scholarly journals Block Mode Study: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Generation of Learners in an Australian University

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Gayani Samarawickrema ◽  
Kaye Cleary
Keyword(s):  
Economic Status ◽  
Success For All ◽  
Bold Response ◽  
Pass Rates ◽  
Block Model ◽  
Generation Cohorts ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
First In Family ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Initial Results

This article is an update on a university-wide overhaul of its pedagogy, curriculum and delivery to support the expanding non-traditional, new generation learners while enhancing opportunity and success for traditional learners. The Block Model developed by Victoria University (VU), Australia for its undergraduate cohort, was a bold response to support all students including its high proportion of First-in-family (FiF), low socio-economic status (LSES), and non-English-speaking background (NESB) students. In this radical new hybrid Block model, students study one unit/subject at a time over four weeks. The article reports on preliminary results after two years of implementing the VU Block Model. While both traditional and new-generation cohorts significantly improved their performance, there was a higher improvement in the pass rates of LSES, NESB and FiF students, compared to the improvements in the traditional cohorts of students. These initial results confirm the value of the institution-wide strategy to expand opportunity and enhance success for all.

Predictors of professional commitment for Chinese new generation cohorts in a sample of seafaring officers

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Xiaohui Jia
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Important Predictor ◽  
Professional Commitment ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Dynamic Features ◽  
Hierarchical Regression Analysis ◽  
Generation Cohorts ◽  
New Generation

Abstract This study aims to examine the predictors of professional commitment of the Chinese new generation, divided into post-80s and post-90s cohorts. A questionnaire survey was employed to collect data from Chinese seafaring officers of these cohorts. The results through hierarchical regression analysis present the two cohorts as having both similar and different predictors. The main difference is that company management and policies positively drive the post-80s cohort to work at sea but not the post-90s. The main similarity is that the work itself is the most important predictor for both cohorts. This study contributes to helping maritime companies to estimate the possibility of Chinese new generation officers quitting sea jobs and can be of value to both managers and authorities as they seek to comprehend the generational dynamic features to better cope with the problem of shortage of younger qualified officers.

scholarly journals BiFeO3-BaTiO3: A new generation of lead-free electroceramics

2018 ◽  
Vol 08 (06) ◽  
pp. 1830004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawei Wang ◽  
Ge Wang ◽  
Shunsuke Murakami ◽  
Zhongming Fan ◽  
Antonio Feteira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Lead Free ◽  
Potassium Sodium Niobate ◽  
Energy Storage Devices ◽  
Storage Devices ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Energy Storage Properties ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Initial Results

Lead-based electroceramics such as Pb(Zr.Ti)O3 (PZT) and its derivatives have excellent piezoelectric, pyroelectric and energy storage properties and can be used in a wide range of applications. Potential lead-free replacements for PZT such as potassium sodium niobate (KNN) and sodium bismuth titanate (NBT) have a much more limited range of useful properties and have been optimized primarily for piezoelectric applications. Here, we review the initial results on a new generation of lead-free electroceramics based on BiFeO3-BaTiO3 (BF-BT) highlighting the essential crystal chemistry that permits a wide range of functional properties. We demonstrate that with the appropriate dopants and heat treatment, BF-BT can be used to fabricate commercially viable ceramics for applications, ranging from sensors, multilayer actuators, capacitors and high-density energy storage devices. We also assess the potential of BF-BT-based ceramics for electrocaloric and pyroelectric applications.

The Elders: A New Generation

1986 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney Jones
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Voluntary Activity ◽  
Scientific Images ◽  
Life Education ◽  
New Generation

ABSTRACTDrawing upon evidence from Britain, this paper advances the proposition that new generations of older people are experiencing a healthier, materially better off and more satisfying old age. It is argued that both popular and scientific images of later life are out-dated and unduly negative. In advancing this analysis, attention is given to key areas of personal experience and social life: education, leisure and holidays, retirement, voluntary activity, spirituality, economic status, health and political involvement. A re-construction of the societal position of older people is indicated.

Global Teachers with Globite Cases

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Reid
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Teacher Shortages ◽  
Immigrant Teachers ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Research And Policy ◽  
The Way

A key feature of contemporary changes in globalisation is the increasing transnational flows of people. Evidence of the way in which these changes are impacting on education in Australia today is found in the presence of its immigrant teachers. Teacher shortages in Australia have led to increasing numbers of immigrant teachers from non-European or non-English-speaking background countries. This article reviews the recent experiences of Australia, New Zealand and Canada in recruiting these teachers. The findings of a study into the presence of immigrant teachers in selected Australian schools are then presented. It was found that as these immigrant teachers negotiate the ‘authoritative discourses’ in their professional lives, they contribute to the reworking of the identity and work of teachers. The article concludes by sketching a research and policy agenda that arises in response to, and as an expression of the presence of this new generation of global/local teachers.

Evaluating locally-developed language testing

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Cope
Keyword(s):  
Predictive Validity ◽  
Language Assessment ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Pass Rates ◽  
Language Program ◽  
University Admissions ◽  
Entry Pathway ◽  
Assessment Validation ◽  
Language Assessments ◽  
English Speaking

The study reported here investigates the predictive validity of language assessments by ‘Direct Entry’ programs at an Australian University – programs developed on site for Non English Speaking Background international students, principally to provide (i) pre-entry academic and language preparation and (ii) language assessment for university admissions purposes. All 138 students in the sample had entered degree studies via one of the three programs that made up the locally-developed Direct Entry pathway. Inferential statistics (correlation and regression) showed the assessments awarded by two programs to satisfactorily predict academic outcomes, while predictive validity for one was not demonstrated. Descriptive statistics (mean pass rates and academic averages) then revealed a pattern of relatively poor academic performance in certain university disciplines to which particular Direct Entry programs were dedicated. Informed by principles of language program evaluation, the study’s outcomes were seen as both summative and formative: remedial strategies are accordingly recommended. While the specific relevance of the study’s findings is to the particular institutional context in which the study was conducted, the study instantiates a perspective on language assessment validation of broader relevance in an Australian context where locally-developed Direct Entry programs – about which the research literature is largely silent – are increasingly widespread.

Normal decoding of the structure of the chest in the light of possibilities a new generation of high-frequency ultrasonographic sensors

2018 ◽  
pp. 123-127
Author(s):  
G.H. Hambarova ◽  
◽  
H.E. Askerova ◽  
M.S. Panakhova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Mammary Glands ◽  
Anatomical Structures ◽  
Key Words Breast ◽  
Technological Growth ◽  
Doppler Techniques ◽  
Ultrasonic Devices ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Tomographic Section ◽  
New Generation

Over the years of the existence of echography in Japan and the English-speaking countries, a large number of atlases and a manual textbookы where the authors describe the echo anatomy of the mammary glands have been published. The rapid technological growth has led to the fact that the echo anatomy of the mammary glands described on the basis of equipment from the 80s-90s does not correspond to the capabilities of modern ultrasonic devices. There was a need to clarify and detail the echographic image of the mammary glands, taking into account the possibilities of a new generation of 10–12 MHz high-frequency, and also upon the use of the new Doppler techniques. The anatomical structures of the mammary glands are clearly differentiated using modern ultrasound equipment. The breast tissue is normally varied widely and depends on the ratio of fat, connective and glandular tissue. The USM allows visualizing the tomographic section of the image of a fragment of the mammary gland from the skin cover to the chest wall. Key words: breast glande, ultrasonography, dopрlerography, US-sensor.

Employability and student equity in higher education: The role of university careers services

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Andrewartha ◽  
Andrew Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Economic Status ◽  
Completion Rates ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Job Interview ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Student Equity ◽  
Central Resource ◽  
Professional Perspectives ◽  
English Speaking

There is a pressing need to redress inequities in university completion rates and graduate outcomes. Students from low socio-economic status, regional, and Indigenous backgrounds have lower completion rates than their peers. Graduates from non-English speaking backgrounds and graduates with a disability have consistently worse employment outcomes. Despite these concerning trends, student equity remains marginal to most university employability strategies, including the provision of careers services. University careers services are a central resource for improving student employability. These services provide a range of activities such as careers education, job interview training, resumé preparation, and the sourcing of employment opportunities. Research suggests that students from equity groups underutilise careers services, despite often having the most to gain from them. We captured the professional perspectives and expertise of university careers specialists to explore: the role of careers services in improving employability and equity; and broader university strategies to redress inequitable graduate outcomes.

The declining role of primary schools in the revitalisation of Irish

AILA Review ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 49-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Harris
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
Rapid Evolution ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Educational Structures ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Language Revitalisation ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Changing Role

Although the vast majority of people in Ireland have at least some knowledge of Irish, only a small minority speak it as a community language (in Gaeltacht areas in the west) or in the more widely dispersed Irish-speaking households in the large English speaking area. Primary schools have had a central role in language revitalisation since the late 19th century, by transmitting a knowledge of the language to each new generation. This paper examines how well primary schools have performed in recent decades. Results of a national comparative study over a 17 year period show that there has been a long-term decline in pupil success in learning Irish (speaking and listening) in ‘ordinary’ schools. Proficiency in Irish in all-Irish immersion schools in English-speaking areas have held up well despite rapid expansion. Reasons for the decline in ordinary schools include time pressures in the curriculum, a reduction in Irish-medium teaching, changing teacher attitudes and a lack of engagement by parents. The changing role of the Department of Education and Science in relation to Irish and the rapid evolution of new educational structures, have also have had negative effects. Implications for the revitalisation of Irish are discussed.

Socio-Economic Status of Milk Producers of Primary Milk Societies: A Case Study

Think India ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-18
Author(s):  
Suraj M. Popker ◽  
Guntur Anjana Raju
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Perception Of Quality ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Dairy Milk

Dairy development program plays a vital role in the socio-economic conditions of the rural people. Higher demand for milk means adding larger number of high-breed milk producing cattle to the milk population. A large part of this cattle population is owned and reared in rural areas. Thus, small marginal farmers and landless agricultural laborers play a very important role in milk production of the country. Dairy farming can also be centered where the demand for milk is high. The co-operative movement for milk was started in India in the last decade of the nineteenth century with two objectives in view-protecting the farmers from the hands of the private money lenders and improving their economic condition. This paper endeavors to understand the socio-economic status of milk producers of primary milk societies. To study socio-economic status of milk producers, 90 milk supplying members from seven dairy primary societies out of fourteen societies having membership of 1027 were considered. Primary data were collected through schedule questionnaire, for the purpose of conducted survey only milk supplying members were selected by way of random sampling method. The primary data is processed by using SPSS package for drawing necessary results. The empirical results show that majority of members are above poverty line and 55.6% of them earn between Rs.5000 to 10000 p.m. The study also reveals that nearly 77.8% of the respondents are happy with the dairy business but 60% of them responded that new generation of their family should not continue with the same business. This paper also attempts to focus on a discussion on members perception of quality of services provided by the dairy milk societies in study area. The various aspects considered in the study are: opinion about satisfaction from various services provided by dairy societies, extension services like training, advisory service, education tour, etc..

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