Reimagining Engagement

This article explores how to successfully adapt simulations developed for traditional classrooms for synchronous platforms. Acknowledging the importance of the co-construction of knowledge and the impact of active learning in classrooms, this article explores instructional design approaches, logistical issues, and pedagogical considerations for translating successful in-person simulations to online synchronous learning environments. An example from a graduate level intercultural communication course is described as a platform for addressing lessons learned and sharing best practices. By reimagining five areas of adaptation, including materials, technology, grouping students, communication, and the role of the facilitator, faculty can examine critical junctures at the intersection of content knowledge, technology know-how, training pedagogy, and instructional design to conduct successful synchronous simulations.

Role Model Pengelolaan Lembaga Pendidikan Islam Berbasis Prestasi di Madrasah Aliyah

This research aims to analyze the role model of achievement-based Islamic education management. This research is a type of descriptive qualitative conducted at Islamic Secondary School at Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. The results of the research show that achievement-based management conducted by Islamic Secondary School at Kendari is divided into four stages. First, the planning stage by determining achievement targets, namely planning the activities to be carried out, looking at the race event, determining the coaching strategy and grouping students. Second, the stage of achievement-based student recruitment is the restriction of student quotas every year, special achievement pathways, academic tests, personality/ psychological tests and health tests. The stage of implementation of performance-based development through the construction of academic and non-academic fields as well as religious construction. The last stage is an achievement-based evaluation conducted via online, live review, parenting and PESONA (Week of Arts, Olympics and Sports) at the end of the year. Add the implication of the study here.

Formulating EFL Writing Lecturers' Expectations: Lessons from Islamic Tertiary Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic

This research was designed to investigate which factors influenced the formation of lecturers’ expectations amid online learning during the COVID-19 outbreak in an Indonesian Islamic university. The recent study employed an exploratory case study by observing online EFL writing learning activities, interviewing the three lecturers, and collecting documents. The data was then analyzed qualitatively using an interactive model. Lecturers' expectations in this study were viewed from the key focus of expectation: feedback provided by lecturers. They established class-level expectations, not individual ones as primary and secondary levels. This study elucidates Islamic university lecturers' factors contributing to form expectations: lecturers’ past teaching experiences and teaching self-efficacy. Lecturers have not highly adjusted to any change that emerged in online learning. Accordingly, they have not shown firm belief in grouping students and assuring students’ originality in composing essays. At the same time, the students' demographic factors were motivation and gender. Female students showed higher motivation through participating more often during discussions. It yielded more learning feedback they received. Implications of this study were noted for self-reflection among lecturers to establish high expectations for students to enhance their learning.

Most Mathematics Classrooms Contain Wide-Ranging Achievement Levels

Using TIMSS 2019 mathematics data, we investigated the variance in achievement within U.S. fourth and eighth-grade classrooms. Approximately 23% of students in a typical grade four classroom are expected to score at or below the low benchmark whereas 14% meet or exceed the advanced benchmark; these numbers are 35% and 14% for grade eight classrooms. Approximately 69% of grade four and 35% of grade eight classrooms included students across all four TIMSS benchmarks. About 68% and 37% of the variance lies within classrooms. Grouping students primarily based on age appears to yield classrooms with vast academic variability.

Karmel Oration: Excellent progress for all: A function of year-level curriculum or evidenced-based learning progressions?

Excellent progress for all students is an ambitious but necessary goal if we are to improve the life choices of all students. At the moment, we are not serving all our students well despite the best efforts of teachers. We need to look further afield to the curriculum and assessment regimes that drive current practice. Grouping students by ability and offering a watered-down curriculum for some is not the answer. Evidenced-based learning progressions that point to what is important in ensuring all students build a deep, well-connected understanding of mathematics over time is what is needed to support reform at scale Where the evidenced-based tools and resources produced by this type of research are used to identify and respond to student learning needs in relation to what is important, it has been shown to make a significant difference to student outcomes and engagement. Adopting a targeted teaching approach means that not everything has to be differentiated and not everything needs to be considered as often or to the same depth. Time can be spent researching challenging but accessible tasks and developing a culture that supports and reward persistence, effort and a growth mind-set.

Implementasi Big Data Analytical Untuk Perguruan Tinggi Menggunakan Machine Learning

The dynamics of higher education are changing and emphasize the need to adapt quickly. Higher education is under the supervision of accreditation agencies, governments and other stakeholders to seek new ways to improve and monitor student success and other institutional policies. Many agencies fail to make efficient use of the large amounts of available data. With the use of big data analytics in higher education, it can be obtained more insight into students, academics, and the process in higher education so that it supports predictive analysis and improves decision making. The purpose of this research is to implement big data analytical to increase the decision making of the competent party. This research begins with the identification of process data based on analytical learning, academic and process in the campus environment. The data used in this study is a public dataset from UCI machine learning, from the 33 available varibales, 4 varibales are used to measure student performance. Big data analysis in this study uses spark apace as a library to operate pyspark so that python can process big data analysis. The data already in the master slave is grouped using k-mean clustering to get the best performing student group. The results of this study succeeded in grouping students into 5 clusters, cluster 1 including the best student performance and cluster 5 including the lowest student performance

KECERDASAN SOSIAL DALAM PEMBELAJARAN KOOPERATIF PERSPEKTIF AL-QUR’AN

This study concluded that social intelligence is a person's ability to understand other people and care about the social environment. This is based on the two dimensions of social intelligence from the perspective of the Koran that the authors found, namely the feeling dimension (affective aspect) and the action dimension (psychomotic aspect). In the feeling dimension (affective aspect) consists of empathy and sincerity, while the action dimension (psychomotic realm) consists of helping, friendship, caring and communication. This means that the Qur'an describes the balance between habl ma'a Khaliqih and habl ma'a ikhwanih. Thus, this Quran-based cooperative learning model can help improve children's social intelligence. Cooperative learning is a learning model using a system of grouping students, who have different academic backgrounds, gender, race, or ethnicity (heterogeneous). Cooperative learning can form interpersonal skills because there are elements of working together, helping each other, helping out and discussing. This is based on the two indicators of cooperative learning in the perspective of the Qur'an that the author found, namely helping and deliberation. The approach used in this study is a qualitative approach. While the method used is a thematic interpretation method. The data collection technique used is through literature study

POLICY IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SABILILLAH SPECTACULAR STAGE (SSS) PROGRAM TO INCREASE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILLS

One of the factors that support and influence students' fluency in Arabic communication is the presence of a language-learning environment (bi'ah lughawiyah). This study aimed to describe how Pesantren Sabilillah implemented the policies in the Sabilillah Spectacular Stage program in improving Maharatul Kalam and how the program improved students’ speaking skills (maharah al-kalam). This study used a qualitative approach. The data were obtained from interviews, observations, and documentation. Participants included the boarding school caretakers, the Arabic language program coordinator, asatidz and ustadzat, and all students living in the boarding school dormitory. This study's results indicate that the Spectacular Stage policies include formulating objectives in the Sabilillah Spectacular Stage program and the timing of the program. Meanwhile, the implementation of this policy includes the policy of grouping students, the formation of the Katibah al-Mukhalifah group, Taqdim al-Mufradat, and Tadrib al-Barnamij.

PENERAPAN TINGKAT MINAT BACA SISWA SD INPRES 037145 MENGGUNAKAN K-MEANS

Grouping students' reading interest based on the criteria for books read, books borrowed, and also considering the number of books available can help in the process of adding to the existing book collection in the library. One way to manage this data is by using data mining by utilizing the K-Means method. Book data are grouped into 3 clusters, namely priority, consideration, and not prioritization in planning for additional book collections. The result of this research is that the cluster with the largest value in the final centroid is the recommended cluster in planning to add to the book collection.

Grouping Students by Skill Level in Mini-Volleyball: Effect on Game Performance and Knowledge in Sport Education

The purpose of this study was to explore any differences in game performance variables and knowledge among a cohort of high school students who participated in either homogeneous or heterogeneous skill level groups (N = 126) across a 12-lesson mini-volleyball sport education unit of study. This study followed a mixed-methods approach using a quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test design. The quantitative variables analyzed were decision making, skill execution, game performance, game involvement, and game knowledge. We also evaluated students’ performance qualitatively, employing two methods: (a) experts’ analysis of students’ game performance, and (b) students’ and teachers’ perceptions of students’ performance. We analyzed quantitative data through a series of paired samples t-tests comparing pre- and post-test scores according to the grouping strategy. Students became more competent in their game play and more knowledgeable in their technique, the sport’s rules, tactical awareness, and general game knowledge. However, grouping students by skill level had no impact on gains in game performance variables and knowledge. Although sport education literature shows a preference for heterogeneity in ability-based grouping, within our data both heterogeneous and homogenous groups of higher and lower skilled students achieved improvements in game performance and knowledge, leading us to suggest that teachers who are interested in grouping students to create a meaningful learning experience should consider criteria other than student ability.