Bachelor Study Program Research Articles

Pick the Freshmen Up for a "Healthy Study Start" Evaluation of a Health Promoting Onboarding Program for First Year Students at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria.

Introduction: Universities are an essential setting for creating health promoting environments. Evidence shows that university life can pose various threats to the students' health. Especially first year students are vulnerable to mental health issues. To support well-being and prevent psychological distress from the first day of studying, onboarding programs are needed to promote the students' health and their self- and social competencies. The study demonstrates a tailored multi-component onboarding intervention program named “Healthy Study Start.” An evaluation of the effectiveness is presented focusing on outcomes regarding the students' sense of coherence (S-SoC), social support, sympathy, the work-related collective and the participative safety (a sub-scale of the team climate) among freshmen at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (CUAS, Austria).Methods: For the analyses, a quantitative controlled study design was used and results were measured three times. The intervention group (n = 72) was composed of freshmen selected from the bachelor study programs Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Biomedical Science and Radiologic Technology. Freshmen from the bachelor study program Healthcare and Nursing formed the control group (n = 81). As the requirements for analyses of variance were not fulfilled, the data had to be analyzed using e.g., Mann-Whitney U-tests.Results: Significant changes (all p < 0.016) between the two groups were found between T0/T1, and between T0/T2. Furthermore, changes within the intervention group (all p < 0.016) emerged in nearly all outcomes between T0/T1, while within the control group no changes were identified. However, the intervention group had statistically significantly higher values in the majority of outcomes at T1 and T2 compared to the control group.Conclusion: The onboarding program “Healthy Study Start” shows how an initiative at the beginning of their studies can support students in entering a new phase of their lives. The results indicate a positive effect on the students' self- and social competencies. However, students' health promotion is not only an investment for a health conscious university or an enhanced employability. Especially in health-related fields of study, students are future multipliers and play an essential role in implementing health promotion concepts for clients, patients and employees.

Streamline of the teaching methods for enhancing the student motivation at the University

Motivation of human resource is important not only in working area but also for students who are preparing themselves for the future career. This paper therefore focused on students’ motivation and suggests the ways of developing the teaching methods in order to increase their motivation for improve their knowledge and skills. Methodological part of the paper presents the results of the questionnaire survey executed at the University of Žilina. The sample consists of 70 students of the first year of bachelor study program Management. The questionnaire is dedicated to: Factors which motivates the students to fulfil their tasks; the level of students’ skills development before and after the completion of subject; students’ awareness; and detection of weak moments during teaching which offer the opportunity for improvement. Based on survey, the paper reveals weaknesses in teaching and contains proposals and recommendations for streamlining the teaching to enhance students’ motivation and their interest in development of their skills and knowledge. In the application part of this paper, there are suggested methods which are based on theoretical knowledge, questionnaire survey, and own observation and experiences (for example: Increasing students’ awareness on their responsibilities, duties, conditions, evaluation criteria and education program).Â

THE IMPACT OF SECONDARY EDUCATION ON THE LEVEL OF FINANCIAL LITERACY: THE CASE OF SLOVAKIA

Financial literacy, specifically its measurement and education in this field, is a very current topic. The main aim of this research was to find out whether secondary school education had a positive impact on the level of student’s financial literacy and to identify other important factors that affected its level. All 363 first-year bachelor's students of the Faculty of Operations and Economic of Transport and Communications (FPEDAS), University of Zilina, Slovakia, took part in the research. The research consisted of two parts – a questionnaire and a test. The questionnaire focused on demographic, educational, and socio-economic factors influencing students' financial literacy. The test included items aimed at finding out whether students could correctly define selected concepts of the financial area, whether they understood these concepts, and were able to analyze them. The most important finding of the research was that the number of lessons dedicated to mathematics and financial literacy in secondary school did not have a statistically significant impact on the level of student’s financial literacy. On the contrary, the level of financial literacy was correlated with the overall performance of the student at the secondary school and the type of secondary school the student attended. The research also aimed to verify the hypothesis that the student's study program affected the level of his or her financial literacy. It turns out that increasing the number of mathematics or financial literacy lessons is not sufficient to improve financial literacy levels, but more important is teacher education, the content and form of the education and the effectiveness of the teaching process. Keywords: financial literacy, secondary education, bachelor study program, tobit regression model

NEW PROFESSIONAL BACHELOR'S STUDY PROGRAMME “SPECIAL EDUCATION” AT REZEKNE ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGIES

Implementation of the ESF project “Reduction of Fragmentation of Study Programmes and Strengthening of Resource Sharing by Developing and Licensing the Bachelor's Study Programme “Special Education” and Accrediting the Study Direction “Education, Pedagogy and Sport” (No. 8.2.1.0/18/1/003) has started in September 2019. The aim of the project: in cooperation with University of Latvia (LU), Daugavpils University (DU), Liepaja University (LiepU), to develop and license the study programme "Special Education" and accredit the study direction "Education, Pedagogy and Sport" that includes the developed study programme in order to reduce the fragmentation of study programmes in Latvia’s higher education institutions and strengthen the sharing of resources. In order to achieve the aim, a working group of experts - delegates of four higher education institutions (Rezekne Academy of Technologies (RTA), DU, LU, LiepU) – has been set up. In cooperation with the expert of special education implementation issues in Latvia and the EU and the expert of study programme development issues, the group mutually exchanges experience on development and implementation of special education study programmes and gets acquainted with the competence approach and the experience of competent foreign universities in the field of inclusive education implementation and training of special education teachers. The working group works on developing, licensing and approbating the Bachelor's study programme "Special Education" that is going to correspond to the needs of the education system in Latvia and the principles of sustainable planning.

Active harmonization of higher education bachelor study programme in the area of trade, tourism and services with the labor market dynamics

The main purpose of our paper is to highlight the interplay between the demands of the workforce market from Hunedoara County and the competences of graduates from The Economy of Trade, Tourism and Services (ETTS) Bachelor study programme. As far as the methodology of the paper is concerned, we used a qualitative description approach that comprises manifold aspects: the statistical analysis of trade and tourism branches from the V West Region in correlation with the labor market; job opportunities analysis before and after the pandemic; cognitive and behavioral competences achieved by graduates from the ETTS programmeme in order to become well trained specialists in their area of interest. The results of our investigations led us to the following conclusions: the pandemic brought about continuous oscillations in the trade and tourism labor markets in such a way that, having skills in both fields, graduates from the ETTS programmeme could get compensation of the declining trend of available jobs in the hospitality industry by the increase of vacant jobs within the the online commerce; on the other hand, Hunedoara Conty – an area with various types of tourism – mountain, historical, religious tourism etc. – has witnessed an upsurge in the number of tourists in spite of the pandemic.

Interprofessional Education: A Study of Curriculum Development and Implementation in Learning Process in Applied Bachelor Study Program in Health Polytechnic of Tanjungkarang

One of the global problems in the health system is health service fragmented and overlaps among the health profession. This phenomenon occurs due to a lack of communication and cooperation among health personnel so that the health service is not effective and efficient. The transformation of health service is needed through a comprehensive and collaborative health service, which focuses on the client. Intercollaboration capability cannot be formed spontaneously, but need training since they are on campus. So that interprofessional education (IPE) should be integrated into the curriculum and the learning process should give meaningful learning experiences that can make students from different professions interact and cooperate This study is a descriptive study that aims to describe curriculum development and the implementation of IPE in four applied bachelor study programs in Poltekkes Tanjungkarang. In curriculum development activity it was obtained the agreement of IPE learning was implemented through a theoretical lecture with one credit inserted in a related course, one credit of practicum, and three credits of clinical practicum in community. Curriculum development and IPE learning development in Poltekkes Tanjungkarang was implemented based on the commitment and cooperation of all parties. The implementation of IPE learning using Team-Based Learning (TBL) and evaluation with a website-based survey.&#x0D; Keywords: interprofessional education (IPE), curriculum development

Student Performance Prediction Model based on Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms

Higher education institutions aim to forecast student success which is an important research subject. Forecasting student success can enable teachers to prevent students from dropping out before final examinations, identify those who need additional help and boost institution ranking and prestige. Machine learning techniques in educational data mining aim to develop a model for discovering meaningful hidden patterns and exploring useful information from educational settings. The key traditional characteristics of students (demographic, academic background and behavioural features) are the main essential factors that can represent the training dataset for supervised machine learning algorithms. In this study, we compared the performances of several supervised machine learning algorithms, such as Decision Tree, Naïve Bayes, Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine, K-Nearest Neighbour, Sequential Minimal Optimisation and Neural Network. We trained a model by using datasets provided by courses in the bachelor study programmes of the College of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Basra, for academic years 2017–2018 and 2018–2019 to predict student performance on final examinations. Results indicated that logistic regression classifier is the most accurate in predicting the exact final grades of students (68.7% for passed and 88.8% for failed).

Corpus linguistic technology as a digital tool in teaching idioms’ interpretation to EFL students

Corpus linguistics technology is considered from the linguodidactic perspective. Discussion of the results of extensive empirical research into efficient ways of teaching EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students to interpret idioms has been presented. The research comprises three steps: ascertaining, educational and control experiments. The aim of the paper is to investigate the efficiency of corpus linguistic technology as a tool in developing corpus-based idioms’ interpretation skill (CBIIS). The methodology has been tested on the EFL students of Bachelor study programs in Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electrical Power Engineering, Machine-building and Information Science and Computer Engineering implemented by Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in the years 2018-2019. The author shares personal experience of how to use corpus linguistics technology in foreign language teaching, presents a set of corpus-based exercises and describes the procedure of the learners’ work with the basic corpus tools while interpreting idioms. The result of the educational experiment shows that the average level of the CBIIS proficiency has increased that confirms the hypothesis of the research on the effectiveness of corpus linguistic technology as a tool in teaching idioms’ interpretation to EFL students.

Innovation of CNC machining education at the Faculty of Technology

The paper describes the ongoing educational project, which is focused on increasing the quality of teaching and making the study more attractive by introducing new selective courses: CNC technology in bachelor study programs and programming of CNC technology in engineering study programs at the Faculty of Technology of the Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia. The solution of the project is also to create a background for building a CNC machining workplace. Teaching programming takes place in professional CNC emulators that are commonly used in praxis. These emulators allow program debugging, tests, trajectory drawing and optimising and collision checking of tool and workpiece. Altogether 23 students successfully completed the introduced course. Within the project solution, five theses were defended.&#x0D; Keywords: CNC programming, CNC simulators, teaching, innovation, workplace building.

Viscous friction in standard rotational motion experiments

The results of standard experiments demonstrating relationships between dynamic (torque, moment of inertia) and kinematic (angular acceleration) characteristics of rotational motion can provide information on viscous friction acting on the rotating system. The standard experiments presented in this paper were performed using a symmetrical horizontal rotator with changeable moment of inertia (a bar with a symmetrically positioned pair of disc weights) supplied with optical gate; the rotator was driven by a permanent external torque in a resisting ambient atmosphere. The data were processed using the least squares method. The sums of squares of the residuals from the best-fit line (chiSquare values) were used to find out which experiments were influenced by laminar airflows and when turbulent airflows could occur along part of the rotating bar. The proposed experiment can be included in laboratory experiments in bachelor study programmes at colleges and technical universities.

Gambaran Kecerdasan Emosional Mahasiswa Prodi D-III Kebidanan dan Program Studi Sarjana Terapan Berlanjut Pendidikan Profesi Bidan

Background: Psychological theory reveals that emotional intelligence influences human behavior. One of them is student behavior in the learning process will be influenced by the emotional intelligence he has. With good emotional intelligence, students tend to be more responsible in carrying out their roles as students. But in fact, not many teaching staff at the Educational Institution pay attention to the teori about the importance of emotional intelligence, whereas if emotional intelligence is developed in an educational institution it will optimize student responsibility, behavior and learning achievement. Aims study to describe the emotional intelligence of students of the Department of Midwifery Diploma Program and Continued Applied Bachelor Study Program Professional Education Midwife Professional Program in the Midwifery Department of the Polytechnic of the Ministry of Health Surakarta. The results of this study are expected to be used as an additional reference and input to teaching staff, especially in the Surakarta Health Polytechnic and Education Institutions in general to develop emotional intelligence in order to increase student responsibility, behavior and learning achievement. Methods: This type of research is descriptive. Univariate data analysis uses frequency distribution. Results: The level of emotional intelligence in midwifery DIII program is quite good 98.8% and good 1.2%. The level of emotional intelligence in midwifery applied bachelor is quite good 52.7%, good 44.9%, and very good 2.7%. Conclusion: Most midwifery students have good emotional intelligence.

Constructing Criminological Knowledge: the Experience of the Development and Implementation of Interdisciplinary Criminology Studies at Vilnius University

Taking a social constructionists perspective, the article presents not widely known sides in the development of modern Lithuanian criminology related to the emergence, formation and development of criminological studies at Vilnius University. Since the emergence of the first criminological courses in Lithuanian academic institutions, they, as in other European continent universities, were usually taught in law faculties and schools. However, in the mid of 1990s, a unique situation occurred at Vilnius University, where sociologists and psychologists started teaching criminological courses at the Faculty of Philosophy. Later, in 1999, with the methodical help of the Faculty of Law, the teaching staff of the Faculty of Philosophy developed and implemented two-year masters programs in sociological and psychological criminology.The gained educational experience in managing and implementing interdisciplinary criminology programs at Vilnius University paved the way for introducing in 2017 new interdisciplinary bachelor study programme in criminology. On the one hand, the emergence of such studies would be impossible without long-term close and constructive collaboration between the sociologists, psychologists and lawyers of Vilnius University and, on the other, - without the active involvement of the new generation of young criminologists in the educational process. Authors emphasise, that the emergence and development of the criminology studies in Lithuania was influenced by both the developmental context of criminology at European and North American universities and the methodological and organisational support, which Lithuanian criminologists had been receiving from their colleagues from western academic institutions.Authors also present and describe the developmental process of both master and bachelor studies: they introduce the leaders, organisers and lecturers of these programs, observe their structure and inner consistency, analyse the role of interdisciplinarity in organising criminology studies. The article identifies the challenges and problems facing both the teaching and learning processes and their potential solutions, which should ensure the quality of studies, their correspondence to the state-of-art methods in criminological research and practical needs of contemporary society.

Developing a Model of WLAN APs and E-learning with Security System to Improve the Technology of Education at Public University of Mali

The aim of this study is to develop a technology model as a contribution to the public university of Mali and also to discover the appropriateness of that new technology for the educational process. The contribution of this study is a technology of WLAN APs and Moodle e-learning model deployment remoted, secured, and managed by a RADIUS server model design which was implemented and deployed on Linux server OS. In order to meet this objective, the research and development or R & D method are used. The subjects of the research were students of bachelor study programs in Cheick Zayed Center of Mali. This technology allowed to solve the lack of Wi-Fi network and system interconnection, optimization.

The analysis of content of bachelor study programme of music teacher training in Lithuania: attitude of foreign and Lithuanian students

Teacher training institutions play a significant role in preparing future music teachers. Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (now Vytautas Magnus University, Academy of Education) as an institution that educates professional teachers and implements the study programmes of music teacher education. The aim of the research is to reveal the results of the analysis of the content of music teacher education programme highlighting the attitude of foreign and Lithuanian students. The research shows that most study subjects are thought to be very important by future music teachers, especially music knowledge and pedagogical studies. During the Bachelor studies, the majority of students (Chinese and Lithuanian) have gained the abilities at the professional level.

Modified recommender system model for the utilized eLearning platform

The recommender system has been designed to impose a degree of order into the content management of e-courses accompanying subjects on geography, history and culture of English-speaking countries within the Management of Tourism bachelor study programme. The article discusses blended learning form of education with a focus on an innovative approach to content creation and a recommender system of learning material in e-courses. These two interconnected parts of e-courses are analysed on both a theoretical and practical basis resulting in the design of a recommender system model reflecting technical specifications of established learning management system at the university. The effort of educators to enhance students’ learning performance is run via active involvement of students into the process of education by means of creation, presentation and evaluation of study materials. This approach is based on elaborated guiding in the virtual space, in utilizing proper tools for communication, navigation and evaluation of students’ presentations. The evaluation of students’ presentations is made in the virtual space and also during face-to-face classes, for it is the inseparable part of the recommender system and as a whole corresponds to the blended learning concept. The pilot stage of implementation of the recommender system was tested during the last academic year. Students welcomed the new approach, earlier some students felt limited by time and others by lack of knowledge to evaluate which material is worth studying. Appropriateness of the model was demonstrated by reduced failure rate at the final tests.

Pengaruh Penggunaan Telepon Seluler Terhadap Hasil Balajar Mahasiswa pada Program Studi S1 Pendidikan Ekonomi Angakatan 2015 Fakultas Ekonomi Universitas Negeri Gorontalo

This research aims at investigating in what extent the influence of mobile phone utilization towords students learningachievement in bachelor study Program of Economics, Batchof 2015, Faculty of Economics, State University of Gorontalo.It applies quantitative method. Techniques of date collectionare observation, questionnaire, and documentation and Technique of date analysis is simple linear regression. Samples are 42 students. Finding reveals that mobile phone positively influences learning achievement students of Dapartement of Economics, State of University of Gorontalo. Thehigher the frequency of students in using mobile phone inlearning process leads to tower their learning achievement.

APPLYING THE RESEARCH SKILLS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF BACHELOR’S THESIS

We live in the age when research skills are required regardless of person’s field of activity and experience, therefore it is important to acquire the research skills as key competences already in the school years. Also it is possible to purposefully develop the research skills working on the course papers, bachelor's thesis, master's thesis and doctoral dissertation. In Liepaja University, the Bachelor's study program Teacher/ Music teacher gives the students the opportunity to participate in the development of science, ensuring the academic research principles in the science of pedagogy.The authors of this article analyse the choice of research topics selected by the students of Liepaja University, study program Teacher/ Music teacher, as well as the content of the Bachelor’s papers, evaluating the applied research skills. The aim of this research: to explore the students' ability to apply the research skills in the process of Bachelor's thesis development. The research method: This study is designed as analysis and review of the defended Bachelor's thesis. As the result, the topicality and specifics of the Bachelor’s papers is evaluated, keeping in mind the selected qualifications in the context of lifelong education, also analysing the students' ability to apply the research skills while working on Bachelor's thesis.

The use of teaching methods in communication training of nurses at universities

From the perspective of modern nursing as a regulated profession, the quality of provided care is evaluated not only with the focus on performance but also on communication skills, which increase this quality as well as the overall saturation efficiency of patient's needs. The application of modern teaching methods in the process of acquiring communication skills is essential in the professional preparation of nurses. This contribution has a cross-sectional quantitative study design based on a questionnaire survey. The aim of this paper is to present an overview of the use of teaching methods in the communication preparation of nurses at universities in the Czech and Slovak Republics, including the results of the research carried out. Data collection was performed using an anonymous non-standardised questionnaire survey. The questionnaire items were focused on the use of teaching methods in subjects in nurse–patient communication subjects. The research group consisted of students of the first and second years of the full-time General Nurse bachelor study programme from universities and colleges in the Czech and Slovak Republics, who have completed communication lessons or related subjects. The final amount of processed and applicable questionnaires was 1267 (81.74%) of the total number of questionnaires sent. To process the data, the following statistical methods were used: data exploration analysis, descriptive statistics and correlation analysis. The results confirm the retreat from the concept of “traditional lessons” to lessons where discussion dominates. However, the use of alternative teaching methods, such as role-play, was referred to as occasional by the majority of respondents. By increasing the frequency of using non-traditional teaching methods, there will be a greater acquisition of communication skills and hence a better quality of nursing care overall.

Pilot Testing of It Skills of Preschool and Elementary Education Students by the It Fitness Test

Abstract The present paper reports on the testing of digital skills of students of the Faculty of Education, Univerity of Presov within their undergraduate training with the aim to estimate the level of digital skills in five defined domains. The IT Fitness test 2015 consisting of 25 items was used as the measure of the target skills. The sample comprised 532 students in bachelor and master study programs. The paper provides an interpretation of the selected research findings (mean total scores, mean scores for the given domains, discrimination power of items and domains). The results of digital skills testing point at the overall overestimation of Digital Natives Skills. With respect to the challenges brought by the educational practice itself by means of the implementation of digital technologies into pre-primary and primary education, it is necessary to modify the curricula of math- and iT-oriented subjects and include further activities allowing for the development of the lacking “Digital Skills”, since these are needed not only for students′ own study but also due to increasing demands related to the use of digital technologies in primary and pre-primary education.

Streamline of the teaching methods for enhancing the student motivation at the University

Motivation of human resource is important not only in working area but also for students who are preparing themselves for the future career. This paper therefore focused on students’ motivation and suggests the ways of developing the teaching methods in order to increase their motivation for improve their knowledge and skills. Methodological part of the paper presents the results of the questionnaire survey executed at the University of Žilina. The sample consists of 70 students of the first year of bachelor study program Management. The questionnaire is dedicated to: Factors which motivates the students to fulfil their tasks; the level of students’ skills development before and after the completion of subject; students’ awareness; and detection of weak moments during teaching which offer the opportunity for improvement. Based on survey, the paper reveals weaknesses in teaching and contains proposals and recommendations for streamlining the teaching to enhance students’ motivation and their interest in development of their skills and knowledge. In the application part of this paper, there are suggested methods which are based on theoretical knowledge, questionnaire survey, and own observation and experiences (for example: Increasing students’ awareness on their responsibilities, duties, conditions, evaluation criteria and education program).