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Tao, Min, Jinde Jiang, Xiong Wang, Jiao Zhou, and Jichen Xie. "A Decision Support Framework for Curriculum Planning in Undergraduate Supply Chain Management Program: An Integrated Approach." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2022 (July 31, 2022): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/3494431.
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Curriculum planning is an important but complex and challenging decision-making problem at universities. There is a growing interest in curriculum planning problem. However, the body of research on curriculum planning process using analytical methods is still small. Additionally, prior research focused on planning of an individual curriculum or making study plan for students. Curriculum planning at the program level is an under-researched topic. A robust model has not been constructed to address curriculum selection and credit allocation problems simultaneously. To help educational leaders make the most appropriate curriculum plan corresponding to their goals with the highest level of utility achieved, this study presents a new decision support framework with integrated approach. In the proposed framework, based on the competency weights derived from the analytical hierarchy process method, the importance of each potential curriculum is evaluated using the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. An exploratory estimation is made to calculate the contribution values of competency development by each curriculum taught at different levels. Finally, multichoice goal programming with utility function determines the curriculum to be provided and corresponding credits to minimize the aggregate deviations from predefined goals with multiple aspirations. An application to curriculum planning of an undergraduate supply chain management program is presented to validate the flexibility and practicality of the proposed approach. The implications of the study are not restricted to curriculum planning of supply chain management program.
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Johnson, Merrill L. "GIS in Business: Issues to Consider in Curriculum Decision-Making." Journal of Geography 95, no. 3 (May 1996): 98–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00221349608978700.
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Sponiar, Martine, Louise Sharpe, Phyllis Butow, and Gary Fulcher. "Reproductive Choices of Women With Multiple Sclerosis." International Journal of MS Care 9, no. 1 (January 1, 2007): 9–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.7224/1537-2073-9.1.9.
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A decision aid may be needed for women with multiple sclerosis (MS) in making family-planning choices. Four hundred sixty-one women responded to a mailing asking them where they were in deciding whether to have children. The mailing was sent to female members of the MS Societies in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia, who were between 20 and 40 years of age. Results showed that 46% of respondents were currently unsure about whether they would start, forego, or enlarge their families. More women with relapsing-remitting MS and women who were unsure of their MS type were undecided about motherhood than those with primary progressive and secondary progressive MS. The results indicate that a decision-making tool to assist women with family planning may be useful.
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Saufi, Akhmad, and Hambali Hambali. "MENGGAGAS PERENCANAAN KURIKULUM MENUJU SEKOLAH UNGGUL." AL-TANZIM : JURNAL MANAJEMEN PENDIDIKAN ISLAM 3, no. 1 (June 30, 2019): 29–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.33650/al-tanzim.v3i1.497.
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Excellent school is identical with quality school. Many people assume that to become a Excellent school must have large financial capital because the availability of facilities and capable resources require big costs. This statement is not entirely true, because besides facilities and human resources involved in educational activities, the most important part of education is the curriculum. This paper aims to find out how curriculum planning ideas can be applied in excellent school. The curriculum as a medium for achieving educational goals also serves as the main guideline for implementing learning activities. Therefore, the design of the curriculum in education must be positioned as a platform for schools to develop education. The results of the author's analysis describe that the curriculum planning framework in excellent schools is developed from local-regional to national level. Curriculum planning process must pay attention to the holistic approach and eliminate hierarchies in decision making. The socio-cultural approach is also essential by involving competent human resources including teachers as curriculum implementers.
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Wood, Larry A., and Peggy L. Hedges. "Active Learning-Reflective Exercises for Face-to-Face and Remote Delivery of Governance and Business Ethics Classes." Journal of Business Ethics Education 18 (2021): 181–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jbee20211810.
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Despite revisions to curriculum in ethics education in business schools, there continues to be high profile examples of unethical decision making regularly spotlighted in the media. Rather than simply teaching about behaviors and how they might impact decision makers and stakeholders, we describe a suite of activities used to highlight various behaviors and biases that impact the decisions individuals might make. These activities are intertwined with course materials regarding ethics and corporate governance to remind and help students better understand how decision making can be influenced and challenged by personal ethics. We provide lesson planning suggestions including adapting to remote delivery, and student handouts. This suite of activities can be incorporated into any undergraduate or graduate level course that has content dealing with ethical decision making.
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Kovács, Ildiko Gabriella. "Participatory Planning Pedagogy." Canadian Journal of Children's Rights / Revue canadienne des droits des enfants 7, no. 1 (November 6, 2020): 199–227. http://dx.doi.org/10.22215/cjcr.v7i1.2576.
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This paper describes a Children’s Right to the City initiative of a Canadian provincial non-profit organization. The program and its underlying Participatory Planning Pedagogy (PPP) and curriculum follow a student-led and rights-based approach that builds upon global Child Friendly Cities scholarship. The goal of the program is two-fold: First, to uphold children’s participation rights in local decision-making by ensuring that young people’s perspectives are sought out and included in community planning initiatives, and second, to provide meaningful sustainability and citizenship education through participatory planning, and real-world local problem solving that promotes social change. Working in close collaboration with planning teams of the local municipality, the program is implemented within local public elementary schools. This paper will outline the PPP curriculum’s implementation in practice, present the underlying theories informing this work, and discuss benefits, challenges, and future potential of this children’s rights initiative.
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Babenko, Oksana, Mao Ding, and Ann S. Lee. "In-Person or Online? The Effect of Delivery Mode on Team-Based Learning of Clinical Reasoning in a Family Medicine Clerkship." Medical Sciences 10, no. 3 (August 8, 2022): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medsci10030041.
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In health professions education, team-based learning (TBL) has been used to help learners develop clinical reasoning and decision-making skills. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged institutions to move curriculum delivery from largely in-person to online. With the anticipated return to in-person instruction and arguments made in favor of online instruction in certain circumstances, evidence is needed to support decision making in curriculum planning. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of delivery mode (in-person vs. online) on student learning of clinical reasoning and clinical decision-making (CR/CDM) in the family medicine clerkship. Data from three cohorts of third-year medical students were included in the study: 2018/2019 cohort, in-person; 2019/2020 cohort, half of the cohort in-person, half of the cohort online; 2020/2021 cohort, online. Students’ performance data—individual readiness assurance test (IRAT) and group readiness assurance test (GRAT) scores—were used. The Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) analysis was performed. As expected, students scored higher in GRAT than IRAT across the three cohorts. No significant IRAT-GRAT differences were observed between in-person and online delivery of TBL sessions. Student learning of CR/CDM in TBL is comparable between the two modes of delivery in the family medicine clerkship. Future research in other clerkships, years of medical education, and professional programs is needed to inform decision making regarding the TBL delivery mode.
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Teychenne, Megan, Kate Parker, Danielle Teychenne, Shannon Sahlqvist, Susie Macfarlane, and Sarah Costigan. "A pre-post evaluation of an online career planning module on university students’ career adaptability." Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability 10, no. 1 (May 3, 2019): 42–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/jtlge2019vol10no1art781.
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Indecisiveness and negative thinking regarding career pathways can hinder university students’ career planning, motivation, and mental health. Students intending to enter the workforce after graduation therefore need to develop skills related to career adaptability (i.e. career planning, decision-making, problem solving/confidence and exploration), particularly since career planning and construction is linked to gaining employment. This study aimed to test the effectiveness of an online career planning module on students’ career adaptability. The career-focussed online module, based on the constructs of Savickas’ (2005) theory of career construction, and tailored to students’ skills and interests, was developed and embedded into the University curriculum of a second-year exercise and public health-related unit. In 2018, 80 students completed the online module, along with pre- and post-intervention questionnaires assessing career adaptability elements including career planning, decision making, problem solving/confidence, and exploration. Dependent t-tests were conducted to assess differences in these measures pre- and post-intervention. Post-intervention, significant increases in career-planning strategies used (t(69)=5.45, p<0.001), career planning concern (t(69)=3.73, p<0.001), decision making (i.e. career path identification) (t(70)=3.86, p<0.001), decision making confidence (t(65)=2.69, p<0.01), and problem solving/confidence (t(65) = 2.16, p=0.03) were observed. Further, 80% of participants identified jobs at post-intervention not previously identified pre-intervention (exploration) and 71% of participants perceived improvements in confidence regarding job ideas/making career choices. Findings from this research indicated that completing a brief online career education module, tailored to an individual’s skills and interests, improved all dimensions of the participating students’ career adaptability. Further research utilising longer-term follow-up and randomised controlled trial designs are required to confirm the reliability and transferability of the findings.
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Safran, Safran, Ahmad Tarmizi Hasibuan, and Fitri Yuliawati. "IMPLEMENTATION OF PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF DEMOCRACY INTEGRATION OF CURRICULUM INTEGRATED ON STUDENT CENTERING IN THE CITY OF MEDAN." Abdau: Jurnal Pendidikan Madrasah Ibtidaiyah 4, no. 1 (July 1, 2021): 102–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.36768/abdau.v4i1.171.
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ABSTRACTStudent-centered curriculum integration or often referred to as Curriculum Integration (CI) is a concept that is supported by democratic education. It places students at the center of learning, involving them in classroom decisions and curriculum planning. This paper examines what happens when three teachers, located in three schools in the city of Medan, explore the democratic principles and practices inherent in the integration of a student-centred curriculum. This study is a small-scale qualitative project, so interpretation of the findings should be viewed with participatory action research (PAR). The data collection technique is triangulation. The findings show that the forms of application of democratic principles and practices of student-centered Curriculum Integration in elementary schools in Medan are democratic thinking-pedagogy and practice, skillful in questioning; build a sense of community through joint decision making, jointly built curriculum.Keywords: Curriculum Integration, Democracy, Student Center.
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Vemuri, Sidharth, Jenny Hynson, Katrina Williams, and Lynn Gillam. "Conceptualising paediatric advance care planning: a qualitative phenomenological study of paediatricians caring for children with life-limiting conditions in Australia." BMJ Open 12, no. 5 (May 2022): e060077. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-060077.
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ObjectivesAdvance care planning (ACP) helps families and paediatricians prepare and plan for end-of-life decision-making. However, there remains inconsistency in its practice with the limited literature describing what this preparation involves, and whether paediatricians recognise a difference between the process of ACP and its outcomes, such as resuscitation plans. This study aims to understand how paediatricians conceptualise ACP when caring for children with life-limiting conditions (LLC) who are unable to participate in decision-making for his/herself.DesignIndividual, semistructured, vignette-based qualitative interviews.SettingAcute inpatient and long-term outpatient paediatric care in three secondary and two tertiary centres in Victoria, Australia.Participants25 purposively sampled paediatricians who treat children with LLC, outside the neonatal period. Paediatricians were excluded if they worked within specialist palliative care teams or assisted in this study’s design.ResultsFour key themes were identified when approaching end-of-life decision-making discussions: (1) there is a process over time, (2) there are three elements, (3) the role of exploring parental values and (4) the emotional impact. The three elements of this process are: (1) communicating the child’s risk of death, (2) moving from theoretical concepts to practice and (3) documenting decisions about resuscitation or intensive technologies. However, not all paediatricians recognised all elements as ACP, nor are all elements consistently or intentionally used. Some paediatricians considered ACP to be only documentation of decisions in advance.ConclusionThere is a preparatory process of discussions for end-of-life decision-making, with elements in this preparation practised within therapeutic relationships. Complexity in what constitutes ACP needs to be captured in guidance and training to include intentional exploration of parental values, and recognition and management of the emotional impact of ACP could increase its consistency and value.
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Tuli, Dereje Mengistu, and Wudu Melese Tarekegne. "Parental Involvement in Secondary School Curriculum Implementation: The Case of East Wollega Zone, Ethiopia." Journal of Education and Research 9, no. 1 (March 15, 2019): 28–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jer.v9i1.28821.
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This study assesses the practices of parental involvement in curriculum implementation in East Wollega Zone in Ethiopia. To this end, a cross-sectional survey was designed. The data were collected from randomly selected teachers, students, Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) members, school principals, parents and supervisors through questionnaires and interview. Then, the quantitative data were analyzed and interpreted through frequency and mean score and the qualitative data were coded and narrated thematically. The findings indicated that the involvement of parents in general secondary schools curriculum implementation in East Wollega Zone was found to be low. However, efforts of the PTAs in having parents for planning and decision-making of curriculum implementation was high. The major challenges were inadequate school facility, inadequate training, parent’s lack of awareness, lack of good governance, and the unwillingness of teachers. To increase parental involvement, general secondary schools, woreda and zone education offices may train stakeholders, allocate adequate budget and schools should design an income-generating mechanism to fulfil school facilities and making parents active in curriculum implementation.
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Manoogian, Margaret M. "PROMOTING EFFECTIVE CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN GERONTOLOGY THROUGH APPLIED INTERGENERATIONAL PROGRAMS." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S568. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2099.
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Abstract With the rise in global older adult populations, university programs need to produce an effective, gerontology-trained workforce (Silverstein & Fitzgerald, 2017). Career decision-making involves interactive learning (Super, 1990), as adults explore career options, engage in career learning, and understand curriculum integration within professional settings (Savickas, 2013). Gerontology faculty can utilize career planning models that integrate intergenerational engagement within the curriculum to aid student career decisions (Reardon, Lenz, Peterson, & Sampson, 2012). This paper provides an overview of a career planning model and highlights the ways intergenerational programs can be intentionally staged in research, service, and extracurricular domains to promote career planning and success in post-graduate employment. Data from our recent gerontology alumni survey including graduates since the program inception will be outlined to support the importance and success of developing strong applied intergenerational career programs in gerontology.
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Bullock, Karen, Kim Stansbury, and Terrance Ruth. "INTEGRATED FAITH BASED CURRICULUM FOR COMMUNITY-BASED OUTREACH WORKERS: ADDRESSING INEQUITIES AMONG OLDER ADULTS." Innovation in Aging 6, Supplement_1 (November 1, 2022): 881. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.3143.
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Abstract Older Latino and Black Americans experience health inequities and a lack of culturally competent clinician may influence this outcome. Community-Based Outreach (CBO) has proven to be effective in addressing such challenges. CBO is an effective approach to engaging communities that have been historically marginalized and are less likely to utilize hospice and palliative than other racial/ethnic groups. Yet, few models and modules for training are available in the literature to prepare CBO workers. This presentation describes the development, coordination, content and implementation of an Interprofessional Educational (IPE) training and curricular innovation to meet needs of diverse older adults diagnosed with a serious illness. Methods: A community-based outreach approach that integrated faith-based/spiritual care curriculum to train African American and Latino outreach workers to support older adults with serious illnesses, with a focus on advanced care planning (ACP) that explored potential barriers to equitable care. A collaboration with faith-based community representatives to design the intervention research protocol was essential. Results: The curriculum consisted of three parts: (1) a 36-hour classroom component delivered in three modules organized around eight themes: what is hospice and palliative care, spirituality and the meaning of death, understanding the dying process and decision making, goals of care, culturally responsive care; (2) weekly visits; and (3) field education/workforce development. At the end of the training, learners were able to: (a) express knowledge about culture differences; (b) demonstrate skills – listening, identifying meaning in the decision making, convey health information using patient-centered language; (c) understand cultural influencing decision making.
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Etiegni, Christine Adhiambo, Kenneth Irvine, and Michelle Kooy. "Participatory governance in Lake Victoria (Kenya) fisheries: whose voices are heard?" Maritime Studies 19, no. 4 (July 21, 2020): 489–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40152-020-00195-x.
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AbstractCo-management is advocated as a means to improve human equity and the ecological sustainability of common-pool resources. The promotion of co-management of fisheries often assumes the participation of resource users in decision-making ensures more ecologically sustainable outcomes than top–down management approaches while improving livelihoods and food security. However, in fisheries co-management approaches, participation is often poorly defined and measured by co-management proponents. For resource users, it may not be clear what their participation in co-management entails, and what such participation might involve or achieve. For the fisheries of Lake Victoria (Kenya), the introduction of co-management established Beach Management Units (BMUs) on a model of participatory decision-making. Unsurprisingly, given global experiences of institutions for resource users’ participation in co-management, the structures established across Lake Victoria (Kenya) have not resulted in effective participation of fisher folk. We examine why this is so. Specifically, we examine the influence of institutions on fisher folks’ participation in co-management, using critical institutionalism to explain how participation of resource users is shaped by the relation between formal government institutions and informal social norms. We take four BMUs as case studies to investigate how historical administrative structures shape the development of co-management, how power relationships within co-management are negotiated at the local beach level and the fisher folks’ understanding of their participation in co-management. We document how informal institutions undermine and replace formal institutions at the local beach level, while formal institutions suppress and ignore informal ones at the national and regional levels. From this, we argue power sharing between the government and fisher folk is key for fisher folk participation in fisheries co-management, capable of addressing both social and ecological challenges facing fisheries management.
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Gazzard, Tim, Terry Walshe, Peter Galvin, Owen Salkin, Michael Baker, Bec Cross, and Peter Ashton. "What is the 'appropriate' fuel management regime for the Otway Ranges, Victoria, Australia? Developing a long-term fuel management strategy using the structured decision-making framework." International Journal of Wildland Fire 29, no. 5 (2020): 354. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf18131.
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The Otway Ranges contain many of the highest-wildfire-risk communities in Victoria, Australia. One of the chief risk mitigation measures in the Otway Ranges is planned burning. The location and amount of planned burning that is undertaken need to consider stakeholder perspectives that can be largely divergent, invoking difficult trade-offs for land-management agencies. The structured decision-making framework was utilised to select the most ‘appropriate’ 40-year cross-tenure fuel management strategy for the Otway Ranges. This paper details the approach undertaken to develop an optimised set of multi-objective fuel management strategies, identify suitable monetary and non-monetary objectives and calculate risk-weighted consequences using a range of modelling techniques. To underpin clarity in trade-offs and decision making, we emphasise the use of natural measures of performance for each candidate strategy against each objective, such as lives lost, species decline and economic losses associated with wildfire. This paper also highlights the role of stakeholder engagement throughout the decision-making process. We discuss the results of the formal trade-off process that was completed using an additive multi-objective value model to identify a preferred fuel management strategy for the Otway Ranges. The preferred strategy is currently used by local management agencies to guide operational planning and delivery.
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Chandra, Venesh, and Margaret Lloyd. "Lessons in persistence: Investigating the challenges faced by preservice teachers in teaching coding and computational thinking in an unfamiliar context." Australian Journal of Teacher Education 45, no. 9 (September 2020): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2020v45n9.1.
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An ongoing problem for teacher education institutions is bridging the gap between theory and practice and offering authentic experiences to challenge preservice teachers’ pedagogical decision-making. Preservice practicums simulate teaching and can, at best, offer controlled experiences in familiar settings. This restricts the opportunities for preservice teachers to develop confidence in their own pedagogical decision-making and to adapt curriculum to meet unknown or unforeseen conditions. This paper describes, through a small-scale qualitative case study, a teaching experience in an unfamiliar setting, the persistent actions taken to respond to a specific context and the impact this had on preservice teacher knowledge and self-efficacy. The study found that preservice teacher self-efficacy can be scaffolded in real-world contexts provided sufficient planning, peer support and mentoring is available.
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Fuchs, Lynn S., Douglas Fuchs, Carol L. Hamlett, Norris B. Phillips, and Johnell Bentz. "Classwide Curriculum-Based Measurement: Helping General Educators Meet the Challenge of Student Diversity." Exceptional Children 60, no. 6 (May 1994): 518–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001440299406000605.
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This study examined the effectiveness of innovative curriculum-based measurement (CBM) classwide decision-making structures within general education mathematics instruction, with and without recommendations for how to incorporate CBM feedback into instructional planning. Forty general educators, each of whom had at least one student with an identified learning disability for math instruction, were randomly assigned to three groups: CBM with classwide reports that summarized information and provided instructional recommendations, CBM with reports but without recommendations, and contrast (no CBM). Results indicated that only the CBM teachers who received instructional recommendations designed better instructional programs and effected greater achievement for their students.
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Rodenburg, Kathleen, and Kelly MacDonald. "Enhancing Business Schools’ Pedagogy on Sustainable Business Practices and Ethical Decision-Making." Sustainability 13, no. 10 (May 15, 2021): 5527. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13105527.
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Business school curriculums are designed to improve business skills and a student’s eventual workplace performance. In addition to these business skill sets the emerging business environment demands softer skills associated with ethical decision-making and sustainable business practices. The objective of the study is to identify the key influencers of ethical orientation and attitudes towards the environment as a first critical step for curriculum planning designed to develop both ethical decision-making and environmental sensibilities of students in business schools. Using a bivariate regression analysis (OLS) that compared the established New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale and the newly introduced Ethical Orientation Scale (EOS), this study assesses environmental eco-consciousness and ethical orientation over time and across varying socio-demographic variables. The study shows first, that in addition to socio-cultural variables, situational factors influence ethical decision-making. Secondly, it illuminates that ethical orientations as measured by the EOS predicts beliefs about the environment as measured by the NEP scale. It further provides evidence of the ethical underpinnings of the New Ecological Paradigm as well as provides initial validation for the new EOS. These outcomes provide additional levers to assist business educators in the creation of high impact teaching strategies to measure and encourage ethical decision-making and sustainable business practices that protect the environment.
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Bang, Huiwon. "The mediating effects of Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy on Relation between Parental Career-related Behaviors Perceived by high school students and Career Preparation Behavior." Korean Association For Learner-Centered Curriculum And Instruction 22, no. 24 (December 31, 2022): 171–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.22251/jlcci.2022.22.24.171.
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Objectives The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating effects of career decision self-efficacy in the relationship between parent career-related behaviors and career preparation behaviors perceived by high school students.
Methods Correlation analysis was conducted using SPSS Ver. 26 to identify the relationship between parental career-related behaviors, career decision self-efficacy, and hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to verify the mediating effect of career-determining self-efficacy.
Results First, there is a significant correlation between career support, career decision self-efficacy, and career preparation among parental career-related behaviors. Second, career decision self-efficacy partially mediates the relationship between career support and career preparation behavior of parent career-related behaviors.
Conclusions This means that improving career decision self-efficacy is very important to effectively promote career preparation behavior of high school students. In order to do this, practical support is needed for career curriculum, program planning, and parental education related to career including career decision self-efficacy and customized career counseling considering aptitude and interest.
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Raison, Brian. "College 101: Strategies for First Year Success – A Program for High School Seniors." Journal of Youth Development 2, no. 1 (June 1, 2007): 133–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2007.368.
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Making the transition from high school to college can be one of the biggest challenges in life. The first year dropout rate stands at 26% nationally. Adolescent decision-making literature suggests that youths can achieve greater success and reduce negative consequences during their first year of college if they 1) increase knowledge of new social scene and academic protocols, and 2) work through a conjectural decision-making process prior to actual encounters. This program presents key points high school seniors “must know” in advance of their arrival on campus. It is research-based with first-hand advice from real college students including on-the-street video interviews. Topics cover: Choosing Classes, Test Strategies, Social Scene Changes, Budgeting, Roommates, Safety, Talking with Professors, Time Management, and more. The program is designed for any student planning to attend any 2 or 4-year college. Youth professionals can teach this loosely-scripted 1 or 2-hour PowerPoint-based seminar “out of the box.” The $159 curriculum package is free to the first 250 responders.
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Prihatiningsih, Titi Savitri, Hikmawati Nurokhmanti, and Geraldine Baujea. "WHAT CHANGES IN IMPLEMENTING COMPETENCE-BASED MEDICAL EDUCATION IN INDONESIA: A QUALITATIVE STUDY." Jurnal Pendidikan Kedokteran Indonesia: The Indonesian Journal of Medical Education 10, no. 1 (March 31, 2021): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jpki.64125.
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Background: Competence-based Medical Education (CBME) is the latest curriculum model adopted by many countries since 1970s. Reforming medical curriculum to adopt CBME implicates major changes in all aspects and research on this is still lacking. This study aims at identifying changes in implementing CBME from the aspects of organization and structural changes, curricular design, implementation and evaluation and cultural changes. Methods: Retrospective qualitative method is applied using purposive sampling. Selected documents are used as the data and analysed using thematic analysis. Results: Four themes are identified for the first aspect, i.e. the role of central authority, multidepartment committees, committed change agents, and decision-making procedures. Whereas for the second aspect, five themes are pinpointed, consisting of curriculum design at macro level, meso and micro level, faculty development program, learning resources, implementation, and monitoring and qualitative evaluation. For the third aspect, four themes emerge, namely enabling factor, inhibiting factor, the paradox of the new curriculum and quality assurance. Conclusion: Major changes taking place in the design and implementation of CBME have been identified from three aspects inductively. Awareness of the kinds of changes and using them for curriculum planning could improve the success in shifting towards CBME.
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Ruesch Schweizer, Corinne, Antonietta Di Giulio, and Patricia Burkhardt-Holm. "Scientific Support for Redesigning a Higher-Education Curriculum on Sustainability." Sustainability 11, no. 21 (October 30, 2019): 6035. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11216035.
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This paper is devoted to how a team of experts scientifically supported redesigning the curriculum of an elective study program that promotes competences for sustainable development. In contrast to other case studies of higher education for sustainable development (HESD), the paper does not present the outcome of the curricular-redesign process but focuses on its scientific support. It shows how this process was initiated and facilitated. It understands curricular redesign as a social process. The premises are, first, that supporting curricular processes means guiding the decision-making of those in charge but not making decisions in their place, and second, that the redesign of a curriculum has to consider the existing institutional situation as well as empirical and theoretical expectations. The article discusses how scientific support can help a curricular redesign draw on both experience-based knowledge and sound HESD theories and findings. Furthermore, it reflects on the role of those supporting such a process and on how they can help the actors find a realistic compromise between the existing situation and the perceived ideal. This requires competences in mining, aggregating, and reprocessing knowledge in the field of HESD, as well as in designing and supporting an interdisciplinary process.
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Arthur, Leonie, Bronwyn Beecher, Cathie Harrison, and Christine Morandini. "Sharing the Lived Experiences of Children." Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 28, no. 2 (June 2003): 8–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/183693910302800203.
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This article explores possibilities for linking children, families and early childhood settings through processes that celebrate and document the richness of children's daily realities. Changing images of the child, greater recognition of the child in social contexts of the family, community and the early childhood setting, as well as the dynamic nature of early childhood services have contributed to innovative approaches to curriculum and documentation. New ways of thinking about children and planning affirm children's competencies and celebrate their learning. Effective learning communities involve the collaboration of children and families in all stages of documentation and decision-making.
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Peseta, Tai. "Special Edition: Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice Editorial 9.3." Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice 9, no. 3 (July 1, 2012): 2–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.53761/1.9.3.1.
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This Special Edition of JUTLP is unique in that it examines a single university's approach to curriculum reform, providing insights from many of the people who were engaged in the process. At La Trobe University in Australia the mechanism for engaging in discussions at a university level has been encapsulated in an institutional strategy known as Design for Learning (DfL) (La Trobe University 2009). From 2007, former Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Belinda Probert and former Pro ViceChancellor (Curriculum and Academic Planning) Tom Angelo, led an exciting and edgy curriculum change initiative intended to build on La Trobe’s learning and teaching strengths, while simultaneously building a systems focus for ensuring curriculum quality and renewal. The blueprint for the DfL described its principles thus: “ … highlight[ing] breadth of choice, equity, flexibility (options), learning centred-ness, research and evidence based decision making, a systems focus (rather than making individuals responsible for things they do not control), and support (resources)” (La Trobe University 2009, p. 7). With goodwill, energy and a profound sense that ‘something needed to be done’, in the early years of the DfL, the university was alive with fresh talk of curriculum, teaching and student learning galvanised by new leadership, a commitment to evidence-based change, resources to fund curriculum innovation, together with the promise of reward and recognition. Imagine the scene: committees and communities spring up to think together about complex pedagogical issues, spirited discussion takes place, departments and faculties share resources and good practices, new staff are brought on board with responsibility to make things happen. The 7 papers represented here describe both large and small curriculum change initiatives – some funded by the university and others done out of love, curiosity and interest.
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Petersen, Donna J., Mary E. Hovinga, Mary Ann Pass, Connie Kohler, R. Kent Oestenstad, and Charles Katholi. "Assuring Public Health Professionals are Prepared for the Future: The UAB Public Health Integrated Core Curriculum." Public Health Reports 120, no. 5 (September 2005): 496–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003335490512000504.
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In response to calls to improve public health education and our own desire to provide a more relevant educational experience to our Master of Public Health students, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health designed, developed, and instituted a fully integrated public health core curriculum in the fall of 2001. This curriculum combines content from discipline-specific courses in biostatistics, environmental health, epidemiology, health administration, and the social and behavioral sciences, and delivers it in a 15 credit hour, team-taught course designed in modules covering such topics as tobacco, infectious diseases, and emergency preparedness. Weekly skills-building sessions increase student competence in data analysis and interpretation, communication, ethical decision-making, community-based interventions, and policy and program planning. Evaluations affirm that the integrated core is functioning as intended: as a means to provide critical content in the core disciplines in their applied context. As public health education continues to be debated, the UAB public health integrated core curriculum can serve as one model for providing quality instruction that is highly relevant to professional practice.
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Yakhforoshha, Afsaneh, Dr Sonia Oveisi, Dr Ramin Sarchami, and Dr Behrooze Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari. "Community-based medical education in action: primary care physicians’ perceptions." European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare 5, no. 2 (July 6, 2017): 245. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/ejpch.v5i2.1300.
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Introduction and objectives: During the last decade, in response to wide ranging changes in healthcare systems and physicians' roles, the medical curriculum has undergone some modification. To achieve high quality education, 2 strategies are suggested: (1) Community-based medical education and (2) Community-oriented medical education. During the process of curriculum planning, the planners need to identify the potential areas for improvement and to guarantee the quality of instruction. This study aimed to determine the viewpoints of medical graduates from Qazvin University of Medical Science (QUMS), Tehran, on community medicine internship and clerkship programs (CMICP) in order to assist better decision-making by policymakers.Methods: In this qualitative study, the conventional content analysis approach was employed. Data were gathered from 20 primary practitioners of QUMS through individual semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions (FGD) which were continued until data saturation occured. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed immediately after the interviews. To analyze the data, one note was employed and to analyze the qualitative data, inductive method was used. The unit of analysis was selected and labeled using an open coding system. Then, the similar open codes were categorized in subthemes and finally the subthemes were organized into the main themes. Findings: The results of data analysis identified 4 main themes including: planned curriculum, delivered curriculum, hidden curriculum and curriculum evaluation.Conclusion: Many graduates suggest that, in addition to curriculum renewal, curriculum planners should identify mediated factors in CMICP to prepare graduates to practise in healthcare settings.
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Mahmoodian, Mojtaba, Farham Shahrivar, and Chunqing Li. "Maintenance Prioritisation of Irrigation Infrastructure Using a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methodology under a Fuzzy Environment." Sustainability 14, no. 22 (November 9, 2022): 14791. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su142214791.
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The aging infrastructure and rising demand in the irrigation industry as a result of population growth have increased maintenance works in recent years. The most efficient asset maintenance practice is proactive. However, while a limited budget and an increase in aging infrastructure has made proactive asset maintenance challenging, customers still expect quality service, and contemporary challenges such as climate change and the competitive market further add to the existing pressure on asset owners. In this context, the present work has the primary objective of developing a novel, accurate, efficient and straightforward methodology for measuring assessment criteria weights and using them to prioritise assets for maintenance. For this aim, fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods are developed for the optimisation of asset maintenance prioritisation. Using objective and subjective data, the proposed method will be utilised to prioritise six irrigation channels in Northern Victoria, Australia, for maintenance. To verify the efficiency and accuracy of the developed MCDM method, the prioritised channels are validated by comparing against their existing physical condition. Results prove the ability of the proposed method in distinguishing and taking into account the differences between the channels (in terms of their size, physical condition, financial impacts, etc.) in prioritisation for maintenance. This study will also provide suggestions to improve the existing asset maintenance prioritisation methods in practice
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Khan, Waqar Mahmood. "What to choose, Linguistics or Literature? - Analyzing the predicaments faced by university students of Okara district concerning their area of specialization." International Journal of Linguistics and Culture 3, no. 2 (December 16, 2022): 139–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.52700/ijlc.v3i2.125.
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Selecting the perfect area of specialization can be a vital step when one is pursuing a degree of BS or M.Phil. in English. This seems what an individual must aim to follow to assist them to get ahead in their professional life and career. One can regard it as a game changer or an important decision that a student needs to consider and it is at times difficult to identify as to which specific area best suits the needs and interests of a given learner. Students of BS and M.Phil. levels in English are perplexed either to opt for Linguistics or Literature as their area of specialization. In this regard, adequate and timely career planning/counseling is highly significant and is needed on an emergent basis to overcome the prevailing ambiguity among the students. Lack of career counseling is leading to numerous problems. The primary objective of this study has been to identify and highlight the lack of awareness among our students about their decision-making and career selection, which in turn possibly leads to numerous problems for the students in their career prospects. The studys respondents include the BS, M.Phil. English students from the Okara district of Pakistan’s Punjab. This study uses the quantitative paradigm with survey research being its research design. Data has been gathered through a Close-ended questionnaire. The sample from study respondents from an Okara-based university has been derived based on Convenience sampling. Data collected from the population was analyzed via Microsoft Excel and represented in bar diagrams. There must be courses of at least 2 or 3 credit hours on career selection and decision-making in our BS-level curriculum to combat the currentscenario of poor planning and decision-making in terms of career selection.
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Ovando, Martha N. "Effects of Site-Based Management on the Instructional Program." Journal of School Leadership 4, no. 3 (May 1994): 311–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/105268469400400304.
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Given the apparent mixed results reported by previous studies (David, 1989; Hellinger, Murphy and Hausman, 1992; Jenni and Mauriel, 1990; Malen, Ogawa, and Kranz, 1990), this exploratory study attempted to examine the extent to which schools using a site-based management approach were engaged in decision making associated with curriculum and instruction, what roles teachers were playing, and what strategies were employed to assure the quality of the instructional program. It was conducted following a qualitative approach in order to understand respondents’ perspectives (Patton, 1990). Data were collected by means of extensive interviews with board members, district office personnel, principals, teachers, and parents from six school districts. These school districts were selected based on their reputation for having adopted a decentralized approach to school management. The findings of this study suggest that the participating schools are progressively addressing curriculum and instruction themes as they are developmentally ready. It was found that whereas schools have considerable freedom, school districts are providing “curriculum framework and guidelines” to assure an overall direction for the school district. Teachers are engaging in a variety of “non-teaching” roles as they introduce curriculum and instruction changes. Schools are using different strategies to maintain the quality of the instructional program, with staff development being the most common strategy. Needs assessment, campus planning, formative evaluation, and summative evaluation are other strategies used by these schools. Apparently, site-based management schools are making progress in addressing curriculum and instruction to meet their students’ needs; however, there is a need to study further how curriculum and instruction changes affect student academic achievement. Additionally, the impact of the changing roles of teachers on their teaching performance and on instruction should be studied.
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Chasanah, Annisa Maulidya, and Rose Mini Agoes Salim. "Parental Support, Career Exploration, and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy in Junior High School Students." ANIMA Indonesian Psychological Journal 34, no. 4 (July 25, 2019): 211–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.24123/aipj.v34i4.2581.
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The implementation of Curriculum 2013 brought changes to students' admissions to high school/vocational level. Students are required to choose their course earlier, with or without trial time, which marks the importance of career planning and efficacy to decide their future career for students since junior-high. This study examined the role of career exploration behavior (CEB) as a mediator between career-related parental support (CRPS) and career decision-making self-efficacy (CDSE). Data were obtained from 140 junior-high school students on grade VIII and IX in the 2018/2019 school year in the year of 2018/2019. The regression analysis showed that CRPS has significantly influenced relations with CDSE, with CEB only has a small role in partially mediating their relationship (b = .44, t(137) = 6.31, p = .000; coefficient = .22, SE = 3.91%, CI = .14 - .29). The result is fit with the social cognitive career theory (SCCT). Other results obtained from the additional analysis, instrumental assistance (b = .20, t(134) = 3.1, p = .041), and verbal encouragement (b = .16, t(134) = 2.06, p = .041) were able to influence the CDSE directly, but emotional support indirectly (coefficient = .09, SE = 3.29%, CI = .03 - .16) influences CDSE through CEB as mediator. These results may be affected by Indonesian's collectivist culture, which able to play a role in adolescents' development and their capacity to make their career-choice independently.
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Beuving, J. Joost. "Playing Pool Along the Shores of Lake Victoria: Fishermen, Careers and Capital Accumulation in the Ugandan Nile Perch Business." Africa 80, no. 2 (May 2010): 224–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2010.0203.
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The 1990s saw the emergence of a thriving Nile perch export market from East Africa. This commercial table fish species is landed by migrant fishermen at villages that have sprung up along the shores of Lake Victoria, and then exported to overseas markets. By analysing the Ugandan perch fishery as a set of careers, the article shows that, although some fishermen have benefited from the perch boom, most face an uncertain and marginal existence. Few of them, however, move away in response. Analysis of an anthropological case study reveals that this is because the fishermen value the urban culture characterizing prominent village landings, expressed in particular clothing and hairstyles, the prevalence of non-kin ties, and a prospering leisure industry epitomized by the proliferation of pool tables. Hence, a cultural preference for life at the landings, rather than a universal quest for economic opportunity, drives their economic decision making.
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Solomon, Benjamin G., Jillian M. Dawes, Gary J. Duhon, and Brian C. Poncy. "False Discovery Rates When Engaging in Skill Versus Performance Deficit Analysis for Academic Instructional Planning." Assessment for Effective Intervention 45, no. 3 (October 31, 2018): 184–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1534508418808365.
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Brief experimental analysis (BEA) is a well-researched approach to conducting problem analysis, where potential interventions are pilot tested using a single-subject alternating treatment design. However, its brevity may lead to a high frequency of decision-making errors, particularly in situations where one tested condition is rarely optimal for students (i.e., the base rate). The current study explored the accuracy of a specific variant of BEA, skill versus performance deficit analysis (SPA), across different variations of the basic BEA design, score difference thresholds, and reading and math curriculum-based measurements (CBMs). Findings indicate that the ABAB design provides a reasonable control of such error rates when using reading CBM, whereas subtraction CBM required the use of an ABABAB design. Such error rates could not be controlled, regardless of design, when using multiplication CBM. Implications for best practice in the use of BEA are discussed.
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Wade, Catherine, Jan Matthews, Catherine A. Bent, Erica Neill, Zvezdana Petrovic, Jane Fisher, Annette Michaux, and Warren Cann. "Parenting Today: A State-Wide Representative Survey of Contemporary Parenting Experiences." Children Australia 43, no. 1 (February 23, 2018): 77–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2018.7.
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This article describes the study design of Parenting Today in Victoria: a representative survey of contemporary parenting experiences, behaviours, concerns and needs of parents. The aims of the study, sample design, survey content development processes, including pilot survey administration, data collection procedures and demographic characteristics of the sample are described. The survey was administered via computer assisted telephone interviewing using random dialling of landline and mobile phone numbers in 2016 to parents of children aged 0–18 years who were living in Victoria, Australia. The response rate was 57% with 2600 parents surveyed (40% fathers). The sample was broadly representative of the Victorian population on major demographic characteristics when compared to data from the Australian Census of Population and Housing (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011). However, adjustments were made for over representation of younger parents (16–34 years), more highly educated parents and for those living outside major cities. This survey provides rigorously collected, accurate and up-to-date information about the experiences, preferences and concerns of a large and representative sample of parents. Findings will provide vital new insights to inform policy decision making, service planning and future research aimed at understanding parents’ attitudes and behaviours, and the psychology behind their help-seeking.
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Jawuor, George Okoth. "Teachers’ Use of Assessment Data in Secondary Schools in Kenya: Opportunities and Threats." Global Journal of Educational Studies 6, no. 1 (April 20, 2020): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/gjes.v6i1.16199.
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Governments around the world are pushing educators to adopt assessment data as an objective basis for initiating changes in curriculum and instruction. Recent research findings indicate that teachers' effective and consistent use of assessment data in planning curriculum, implementation and monitoring of teaching improves the learner's overall academic achievement. This paper is a product of a desktop review of the limited cognate literature present in Kenya on the utility of assessment data for decision making in secondary schools. Although findings reveal that Kenyan teachers use assessment data to among others; identify weak learners for individual remediation programs, inform parents of their children’s academic progress and for career selection, the instructor’s intensive use of data in classrooms to drive meaningful positive change faces pervasive bottlenecks. Teachers need to exploit the available opportunities created by the government, such as in-service training on information communications technology, to enhance the use of assessment data to promote learning.
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Yin, Khoo Yin, Rohaila Yusof, and Wei Chooi Yi. "Factors that influence Malaysian-based financial literacy model among teenagers." International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE) 11, no. 3 (September 1, 2022): 1218. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v11i3.22622.
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<p><span lang="EN-US">Most of the young generation do not realize the importance of decision making, money-saving, and budget planning. Consequently, a total of 47% of bankruptcies in Malaysia occurred among young adults between the ages of 18-35. Young individuals account for the majority of bankruptcies, public awareness of financial literacy should be raised. More effective teaching in secondary school has attracted researchers' attention. One of the general objectives of the Malaysian curriculum for the students is to practice moral values. Money-saving can be considered as one of the moral values. Still, school teachers have to cover many other academic topics, and they always feel overburdened with all types of examination-oriented textbooks. Students' value towards money and attitude influence their financial decision. Other factors needed in financial literacy are decision-making and accountability. This study aimed to examine factors that influence students' human values in financial literacy. This study had instilled human values to encourage students to practice time-saving, decision making, money-saving, and other values related to their well-being in the future. The survey was employed in this study. Then, a video that integrated financial literacy and human values with a Malaysian-based real-world learning experience was created in stage two. In addition, the questionnaire was administered to 327 secondary school students after they watched the video. The structural equation modeling method was used to determine the factors that influenced the financial literacy model. The findings from the analysis retained four elements: practices, decision making, accountability, and human values. Future research can focus on a comparative analysis with neighboring countries.</span></p>
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Pomeroy, Sylvia E. M., and Robyn P. Cant. "General practitioners' decision to refer patients to dietitians: insight into the clinical reasoning process." Australian Journal of Primary Health 16, no. 2 (2010): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py09024.
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The aim of this project was to describe general practitioners’ (GPs’) decision-making process for reducing nutrition risk in cardiac patients through referring a patient to a dietitian. The setting was primary care practices in Victoria. The method we employed was mixed methods research: in Study 1, 30 GPs were interviewed. Recorded interviews were transcribed and narratives analysed thematically. Study 2 involved a survey of statewide random sample of GPs. Frequencies and analyses of variance were used to explore the impact of demographic variables on decisions to refer. We found that the referral decision involved four elements: (i) synthesising management information; (ii) forecasting outcomes; (iii) planning management; and (iv) actioning referrals. GPs applied cognitive and collaborative strategies to develop a treatment plan. In Study 2, doctors (248 GPs, 30%) concurred with identified barriers/enabling factors for patients’ referral. There was no association between GPs’ sex, age or hours worked per week and referral factors. We conclude that a GP’s judgment to offer a dietetic referral to an adult patient is a four element reasoning process. Attention to how these elements interact may assist clinical decision making. Apart from the sole use of prescribed medications/surgical procedures for cardiac care, patients offered a dietetic referral were those who were considered able to commit to dietary change and who were willing to attend a dietetic consultation. Improvements in provision of patients’ nutrition intervention information to GPs are needed. Further investigation is justified to determine how to resolve this practice gap.
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Lovell, Heather. "Are policy failures mobile? An investigation of the Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program in the State of Victoria, Australia." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 49, no. 2 (September 28, 2016): 314–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x16668170.
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This article is about a case of policy failure and negative lesson drawing, namely the implementation of a mandatory smart metering programme – the Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program – in the State of Victoria, Australia, in the period 2009–2013. The article explores the framing of policy failure, and the ways in which failed polices might be mobile. The Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program provides an important empirical counterbalance to existing scholarship on policy learning, transfer and mobility, which is for the most part about positive best practice case studies, emulation and the travelling of ‘fast’ and (by implication) successful policy. There is evidence that the Victorian Advanced Metering Infrastructure Program circulated domestically within Australia and was influential in policy decision making, but that its international mobility was limited. The case is used to explore what gets left behind – or is immobile – in the telling of policy stories about failure. Science and Technology Studies scholarship on the inherent fragility of sociotechnical networks is drawn upon to consider how the concept of assemblage – a popular conceptual lens within policy mobility scholarship – might be applied to better understand instances of policy failure.
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Saragih, Bariqi Abhari, Irgi Fahreza, Lutfiah Azhar Nst, and Suri Lestari Br Purba. "Strategi Untuk Meningkatkan Mutu Pendidikan: Studi Kasus di SMK Al-Washliyah 13 Kota Tebing Tinggi." Edumaspul: Jurnal Pendidikan 6, no. 1 (March 1, 2022): 315–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.33487/edumaspul.v6i1.2330.
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Strategic management is a process of integrating planning, implementation and evaluation which leads to organizational decision making that has an impact on organizational excellence. Quality education can be implemented if schools implement the right strategic management to be implemented. The purpose of this study is to describe how strategic management is to improve the quality of education at SMK Al Washliyah 13, Tebing Tinggi City. This study uses descriptive qualitative methods and data collection techniques are interviews and observations. Strategies to improve the quality of education at SMK Al Washliyah 13 Tebing Tinggi City are through improving the quality of teachers, curriculum, increasing human resources, increasing student academic achievement, and building the image of the institution.
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Johnson, Jerry C., Tara Hayden, Lynne Allen Taylor, Arthur Gilbert, and Marshall Paul Hughes Mitchell. "LIGHT: A Church-Based Curriculum for Training African American Lay Health Workers to Support Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Decision-Making." Health Equity 4, no. 1 (December 1, 2020): 533–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/heq.2020.0042.
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Đurišić, Maša, and Mila Bunijevac. "Parental Involvement as a Important Factor for Successful Education." Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal 7, no. 3 (September 25, 2017): 137–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.26529/cepsj.291.
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To comply with the system of integrated support for their students’, schools need to build partnership with parents and develop mutual responsibility for childrens’ success in the educational system. In this way, parental involement are increased, parents’ effort to support schools are encouraged, and they are directly making a positive impact to a successful educational system.Considering the importance of parents’ participation and involvement in school activities, in this paper, we will analyse the positive effects of parental involvement, summarize leading principles for the successful partnership of parents and school and present six factors (Parenting, Communicating, Volunteering, Learning at home, Decision-making and Collaborating with the community) and six models (Protective Model, Expert Model, Transmission Model, Curriculum-Enrichment Model, Consumer Model and Partnership Model) of parental involvement. In addition, we will draw conclusions and make recommendations that are important for planning programs that are focused on the improvement of parent involvement.
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Dos Santos, Luis Miguel. "How Does COVID-19 Pandemic Influence the Sense of Belonging and Decision-Making Process of Nursing Students: The Study of Nursing Students’ Experiences." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 15 (August 3, 2020): 5603. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155603.
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Financial consideration, internal and external influence, personal goal, and educational achievement always influence the decision-making process and behavior of individuals. Using nursing students as the population, the researcher employed the Social Cognitive Career Theory as the theoretical framework to examine the nursing human resources shortages and how would the COVID-19 pandemic influence the experiences, sense of belonging, and career decision-making process of 58 nursing students in South Korea. The researcher categorized the sharing into two groups, which were before the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results indicated that financial consideration was the significant reason why South Korean nursing students decided to study nursing regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic. More importantly, almost all participants decided to leave the nursing profession due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the consideration between financial factor and personal sacrifice. The outcomes of this study provided a blueprint for human resources professionals, government leaders, policymakers, school leaders, and hospital managers to reform their current curriculum and human resources planning to overcome the potential human resources gaps in the soon future due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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McGuigan, Nicholas, Samantha Sin, and Thomas Kern. "Sourcing Sustainable Finance in a Globally Competitive Market: An Instructional Case." Issues in Accounting Education 32, no. 1 (October 1, 2016): 43–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/iace-51304.
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ABSTRACT The role of accountants in business has been extended recently with a strong need to incorporate a broader public interest of sustainable, social, and environmental business practices into its projects, financial planning, and decision-making. In order for this to occur, a real integration of such perceptions and skills development into the accounting curriculum needs to take place. This instructional project aims to achieve this by providing students with an opportunity to apply theoretical and social accounting concepts to the practical design and creation of a business loan application intended to procure finance for an investment that benefits society or the environment. The primary objective of the project is to expand students' awareness of the broader societal demands of and business responsibility for sustainable practices. A secondary objective is to expose students to a complex business activity requiring high-order analysis and communication skills; the learning task involves writing a business loan application. This paper describes the design of the project that incorporates group-processing skills, peer review, written and oral communication, and accounting-related content within an introductory accounting decision-making course.
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Zhao, Minghui, Xian Guo, Xuebo Zhang, Yongchun Fang, and Yongsheng Ou. "ASPW-DRL: assembly sequence planning for workpieces via a deep reinforcement learning approach." Assembly Automation 40, no. 1 (August 12, 2019): 65–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aa-11-2018-0211.
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Purpose This paper aims to automatically plan sequence for complex assembly products and improve assembly efficiency. Design/methodology/approach An assembly sequence planning system for workpieces (ASPW) based on deep reinforcement learning is proposed in this paper. However, there exist enormous challenges for using DRL to this problem due to the sparse reward and the lack of training environment. In this paper, a novel ASPW-DQN algorithm is proposed and a training platform is built to overcome these challenges. Findings The system can get a good decision-making result and a generalized model suitable for other assembly problems. The experiments conducted in Gazebo show good results and great potential of this approach. Originality/value The proposed ASPW-DQN unites the curriculum learning and parameter transfer, which can avoid the explosive growth of assembly relations and improve system efficiency. It is combined with realistic physics simulation engine Gazebo to provide required training environment. Additionally with the effect of deep neural networks, the result can be easily applied to other similar tasks.
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Umam, Aguswan Khotibul. "PIMPINAN LEMBAGA PERGURUAN TINGGI KEAGAMAAN ISLAM (PTKI) VISIONER DAN ORIENTASI TOTAL QUALITY SEBAGAI LOKOMOTIF KESIAPAN PTKI DALAM MENYONGSONG MASYARAKAT EKONOMI ASEAN (MEA)." Ri'ayah: Jurnal Sosial dan Keagamaan 1, no. 01 (June 2, 2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.32332/riayah.v1i01.122.
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These days, the universities are required to be prepare of quality assurance in becoming ASEAN Economic Society. Therefore, the visionary leadership sense inside PTKI like structure, focus, recognize legality, communication, dinamic style, and responsive are needed to create the qualified PTKI. At least the qualified PTKI should have 8 factors such as scores and assignment, organization structure, communication, decision-making by agreement, and dinamic curriculum planning. Visionary leadership is vision based, which have the ability to face the reality and confidence in making people to be sure that the visions will be realize. The ability that should have by visionary leadership are: (a) capable in making good connection with staff and employment (in organization) who need guidance, support, and motivation; (b) capable in employing the external area maximally and have good relation with the outer which make the organization success; (c) capable in creating and influencing whole operation aspect of organization including the visions achievement, the quality of control system, the organization structure, and the information system; (d) capable and smart in dealing the future.
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Lee, Sang J., Dahee Chung, Akiko Asano, Daisuke Sasaki, Masahiko Maeno, Yoshiki Ishida, Takuya Kobayashi, Yukinori Kuwajima, John D. Da Silva, and Shigemi Nagai. "Diagnosis of Tooth Prognosis Using Artificial Intelligence." Diagnostics 12, no. 6 (June 9, 2022): 1422. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12061422.
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The accurate diagnosis of individual tooth prognosis has to be determined comprehensively in consideration of the broader treatment plan. The objective of this study was to establish an effective artificial intelligence (AI)-based module for an accurate tooth prognosis decision based on the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) comprehensive treatment planning curriculum (CTPC). The tooth prognosis of 2359 teeth from 94 cases was evaluated with 1 to 5 levels (1—Hopeless, 5—Good condition for long term) by two groups (Model-A with 16, and Model-B with 13 examiners) based on 17 clinical determining factors selected from the HSDM-CTPC. Three AI machine-learning methods including gradient boosting classifier, decision tree classifier, and random forest classifier were used to create an algorithm. These three methods were evaluated against the gold standard data determined by consensus of three experienced prosthodontists, and their accuracy was analyzed. The decision tree classifier indicated the highest accuracy at 0.8413 (Model-A) and 0.7523 (Model-B). Accuracy with the gradient boosting classifier and the random forest classifier was 0.6896, 0.6687, and 0.8413, 0.7523, respectively. Overall, the decision tree classifier had the best accuracy among the three methods. The study contributes to the implementation of AI in the decision-making process of tooth prognosis in consideration of the treatment plan.
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Medard, Modesta, Han van Dijk, and Paul Hebinck. "Competing for kayabo: gendered struggles for fish and livelihood on the shore of Lake Victoria." Maritime Studies 18, no. 3 (November 5, 2019): 321–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40152-019-00146-1.
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Abstract The dry-salted trade of Nile perch or kayabo is important for many along the shores of Lake Victoria. The kayabo trade started in the 1990s and has been increasingly restructured due to changing regional and global trade relationships. This shift has led to the emergence of hierarchical trading relations, which create an exploitative network in which powerful middlemen control the access of trade for women from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and marginalizes the Tanzanian women, changing the organization from a poly-centric to a more centralized trade organization in the hands of a small group of powerful business men. We show in this paper that whereas the women traders from the DRC manoeuvred themselves in positions from which they could manipulate the network through bribery and conniving to derive substantial capital gains from the kayabo trade, their Tanzanian counterparts however are excluded from the decision-making processes, access to fish resources, financial capital, and negotiation power. They persevere by operating in increasingly competitive markets, relying on illegal fish that they sell with little profit at local and domestic markets. They survive in jobs that are insecure and risky by nature.
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Pradini, Indah Kusuma, Siti Rochanah, and Amril Muhammad. "Manajemen Mutu dalam Upaya Peningkatan Prestasi Sekolah." IMPROVEMENT Jurnal Ilmiah untuk peningkatan mutu manajemen pendidikan 3, no. 1 (May 1, 2016): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.21009/improvement.03109.
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Research was conducted in SDN Tanah Tinggi 3 Tangerang and SD Islam Al-Ikhlas Tangerang. This research aims to knowing and analyzing how quality management is applied for improving school’s achievement. This study is focusing on quality management with the sub-focus of planning and actuating. The approach that used for this study is qualitative approach with comparative case study method descriptively. Based on the result and research data analysis, found that quality planning for improving school’s achievement are done by a work-meeting forum, each component in the school determines school’s objective based on existing vision and mission of the school and then the targeted objective will be decided by analyzing school’s needs. The analysis of school’s needs then will be used for arranging school’s programs and work programs for improving the achievement and planning for the future. The decision making was done then followed by the policies, from the planning for improving school’s achievement activities then a planning of improving school’s achievement could be created. In the practice, development of achievement improvement programs was done especially in the scope of Adiwiyata. it held by developing the policies of environmental caring and culture, developing the curriculum of environmental basis, developing participative basis activities and improving the management and structure and infrastructure empowerment. From those aspects, they can create improvement of school’s achievement on environmental aspect. For SDN Tanah Tinggi 3 on improving and developing its academic achievement needs curriculum development on student’s self-empower and extracurricular. Meanwhile for SD Islam Al-Ikhlas on human resources development needs more human resources.
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Somantri, Manap. "RESEARCH AREAS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT." International Journal of Educational Management and Innovation 1, no. 2 (March 9, 2020): 144. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/ijemi.v1i2.1684.
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The objectives of this study are elaboration research areas in the development of educational management at the teacher and educational science faculty. Elaboration of research areas significant for the development of competitiveness study program, and can be references candidates for the topic choices of thesis and dissertation or lecturer research at the teacher and educational science faculty. The study will be done to literature analysis on educational management as a dimension process and substances in education. As a dimension, process management has explored while on planning, organizing, staffing, directing, budgeting, controlling, evaluating, and reporting. Substantial management included the curriculum, student, teacher, staff, money, facilities, and participation in educational management. The organization level can be analyses on global, regional, local, and institutional levels. The organizational function can be analyses on leadership, planning, supervision, communication, decision making, and innovation in the management process. The area's research in educational management has used for institutional innovation and student achievement.
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Seo, Ji-Hoon, Ji-Hoon Seo, Nam-Hun Park, and Kil-Hong Joo. "A Study on the Decision-Making of Effective S/W Education based on Opinion Mining Analysis." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 4.16 (October 21, 2018): 5–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.16.21702.
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The Currently, along with the advent of the web 2.0 era, due to the continuous expansion of social media service infrastructures, the shares of conventional public opinion evaluation functions have been gradually shifting from the existing mass media to social media. This phe-nomenon is attributable to the two-way communication and convenience unique to social media and social media are now in charge of an axis of public opinion evaluation standards. In particular, since diverse interests conflict in education policies and countless conflicts of opinions occur in the process of setting up policy agendas, in establishing education policies, accurately analyzing reputations among the public, who are the targets of education policies, in order to set up effective policy agendas, is the most important issue. Therefore, in this study, the resultant values of huge unstructured data on the positive and negative reputations of past policy agendas related to the mandatory software education that has been organized as a regular curriculum of middle/high schools from 2018 in Korea, which have been addressed by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, and the Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity, felt and judged by the general public on social media such as blogs and Twitter and on online media including portal news were visualized through opinion mining analysis techniques to derive more effective software education related policy agendas. In addition, based on the foregoing, a Korean style software education system that fits circumstances was constructed and the system is expected to become an important measure that provides guidelines for setting mid/long-term road maps for the fostering of creative and convergent talented persons equipped with international competitiveness and software education in Korea.
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Tuuri, Georgianna, Kwadernica Rhea, Melissa Cater, Morgan Mayeux, and Imani Carr. "A Short, Evidence-Based Educational Pilot Program Improved Veterinary Medicine Students’ Self-Reported Food Literacy and Behaviors Toward Food." Current Developments in Nutrition 4, Supplement_2 (May 29, 2020): 1355. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzaa059_072.
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Abstract Objectives This pilot study developed and tested the impact of participating in a short, evidence-based nutrition education/culinary skill-building program on veterinary medicine students’ self-reported food literacy and behaviors toward food. Methods The curriculum was developed and formatively tested with young adult graduate students and then pilot tested with veterinary medicine students. The intervention emphasized the five factors reported by the Eating and Food Literacy Questionnaire (EFLBQ) of health and nutrition, taste, food preparation skills, planning and decision-making, and convenience. The intervention included four, 30-minute sessions and the use of a mobile group messaging application. Graduate students enrolled in a money management course served as a control group. Wilcoxon Signed Ranks tests analyzed mean factor change in EFLBQ scores in each group, and Mann-Whitney U tests compared change in scores between groups. Relationships between variables were examined using Spearman's rho. Results Twenty-three veterinary medicine students completed the intervention and 14 graduate students finished the money management course. Most students were female (87%; n = 20 & 79%; n = 11 in the intervention and control groups respectively). The mean age of students was 24.2 ± 2.6 years in the intervention group and, 27.1 ± 2.3 years in the control group. After participating in the intervention, the veterinary medicine students’ mean factor scores for health and nutrition (pre-Mdn = 2.9 to post-Mdn = 2.9, Z = −2.88, P = 0.004, r = −0.60) and food preparation (pre-Mdn = 2.7 to post-Mdn = 3.0, Z = −2.73, P = 0.006, r = −0.57) significantly increased. When compared to the control group, the intervention group's health and nutrition mean factor score was significantly higher (P = 0.03). Change in health and nutrition scores were positively associated with planning and decision-making scores (P < 0.001). Scores for planning and decision-making were also positively related to food preparation scores (P < 0.01). Conclusions Participating in a nutrition education/culinary skill-building program supported veterinary medicine students’ nutritional well-being by improving their self-reported behaviors toward food and nutrition. Funding Sources This project was partially funded by Hatch Project #LAB94331.