College Students In Courses Research Articles

An Application of Dynamic Layer Teaching Program to Enhance a Learning Outcome in Basic Badminton Course for College Students

Background and Aims: Currently, physical education teachers should shift their teaching methods towards “paying more attention to the individual difference among the students” according to the concepts of “student-centered” and “individual difference”. Therefore, the objective of this research was to develop a dynamic layered teaching program to enhance badminton learning outcomes in college students on badminton skills and techniques, knowledge, attitude, social development, physical fitness, and mental fitness. Materials and Methods: The population of this study was 240 students of the academic year 2023 students at Guangzhou Sport University who take badminton as an elective course. This research randomly sampled two male classes with 64 students to serve as the experimental group and the control group, and each group consists of 32 male students, divided into two groups by systematic method based on badminton skills tests. The experimental group taught with a dynamic layered teaching program and the control group taught with a traditional teaching program. The research instrument was the dynamic layered teaching program in badminton which has been quality checked by trying out with 3 students, 9 students, and 30 students to find the efficiency of the program (E1/E2 = 70/70). The total duration of the experiment was 8 weeks, 3 sessions a week, and 2 hours a session. The subjects in the experimental group were divided into low-skill, medium-skill, and high-skill based on badminton skills tests. The data were analyzed with paired t-tests, independent t-tests, and descriptive statistics. Results: The dynamic layered teaching program in badminton had more significant advantages than the traditional teaching program in enhancing badminton skills and techniques, knowledge, attitude, social development, and mental health. However, there were no significant differences observed in physical fitness. Conclusion: The dynamic layered teaching program in badminton can enhance badminton learning outcomes in college students and provide an effective approach for personalized instruction and targeted training. However, there were no significant differences observed in physical fitness indicators. These findings support the promotion and application of dynamic layered teaching programs in physical education.

Retracted: IT Monitoring and Management of Learning Quality of Online Courses for College Students Based on Machine Learning

Retracted: IT Monitoring and Management of Learning Quality of Online Courses for College Students Based on Machine Learning

Innovation and entrepreneurship education practice curriculum reform on college students with anxiety

Background Psychological construction has always been a key challenge in guiding innovation and entrepreneurship among college students. The reform of practical courses for innovation and entrepreneurship education for college students aims to improve their recognition and satisfaction with innovation and entrepreneurship courses, thereby alleviating the impact of anxiety.Subjects and MethodsTaking senior college students as the research object, this study aims to involve them in the reform of practical courses for innovation and entrepreneurship education for college students. A symptom self-evaluation scale was used to conduct a follow-up survey to explore the impact of the reform of practical courses for innovation and entrepreneurship education for college students on their anxiety psychology.Results The reform of the innovation and entrepreneurship education practice course for college students has a positive impact on their anxiety psychology in all aspects, and there is a positive correlation between this course reform and alleviating their mental health. The anxiety rate of students participating in the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education practical courses for college students is only 6.3%, and the distribution trend of these students’ innovation ability scores is 5.79 ± 1.78. The anxiety level of students who did not participate was 55.4%.ConclusionsThrough the reform of practical courses for innovation and entrepreneurship education for college students, we guide them to actively start businesses, regulate tense emotions, alleviate psychological pressure, reduce anxiety factors, and alleviate anxiety symptoms, thereby achieving psychological balance and forming a stable psychological state.

Research on the Application of Expressive Art Therapy in the Teaching of Mental Health Education Courses for College Students

Mental health education courses hold a pivotal role in nurturing the psychological well-being of college students and shaping their future development. This paper explores the integration of expressive art therapy into mental health education courses and its impact on college freshmen's mental health and classroom satisfaction. Drawing on a non-random cluster sampling method, 198 students from a university in Shandong Province participated, with half forming the experimental expressive art group and the other half constituting the control traditional group. Results demonstrated that the expressive art group experienced significant improvements in mental health, with higher scores in self-affirmation and lower scores in anxiety and depression compared to the control group. The study emphasizes a student-centered approach, focusing on experiential learning and self-expression, facilitated through music, painting, and psychodrama. It also highlights the role of expressive arts therapy in reducing self-defense mechanisms, enhancing selfexpression, and challenging negative cognitions. While the study shows promise, future research should consider longterm effect and qualitative assessments to comprehensively evaluate the clinical significance of expressive art group therapy.

Does the Proportion of Marks for Wet Laboratories Affect the Overall Mark, Grade, and Failure Rates?

Students have higher marks in programs with a higher proportion of marks allocated to ongoing assessment (tutorials, assignments) than exams. However, there has been little attention to how the allocation of marks to wet laboratories affects the academic performance of students in university courses. The aim of this study was to analyse how the allocation of marks to examination and wet-laboratory-related assessment affected the performance of students in a biochemistry course. The students were from four programs: pharmacy, biomedical science, medical laboratory science, and nutrition. The methods were (i) comparing the marks for the exam and laboratories, (ii) determining any association between these marks and academic outcomes by regression line analysis, and (iii) undertaking modelling to determine the effects of changing the allocation of marks on passing and failing rates. Overall, and for each cohort of students, the results were similar. Students who completed the course had much lower marks in the exam than in the laboratories. Regression line analysis of the marks in the exam versus laboratories showed (a) a poor line fit and (b) the correlation coefficient was moderate. A high percentage of students passed the course (90%). Modelling showed that increasing the marks for the exam decreased the number of students passing the course to as few as 51%. Thus, the allocation of marks to wet laboratories can have a major effect on the percentage of students who pass courses. The question of whether students who fails exams should pass courses/programs needs to be given further consideration.

Incorporating STEAM activities into creativity training in higher education

In this fast-paced world, we are constantly required to be adaptive and creative. In particular, creative ability is needed to solve problems in various situations. The current study aimed to develop a creativity training course for university students in which STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) activities were incorporated to practice and strengthen the creative thinking skills required across domains. 80 university students were recruited for the study. Before and after the training course (duration = 4 months), participants’ creativity was measured in terms of both creative abilities and creative self-efficacy. Using a pre-posttest between-subjects design, the results showed significant improvements in tasks measuring participants’ creative abilities after the training, and the increase was significantly higher than in the control group. In addition, the creativity training group tended to improve their creative self-efficacy. The current findings suggest that creativity training integrating STEAM activities could be an effective approach to foster creativity. The implications for developing effective creativity training with (in) STEAM activities are discussed.

Spazi di apprendimento virtuali per la didattica della lingua tedesca

E-learninng Spaces for Teaching German as a Foreign Language. This contribution, which takes into account the online didactic affordances in a German Language and Translation course for university students, is divided into two parts: the former focuses on the potential of the chat as a didactic tool; the latter shows the activities performed on an e-learning platform during a German Language and Translation course. Specifically, attention will focus on examples of chat interaction, error correction and concrete teaching activities – supplemented by targeted use of corpora and digital lexicographic resources – involving forms of fixation and memorization, while leaving room for reasoned, creative and conscious forms of autonomy.

Retracted: Design of Network-Assisted Teaching of Ideological and Political Courses for College Students Based on Android System

Retracted: Design of Network-Assisted Teaching of Ideological and Political Courses for College Students Based on Android System

The importance of social behavior in the tourism - a case study from Karvina, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czechia

Today we can hear terms like sustainability in different connotations. It is a trend that manifests itself in all areas, not excluding social behavior. It is a topical issue that became interest of many scientists from different regions of the world. The aim of the research is to map students' attitudes towards social behavior. The material for the research was obtained from a questionnaire survey conducted during 2022 among full-time students of the Silesian University in Opava School of Business Administration in Karvina (SU SBA), Moravian-Silesian region, Czechia. Primary data were analyzed using SPSS software. The research investigation highlighted some alarming aspects of the development of young generation with regard to social behavior such as the importance of education in social behavior especially in higher education programs, lack of knowledge of social protocol and the skills to use it adequately in a given situation, or to be able to evaluate social behavior correctly in a communication partner, should be a matter of course for university students. The results are helpful for academics, the general public, managers, and other staff members who interact with customers in a variety of enterprises, not only those in the tourist sector. Ethics as a set of standards is important in all spheres of business. But if we are talking about services, the compliance must be much stricter.

대학생의 직무체험과정이 구직효능감에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구

Looking at the results of a fact-finding survey of freshmen reported annually by domestic universities, the biggest concern of college students is that the problem with their future career and career choice is very large. continues to fall, but there seems to be no fundamental alternative to solve this problem. However, universities are operating work experience courses to help college students in their career and employment, providing help to students in choosing their career path. Therefore, in this study, in order to maximize the effect of the job experience process, the effect of the job experience process on self-leadership and job search efficacy was analyzed. As an analysis method, the characteristics and normality of the sample were confirmed, exploratory factor analysis was performed to verify validity and reliability, and correlation analysis was performed to examine the relationship between variables. In addition, multiple regression analysis was conducted to find out the relationship between the independent variable, the mediating variable, and the dependent variable, and a process macro model was used to find out the mediating effect. As a result of the analysis, a positive (+) causal relationship was found between the job experience process, self-leadership, and job-seeking efficacy, and self-leadership appeared to play a partial mediating effect in the relationship between the job experience process and job-seeking efficacy. This study is the first empirical study to study the causal relationship among college students' job experience process, self-leadership, and job search efficacy. It is necessary to expand to, and it is of academic significance to identify the relationship that increases job search efficacy. Through the results of this study, in designing future university work experience courses, it is expected that empirical grounds will be secured for the establishment of educational systems and policies to strengthen self-leadership of participating students as well as the performance of the program itself. It is foreseeable. In addition, beyond the scope of establishing a career experience course for college students, it is expected that it can be used as basic data for improving the law/system from a policy perspective on the role of schools, companies, and educational authorities.

Drawing on a computer algorithm to advance future teachers’ knowledge of real numbers: A case study of task design

In our investigation of university students’ knowledge about real numbers in relation to computer algebra systems (CAS) and how it could be developed in view of their future activity as teachers, we used a computer algorithm as a case to explore the relationship between CAS and the knowledge of real numbers as decimal representations. Our work was carried out in the context of a course for university students who aim to become mathematics teachers in high schools. The main data consists of students’ written responses to an assignment of the course and interviews to clarify students’ perspectives in relation to the responses. The analysis of students’ work is based on the anthropological theory of the didactic (ATD). Our results indicate that simple CAS-routines have a potential to help university students (future teachers) to apply their university knowledge on certain problems related to the decimal representation of real number which are typically encountered but not well explained in high school.

Optimization of Ideological and Political Education Courses for College Students and Strategies for Mental Health Education.

Most college students are still in the growth stage in the complex network environment. Therefore, it is necessary to consider measures for ideological education and psychological training. Firstly, by citing literature, this work explains the current network environment college students face and the adverse effects on their psychology. Secondly, the relationship between the ideological education work of college students and the network environment is expounded. Finally, the sampling survey method is adopted to analyze the use of the internet, information contact behavior, and the psychological status of college students at the present stage. The results showed that: (1) those with a college degree or above accounted for 47.1%. The data show that college students are at the forefront of internet use. They bear more social responsibilities than other groups. (2) About 90% of people have different degrees of depression and anxiety. The data show that psychological training and ideological and political education (IPE) for college students is necessary. This paper aims to sum up the obstacles existing in IPE and psychological training through the influence of network environment and bad information on IPE of college students. Based on the survey results, this paper can find a solution to create a good IPE environment for college students.

Difficulties and Solutions in the Teaching of "Situation and Policy" in Chinese Universities

In China, "Situation and Policy" is a public basic course, which is a compulsory ideological and political theory course for college students stipulated by the Ministry of Education, focusing on improving contemporary college students' political literacy and theoretical level. Based on the training objectives of colleges and universities, closely combined with the situation at home and abroad and the ideological reality of college students, the ideological and political education courses of the Party's line, principles and policies are relatively systematic for college students. By using empirical research methods, this study finds that the current situation and policy courses in colleges and universities are faced with difficulties in the selection of teaching content, lack of innovation in classroom teaching mode, low degree of integration between theory and practice, uncertain evaluation standards of teaching quality, the construction of teaching staff needs to be strengthened, and students' unsatisfactory performance in class. According to the current situation and policy teaching difficulties, we need to take corresponding countermeasures and suggestions, including enriching teaching content, innovating teaching mode, combining theory with practice, optimizing assessment methods, and strengthening the professional construction of teachers. So as to effectively improve the teaching effect of the course Situation and Policy.

Prototyping an Online Virtual Simulation Course Platform for College Students to Learn Creative Thinking

With the rapid development of science and technology, the ability to creative thinking has become an essential criterion for measuring talents. Current creative thinking courses for college students are affected by COVID-19 and are challenging to conduct. This study aimed to explore practical ways to teach creative thinking knowledge online and explored design opportunities for working on this teaching activity online. Through qualitative interviews, we found that the factors that influenced the design of the online virtual simulation course platform were focused on five dimensions: information presentation, platform characteristics, course assessment, instruction design, and presentation format. Through the analysis of user requirements, we obtained six corresponding design guidelines. Based on the knowledge system of design thinking, we set up eight modules in the course platform and developed a prototype including 100 user interfaces. We invited three experts and 30 users to conduct cognitive walk-through sessions and made design iterations based on the feedback. After user evaluation, dimensions of attractiveness, efficiency, dependability, and novelty reached excellent rating and were recognized by users.

Applying War Heritage in the National World War II History Course for College Students in China: An Exploration of Digitization Strategies

Digital media is increasingly being used in formal education. In China, in order to reduce the negative emotions and behaviors of college students in World War Two (WWII) history courses, digitized resources of war heritage are being applied to improve their learning experience. However, their effectiveness remains unconfirmed. Therefore, the purposes of this study are to: (1) test whether the transformation of war heritage into digital resources can help to improve the learning experience of college students; (2) explore the pivotal factors that affect the learning experience of college students; and (3) provide suggestions for improving the digital teaching resources regarding war heritage. The results of the questionnaire survey show that the participants have a positive view of digital teaching resources. In addition, low-interactive digital media can achieve higher learning effects. The multidimensional scaling (MDS) analysis also reveals that creativity in teaching and helping to form students’ values regarding cherishing peace are the foci with respect to improving the learning experience. On this basis, suggestions for improving the digital teaching resources regarding WWII heritage are proposed in this study, as follows: (a) to improve the quality of multisensory experiences in digital teaching media regarding war heritage; (b) to reduce the difficulties with human–computer interaction regarding digital teaching media; (c) to strengthen the correlation between digital resources and the teaching aims; and (d) to build a vision for peace and sustainable development through the narrative of digital media.

European Projects for Patients with Dementia and Their Caregivers.

As we all know there is no treatment that can stop or delay the progression of dementia. The treatment we use is only symptomatic. EFNS (European Federation of Neurological Societies) recommendations for dementia prevention by Sorbi et al. (2012) concluded that there is no treatment, no lifestyle, which could have an effect on prevention or delay of onset of different forms of dementia until today. The future studies in prevention must recruit younger people, larger sample, and for longer period. The last 10years we have run, in collaboration with organizations in different European countries, many projects in order to support patients with neurodegenerative diseases, mainly patients with dementia and their caregivers. The first project was a 2-year prospective cohort study of antidementia drug non-persistency in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) in Europe: predictors of discontinuation and switch in the ICTUS (Impact of Cholinergic Treatment USe) study, an FP5 project with 1380 patients. Five studies were published. The second project was DESCRIPA study, an FP5 project to DEvelopment of Screening guidelines and clinical CRIteria for Predementia Alzheimer's disease, with 881 patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). LLM (Long Lasting Memories) and VRADA (A virtual reality application for the exercise of dementia and Alzheimer patients) are two projects that include body and cognitive exercise for health for the elderly and patients with mild cognitive impairment. The next is the RECAGE (REspectful Caring for the AGitated Elderly) project (Horizon 2020), a prospective cohort study for coping with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. With six European universities we finished a very interesting FP6 project, the AddNeuroMed one, which gives even now information about the progression of normal elderly MCI and AD patients, in collaboration with other consortia. A very interesting Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) project about digital biomarkers was entitled Remote Assessment of Disease and Relapse-Alzheimer's Disease (RADAR project). The main goal of this project was the development and validation of technology-enabled, quantitative and sensitive measures of functional decline in people with early-stage AD. A running project is an Erasmus+ one in the higher education field, "Genetic counseling in European universities: The case of neurodegenerative diseases" (GECONEU project). The target of this study is to develop an online course for university students focusing on genetic counseling, and support people and society to better understand the aims of genetic testing and the usefulness of genetic counseling by involving students in an innovative learning and teaching setting. AD-gaming, BRIDGE, iCONNECT (Intergenerational CONtact between studeNts and people with dEmentia through CreaTive education), E.L.So.M.C.I (English Lessons with the Use of Songs for People with Mild Cognitive Impairment), Games4CoSkills, and De-Sign are all Erasmus+ projects that aim to improve the quality of life of patients with MCI or dementia. Story2remember, Dementia right, ASPAD (Augmentation of the Support of Patients suffering from Alzheimer's Disease and their caregivers), INFOCARE (Supporting Informal Caregivers of People with Dementia), S.IN.CA.L.A (Supporting Informal Carers: A Whole-Family and Life course Approach), and PIA (Peer support workers as an Innovative force in Advocacy in dementia care) are all Erasmus+ projects for training and supporting caregivers of patients with dementia.

Ideological and political study of college English courses under the guidance of ecological linguistics

With the development of The Times, the new curriculum reform is gradually promoted. Ideological and political course has become the key teaching goal in the current university curriculum, and also the teaching focus of the reform and innovation of the university curriculum system. As a public compulsory course for college students, college English course involves a large number of students and a long class hours. It is one of the main courses of development courses and ideological and political education. Ecological linguistics emphasizes the connection and connection between language and ecological environment, which has attracted the attention of the education industry in recent decades. As a language course, college English can be organically combined with ecological linguistics. Because language and its environment will interact, and language is the basis of social and cultural inheritance. Therefore, in order to improve the teaching level of college English, it is necessary to perfectly integrate ecological linguistics with ideological and politics of the course. However, in the current ideological and political teaching objectives of university courses, the integration of ecological linguistics has not been valued. According to the current background and the current classroom teaching mode of college English, this paper discusses the strategy of improving the ideological and political education level of college English courses under the guidance of ecological linguistics, in order to improve the current college English education system in China.

Inspiring pre-service teachers of early years education to create an inquiry environment for children to learn mathematics

The paper presents a~teaching proposal for the Mathematics Education course for university students of Education with a specialisation in Early Childhood Education, in order to motivate pre-service teachers to self-discovery and to encourage individual mathematical problem solving. The proposal was pre-tested in practice. Interactive activities were carried out in which pre-service teachers individually solved mathematical problems at thematic stations and had the opportunity to learn by manipulating objects and discovering solutions to problems. The study was conducted using an action research approach. The results of the study are described in four areas of the researcher's activity: preparing the learning environment (organising the research), observing the subjects, communicating with the subjects (interviewing the pre-service teachers) and using the results.

비전공자를 위한 작곡 교양교과목 개발 운영 사례연구

This study aims to discuss the various advantages and problems that have emerged through the development and operation of a course called “Understanding Music through Composition Experience”, which was opened as a liberal arts course for college students without majoring in music at universities, and to suggest directions for development and improvement. In this three-step class, “Basic Music Theory, Melody Composition Method, Garage Band Application”, the basic music theory essential for composition was found out through the course operation, and melody composed by students were compared according to Schoenberg's tonal music composition theory. I tried to apply the melody and harmony created here to the Garage Band, and analyzed the satisfaction of the students. In conclusion, basic music theory regarding tonality, scale, and pitch interval is considered important for practical composition ability, more practice on rhythm and time is required, and emphasis should be placed on harmony with chords in melody composition. This study is meaningful in suggesting future development directions for creative music classes as liberal arts subjects in universities and class design using smart phone application.

Exploration and practice on the teaching reform of "Bioremediation of Environmental Pollution"

The course Bioremediation of Environmental Pollution, which plays a vital role in the professional training system, is a professional elective course for college students majored in environmental science, environmental engineering and agricultural resources and environment. In view of the problems identified in previous teaching experiences, the teachers carried out teaching reform to meet the demand for high-quality personnel training. The teaching reform included optimization of course objectives, reconstruction of course content and knowledge integration, reform and innovation of teaching methods. The practices indicate that a reformed curriculum teaching significantly improves the achievement of the teaching objectives. Moreover, it effectively enhances the students' independent learning, thinking and comprehensive knowledge application ability, achieving sound teaching effects.