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Journal articles on the topic "Third level students"
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Clancy, Patrick, and Deirdre Kehoe. "Financing Third-level Students in Ireland." European Journal of Education 34, no. 1 (March 1, 1999): 43–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01418219999502.
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Arisyna, Arisyna, Florentina Sustini, and Nalini Muhdi. "Anxiety Level and Risk Factors in Medical Students." JUXTA: Jurnal Ilmiah Mahasiswa Kedokteran Universitas Airlangga 11, no. 2 (August 31, 2020): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/juxta.v11i22020.79-82.
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Introduction: Medical students are more susceptible to anxiety than non-medical students. This study aimed to describe the anxiety level and its risk factors among the first, third, and fifth year medical students in Universitas Airlangga.Methods: We conducted cross-sectional study involving 195 medical students by consecutive sampling. The inclusion criteria in this study were all first, third, and fifth year medical students who were willing to participate in the study. The data was recorded using questionnaire of anxiety risk factors, Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety, and Miller and Smith Stress Vulnerability Scale. All data then was processed and analyzed descriptively.Results: From 195 students, 57 male (29.2%) and 138 female (70.8%) students participated, consisted of 63 first year, 68 third year, and 64 fifth year students. Anxiety mostly occurred in fifth year students (20.3%), followed by first year students (19%), and third year students (11.8%). Anxiety mostly occured in male (24.6%), at the age of 17 (33.3%), susceptible to stress (75%), dissatisfied with physical condition (29.2%), had chronic diseases (26.4%), on middle birth order (34.6%), had frequent conflict with parents in almost every month (50%), lived in dorm (20%), had no close friends (33.3%), perceived that health was not important (100%), orphaned (18.8%), low parental income (35%), overburdened with examination (26.3%), and dissatisfied with the examination criteria (26.5%).Conclusion: Fifth year medical students had the highest frequency of anxiety, while third year students had the lowest frequency. Nevertheless, based on the age, anxiety mostly occurred at the age of 17. These conditions were caused by some risk factors.
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Greer, Patrick, and Maeve Martin. "Problems experienced by third level students in reading scientific material." Irish Educational Studies 16, no. 1 (January 1997): 173–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0332331960160114.
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Kennedy, Norelee, John Healy, and Kieran O'Sullivan. "The Beliefs of Third-Level Healthcare Students towards Low-Back Pain." Pain Research and Treatment 2014 (April 10, 2014): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/675915.
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Objectives. Beliefs held by healthcare providers are part of the complex recovery of a patient with low-back pain (LBP). The aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes and beliefs of Irish university healthcare students towards LBP. Methods. Physiotherapy (n=107), medicine (n=63), nursing, and midwifery (n=101) students completed the survey. Demographic data, LBP related beliefs [Back Beliefs Questionnaire (BBQ) and the Fear Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire physical subsection (FABQ-PA)] were collected. Results. Two hundred and seventy-one students responded (response rate 29%). Student physiotherapists had significantly lower FABQ (P<0.001) scores than medical (95% CI [−5.492, −1.406]) and nursing students (95% CI [−7.718, −22.307]). Physiotherapy students had significantly higher BBQ scores (P<0.0001) than medical (95% CI [1.490, 5.406]) and nursing students (95% CI [6.098, 11.283]). Beliefs of physiotherapy and medical students were significantly better among fourth-year year than first-year students (P<0.0001) but were not significantly different for nursing students (P=0.820 for FABQ and P=0.810 for BBQ). Conclusions. Physiotherapy students had more positive beliefs towards LBP than medical and nursing students. Physiotherapy and medical students’ beliefs towards LBP significantly improved over the course of their studies.
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Yağcı, Esed, Tarık Başar, and İlkay Aşkın. "The prediction power of the learning level of life science course in science and technology course." Pegem Eğitim ve Öğretim Dergisi 6, no. 1 (November 24, 2015): 61–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.14527/pegegog.2016.004.
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Besides providing students with the essential life skills, Life Science Course Curriculum should also provide a basis to social sciences, and science and technology courses. In this study, it is intended to reveal the prediction power of the learning level of life science course in science and technology course. According to the result of the study, grades of the third grade life science course are significant in the prediction of student's grades of the fourth grade science and technology course. Students' grades of 57% of fourth grade science and technology course can be explained with third grade life science course's grade. Likewise, student's achievement test scores of third grade life science course are significant in the prediction of student's achievement tests of the fourth grade science and technology course. %47 of fourth grade science and technology course academic achievement scores can be explained with third grade life science course achievement test scores. Also, tetrachoric correlation analysis results show that third grade Life Science Course Curriculum has shown consistency with the attainments of the fourth grade Science and Technology Course Curriculum. In other words, the results of the study present clues that the third grade life science course is helpful to prepare the students to the fourth grade science and technology course
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AYOUB, Abdul Rahman Muhammad, and Asmaa Oreibi FADAEAM. "MATHEMATICAL THINKING AMONG THIRD-GRADE INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS." RIMAK International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 03, no. 06 (July 1, 2021): 474–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2717-8293.6-3.43.
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The aim of the current research is to identify the level of mathematical thinking and the level of its patterns among third-grade intermediate students, and to achieve the goal of the research, the following main null hypothesis was formulated: (There is no statistically significant difference at the significance level (0.05) between the average real performance of the students in the mathematical thinking test and their average performance The hypothesis of the same test (38). The study sample consisted of (386) female students. A test of mathematical thinking with its four patterns was built and consisted of (18) items distributed among its patterns as follows: 1. Visual thinking test (5) paragraph. 2. Deductive reasoning test (3) paragraph. 3. Critical thinking test (5) paragraph. 4. Creative thinking test (5) paragraph. The current research reached the following results: 1. The students of the research sample do not have the ability to think mathematically. 2. The students of the research sample have the ability to think visually. 3. The students of the research sample do not have the ability to think inductively. 4. The students of the research sample do not have the ability to think critically. 5. The female students of the research sample do not have the ability to think creatively.
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Cleary, Joan, Sinead Breen, and Ann O’Shea. "Mathematical literacy and self-efficacy of first year third level students." MSOR Connections 10, no. 2 (May 2010): 41–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.11120/msor.2010.10020041.
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O’Brien, S., H. Sinclair, S. Soni, T. O’Dowd, and D. Thomas. "Trends in alcohol consumption in undergraduate third level students: 1992–1999." Irish Journal of Medical Science 170, no. 4 (October 2001): 224–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03167782.
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Raston, Colin L., and Janet L. Scott. "Teaching green chemistry. Third-year-level module and beyond." Pure and Applied Chemistry 73, no. 8 (August 1, 2001): 1257–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac200173081257.
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Teaching green chemistry at Monash University started in earnest in 1999 with the launch of a 12-lecture final year undergraduate course. The course was designed to introduce students to the field of green chemistry. The students had no prior knowledge of the field or indeed what green chemistry meant. The course covered a definition of green chemistry, historical issues, and challenges, together with an introduction to the principles and tools of green chemistry, evaluating the effects of chemistry and technology, general areas of green chemistry, and presenting examples of successful and developing green chemistry technologies. Several general references were used, although specific examples were from the primary literature. Another feature of the course was the analysis of recent papers. In addition, experiments linking into the course have been developed, and there are plans for postgraduate training, professional development, and community outreach involving postgraduate candidates.
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Saud, Wafa Ismail. "Lexical Errors of Third Year Undergraduate Students." English Language Teaching 11, no. 11 (October 26, 2018): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v11n11p161.
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The aim of the study was to examine the lexical errors made by EFL students. The technique for eliciting information employed was an achievement test. A sample of 30 Saudi female students was asked to write essays in English that were assessed by the researcher. The students were all majoring in English in the third year at King Khalid University. James (1998) taxonomy was selected as the most comprehensive framework for the analysis of the lexical errors in the students' writing. A total of 137 lexical errors were identified and analysed. These errors were divided into formal 117 (85.40) and semantic 20 (14.60). Formal mis- selection 54 (39.42) was the most frequent major category of lexical formal errors while mis-formation 15 (10.95) was the least frequent one. Confusion of sense relations 14 (10.22) was the most frequent among lexical semantic errors. At the individual level of lexical formal errors, the most problematic words for students were the vowel based types 24 (17.52) and borrowing and blending were not problematic at all. At the individual level of lexical semantic errors, the most problematic words for students were near synonyms 8 (5.84) and the least problematic words were general terms for specific ones and overtly specific terms 1 (0.73).Pedagogical implications for teaching vocabulary to EFL learners and recommendations for areas for further research were suggested.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Third level students"
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Dunican, Enda Noel. "Learning computer programming in Irish third-level institutions : a study of first year students' experiences." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30918.
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Over the last three decades there has been a significant amount of research conducted in the area of novice computer programming. Within the Irish context however, there has been limited amount of research in this area with the vast majority of studies conducted being quantitative in nature. Given the fact that Ireland is becoming hugely dependent on its knowledge economy, the attrition and non-completion rates in computer science reported in both Irish and international studies is becoming a cause for concern. In this study, the actual experiences of Irish novice programming students are presented in the form of a theory and the implications of this theory for the teaching and learning of the subject are discussed. This thesis presents findings from research conducted across four Irish higher education institutes with 31 participants studying first year computer programming as part of a formal course in computing. Data collection and analysis was conducted using the Strauss and Corbin (1988) variation of the Grounded Theory methodology. This model was chosen based on its suitability for inductive theory generation and learner type categorisation. The outcome of this study is a twofold. Firstly, it generates a grounded theory containing the major phenomena experienced by first year programming students. Secondly, it uses this theory to identify a number of novice programming learner types presented in the form of a learning continuum. This thesis analyses the various phenomena experienced by students as they progress through a programming syllabus and how the challenge posed by the subject may affect them in both positive and negative ways.
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Tudor, Patti, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education. "Identification of gifted students : an examination of the use of nomination forms for the identification of gifted students and the third and fourth grade level." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 1994, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/61.
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Special classes for gifted students began in North America in the late 19th century. Since that time, educators have directed much attention towards the special needs of students with gifts and talents. Nevertheless, compared the education of children with disabilities, programs for the education of the gifted have been sprinkled throughout our country on a small scale at best. Funding has always been tenuous and gifted education has been, and is, considered margianl to mainstream education.vii, 111 leaves ; 29 cm.
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Ni, Jun. "L'apprentissage du chinois chez les étudiants irlandais et leur adaptation interculturelles en Chine." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSE3035/document.
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L'objet de cette recherche porte sur l'apprentissage du chinois et l'adaptation interculturelle d'un groupe d'étudiants irlandais du supérieur en Chine.Elle s'inspire du corpus de recherches sur l'adaptation interculturelle des étudiants étrangers du supérieur et vient s'y ajouter. Parmi ces recherches, celles de John W.Berry sur l'acculturation,de Geert Hofstede sur les dimensions de la culture, la théorie de Young Y. Kim sur l'adaptation interculturelle, et la théorie de Kalervo Oberg sur le choc culturel ont été privilégiées. L’objectif principal de cette recherche étant d’arriver à une meilleure compréhension de l'adaptation interculturelle d'étudiants irlandais qui étudient le mandarin en Chine, nous avons retenu les quatre questions de recherche suivantes:Nous recourons à une méthodologie de recherche qualitative pour analyser vingt-quatre entretiens approfondis et six journaux écrits en Chine par les étudiants, afin de décrire l'adaptation interculturelle des étudiants irlandais en Chine.Les principales conclusions de notre recherche sont les suivants:1. Choc culturel. Les données montrent que même si ces étudiants s'étaient bien adaptés au pays d'accueil, ils avaient en majorité connu un certain choc culturel. Ils ont signalé divers niveaux de frustration et d'incompréhension découlant du fossé entre leur culture d'origine et celle du pays d’accueil. Ils ont également signalé des difficultés d'adaptation liées au mal du pays, à la solitude,, aux problèmes de pollution, d'hygiène alimentaire et à des difficultés de niveau linguistique.Cependant, ils ont eu recours à leurs stratégies d'adaptation pour minimiser les effets du choc culturel. dentité et compétence interculturelle adoptées par les étudiants.Les donnés révèlent le degré de réussite de l'adaptation interculturelle des étudiants irlandais qui étudient en Chine ainsi que les implications de ce phénomène sur la perception de leur identité culturelle.Les étudiants ont procédé à des ajustements et sont devenus plus tolérants, plus larges d’esprit du point de vue interculturel. 3 – Acquisition de la langue. Les données suggèrent que ces étudiants irlandais ont amélioré leurs compétences linguistiques (écoute, parole, lecture et écriture) et communicationnelles (grammaticales, stratégiques et sociolinguistiques) grâce à leur immersion dans la langue et la culture cibles. Les étudiants profitent considérablement de l'apprentissage de la langue en milieu immersif particulièrement en ce qui concerne l'acquisition des compétences verbales et de vocabulaire et la conscience sociolinguistique.4 – Facteurs qui facilitent ou entravent l'adaptation interculturelle des étudiants irlandais. Une recherche thématique des données a identifié six facteurs qui ont facilité l’adaptation interculturelle des étudiants: motivation, expériences interculturelles antérieures, soutien perçu, attitude intégrative et caractéristiques de la personnalité interculturelle. Les facteurs qui entravent leur apprentissage de la langue et leur adaptation interculturelle sont : l’écart culturel, la bureaucratie et une perception de discrimination. Cette recherche suggère également que la compétence linguistique et l'utilisation de technologies modernes peuvent être à la fois des facteurs facilitant ou entravant l'acquisition de la langue et l'adaptation interculturelle.Cette recherche, la première de ce genre en Irlande, permet une compréhension approfondie de l'adaptation interculturelle d'étudiants irlandais en Chine et constitue un complément utile à la recherche sur les programmes d'études à l'étranger en particulier dans le domaine de l'adaptation interculturelleThis research presents an original qualitative study on Chinese language acquisition and the cross-cultural adaptation process of Irish university students studying Mandarin in China. It draws upon, and adds to, an existing body of research exploring intercultural adjustment of international students in higher education. Frameworks that inform this study include John W. Berry’s theory of acculturation, Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory, Young Y. Kim’s theory of cross-cultural adaptation, and Kalervo Oberg’s culture shock theory. The overall aim of this research is to develop a deeper understanding of intercultural adjustment of Irish students studying Mandarin in China. In order to fulfil this aim, the following four research questions were developed:1. What culture shock has Irish university students experienced in China? What difficulties did these students encounter? What strategies did they employ to overcome these difficulties?2. What kind of culture identity have the Irish students developed after their study-abroad in China?3. What are their Chinese language learning experiences in China?4. What are the facilitators of and hindrances to their intercultural adjustment process. Using a thematic analysis approach, twenty-four in-depth interviews and six journals were analysed to produce findings grounded in Irish students’ cross-cultural adaptation experiences. This project’s four primary research findings are as follows: Research finding 1 - Cultural shock experienced by Irish studentsData demonstrates that although these Irish students adapted successfully in the host country, the majority of the students experienced a certain degree of culture shock. Students reported various levels of frustration and misunderstanding arising from the mismatch of their own culture and that of the host culture. These students also encountered adjustment difficulties including: homesickness; loneliness; pollution and food hygiene problems; and difficulties with language. However, students utilized their coping strategies to minimize the effects of culture shock.Research finding 2 - Intercultural identity and intercultural competence developed by Irish studentsData reveals the successful cultural adaptation of the Irish students studying abroad in China, with ensuing implications for the perception of their cultural identity. There was a positive adjustment by the Irish students who became more tolerant and open-minded, intercultural individuals. Research finding 3 – Irish students’ language acquisition in ChinaData suggests that Irish students increased their language proficiency (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) and communicative competence (grammatical, strategic, and sociolinguistic) as the result of immersion in the target language and culture. Students benefit considerably in the learning of the Chinese language in the immersive environment, particularly regarding oral skills, vocabulary, and sociolinguistic awareness. Research finding 4 – Facilitators and hindrances to Irish students’ cross-cultural adjustmentSix facilitators were identified through a thematic analysis of the data: motivation; prior cross-cultural experiences; preparation; perceived support; integrative attitude; and intercultural personality characteristics. Three hindrances were identified: cultural distance, bureaucracy and perceived discrimination. This study also suggests that Chinese language proficiency and the use of modern technology can operate as both facilitators of and hindrances to language acquisition and cross-cultural adaptation. Overall, this study brings a unique insight into the intercultural adjustment of Irish students studying in China and contributes to existing knowledge in the field of intercultural studies, targeting the specific area of cross-cultural adaptation
论文中文提要本研究是有关在中国留学的爱尔兰大学生的中文语言习得和跨文化适应的独创研究。本研究借鉴并补充了现有的在高等教育范畴内有关国际学生跨文化适应的研究。本研究所借鉴的跨文化研究领域一些著名学者的框架理论包括约翰.贝瑞 (John W. Berry) 的文化适应策略理论，格尔特.霍夫斯泰德 (Geert Hofstede) 的文化维度理论，金 (Young Y. Kim) 的跨文化适应交际理论和卡莱沃.奥伯格 (Kalervo Oberg) 的文化冲击理论。 本研究的总体目标是加深对在中国学习中文的爱尔兰学生跨文化适应进程的理解。 为了实现这个目标，制定了以下四个研究问题：1.爱尔兰大学生在中国经历了何种文化冲击？ 这些学生遇到了什么困难？ 他们采用什么策略来克服这些困难？2.爱尔兰学生在中国留学后有什么样的文化归属？3.他们在中国的汉语学习经历是什么？4.爱尔兰学生的跨文化适应调整过程的促进因素和障碍因素是什么？研究者本人作为一名来自中国的国际学生在爱尔兰学习和生活拥有跨文化适应的经验有助于理解爱尔兰学生在中国经历跨文化适应的进程。定性研究方法被用来分析和解答本研究提出的问题。研究数据的收集包括与二十四位爱尔兰大学生进行的深入的访谈和6篇爱尔兰学生在中国留学时写的日记。 通过主题分析过程对数据进行分析，该研究项目的四项主要研究成果如下：研究发现之一 - 爱尔兰学生在中国留学期间经历的文化冲击数据表明，虽然这些爱尔兰学生在东道国跨文化适应比较成功，但大多数学生都受到一定程度的文化冲击。 学生们报告说，他们自己的本土文化和东道国文化之间的文化差距导致了各种的挫折和误解。 学术环境中的文化冲击对爱尔兰学生构成了最大的压力，因为它对学业成绩和心理健康可能产生负面影响。 爱尔兰学生还遇到跨文化适应调整的困难，包括：思乡情绪; 孤独; 环境污染和食品卫生问题; 语言障碍; 出租车司机危险驾驶和滥收费用等。 然而，这些学生采取了不同的应对策略来减少文化冲击的影响。研究发现之二 - 爱尔兰学生发展的跨文化归属和跨文化能力数据显示，爱尔兰留学生在中国的文化适应成功，对他们的文化归属产生了影响。 爱尔兰学生发展了跨文化归属，变得更加宽容和思想开放，培养了跨文化人格特征。研究发现之三 - 爱尔兰学生在中国的语言习得数据显示，爱尔兰学生在目标语言和目标环境沉浸环境中学习汉语将获得了相当大的收益，提高了汉语语言水平（听，说，读，写）和交际能力（语法，交际策略和社会语言学），特别是在口语技巧，词汇和社会语言意识方面。研究发现之四 - 爱尔兰学生的跨文化适应的促进因素和阻碍因素通过对数据进行主题分析确定了六个促进跨文化适应的因素：学习动机; 以前的跨文化体验; 出国留学前的充分准备; 得到的帮助和支持; 融合的态度; 以及跨文化人格特征。 通过探索爱尔兰学生的跨文化适应所经受的困难和压力，本研究确定了三个障碍因素：文化距离，官僚主义和受到的歧视。 本研究还表明，汉语语言能力和使用现代技术交流既可以成为跨文化适应的促进因素也可能成为障碍因素。本研究的研究结果突出了国际学生跨文化适应的高度复杂性和挑战性。本研究通过分析归纳影响在中国留学学习汉语的爱尔兰学生跨文化适应的各种因素，希望能帮助和促进国际学生的跨文化适应的进程。研究结果还表明，跨文化适应的过程是一个不确定的和艰难的过程，要求有决心和适应力。爱尔兰学生面对中国这个全新的生活和学习环境，经历了不同程度的文化冲击。然而，本研究中的所有学生都对他们在中国留学的经历感到乐观。他们相信留学经历不仅帮助他们开阔了视野，而且让他们变得更加独立和成熟。研究显示，留学不仅为爱尔兰学生提供了在沉浸式环境下学习目标语言的绝好机会，还为爱尔兰学生提供了真正的个人成长的空间和发展个人潜力的机会。总之，本研究填补了有关国际留学生在华学习汉语的经验的研究方面的空白。本研究针对爱尔兰学生的跨文化适应体验有独到的见解，对于跨文化交际研究领域中特别是有关国际学生跨文化适应方面的研究有所贡献。
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Rigney, Thomas J. "A study of the relationship between entry qualifications and achievement of third level business studies students in Ireland, with particular reference to Cork Institute of Technology in the period 1996-2000." Thesis, University of Hull, 2002. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:11843.
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This research focused on the study of entry qualifications and Third Level achievement of Business Studies Students. Quantitative and qualitative research methods were undertaken to investigate the findings. Quantitative studies of over two hundred students were analysed over a period of four years. This tracked students through the NCBS for two years, plus the NDBS for one year and the BBS degree for one year. Qualitative research involved interviewing over one hundred students in Third Level Business Studies courses,from both sectors of the higher education binary system in Ireland. What follows includes some of the principal findings of the research study. The findings showed that there was a positive but not perfect association between LCE points achievement and subsequent achievement in Third Level Business Studies. A study of the mandatory qualification requirement of Mathematics and English found that higher achievers in Mathematics had a better achievement rate in Third Level. However, the subject of English did not appear to provide a reasonable correlation with Third Level achievement. The research studied the three second level Business Studies subjects available on the senior cycle curriculum; Accounting, Business Organisation and Economics. Accounting was shown to be the most beneficial subject to study for achievement. Study of the subject at second level was shown to have inherent advantages for students compared to their counterparts who had not studied it. Students with poor academic achievement in their LCE can attain higher achievement academically in Third Level Business Studies than higher achievers in the LCE with the principal reasons for this including their commitment to studies in Third Level education. The thesis remedies a gap in the research literature. Consequently the findings will be of significant benefit to stakeholders including students, teachers, parents,career counsellors and curriculum developers.
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Nutty, Ben. "An empirical investigation of the relationship between part-time employment and third level student stress." Thesis, Ulster University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.425237.
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Rader, Karen E. "The effects of three different levels of word rate on the listening comprehension of third-quarter university Spanish students." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1248977936.
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Irish Council for Overseas Students. Responsible recruiting: A code of practice for third level colleges. Dublin: Irish Council for Overseas Students, 1992.
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Callaghan, Patricia. Accessing third level education in Ireland: A handbook for students with disabilities. Dublin: AHEAD Education Press, 1997.
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Lynam, Suzanne M. Working-class students & third-level education in Ireland: A study of the difficulties facing 'working-class' students. Dublin: University College Dublin, 1996.
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Callaghan, Patricia. Accessing Third Level education in Ireland: A handbook for students with disabilities and learning difficulties. 2nd ed. Dublin: AHEAD, 1998.
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Dalton, Brian. The provision of sevices for blind and visually impaired students in second- and third-level education. Dublin: University College Dublin, 1996.
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O'Carroll, Margaret. A profile of the psychological and social experiences of students with a disability in the Irish third level education system. Dublin: University College Dublin, 1996.
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Donnelly, Roísín Catherine-Anne. A study to investigate the planning and development stages of an interactive computerised information technology tutor (ICITT) to aid the learning of students in third level education who are inexperienced in the subject area. [S.l: The author], 1996.
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Support, Ireland Advisory Committee on Third-Level Student. Report of the Advisory Committee on Third-Level Student Support. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993.
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Vdovina, Ol'ga, Semen Reznik, and Ol'ga Sazykina. HR management strategy. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1891037.
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The textbook discusses the key concepts of the discipline "HR Management Strategy". The first section reveals the theoretical aspects of strategic personnel management. The second section examines the specifics of the HR management strategy depending on the basic and competitive strategy of the organization, the stage of the organization's life cycle, personnel policy and other factors. The third section presents the main components of the HR management strategy: recruitment, selection and adaptation of personnel, motivation and stimulation of personnel, development of the organization's personnel.
Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation.
For students of higher educational institutions studying in the field of training 38.04.02 "Management" (master's degree level), as well as in the areas of training 38.03.02 "Management" and 38.03.03 "Personnel Management" (bachelor's degree level).
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Centre, Northern Ireland Student. Managing diversity in third level education: Report of the NUS-USI Northern Ireland Student Centre Conference, held on 21 January 1998, Europa Hotel, Belfast. Belfast: Northern Ireland Student Centre, 1998.
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Thomas, Jiss Joseph, and D. Venkataraman. "Depression Level Determination Using Deep Learning to Help Students in the COVID-19 Pandemic Situation." In Proceedings of Third Doctoral Symposium on Computational Intelligence, 219–27. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3148-2_18.
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Wildgans-Lang, Angelika, Sarah Scheuerer, Andreas Obersteiner, Frank Fischer, and Kristina Reiss. "Learning to Diagnose Primary Students’ Mathematical Competence Levels and Misconceptions in Document-Based Simulations." In Learning to Diagnose with Simulations, 17–31. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89147-3_3.
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AbstractAnalyzing students’ documents (e.g., their homework) can serve as a basis for diagnosing students’ learning status and thus also for adaptive teaching. When making diagnostic judgments about students’ learning status in mathematics, teachers may benefit from using theoretical models of mathematical competence because such models illustrate what tasks students should have mastered on each level of competence. Based on students’ documents and a model of mathematical competence at the primary level, we developed a simulated learning environment for (1) analyzing and (2) supporting pre-service teachers’ diagnostic processes and results. When working in the simulated environment, pre-service elementary teachers are asked to assess virtual third graders’ learning status by diagnosing their mathematical competence levels as well as their misconceptions (e.g., misconception regarding multiplication) based on the competence model. To do so, pre-service teachers analyze students’ solutions to mathematical problems that they can select from a set of problems varying in content and difficulty. First data analyses suggest that the environment can capture differences in pre-service teachers’ diagnostic processes. A better understanding of these processes can serve as a basis for further developing the learning environment.
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Lowe, Tina, and Patrick McDonnell. "To be or Not to be Included – That is the Question: Disabled Students in Third Level Education in Ireland." In Policy, Experience and Change: Cross-Cultural Reflections on Inclusive Education, 163–76. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5119-7_12.
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Santa, Robert, and Cezar Mihai Haj. "The Role of Demographic Policies in the Internationalization of Romanian Higher Education." In European Higher Education Area: Challenges for a New Decade, 131–43. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56316-5_10.
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Abstract The internationalization of higher education has been intensely studied at both national and institutional level. However, in recent years, it has been increasingly influenced by national level policies aimed at losing perceived talent gaps emerging in European economies. Several countries have enhanced facilities allowing international students to become permanent residents, even while tightening immigration requirements for other third country nationals. Such policy changes would imply that the international student has become a public policy target from a demographic policy perspective. As part of an enhanced focus on the internationalization of higher education, Romania enacted significant legal changes to its immigration laws in November 2018, altering the conditions under which international students can become permanent or long-term residents. Deploying the use of interviews, as well as a public policy analysis of recent legal and regulatory changes, this paper aims to explore the degree to which universities are using new legal provisions to enhance their internationalization efforts. This should offer a clearer picture of how regulatory changes shape the implementation of internationalization strategies among Romanian universities.
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McDonnell-Naughton, Mary, and Carmen Păunescu. "Facets of Social Innovation in Higher Education." In Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management, 9–35. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84044-0_2.
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AbstractEmphasis on social engagement and innovation for the higher education sector is a priority, despite the various challenges that have arisen as result of Covid-19, for third level providers. It is a conversation that continues to evolve of how the higher education providers can prepare students for global citizenship and societal innovation. There are specific concerns regarding best practice and the contribution of higher education to teaching, research and ultimately public policy. Universities are embedded in teaching and research whereby the onus is to engage collaboratively with outside organisations to develop competences and create products for greater use by society. This chapter aims to explore how the higher education institutions can contribute to transforming teaching and research so that the student, and ultimately each academic community member, experiences the full value of contributing to a successful society, reflecting on sustainable partnerships, engagement, whilst reflecting the whole idea of societal innovation. Its ambition is to define spheres of influence for enhancing social innovation in higher education.
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Gagliardi, Mauro, Veronica Bartolucci, and David Scaradozzi. "Educational Robotics at Primary School with Nintendo Labo." In Makers at School, Educational Robotics and Innovative Learning Environments, 291–98. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77040-2_39.
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AbstractIn the last five years, the Italian Ministry of Education has focused on digital skills, recognizing them as fundamental and indispensable for the growth of the future citizens of the information age. Numerous requests have come from the European Commission, the Italian Ministry of Education and the employment world regarding the introduction of new technologies in schools, whether or not this is part of curricular activities. National guidelines for kindergarten and primary school curricula promote the introduction of new tools and new multimedia languages as fundamental for all disciplines. The idea of the National Operational Programme (PON) and the National Plan for Digital Education (PNSD) is to boost digital knowledge and participation in STEM subjects. The project presented in this article was launched in this context and was a collaboration with the Nintendo company to evaluate the “Nintendo Labo” product at educational level. This trial was conducted in a third-grade class at the “Allegretto di Nuzio” primary school in Fabriano (AN). The kit, an evolution of the Nintendo Switch console, was initially created for recreational purposes. The advantages and limitations of the product came to light during the few months of the experiment. The “Nintendo Labo: assembly—play—discover” educational project allowed students to merge theoretical and practical aspects of their knowledge, and understand complex systems through design and simulation.
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Araújo, Luisa, Patrícia Costa, and Nuno Crato. "Assessment Background: What PISA Measures and How." In Improving a Country’s Education, 249–63. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59031-4_12.
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AbstractThis chapter provides a short description of what the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) measures and how it measures it. First, it details the concepts associated with the measurement of student performance and the concepts associated with capturing student and school characteristics and explains how they compare with some other International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSA). Second, it provides information on the assessment of reading, the main domain in PISA 2018. Third, it provides information on the technical aspects of the measurements in PISA. Lastly, it offers specific examples of PISA 2018 cognitive items, corresponding domains (mathematics, science, and reading), and related performance levels.
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Schnabel, Reinhold. "Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Germany." In IMISCOE Research Series, 179–93. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51241-5_12.
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Abstract Migration patterns in Germany have changed considerably during the post-war period. The active recruitment of “guest workers” stopped during the 1970s and was replaced by family reunification. Two big crisis-driven immigration waves swept Germany, following the collapse of Yugoslavia and the crises in the countries from Syria to Afghanistan. These immigration waves triggered legislation aimed at reducing immigration incentives, especially in the asylum law. From the early 2000s on, German policy turned more liberal following the EU Directives on freedom of movement and for highly qualified persons from non-EEA countries. Migration patterns changed dramatically, with EEA countries becoming the leading source of German immigration. EEA countries replaced the Anglo-Saxon immigration countries as the leading sources and destinations of migration. It is reassuring for economic policy that EU migrants, notably from Bulgaria and Romania, display high levels of employment and have boosted German employment, while unemployment rates reached historic lows. During the past decades, migration obstacles for EEA citizens have been lowered or abolished. Main obstacles to immigration of non-EEA citizens persist due to the restrictive law on residence permits. As a result, student visas, academic credentials, or family reunification are the main legal pathways to Germany. Given the difficulty to proof the equivalence of a foreign non-academic degree, it is far more promising for persons from third countries to apply for asylum with the chance to get a permanent residence permit after several years as a tolerated migrant.
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Waters, Lea. "Positive Education Pedagogy: Shifting Teacher Mindsets, Practice, and Language to Make Wellbeing Visible in Classrooms." In The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Education, 137–64. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64537-3_6.
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AbstractThis chapter puts forward three key ideas for expanding the field of positive education. First, I call for the field to develop evidence-based ways to implicitly deliver wellbeing practices in addition to the current delivery mode of explicit programs. Second, I suggest that the current practice of teaching the content of wellbeing would benefit from including approaches that also build the contexts for wellbeing. Third, I recommend that the field must empower teachers to utilize their own teaching expertise as compared to simply delivering a pre-designed wellbeing curriculum. The core “change lever” to incorporate implicit approaches, build contexts for wellbeing, and empower teachers is that of pedagogy. “Positive Education Pedagogy” reflects the idea that how a teacher educates, not just what is taught, is a key factor in building student wellbeing. Infusing positive education into teacher pedagogy allows wellbeing to be built in all classes and subjects across the entire school and not just in those classes that explicitly teach positive education programs. To demonstrate these ideas, a qualitative case study investigating the outcomes of a positive pedagogical intervention is presented. Results of this study found that teachers who are trained in positive education pedagogy are able to legitimize, action, and spread wellbeing. Positive education pedagogy creates change within the teacher, across classrooms, and throughout the school. These findings are explained through three key positive psychology theories: mindsets, broaden and build, and systems informed positive psychology (SIPP).
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Garland, Virginia E. "The Digitally Excluded Learner and Strategies for Success." In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition, 2400–2408. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch233.
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Disparities in Information Science and Communication Technologies (ICT) skills exist both globally and nationally, between developed and developing countries and also between digitally included and digitally excluded students in developed nations such as the United States. Recent research and policy initiatives are recognizing the connections between achievement levels and Internet access. Students in families of poverty, minorities, immigrant children, and special needs students are more likely to have lower levels of academic success than their more affluent, white, non-disabled peers. This article addresses the need to provide effective ICT resources and teacher training to meet the specific needs of these groups of digitally excluded learners in elementary and secondary level American public schools: low socio-economic status (SES) students, minority students, English Language Learners (ELLs), and students with disabilities. Recommendations for moving from digital exclusion to digital inclusion are made at the end of the article.
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Flynn, Nelius, and Sylvia Dempsey. "EARLY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THIRD-LEVEL STUDENTS." In 12th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. IATED, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2019.0432.
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Marcus-Quinn, Ann, and Ian Clancy. "ACCESSIBILITY AND INCLUSION IN DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THIRD LEVEL STUDENTS." In 16th International Technology, Education and Development Conference. IATED, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/inted.2022.0706.
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Logan, Anna, and Ann Marie Farrell. "Increasing engagement and participation in a large, third-level class setting using co-teaching." In Fourth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head18.2018.8209.
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This study focused on the collaborative practice of two teacher educators who implemented a co-teaching intervention with a large class of first-year student teachers. The research arose from the teacher educators’ wish to increase the range and nature of participation of students in the large class setting and to model co-teaching for the students who would be expected to engage in such practice themselves in primary schools. The aims of the study were to explore the use of co-teaching in the large class context as a support for student participation and students’ meta-learning about co-teaching. In three separate 50-minute workshops, students were provided with samples of a child’s work and were required to work in pairs or groups of three in order to come to conclusions about his current level of performance and to develop possible learning targets arising. Data were collected using a short, online survey. The student cohort was very positive in terms of the effectiveness of the co-teaching approach in helping them to understand the concepts and allowing more active engagement. Further, students were able to articulate their learning with regard to using the co-teaching approach. From the researchers’ perspectives co-teaching was very useful in terms of increasing student participation and replicating a learning context that might be more usual with much smaller groups. Further, it allowed for provision of formative feedback both during and following the co-taught sessions that would not otherwise have been feasible. Finally, it allowed the student voice to be heard within the large class context.
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Wright, Angela Siobhan. "Enquiry Based Learning: A Valuable Mechanism at Level 9?" In Third International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head17.2017.5066.
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This paper examines ‘Enquiry Based Learning’ (EBL) as an engagement strategy for assessment at ‘taught masters’ level 9. The master students in question are adult learners in full time employment and the empirical data was gathered from these students. First, an outline of the key features of EBL is presented and, from there, an investigation of how it is viewed when applied to a specific problem statement by the masters students. EBL creates a memorable atmosphere in the classroom and encourages deep learning (Ramsden, 1992). EBL also encourages active learning, which is more enjoyable for the students (Eison, 2010), especially adults – offering more control (Whowell, 2006). Learning should not be passive or a spectator sport; students learn most effectively by active engagement (Karmas, 2006), with an interesting project, hence, the use of EBL. It is vital that we move beyond a conceptualisation of education as the simple acquisition of knowledge to one which equally emphasises, nurtures and assesses innovation and expertise in the utilisation and application of knowledge, (Boland, 2010). The findings of this research are relevant and important as they inform practice and feed into future programme reviews when considering the inclusion of EBL for assessment.
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Huguet, Carme, Jillian Pearse, Leslie F. Noè, Nataly Castillo Ruiz, Diego Valencia, Alexa Jimenez Heredia, and Mónica Andrea Patiño Avedaño. "Use of emerging technologies in flipped classes." In Third International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head17.2017.5454.
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The need for this innovation stems from the constraints of teaching an applied science course to a large cohort of approximately 500 students which makes it impossible to include practical activities. This was compounded by the fact that the course had students with different levels of science knowledge. The aim of our pedagogic innovation was two-fold: to make the basic concepts more understandable for a broad audience of non-science major students; and to maintain a level of difficulty and rigour sufficient to challenge and provide a sound basis for students from the Geosciences undergraduate program. We used a flipped classroom strategy supported by the use of information and communication technologies. Material was provided online before the class so students could aquire basic concepts and identify gaps in their knowledge, and in the classroom the concepts were applied in group activities. Additionally we used the online quiz tool Socrative for students to self-assess their learning. This work was supported by post-class follow-up activities. As a result we observed a substantial increased in student motivation and engagement in their learning process and greater interaction between students and between students and teachers
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Bermingham, Nevan, Mark Prendergast, Trevor Boland, Mary O'Rawe, and Barry Ryan. "DEVELOPING MOBILE APPS FOR IMPROVING THE ORIENTATION EXPERIENCE OF FIRST YEAR THIRD LEVEL STUDENTS." In International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies. IATED, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2016.0137.
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Vicente, Romero de Ávila Serrano, Sarai Diaz García, Laura Asensio Sánchez, Jose Antonio Lozano Galant, Amparo Moyano Enríquez de Salamanca, Rocío Porras Soriano, Elisa Poveda Bautista, et al. "Developing speaking competences in technical English for Spanish civil engineering students." In Third International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head17.2017.5564.
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Traditionally, Spanish schools of civil engineering provide their students a class on “Technical English” in order to develop their language skills. However, this class does not cover all the skills that the student would need in the labor market and mainly focuses in the reading and writing skills, and in a lower degree in the speaking and listening ones. This paper proposes a series of innovative and informal training activities (cine-forum on technical civil engineering topics and role playing on real professional situations) that allow Spanish civil engineering students to develop English skills that can rarely be worked in the classroom (i.e. speaking, negotiating and conversing), encouraging debate, participation, and fostering their self-confidence to speak about technical-English topics in public. Although the students’ level of English is much lower than expected, they all agree on the importance of technical English for their future career. The results also show the students’ lack in skills that are difficult to train in regular classes (speaking and talking). Consequently, this situation would require to provide complementary activities like the ones suggested in this project in order to develop these skills and increase the students’ demand for engineering classes taught in English.
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Lara, J. Javier Serrano, and Félix Fajardo Magraner. "The ICT and gamification: tools for improving motivation and learning at universities." In Third International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head17.2017.5286.
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The teacher-student technology gap and the lack of attention in the design of attractive and motivating learning methodologies often result in student´s demotivation and poor academic performance. To this end, from the research field, a series of methodologies and tools have been developed, such as gamification, as well as the introduction of ICT in lessons. By implementingSocrative, a classroom app to engage students, we tried to measure the evolution of students’ knowledge after the use of ICT and more interactive lessons. In addition, we tried to relate the level of motivation to students’ seating plan in the classroom (in rows). We also tried to analyse students' preferences and their feedback of the new techniques and methodologies used during the classes. The main result of the research is that the use of ICT and gamification in the classroom improved students’ motivation and learning, especially those who were less motivated. The direct relation between the students' seats in the classroom and their motivation was verified. At the same time, the learning differences between all the students in the classroom were reduced, achieving a balance between the learning and the motivation of the students. Keywords: Smartphone; incentive; learning; university students; Socrative.
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Vahed, Anisa, and Shalini Singh. "Facilitating epistemological access by developing students experiences of undergraduate research." In Third International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head17.2017.5140.
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Quality supervision at undergraduate level provides the impetus for students tocomplete their reseach projects successfully and to progress to higher levels of postgraduate studies. Yet very little work has been documented on developing students' experiences of undergraduate reserach. Proponents of undergraduate research claim that quality supervision enables students to engage with their own project; develop higher-order research related skills such as critical thinking; to plan and organise their research work in real-world settings; and to develop problem solving and anlytical skills. Fundamentally these capabilities can be applied to professional practice, thereby enabling students to be better prepared for a knowledge-based economy, which is a national imperative in the higher education research agenda. This paper assessed epistemological access of undergraduate students in terms of developing their research potential. A case study research design within a qualitative framework was used. Data were collected by means of focus groups and students' reflective reports, which were thematically analysed. Overall, the salient features of this paper showed that students' described the teaching of research as the theory and the supervision of research as the practice, which assisted them in developing their skills, abilities and dispositions to make informed decisions to self-manage their undergraduate research projects and practice.
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Baviera-Puig, Amparo, Carmen Escriba-Perez, and Juan Buitrago-Vera. "Strategies to assess generic skills for different types of students." In Third International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head17.2017.4797.
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The Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) has synthesized a profile to be acquired by all the students based on 13 generic skills. For its assessment, the UPV has also developed a rubric for every skill depending on the level of the course. In this research, we develop an educational innovation for validating the rubrics for 3 of the 13 generic skills specified by the UPV. The chosen skills are: “Ability to think practically and apply knowledge in practical situations”, “Innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship ability” and “Teamwork and leadership ability”. To do this, we develop the same methodology in two groups (Morning/English) of the same course (Marketing Research of the Degree of Business Administration and Management of the Faculty of Business Administration and Management at the UPV) with significantly different student profiles. The assessment results of the skills reveal that there are no significant differences between groups. In conclusion, we could say that the rubrics developed by the UPV are adequate to assess all types of students: Erasmus or non-erasmus, working or having worked in the last 2 years or without work experience, and regardless of their satisfaction with the course.
Reports on the topic "Third level students"
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Konovalenko, Yurii, Svitlana Garkavenko, Tetiana Derkach, and Oksana Morgulets. Demand and Learning Environment to Provide English-Language Learning at Technical Universities in Ukraine. [б. в.], November 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/123456789/4463.
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The paper aimed to study the readiness of the existing e-learning environment for the organisation of English-language learning among Ukrainian and international students on the example of a technical university in Ukraine. The need for English-language training was explored by interviewing students with keen interest, level of English proficiency, motivation, preferred forms of learning, and a willingness to incur additional costs for such learning. About two-thirds of those surveyed showed interest in English-language education. About one-third of the students surveyed have the necessary level of preparation and are also prepared for additional financial expenses. About one- third of the students may also join English-language studies if they fulfil specific prerequisites. Expected employment progress is the primary motivation for joining the English-language program. The readiness of the existing learning environment was tested by analysing the organisation of access to English- language teaching materials, assessing the demand for different electronic resources, as well as the ability to take into account the learning styles of potential Ukrainian and international students in the educational process.
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Pritchett, Lant, and Martina Viarengo. Learning Outcomes in Developing Countries: Four Hard Lessons from PISA-D. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), April 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-wp_2021/069.
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The learning crisis in developing countries is increasingly acknowledged (World Bank, 2018). The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) include goals and targets for universal learning and the World Bank has adopted a goal of eliminating learning poverty. We use student level PISA-D results for seven countries (Cambodia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, Senegal, and Zambia) to examine inequality in learning outcomes at the global, country, and student level for public school students. We examine learning inequality using five dimensions of potential social disadvantage measured in PISA: sex, rurality, home language, immigrant status, and socio-economic status (SES)—using the PISA measure of ESCS (Economic, Social, and Cultural Status) to measure SES. We document four important facts. First, with the exception of Ecuador, less than a third of the advantaged (male, urban, native, home speakers of the language of instruction) and ESCS elite (plus 2 standard deviations above the mean) children enrolled in public schools in PISA-D countries reach the SDG minimal target of PISA level 2 or higher in mathematics (with similarly low levels for reading and science). Even if learning differentials of enrolled students along all five dimensions of disadvantage were eliminated, the vast majority of children in these countries would not reach the SDG minimum targets. Second, the inequality in learning outcomes of the in-school children who were assessed by the PISA by household ESCS is mostly smaller in these less developed countries than in OECD or high-performing non-OECD countries. If the PISA-D countries had the same relationship of learning to ESCS as Denmark (as an example of a typical OECD country) or Vietnam (a high-performing developing country) their enrolled ESCS disadvantaged children would do worse, not better, than they actually do. Third, the disadvantages in learning outcomes along four characteristics: sex, rurality, home language, and being an immigrant country are absolutely large, but still small compared to the enormous gap between the advantaged, ESCS average students, and the SDG minimums. Given the massive global inequalities, remediating within-country inequalities in learning, while undoubtedly important for equity and justice, leads to only modest gains towards the SDG targets. Fourth, even including both public and private school students, there are strikingly few children in PISA-D countries at high levels of performance. The absolute number of children at PISA level 4 or above (reached by roughly 30 percent of OECD children) in the low performing PISA-D countries is less than a few thousand individuals, sometimes only a few hundred—in some subjects and countries just double or single digits. These four hard lessons from PISA-D reinforce the need to address global equity by “raising the floor” and targeting low learning levels (Crouch and Rolleston, 2017; Crouch, Rolleston, and Gustafsson, 2020). As Vietnam and other recent successes show, this can be done in developing country settings if education systems align around learning to improve the effectiveness of the teaching and learning processes to improve early learning of foundational skills.
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Bano, Masooda, and Daniel Dyonisius. Community-Responsive Education Policies and the Question of Optimality: Decentralisation and District-Level Variation in Policy Adoption and Implementation in Indonesia. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), August 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-wp_2022/108.
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Decentralisation, or devolving authority to the third tier of government to prioritise specific policy reforms and manage their implementation, is argued to lead to pro-poor development for a number of reasons: local bureaucrats can better gauge the local needs, be responsive to community demands, and, due to physical proximity, can be more easily held accountable by community members. In the education sector, devolving authority to district government has thus been seen as critical to introducing reforms aimed at increasing access and improving learning outcomes. Based on fieldwork with district-level education bureaucracies, schools, and communities in two districts in the state of West Java in Indonesia, this article shows that decentralisation has indeed led to community-responsive policy-development in Indonesia. The district-level education bureaucracies in both districts did appear to prioritise community preferences when choosing to prioritise specific educational reforms from among many introduced by the national government. However, the optimality of these preferences could be questioned. The prioritised policies are reflective of cultural and religious values or immediate employment considerations of the communities in the two districts, rather than being explicitly focused on improving learning outcomes: the urban district prioritised degree completion, while the rural district prioritised moral education. These preferences might appear sub-optimal if the preference is for education bureaucracies to focus directly on improving literacy and numeracy outcomes. Yet, taking into account the socio-economic context of each district, it becomes easy to see the logic dictating these preferences: the communities and the district government officials are consciously prioritising those education policies for which they foresee direct payoffs. Since improving learning outcomes requires long-term commitment, it appears rational to focus on policies promising more immediate gains, especially when they aim, indirectly and implicitly, to improve actual learning outcomes. Thus, more effective community mobilisation campaigns can be developed if the donor agencies funding them recognise that it is not necessarily the lack of information but the nature of the local incentive structures that shapes communities’ expectations of education. Overall, decentralisation is leading to more context-specific educational policy prioritisation in Indonesia, resulting in the possibility of significant district-level variation in outcomes. Further, looking at the school-level variation in each district, the paper shows that public schools ranked as high performing had students from more privileged socio-economic backgrounds and were catering for communities that had more financial resources to support activities in the school, compared with schools ranked as low performing. Thus, there is a gap to bridge within public schools and not just between public and private schools.
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Álvarez Marinelli, Horacio, Samuel Berlinski, Matías Busso, and Julián Martínez Correa. Research Insights: Can Training and Coaching Teachers and the Provision of Structured Materials Improve Early Literacy among First-Grade Students? Inter-American Development Bank, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004606.
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AUTHORÁlvarez Marinelli, Horacio; Berlinski, Samuel; Busso, Matías; Martínez Correa, JuliánDATEDec 2022READ: English (4 downloads) View Online Download Spanish (5 downloads) View Online Download DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004606A one-year teacher professional development program was effective at improving students literacy skills by the end of first grade (0.39 of a standard deviation in overall literacy proficiency). Literacy gains persisted through the second and third grades, even though teachers in those grades were not part of the program. Gains were homogeneous across students of different characteristics such as gender, socioeconomic status, and initial levels of literacy skills.
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Terrón-Caro, María Teresa, Rocio Cárdenas-Rodríguez, Fabiola Ortega-de-Mora, Kassia Aleksic, Sofia Bergano, Patience Biligha, Tiziana Chiappelli, et al. Policy Recommendations ebook. Migrations, Gender and Inclusion from an International Perspective. Voices of Immigrant Women, July 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.46661/rio.20220727_1.
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This publication is the third product of the Erasmus + Project entitled Voices of Immigrant Women (Project Number: 2020-1-ES01-KA203-082364). This product is based on a set of policy recommendations that provides practical guidance on intervention proposals to those with political responsibilities in governance on migration management and policies for integration and social inclusion, as well as to policy makers in the governance of training in Higher Education (University) at all levels. This is intended to promote the development of practical strategies that allow overcoming the obstacles encountered by migrant women during the integration process, favoring the construction of institutions, administrations and, ultimately, more inclusive societies. The content presented in this book proposes recommendations and intervention proposals oriented to practice to: - Improve Higher Education study plans by promoting the training of students as future active protagonists who are aware of social interventions. This will promote equity, diversity and the integration of migrant women. - Strengthen cooperation and creation of networks between academic organizations, the third sector and public administrations that are responsible for promoting the integration and inclusion of migrant women. - Promote dialogue and the exchange of knowledge to, firstly, raise awareness of human mobility and gender in Europe and, secondly, promote the participation and social, labor and civic integration of the migrant population. All this is developed through 4 areas in which this book is articulated. The first area entitled "Migrant women needs and successful integration interventions"; the second area entitled "Promoting University students awareness and civic and social responsibility towards migrant women integration"; the third area entitled "Cooperation between Higher Education institutions and third sector"; the fourth and last area, entitled "Inclusive Higher Education".
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Singh, Abhijeet, Mauricio Romero, and Karthik Muralidharan. COVID-19 Learning Loss and Recovery: Panel Data Evidence from India. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), September 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-risewp_2022/112.
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We use a near-representative household panel survey of ∼19,000 primary-school-aged children in rural Tamil Nadu to study the extent of ‘learning loss’ after COVID-19 school closures, the pace of recovery in the months after schools reopened, and the role of a flagship compensatory intervention introduced by the state government. Students tested in December 2021, after 18 months of school closures, displayed severe deficits in learning of about 0.7 standard deviations (σ) in math and 0.34σ in language compared to identically-aged students in the same villages in 2019. Using multiple rounds of in-person testing, we find that two-thirds of this deficit was made up in the 6 months after school reopening. Using value-added models, we attribute ∼24% of the cohort-level recovery to a government-run after-school remediation program which improved test scores for attendees by 0.17σ in math and 0.09σ in Tamil after 3-4 months. Further, while learning loss was regressive, the recovery was progressive, likely reflecting (in part) the greater take up of the remediation program by more socioeconomically disadvantaged students. These positive results from a state-wide program delivered at scale by the government may provide a useful template for both recovery from COVID-19 learning losses, and bridging learning gaps more generally in low-and-middle-income countries.
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Lynch, Clifford, and Diane Goldenberg-Hart. Beyond the Pandemic: The Future of the Research Enterprise in Academic Year 2021-22 and Beyond. Coalition for Networked Information, August 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.56561/mwrp9673.
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In early June 2021, representatives from a number of CNI member institutions gathered for the third in a series of Executive Roundtable discussions that began in spring 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 emergency. The conversations were intended to inform our understanding of how the pandemic had impacted the research enterprise and to share information about how institutions were planning to shape investments and strategies surrounding the research enterprise going forward. Previous Roundtables were held in April and September 2020 and reports from those conversations are available from http://www.cni.org/tag/executive-roundtable-report. As with the earlier Roundtables on this topic, June participants primarily included senior library administrators, directors of research computing and information technology, and chief research officers from a variety of higher education institutions across the US and Canada; most participating member institutions were public universities with high research activity, though some mid-sized and private institutions participated as well. The June Roundtable took place in a single convening, supplemented by an additional conversation with a key institution unable to join the group meeting due to last-minute scheduling conflicts. As before, we urged participants to think about research broadly, encompassing the humanities, social sciences, and fieldwork activities, as well as the work that takes place in campus laboratories or facilities shared by broader research communities; indeed, the discussions occasionally considered adjacent areas such as the performing arts. The discussion was wide-ranging, including, but not limited to: the challenges involving undergraduate, graduate and international students; labs and core instrumentation; access to physical collections (libraries, museums, herbaria, etc.) and digital materials; patterns of impact on various disciplines and mitigation strategies; and institutional approaches to improving research resilience. We sensed a growing understanding and sensitivity to the human toll the pandemic has taken on the research community. There were several consistent themes throughout the Roundtable series, but shifts in assumptions, planning, and preparation have been evident as vaccination rates have increased and as organizations have grown somewhat more confident in their ability to sustain largely in-person operations by fall 2021. Still, uncertainties abound and considerable notes of tentativeness remain, and indeed, events subsequent to the Roundtable, such as the large-scale spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in the US, have eroded much of the confidence we heard in June 2021, though probably more around instructional strategies than the continuity of the research enterprise. The events of the past 18 months, combined with a growing series of climate change-driven disruptions, have infused a certain level of humility into institutional planning, and they continue to underscore the importance of approaches that emphasize resilience and flexibility.
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Zacamy, Jenna, and Jeremy Roschelle. Navigating the Tensions: How Could Equity-relevant Research Also Be Agile, Open, and Scalable? Digital Promise, August 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/159.
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Digital learning platforms are beginning to become open to research. Specifically, in our work in SEERNet, developers are extending five platforms, each used in either K-12 or higher education by more than 100,000 users, to enable third-party researchers to explore, develop, and test improvements. SEERNet seeks to enable equity-relevant research aligned with the IES Standards for Excellence in Education Research (SEER) principles. It also seeks to support research that is more agile (or rapid), is more open, and scales from research to impacts on practice. We review the emerging tensions among the goal of equity-relevant research and desires for agile, open, and scalable research. We argue that designing and developing technical capabilities for agile, open, and scalable research will not be enough. Based on a series of interviews we conducted with experts in social sciences and equity-focused research, we argue that researchers will have to rethink how they plan and undertake their research. Five shifts could help. First, researchers could deliberately reframe their designs away from a comprehensive, monolithic study to smaller, agile cycles that test a smaller conjecture each time. Second, researchers could shift from designing new educational resources to determining how well-used resources could be elaborated and refined to address equity issues. Third, researchers could utilize variables that capture student experiences to investigate equity when they cannot obtain student demographic variables. Fourth, researchers could work in partnership with educators on equity problems that educators prioritize and want help in solving. Fifth, researchers could acknowledge that achieving equity is not only a technological or resource-design problem, but requires working at the classroom and systems levels too. In SEERNet, we look forward to working with the research community to find ways to address equity through research using well-used digital learning platforms, and to simultaneously conduct research that is more agile, more open, and more directly applicable at scale.
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Araya, Mesele, Pauline Rose, Ricardo Sabates, Dawit Tibebu Tiruneh, and Tassew Woldehanna. Learning Losses during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ethiopia: Comparing Student Achievement in Early Primary Grades before School Closures, and After They Reopened. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-ri_2022/049.
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The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the education sector in unprecedented ways. As with many other countries around the world, the Ethiopian government closed schools following the first identified case in the capital city, Addis Ababa, on the 16th of March 2020. Across the country, these closures resulted in more than 26 million learners staying at home for almost eight months (UNESCO, 2021). In addition to this hiatus in their education, pupils were promoted automatically to the next grade with only 45 days of catch-up classes (Ministry of Education, 2020). In other words, those attending a specific school grade in March 2020 were then promoted to the next grade when school resumed in October 2020. For a significant proportion of Ethiopian pupils, learning during school closures was extremely limited despite the government’s efforts to create educational programmes via national television and radio stations (Kim et al., 2021a; Yorke et al., 2020). School closures, combined with barriers to accessing remote educational resources, meant potential learning losses for a significant number of pupils. Several studies have already indicated that COVID-19 resulted in learning losses, especially among the poorest and most disadvantaged groups. A study in Indonesia found that pupils lost 11 points on the PISA3 reading scale due to the four-month school closure from March to July 2020 (Yarrow, Masood & Afkar, 2020). It was also estimated that Grade 4 pupils in South Africa experienced losses equivalent to more than 60 percent of an academic year (Ardington, Wills & Kotze, 2021), while pupils in the UK lost a third of their expected learning during pandemic-related school closures (Major, Eyles & Machin, 2021). It is anticipated that school closures in Ethiopia could similarly result in learning losses and challenges for pupils to catch up with their learning, particularly for those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Our related emerging findings in Ethiopia have indicated that school closures exacerbated pre-existing inequalities in education, where progress was much lower for rural students compared to those in urban areas who were tracked from Grade 4 to Grade 6 (Kim et al., 2021b; Bayley et al., 2021). Building on this work in Ethiopia, this Insight Note provides a new perspective on numeracy achievements of Grade 1 and Grade 4 pupils by comparing learning at the start of each academic year and the gains over the course of the year across two academic years: 2018-19 and 2020-21. During the 2018-19 academic year, the Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) Ethiopia programme collected data on students’ numeracy achievement from 168 schools. After schools reopened in October 2020, and with additional support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, data on students’ numeracy achievements were collected for two new cohorts of pupils in Grades 1 and 4 in the same schools using the same instruments. This has enabled us to compare learning patterns between two cohorts in the same grades and schools before and during the pandemic. More specifically, in this Insight Note, we aim to: -Compare foundational numeracy levels of pupils entering Grade 1 in the 2020-21 academic year relative to those in 2018-19. -Compare progress in foundational numeracy for Grade 1 pupils over the course of the 2020-21 academic year relative to that seen during the 2018-19 academic year. -Compare numeracy levels of pupils entering Grade 4 in the 2020-21 academic year relative to those entering the same grade in 2018-19. -Compare progress in numeracy for Grade 4 pupils over the course of the 2020-21 academic year relative to the progress seen during the 2018-19 academic year. -Estimate the magnitude of learning loss attributable to the pandemic by calculating the difference in numeracy levels and progress between the two cohorts.
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Bano, Masooda. Beating the ‘Anti-Work’ Culture: Lessons from a Successful Attemptto Improve Performance in State Schools in Pakistan. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE)r, August 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-wp_2022/105.
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What local-level factors, or horizontal pressures, can improve learning outcomes in government schools in developing countries, when the political elites and education bureaucracy are not exerting enough vertical pressure on principals and teachers to ensure improvement in learning outcomes? Existing research suggests the role of principals, investment in teacher training or improving financial incentives, and increased community participation as possible ways to enhance performance of teachers and principals. Assessing a 25-year state-school improvement programme run by CARE, a prominent education foundation in Pakistan, which has demonstrated visible success in improving student enrolment and performance in national matriculation exams and transition to college and university education, this paper shows that while principals can play a critical role in improving school performance, the real challenge is to suppress the ‘anti-work’ culture that prevails in state schools in countries where appointments of teachers as well as principals remain a source of political patronage. The paper shows that in such contexts NGOs, if given the contractual authority to monitor performance, can act as effective third-party enforcers to help shift the balance in favour of ‘pro-work’ teachers. However, for systematic long-term improvement in school performance, this support needs to come via the district-level education authorities—and this, as we shall see, is often also missing in such contexts. The findings from this study thus support growing evidence on the challenges confronting efforts to strengthen the short route of accountability in countries where the long route of accountability is weak. In such a political-economy context, even committed principals are unlikely to be able to shift school culture in favour of a ‘pro-work’ ethic unless there are wide-ranging reforms in the wider political and bureaucratic culture.