University Graduate Students Research Articles

Evaluating the management of the educational crisis in light of the Corona pandemic from the viewpoint of graduate students in Jordanian universities

هدفت الدراسة إلى الكشف عن تصورات طلبة الدراسات العليا لتقييم إدارة الأزمة التعليمية في الجامعات الحكومية الأردنية في ظل جائحة كورونا، والتعرف إلى دلالة الفروق في تصورات طلبة الدراسات العليا لتقييم إدارة الأزمة في الجامعات الأردنية وفقا لمتغير الجنس، تم تطبيق الدراسة في الفصل الدراسي الثاني 2020م، وقد تم استخدام المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، حيث تكون مجتمع الدراسة من طلبة الدراسات العليا في الجامعات الحكومية الأردنية، وتكونت عينة الدراسة من (198) طالباً وطالبة. وبلغ عدد أفراد العينة من الذكور (100)، كما بلغ عدد الإناث (98) تم اختيارهم بالطريقة العشوائية البسيطة، وخلصت الدراسة إلى النتائج الآتية: أن المتوسطات الحسابية والانحرافات المعيارية لتصورات طلبة الدراسات العليا لتقييم إدارة الأزمة التعليمية في الجامعات الأردنية والمتوسط ككل تراوحت بين (2.97-4.03) وجميعها بدرجات مرتفعة ومتوسطة، وبلغ المتوسط الحسابي ككل لتصورات طلبة الدراسات العليا لتقييم إدارة الأزمة التعليمية في الجامعات الأردنية (3.76) وبدرجة مرتفعة، عدم وجود فروق في تصورات أفراد العينة على متوسطات الأداة ككل وفقاً لمتغير الجنس (ذكور، اناث)، وفي ضوء النتائج قدم الباحث التوصيات الآتية: إجراء المزيد من الدراسات والأبحاث على عينات ومراحل مختلفة في ما يخص ادارة الازمة التعليمية، تقديم الدعم الكافي لوزارة التعليم العالي والبحث العلمي لمساعدتها في إنجاز التعليم عن بعد بشكل مستمر، عمل خطط مستقبلية فعالة تواكب الأزمات الطبيعية والكوارث المختلفة.

Digital Marketing Soft Skills and University Students’ Perceptions of Employability

Over the past several decades, the digital transformation of businesses has revolutionized the role of the digital marketing environment within organizations. Consumer behaviour has also fundamentally changed, affecting important requirements for marketing professionals, and therefore, new hard and soft skills are needed to become successful. In digital marketing, basic soft skills are increasingly becoming more valued by employers and are relevant factors affecting employability. Business graduate students need to develop appropriate skills to succeed in their career and to have a right balance of skills. The aim of the study is to explore the gap between the most relevant digital marketing employability skillset and the perceptions of graduate university students based on the analytics of previous managerial quantitative research and the findings of the current research. A quantitative study was conducted to explore the perceived importance of soft skills related to employability and the difference between students work experience. The demand of soft skills courses focusing on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) demand was examined focusing on the most relevant soft skills in digital marketing. Key findings of the research explored categories of the perceived importance of soft skills and differences between working students and their perceived skills and the usage of MOOCs. Implications of the results for further academic research is to explore gaps between students’ perceptions of soft skills according to employability research on managerial requirements.

Depressive symptoms associated with loneliness and physical activities among graduate university students in Bangladesh: findings from a cross-sectional pilot study

In low-resource settings like Bangladesh, there is a dearth of research on the mental health of university students. This pilot study aimed to identify the prevalence of depressive symptoms, loneliness, and physical activities as well as the associated factors of depressive symptoms among graduate students in a public university of Bangladesh.This cross-sectional study was carried out among 323 graduate students between February 2019 and May 2019. By the convenience sampling technique, data were collected by a pretested, structured questionnaire. Depressive symptoms were assessed by the validated Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) tool with a cut-off score of ≥10 vs. less; University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) loneliness scale was applied to assess loneliness, International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) scale was used to measure physical activity level.The overall prevalence of depressive symptoms was 52% and about 43% of participants felt most lonely. About 32.8% of students were involved in low physical activity. Being female, from lower income families, having poor academic performance, experiencing shorter sleep time, lower physical activity, and being lonely were potential risk factors for depressive symptoms among graduate university students. A positive correlation was found between loneliness and depressive symptoms of students (r = 0.367, p < 0.001).The higher prevalence of depressive symptoms among Bangladeshi graduate university students suggests the need for situation analysis, confirmatory clinical diagnosis, in-depth qualitative explorations, and large-scale surveys to explore the burden of such disorders and design appropriate low-intensity interventions like implementing student counselling service, offering mental assistance or other mental health support program in the country.

Prevalence of dysmenorrhoea, associated risk factors and its relationship with academic performance among graduating female university students in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

ObjectivesThe study aimed to provide an association between dysmenorrhoea and academic performance among university students in Ethiopia. Further, the study attempts to determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of...

Síndrome visual informático en estudiantes universitarios de posgrado de una universidad privada de Lima, Perú

BackgroundIn recent decades, several studies have found a strong association between prolonged use of video display terminals and ophthalmological symptoms encompassed in the so-called computer visual syndrome (CVS). Few studies have addressed this syndrome in graduate students. MethodsObservational, cross-sectional descriptive study. A total of 106 postgraduate students were surveyed without ophthalmological pathologies. The diagnosis of CVS was made by means of the questionnaire of Seguí et al. validated in Spanish, which evaluates the frequency and intensity of 16 ocular symptoms. ResultsThe prevalence of CVS among graduate university students was 62.3% (95% CI: 52.3-71.5). It was found that the highest proportion of students with the syndrome was in the group of older than 40 years old (88.2%) and in the group 21-30 years old (70.0%), showing statistically significant differences (p=0.004). According to the device and its time of use, students who used the mobile phone for 7 to 10hours a day showed a higher prevalence of CVS compared to those who used the device for less time (p=0.030). The business School had the highest prevalence (75.0%). ConclusionThree out of every five graduate students presented CVS with this prevalence being like reported in other populations. There is a need to investigate possible interventions that can help reduce this entity.

The impact of the student–instructor relationship on student-centric measures

PurposeOn the basis of the justice, attachment, social support, self-determination theories, this research paper examines the impact of the student–instructor relationship construct on the customer-centric measures of overall student satisfaction, and perceived value for money and their impact of the behavioral intentions as an endogenous construct. We considered universities as providers of complex services focusing on students' service quality and students as the customers of the higher education institutions.Design/methodology/approachA survey instrument was used to collect data among undergraduate and graduate business students in a medium-sized Canadian university (N = 178). Partial least squares structural equation modeling was used to analyze the strength, significance, and effect sizes of the relationships between the key constructs.FindingsThe results indicate that the student–instructor relationship is significantly related to student satisfaction and value for money perceptions. Also, the student satisfaction and behavioral intentions, value for money and student satisfaction, and value for money and behavioral intentions relationship were significant.Originality/valueThe perceived quality of student–instructor relationship and its relationship to customer-centric measures like satisfaction, value for money and behavioral intentions has received relatively little attention in previous research and was discovered to be an important contributor to the perceived student satisfaction and value for money. The importance of the student–instructor relationship is further emphasized indirectly via the perceived value for money construct to student satisfaction.

On pre-stressed high vowels raising process in brazilian portuguese

This paper discusses the hypothesis that the outputs of derived pre-stressed high vowels [i] and [u], in Brazilian Portuguese, are acoustically different from the outputs of the non-derived high vowels, although both are perceptually equivalent. The sample totalizes 1152 tokens extracted from a controlled corpus, recorded at the Phonetic Laboratory of Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ), with eight university graduate students, four men and four women, from Rio de Janeiro, using acoustic measurements (PRAAT) and multivariational analysis (GOLDVARB X) in order to detect the conditioning factors related to the first and second formant values. The results reveal differences between underlying and derived vowels.

Teachers' perspectives on factors of female students' outperformance and male students' underperformance in higher education

PurposeThis paper attempts to explore possible contributing factors of females' outperformance and males' underperformance in the higher education in Pakistan from teachers' perspective. The central question of the study is what are the key factors that affect female and male students' educational performance at the university level? Using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) as a framework, we attempted to predict differentials of the perceived “female outperformance” and “male underperformance” in higher education. We carried out the study by employing quantitative research methods.Design/methodology/approachThe data for the study come from 253 teachers from University of the Punjab-largest and oldest University in Pakistan. We used a structured questionnaire for data collection. The analysis was carried out with the help of ANN model. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyze the data.FindingsThe testing results of ANN indicated 85.3% of teachers' perception was correctly predicted on various dimensions of performance differentials across female and male students in higher education.Research limitations/implicationsThe study banks on primary data collected from teachers of the University of University of the Punjab, Pakistan. Thus, the study's universe was limited to one university – University of Punjab. It is purely based on a quantitative approach employing ANN.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study have several significant implications, i.e. it makes a significant contribution to the existing body of scholarly texts on the issue of gender reverse change in academic performance in higher education.Originality/valueThe findings of this research, derived from primary data in Pakistan context, qualify this research as an original one. We also claim that this study is one of the first studies on gender reverse change in academic performance among graduate students in a public sector university of Pakistan employing ANN.

Study of Anxiety Levels among Occupational Therapy Students During Various Academic Assessments

Test anxiety among university graduate students is significant and generates public interest. Test anxiety leadsto cognitive symptoms such as racing thoughts, nausea, blankness and difficulty in retrieving information.When stress is experienced in excess it contributes to anxiety before and during exams and eventually affectsacademic performance.Aim: The aim of the study is to evaluate the anxiety levels among occupational Therapy students duringvarious academic assessments.Method: A total of 160 Occupational Therapy Students participated in this study. The Anxiety Inventorywas used to evaluate the anxiety level.Results: The results indicated that anxiety affects students performance during theory & practical assessmentsand was found to be statistically significant (p<0.0001).Recommendation: It is suggested that the pattern of conducting examinations may be modified to reducestudent test anxiety.

Is Sleep so Unattractive? —Based on a Qualitative Study of Late Nights Among College Graduate Students

Is Sleep so Unattractive? —Based on a Qualitative Study of Late Nights Among College Graduate Students

The Interdependence of Humanistic Values and the Level of Existential Fulfillment of an Intellectual Leader

Value orientations of the young intellectual leaders cause absolute interest because, by realizing their ambitions, projects and making creative breakthroughs, they will eventually change history, create new directions for the development of science and art. Not only the realization of the talented youth’s own potential depends on what they think about the meaning of a person, on the worldview positions, but also whether the future society will be humanistic, whether talent will be cultivated in it. The article presents the results of a statistical sociological study of ideas about humanism, qualities of a leader, value orientations and the level of existential fulfillment of young intellectual leaders - graduate students of a technical university. The level of existential fulfillment of the sample is interconnected with a high vitality and self-awareness of health, ideas about humanism as the flourishing of sciences and art, ideas about freedom as a responsible choice, and the morality of universal justice. However, graduate students deliberately downplay the values “stimulation” and “hedonism” (striving for novelty and deep experience to maintain an optimal level of activity). Although the combination of these values with the value “independence” is significant for creative activity.

A study on profile characteristics of post graduate students of junagadh agricultural university

The present study was conducted in Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh of Gujarat state to study the profile of post graduate students towards agricultural entrepreneurship. Total 120 respondents were randomly selected for the study and interviewed. Most of the respondents were having 22–24 years age (81.67%), had first class of academic achievement (46.67%), medium participation in extracurricular activities (61.67%), fathers education of graduate and above graduate level (27.50%), medium family occupational status (68.33%), had family income above 3.00 lakhs (40.00%), medium level of overall modernity (65.00%), had medium reading habit (65.00%), medium agri-business anxiety (60.00%), medium level of self confidence (60.84%), medium level of knowledge about government projects and agri-business (67.50%), medium risk orientation (70.84%) and medium level of cosmopoliteness (62.50%).

К ВОПРОСУ О ПОДГОТОВКЕ СТУДЕНТОВ МАГИСТРАТУРЫ ВОЕННОГО ВУЗА К РАЗВИТИЮ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОЙ КАРЬЕРЫ

A modern officer is not only the backbone of the army and navy, but also a highly qualified, purposeful military specialist with clear and precise career guidelines. The training of officers in the military magistracy contributes to the development of a professional career. It seems expedient to consider this problem in the context of global trends and changes in the field of military security on the basis of the acmeological approach. Since the onset of the era of hybrid and network-centric wars poses serious tasks for countries to transform their armed forces and create modern, mobile, professional and well-equipped troops capable of quickly and effectively solving tasks in military conflicts of low, medium and high intensity. In these conditions, the face of the officer corps is rapidly changing, to which high demands are made by society and the state. I have conducted a sociological survey of servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan. It is noted that the professional development of officers is increasingly viewed from the perspective of a career approach. In the course of the study, it was found that the master's degree plays an important role in the professional life of an officer: it enriches it with new knowledge and ideas, contributes to meeting the needs for prestige and career. Modern trends indicate an increasing need for the elaboration of the methodology of this problem. The author presents his own view on the formulation of a number of concepts, such as “career and professional development of an officer”, “professional career of an officer”, “the readiness of graduate students of a military university to design and develop a career.” Thus, the training of officers in the military magistracy in the context of the development of their professional careers has acquired the status of the most important problem of modern military education and a key task of educational reforms in the present and near future.

Research on the Current Situation and Development Countermeasures of Physical Exercise for Postgraduates in Chinese Colleges and Universities

This paper aims to explore the countermeasures of improving the quality and effect of physical exercise for graduate students in Chinese colleges and universities. According to the questionnaire survey results of 1080 graduate students from 6 universities, this paper analyzes the interest and willingness of postgraduates in physical exercise, the frequency, duration and intensity of physical exercise, and the status of physical exercise items. The results show that there is a lack of awareness of the importance of physical exercise in postgraduate physical exercise, which affects their willingness to participate in physical exercise. Meanwhile, the effects of physical exercise do not reach the expected goal due to low frequency, short duration, and low intensity of physical exercise for graduate students. In addition, the traditional and single form of physical exercise programs, lack of emphasis on equipment training and confrontational training, and lack of sports venues, facilities, and professional guidance are reasons for the unsatisfactory physical exercise of postgraduate students. putting forward a series of countermeasures such as credit system and tutorial system, applying and promoting sports Apps, increasing network media publicity, standardizing sports community organization, optimizing and updating sports venues, facilities and management mode, so as make efforts to improve graduate students' enthusiasm in physical exercise, promote the cultivation of graduate students' physical exercise behavior and habits, and effectively to ensure the harmonious development of graduate students' physical and mental health.

“CICLO DE PALESTRAS EM CIÊNCIA ANIMAL” COMO INTEGRADOR DO PROCESSO DE ENSINO-APRENDIZAGEM

Higher education institutions encourage complementary alternatives with events that articulate academic learning with the reality of the labor market. Given the relevance of these events to the internal and external community, as integrators of the teaching-learning process, the objective of this work is to address the “Cycle of Lectures on Animal Science” created by the Postgraduate Program in Animal Science, a Veterinary Medicine course and Professional Improvement Program in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Franca. It aims to improve knowledge by providing two lectures a month given by apprentices and graduate students and also, the interaction of knowledge between different areas such as veterinary, agronomy and biology. It is the 10th Cycle and it is estimated that 1,850 participants will attend it, including university students, apprentices, graduate students, teachers and external professionals. This event provides teaching-learning interaction as well as exchange of knowledge, it improves teaching, public posture, public speaking and multi and interdisciplinary training.

Optimal Cutoff Values of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test and its Short Version for Detecting Excessive Alcohol Use in Japanese College Students.

Alcohol use disorder is a serious health problem in college students. Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) is a 10-item screening tool to assess alcohol consumption, drinking behaviors, and alcohol-related problems. AUDIT-C is a short version of AUDIT, consisting of consumption items 1-3. However, the optimal cutoff values of AUDIT and AUDIT-C for detecting excessive drinking are not available for Japanese college students. The aim of this study was to evaluate the validity of cutoff points of AUDIT and AUDIT-C for detecting moderate drinking, heavy drinking and binge drinking among Japanese college students. The cross-sectional study was based on an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire. In January 2017, we sampled college students and graduate students aged 20 years or older during annual health examinations at Mie University in Japan. Two thousand students underwent health examinations, and the eligible subjects were 1,600, including 152 (9.5%) moderate drinkers, 58 (3.6%) heavy drinkers and 666 (41.6%) binge drinkers. ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curve analysis showed that the optimal cutoff values for moderate drinking, heavy drinking and binge drinking were 5, 8 and 5 for men and 4, 7 and 4 for women in AUDIT; and 4, 7 and 4 for men and 4, 7 and 4 for women in AUDIT-C, respectively. Moderate drinking is considered unsafe drinking. Therefore, the optimal cutoff values for moderate drinking (5 for men and 4 for women in AUDIT and 4 for both sexes in AUDIT-C) are important parameters for prevention of alcohol use disorder in Japanese college students.

Notifications on the Go: The Impact of Using the Blackboard

The focus of this study was to evaluate the use of the Blackboard™ App by students in traditional and online learning environments. The participants in this study were students in a first-year college orientation course, and undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in educational technology (EDT) courses, all at a 4-year public university in the Midwest. The orientation course is a traditional seated class with the Blackboard Learn™ learning management system supplementing the face-to-face instruction; the graduate and undergraduate EDT courses are all fully online, taught through Blackboard Learn. The study compared whether students prefer the Blackboard App over the use of email for communicating with their instructors. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the survey response data. Students’ positive responses concerning the Blackboard app and their preference for email were summarized and discussed.

The University Internship Program and its Effects on Students’ Employability Readiness

Internships have traditionally been seen as a valuable way for university students to get preliminary job knowledge and experience, increasing their employability in a competitive labor market. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the internship program and its perceived effect on the employability readiness of selected graduating University students. Three individual factors (academic preparedness, positive attitude, and self-initiative) and four organizational factors (challenging job, effective supervision, task clarity, and compensation) were identified as critical ingredients of a practical internship based on a literature review. To investigate this further, a quantitative study involving 88 student interns was conducted. The results showed that the internship was generally assessed as highly effective and has positive effects on the employability skills development and the attitude towards future career. The results of the study proved that the academic internship programs and internship placement access are both necessary structural elements of successful internship programs that result in positive experiences for students and employers. The results of this study can be an input to the University and partner organizations.

Особенности представлений обучающихся выпускных курсов о трудных жизненных ситуациях в будущей профессиональной деятельности и о способах их преодоления

The article actualizes the problem of the specifics ideas of University graduate students about coping difficult situations that they may encounter in their future professional activities. The purpose of the article is to present to the professional community the results of the study of the peculiarities of the presentation of students in the humanitarian and technical areas of training about difficult life situations and ways to overcome them. The authors predict the emergence of difficult life situations in the future professional activities of students. The sample consisted of 75 people, 36 people direction of preparation “Technosphere Safety” and 39 people direction of preparation “Teacher Education”. The data were collected using the methods: “Ways of overcoming negative situations” (S. Goncharova), “Ways of Coping Questionnaire” (R. Lazarus), “Life Style Index” (L.I. Vasserman et al.), and incomplete sentences. It has been established that for university graduates the concept of a “difficult life situation” is defined as some state of concern about the result. It is proved that they have the peculiarities of psychological readiness to overcome difficult life situations in their future professional activities. The identified peculiarities can be used in the preparation of a program for ensuring labor safety and protecting the health.

Risk factors associated to musculoskeletal disorder perception in college students, Bogota, 2016

ObjetivoAnalisar fatores de risco (pausas activos e posto de trabalho) associados à percepção de distúrbios músculo-esqueléticos (MSD) em estudantes de pós-graduação de uma universidade, Bogotá 2016. Métodosrealizou-se um estudo transversal; um questionário de auto-relato (variáveis sociodemográficas, conteúdo de trabalho e questionário nórdico) por e-mail enviado; uma amostra aleatória de 304 estudantes de pós-graduação da universidade e a análise estatística em SPSS Versión 24 foram feitas. Resultados89,5% (272) algum tipo de desconforto ocular e/ou DME nos últimos 7 dias; diferença significativa entre não ter pausas e sintomas (S) na χ2 do pescoço = 7.227 (P = 0,007); não executa alongamentos vs (S) no pescoço O = 2.4048 (1.0133–5.707); uso de laptop versus olhos (S) OR = 2.7132 (1.457–5.0526), (S) ombros OR = 10.6364 (4.9905–22.6697), (S) cotovelos χ2 = 6.407 (P = 0,04); não usa o mouse externo vs (S) cotovelos (χ2 = 4849 P = 0,028, (S) mão pulso χ2 = 4095 (P = 0,043), não suporte do antebraço na tabela vs. (S) parte inferior das costas: χ2 = 6894 (P = 0,009), houve alteração na (S) do ombro, cotovelo, pulso, costas altas, joelho e tornozelo (P < 0,05) (teste de Mcnemar). Conclusõesos resultados correm em associação entre não realizar pausas ativas, alongamento e (S.) Pescoço; uso de laptop e (S) nos olhos, ombros (S) e cotovelo esquerdo, sem uso de mouse externo e (S) no cotovelo e mão/pulso direito, sem suporte do antebraço na mesa e (S) na parte inferior das costas; A mudança em (S) nos membros superiores e inferiores foi apresentada.