Academic Duty Research Articles

Technology-agnostic framework for designing assessments in the era of artificial intelligence

There is an urgent need to understand and benefit from artificial intelligence within schools. However, government policies that focus on academic integrity and duty of care do not address how students can leverage AI to enhance their learning nor how teachers can intentionally design assessments to account for AI. The Australian Framework for Generative Artificial Intelligence in Schools suggests that assessments need to clearly state “how generative AI tools should or should not be used” while also permitting a “clear and unbiased evaluation of student ability”. This is a worthy aspiration, yet there are presently few tools and examples to guide teachers in creating assessments. This conceptual paper draws from the field of design to articulate a framework for developing assessments that focuses on AI dialogue and trace-augmented critical reflection.

Making the glass ceiling visible: vertical segregation in Mongolian public universities

ABSTRACT This study examined vertical segregation in Mongolian public universities, making the formation of the glass ceiling visible. Due to its socialist foundation, the Mongolian university sector has long been masculinized, wherein the two systems of socialism and democracy exist simultaneously, and this coexistence is clumsy rather than harmonious. Hence, there are two isolated paths towards investigating gender and leadership practices in this sector: political appointments of senior leadership positions from the government and the collegial type of elections in middle management. This study has focused on the more democratic practices of elections in middle management. The main goal of this study was to define what factors the voters/academics consider when they evaluate the candidates competing for leadership positions in Mongolian public universities. A total of 312 academics from Mongolian public universities participated in the survey. The results indicated that academic leadership positions were seen as more of an academic duty rather than a leadership responsibility. Interestingly, males and politically affiliated academics tended to strengthen the masculinized culture, perpetuating the practice of the Boys’ Club in academia.

10 tips to make difficult conversations easier

Academia offers plenty of rewarding pleasures; consider commencement, award ceremonies, and student “a‐ha” moments, among others. We also face daily stresses and challenges. One less‐rewarding academic duty is the delivery of difficult news. This need arises for multiple reasons, including policy violations, negative performance reviews, academic dishonesty, and conflict resolution.

Ten tips to make difficult conversations easier

Academia offers plenty of rewarding pleasures; consider commencement, award ceremonies, and student “a‐ha” moments, among others. We also face daily stresses and challenges. One less rewarding academic duty is the delivery of difficult news. This need arises for multiple reasons, including policy violations, negative performance reviews, academic dishonesty, and conflict resolution.

Ten tips to make difficult conversations easier

Academia offers plenty of rewarding pleasures, including commencement, awards ceremonies, and student “a‐ha” moments, among others. We also face daily stresses and challenges. One less rewarding academic duty is the delivery of difficult news. This need arises for multiple reasons, including policy violations, negative performance reviews, academic dishonesty, and conflict resolution.

10 tips to make difficult conversations easier

Academia offers plenty of rewarding pleasures; consider commencement, award ceremonies, and student “a‐ha” moments, among others. We also face daily stresses and challenges. One less rewarding academic duty is the delivery of difficult news. This need arises for multiple reasons, including policy violations, negative performance reviews, academic dishonesty, and conflict resolution.

Darbo užmokesčio dinamikos viešojoje švietimo įstaigoje analizė

The article investigates the essence, structure of wages, the system of taxation of income received from employment relations. Wage changes for 2015–2024 have been carried out. In a public educational institution, the analysis reveals trends in the salary of academic employees. In 2015 January 1st in Lithuania, instead of the national currency litas, the euro was introduced as the common European currency, a decade full of changes, based on regulated changes. Although the regulation of labor payment in the Republic of Lithuania is assessed ambiguously due to the abundance of laws and other normative acts and their frequent changes, a regulated, moderate, albeit unclear, increase in wages has been identified. Determining the value of an academic employee's work is variable and sensitive, in the absence of a more detailed and reasoned justification of official coefficients. The results of the analysis allow us to make the assumption that when forecasting and strategizing the support of employees' motivation for scientific activities, it is appropriate to adjust job coefficients while maintaining equal gaps between positions. Keywords: academic employee, wage, wage structure, duty ratios, taxation, taxes and tax contributions.

Effect of Task Aversiveness and Student Academic Procrastination

This study is objective to describe the task aversiveness and procrastination of academics, to analyze the influences between task aversiveness to procrastination of academics and to analyze the relationship between task aversiveness to procrastination of academics. This research uses descriptive quantitative research methods. Identification of the problem in the study, there is a correlation between procrastination and task aversiveness separately strong and stable. The Purpose of study is test of connection task aversiveness student with procrastination academic. In this study, researchers use a quantitative method with a descriptive correlative approach. The population in their study were 575 students.Amount sample in this study was 236 students which was taken by using Slovin formula. The Sample was taken from each different class, then the Proportional Stratified Random Sampling technique was used. On this research, there are two types of variables. They are variable free (independent) and variable bound (dependent). As for the free variable or the independent variablein this study is task aversiveness, while the bound variable or the dependent variable is academic procrastination. In this study, the data used is interval data. As for variable in this study is task aversiveness and procrastination academic. The research instrument used is a questionnaire using Likert Scale. The results of this research show 64.41 % of students have high task aversiveness. This shows that students who perceive task aversion bothered or are not comfortable with duty are in the high category. On procrastination academic shows 60.59 % have high academic procrastination behavior. This shows the behavior of procrastination academic student high category because many procrastinating students do academic duty in the period of time you want. From the hypothesis it is found that task aversion influences significantly to the procrastination of academics. We conclude that they are connection task aversiveness significantly to academic procrastination behavior . That is, the more and more high task aversiveness, then the behavior of academic procrastination will also increase, and vice versa .

The SDGs: A change agenda shaping the future of business and humanity at large

The <scp>SDGs</scp>: A change agenda shaping the future of business and humanity at large

Postgraduate nursing students' experiences in providing frontline and backstage care during the Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.

BackgroundSafety measures due to the Covid-19 pandemic necessitated universities to reorganise teaching to accommodate the students' needs, including nursing students who had been called back into clinical practice to support front-line nursing.PurposeTo describe the experiences of post-graduate students in nursing sciences (experienced in clinical nursing) during the Covid-19 pandemic.MethodThis qualitative descriptive study took place at a Swiss University delivering masters and doctoral programmes in nursing sciences. Participants were post-graduate students enrolled in masters and doctoral programmes. All current students were invited by email to participate in three focus groups, which were recorded, and transcribed verbatim. Transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis.ResultsThirteen students participated, with a majority who had been called back into clinical practice. Four themes were identified: Challenges of caring for patients during the coronavirus pandemic, Challenges of being a student during the pandemic, Resilience amid the difficulties, and Recognition of the Clinical Nurse Specialist competencies.ConclusionsOur results showed that amid the challenges, post-graduate nursing students demonstrated high leadership skills, resilience, and a tremendous sense of professional duty, where patients' and families' best interest remained their main concerns. Educators and nurse administrators need to acknowledge the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on post-graduate nurses, caught in the tension between their academic career aspirations and duty of care to patients, families, and the healthcare system.

Academic and Administrative Role of Artificial Intelligence in Education

The aim of the article is to explore the academic and administrative applications of Artificial Intelligence. Teachers have the main responsibility of teaching in any educational setting. But there are various other tasks to be performed by the teachers as well. Besides academic duty, most of the teacher’s time and educational resources are dedicated to administrative works. Artificial Intelligence Applications (AIA) are not only assisting education academically and administratively but also enhance their effectiveness. AIA provides help to teachers in various types of tasks in the shape of Learning Analytics (LA), Virtual Reality (VR), Grading/Assessments (G/A), and Admissions. It minimizes the administrative tasks of a teacher to invest more in teaching and guiding students. In the current era, where there are a lot of tasks associated with the teaching profession, AIA adds a significant contribution to enhance student learning, minimize the workload of a teacher, grade/assess the students effectively and easily, and to help in a lot of other administrative tasks. The study needs to be quantitatively checked to make it generalized and acceptable.

Preface

The global health crisis has occurred since the Covid-19 outbreak shocked the world for about 1.5 years. Partial and complete lockdown practiced in some countries and/or areas within a country are consequences that limit most of our regular activities. In particular to livestock-related fields, this pandemic also creates new challenges in many aspects such as food supply chain, feed availability, workers hygiene in the processing plant and foodservice, etc. At the same time, the supply of livestock and animal-based food must still be supplied every day, whatever will be. As part of our academic duty, it is our responsibility also to provide preference strategies in facing many challenges on animal production and agroecotechnology as fit with our conference theme this year. ICAPFS is the right place for us to share the latest research, viewpoints, progress, critical issues, programs, and policies to provide practical options to respond to such challenges.The conference is the second time we present ICAPFS after the achievement of 1st ICAPFS in 2018. Unlike what we conducted four years ago, the forum is transformed offline to an online presence today. Since the covid-19 pandemic spread out to almost all world countries started last 2019, many things changed our daily activities. Somehow, the acceleration of digital technology cannot limit our academic efforts to spread the latest progress in animal science.List of Conference committee are available in this pdf.

The Title IX Final Rule, Academic Labor Union Duty to Bargain Rights and the Evidentiary Standard of Proof

The Title IX Final Rule, Academic Labor Union Duty to Bargain Rights and the Evidentiary Standard of Proof

Donald Kennedy (1931–2020)

Eminent public intellectual who served science and society

Writing the Silenced Body

Writing the Silenced Body

A Model for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Educational Leadership: The Case of Greece

Educational leadership has been studied in depth so far worldwide. However, to our knowledge, there is a broad scope for further research in terms of measuring educational leadership effectiveness. Many attempts throw the years were undergone in Greece in order to establish an evaluation process for educational leadership, many reactions raised, continuous changes have occurred and the issue remains timeless. This study aims to introduce a model of assessing the outcomes of educational leadership considering the most important stake holders that affect. These stake holders according to literature review in broader categories are the academic staff, school community, students, local society, and administrative personnel. Educational leader’s effectiveness can be also assessed against their academic and operational duty results such as the implementation of national educational policy, administrative tasks and relative operational outcomes in budgeting, handling and overcoming managerial obstacles, meeting the legislation standards. The purpose of this research is to design a comprehensive, applicable and holistic evaluation model for assessing educational leadership based on the results on the above criteria. For this purpose an extensive relative literature review in educational leadership studies has been conducted in order to explore in depth the most significant recipients that educational leadership influence and affect direct or indirect respectively. The core idea is that the most influenced recipients by educational leadership could be the most appropriate evaluators for the results of it. Thus has been designed a model based on the most significant stake holders who affected by educational leaders, complimented with a questionnaire as evaluation tool, which is structured with particular questions for each broad category of stake holders. In this study a relative literature review, and a draft of a pilot evaluation model in assessing educational leadership presenting, while the ultimate target is in a following study the evaluation model to be implemented in real sample of participants in order to present the impact of educational leadership effectiveness with respect to subordinates of academic, managerial staff and students of an educational organization.It is of a great importance to have an evaluation model for assessing the educational leadership effectiveness for all levels of education such as primary, secondary and higher education. Educational leaders affect many recipients such as students, faculty members, academics and community. Hence, a broader evaluation model should involve assessment criteria from all these stake holders due to the fact that educational leadership has a great direct or indirect influence in several micro and macroeconomic critical results, such as students achievements, learning outcomes, school climate, local society bonds, teachers behaviours, ethics, culture, civilization, and eventually national economy competiveness. A transparent evaluation model of school leaders could provide better understanding of the job left to be done for every educational leader, to recognise competences, to disclose weaknesses in order to work on them, to facilitate criteria for improvement, overcome obstacles and eventually to promote and improve educational efficiency.

The Birth Of The Bryn Mawr College Black Studies Program And The Herbert Aptheker Appointment

In 1969, Bryn Mawr College hired the notorious Communist Herbert Aptheker to teach the inaugural course in what would become the Black Studies Program. Using primary sources, this essay examines the decision to hire Aptheker and what this decision can tell us about campus politics during the late-60’s/early-70’s. A sharp divide can be seen between conservative and leftist students, parents, alumnae, and even those unassociated with the College who felt it their civic or academic duty to object to or approve of the decision to hire Aptheker. As an institution of learning, Bryn Mawr’s decision of how to teach about those whose experiences have been marginalized deals with questions of who is telling whose history and how that history will be told – in particular, whether to instate a Black Studies Program with courses integrated into the general College curriculum, or have the courses separated in a potential Black Studies Department. Ultimately, this essay argues that the melee surrounding the Aptheker appointment was a product of the racial tension on-campus and amongst those with a stake in the History the College was constructing.

The Birth of the Bryn Mawr College Black Studies Program and the Herbert Aptheker Appointment

In 1969, Bryn Mawr College hired the notorious Communist Herbert Aptheker to teach the inaugural course in what would become the Black Studies Program. Using primary sources, this essay examines the decision to hire Aptheker and what this decision can tell us about campus politics during the late-60’s/early-70’s. A sharp divide can be seen between conservative and leftist students, parents, alumnae, and even those unassociated with the College who felt it their civic or academic duty to object to or approve of the decision to hire Aptheker. As an institution of learning, Bryn Mawr’s decision of how to teach about those whose experiences have been marginalized deals with questions of who is telling whose history and how that history will be told – in particular, whether to instate a Black Studies Program with courses integrated into the general College curriculum, or have the courses separated in a potential Black Studies Department. Ultimately, this essay argues that the melee surrounding the Aptheker appointment was a product of the racial tension on-campus and amongst those with a stake in the History the College was constructing.

Balancing academic freedom with academic duty.

Balancing academic freedom with academic duty.

72. IMPROVING COMPLIANCE: PEDIATRIC RESIDENT ACCOUNTABILITY USING PEER PRESSURE

University of Florida Pediatric Residency program developed peer groups, or collaborative professional communities (CPCs), to maintain compliance with mandatory tasks and improve overall resident wellness. Prior to 2017, residents were regularly reminded to complete mandatory tasks by the medical education staff. For the 2017-18 academic year, administrative pressure was replaced with peer pressure through the introduction of CPCs. CPCs meet for monthly educational events and compete for quarterly wellness prizes awarded to the CPC with the highest compliance in various work-related tasks. Pediatric residents were compared before and after the introduction of CPCs, corresponding to Post Graduate Year (PGY) 1,2 residents in the 2016-17 year and PGY 2,3 residents in 2017-18. Compliance was determined per resident for completion of 4 faculty evaluations per academic quarter and duty hour logging within 14 days. Yearly wellness data were collected by the Pediatric Residency Burnout Resilience Study Consortium (PRBRSC). The transition from administrative to peer pressure did not significantly change resident compliance with completion of quarterly faculty evaluations (Panel A). Though a reduction in duty hour logging compliance was observed, the decrease in compliance from 88% to 76% was not of practical significance (Panel B). Overall, residents reported no significant change in metrics of cognitive and effective mindfulness, resilience, perceived stress, spirituality, or physical and mental health. A reduction in burnout scores was reported for the PGY3 residents for the 2017-18 academic year (0%) compared to 2016-17 (31%). From these data, it would suggest that CPC activities have fostered team spirit that could improve resident well-being. Additionally, the transition to CPCs reduced the burden on staff to enforce compliance, anecdotally allowing for higher staff wellness. Peer pressure was determined to be sufficient for maintaining resident compliance and CPCs will continue to be utilized at our institution. Overall, our project established the usefulness of peer groups for the betterment of medical education programs.