Workshop menghindari plagiasi dengan teknik parafrase pada penulisan karya ilmiah mahasiswa tingkat akhir 2021

Scientific paper often becomes the toughest obstacle faced by students. This community service article was written based on a workshop with the same theme which aims to avoid plagiarism on writing scientific papers for final-year students in Salatiga with paraphrasing techniques. The workshop was held online via Zoom application and joined by 20 eight-semester students in Salatiga 2021 who had difficulties in writing their final assignments. The activities were: material presentation on paraphrasing techniques, question and answer session, paraphrasing techniques practice directly from scientific text sources according to the student's scientific field, and direct feedback/evaluation to students. At the end of the activity, the presenters as well as the authors distributed a link to check students’ understanding questionnaires about paraphrasing techniques in general. From these activities, it can be concluded that the paraphrasing technique is very important for students and is needed to reduce the percentage of plagiarism check results. In addition, from the results of the questionnaire, overall, all participants understood and could practice well the paraphrase technique material from the Workshop.

ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES FOR EDUCATIONAL WARGAMES

Purposeful integration of assessment within educational wargame design is increasingly essential as military education expands those activities within its curriculum. This multimethod case study examines key challenges and strategies for assessment within educational wargaming practice. Drawing insights from faculty interviews, academic documents, and faculty meeting observations, the study identifies six key assessment challenges: gamesmanship, lack of control, multiple faculty roles, receptiveness to feedback, evaluation of individuals in teams, and fairness of evaluation. It then discusses how experienced faculty mitigate these challenges throughout the assessment design process from identifying outcomes to ensuring the quality of evaluation.

Diminished Feedback Evaluation and Knowledge Updating Underlying Age-Related Differences in Choice Behavior During Feedback Learning

In our daily lives, we continuously evaluate feedback information, update our knowledge, and adapt our behavior in order to reach desired goals. This ability to learn from feedback information, however, declines with age. Previous research has indicated that certain higher-level learning processes, such as feedback evaluation, integration of feedback information, and updating of knowledge, seem to be affected by age, and recent studies have shown how the adaption of choice behavior following feedback can differ with age. The neural mechanisms underlying this age-related change in choice behavior during learning, however, remain unclear. The aim of this study is therefore to investigate the relation between learning-related neural processes and choice behavior during feedback learning in two age groups. Behavioral and fMRI data were collected, while a group of young (age 18–30) and older (age 60–75) adults performed a probabilistic learning task consisting of 10 blocks of 20 trials each. On each trial, the participants chose between a house and a face, after which they received visual feedback (loss vs. gain). In each block, either the house or the face image had a higher probability of yielding a reward (62.5 vs. 37.5%). Participants were instructed to try to maximize their gains. Our results showed that less successful learning in older adults, as indicated by a lower learning rate, corresponded with a higher tendency to switch to the other stimulus option, and with a reduced adaptation of this switch choice behavior following positive feedback. At the neural level, activation following positive and negative feedback was found to be less distinctive in the older adults, due to a smaller feedback-evaluation response to positive feedback in this group. Furthermore, whereas young adults displayed increased levels of knowledge updating prior to adapting choice behavior, we did not find this effect in older adults. Together, our results suggest that diminished learning performance with age corresponds with diminished evaluation of positive feedback and reduced knowledge updating related to changes in choice behavior, indicating how such differences in feedback processing at the trial level in older adults might lead to reduced learning performance across trials.

Um Modelo para Auxiliar a Descoberta e Classificação de Conteúdo para Ambientes Virtuais de Aprendizagem

The massive amount of information currently available on the Internetmakes it difficult for teachers to curate quality educationalcontent or to select material for self-regulated study by students.Aiming to facilitate these steps in the teaching and/or learningprocess this article presents an approach to assist the discovery ofeducational content from the hybrid recommendation system andlater classification from the feedback evaluation with sentimentanalysis techniques trained with the Re-Li corpus. This paper describesthe proposed model, the implementation of a prototype andits application in non-formal training involving 13 participants.