Feedback Communication Research Articles

Communication Skills Assessments and Rubrics In The Higher Education: A Meta-Analysis

Effective communication skills are crucial in the higher education system. Consequently, there is a growing concern about how higher education institutions can better equip students with the communication skills required for success in both academic and professional settings. The assessment of communication skills, especially in higher education, is complex and can have a substantial impact on students' academic achievements, preparedness for their careers, and overall professional growth. Due to this disparities and assessment challenges, this meta-analysis sought to answer the following research questions: (a) What are the assessments employed for communication skills in multi-discipline studies in higher education? (b) What are the “key findings” contributing to the issues of communication skills assessment in higher education? In this article, a meta-analysis was conducted to determine the types of communication skill assessments and other key findings concerning the assessment issues in this area. Sources were identified using Scopus, Web of Science, Wiley Online Library, Taylor & Francis Online and Springerlink, and, after inclusion criteria were applied, 21 samples of articles were included in the meta-analysis. The findings demonstrate the existence of issues from the aspects of audience, mode, and purpose of the assessments, which mainly are: (1) impact of language proficiency and ICT competency; (2) communication skills approach to non-scientific audience; (3) blended assessment and feedback communication; (4) use of explicit and direct teaching assessment; (5) critical thinking and opportunity for justifying scientific ideas; and (6) benefit of early and continuous communication tasks. The review finds an extensive gap on the communication skills assessment related to higher-order thinking and problem-solving abilities in junior students. This meta-analysis may be of great interest to university policymakers, language lecturers, and academic lecturers from other disciplines who are searching for the best assessments strategies to measure students' communication skills.

Public Relations Management in Shaping Organizational Behavior at Madrasah Aliyah

Public relations (PR) management is vital in shaping organizational behavior, especially in educational settings. This study examines the PR management framework at Madrasah Aliyah Negeri (MAN) 3 Medan, focusing on how PR practices contribute to improving organizational behavior. A descriptive qualitative approach was used, involving data collection through observations, interviews, and documentation. The data were analyzed using the Miles and Huberman model, which includes data reduction, display, and conclusion drawing. Triangulation was applied to ensure the accuracy of the findings. The study found that PR management at MAN 3 Medan is built around key components: planning, implementation, communication systems, organizational supervision, special events organization, media use, and PR program evaluation. These components enhance organizational behavior by enabling effective feedback communication, securing community support, and aligning organizational goals with community expectations. The findings suggest that strong PR management significantly improves organizational behavior in educational institutions. This framework not only strengthens internal operations but also enhances the institution's relationship with the community. Feedback mechanisms and community support are essential indicators of successful PR management. In conclusion, the study shows that implementing a well-structured PR management framework at MAN 3 Medan positively impacts organizational behavior. This is reflected in better communication, stronger community engagement, and the achievement of organizational goals. The study highlights the crucial role of PR management in promoting organizational development in educational institutions.

IMPACT OF SCHOOL PRINCIPAL’S FEEDBACK COMMUNICATION SKILLS TO THE PUBLIC SECONDARY TEACHERS’ JOB SATISFACTION

The main purpose of the study was to determine the relationship of principal’s feedback communication skills in terms of feedback quality, feedback tone, empathy and openness to dialogue and public secondary teachers’ job satisfaction in terms of work environment, job responsibilities, work-life balance, and professional development. Utilizing the descriptive quantitative which applied correlational research design, this study sought to find out the relationship of the two variables. The study used two adapted instruments for principal’s feedback communication skills and job satisfaction. The principal’s feedback communication skills were a 20-item survey questions, in terms of feedback quality, feedback tone, empathy, and openness to dialogue and for public secondary teachers’ job satisfaction was a 20-item survey questions as to work environment, job responsibilities, work-life balance, and professional development. The study found that there was a significant relationship between principal’s feedback communication skills and public secondary school teachers’ job satisfaction. The result showed that the teacher’s job satisfaction was influenced by the principal’s feedback communication skills. KEYWORDS: feedback communication skills, job satisfaction, correlational research design

Event-triggered Sampling Strategy Design to Optimize the Performance of a Scalar System Under Feedback Communication Constraints

Event-triggered Sampling Strategy Design to Optimize the Performance of a Scalar System Under Feedback Communication Constraints

The nature of inappropriate referrals to wellness services in primary care setting in Qatar: Outcome of multifaced interventions on rate and quality of referrals

ObjectivesThe objectives of this study were to explore the rate and types of inappropriate referrals to the wellness services and to assess the impact of multi-level interventions on the rate of inappropriate referrals at Rawdat Al-Khail health center in Qatar. MethodsThis study employed a retrospective analysis of all referrals data to Rawdat Al-Khail wellness services extracted from the Electronic Health Records (EHRs) between July 2022 and August 2023. The monthly rates and types of inappropriate referrals were calculated. In this study, pre-post analyses were performed to evaluate the impact of two sets of interventions on reducing inappropriate referral rates. The first set involved the development and distribution of e-referral pathways training manual in September 2022. The second set, implemented in April 2023, included close monitoring the rate and types of referrals, and the initiation of feedback communication between wellness services supervisors and referring physicians for advice and corrective actions. ResultsA total of 966 referrals were received during the study period, with 1:5 male-to-female ratio. Of all referrals, 34.9 % were classified as inappropriate, exhibiting considerable variations among different referring health centers. The most common reason for inappropriate referrals was due to the lack of “exercise wellness gym assessment form” (23.8 %). While interventions aimed at enhancing the referral process, they did not result in a significant overall reduction in inappropriate referral rates. However, there was a noteworthy reduction in the inappropriate referrals caused by the lack of “exercise wellness gym assessment form” observed from March to August 2023 (41 %–18 %). ConclusionThis study sheds light on the complexities of wellness services referrals, revealing a high rate of inappropriate referrals that require closer scrutiny. Despite interventions not significantly reducing the rate of these referrals, it emphasizes the need for ongoing improvement strategies. Structured, periodic interventions at higher levels are recommended to enhance referral appropriateness.

Актуальные проблемы внутрисистемного взаимодействия федеральных органов исполнительной власти

One of the directions of improving the activities of executive bodies is associated with the construction of an effective organizational and legal model of their intra-system interaction. At the federal level, this task is special significance because of the national importance of the management decisions taken. The dichotomous legal nature of the interdepartmental interaction system of federal executive bodies is due to the subordinate regulatory regulations of its organization. Legislative gaps and uncertainties in the legal status of the unified management center of this system, the Government of the Russian Federation, devalues the preparation and implementation of strategic planning measures by federal executive bodies. An equally significant problem is the absence of a unified digital platform for interdepartmental interaction, which makes it possible to speed up and streamline direct and feedback communications between bodies and officials.

Barriers to proper maternal referral system in selected health facilities in Eastern Ethiopia: a qualitative study

BackgroundAppropriate maternal referral system plays an essential role in curbing maternal mortality. Although the occurrence of obstetric complications is often unpredictable, addressing bottlenecks of the referral system is crucial to facilitate the women to have access to timely lifesaving interventions. Nonetheless, little is known about the barriers to maternal referral system in the eastern Ethiopia. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the barriers to maternal referral system at selected referral hospitals in eastern Ethiopia.MethodsKey informant interviews and in-depth interviews were conducted among purposively selected respondents who had a role in maternal referral processes. A total of 12 key informants that comprised of liaison officers, healthcare providers and three in-depth interviews with referred women were conducted. Semi-structured interview guide was developed and used to facilitate the interviews. All the interviews were tape recorded, complemented by note taking. Then audio recorded interviews were transcribed as per verbatim and imported to NVivo for coding and merging. The data were thematically synthesized.ResultsThe study identified a range of barriers that affect the maternal referral system in Eastern Ethiopia. The main barriers are grouped into three domains, such as: communication, transportation, and healthcare system. The most commonly reported barriers were lack of pre-referral communication and feedback, using informal communication, incomplete referral forms, poor ambulance service including misuse of ambulances, lack of skilled healthcare escort and lack of medical equipment at emergency, unnecessary self-referrals, poor referral skills and limited number of health professions.ConclusionsThe maternal referral system is overwhelmingly affected by lack of skill, logistics (referral form), misuse of available ambulance, poor communication, and limited seeking of feedback. Regular consultative meeting with relevant stakeholders and uptake of feedback are crucial to improve referral communication, proper use of ambulance and building capacity of health workforce about referral are essential to improve maternal referral system.

Language choices in post‐observation conferences: L1 or L2, that is the question

AbstractFeedback within the context of post‐observation conferences (POCs) is critical for English language teachers' professional development. To date, however, surprisingly there has not yet been any study on language choices for feedback communication in POCs, considering around 80% of English language teachers worldwide are nonnative‐English speakers (NNESs) (Moussu, 2018). This study adopts the research paradigm of social constructivism, with a qualitative design to explore language choices (Chinese as L1 and English as L2) by one Chinese mentor and four Chinese mentees in POCs, in a near‐peer mentoring project in a UK‐based MA TESOL program. Data collected include two POCs, a mentor interview, and four mentee questionnaire answers. The data were analysed in depth by data reduction and inductive content analysis. It was found that both emotional and practical reasons resulted in the language decisions by the mentor and the mentees in the POCs. Albeit with small sample size, this study shows the intricacy of language use by NNESs in POCs in preservice teacher education programs and provides insights into how both mentor and mentees can be empowered as active agents capable of making judicious use of L1 and L2 for effective feedback communication in POCs.

Time-varying propagation model and dynamic-feedback-phase correction for multiplexed orbital angular momentum beams in atmospheric turbulence.

Freespace optical (FSO) communication in an outdoor setting is complicated by atmospheric turbulence (AT). A time-varying (TV) multiplexed orbital angular momentum (OAM) propagation model to consider AT under transverse-wind conditions is formulated for the first time, and optimized dynamic correction periods for various TV AT situations are found to improve the transmission efficiency. The TV nature of AT has until now been neglected from modeling of OAM propagation models, but it is shown to be important. First, according to the Taylor frozen-turbulence hypothesis, a series of AT phase screens influenced by transverse wind are introduced into the conventional angular-spectrum propagation analysis method to model both the temporal and spatial propagation characteristics of multiplexed OAM beams. Our model shows that while in weak TV AT, the power standard deviation of lower-order modes is usually smaller than that of higher-order modes, the phenomena in strong TV AT are qualitatively different. Moreover, after analyzing the effective time of each OAM phase correction, optimized dynamic correction periods for a dynamic feedback communication link are obtained. An optimized result shows that, under the moderate TV AT, both a system BER within the forward-error-correction limit and a low iterative computation volume with 6% of the real-time correction could be achieved with a correction period of 0.18 s. The research emphasizes the significance of establishing a TV propagation model for exploring the effect of TV AT on multiplexed OAM beams and proposing an optimized phase-correction mechanism to mitigate performance degradation caused by TV AT, ultimately enhancing overall transmission efficiency.

Professionalization of Pedagogical Activity of Future Teachers, Formation of Communicative Competence as an Aspect of Neuropedagogy

The article reveals the relevance of the formation of the future teacher's communicative competence as a professionalization of the basic component of pedagogical activity and individual requirements for professional activity. The professional standard requires readiness for pedagogical activity, the basis of which is the formation of communicative competence of the future teacher, in particular in the context of the neuropedagogical approach. The authors highlight the approaches to the formation of students' communicative skills in the process of studying a block of pedagogical disciplines during the period of obtaining a pedagogical education. The paper asserts the need to follow a systematic approach in the formation of communicative competence as a dominant component of the professional competence of the future novice teacher. The effectiveness of his pedagogical activity, as the authors note, is determined by the content of the "communicative portrait" of students - future teachers, the effectiveness of the educational process depends on this. Such a position requires a new approach based on neuropedagogical components. It is the communicative knowledge, abilities and skills of the future teacher that will allow building the trajectory of object-subject and subject-subject interaction in a holistic educational process. A key component of communicative competence is the teacher's communicative culture, which ensures the effective construction of direct and feedback communication with the participants of the educational process. Professional activity always requires from the future teacher the ability to build strategy, tactics and techniques of subject-subject interactions, to organize joint activities with students to achieve educational goals.

МОДЕЛИ КОММУНИКАЦИИ В УПРАВЛЕНИИ ВОЕННЫМ ОРКЕСТРОМ

The article analyses the communication between a military conductor and an orchestra in various communicative situations — during the musical support of a military ritual, the management of a consolidated orchestra and an orchestra as part of a consolidated one, a concertlecture, a parade ground concert, including with the participation of a tambourmajor. Four types of communication in military orchestra management are identified: artistic non–verbal (expressive movements of the conductor), technically non-verbal (special technical gestures of the military conductor performing the functions of commands — the beginning or the end of the game or orchestra movement), artistic verbal (conductor’s introductory speech and other verbal communication with the audience), technically verbal (verbal commands of the military conductor: "Orchestra, stop", etc.). Communication models in the military conductor’s activities are presented and their features are described: linearity, hierarchy and unidirectionality of the verbal communication channel in the musical provision of a military ritual due to subordination between its participants; mediated artistic non-verbal communication and mismatch of message and feedback by types of texts in the management of a consolidated orchestra; independent subsystems “conductor — orchestra” and “conductor — audience” in concert-lecture; synthesis of artistic non-verbal and technically non-verbal communication in a parade ground concert; variable elements of communication in case of participation of a tambourmajor in the orchestra management.

Resilient MPC Under Severe Attacks on Both Forward and Feedback Communication Channels

Resilient MPC Under Severe Attacks on Both Forward and Feedback Communication Channels

Beliefs for successful feedback communication.

Beliefs for successful feedback communication.

Інклюзивність музейних просторів як можливість розвитку екскурсійної діяльності для осіб з обмеженими можливостями

The theoretical aspects of excursion activities for persons with disabilities are analyzed, modern foreign and domestic practices of inclusion in the tourism sphere are characterized, the main aspects of the introduction of an inclusive museum space in Ukraine are highlighted. It was determined that, taking into account the nature of various features of tourists with disabilities, and to serve each group of such persons, it is necessary to use specialized methods and techniques of conducting excursions. In the course of the study, it was determined that for the introduction of inclusion in museum spaces, it is necessary to inform about the concept of inclusion, work on clarification of the effectiveness of its implementation as an opportunity to increase and strengthen the competence of museum workers, improve the quality of museum services and open new directions of interaction with the public for the implementation of various museum projects . The study of modern domestic practices of excursion service for persons with disabilities shows that the leading museum institutions of Ukraine are actively involved in this process. Having analyzed the foreign experience, it is worth noting that most European states have a high degree of environment adjustment for the development of inclusive tourism and its individual types and excursion activities. Spain, Finland, Greece, the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Austria, and Great Britain are among the countries where almost all elements of the tourist infrastructure are most adapted for the development of inclusive tourism. It was determined that certain strategies aimed at the sustainability of inclusive processes and comprehensive actions, which will include an assessment of the needs of vulnerable groups and their own capabilities, joint development of plans and programs, projects, strategic partnerships and cooperation, organization of feedback communication, communication strategy and representation of its services, as well as elements of advocacy and fundraising.

WAYS OF IMPROVING INFORMATION SYSTEM IN THE RISK MANAGEMENT OF MUNICIPAL PROJECTS

Municipal project risk management infor­mation system based on feedback from external and internal stakeholders. In this regard, both private and public stakeholders are concerned with the risks related to the management of municipal projects, which in turn requires not only transparent accountability of the results arising from the project management process, but also the creation of information feedback communication channels between stakeholders. The article proposes the information influence of beneficiaries on participatory decision-making in municipal project risks management.

ON THE ISSUE OF TACTICAL MANAGEMENT TOOLS FOR MODERNIZATION OF COMPANIES IN THE REAL ECONOMY UNDER THE CURRENT ANTI-RUSSIAN SANCTIONS

The purpose of the article is to work out recommendations on the use of tactical management tools for the modernization of the real economy in the context of sanctions pressure. Under these conditions, a special role is given to digital transformation technologies, which provide opportunities for the effective functioning of organizations in different sectors of the economy, including manufacturing industries. One of the key elements of tactical management of companies is the use of API (Application Programming Interface). APIs enable effective integration of various information systems and data exchange between them, which is an integral component of digital transformation. Also, feedback communication between companies and customers, partners and regulators play an important role in tactical management of modernization. Regular feedback allows the company's strategies and actions to be adapted according to the changing market situation. Feedback can be used to increase the innovation activity of organizations and stimulate modernization of manufacturing. As a result of the study, the features of strategic and tactical management were identified based on the analysis of scientific Russian and foreign literature, recommendations on the use of API and feedback as means of tactical management in the real sector were substantiated.

Drivers of early childhood vaccination success in Nepal, Senegal, and Zambia: a multiple case study analysis using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research

IntroductionThe fundamental components of a vaccine delivery system are well-documented, but robust evidence is needed on how the related processes and implementation strategies — including the facilitators and barriers — contribute to improvements in childhood vaccination coverage. The purpose of this study was to identify critical facilitators and barriers to the implementation of common interventions across three countries that have dramatically increased coverage of early childhood vaccination over the past 20 years, and to qualify common or divergent themes in their success.MethodsWe conducted 278 key informant interviews and focus group discussions with public health leaders at the regional, district, and local levels and community members in Nepal, Senegal, and Zambia to identify intervention activities and the facilitators and barriers to implementation. We used thematic analysis grounded in the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) constructs of inner and outer settings to identify immunization program key facilitators and barriers.ResultsWe found that the common facilitators to program implementation across the countries were the CFIR inner setting constructs of (1) networks and communications, (2) goals and feedback, (3) relative priority, and (4) readiness for implementation and outer setting constructs of (5) cosmopolitanism and (6) external policies and mandates. The common barriers were incentives and rewards, available resources, access to knowledge and information, and patients’ needs and resources. Critical to the success of these national immunization programs were prioritization and codification of health as a human right, clear chain of command and shared ownership of immunization, communication of program goals and feedback, offering of incentives at multiple levels, training of staff central to vaccination education, the provision of resources to support the program, key partnerships and guidance on implementation and adoption of vaccination policies.ConclusionAdequate organizational commitment, resources, communication, training, and partnerships were the most critical facilitators for these countries to improve childhood vaccination.

A Clamped IPT System With Adaptive Mode Switching Against Large Coupling Variations

Misalignment issue is almost inevitable in an inductive power transfer (IPT) system, leading to unstable power transfer due to the coupling variations. In order to improve the flexibility of the IPT system, the misalignment range of stable power output is desired to be as large as possible. This paper proposes a clamped IPT system to improve anti-misalignment ability based on the dual-mode operation. The clamped circuit is constructed with a coil and a rectifier connected to the input dc terminal of the inverter. With the effect of the clamped circuit, the operating mode of the system can be adaptively switched to match the required coupling variation region without coupling identification, output detection, or feedback communication. Then, the analysis and parametric design of the system are elaborated. Finally, a 480-W experimental setup was built to verify the feasibility of the proposed method. Experimental results show that the proposed method can maintain stable output power between 440W∼480W with the coupling varying from 0.14 to 0.39, while the efficiency is from 83.22% to 93.55%.

Automatic Containment of Field Exposure for Roadway Wireless Electric Vehicle Charger

Inductive power transfer (IPT) has found application prospect in dynamic wireless electric vehicle (EV) charging as it can avoid the constraints of physical connection. With the commonly-used LCC compensation, the ground-assembled transmitter coil is always excited by a fixed standby current even if there is no receiver coil coverage. As for dynamic wireless power transfer (DWPT) systems, even without EV charging, the underground transmitter coils typically remain activated at full power output to wait for the receivers in most cases, resulting in huge standby current and magnetic exposure safety concerns. In this paper, we proposed a method for automatic containment of field exposure caused by standby current in the transmitter coil of wireless chargers, which applies LCC compensation networks requiring only primary-side control with the elimination of wireless feedback communication and extra detection. The wireless chargers can be automatically deactivated once EVs depart, as well as automatically activated once detecting the presence of EVs. Also, its excellent interoperability for different loads and types of compensation topology has been well analyzed and then verified. Moreover, experiments demonstrate that the magnetic field exposure is merely 11.66% of the ICNIRP 2010 standard exposure limit with proposed modulation, which is suppressed by 94.64% than before.

Specification and verification of concurrent systems by causality and realizability

A logical theory for interface specification and verification of distributed, concurrent, interactive, real-time systems is worked out based on a semantic foundation including operational and denotational semantics. It supports a calculus for the specification and verification of concurrent interactive systems by interface assertions. Systems are composed acting concurrently and interacting via streams exchanged over their channels forming feedback loops. A denotational semantics is defined handling feedback communication by recursion and fixpoints based on strong causality and realizability instead of monotonicity. The resulting verification calculus for the specification logic is proved to be sound and relatively complete with respect to an operational semantics in terms of generalized Moore machines. Actually, two models of concurrent systems are defined, a more abstract one with communication and interaction modeled by untimed streams and a more concrete one working with timed streams. The untimed model is an abstraction of the timed model. The timed model allows expressing the laws of causality and realizability. Moreover, the timed model can be used to specify real-time properties.