Related Curriculum Research Articles

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR FACULTY AND STUDENTS

Information Management System for Faculty and Students is a system developed using PHP that provides a number of operations such as uploading, editing, deleting etc. The users of the system will be the college staff (including the admin, HOD and examiner) and students. Information Management System deals with all kind of student details, academic related reports, college details, course details, curriculum, batch details, placement details, assignment list, syllabus, lesson plans, test papers and experiment lists. It tracks all the details of a student from the day one to the end of the course which can be used for reporting purpose, tracking of attendance, progress in the course, completed semesters, years, final exam result and all these will be available through a secure, online interface embedded in the college’s website. It will also have faculty details, batch execution details, students’ details, the various academic notifications to the staff and students updated by the college administration. It also allows them to explore all the activities happening in the college. This program accelerates reaction time and improves accuracy. The objective of our project is to develop an application which will automate the process of managing all the details required for all the educational institutes. Keywords-Information Management System,Automated,PHP,JavaScript,HTML ___________________________________________________*****____________________________________________________

PISA's Financial Literacy Test and Financial Education related Curriculum in Korean Precollege Level School

PISA's Financial Literacy Test and Financial Education related Curriculum in Korean Precollege Level School

Education System to Learn the Skills of Management Decision-Making by Using Business Simulator with Speech Recognition Technology

In this paper, we propose an educational system that involves a business game simulator and related curriculum. To develop these two elements, we examined the decision-making process related to business management and identified some significant skills thereby. In addition, we created an original simulator, named BizLator (http://bizlator.com), to help students develop these skills efficiently. Next, we developed a curriculum suitable for the simulator. We confirmed the effectiveness of the simulator and curriculum in a business-game-based class at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo. On the basis of this, we compared our education system with a conventional system. This allowed us to identify advantages of and issues with our proposed system. Furthermore, we proposed a speech recognition support system named BizVoice in order to provide the teachers with more meaningful feedback, such as level of students' understanding. Concretely, BizVocie fetches students' speech of discussion during the game and converts the voice data to text data with speech recognition technology. Finally, teachers can grasp students' parameters of understanding, and thereby, the students also can take more effective class using BizLator. We also confirmed the effectiveness of the system in the class of Aoyama Gakuin Universiry.

Curriculum Integration versus Educating for Global Citizenship: A (Disciplinary) View from the International Relations Classroom

This paper draws upon the author’s essay “Cosmopolitanism and Constructivism: Making Study Abroad Relevant to the International Relations Classroom,” CAPA Occasional Papers, June 2013 and “Integrating Study Abroad in the International Relations Curriculum: Constructivism and Cosmopolitanism as an Antidote to Global Citizenship,” Presented to the annual 2013 meeting of the Mid-West Political Science Association.”

A hidden curriculum in Japanese EFL textbooks: Gender representation

This study seeks to uncover the hidden curriculum in relation to gender representation in two popular series of contemporary Japanese EFL textbooks. The criteria examined include male-to-female ratios, use of gender-marked and neutral vocabulary, titles of address for women, order of mention, and common attributes and types of activities associated with men and women. Instead of the generally manual methods of analysis employed in many previous studies, corpora and modern software tools are used (frequency counts, collocation, and concordancing analyses via WordSmith tools) in an attempt to investigate whether the Japanese government's attempt to promote a gender-equal society through education in recent years has been put into practice by textbook writers and publishers. The findings reveal common use of gender-neutral vocabulary and the neutral title Ms to address women. However, gender disparities in the forms of female invisibility, male firstness and stereotypical images are still prevalent in the textbooks examined.

Sex (education) in the city: Singapore's sexuality education curriculum

This paper examines the Singapore Ministry of Education's sexuality education curriculum in relation to two leading approaches to sex education, namely, abstinence-only-until-marriage education (AOUME) and comprehensive sexuality education (CSE). Based on competing cultural, political, and religious beliefs, the arguments between the advocates of AOUME and CSE not only echo similar debates in other countries, but also reveal the vicissitudes of Singapore's “global city” ambitions in the face of cultural and economic globalization. In conclusion, this paper suggests that the tensions between the official curriculum, the societal curriculum, and the enacted curriculum provide the grounds on which a politics of curriculum reform can be staged.

IT 환경 변화에 따른 인터랙티브 디자인 교육의 방향성 -대학교육을 중심으로-

본 연구는 변화하는 IT 환경에 따른 디자인 교육의 혁신 요구에 주목하여, 인터랙티브 디자인 분야의 학문적 가능성과 대학에서의 교육방안을 제시함으로서, 매체 및 기술의 변동에 따른 디자인 교육의 합리적인 방향성을 모색하였다. 본 연구는 사회적 요구에 따라 인터랙티브 디자인을 통한 고부가가치를 얻기 위해서는 그에 따른 연구와 학문적 기반이 갖추어져야 할 것이며, 특히, 대학에서의 독립적인 학문 영역 토대를 마련하고, 관련 교육과정의 구축이 선행되어야 할 것이라는 인식에 따라, 그 교육적 방향성을 제시하였다는데 의의가 있다. 본 연구를 통해 인터랙티브 디자인의 독자적 학문영역 구축의 필요성을 언급하였으며, 학문적으로 인터랙티브 디자인의 개념과 범위를 정립하였다. 인터랙티브 디자인학의 영역은 전통적인 기술만을 가르치는 것으로는 충분하지 않다. 따라서 전통적 디자인 교육의 보편적 한계를 넘어선 기술적 이해를 요구하면서, 복합적인 이슈를 다룰 수 있어야 할 것이며, 그에 따른 차별화된 교육방법의 모색이 요구된다. This study observes innovation demand in design education according to IT environment in change, and explores reasonable directivity of design education according to fluctuations in media and technologies by presenting academic possibility of interactive design field and its education paradigms for universities. In order to achieve highly added values through interactive design complying with social demand, accompanying researches and academic frames are to be prepared, in particular with independent academic domain frame in universities, this study presents an educational directivity by recognizing important establishments of related curriculum that must be proceeded. This study has made a contribution in addressing the necessity of establishment of individual academic domain for interactive design and also setting up the domain of interactive design. It has been concluded that technological understanding beyond conventional design education, management of complex issues in consideration, and methodology of differentiated education in corresponding to the situation needed as well as typical educations of conventional technologies should be provided for satisfying innovation demand in the domain of interactive design.

G264 Mentoring for Paediatricians - need and support for a National Framework

Aims Mentoring has been shown to be important for personal and professional development of doctors. This study aimed to assess the current awareness of and demand for mentoring amongst paediatricians in the UK. This will enable appropriate development and targeting of resources and support, in addition to assisting paediatricians in training to meet curriculum requirements in this area. Methods A survey was circulated via institutional communication tools to all members and fellows of the RCPCH, seeking views on interest in, and provision and experience of, mentoring and related activities. The responses were analysed and results used to develop recommendations and strategies to improve RCPCH support of mentoring in the UK. Results 312 paediatricians responded. Findings showed that the majority of respondents are “mentoring naive” in a formal sense but reported some informal experience of delivering mentoring (19% formally, 44% informally). There is a perception that existing local support for formal mentoring is limited, and exists either via mentoring schemes or training courses (33% aware of a local scheme, 69% perceived local provision to be inadequate). RCPCH support for mentoring is welcomed by trainees, SAS doctors and consultants (71–79% supported RCPCH provision of support; 32–45% supported signposting to non-RCPCH provision). In addition, there is pan-region support for increasing emphasis on and availability of mentoring schemes and resources (high interest (68%) in attending RCPCH blended mentoring courses). There is interest in both hierarchical and peer-to-peer mentoring relationships. Concerningly, there is poor knowledge about trainee mentoring curriculum requirements (only 16% aware) across all grades. Conclusion There is limited experience of formal mentoring, and poor awareness of mentoring-related curriculum requirements amongst paediatricians in the UK. RCPCH support of mentoring activities is welcomed by all grades of paediatricians. This data will be used to inform development of future resources and support, including specific standards to support delivery of effective mentoring schemes. Future possibilities include development of a RCPCH-led mentoring scheme (with the potential for training courses and an accredited mentor register) in addition to increasing awareness of mentoring related curriculum requirements for all grades of paediatricians.

The Efficacy of Mathematics Education

Evidence supports the notion that mathematics education in the United States is inadequate. There is also evidence that mathematics education deficiencies extend internationally. The worldwide mathematics education deficit appears large enough that improving student performance in this educational problem area could yield great economic benefit. To improve the efficacy of mathematics education, education’s root problems must first be understood. Often supposed educational root problems are considered and contrasted against potential deficiencies of mathematics methodologies and curricula that are based on mainstream educational philosophies. The educational philosophies utilized to form early-grade mathematics methodologies and related curricula are judged to be the main reasons for low levels of interest in the subject of mathematics by student populations. An exploration of available literature in regard to how the human brain learns is provided. Two unifications are resultantly hypothesized: interest and learning appear to be mentally intertwined, this unification may serve as the basis for a more effective educational methodology; children are nearly universally interested in the visual arts, arithmetic and geometric mathematical principles are intertwined with the visual arts principles of linear perspective and proportion. An early grade curriculum that relates those mathematical principles via artistic methods (similar to those developed and utilized by master artists and engineers of the Renaissance era) may prove broadly effective at equitably increasing students’ mathematical achievement. Future research in such a direction is highly recommended.

Linking Classroom Performance to the Institutional Mission Statement

A higher education institution’s mission statement should communicate its purpose and goals to both internal and external stakeholders. Unless there is a means of assessing the statement’s efficacy, it is little more than a vacuous public relations contrivance. Most teaching institutions’ mission statements directly or indirectly speak to student learning. Focusing on business schools, a literature review found little evidence of mission statement influence at the individual course level. Studies assessing the linkage between individual courses and the school’s mission statement are few. More comprehensive studies assessing the linkage from assemblages of multiple-section courses, majors, and programs could not be located in the available literature. This article presents a unique and cost-effective mathematical model that can be used to link aggregated student performance in individual courses to the institutional mission statement. Its utility permits the aggregation and disaggregation of data facilitating comparisons and contrasts performance within and across majors, required and elective, and general education within a curriculum in relation to the institution’s mission statement. Furthermore, the model could be used to isolate and compare and contrast targeted subgroups by class standing, faculty rank, experience, and full- or part-time status.

Auditor independence: a review of literature

Independence is one of the most important attributes of the accounting profession. The auditor independence is measured by how honest an auditor is in reporting the material misstatements found in the financial statements by managers. The auditor maintains his/her independence by not having any conflicts of interest with the client (managers). The auditor is encouraged to appear independent in the sight of investors, but only to the extent that the audit fees cover the cost of the actual audit. This research is expected to serve as a guide in understanding the importance of auditor independence and the challenges auditors face. The major purpose of this research is to survey the auditor independence related research literature published during the period from 1992 to 2010. This survey suggests that a wide range of topic areas has been discussed and this learning can be incorporated in revising auditor independence related curricula.

Sexual Orientation Curriculum in U.S. School Counselor Education Programs

The sexual orientation–related content of 60 school counselor preparation programs across 22 U.S. states is described. The findings include the percentage of curricular time devoted to sexual orientation–related topics, the specific sexual orientation–related topics addressed, and the locations of sexual orientation–related curriculum within programs (e.g., foundations, methods, and fieldwork/practica). The research also investigated any relationship between sexual orientation–related curriculum and faculty demographics and Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs (CACREP) accreditation. Findings and recommendations are addressed in light of CACREP and American School Counselor Association (ASCA) standards.

The cultivation of scientific data specialists

Purpose– This article aims to summarize the employers' requirements of scientific data specialists and the status quo of LIS education organizations' training system for scientific data specialists. It also focuses on the matching analysis between the course content and the responsibilities as well as requirements of scientific data specialists. Moreover, in order to provide some indications for LIS education of scientific data specialists in China, it presents the training objectives and modes.Design/methodology/approach– Some job portals for librarians and the comprehensive job portals are investigated as information sources and the keywords such as “scientific data management”, “data service”, “data curation”, “e-Science”, “e-Research”, “data specialist” are selected to retrieval library-released job advertisements for scientific data specialists to understand the library's requirements towards scientific data specialists' core capabilities. Meanwhile the course catalogues of all iSchools' web sites are searched directly in order to find if scientific data courses are provided.Findings– Libraries value teamwork ability, communication ability, interpersonal ability and a good use of data curation tools as the core competences for scientific data specialists. Candidates who possess a second advanced degree, who understand libraries, who hold demonstrated knowledge of metadata standards, and who emphasize details, under the same condition, are more likely to be considered first. Libraries do not have a unified title for scientific data specialists yet. The current curriculums of iSchools mainly cover research method, data science, data management and data service, data statistic and analysis, data warehouse, information studies and technologies, and so on.Originality/value– This unique study explores some required qualifications of science data specialist surveyed by job openings, including the core skills, position requirements, responsibilities of the job, and some qualifications. It also investigates the related curriculum setting of iSchool universities through course descriptions. This study is very useful for curriculum development in Chinese LIS education of scientific data specialists including required core courses and selected electives, and to promote the practice of data service in Chinese academic libraries.

The “Ethics” of Teaching Ethical Hacking

Programs teaching ethical hacking are growing steadily. The argument for teaching ethical hacking focuses on the need to better understand attacks and attackers. However, some believe that teaching offensive hacking skills increases risk to society by drawing students toward criminal acts. The proponents of teaching ethical hacking argue that ethics training permeates related curriculum providing students with ample preparation to understand the risks and choose healthy behaviors. This paper examines mechanisms beyond classroom-based curriculum to minimize the risk of students committing criminal acts with the skills acquired in an ethical hacking course.

Professional Teachers’ Strategies for Promoting Positive Behaviour in Schools

This study aims to obtain descriptive information on strategies used to promote positive behaviour in the school context from professional teachers’ perspectives based on background information. The professional teachers, who play important roles in schools, include principals, class teachers, physical education teachers, discipline teachers, and counselors. The study design employed the survey approach using questionnaire with close-ended questions involving 319 respondents who were selected randomly from 15 urban national secondary schools in Malaysia. Data analysis was conducted using descriptive statistics such as frequency and percentage. Results indicated that the majority of professional teachers used five positive behaviour enhancement strategies, namely treating pupils with respect, co-operating with the government agencies, encouraging pupils to actively participate in school activities, using more praise than criticism in schools and guiding pupils to find a solution to modify their behavioural problems. The data analysis shows that there is a difference in terms of the frequency of strategy use from professional teachers’ perspectives based on background information. It is recommended that designing teacher training curriculum and in-service training in relation to positive behaviour enhancement strategies should be updated and appropriate with the professional teachers’ needs, and also be congruent with their background information.

Intercultural Skills in the Newly Developed Elementary and the Revised Secondary French Curricula in Relation to Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Abstract The primary and secondary French language curricula in Turkey aim at preparing students to make use of the language as a communication tool in order to meet their needs and to improve themselves as intercultural mediators based on their knowledge of the other cultures following the goals stated in the European Framework of Reference for Languages. This study deals with the critical analysis of the primary French language curricula which was developed firstly in 2011 and secondary French language curricula which was updated in 2011 in terms of goals, content, instruction and evaluation based on European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Graph Model of Interdisciplinary Links as a Tool to Optimize the Content of Physics and Mathematics Courses

Abstract When developing the content of physics curricula, every author seeks to optimize the curriculum in the area of its connectedness with the content of related curricula. We decide this problem with quantitative calculations. Graph model of interdisciplinary connections, and method of calculation quantitative parameters of model, have described in this article. The application of quantitative method to content of physics and mathematics has already done. The hierarchy of mathematical concepts used by the General Physics course is established. Their connectedness was calculated. The increase of connectedness option was shown in the case of synchronous learning.

Design of Process Management for Multi-Process Micro-Kernel Embedded OS on ARM

This paper describes the design and implementation of process management for ARM based multi-process micro-kernel embedded operating system in technical details, including allocation of process memory space with MMU, creation of system level tasks, generation of the init process, the process management task, switching of the tasks and processes, and multi-level priority-queue schedule. The paper finally gives a demo example to show the performance of the process management. The entire operating system is implemented on Linux with GNU tool chain by the author of this paper, which is programmed simple and compact therefore suitable for both embedded system development and embedded related curriculum teaching in colleges and universities.

Design of Tiny TTY for Multi-Process Micro-Kernel Embedded OS on ARM

This paper describes the design and implementation of tiny TTY driver for ARM based multi-process micro-kernel embedded operating system in technical details, including overview of TTY (Control flow of terminal driver, process modes for TTY, data structures for tiny TTY), interrupt-mode UART driver, and tiny TTY driver for micro-kernel OS. The ARM based operating system is designed and implemented by the author of this paper on Linux with GNU tool chain. Based on the TTY, some shell commands are designed, in which the key strokes on the super terminal are read as the input of the commands analogous to the case for ordinary embedded Linux. On the premise of implementing essential functions, the routines for the tiny TTY is designed as simple as possible therefore it is suited to not only embedded operating system research but also embedded related curriculum teaching in colleges and universities.

Design of MINIX FS for Multi-Process Micro-Kernel Embedded OS on ARM

This paper describes the design and implementation of MINIX file system for an embedded OS in technical details, including an overview of MINIX FS, an introduction of the data structures for it, key techniques of implementing it, such as cache, foundational routines and interface functions. The file system is implemented on the multi-process micro-kernel embedded operating system on ARM, which is also designed by the author of this paper with GNU tool chain. The essential functions for a MINIX FS are accomplished, e.g. mount (), open (), close (), read (), write (), lseek (), unlink (), stat (), chdir (), mkdir (), rmdir (), execve (), etc. To show the effects of the file system, some related shell commands are also designed, e.g. cat, cp, echo, ls, pwd, etc. The file system is designed as simple as possible so that the code amount of it is only about 1,600 lines. With such a small scale, the system is suitable not only for embedded application system developments but also for embedded related curriculum teaching in colleges and universities.