Academic Awareness Research Articles

Teaching Academic English Corpus Trough Word-formation

Classical elements permeate global academic discourse and scientific terminology. Understanding the meanings and functioning of these elements can help multilingual scholars cope with disciplinary literature and write for publication and is therefore essential in teaching English for academic and specific purposes. However, few manuals on academic vocabulary explore word-formation in-depth or use it as a tool to alleviate learning through analysis and synthesis rather than memorizing words. Russian, as many other European languages, is a synthetic language in which affixation is as productive as in Latin. The paper presents a well-designed and approbated course of academic vocabulary for social scientists, analyses relationships between linguistic studies and teaching academic vocabulary, and discusses the ways of increasing the effectiveness and clarity of teaching by more systematic study of classical elements, enhancing students’ analytical skills through innovative methodology and using the advantages of similarities between Russian and Latin word-formation. Comparative analysis demonstrates that the key features of the course, such as interactive computer-based visual materials and various analytical tasks involving students’ background knowledge and academic awareness, help students not only decipher unknown words, but also produce neologisms, which is essential in coping with new terminology. Published as a book, Academic Vocabulary for Social Sciences is now available for teachers, students and researchers as a resource for study and self-study. The effectiveness of the approach demonstrates that it can be used as a model to design similar specific vocabulary courses for students of other synthetic languages.

Evaluating the validity of Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator theory: A teaching tool and window into intuitive psychology

AbstractDespite its immense popularity and impressive longevity, the Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has existed in a parallel universe to social and personality psychology. Here, we seek to increase academic awareness of this incredibly popular idea and provide a novel teaching reference for its conceptual flaws. We focus on examining the validity of the Jungian‐based theory behind MBTI that specifies that people have a “true type” delineated across four dichotomies. We find that the MBTI theory falters on rigorous theoretical criteria in that it lacks agreement with known facts and data, lacks testability, and possesses internal contradictions. We further discuss what MBTI's continued popularity says about how the general public might evaluate scientific theories.

Preparing students for university studies and beyond: a micro-credential trial that delivers academic integrity awareness

ABSTRACTMicro-credentials are making an impact on the university course curriculums. Industry partners have increasingly indicated that students exit university with inadequate ‘soft skills’ such as team work, leadership and digital literacy skills. Micro-credentials are now being viewed favourably as a platform to address this deficit in workplace skills. Universities are now expending considerable time identifying industry skill gaps to provide students with the attributes that will serve for a successful transition to the world of work. This article addresses the development of an academic integrity awareness micro-credential for new student entrants to university. The trial of this micro-credential provides students with foundational skills in understanding the academic world, subsequently providing the advantage required for a successful transition to industry.

Academic internationalization: Academics as marketing actors in higher education

Internationalization in the academic world has been a major research subject for the last several decades. Academic connections and collaborations between universities from different countries via joint research projects, education and training activities are very valuable. In establishing such connections, academics in staff mobility programs might play an important role in introducing their institution and carry a potential marketing element for future academic collaborations. In this respect, the aim of this study is to explore the awareness of academics on their role in academic marketing in the international higher education arena and to explore their expectations toward improving international education activities.

Academic identities in Ukrainian research universities under conditions of means-ends decoupling at the state level

ABSTRACTThe article explores academic identities in Ukrainian research universities whilst means–ends decoupling takes place at the state level. The latter term implies that the practices of state policies are disconnected from the state’s core goal of creating public welfare. Such means–ends decoupling occurs in oligarchic economies, Ukraine being one. Data for research were collected through semi-structured interviews with 38 academics from the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences affiliated with 2 Ukrainian research universities. The findings reveal that while institutional complexity caused by means–ends decoupling at the state level results in means–ends decoupling at the organisational level which leads to cultural complexity, both institutional and cultural complexities experienced by academics trigger them to sustain means–ends decoupling at the individual level. As a consequence, academics are able neither to adopt practices/roles prescribed by the organisational identities of the global model of the research university nor to attain synergy among them. The greater means–ends decoupling at the individual level implies a larger gap between constructed academic identities and identities prescribed by the global model of the research university. The greater awareness of academics about their practices being either loosely related or not related at all to their core goal (aspirational identity) and the larger number of practices which they compartmentalise the greater the dissonance they experience. As means–ends decoupling at all the aforementioned levels implies a severe diversion of human intellectual capital in Ukraine, it entails grave consequences for the Ukrainian society and economy.

Formulation of Learning Strategies Using Bigg’s (R-SPQ-2F) Thru Attitudinal Studies of Selected Nursing Students in Higher Education Institution

Background and objective: This research anchored on the formulation of learning strategies using Bigg’s (R-SPQ-2F) thru attitudinal studies of selected nursing students in terms of surface approach and deep approach. Further, the extent of motivation of the respondents that demonstrates in their attitudinal studies using Bigg’s (R-SPQ-2F) to prove the connection of their learning strategies and their drive to study. The correlation of the attitudinal studies of the respondents and the prepared motivation of Bigg’s (R-SPQ-2F) will help determine the students’ insight about their learning practices. This aims to determine the attitudinal studies with learning approaches of the nursing students, the results of which then will become the bases for enhancing the teaching strategies of teachers to upgrade the performance of the students. Methods: The study will take the form of descriptive-evaluative research. A survey was conducted using the standardized test (R-SPQ-2F) questionnaire as propagated by John Biggs for information gathering about respondents profile and their attitudes towards learning. This study is a combination of quantitative and qualitative research, also, this will take the form of an applied type of research, and thus, teachers consequently facilitate low-achieving nursing students perform better in the subject. The study used a statistical tool for the interpretation of results according to sub problems such as frequency distribution, percentage, ranking, weighted mean, likert scale, and f-test. Results: The results revealed that there are significant differences concerning the attitudinal studies of the selected nursing students in terms of surface approach and deep approach. The motivation of the nursing students using Bigg’s (R-SPQ-2F) manifested that their extent of attitudinal studies are well equipped through academic awareness. There are twelve (12) motivational Approaches of the nursing students that are correlated to the Bigg’s (R-SPQ-2F) and eight (8), which are not correlated under deep approach and surface approach. Thru evident findings, the Learning Strategies that are formulated are based on the Extent of Motivational Approach of the nursing students through their attitudinal Studies using Bigg’s (R-SPQ-2F). Conclusions: The results analysis signifies that the attitudes toward learning have been influence students’ scholastic performance. This result manifested that the extent of the attitudinal studies of the nursing students are well-equipped through academic awareness. The result encompasses change and development through the developmental stages of the nursing students. This implies that educators should become aware of the efforts of students made for learning in order for them to reach knowledge. It is important to know the ways of learning, develop expectations and have no anxiety for learning in order to be successful.

Formulation of Learning Strategies Using Bigg’s (R-SPQ-2F) Thru Attitudinal Studies of Selected Nursing Students in Higher Education Institution

Background and objective: This research anchored on the formulation of learning strategies using Bigg’s (R-SPQ-2F) thru attitudinal studies of selected nursing students in terms of surface approach and deep approach. Further, the extent of motivation of the respondents that demonstrates in their attitudinal studies using Bigg’s (R-SPQ-2F) to prove the connection of their learning strategies and their drive to study. The correlation of the attitudinal studies of the respondents and the prepared motivation of Bigg’s (R-SPQ-2F) will help determine the students’ insight about their learning practices. This aims to determine the attitudinal studies with learning approaches of the nursing students, the results of which then will become the bases for enhancing the teaching strategies of teachers to upgrade the performance of the students. Methods: The study will take the form of descriptive-evaluative research. A survey was conducted using the standardized test (R-SPQ-2F) questionnaire as propagated by John Biggs for information gathering about respondents profile and their attitudes towards learning. This study is a combination of quantitative and qualitative research, also, this will take the form of an applied type of research, and thus, teachers consequently facilitate low-achieving nursing students perform better in the subject. The study used a statistical tool for the interpretation of results according to sub problems such as frequency distribution, percentage, ranking, weighted mean, likert scale, and f-test. Results: The results revealed that there are significant differences concerning the attitudinal studies of the selected nursing students in terms of surface approach and deep approach. The motivation of the nursing students using Bigg’s (R-SPQ-2F) manifested that their extent of attitudinal studies are well equipped through academic awareness. There are twelve (12) motivational Approaches of the nursing students that are correlated to the Bigg’s (R-SPQ-2F) and eight (8), which are not correlated under deep approach and surface approach. Thru evident findings, the Learning Strategies that are formulated are based on the Extent of Motivational Approach of the nursing students through their attitudinal Studies using Bigg’s (R-SPQ-2F). Conclusions: The results analysis signifies that the attitudes toward learning have been influence students’ scholastic performance. This result manifested that the extent of the attitudinal studies of the nursing students are well-equipped through academic awareness. The result encompasses change and development through the developmental stages of the nursing students. This implies that educators should become aware of the efforts of students made for learning in order for them to reach knowledge. It is important to know the ways of learning, develop expectations and have no anxiety for learning in order to be successful.

Socializing Global Economic Governance: Introducing a Financial Transaction Tax

The uncontrolled exponential growth of the financial sector and its rapid globalization led to an equally rapid increase in challenges to the global financial system. The already undertaken measures aimed at improving financial stability are necessary, yet not sustainable enough. The aim of this article is to provide more analytical arguments to favour another solution – the introduction of the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), and to increase the public and academic awareness of the necessity of such a measure. The ongoing reforms do not solve the key problem – the enormous cost to rescue the financial sector, subsidized to a large extent by the taxpayer, and the absence of a fair contribution from the financial sector. FTT as a tool to discourage excessive speculation without hindering other activities seems to be a socially responsible measure working for financial stability at the same time. To efficiently socialize its impact, however, it is critical to define exact patterns of spending of the funds raised by the states.

Parental involvement in elementary school-aged child’s creativity

This study aims at describing the parental involvement in cultivating elementary school-aged child’s creativity. The qualitative research was designed with multidisciplinary study approach. Eight students and some parents from public elementary schools of Ngawen 4th of Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta, and 4 students from an elementary school in Sleman, Yogyakarta were involved in the process of collecting the data. In-depth interview, observation, and documentation were used simultaneously to collect the data. The results showed that: 1) the subject had a level of intelligence quotient; the intelligence of verbal creativity above the average level, and creative behaviour on average, 2) interaction of parents and child-related discussions, experiences, and plans, academic problems in school were needed to boost the students’ creativity, 3) interactions of parents and school-related participations in school were also encouraged to implant students’ social awareness, 4) interaction among parents communicated each other to have a better result of academic awareness, and 5) Parents should install family norms to cultivate children’s intelligence quotient.

The Effects of Strategy Journal Writing on College Students’ Listening Comprehension of Academic Texts and Metacognitive Awareness

The Effects of Strategy Journal Writing on College Students’ Listening Comprehension of Academic Texts and Metacognitive Awareness

The impact of Islamic Financial Services Board Standard No. 3 on corporate governance of listed firms in Kuwait

This paper investigates whether corporate governance standard No. 3 that has been issued by Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB-3) has improved corporate governance structure of firms listed in the Kuwait stock market. In addition, the paper investigates whether the influence of IFSB-3 on corporate governance varies between Islamic and conventional financial institutions. We test two hypotheses using a sample of firms listed in Kuwait stock exchange over a period of 2000–2013. Ordinary least square regression and fixed effects estimation techniques are applied to test the hypotheses. The findings reveal all corporate governance measures indicate that the corporate governance has improved after the issuance of IFSB-3. The results also reveal that the improvement in corporate governance after the implementation of IFSB-3 is higher for Islamic than for conventional financial institutions. This suggests that IFAB-3 is more important for Islamic than conventional institutions. Accordingly, we conclude that corporate governance guideline (IFAB-3) has improved the corporate governance structure of firms listed in the Kuwait stock market. In this context, the study increases the awareness of standard setters, academics, investors, regulators, and many other stakeholders about the effect of IFAB-3 in the region. Finally, our study fills evident gap in the literature by investigating the influence of corporate governance guideline (IFSB-3) on corporate governance structure in a unique setting that is often ignored by accounting scholars, which helps to widen our knowledge on accounting practices across the globe.

Use of Corpus-Based Classroom Activities in Developing Academic Awareness in Doctoral Students

Use of Corpus-Based Classroom Activities in Developing Academic Awareness in Doctoral Students

Several Principles Followed by Construction of the University Academic Leaders

The construction of university academic leader should lay equal stress on both training and introduction, both spiritual motivation and material motivation, both cultural development and institutional improvement, both teaching level and level of scientific research and both ability and education background. Only these principles are followed, a academic leader team with excellen academic attainments, academic literacy, academic awareness, and teaching level can be built to meet the need of development of the university.

Book Review: The Collar: Reading Christian Ministry in Fiction, Television, and Film

The Collar: Reading Christian Ministry in Fiction, Television, and Film. By Sue Sorensen. Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, 2014. xii + 306 pp. $37.00 (paper).Most books on literary criticism rarely live up to the works they discuss, but Sue Sorensen's book The Collar: Reading Christian Ministry in Fiction, Television, and Film defies the usual trend. An associate professor of English, Sorensen manages to transcend the usual drudgery of literary dissection and instead presents us with an engaging and thought-provoking work that takes an otherwise dreary topic (the role of clergy in fictional print and visual literature) and makes it interesting. Her Canadian perspective provides a well-positioned vantage point for examining American or British portrayals of clergy: she is outside the smoggy atmosphere that breeds Hollywood homogeny and the grey clouds that inspire London literaries.Sorensen undertook this study because literature about the allows us to explore as lived by individuals, not as stipulated by denominational handbooks (p. 8). Consequently, she writes, Two of my motives for this study are to unpack some of the cultural factors that might make the such a hard sell, and to determine whether literary and cinematic works have been misrepresentative, misleading, or even harmful. I do want this book to be of practical use to the church and helpful for my often beleaguered friends in the ministry (pp. 10-11). Although the second objective seems to be more conceptually valuable to Sorensen than practiced (usually any attention given to the characters with this intention seems pasted on to the literary examination at hand), overall she achieves both goals.Under the deft and engaging writing style of her pen the characters presented in Sorensen s study become alive and interesting. She presents a clear understanding of how to write with an awareness of literary academics yet within the grasp of the average reader, who is (likely) unfamiliar with many of the texts and characters being referenced. She elucidates on each of her chosen clerical examples with great detail, and her linguistic choices provide rich colors and insights into why these characters were chosen as examples. They have vivacity that the average reader might miss when reading the actual texts in which the characters appear, yet Sorensen manages to make their visages appear so clearly that one wonders why these characters are not presented as paradigms more regularly. Further, her study is so wellresearched and has such a wide range of material to examine that one gets the sense that she has read or watched nearly everything ever created that had a pastor, priest, vicar, or other Christian leader in it. She even goes so far as to examine authorial word choices to describe ministers: for the word exemplary usually suggests a example, but could also mean a person or thing that opposes a positive or beneficial application; any understanding of Reverend Primrose in Oliver Goldsmiths The Vicar of Wakefield, Sorensen writes, should have this perspective in mind (pp. 73-74).The Collar is structured around literary archetypes. Each chapter examines clergy who are presented in some homogeneous fashion. There are chapters on clergy as heroes or those who suffer; as counselors and social workers; as truth-telling fools, in the manner of a court jester; as clerical detectives (think Father Brown or Brother Cadfael); and as clerical disasters who are bad examples of the ruinous madness, mendacity, and devastation (p. …

Emotional Self-Efficacy among A Sample of Faculty Members and Its Relation to Gender (Male/Female), Experience, Qualification, and Specialization

The present study aimed to identify the level of emotional self-efficacy among a sample of faculty members who speak Arabic at the Abu Dhabi University. The study sample consisted of 99 faculty members Ph.D. and master’s holders from scientific, social and education and management and humanities disciplines in University branches: Abu Dhabi and AlAin. The Arabian version of the emotional self-efficacy scale standardized on the Emirati environment was applied which consists of 27 items distributed on four aspects: using and managing your own emotions, identifying and understanding your own emotions, dealing with emotions in others and perceiving emotions through facial expressions and body language.To detect the level of emotional self-efficacy the researcher calculated the arithmetic means, and deviations from the faculty member’s performance on the four scale aspects and the scale as a whole, the results showed a high level of emotional self-efficacy with faculty members who speak Arabic at the Abu Dhabi University. The study also found that there were no statistically significant differences at the level (0.05) or less between faculty members due to the variables gender (male/female), qualification, specialization, and years of experience. The researcher recommended the importance of academic community awareness of emotional self-efficacy and further studies on the subject of emotional self-efficacy in the light of other variables such as self-regulation and self-awareness.

Hijacking By Email: A New Fraud Method

Abstract Research misconduct is not a new problem in the research field. However, in recent years, the researchers themselves could be a victimof a newly expanded trouble: being hijacked by email. Being obsessive about publishing one’s research results and finding the “real journals” seems not to be enough in recent years. In this article we will have a closer look to this issue and discuss two real examples happened to us. At the end, there are a few tips which could be helpful in encountering with such issues. We hope that dessiminating such data could raise the public and academic awareness and finally eliminate the expansion of this fraudmethod.

WPA Position Statement on Spirituality and Religion in Psychiatry

WPA Position Statement on Spirituality and Religion in Psychiatry

Servicing academics and building relationships: the case of two university commercialisation offices in Australia

Adopting the contingency perspective, we examine the strategic orientation of university commercialisation models by conducting an explorative multiple‐case study of two university commercialisation offices (UCOs). We base our study in Australia, a relatively small, open OECD trading economy, where universities are under strong pressures to commercialise. While existing literature mainly focussed on quantitative and revenue‐based measures of university commercialisation performance, we identify two different UCO strategic models: ‘service‐provider’ and ‘relationship‐builder’. We also find university leadership, CEO ideology and academic awareness and support as key factors that shape UCO strategic models.

Algunas gotas de lógica en la niebla de las depresiones

From two semi-popularised, but scientifically correct, texts, that provide a typical look of academic awareness of depressive phenomena, an attempt will be made to show what spontaneous medical naturalism involves, including the moral aspect of mental symptoms. The concept of moral from its common use that circles around the social and relational rules that make up the fabric of civilisation. This medical naturalism disqualifies, as an epiphenomenon, this fact: the intentional dimension of psychic facts, but also cases where the intention contained in a state of mind counts as intended, i.e. precisely the case where this state has a moral value. This is how depression is presented, as a moral pain. On the one hand, it is shown how a vision rejects and disavows intentionality in depressive states, rooting depression in a neurobiological state, and on the other, another one that tries to recover this intentionality through evolutionary postulates, but without actually achieving it. It is the ignorance of the moral grammar of depressive expressions and emotions, and of acts, as symbolic facts, that lead to naturalist illusions.

Demografía, población vulnerable y Bioética

States and societies are increasing concerned about issues associated with population diversity. When it comes to making legislative and political decisions, one sees a constant dissociation between the use of demographic concepts, demography and health and bioethics, along with very little academic impact and awareness in this area. The vast majority of countries lack an ethical framework that guarantees non-manipulation of the human being. The objectives of population policies go against children, the elderly and the disabled; their foundation is more ideological and utilitarian in nature. Opportunities for academic training and awareness on this subject are lacking.