scholarly journals Perceptions of Successful Veterinary School Applicants: Assessment Data to Improve Student Success

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Whitt ◽  
Danny Walker ◽  
Diana Watson ◽  
Jason Roberts ◽  
Joey Mehlhorn
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Assessment Data ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
Veterinary School ◽  
Professional Guidance ◽  
Education Process

Admission to colleges of veterinary medicine has become increasingly more competitive through the years. The increased number of applicants require students and the programs they are attending to help students distinguish themselves in the applicant pool. Many students understand the importance of the science related coursework early on in their undergraduate career. The soft skills along with mentoring have been shown to be important for applicant success. Time management skills can be some of the most vital skills for undergraduate students to practice before matriculation to veterinary school. In addition, group skills and conflict resolution are perceived as important among veterinary alumni and students. Mentoring is critical throughout the education process. The personal aspects and professional guidance given by professors make for the most successful advising of undergraduate pre-veterinary students. Results indicated that students could benefit from communication skills being included throughout the curriculum, especially in context of veterinary science courses. 

scholarly journals Kemahiran Insaniah Pelajar Prasiswazah: Analisis Perbezaan Jantina

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hazilah Mohd Amin ◽  
Johari Jaafar ◽  
Zaihosnita Hood ◽  
Saidah Saad ◽  
Hamizah Mohd Amin
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Industrial Training ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Ict Skills ◽  
High Level

Soft skills are important in virtually every profession in the workplace. Therefore, when evaluating employees, organizations will look for graduates with soft skills in addition to technical skills. However, in-depth studies on the extent these skills have been acquired by students in local higher education institutions have not been fully explored. Thus, this paper discusses this issue based on a study on 165 students’ soft skills assessment forms completed by industry supervisors during 2011 industrial training. Data was analyzed descriptively and inferentially using t-test. Findings of this study found that generally, teamwork skills, professionalism, social responsibility, and ICT skills were generally at high level. However, communication and problem solving skills were found to be at a moderate level. The study also found that skills in using ICT hardware, accept criticism, respect for others' views, and time management skills were effective differentiators in explaining genders differences. The research has brought meaningful implications for undergraduate students, employers and policy makers.

Formation of Universal Competencies of Undergraduate Students of Pedagogical Directions

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
O. Minina
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Leadership Communication ◽  
Master Degree ◽  
Training Materials ◽  
Teachers Training

The aim of the research was to develop and implement a teachers training master degree program with active integration of soft skills at all the stages to form students’ system and critical thinking, project management skills, teamwork and leadership, communication and cross-cultural interaction skills. To solve these problems, the program included specialized practice-orientated courses based on the principles of pedagogical ergonomics and the latest technologies (ball-rating system, workshop, case study, “agile” principle, pedagogical situations’ modeling and others). The research resulted is a unique, effective and validated program and a set of training materials to develop universal competencies of master degree students.

scholarly journals Examining the Significance of General Indian English and Soft Skills: An Employability Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-18
Author(s):  
Usman Khan ◽  
Syed Abid Zaki ◽  
Abu Rehan ◽  
Mirza Adam ◽  
Shaweez Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Spoken English ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Short Course ◽  
Management Leadership ◽  
Students Attitudes

The Corporate sector has witnessed a drastic change in the last few decades around the world and India is no exception to it. Ever since the proliferation of globalization, inter-state business has grown up like never before. Consequently, multinational companies are gradually taking over the local businesses, which created a paradigm shift in the recruitment processes of companies to meet the demands of the job market. Earlier, people used to get recruited merely on the basis of their job-specific skills called Hard Skills. Today, employers need candidates who can communicate well in English as this language serves as the lingua franca, i.e. a common language of communication among employees of different regional and linguistic backgrounds. Moreover, particular preference is given to the candidates who possess certain necessary skills in addition to hard skills such as communication skill, time management, leadership, adaptability, team work and so on. These skills are known as soft skills. Thus, young job aspirants who can speak fluently and intelligibly in English and possess soft skills get an edge not only during the recruitment process but also during the job. In the above-discussed context, this paper attempts to carry out a critical analysis of teaching General Indian English and soft skills for generating employability among Indian job. To test the same an activity-based study was conducted with a group of 20 undergraduate students which consisted of pre-training and a post-training test. The analysis of the results showed positive changes in students’ attitudes and confidence after they undergo soft skills activities as well as spoken English lessons in General Indian English. Thus, this study suggests the integration of a paper on GIE and soft skills across all disciplines at undergraduate level or a short course on the same.

What Are Required Basically by Users of a Hotel Internship Programme: Hard-skills or Soft-skills?

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-521
Author(s):  
Anusorn Kunanusorn
Keyword(s):  
Time Management ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Chiang Mai ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Design Learning

What Are Required Basically by Users of a Hotel Internship Programme: Hard-Skills or Soft-Skills?   ABSTRACT This research aimed to identify the skills that internship students are required to have in the hotel industry. To achieve these objectives, this research used questionnaires and interviews to collect data from 44 tourism businesses. Interviewings and questionnaires were obtained from businesses in Bali, Indonesia and Chiang Mai, Thailand which are both tourism attraction locations. The analysis method used for this research was descriptive analysis. The results showed that soft-skills were preferred to hard-skills. The preferred soft- skills were intrapersonal skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivation skills, autonomous learning skills, time management skills, problem-solving skills, creativity skills, and adaptability skills. These soft-skills were not well acquired, so educational institutions need to design learning programmes that allow students to live with these competencies. The current collaboration needs to be reviewed to establish a common goal and benefits for both parties regarding the development of soft-skills. There would be some other languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean which are necessary that we did not consider in this study but very important in tourism nowadays and future. Keywords: Internship, Soft-skills, Hard-skills  

scholarly journals Time Management Skills of University Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-147
Author(s):  
Muhammet İbrahim Akyürek
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
State Universities ◽  
State University ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
Time Planning

The purpose of this study is to determine university students' perceptions of their time management skills. The research sample is composed of 384 undergraduate students studying in state universities located in various Turkish cities during the 2016-2017 academic year. The Time Management Questionnaire (TMQ) was used in the collection of the data, which was developed by Britton and Tesser (1991) and adapted to Turkish by Alay and Koçak (2002). It was found that students rated their time management skills as being at the "medium-level". In addition, it was concluded that there was no significant gender-related difference in their perceptions of their skill level in time management. While their perceptions of "time-attitudes" and "time-wasters" differed by gender, no such difference was found regarding their perceptions of "time planning". The study included only state university students as the research group. Similar studies regarding time management skills can be conducted with students or educators in different types of educational settings and levels of education. Furthermore, this study analyzed student perceptions of their own time management skills only by the gender variable. However, their perception of these skills can also be analyzed by other demographic variables such as socio-economic status, age, and department of study.

scholarly journals SOLUTIONS FOR STUDENTS OF TRA VINH UNIVERSITY TO IMPROVE TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-221
Author(s):  
Thu Anh Nguyen ◽  
Nhung Thi Hong Huynh
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Specialized Knowledge

Time management skills are one of the most important soft skills for university students. Nowaday, some universities in Vietnam have introduced this skill into teaching soft skills, including Tra Vinh University. Time management  skills determine the majority of students’ learning outcomes. However, in fact, not many  students are aware of this. By questionnaires and indepth interviews conducted in May 2019. The authors present the reality of time management skills of the Tra Vinh University students, thereby proposing solutions of integrating time management skills into teaching specialized knowledge to improve the students’ learning quality at Tra Vinh University.

scholarly journals Soft Skills in an Online Class

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 583-585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly A. Moore ◽  
Brian J. Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Online Classroom ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Online Setting ◽  
Recent Addition ◽  
Active Learner

The development of course content and assignments focused on basic horticultural knowledge and theory (hard skills) in an online setting is relatively straightforward and uncomplicated. However, it is slightly more challenging to improve a student’s soft skills like communication, problem solving, critical observation, and professionalism in an asynchronous online classroom environment. To address this challenge, we developed assignments, such as the challenge question, that focused on having students solve situational horticulture problems. In another assignment, we gave students data from an experiment and asked them to summarize and interpret the data. The recent addition of an online scholars ignite assignment (3-minute thesis competition) has turned each student into the teacher for a brief moment and makes the student an active learner and active listener. The addition of etiquette rules to the syllabus, weekly online tasks, and reminders help to develop professionalism and time management skills in addition to organization skills. It is impossible to cover all soft skills in any class but by offering various assignments and assessments, many soft skills are potentially improved.

scholarly journals Relationship Between Time Management Behavior and Academic Performance of University Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1497-1504
Author(s):  
Abdur Rashid ◽  
Ilyas Sharif ◽  
Shakeel Khan ◽  
Fazal Malik
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
General Category ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Management Behaviour ◽  
High Level

Effective time management leads to greater academic performance and reduces stress, strain and anxiety among students, however, students facing difficulties to keep a balance between their academic life and personal-social life. This study aims to examine the self-perceptions of undergraduate students’ time management behaviour by using Time Management Behaviour Scale (TMBS) developed by Macan, Shahani, Dipboye and Phillips (1990). The scale consisted of 34 rating items ranges from very often true to seldom true. The population of the study consisted of all undergraduate students studying in the academic session 2018-19 at public sector general category universities in Malakand division. By using stratified sampling technique a sample of 1050 undergraduate students were selected from the sampled universities. Students were also asked to provide their CGPA in their previous semester. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. It was found that prospective teachers have moderate to high level of time management skills. Significant relationship was found between undergraduate students’ time management behaviour and academic performance. It was recommended that university administration should orient students to enhance their time management behaviour by arranging seminars, workshops and conferences to enhance their time management skills.

scholarly journals Employability Skills of Public University Students: A Mismatch between Importance and Competence

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3S2) ◽  
pp. 650-653
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Public University ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The University ◽  
Analytic Skills ◽  
Innovation And Change

This article is based on a cross-sectional study conducted towards 150 third-year undergraduate students in a local public university. The study was conducted mainly to investigate the students’ perceptions of the importance of a set of employability skill and their perceived level of competence at performing these skills. The skills are categorized into five groups, namely: (1) problem-solving and analytic skills; (2) time management skills; (3) creativity, innovation, and change skills; (4) learning skills; and (5) personal strength. Data was collected using questionnaires. The findings revealed a mismatch between the students’ perception of the importance of the skills and their level of competency for these skills. In specific, they perceived that this set of employability skills is highly important, however, their level of competency is at a moderate level. This finding signifies the need for the university to embed these skills into the curriculum, as well as to conduct more programmes in order to prepare these future graduates for the job market.

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