Addressing Curriculum Gaps to Enhance Research Engagement Among Postgraduate Students in Low Resource Settings

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Fredrick Ssempala
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Low Resource Settings ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Research Engagement ◽  
Productive Research

For any country to develop, it should be able to conduct research to generate knowledge necessary to solve problems of humanity by producing necessary goods and services. Research is essential for any nation's success. Most goods and services consumed today are products of research conducted in developed countries by post-graduate students. Unfortunately, most post-graduate students in developing countries face a lot of challenges that limit their ability to engage in original research that should be published in refereed journals and to acquire necessary patents accordingly. Curriculum gaps inhibit most graduate students in low-resource settings from engaging in productive research necessary to transform the developing country's economy. Hence, the chapter discusses the importance of research engagement and strategies to fill curriculum gaps in the postgraduate programs to enhance research engagement among the post-graduate students in low-resource settings.

scholarly journals Learning strategies used by undergraduate and postgraduate students in hybrid courses in the area of health

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 551-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Maia Peixoto ◽  
Mariana Maia Peixoto ◽  
Elioenai Dornelles Alves
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Study Habits ◽  
Hybrid Courses ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Course Content

This study aimed to investigate the learning habits and strategies of undergraduate and post-graduate students matriculated in hybrid courses in the area of healthcare at a Brazilian university. 220 graduate students were invited to participate in the research, of whom 67.27% accepted. An exploratory methodology was utilized, which analyzed quantitative data collected by a structured instrument. A similarity may be observed between undergraduate and postgraduate students concerning the majority of education habits and learning strategies, such as the large proportion of those who read more than half of the course content and of those who preferred to study alone, as well as in the high use of the majority of strategies evaluated. It is concluded that both the groups present appropriate study habits and satisfactorily used the learning strategies investigated.

scholarly journals System to outline the graduatestudents

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 413-417
Author(s):  
Alberto Schanaider
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Current System ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Teaching Career ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Academic Assistance ◽  
Current Context

Objective: to evaluate the system to outline the graduate students from the Post-Graduate Programs of CAPES Medicine III area. Method: it was analyzed the book of indicators and the Document of Area of the Post-Graduate Programs of Surgery, also checking the literature about this issue. Results: there was a paucity of data from most of the programs, as regards to the methods for evaluation of graduate students. The current system lacks a standard and an institutional support to outline the graduate students. In the public system there is a concentration of postgraduate students in Medicine; however, they represent a small part of those Brazilians students who finished their graduation courses in Medicine. In the current context, the quest for the post graduate courses and consequently for a research field or even a teaching career, has been replaced by the private sector jobs and the labor market, both in non-academic assistance activities. Conclusion: it is imperative to establish not only science and technology innovation policies but also educational and health policies acting harmoniously and stimulating the qualification and the teaching career, improving the post-graduate courses. It is necessary to develop a single form under the institutional guidance of CAPES with the conception of a National Program for Graduate Student in order to consolidate guidelines to mapping the graduate students of post-graduate programs in surgery, in our country.

Determining Research Design and Data Analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-57
Author(s):  
Goodness Wobihiele Orluwene ◽  
Ibrahim Ajala
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Statistical Tool ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Research Engagement ◽  
Engagement Process ◽  
General Data ◽  
Selection Of

Research is the framework for the development of human social and scientific progress. Foundations for improved scientific thinking is often established at the post-graduate level where students undertake independent investigations aimed at exploring a chosen topic within their chosen area of specialization. Irrespective of the discipline, institution, or topic chosen, post-graduate students often adopt specific research framework(s) and processes which involves selecting design(s) and data analysis procedure. This seemingly routine task has been the bane of many post-graduate students. This chapter focuses on research methodology involving the selection of appropriate design that aims to establish the general data collection and analyses procedures, selection of a sample from population, and discussion of findings in line with existing literature or controlled observation. This chapter provides suggestions for improving the research engagement process through the adoption of appropriate research design and selection of statistical tool for data analysis.

Impact and Usage of Social Media Among the Post Graduate Students of Arts in Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-110
Author(s):  
P. Pitchaipandi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This chapter tries to analyse the impact and usage of social media among the postgraduate students of arts in Alagappa University, Karaikudi, under survey method for the study. The study identified the majority (69.79%) of the respondents under female category, and 72.92% of the respondents belong in the age group between 21 and 23 years. It is observed that 32.29% of the respondents use the social media, preferably YouTube. The plurality (48.96%) of the respondents use smartphone/mobiles compare to iPod, desktop, laptop, and others. 35.42% of the respondents' spent between 1 and 5 hours weekly using social media. Further, the study also observes the positive and negative aspects of using social media in postgraduate students of arts disciplines in the university.

scholarly journals THE BACHELARDIAN ONEIRIC CHILDHOOD

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (22) ◽  
pp. 154-179
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Viana Sales ◽  
Ana Laudelina Ferreira Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Active Imagination ◽  
Gaston Bachelard ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Collective Orientation

This text deals with the notion formulated by Gaston Bachelard of oneiric childhood, which refers to a permanent childhood that is renewed through active imagination and poetic reverie, promoting an articulation between memory and imagination in our awaken dreams. Aiming to give visibility and more reflection on the bachelardian oneiric childhood, we have investigated the approaches of this phenomenon within works of post-graduate students supervised by Ana Laudelina F. Gomes in the Research Group in which we participate - Mythos-Logos:religion, myth and spirituality. After doing a bibliographical research on thesis, dissertations and papers written by some of the members that are part of the group which works with such a notion, like Badiali (2016), Batista (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), Eustáquio (2015, 2016), Melo (2012) and Gomes (2013b), it was noticed how this theme was recurring in a lot of different works. I perceived that reading these studies has triggered my own oneiric childhood, as it is in a ritual of anthropophagic readings. My infant being was fed by the narratives and images of those childhoods, which further expanded my poetic reveries, experience and reflection on the theme. Therefore, I have decided to present within this article some of the repercussions these readings provoked in me, stems from the collective orientation given by the supervisor Professor and sometimes by an invited person, when all the postgraduate students involved in the research read and make comments on the studies of one another.   Keywords: Childhood; Gaston Bachelard; Oneiric Poetry;  Anthropophagic Readings;  

Overcoming the Viva Voce Examination Obstacle at Postgraduate Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 97-114
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Mayengo
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Oral Examination ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Low Resource Settings ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Postgraduate Research ◽  
The Way

Most postgraduate programs have viva voce, or oral examination, or thesis defense as a mandatory form of research assessment. This chapter defines viva voce examination, its importance in the assessment of postgraduate students, the way it should be managed, the challenges it presents to the students as well as the staff, and how to overcome it as an obstacle. The chapter provides a handy tool for the guidance and preparation of students and faculty in low-resource settings in the viva process. The author recommends students be gradually and systematically introduced to viva voce examinations as a formative assessment, rather than suddenly as a terminal assessment.

scholarly journals Assessing the Influence of Responsive Disorder on the Academic Performance of Married Post-graduate Students in North eastern Universities in Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amuche Christian Igomu ◽  
Adamu Naomi Nuhu
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Married People ◽  
North East ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Research Questions

The study assessed the influence of Responsive disorder on the academic performance of married post-graduate students in North Eastern Universities in Nigeria. Two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated in harmony with the objectives of the study. The design of this study is survey. The population of the study consist of 22,772 married post-graduate students from 4 Universities in North-east, Nigeria. The sample size for the study was 422 determined using the Proportionate sampling strategy employed at different levels in selection of postgraduate students from the four Universities and along gender lines. The researcher developed two instruments for data collection for the study titled: Students’ Responsive disorder Inventory and Research and Statistics Achievement Test. The reliabilities of the instruments yielded 0.84 and 0.87 reliability coefficients of internal consistency for SRDI and RSAT respectively. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize data related to the research questions. Linear regression statistic was used to test the formulated null hypotheses. It was found that postgraduate students face Responsive disorder even with an above average level academic performance. However, Responsive disorder significantly influenced academic achievement of postgraduate students who are married in Universities in North-east Nigeria. Also, Responsive disorder significantly predicts academic achievement of postgraduate students irrespective of gender. The study concludes that there is relatively high level agreement among postgraduate students in the North-east states with respect to the Responsive disorder faced by them. The finding debunks traditional beliefs that married people are more likely to perform poorly or even drop-out. This study found support for the position that married people may beat the single and even complete their studies before the singles. The study recommends among others that; coping strategies be evolved to help resolve the debacle; Scholarships should be awarded to students to reduce the financial burden, and, efforts should be invested in promoting emotional health among post-graduate students in order to mellow the negative effect on their academic performance.

Psycholinguistic aspect in shaping the secondary linguistic personality of post-graduate students

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-84
Author(s):  
A.B. Evseev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Linguistic Competence ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Successful Adaptation ◽  
Competency Based

Presented is the paradigm of professional and linguistic competencies of postgraduate students of a Russian humanities university. The author proves the importance of a competency-based approach in teaching foreign languages to assist post-graduates in their successful adaptation to persistently changing conditions in the labour market. The research substantiates the necessity of shaping a secondary linguistic personality in post-graduate students capable of successful intercultural communication. The article analyzes various interpretations of “competence”, as a notion, postulates the communicative approach in learning foreign languages based on the psycholinguistic aspect. The author suggests new methods of assessment of the linguistic competence maturity in post-graduates at various levels of education.

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