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From english teachers’ perceptions: English learning demotivating factors for Indonesian University students

Students’ demotivation is a crucial issue in EFL context that has not yet received sufficient research particularly in higher education level. In Indonesia English as a foreign language context, students’ demotivation in language learning is mostly addressed based on students’ perceptions. The purpose of the current study is to examine Indonesian university EFL teachers’ perceptions of factors demotivate students to study English at university level in Indonesia. To collect the qualitative data, five teachers from English study program were involved in a semi-structured interviews with additional follow-up questions to further explore the raised concerns. These teachers were asked to understand their perceptions and experiences on what factors demotivate their students to study English. Seven demotivating factors were identified in teachers’ perception that demotivate students to study English: students’ attitudes toward English, students’ past experience, peers proficiency, teachers’ workload, classroom availability, hot and suffocating classroom, and technological facilities. This study has some implications for higher education policy makers, institutional authorities, EFL students, and EFL teachers in particular.

Using of Computer Technology for Enhancing Students Interest Learning in SMP Kristen Kefamenanu

SMP Kristen Kefamenanu has facilities and infrastructure such as the availability of classrooms, computer laboratory rooms, libraries and others. There are obstacles in the implementation of school learning that is still centered on teachers and does not use computer-aided learning media. Therefore, service activities are carried out to increase the interest and ability of students in the learning process through the use of computer technology. Some of the activities carried out to solve problems in SMP Kristen Kefamenanu: a) providing training on Mathematics learning media for SMP Kristen Kefamenanu and b) providing training on computer technology in the form of MS. Excel Software to SMP Kristen Kefamenanu. The results of the service activities carried out show that there is an increase for students in understanding mathematical concepts such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division involving complex numbers. In addition, the existence of computer-aided media also increases students' interest for learning process.

Does more schooling imply improved learning? Evidence from the Kanyashree Prakalpa in India

Studies on Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have documented positive effects on school enrollment though evidence on learning outcomes is mixed. Using representative data, we evaluate one of the largest CCT programs, Kanyashree Prakalpa (KP), which was implemented in the state of West Bengal, India, in 2013. In particular, we examine the effect on female school enrollment and learning outcomes. Exploiting the timing of the program implementation for identification and applying difference-in-difference regressions, we document a positive effect on enrollment with no discernible impact on secondary and higher secondary school completion. We also observe significant improvements in lower-level learning outcomes but a marked deterioration in higher-level skills like solving simple division problems. Complementary investments like classroom availability and teacher attendance appear to have fallen after the implementation of KP, which explains the decline in learning skills despite higher schooling exposure, thereby underscoring the need for supply-side interventions in school amenities.

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF BIPA LEARNING MANAGEMENT AT UIN RADEN MAS SAID SURAKARTA AFTER THE REGULATION OF KEPDIRJEPENDIS NUMBER 6244 OF 2019

BIPA at UIN Raden Mas Said Surakarta develops Indonesian language skills for foreign students to be able to communicate well, politely, and fluently with Indonesian people; and have Islamic knowledge. This research aims to: (1) describe the implementation management of BIPA learning; and (2) to describe the implementing constraints for KEPDIRJENPENDIS Number 6244 of 2019. The research data collection technique was documentation of KAK, a certificate template, and a lecture journal. BIPA learning was explored through in-depth interviews covering preparation, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. Since 2006, it has had planning, organizing, implementing, and supervising learning as KEPDIRJENPENDIS Number 6244 of 2019. It emphasizes listening, reading, writing, and speaking skills using direct methods. Cultural insight emphasizes local wisdom; and Islamic insight emphasizes morality and Islamic celebrations (sekaten, Eid homecoming, and isra' mi'raj). Issues that should be concerned with it, namely: (a). the language matriculation implementation cannot be carried out on time because it has to align with existing lectures in the faculty environment of each foreign student; (b) the documentation of BIPA learning archives by BIPA organizers has not been organized as institutional archiving requirements; (c). The availability of educational buildings is still limited, so the availability of classrooms is also limited; (d). BIPA organizers have not been optimal in managing the test question bank, so it has the impression that they are only repeating existing questions without updating them. BIPA organizers do not yet have assessment standards set as a permanent reference in providing evaluations to foreign students.

In-school factors constraining Bauchi state government and UNICEF girls’ education programme strategies

Girls’ education is critical to the development of Nigeria; as such, this comparative study is an attempt to investigate the extent to which in-school related factors constrained the girls’ education programme strategies of the Bauchi State Government, Nigeria and UNICEF from improving girl-child education in the state. A mixed method research design comprising both qualitative and quantitative approach to data gathering was developed and utilized to obtain a sample size of 180 respondents out of a total population of 283 using Qualtrics quantitative sample size calculator based on purposive sampling technique. Data obtained were analysed thematically and hypothesis tested using multiple regression with the aid of the SPSS statistical software (version 20) at 0.05 level of significance. The null hypothesis was rejected and the alternate upheld because it was found that school related factors, such as furniture, toilet and water facilities, availability of classrooms, teachers and school fence significantly constrained the girls’ education programme strategies of the Bauchi State Government from improving girl-child education compared to that of UNICEF. In conclusion it was recommended that, the state government should utilize traditional and religious institutions to enlighten and create awareness about the benefits of the girls’ education programme been implemented.

Optimal student/school/class/teacher/classroom matching to support efficient public school system resource allocation

This paper presents a decision support methodology to help increase public school education efficiency at the municipal/district/metropolitan level in Brazil. An important consideration for efficient use of resources in each school district or metropolitan area is the appropriate matching of the supply of human resources (e.g., teachers of specific subjects) and of infrastructure resources (e.g., school locations, classroom availability) with demand (students requesting enrollment in each grade). This resource matching is a necessary periodic (perhaps annual) district level planning task that precedes individual school operational tasks such as registration, timetabling, and other scheduling. This paper describes a mathematical model and computational tool to optimize the allocation efficiency of public school district resources during the long-term strategic planning stage as well as the shorter-term tactical planning stage preceding each academic year, i.e., the stage bridging strategic planning and operational programming. This problem, namely the simultaneous optimization of demand variables (students) and both infrastructure and human capital supply variables (respectively classroom availability and teacher specializations) in the form of student/school/class/teacher/classroom matchings for a given physical plant, was solved through a mixed integer linear programming formulation that endogenously incorporates those supply variables with student demand variables. The paper presents the conceptual framework, provides the mathematical formulation, and describes the implementation of the resulting decision support computational system. The paper also illustrates the suggested methodology by examining public schooling in Itacoatiara, a municipality on the banks of the Amazon River in a resource-constrained and low-HDI region of Brazil, before a new school was added to the local network in 2019.

IMPLEMENTATION OF GENETIC ALGORITHM IN THE CURRENT SCHEDULING SYSTEM

Scheduling courses is a routine job in academic activities at a college. In its implementation, the scheduling process is not easy to do because many factors need to be considered, several factors that are considered, such as the willingness of lecturers to teach, the availability of classrooms. Besides that, it is also necessary to pay attention to the number of classes in each subject. Course scheduling is a combination of courses, days, time, lecture space, and consideration of lecturers' willingness to teach. To solve the course scheduling problem, a system that can handle the scheduling process is needed. The method that can be used to solve this problem is to use the Genetic Algorithm approach. The genetic algorithm is a scheduling algorithm that can combine lecture time and space automatically by applying a natural or gene selection system. Based on the research that has been done, the genetic algorithm can solve scheduling problems quickly, which only takes 15 seconds for 78 classes and uses as many as 16 chromosomes. Also, the fitness value of all chromosomes is 0, this means that the scheduling results obtained are optimal.

The Implementation of Indonesian Cross-Major Program in The Structuration and Structural Functional Perspective

The author portrayed the reality of cross-major application in Indonesia. The objectives of research were to explain the reality of cross-major implementation and to describe students’ perception on the cross-major implementation. This research employed mixed methods with sequential exploratory model. Data analysis was conducted using structuration and structural functional theories. The result of research showed that cross-major program is a policy that cannot be implemented perfectly corresponding to the enacted rule. Students were not given discretion to choose the subject they are interested in. there were two factors causing such the condition: classroom availability and teacher availability. An ideal cross-major based on students’ pure wish was highly avoided because it would be hazardous to the composition of students in each of classes and would lead to the obstacle in subject scheduling. Therefore, the school developed system reengineering to make the program as if compatible to the enacted regulation.

İnvestigation of Teaching Styles of The Social Studies Teachers With Respect to Several Variables (Example of The Mugla Province)

Bu çalışmada sosyal bilgiler öğretmenlerinin öğretme stilleri tespit edilerek; çeşitli değişkenlere göre incelenmeye çalışılmıştır. Araştırma tarama modeli kullanılarak gerçekleştirilmiştir. Çalışmaya 2016-2017 yılı Muğla İl Milli Eğitim Müdürlüğü bağlı ortaokulların 5., 6. ve 7. sınıflar da görevli toplam 165 öğretmen dahil olmuştur. Çalışma verilerini toplamak için kişisel bilgi formu ve Grasha öğretme stili ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Ölçekteki veriler SPSS programı kullanılarak çözümlenmiştir. Yapılan istatistiksel analizler sonucunda Sosyal bilgiler öğretmenlerinin %48,5 ile en fazla rehber öğretme stilini benimsediği görülmüştür. Ayrıca; mesleki kıdeme, sınıf mevcudu, hizmet içi eğitim ve sınıf düzeyi değişkenlerine göre bazı öğretme stilleri arasında anlamlı bir farklılık olduğu bulunmuştur.

SEITI RMLab: A costless and effective remote measurement laboratory in electrical engineering

e-Learning emerged as a way for enhancing the quality of education and providing accessible distance learning to allow learners to study beyond regular class time, transcending the mandatory presence of teachers and the availability of classrooms by providing the necessary resources and services. One of the main issues of e-learning, especially in engineering education, is the lack of online educational laboratories. Practical work remains a considerable burden as engineering educational programs focus on handling real equipment. These last are only accessible within a restrictive schedule and might be unaffordable for low budget institutions. The need is clear for interactive platforms that enhance the motivation and controls the regulation of workload for each student. In this paper, an overview about online laboratories is given and a simple approach of remote lab is suggested. The proposal of our research team (Team SEITI) can be used for carrying-out experiments that require neither assembly nor physical changes until the results are obtained unless a technician, that must be present in the laboratory, acts on equipment. The idea is to set up a real-time measurement retrieval laboratory that requires the involvement of a technician to act on instruments and will grant access to a large scale of students.

INNOVATIVE COURSE SCHEDULING AND CURRICULUM DESIGNT

Course scheduling is a challenging operations research problem that involves students, faculty members, availability of classrooms, class sizes and many other factors. As it is the case for most scheduling problems, course scheduling is an NP-Hard problem. Due to its challenging nature, frequently the main objective is only to find a feasible solution that satisfies students, faculty and classroom requirements rather than seeking the optimality which results in most effective teaching environment for most students. Such optimal learning environment requires the satisfaction of additional constraints such as the learning capacity of students and the capacity requirements of courses. In this research we investigate the possibility of quantifying course (curriculum) workload and the acquired capacity and suggest as curriculum and/or schedule design methodology that enables a near optimum learning environment for most students.

INNOVATIVE COURSE SCHEDULING AND CURRICULUM DESIGN

Course scheduling is a challenging operations research problem that involves students, faculty members, availability of classrooms, class sizes and many other factors. As it is the case for most scheduling problems, course scheduling is an NP-Hard problem. Due to its challenging nature, frequently the main objective is only to find a feasible solution that satisfies students, faculty and classroom requirements rather than seeking the optimality which results in most effective teaching environment for most students. Such optimal learning environment requires the satisfaction of additional constraints such as the learning capacity of students and the capacity requirements of courses. In this research we investigate the possibility of quantifying course (curriculum) workload and the acquired capacity and suggest as curriculum and/or schedule design methodology that enables a near optimum learning environment for most students.

APLIKASI GRAPH COLORING PADA PENJADWALAN PERKULIAHAN DI FAKULTAS SAINS DAN TEKNOLOGI UIN SUNAN AMPEL SURABAYA

In the academic environment there are various problems, one of problem is scheduling of courses at the university level. These problems are affected by the allocation of time (Conformity of SKS with each course), the availability of classrooms, and many study program. In the study preparation lecture schedules in this time, the parameters used, among others: second semester students in each Study Program, Number of Study Program, availability of classrooms, Lectures, number of credits a day of each study program at the Faculty of Science and Technology. This research is aimed as an alternative in formulating scheduling system when the faculty there is an imbalance between the lecture hall, many Study Program, and the number of credits taken each Study Program. Based on the analysis of Graph Coloring and Edge Coloring at case of scheduling Study Program Faculty of Science and Technology State Islamic University Sunan Ampel Surabaya, which has 6 Programs and 5 lecture room with three simulated combinations of input data, obtained scheduling unchanged (consistent) and results scheduling does not overlap / collision, both in the lecture room, and the time of the lecture.

A Study of Growth of Secondary Education in Delhi

While India has seen a rapid expansion in secondary education, there has been a drift of demand towards private schooling with a large number of parents choosing this in preference to government schools. The present study made an attempt to analyze the pattern of growth of secondary education in Delhi, using data from SEMIS and Directorate of Education. For in depth study primary data was also collected from senior secondary schools of Delhi. The analysis emphasizes the pattern of growth in number of schools and participation in secondary and senior secondary level under different management and the factors affecting the shift in demand towards private schools in Delhi. The overarching findings suggest that in Delhi the government schools have basic resources but, private unaided schools have more advanced resources that are academically important, such as better classroom availability, internet connection, science laboratory and variety of books in the library, which are causing the shift in choice of schools. We also see that, within the sample, children in private schools seem to perform better academically, despite better-qualified and more experienced teachers working in government schools.

Pelaksanaan Pendidikan Agama Pada SD-LB B Sidakarya Kota Denpasar

The Research on the Implementation of Religious Education was conducted<br />at the SD Luar Biasa Part B (SD-LB B) Sidakarya Denpasar, Bali Province. The<br />results of this study indicate that the religious education implementation at the<br />SD-LB B Sidakarya is still less attention. It can be seen from the teaching materials that still use the public school textbook and there is no <br />RPP or specialized reference books for SD-LB B, religious teachers concerns to<br /> a religion teacher. The supporting factors in the process of learning is good spirit for student availability of classrooms, school infrastructure and the location is not far from the student environment. The problem Inhibiting in the learning rocess is the lack of teaching tools, no specific reference books for deaf and dumb there isnt good attantion for religioous teaching is still not getting the attention of the series.<br /><br /><br />