TOJNED - Volume 4 - Issue 4 - October 2014
Improve Student Success Through Their Realities BANI Saloua
Abstract: In recent years, research in Higher Education showed that student achievement is particularly influenced by their motivation and their commitment to their studies. However, in recent years, teachers in higher institutes of technological studies in Tunisia observed among a number of students from 1th and 2nd year license economic sciences and management decreased their motivation and commitment to their studies. In 2008, with the adoption of License Master license PhD program in Tunisia, teaching modules have been integrated in the (personalized career plan, entrepreneurial culture) these curriculum modules were designed to better understand student reality. In the context of training, these modules provide a better understanding of the reality of the students and consequently improve their success. It is in this context that a study was conducted among students of 2nd year License Economics and Management enrolled at Higher Institute of Technological Studies of Nabeul (ISETN). To do this, a questionnaire and a guide of maintenance have been developed in order to examine the different components of the model of model of motivation, commitment and success proposed by Prégent et al (2009). - Model adapted from Pintrich, Schrauben (1992) and Eccles, Wigfield, Schiefele (1998). This two-pronged approach aimed to assess and better understand the perceptions of students in relation to the components of the model used, in addition to promoting their reflexivity. The results obtained in particular allow teachers to identify areas of intervention to improve the success of their students.
THE “ABC-COMPETENCE” MODEL FOR NON-FORMAL COMPETENCES CERTIFICATION Domenico FALCONE[1],Alessandro SILVESTRI[2], Cristina CERBASO[3] Antonio FORCINA[4], Gianpaolo DI BONA[5]
Abstract: The paper proposes a model, called ""ABC – Competence: Analysis, Balance and Certification of Competences”, for certifying the competences acquired in non-formal contexts, according to the criteria established by the “Council Recommendation of 20 December 2012 on the validation of non-formal and informal learning” (2012/C 398/01). In the model application, the following aspects are very important:- the identification of the trainer figure; he becomes the guarantor of contents and training methodologies choice and evaluates the actual acquisition of competences;- the classification of competences (knowledge/ability; hard/soft); - the identification of competence levels, according to the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning.After the professional profile identification (i.e.: ESCO - European Skills/Competences, qualifications and Occupations classification), the model allows certifying the competence level acquired by learners as a result of participation in a training course.
Differences in Grade 8 Students!` Math Achievement as a Function of Saxon Math Instruction Lisa D. Severns
Abstract: Student performance on the Grade 8 Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills Math test for all students (n = 789) who took the TAKS math assessment in 2007 (n = 167), 2008 (n = 198), 2009 (n = 207), and 2010 (n = 217) was examined to determine the extent to which differences were present as a function of Saxon Math instruction. Statistically significant differences were yielded in the percent of students who met the math standard, as well as in the percent of students who met the Commended Performance standard, both small effect sizes. In the non-Saxon Math school year, the percent of students who achieved Met Standard were well below the percent of students who achieved Met Standard after receiving one, two, and three years of math instruction in the Saxon program. Similarly, the percent of students who reached Commended Performance in the non-Saxon school year were considerably lower than the percent of students who received one, two, and three years of Saxon Math instruction. Implications are discussed and suggestions for further research are made.
Innovative Technology of Teaching Professional English At A Technical University In Russia Nina Shvaikia
Abstract: This paper is a report on the findings of a study conducted at Samara state university of architecture and civil engineering, at the faculty of engineering economics. The research is devoted to interactive methods of English teaching. The author considers various interpretations of the concept “interactive methods”, analyses their effectiveness and develops own system of foreign language teaching, that is focused on the participation of all students in the speech process and chooses “team-building technology” as a core element of this system and as a type of interactive methods. This technology includes the complex of games in English. The results of the study prove that implementation of such games efficiently improves language level and develops professional skills of engineers—managers.
Innovation Business: Trends and Perspectives Rassulova S.K.
Abstract: Information is the whole informational space through which we learn, share and learn about the world, etc. Similarly, the formation of a modern educational environment provides unique opportunities for international educational cooperation, exchange of experience, knowledge, experts, scholars, students. Business innovation allows you to analyze and distinguish between levels of economic development for the production of medium and large industrial enterprises understand the nature and importance of the processes taking place in the modern economy. Innovative business is an active independent form of individual groups of citizens, enterprises, R & D organizations to produce and sell a wide range of the latest inventions, technology, products, information services industry in which the high need in the era of modern information technologies. Modern business is characterized by an innovative freedom of choice, mobility, dynamic businesses in entrepreneurship, business, and is practiced by small and large enterprises. Analysis of market research innovation leads to the conclusion that business innovation is seen as a means of making a profit by any legal means as a way of thinking and innovative human that quickly mobilizes its resources from the low-income and poor performance in the area of high-tech manufacturing and produce high revenues and profits. Business Innovation - is a phenomenon of the modern international economy, which has turned into a global multi-complex information industry through increased infrastructure and sales on the world market, competing with the highly profitable industries as one of the main economic activities.
The Demonstration Effect within the Realm of Creative Chaos Rogerio Roth
Abstract: This research proposes to investigate the called demonstration effect as the more efficient method to overcoming professors resistance to the adoption of interactive technologies applied to education, as much in the support to the face-to-face and distance practices, as well as in its diverse environments and platforms, videoconferences, production, management and distribution of live and on-demand contents, exploring the spectre of collaboration opportunities that includes the independence of time, distance and equipments. Considering that the technological solutions are known and available, their effective use and its institutionalization only will be able to be obtained through presentation and the systematically repetition of a set of procedures, in domino, cascade or in chain effect, producing a set of similar events of variable duration.
Exploaration On The Of Industry-University Cooperation In Animation Education Cao Yang
Abstract: Cooperative education model is one kind of effective patterns to raise the practical ability talent in university. This kind of pattern enables teachers to obtain the practical work experience. It is advantage in sharpening students’ innovation ability, strengthening their choosing profession competitive power. To animation professional talents education, quality of practice teaching is very important. In Universities, animation department mainly educate talents engaged in animation industry, such as director, animator, scripter. The cultivation of students` practical ability is the main feature of Animation program. The government should appear the persistent effect mechanism as soon as possible to advance cooperative education with steady steps, establish the control system and make it clear the responsibilities and status of both sides of the cooperation. University must strengthen to student`s education for all-around development and occupation career guidance.
Higher Education In Portugal: From Expansion To Quality Assessment Carlos Sousa Reis[1], Maria Formosinho[2], Cristina Costa Lobo[3]
Abstract: After presenting a brief description of the Portuguese higher education evolution, since 1974 to the present day, and providing the indispensable legal framework, we discuss its structure, highlighting the actual binary nature that includes universities and polytechnics, public and private. Crucial statistics about the subsystems and the actual study programmes are also given. Finally we present the Portuguese Agency (a.k.a. A3ES) responsible for the assessment and accreditation of the study programmes imparted by Portuguese HEIS. An overview of the work carried out so far by the Agency and its assessment model is also presented.
Establishing Sustainable Relations in International Higher Education: An Integrative Consultant Model Position Dr. Teresa Franklin, Dr. Douglas Franklin
Abstract: International collaboration between institutions in the United States and abroad are as complex as they are ubiquitous. Success or failure of these endeavors may be the result of increasing economic pressures on the home institution’s campus or institutional capacity of faculty to deliver programs abroad. No matter the cause, the result of a failed or unsustainable program is a negative experience for both the U.S. and international institution. Building on experiences developed over 8 years working with Middle Eastern universities, Ohio University’s Global Services Program (OUGSP) and their cadre of experienced consultants have established a unique and sustainable model to broaden the institutional reach without bankrupting the institution or exhausting the capacity of its’ faculty. At the center of the endeavor is determining institutional need and creating a workable long term plan to meet that need by developing a mutually beneficial budget, conducting a formative assessment and determining program requirements, developing strategies, providing professional development for onsite faculty and conducting regular program evaluation.
Doctoral studies in global time and change – female doctoral student and individual lifecourse in Finland Minna Maunula
Abstract: Multiple global changes in the form of knowledge and the change in the doctoral education create the need to examine the current practices of doctoral degree. The change forces discussion about the future of doctoral education and the future of the prospective doctors. The doctoral education has to answer the demands set for it. Forming a comprehensive understanding requires an examination at the micro and macro level. In this article I examine the lifecourse of the under 40-year-old female doctoral student with a family and the significance of doctoral studies at the individual level. I concentrate on the personal lifecourse experiences of the women and on the chronological stories which are based on them. It is interesting to examine the meeting of the public and individual lifecourse and their constant dialogue. The article is based on my doctoral thesis research in education.
Good Teaching Practices Of Music Teachers In Secondary Education: A Multiple Case Study Julio Hurtado [1], Vicent Fontelles [2]
Abstract: In this work we show the most significant features of our research which has been accomplished with the collaboration of the Research and Scientific Politic Department of the University of Valencia. It has been elaborated following a case study methodology, and it analyses the practice of six secondary school teachers who have been able to wake up their student’s interest by using an innovative and contextualized methodology that provokes a significant learning.Instruments for data recompilation have been: in-depth interview, non-intervened observation and the analysis of the multimedia documents produced during their lessons. From the analysis of these data we have reached to the following conclusions among others: firstly, independently of the socio-cultural context and even using different methodologies, these teachers are obtaining good results due to their personal implication in the development of students-based activities; and, secondly, teachers’ vocation and motivation are the basis for a good teaching professionalization.
Architectural Design In A Broader Spectrum Of Cultural Experiences: A Case Study For Hermeneutics In The Architectural Education Levent Kara
Abstract: While there has been a growing number of attempts, since late 1980`s, to bring pressing questions of cultural relevance into architectural education, from issues of globalization and sustainability to philosophical discussions of socio-symbolic values and cultural mobility, the architectural design studio, the pedagogical core of architectural education, is still mostly formulated and conducted on the basis of a traditional pragmatic model of making buildings with a given set of parameters. Seemingly going beyond architecture as making buildings as a determination of form and perception, the attempts to weave architectural education into a broader cultural sphere usually fall back onto another way of making buildings, this time under other parameters than just form and perception, but actually without questioning the traditional modalities of place, program, occupation, or structure. From one extreme of Gestalt geometries and phenomenological fundamentalism to the newly emerging techno-scientific determinism, the commonsense understanding of buildings as responders to psychological / environmental / social givens form the underlying operational structure of the traditional architectural studio. While architecture is inevitably tied to other cultural constructs, the traditional studio setting falls short of addressing these other cultural constructs as themselves narrative structures and runs the risk of overlooking the inherent modal bond between architectural making and narrative construction. In what follows, I argue for a narrative modality for architectural studio education that levels architectural work with other cultural work in the making of our reality, rather than taking these as givens, and is formed around a hermeneutic exchange between various cultural experiences in the making of architecture. My presentation uses an architectural design studio conducted under these premises as a case study and critically presents the outcome of this studio as a model for an architectural education that is more responsive to representing our historical reality as it is constructed and re-constructed through cultural dialogue.
Rhetorical Reading In Law I: An Important Strategy For Meeting Essential Academic And Professional Skills Requirments Margaret Liddle
Abstract: New law students often see law school as a foreign land with its own culture, literacy and language practices. How quickly and well students adjust to this new community reflects how they will perform in their first year of study. All students come with higher level reading skills. However, foundational law texts have a different content, form, language and syntax to texts previously studied. This paper posits that using rhetorical reading strategies as part of case method pedagogy in Law I helps students meet academic and professional learning outcomes. This is achieved by quick assimilation and into the legal culture. It also scaffolds learning, enabling students to integrate old and new knowledge and experiences and develop problem solving, critical thinking, and analysis and evaluation skills. In addition, it promotes metacognition by encouraging students to think about how they are learning.
Change In Undergraduates’ Research Self-Efficacy: A Pilot Study Stefanie S. Boswell
Abstract: Research self-efficacy is defined as confidence in one’s ability to successfully execute research-related tasks. This pilot study investigated the effect of a semester-long active-learning, course-based approach to the instruction of social science research methodology on undergraduates’ research self-efficacy. Undergraduates (N = 32) completed the semester-long social science research methods course involving didactic and experiential components including a 10-step process for the development of an original research project. They completed measures of research self-efficacy (conceptualization, early tasks, implementation, and presenting the results). RMANOVA revealed that all facets of research self-efficacy significantly increased by post-test. Implications for undergraduate curricular planning are discussed.
Analysis of distance learning in smart schools in Iran: A case study of Tehran’s smart schools Vahid Motamedi
Abstract: In the paradigm of information society the structure and facts have become flexible and subjective. In the recent social - economic order, IT and communication have taken over the leading role. Distance learning in smart schools is one of the flexible realities in the education field that has crossed the format of the hard and inflexible traditional schools such as boundaries of time and place and has provided educational content by using multimedia and networking software and computers. This study analyzed distance learning in smart schools within the regions of education of Tehran. The subjects for study were teachers and administrative staff of Tehran`s four smart schools. Their opinions were collected according to Likert spectrum. Then we attempted to test the hypothesis using Pearson`s correlation and regression testing. Results indicated that there should be an emphasis on systematic approach in distance training and also that one-dimensional view lead distance learning objectives to fail. There was a significant relationship between elements of software and hardware infrastructure and distance learning in smart schools and also between the ability of teachers and the establishment of distance education.
Malaysian Students Learning The Arabic Language In Arab Schools In Malaysia: A Future Study Abduljalil Al-Bazeli[1], Abdullah N. G. Alreshidi[2], Zahra Naimie [3], Siti Hajar Halili[4]
Abstract: This article aims to investigate the future of teaching Arabic Language in Arab schools in Malaysia. The method used here is called Fuzzy Delphi, and the data were collected from a group of experts containing teachers, parents and school principals in order to predict the situation of these schools in the next 10 years, and to overcome the challenges of teaching Arabic language with innovative activities and a modern curriculum. The issue here discusses the role that should be played by both Arab schools and authorities in order to fulfil parents’ expectations. The results obtained out of this study indicates that more modern and computer based learning materials must be provided by Arab schools to enhance the learning of Arabic language. In addition, students must be enough motivated to learn Arabic.
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