Bright Students Research Articles

Science wins big in Macau

Mention Macau to someone familiar with the southeast China resort city, and you might conjure images of slow Sunday afternoons spent sipping wine or enjoying Portuguese fare. More likely, you’d bring forth images of the Cotai Strip, a glitzy, wide boulevard lined with casinos that in recent years, together with gaming centers in other parts of Macau, have brought in three times the gambling revenue of Las Vegas. One image the former Portuguese trading post probably wouldn’t bring to mind is science. But a reputation as a science hub is exactly what Macau is striving for. Since developing its first strategic science plan nearly 20 years ago, Macau has spent aggressively on building labs that, the government hopes, will attract world-class scientists and bright students. The city has already fitted some of its universities’ science departments with instrumentation that academics elsewhere would envy. “Good facilities attract faculty and students,” says

Profiles of Women in Science: Prof. Dr. med. Kerstin Erika Schmidt of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

Profiles of Women in Science: Prof. Dr. med. Kerstin Erika Schmidt of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

Cultural values and students’ intentions of choosing accounting career

PurposeThis paper aims to explore whether cultural values identified by Hofstede (1980) are relevant with respect to the relationship between career drivers and students’ intentions of pursuing a career in accounting.Design/methodology/approachA total of 266 Turkish, East African, West African, Iranian and Arabic business-related students studying at Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus have participated in this study. To test the hypotheses, a t-statistic at the univariate level and a discriminant analysis at the multivariate level have been performed.FindingsThe results reveal that collectivism and/or large power distance are associated with the statistically significant relationship between parental and peers’ influence and students’ intentions of choosing an accounting career. The results further demonstrate that collectivism and/or strong uncertainty avoidance is/are relevant to insignificant relationship between beliefs factors and students’ career aspirations into accounting profession.Research limitations/implicationsThe main implication derived from this study states that the accounting educators and professional accounting firms should mostly target parents and convince them of the positive aspects of accounting study and profession to attract more students from cultures characterized by collectivism and large power distance. Parallel to this, the results suggest that universities and professional accounting firms should use their current students to attract more students into their accounting-related programs.Practical implicationsGiven evidence that cost of education is an important issue for the students opting to pursue a career in accounting, educators could attract more students into their accounting programs by providing scholarships to bright students intending to study accounting. They could also increase attractiveness by offering reductions in tuition fees to the students for obtaining good grades in accounting courses.Originality/valueThis study is unique in the sense that it takes a new step to investigate the influence of career-choice factors by using multiple dimensions of cultural values. In addition, this could be the first study exploring the factors that may influence decision of the students studying in North Cyprus in choosing accounting career.

The Effect Of Using ICT Based Graphic Organizer Across The Students’ Difference Level of Writing Ability

The study is aimed at investigating whether ICT based graphic organizer gives facilitative effect or not across the students' difference level of writing ability. The study belongs to quasi experimental study by applying counterbalance procedure to collect the data. The participants are the 26 students of English department of Palangka Raya State Islamic Institute of 2017/ 2018 academic year. To test the hypotheses, a one way ANOVA test was applied. The research findings shows that, the data fulfills the normality using Shapiro Wilk test (p= 0.420, 0.046, 0.50, and 0.638> 0.05) and homogeneity of variance using Levene’s test (p= 0.541> 0.05). It is found that the F value is45.050, with the significance (p= 0.050> 0.000). Therefore, F table 4.040<45.050>3.190at the 5% and 1% of significant level (Df= 48). It meant that there is a very statistically significant difference on students’ writing achievement both for the bright and poor students between the students who writean expository essay using ICT Based graphic organizer and those who write an expository essay without using ICT Based graphic organizer

Identifying Brain Characteristics of Bright Students

Gifted students have different ways of learning. They are characterized by a fitful level of attention and intuitive reasoning. In order to distinguish gifted students from normal students, we conducted an experiment with 17 pupils, willing participants in this study. We collected different types of data (gender, age, performance, initial average in math and EEG mental states) in a web platform called NetMath intending for the learning of mathematics. We selected ten tasks divided into three difficulty levels (easy, medium and hard). Participants were invited to respond to top-level exercises on the four basic operations in decimals. Our first results confirmed that the student’s performance has no relation with age. A younger 9-year-old student achieved a higher score than the group with an average of 68.18%. This student can be considered as a gifted one. The gifted students can be also characterized by a mean value of attention (around 60%). They also can be defined by slightly weaker values of their mental states of attention and workload in comparison with the weak pupils.

The Effectiveness of English Teaching Module at Middle Schools in West Aceh

The purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of English Teaching Module at middle schools in West Aceh. The students of middle school studying in Government public school were the population of study. The control group, as well as the experimental group, was of equal size, each has 30 students of 8th class. The significance of the difference between the scores of groups at 0.05 levels was tested by applying t-test. The result of the study showed the difference between the mean scores of the experimental and control group was found to be highly significant. The p- value was found 0. 000 (P< 0.05). The study also proved that the material designed, which was useful for slow as well as of bright students, enabled the students to comprehend difficult concepts, and kept them on the track.

Book Review: Financing Community Colleges: Where We Are, Where We’re Going by Romano, R. M., & Palmer, J. C.

Financing Community Colleges: Where We Are, Where We're Going is part of a series sponsored by the Association of Community College Trustees which is designed to help current and future leaders embrace innovative thinking that will be required to address forthcoming challenges. Richard Romano and James Palmer, two highly regarded scholars, offer a volume which helps future leaders learn about and prepare for issues related to access, tuition and affordability, performance-based funding, and, ultimately, the mission of the comprehensive community college.Although the book has significant usefulness by providing insights on the complexities of community college finance, its greatest value may be as a textbook for future leaders who are currently in graduate programs in higher or community college leadership. authors present solutions for current and emerging financial puzzles and provide valuable scenarios examining the many of the topics future leaders will face. Indeed, a key rationale for writing the book was research that indicated current and prospective leaders feel their skills are weakest in finance and resource management. This book addresses many of the issues for which leaders need to be prepared.The opening section of the book, consisting of the first two chapters, does more than set the table through a review of the current state of public finance, revenues, and expenditures. These chapters are much more than practical background knowledge; the content is based on research completed by the authors and other leading scholars. In Chapter 1, for example, the principles of finance are articulated through discussion ofthe proper role of government in higher education, including how community college leaders can justify public subsidy of high and clearly articulate the consequences of the drastic reductions in public funding for community college,understanding issues related to both horizontal equity (treating students with similar or equal needs equally) and vertical equity (treating unequal students unequally), and promoting the role of vertical equity in the community college mission, andfinding the most desirable balance between tuition and public funding for community colleges and how to secure the correct mix of revenue streams to maximize private and social benefits while assuring access to these benefits for low income and traditionally marginalized people.These concepts provide the basis for conversations in which all community college leaders and future leaders should find themselves. Indeed, the final chapter of the book suggests future conversations in the form of scenarios; an example is a discussion of the shifting mission of the community college: While its interchangeable nature has made some wonder if the community college was confused about its mission, others would claim that it was just responding to the needs of the communities it served (p. 157).The middle section of the book, Chapters 3 to 5, includes information on trends in revenues and expenditures, the accountability movement and measuring productivity, and various aspects of performance-based funding and how leaders can influence the future of this funding system. Again, the content of these chapters is strongly grounded in research. most significant contribution in this section may be found in Chapter 4. authors clarify the argument that outcomes at community colleges are complex because they are multimodal institutions that serve primarily students who have unclear goals and a weak attachment to higher education (p. 64). Because of these factors, there is a need to focus on community college outputs that recognize the ability of the students admitted. This places the modern community college squarely in line with the words of former Harvard University President Derek Bok: The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly ([Brush, 2006], p. …

Challenges in strengthening the Communication and Behavioral skills for greater employability of engineering students: A study of NCR Delhi (India)

Engineering education in the last few decades, has been growng incredibly in importance and reputation due to certain skills, technical knowledge and proficiencies that are imparted to the passed out graduates for their employability. It is an accepted fact that India has an immense potential to be a global technology leader. Since independence, the initial focus of government policy was to develop good engineering institutes and provide engineers required for developing the economy. The setting up of the Indian Institutes of Technology, the Regional Engineering Colleges (and their subsequent conversion to the National Institutes of Technology),were targeted at achieving this objective. Indian engineers established their reputation for advanced engineering and design skills. Engineering in India isalso a preferred option for bright students at the 10+2 level. This has resulted in a spurt in the students intake of engineering colleges primarily in the private sector. Despite this, industry leaders whine about the absence of quality engineers for their industry. Also accompanied by major unemployment rates amongst graduating engineers. Curiouslyenough, graduates are ready for taking up their jobs, but according to the industry, who will providethememployment for their skills, knowledge and the composite professional values that they bring with them, and in fact they are not considered‘job-ready’ at all.The lowemployabilityis on account of several factors, out of which poor communication and behavioural skills are identified to be two of the mostcritical skill attributes. An in-depthanalysis has beencarried out by developing two detailed structured questionnaires administered on 55 HR Heads from the industry to confirm and ascertain the industry‘sperspectivesabout these skills and on 20 TPOs/Directorsto find out engineering colleges‘ understanding about these skills includingthe challenges and barriersthey face in this process and also to identifypossible solutions.The results clearly indicate mis-match between industry's and institutes perspective on soft skills.The important finding of the study is to develop conducive environment and follow practical/ activities based approach to impart soft skills to engineering graduates

Research Notes. Learning from Shabolovka

Urbanism is about research, experimentation, and dialogue. It is the art of posing the right questions about the urban environment, and the science of making the tools to discover relevant answers. The mindset underpinning practical urbanism is no longer dominated by intentions, professional intuition, and visionary concepts alone: Prior to the actual design and planning work, urban designers must now conduct thorough contextual research and intensive quests for analytical insights. These developments in the field of urbanism provide a fundamental basis for the two-year Advanced Urban Design Master’s program, developed by the Higher School of Economics Graduate School of Urbanism and the Strelka Institute. For this reason, Anastasia Smirnova, the academic supervisor of our program, and Theo Doitinger, founder of TD Architects, created the “Learning from Shabolovka” workshop. It focused on contextual analyses of Shabolovka Street in central Moscow, the hub of one of HSE’s busiest campuses.The structure of this four-week workshop had several focuses: conceptualizing and posing inquiry questions, field research, data creation/collection, and finally, the presentation of its findings. Intensive field research of Shabolovka Street was essential for the workshop, as it was the main source of overall research data. Surveys and analyses of doors facing the street, the density of outdoor and indoor lighting, and the ways that coffee-to-go is purchased on the street represent new types of urban data and “urban devices” of a high explanatory power. The collection of this data alone, even without the subsequent research, represents the extraordinary value added by this group of workshop participants. The abstracts below summarize the workshop’s main findings by six groups of bright and talented students, each with its own research story and amazing results. Read and enjoy.

Challenges in strengthening the Communication and Behavioral skills for greater employability of engineering students: A study of NCR Delhi (India)

Engineering education in the last few decades, has been growng incredibly in importance and reputation due to certain skills, technical knowledge and proficiencies that are imparted to the passed out graduates for their employability. It is an accepted fact that India has an immense potential to be a global technology leader. Since independence, the initial focus of government policy was to develop good engineering institutes and provide engineers required for developing the economy. The setting up of the Indian Institutes of Technology, the Regional Engineering Colleges (and their subsequent conversion to the National Institutes of Technology),were targeted at achieving this objective. Indian engineers established their reputation for advanced engineering and design skills. Engineering in India isalso a preferred option for bright students at the 10+2 level. This has resulted in a spurt in the students intake of engineering colleges primarily in the private sector. Despite this, industry leaders whine about the absence of quality engineers for their industry. Also accompanied by major unemployment rates amongst graduating engineers.
 Curiouslyenough, graduates are ready for taking up their jobs, but according to the industry, who will providethememployment for their skills, knowledge and the composite professional values that they bring with them, and in fact they are not considered‘job-ready’ at all.The lowemployabilityis on account of several factors, out of which poor communication and behavioural skills are identified to be two of the mostcritical skill attributes. An in-depthanalysis has beencarried out by developing two detailed structured questionnaires administered on 55 HR Heads from the industry to confirm and ascertain the industry‘sperspectivesabout these skills and on 20 TPOs/Directorsto find out engineering colleges‘ understanding about these skills includingthe challenges and barriersthey face in this process and also to identifypossible solutions.The results clearly indicate mis-match between industry's and institutes perspective on soft skills.The important finding of the study is to develop conducive environment and follow practical/ activities based approach to impart soft skills to engineering graduates

PERBEDAAN PERSEPSI TENTANG KARIER DI KANTOR AKUNTAN PUBLIK ANTARA MAHASISWA DAN STAF KANTOR AKUNTAN PUBLIK

The objective of this study is to examine the perception differences about a career in accounting firms between students and staffs in public accounting. It was hypothesized that there was a significant difference between student expectations about career in accounting firms and the experiences of CPA firm professionals. The survey was conducted to collect information on the differences between the job expectations of accounting students and the actual work experiences of accounting staff. To evaluate the differences between the two groups, t-tests was performed.The results indicate few significant differences between accounting students and accountant staff’ perceptions. Students expectations were higher than accountants staff experiences for almost every questions. These differences between expectations and experiences may cause employee dissatisfaction, increased turnover rate or the loss of quality people in the accounting profession. Some approaches could be taken to eliminate at least some of the differences between student perceptions and accountant staff experiences. One approach would be communicated more accurately to students the realities of the current public accounting environment. The other approach would begin changing the public accounting environment in ways that can attract the best and brightest students to chose accounting profession.

The Swiss Master in Chiropractic Medicine Curriculum: Preparing Graduates to Work Together With Medicine to Improve Patient Care

ObjectiveIn 2007, chiropractic became 1 of the 5 medical professions in Switzerland. This required a new chiropractic program that was fully integrated within a Swiss medical school. The purpose of this article was to discuss the Master in Chiropractic Medicine (MChiroMed) program at the University of Zürich, including advantages, opportunities, and challenges. DiscussionIn 2008, the MChiroMed program began with its first student cohort. The MChiroMed program is a 6-year Bologna model 2-cycle (bachelor and master) “spiral curriculum,” with the first 4 years being fully integrated within the medical curriculum. A review of the main features of the curriculum revealed the advantages, opportunities, and challenges of this program in comparison with other contemporary chiropractic educational programs. Advantages and opportunities include an integrated curriculum within a university, medical school, and musculoskeletal hospital, with their associated human and physical resources. Many opportunities exist for high-level research collaborations. The rigorous entrance qualifications and small student cohorts result in bright, motivated, and enthusiastic students; appropriate assessments; and timely feedback on academic and clinical subjects. Early patient contact in hospitals and clinical facilities encourages the integration of academic theory and clinical practice. The main challenges faced by this program include difficulty recruiting a sufficient number of students because of the rigorous entrance requirements and curriculum overload resulting from undertaking a full medical curriculum and chiropractic modules. ConclusionsThe MChiroMed program is a unique chiropractic curriculum that integrates medical and chiropractic education within a spiral curriculum at a world-class Swiss university medical school. The expectation is that graduates, with their expanded diagnostic and therapeutic knowledge, skills, and experience, will become future experts in primary spine care in Switzerland. It is hoped that this curriculum model will be adopted by other countries and jurisdictions seeking to enhance the role of chiropractic in health care.

An Interview with David Dabydeen on Literature and Politics

Professor David Dabydeen is a Guyanese-born writer, critic and academic at the Centre of Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick. In 1993 he became Guyana's ambassador at UNESCO and is still a member of their Executive Board. He has been Guyana's ambassador to China since 2010. Professor Dabydeen has also won several international and national prizes such as the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Quiller-Couch Prize, and the Hind Rattan (Jewel of India). Among his works are Slave Song (1984), The Intended (1991), Disappearance (1993); and Our Lady of Demerara (2004). He also co-edited The Oxford Companion to Black British History in 2007.

From 'A nation deceived' to 'A nation empowered': Really?

Review(s) of: A nation empowered: Evidence trumps the excuses holding back America's brightest students, edited by Susan G. Assouline, Nicholas Colangelo, Joyce Van Tassel-Baska, and Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik and published by the Belin-Blank Center for Gifted and Talented Education at the University of Iowa.

Neera Kanubhai Patel

Neera Kanubhai Patel was an exceptionally bright student, gaining a 1st in her intercalated degree in immunology and a distinction in obstetrics and gynaecology at finals. She trained in cellular...

Development of a Procedural Guide to Implement Response to Intervention (RtI) With High-Ability Learners

In recent years, a focus on individual student needs has set the stage for tailoring educational interventions to address issues of students who are not working up to educational proficiency standards outlined in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation. This new pedagogical model may provide a unique opportunity to meet the needs of high-ability students who are not working to their potential in the classroom. Research indicates that gifted students allowed to work on material beyond the common core curriculum instead of merely maintaining the pace of the rest of the class actually perform better on end-of-the-year testing in math and science than gifted controls who did not pursue additional work. Bright students, like all students, demonstrate increased motivation and classroom performance when provided with academic material that appropriately challenges them. Response to intervention (RtI) establishes differentiated curriculum as the standard in America’s schools. It holds promise for all students, not only students who are lagging behind. RtI addresses student underperformance, whether due to a lack of motivation, boredom, or any number of potential factors moderating the learning of high-ability students as well as the average learner. This article reports on a study that developed and field tested a procedural guide for implementation of the RtI model with gifted students.

The Digital Youth Network: Cultivating Digital Media Citizenship in Urban Communities

Book Reviews 153 The Digital Youth Network: Cultivating Digital Media Citizenship in Urban Communities Brigid Barron, Kimberley Gomez, Nichole Pinkard and Caitlin K. Martin (2014) Cambridge, Massachusetts - London, England: The MIT Press, 332 pages Hardcover $34.00; ISBN 978-0-262-02703-8 The Digital Youth Network expands on the importance of equitable digital education in the classroom as an inherent aspect of students becoming effective members of contemporary society. The book intends to inspire designers of learning environments, educators and policy makers to incorporate this truism into their work. The reality of education today is that digital literacy is integral to academic success, but there are still many classrooms without computers. Beyond the integration of computers in the classroom, the book states that there should also be an awareness of the importance of students learning through their own social networks. This takes place when students have access to computers at home as well in the classroom because digital learning is also an aspect of identity development. Unlike other books with a similar focus, The Digital Youth Network moves beyond simple solutions to identify tools and processes to bridge this serious educational chasm. Strategies include ways students can become well versed in visualization technologies, and the importance of being digital media citizens: critiquing media versus passively consuming it. Digital media citizenship is discussed in relation to the importance of digital fluency as a means with which to engage society: to share “complex ideas across diverse communities” and to “produce creative expression of issues of concern.” The aspect of the book that I felt the most qualified to assess was Chapter 3: “Professional Development Remixed: Engaging Artists as Mentors and Teachers.” I am an artist with a deep background in digital media education. In New York City over a period of 10 years, I had several positions in the field: Education Director at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts, Media Education Coordinator at the New Museum and Associate Professor at the New School University where I taught a course I designed entitled “Interdisciplinary Media and Contemporary Society.” In learning more about The Digital Youth Network process of working with artist mentors, I was impressed with the professional expectations placed on the mentors. The philosophy reflects a shift in perspective in education towards a multilevel focus, an expanded way to teach students that mirrors our more complicated society. Artist mentors had to wear many hats; they had to be technically proficient, have their own artist portfolio, have cultural capital specific to community relationships and have the pedagogical knowledge to best share their expertise. I agree with the Digital Youth Network philosophy but I had questions about several practical aspects of artist mentors working in the classroom. Book Reviews 154 It was stated at the beginning of this chapter that it was better for the mentors to be considered by the students as artist mentors versus as teachers. It is an important distinction. Being an artist mentor creates a new space for the educational relationship with students. It is a space that can feel safer to students as the level of authority is shifted. This space is where the cultural capital of the artist mentor is most important. Also in this chapter, there was a focus on the importance of artist mentors having the pedagogical knowledge to effectively communicate their expertise and have impact. I agree with this premise but I have questions about the time commitment this would take, and if artist mentors were paid for this time. My experience with community organizations that focus on youth education is that there is a tremendous lack of monetary resources. As a working artist hired as an educator by both community groups and schools, there is a woeful lack of financial support for this work. Even if artist mentors are paid adequately, it is a lot to ask of them to also to obtain the pedagogical background to be an effective teacher. In several of my own art education situations, I was given the classes with the brightest students as well as the classes with students with special issues such as behavior problems, mental and physical disabilities. It seemed as though the thinking was that art...

Entrepreneurship Education Influencing Students ’Entrepreneurial Competence Building

Entrepreneurship education can be considered as one of the important factors in developing entrepreneurial competencies among the students pursuing university education. The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of entrepreneurship education in developing entrepreneurial competencies among the university students of Odisha. This is an applied and descriptive research. The data for the study has been collected through a primary survey using a structured questionnaire based on the objectives and the research questions taken for the study. A sample size of hundred students from post graduate department of commerce and MBA, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (India) have been chosen. The above departments offer entrepreneurship as one of the subjects in their curriculum. To accomplish the objectives of the study the tools adopted are factor analysis and correlation analysis of the variables taken to define entrepreneurship education. For analysing the data, MS EXCEL and SPSS 17.0 have been used. This study has revealed certain significant findings like conceptual competencies and opportunity spotting have more impact on the students seeking entrepreneurship education. The findings also suggest that an entrepreneurship course in university curriculum may be suitably designed in order to motivate the bright students and develop their intention to become entrepreneurs.

Mathematics learning organization problems, when we teach children generation Z

Taking into account the specific features of Z-generation children, the article is the proposed model of learning mathematics and developed problems hindering its realization. The main problems are: lack of students mathematical text reading skills; lack of self-control specifically designed electronic instruments; lack of bright students or programs differentiation.

Book review - Identity and personhood: Confusions and clarifications across disciplines

Splitter commences this book by telling the reader that it was a pedagogical incident that led him to write it. Presenting a philosophical seminar series on the topic of ‘identity’ to bright undergraduate students in America from a range of disciplines heightened his realisation that we don’t all use the word in the same way to refer to the same thing. We wouldn’t normally think too much about it, assuming that identity, especially one’s own, is an obvious, assumed entity. However, it is not, really, the closer you examine the concept. Which is precisely what Splitter goes on to do.