Efficiency Of Educational Activities Research Articles

Theoretical and practical considerations in the creation of a disaster risk reduction educational strategy at the primary education level: A case study of Mexico city

Educational settings present both opportunities and challenges for students, teachers, and decision-makers in terms of creating a disaster risk reduction culture. The selection of a framework, the creation of adequate materials, and the choice of dissemination mechanisms are as important as the contents and the targets prioritized. This study reviews the disaster risk reduction educational strategy implemented in Mexico City schools since 2019 and analyzes the outcomes by 1) surveying the principals and teachers (1,788) at 714 schools, 2) conducting interviews with high-level authorities and field personnel from several agencies involved in the strategy (12), 3) reviewing official databases and actual compliance with regulations and, 4) evaluating the memorability and efficiency of educational activities and materials. The results revealed a complex network of elements associated with the implementation of the strategy, with the most important and easiest to target being a “belief of self-efficacy when facing an emergency situation” as a factor affecting involvement, a sense of self-responsibility, risk perception, and even preference regarding the type of knowledge to deliver to schoolchildren. Regarding the activities and materials implemented, different degrees of success were observed, with the highest being those related to psychosocial support (addressing actual needs during the COVID-19 pandemic) and disaster-response plans (compliance with regulations), while the modality of interaction revealed that activities involving machine interactivity had higher efficiency rates compared with human interactivity or no interactivity. The findings extracted from this case study of Mexico City have the potential to help other cities develop better policies.

MODELING THE APPROACHES TO MANAGING JOINT CO-OP INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

The paper offers an overview and an in-depth analysis of a management framework for developing cooperation between international higher education institutions. Given the key areas and strategic opportunities from the international higher education institution partnership, the study has identified the specifics of international cooperation that can affect the performance efficiency of international activities of higher education institutions along with providing a better focus on the range of mechanisms that can be adopted to boost cooperation between international higher education institutions to increase their efficiency. In addition, the study explores the validity prospects for the above management mechanism as an effective toolkit to enhance HEI global competitiveness. The research findings demonstrate that a higher education system, in the narrow sense, is a set of organizations (institutions) that produce (provide) educational services to individuals (consumers) who pursue higher education. From this perspective, the higher education system includes institutions of higher education, as well as other organizations: licensing, certification and accreditation bodies and research institutions that carry out analytical research in the area of higher education development; monitoring organizations – to maintain higher education quality assurance; media; NGOs; donor organizations. In this context, the primary objective of the education system is to gain maximum effectiveness and efficiency of educational activities. Apart from the above, this paper seeks to explore the effects from education internationalization, thus demonstrating that this process is critical in terms of fostering harmonization of different education systems (at the global level, as well as in the nation-wide settings). The study also asserts that education internationalization creates favourable environment to effective implementation of the goals of sustainable development, in particular those related to human capital development through education. Within the framework of this research, sustainable development of society in the context of higher education and science internationalization and global progress of humanity as well as the institutionalization transformations in political, economic and social domains is viewed as a holistic and multi-level interaction of economies, societies, states, social institutions, cultures, peoples, nations, worldviews, etc. that ultimately affects both the national models of education and science, as well as translates into a change of the global educational and research paradigm.

Mechanisms for ensuring the quality and efficiency of educational activities in the universities of Ukraine in the context of European integration

Mechanisms for ensuring the quality and efficiency of educational activities in the universities of Ukraine in the context of European integration

QUALITY OF EDUCATION ACTIVITIES OF UNIVERSITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF ENSURING ITS EFFECTIVENESS

The subject area of the article is divided into three components: first, the function of a university as a generator of knowledge; secondly, the quality of education offered by a university in general and quality indicators in particular; third, the efficiency and effectiveness of educational activities in universities. The purpose of the article is to clarify the substantive features of the subject area. A complementary set of methods, including comprehensive comparative analysis, analogies and extrapolations were selected as the optimal methodological tools for understanding the subject area and achieving the goal of the study. The obtained results and a number of factors that determine the efficiency and effectiveness of educational activities in universities can be used in the organization and management of such activities in universities. The key conclusion is to use the results of the study, including the outlined subject area of complex and systemic nature, which corresponds to the problems and challenges of educational activities in modern universities. Key words: q uality level of education activities, idea, content of universities' mission statements, effective teaching, criteria and indicators of efficiency, efficiency of educational activity as a component in delivering the highest quality higher education.

Роль правового (юридического) диктанта в выявлении уровня правовой грамотности и правовом просвещении

Introduction. Confirmation of the importance of legal education, the need to overcome legal nihilism and increase the level of legal culture was reflected at the official level in regulatory legal acts, primarily in the Fundamentals of State Policy of the Russian Federation in the development of legal literacy and legal awareness of citizens. Currently, cooperation with non-governmental organizations in this direction is actively developing, which opens up new facets. So, for example, the Association of Lawyers of Russia has initiated the All-Russian Legal Dictation since 2017, the scale of which increases significantly every year. Theoretical analysis. The following problems that hinder the high efficiency of educational activities in legal domain are identified: 1) lack of consistency and proper methodological support; 2) risks of social, organizational, financial, economic and regulatory nature; 3) the absence of maps of obstacles to legal education, indicating all possible risks and ways to minimize and overcome them. Results. The main obstacles to legal education, the associated risks, that can be minimized to increase the efficiency of legal education and the level of legal literacy of the population, are highlighted. Recommendations are given to improve such an action as the All-Russian Legal Dictation, as well as to conduct such actions separately by professional communities. One should not neglect the optional objectives, which can also be achieved when carrying out activities of a law-enlightening nature. For example, tasks of the formation and development of the information and communication culture of citizens, which are now at the initial stage of formation, are no less important.

Integrative approach for the formation of pedagogical competence of teachers of physical education at agrarian university

The article analyzes the concept of pedagogical competence of teachers of physical education. The essence and specificity of development of pedagogical competence of the teacher of physical education is revealed; it is noted that t he development of pedagogical competence in the system of methodical work should be combined with self-education and self- improvement. The formation of the personality of the future specialist depends on the teacher„s pedagogical competence.
 In modern conditions the development of the society, the quality of the training of future specialists in higher educational institutions is largely determined by the level of pedagogic competence of faculty, its ability to increase the efficiency of educational activities. Thus, the urgent problem of today is not only to improve the substantive competence of the teacher of the high school and the formation of his pedagogical competence.
 The objective of the article is to reveal the basic aspects of scientific research in the field of education regarding the definition of pedagogical competence of the teacher of physical education.
 Therefore, urgent problem today is not only improving the competence of the subject high school teacher, but also the formation of his pedagogical competence. Willingness for future specialists in physical education and sport to the use of innovative, future professional activity, and learning. Theoretical analysis showed that the separation of the core competencies depends on the values of a particular society, what makes a person successful socially, economically and personally, not only in school, but under the influence of family, friends, work, politics, religion, culture and so on.
 It is established that regardless of the profile of the educational institution the development of pedagogical competence of the teacher is an indicator of the readiness of the teacher to carry out teaching activities, a display of the highest form of pedagogical competence. Teachers of physical education of agrarian university solve the most important tasks on involvement of youth to healthy lifestyle, formation of readiness of future specialists-agrarians to professional activity on the basis of value attitude to health of population of Ukraine.

Система полифункционального контроля в управлении качеством профессиональной подготовки курсантов

We presented the substantiation of the system of multifunctional control of the quality of training of cadets of the military educational organization of higher education based on the interpretation of the concepts of “control”, “control functions”, “quality of training”, the advantage of which is the possibility of combining the efforts of various subjects to ensure a holistic view of the level of training results of the future specialist. At the same time, the effectiveness of the training management process is determined not so much by fixed educational results, but rather by an analysis of the reasons for their discrepancy with the task of training and the search for reserves for improving the efficiency of educational activities and the quality of knowledge of cadets. The analysis of the structure of multifunctional quality control of training made it possible to determine one of the directions - the accompanying one, which, using the control of pedagogical interaction of participants in the educational process, contributes to both the timely adjustment of management decisions and the improvement of student training results. Management support is significant in creating conditions for optimizing the educational process in the military educational organization of higher education, characterized by a strict temporary regulation of the activities of cadets, the structural component of which is self-training, which affects the success of achieving educational results. To determine the influence of the commander's management support on the result of training cadets in the process of self-training, a mathematical model was developed as a diagnostic tool, which allows you to quickly establish feedback in the management support system, the algorithm which we proposed in the study.

Пути повышения мотивации обучения иностранному языку в вузе

The problem of ways of increasing motivation in the university foreign language teaching is analyzed. It is emphasized the motivation can cause the purposeful activity of a student’s personality in learning a foreign language. The analysis of scientific literature that is connected with the problems of motivation as a complex mechanism of the correlation of external and internal factors that determine the appearance and methods of implementation of educational activity forms, its focus on the internal incentives of knowledge gaining, is carried. Attention is focused on the fact that the efficiency of educational activities depends on the strength of motivation. The degree of success depends on the use of techniques and methods of the learning process organizing, which, in our opinion, contribute to the creation of motivational incentives of learning a foreign language: the linguistic and country-specific studies aspect, focus on professional activity, the use of computer technologies in extracurricular work, and educational process gamification. It is concluded that the internal motivation has a great motivating force, and its condition is the creation of the success situation by the teacher that can be reached with the help of reward for successful work system, attracting the additional material of country-specific studies nature, improving communicative skills, usage of educational platforms as homework, usage of the gamification to involve students in solving educational non-game processes and situations.

1. Emotional Development through Art Expressions

Abstract Aesthetic education forms and develops a mental quality of the individual, namely, general receptivity to the world and life. It can be said, however, that aesthetic education includes a multiplicity of meanings, formative and educative in relation to personality. All this has a profound echo in the whole personality, whether at the emotional or behavioral level. Art touches and contributes to creating prints from which the later emotional pleasure, taste, artistic judgment and discernment on human values will develop. Emotion refers not only to the aesthetics but involves more often, ethics, behavioral preferences in choosing one or another conduct. Emotions enrich the register of artistic self-expression and complements the temperamental and the character profile of a person. Here we analyze these relevant issues in an experiment conducted at the “Elena Cuza” Primary School of Iasi, Romania. We also present the conclusions of Art Intervention in school for these students. Art intervention in school can become an affective-emotional aim in educator-student relationship and may have important, long term evolutionary consequences, referring to the achievement of personal ideals and efficiency of educational activity.

LEVEL OF SUBJEСT EXPERIENCE OF STUDENTS IN EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY OF LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY

The article considers the problem of diagnostics of subject experience in educational activity. It is noted that the subject experience of personality is a factor that influence the efficiency of educational activity. Therefore, the problem of diagnostics of subject experience is important. There are no efficient ways and methods of diagnostics of subject experience in scientific researches. The author analysis methods and ways of diagnostics of subject experience, describes and reveals the level of subject experience of students. The results of the study show a low level of subject experience and some problems of students in educational activity; therefore, it is necessary to form subject experience in educational activity.

Web-based Collaborative and Practical Education for 3D-CAD and Roadway Design

In this paper, a collaborative distributed education method is proposed. This method combines traditional lecture in classroom with asynchronous dispersed information exchange system supported by web technology. An experiment lecture with this method has been done in order to practice roadway design using LDT/Civil, software products based on 3D-CAD. This training is about not only how to use the software, but to create new ideas, to establish models and to finish drawings for roadway design. Teachers can discuss with students about their design works on web pages, and can check the procedure that students experienced in their homework. This enables civil engineering, roadway design and CAD experts to take part in practical, real world education. In this way, the quality and the efficiency of educational activities are improved greatly compared to traditional method.

TH-D-202-01: Developing Rich Learning Experiences for Medical Physics Education

Learning is a natural human function in which personal experiences produce changes in the brain. Of specific interest are the changes that form knowledge structures of the physical universe that are generally associated with the physical and biological sciences. There are many variables associated with a learning experience that determine the characteristics of the knowledge structures and especially the outcomes with respect to the ability to perform specific functions. In the field of medical physics desired education and training outcomes are at the higher levels that include concept formation ability to analyze and evaluate problem solving and the ability to create and produce innovations. This applies not only to medical physicists but also to medical professionals especially those who are applying physical principles in medical imaging and radiation oncology procedures. The challenge in medical physics education is to provide rich learning experiences activities and environments that will produce useful knowledge structures. These generally are learning experiences that provide the learner (student resident practicing professional etc.) with the opportunity to observe explore and interact with the physical reality along with experienced learning facilitators (teachers) and collaborating learners. In this symposium we will begin by exploring the human brain with respect to its functional regions (from a medical physics perspective) the characteristics of the knowledge structures in each and then the types of experiences that contribute to knowledge formation. We will recall some of our personal learning experiences both general and professional and consider them with respect to their richness and the quality of learning they produced. As we analyze several academic environments (classroom laboratory collaborative learning etc.) we observe characteristics and conditions that determine richness and effectiveness. With our knowledge of human brain function we will then design several types of learning activities to achieve the desired learning outcomes. Our goal will be to use technology to enhance human performance for both learners and learning facilitators. That is us! Learning Objectives: 1. Use contemporary models of human brain function as a foundation for understanding medical physics knowledge structures. 2. Identify desirable learning outcomes that promote the effective applications of physics and technology to improved clinical medicine. 3. Analyze a variety of learning activities with respect to their richness and effectiveness in producing desirable learning outcomes. 4. Plan and develop learning activities that make appropriate use of technology to optimize the effectiveness and efficiency of educational activities.