these processes.

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A Comparison of South African and International First-Year Students’ Counselling Needs and Preferred Counselling Sources

Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling ◽

10.1017/jgc.2012.21 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 106-114 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Lionel Nicholas ◽

Maria Damianova ◽

Mzamo Ntantiso

Keyword(s):

International Students ◽

South African ◽

First Year ◽

African Students ◽

First Year Students ◽

Learning Skill ◽

Counselling Needs ◽

First Year University ◽

Personal Career ◽

Structured Questionnaire

This study investigated the personal, career and learning skill needs of first-year university students, their preferred counselling sources, and compared South African and international students. Respondents completed a structured questionnaire (N = 567) with more than half reporting a moderate to high need for assistance with their concerns. Women had a significantly greater need for assistance with the bulk of listed concerns than men. International students had a significantly greater need for assistance than South African students and were particularly concerned about xenophobia. These results may assist administrators and counsellors to develop strategies to address identified student needs.

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Hospitality Management Students' Conceptions of Education

Tourism and Hospitality Research ◽

10.1057/palgrave.thr.6050048 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 7 (3-4) ◽

pp. 256-268 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Wichard Zwaal ◽

Hans Otting

Keyword(s):

Teaching And Learning ◽

Hospitality Management ◽

Management Programme ◽

First Year ◽

First Year Students ◽

Educational Innovations ◽

Conceptions Of Assessment ◽

Management Students ◽

Senior Students ◽

Development Of Students

The major issue addressed in this study is the alignment between the institutional conception of education and the students’ conceptions of education, decomposed into three parts: conceptions of knowledge, conceptions of teaching and learning, and conceptions of assessment. Subjects in this study were 324 students enrolled in a four-year hospitality management programme. Three instruments were administered to measure students’ conceptions of education. Results indicate that the three sets of conceptions seem to fit in the traditional-constructivist dichotomy with students showing a congruent pattern in the three sets of conceptions. Finally, first-year students hold more traditional conceptions of education than senior students. The implication for educational innovations is that serious attention should be paid to the development of students’ conceptions of education.

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Methodology of first-year students’ foreign language written discourse competency development

Revista EntreLinguas ◽

10.29051/el.v7iesp.2.15149 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. e021023

Author(s):

Iryna Hoshtanar ◽

Olga Kostrubina ◽

Aelita Lebedieva ◽

Oksana Izmailov

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Educational Process ◽

First Year ◽

State University ◽

Competency Development ◽

Written Discourse ◽

First Year Students ◽

Experimental Teaching ◽

The Subject ◽

Development Of Students

The article focuses on the issues of methodology of first-year students’ foreign language written discourse competency development. The aim of this paper is to present the results of experimental work on the development of first-year students’ foreign language written discourse competency and to specify the achievements in its implementation into the educational process at the Faculty of Foreign Philology of the Kherson State University. The subject of our research project is the methodology of the development of students’ written discourse competency as the basis for their written communication in a foreign language. The achievement of this goal was carried out in the course of solving a number of tasks. Thus, the notion of written discourse competency in a foreign language is considered and its structure and components are clarified. The methodology of university students’ foreign language written discourse competency development is presented in the form of a model which includes 5 components: target, concept, content, procedure and outcome. The results obtained in the course of the experimental teaching are given.

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Civil Engineering Master hands-on challenge to motivate first-year students : CIVIL’in 2017-2018

2018 3rd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE) ◽

10.1109/cispee.2018.8593479 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Isabel M. Ribeiro ◽

Abel Henriques ◽

Barbara Rangel ◽

Ana Sofia Guimaraes

Keyword(s):

Civil Engineering ◽

First Year ◽

First Year Students ◽

Hands On

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NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF NONLINEAR EQUATIONS IN ELECTRONIC TABLES AND VISUAL BASIC FOR APPLICATIONS

Informatics in school ◽

10.32517/2221-1993-2020-19-6-51-57 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 51-57

Author(s):

A. L. Korolev

Keyword(s):

Nonlinear Equations ◽

Visual Basic ◽

First Year ◽

State University ◽

Microsoft Excel ◽

First Year Students ◽

Visual Basic For Applications ◽

Binary Division ◽

Chord Method ◽

And Mathematics

The article discusses some methods for numerically finding the roots of nonlinear equations, which are determined by numerical methods using the construction of a spreadsheet Microsoft Excel and an application in the Visual Basic for Applications environment. The simplest methods are used: the binary division method and the chord method. The article presents the construction of spreadsheets, the algorithm, the method of creation the VBA application, and the text of the corresponding procedures. The material of the article can be used in informatics courses, both at school and at university, for the development of interdisciplinary connections between informatics and mathematics and expanding ideas about the possibilities of spreadsheets. The problems presented in the article were successfully solved by 10th grade students (profile "Mathematics. Informatics") and first-year students of pedagogical university of the profiles "Physics. Mathematics", "Physics. Informatics". The article reflects the author's personal experience of teaching the course "Informatics" at South Ural State University of Humanities and Education and at school.

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Interdisciplinary Subject “Yakugaku Nyumon” for First-year Students Constructed with Lectures and Problem-based Learning

YAKUGAKU ZASSHI ◽

10.1248/yakushi.15-00255 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 136 (7) ◽

pp. 1051-1064 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Kouya Yamaki ◽

Masafumi Ueda ◽

Kumiko Ueda ◽

Noriaki Emoto ◽

Nobuaki Mizutani ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Problem Based Learning ◽

First Year ◽

First Year Students

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Problem-based learning: an approach to enhancing learning and understanding of optics for first-year students

10.1117/12.463956 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

Brian W. Bowe ◽

Siobhan Daly ◽

Cathal Flynn ◽

Robert Howard

Keyword(s):

Problem Based Learning ◽

First Year ◽

First Year Students

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Engaging First-Year Students with a Hands-On Course using Student-Driven Projects

10.18260/1-2--32718 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Lorraine Francis ◽

David Orser ◽

Kia Bazargan ◽

Susan Mantell ◽

Joshua Feinberg ◽

...

Keyword(s):

First Year ◽

First Year Students ◽

Hands On

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EFEKTIVITAS PEMBELAJARAN BERDASARKAN MASALAH DALAM MENINGKATKAN AKTIVITAS DAN KEMAMPUAN PEMECAHAN MASALAH MATEMATIKA SISWA SMA

Jurnal Prinsip Pendidikan Matematika ◽

10.33578/prinsip.v1i2.26 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 29-36

Author(s):

Sumarti

Keyword(s):

Problem Solving ◽

Learning Process ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Group Discussion ◽

Problem Based Learning ◽

First Year ◽

Minimum Standard ◽

First Year Students ◽

Asking Questions ◽

Answering Questions

During teaching and learning process, the students tended to be passive and the class was dominated by the teacher. This situation made the students’ activity in learning became low as they just memorized the concepts instead of understood them. This research was aimed at improving students’ activity and ability in problem solving in Math through problem-based learning model.This was a classroom action research which was conducted in two cycles. The data of this research was collected through observation sheet and a test. The data gotten then was analyzed descriptively. The result of the research showed that the use of problem-based learning model could improve the first year students’ activity and ability of problem solving in Math at SMA Negeri 1 Pekanbaru. Students’ activities in completing LKS, asking questions to the teachers and peers, answering questions from the teachers and peers, presenting the result of group discussion and drawing a conclusion had been in very good category. In problem solving, the percentage of the students who had gained the minimum standard of achievement (KKM) improved from 61,30% in the first cycle into 82,14% in the second cycle.

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