Graduation Requirements Research Articles

STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION TOWARD TOEFL PREDICTION TEST AS ONE OF THE GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS FROM UNIVERSITY

The students at the university under investigation are required to successfully complete the TOEFL Prediction test in order to be eligible for graduation. This study was conducted to assess the perceptions of these students regarding the TOEFL Prediction test as one of the graduation requirements. The research employed a descriptive-quantitative methodology and involved 171 English Study Program students from three different academic batches. A questionnaire served as the primary instrument for data collection, with data analysis carried out using Microsoft Excel and SPSS statistics version 26. The results of the data analysis indicated that the mean scores for most items in the questionnaire were in the high range. Specifically, 25 out of the 29 questionnaire items obtained mean scores above 3.40, demonstrating that students' perceptions in this study leaned positively toward the TOEFL Prediction test policy. However, it's important to note that nearly half of the students recognized that the TOEFL Prediction test is not an easy test. Furthermore, there is room for improvement in terms of students' understanding of the type of TOEFL test provided by the language centre at the university and the benefits of the TOEFL certificate. These findings can provide valuable input for the university's policymakers and administrators. They can use this information to design new initiatives and strategies aimed at assisting students in improving their test-taking skills and their understanding of the TOEFL Prediction test's structure. Such efforts can contribute to enhancing students' overall readiness for this requirement.

Continuous Improvement and Optimization of Curriculum System for Engineering Education Accreditation: A Questionnaire Survey on Achievement Degrees of Graduation Requirements

Engineering education accreditation represents the current trend in undergraduate reformation. Curriculum system improvement is an important way to realize the “innovation leading” of engineering education accreditation. However, there is little information detailing the improvement and optimization of the curriculum system for engineering education accreditation, and a method was tentatively developed based on evaluated achievement degrees of graduation requirements through a questionnaire survey in this work. The results show that a curriculum system guided by engineering education accreditation greatly improves graduation requirement achievement and students’ overall qualities. The graduation requirement achievement degree is largely influenced by the curriculum system and extracurricular science and technology activities, while it is not significantly correlated with students’ scores. Some measures are provided to optimize and improve the curriculum system, including adding additional curricula, converting the supporting index of the curriculum, strengthening the supporting degree of the curriculum, and guiding extracurricular scientific activity. Such measures are significant for increasing achievement degrees, reasonably balancing teaching resources and developing students’ comprehensive abilities. Moreover, the students’ scores cannot objectively reflect the graduation requirement achievement degree, and there exist some limitations to evaluating graduation requirement achievement degrees using course scores. Additionally, post-graduate environment factors, such as major-related work, technical work and further education, also affect graduation requirement achievement degrees.

Everyday sense making and the discursive delineation of social policy space in Zambia

AbstractThis article connects the notions of policy space and social contract in order to understand the importance of everyday discourse for the perceived legitimacy of social policy choices and emerging responsibilities in Zambia. Based on a Grounded Theory analysis of interview and document material, the article reconstructs common sense ideas about the limited resources of the state, from which modalities in the Social Cash Transfer programme, especially the requirements for targeting and graduation, are derived. It moreover explores how from these limited means also follows the sharing of responsibilities between the state and the recipients themselves, giving way to a self‐responsibility discourse. Thereby, the attempt by implementing officers and the wider community to rationalise distributional choices in light of wide‐spread poverty, shape the social contract between the state and citizens in Zambia and ultimately also delineate the space of what becomes possible to imagine within social policy. The article concludes with an argument for broadening social policy visions away from the individual level towards tackling the underlying structural causes of poverty by connecting social with economic interventions.

How and why US universities fail to impart environmental literacy to all students

PurposeThis study aims to assess the spread of environmental literacy graduation requirements at public universities in the USA, and to highlight factors that mediate the adoption of this curriculum innovation.Design/methodology/approachThe author analyzed the undergraduate general education curriculum requirements at all 549 public BA-granting higher education institutions in the USA between 2020 and 2022.FindingsThe study found that only 27 US public universities out of 540 have an environmental literacy graduation requirement, which represents 5% of universities and is substantially lower than previous estimates.Originality/valueFirst, this study provides a more complete, more reliable and more current assessment of the graduation requirement’s presence at US tertiary institutions, and shows the number of universities that have implemented this innovation is lower than was estimated a decade ago. Second, it draws from the scholarship on the infusion of sustainability into the university curriculum to provide a comprehensive discussion of factors that mediate the pursuit and implementation of the graduation requirement. As well, it identifies factors that played a key role in one pertinent case.

PELATIHAN STATISTIK DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN SPSS (STATISTICAL PRODUCT AND SERVICE SOLUTION) UNTUK PENINGKATAN KETERAMPILAN DALAM MENYELESAIKAN TUGAS AKHIR MAHASISWA SEKOLAH TINGGI ILMU EKONOMI WIYATAMANDALA

The problem faced by final year students at the Wiyatamandala College of Economics is the lack of practice in producing scientific work. Students' lack of knowledge in making scientific work is due to a lack of understanding of research methodology and mastery of the SPSS application which can help process research data using statistical techniques, even though making research is very important to fulfill students' obligations as a graduation requirement in obtaining a bachelor's degree. The result of this service is that participants understand the concept of SPSS processing with simple research examples used as material for training in analyzing research data using the SPSS application so that students can read and analyze the output results from using the SPSS application

Knowledge graph empowerment from knowledge learning to graduation requirements achievement.

A deep understanding of the relationship between the knowledge acquired and the graduation requirements is essential for students to precisely meet the graduation requirements and to become human resources with specific knowledge, skills and professionalism. In this paper, we define the ontology layer of the knowledge graph by deeply analyzing the relationship between graduation requirement, course and knowledge. Based on the implementation of the concept of Outcome Based Education, we use Knowledge extraction, fusion, reasoning techniques to construct a hierarchical knowledge graph with the main line of "knowledge-course-graduation requirements. In the process of knowledge extraction, in order to alleviate the huge labor overhead brought by traditional extraction methods, this paper adopts a transfer learning method to extract triadic knowledge using the multi-task framework EERJE, Finally, knowledge reasoning was also performed with the help of LLM to further expand the knowledge scope. The comprehensiveness, correctness and relatedness of the data were evaluated through the experiment, and the F1 value of the ternary group extraction was 87.76%, the accuracy rate of entity classification was 85.42%, the data coverage was more comprehensive, and the results showed that the data quality was better, and the knowledge graph constructed in this way can fully optimize the organization and management of teaching resources, help students intuitively and comprehensively grasp the correlation and difference between graduation requirements and various knowledge points, and let the Students can carry out personalized independent learning through the navigation mode of knowledge graph, strengthen their weak links, and complete the relevant graduation requirements, which effectively improves the degree of students' graduation requirements achievement. This new paradigm of knowledge graph enabled teaching is of reference significance for engineering education majors to improve the degree of graduation requirements achievement.

Neurological Surgery Residency Programs in the United States: A National Cross-Sectional Survey.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has approved 117 neurological surgery residency programs which develop and educate neurosurgical trainees. We present the current landscape of neurosurgical training in the United States by examining multiple aspects of neurological surgery residencies in the 2022-2023 academic year and investigate the impact of program structure on resident academic productivity. Demographic data were collected from publicly available websites and reports from the National Resident Match Program. A 34-question survey was circulated by e-mail to program directors to assess multiple features of neurological surgery residency programs, including curricular structure, fellowship availability, recent program changes, graduation requirements, and resources supporting career development. Mean resident productivity by program was collected from the literature. Across all 117 programs, there was a median of 2.0 (range 1.0-4.0) resident positions per year and 1.0 (range 0.0-2.0) research/elective years. Programs offered a median of 1.0 (range 0.0-7.0) Committee on Advanced Subspecialty Training-accredited fellowships, with endovascular fellowships being most frequently offered (53.8%). The survey response rate was 75/117 (64.1%). Of survey respondents, the median number of clinical sites was 3.0 (range 1.0-6.0). Almost half of programs surveyed (46.7%) reported funding mechanisms for residents, including R25, T32, and other in-house grants. Residents received a median academic stipend of $1000 (range $0-$10 000) per year. Nearly all programs (93.3%) supported wellness activities for residents, which most frequently occurred quarterly (46.7%). Annual academic stipend size was the only significant predictor of resident academic productivity (R 2 = 0.17, P = .002). Neurological surgery residency programs successfully train the next generation of neurosurgeons focusing on education, clinical training, case numbers, and milestones. These programs offer trainees the chance to tailor their career trajectories within residency, creating a rewarding and personalized experience that aligns with their career aspirations.

Implementation of Guessing The Picture For Increase The English Vocabulary of Students


 English is the language of communication in the international world, even in the fields of development, technology, economics, and education. Being CPNS (Civil Servant Candidates), work in companies with high salaries, and one of the true forms of getting a scholarship is that many universities require a TOEFL or IELTS as a requirement for graduation. Vocabulary is the most important component that youngsters must master in order to be able to utilize the language effectively. The aim of this article is to present results from research on guessing photographs using paper targeted to students, as well as as an additional tool, namely students must use a dictionary when the picture is shown and the English vocabulary from the picture is unknown to them. An experimental strategy is used in this study procedure. Researchers employ the Quasi Experimental Design technique, in which the first stage is orientation or school observation, followed by the selection of the sample and population to be used as research material. The team gave a favorable response from step one through step three based on the results of the checklist and field notes examined during the study process, indicating that the team had improved. According to the data, playing the photo guessing game enhanced effective vocabulary. The number of participants in the experimental class increased after the post-test phase, whereas the number of participants in the control class did not. The experimental class's post-test scores can be seen in the post-test results to confirm it. 

My favorite resources for teaching musical acoustics

I teach a Physics of Music class at Wake Forest University. Students from a broad range of majors and backgrounds take the class to fulfill a science divisional requirement for graduation. In this talk I will describe how I incorporate some of my favorite online resources into my instruction. Some of these include the Sound and Waves section of the Physclips web platform created by Joe Wolfe at the University of New South Wales. I also frequently draw from Dan Russell’s Acoustics and Vibration Animations at Penn State University. In addition, I find that tools and resources such as online spectrograms and live-streamed music fit well within my course.

Pelatihan Cara Register dan Submit Artikel Pada OJS Bagi Mahasiswa Pendidikan Sejarah, FKIP-Unpatti

Requiring the publication of scientific papers as one of the graduation requirements for undergraduate programs is a challenge for students. So this training was carried out to provide students with an understanding of the steps in registering and submitting articles to OJS. The method used in this training is an introduction to the OJS system and training to submit scientific articles via OJS. Training to submit scientific articles through OJS apart from introducing the OJS system, the next stage of activity is training to submit scientific articles through OJS. The aim is to provide knowledge and skills for students in writing scientific articles and registering and submitting scientific articles through OJS. Apart from that, the service team carries out evaluations related to activities in the form of: Routine mentoring once every semester. This is done to check whether students can/have actually submitted scientific articles via OJS. Periodic review every three months twice during one semester. This is done to share knowledge and insight with students that in writing scientific articles there are still many levels that need to be understood.

The Development of Track and Field Learning Management Model for High-Performance Athletics in Guangzhou

Background and Aim: In the construction of a sports powerhouse, the government has paid more and more attention to the training of track and field athletics, and learning management is one of the important components of the management of track and field athletics. The deviation of cultural achievements of Universities Track and Field Athletes exposes the inadequacy of the learning management model, optimizing the learning management model is an effective measure to improve the comprehensive quality of track and field athletics. This study was to construct a model of learning management of Universities Track and Field Athletes in Guangzhou. Materials and Methods: This study employs the methods of in-depth interviews, questionnaire surveys, the Delphi method, and mathematical statistics. Based on the POLC theory, this article analyzes the current situation of learning management modes for college track and field athletes in terms of enrollment management, program management, major management, learning process management, assessment and ranking management, and graduation management. To this end, the article summarizes the influencing factors through expert evaluations and constructs a new learning management mode. l. Results: after analysis was found as follows： (1) Planning: implement strict enrollment management, and improve the cultural foundation of track and field athletes from the source. (2) Organization is the main structure for learning and management of college track and field athletes in Guangzhou including five parts: government, schools, academic teachers, coaches, and high-level athletes themselves. (3) Leading has established a governance system that promotes multi-party co-governance, mutual benefit, and mutual promotion establishes a unified national enrollment deadline, and postpones professional exams. And (4) Controlling reforms should be implemented in various aspects such as the recruitment of high-level athletes, professional settings, and training time for track and field athletes. The training time for athletes should not exceed 4 hours per day, ensuring that they have sufficient time for academic studies. Academic performance should be linked to training and qualification for competitions. Conclusion: On the whole, the learning management model of university track and field athletes in Guangzhou presents the characteristics of "wide entry and wide exit", which reduces the admission requirements for cultural achievements to recruit athletes, exchange credits through sports training and competition results, implements incentive measures, and reduces course assessment requirements, etc. Ensuring that they complete cultural studies and can complete the required credits to meet graduation requirements, this "leisure" policy results in their academic level being lower than that of ordinary students.

Comparison of requirements of graduates entering employment in Vysočina Region and region Upper Austria

PurposeCurrently, owing to the influence of rapid globalisation, the issue of international and cross-cultural implementation of cross-cultural relationships is being widely discussed. This is also related to the readiness of graduates for international cooperation. The objective of this qualitative study is to identify and compare the requirements of company representatives from the Czech Republic – the Vysocina Region and Austria (Region Upper Austria) regarding the readiness of graduates to entering the workforce and the intercultural differences between the relevant regions.Design/methodology/approachA total of 20 Czech and Austrian companies from the relevant regions participated in the research. The results were obtained through in-depth guided interviews and a comparative method.FindingsThe qualitative study has theoretical implications in the context of new findings in the field of research. It contributes to the knowledge relating to the preparation of graduates for entering the workforce, and in the context of intercultural development, it extends this knowledge with the identified weaknesses of the mentioned preparation at the level of Czech or Austrian education.Originality/valueThe most effective and probable approach to enhance the development of cross-cultural competences in particular appears to be the integration of new techniques and content of education in the form of new subjects in cooperation with academics and practitioners from the particular country. Collaboration with these experts can build students' knowledge and skills from an intercultural environment to the highest degree possible.

Reform and Practice of Whole Process Management for Undergraduate Thesis (Design) Based on OBE Concept

The undergraduate thesis stage plays a vital role in realizing talent cultivation goals, serving as an indispensable requirement for students to graduate and be awarded their bachelor's degrees. Moreover, it provides crucial support for meeting graduation requirements. This article presents a comprehensive approach to process management for undergraduate thesis (design) based on the Outcome-Based Education (OBE) concept. The OBE concept emphasizes enhancing students' goal achievement abilities by strengthening the monitoring of task completion quality and evaluating goal attainment at each stage. The approach encompasses four key stages: topic selection, guidance process, evaluation methods, and thesis defense. Lastly, the effectiveness of this approach will be discussed. It has been observed that the implementation of the OBE concept has yielded favorable outcomes in practical work.

Improvement in Resident Scholarly Output with Implementation of a Scholarly Activity Guideline and Point System.

Introduction: Ensuring high-quality scholarly output by graduate medical trainees can be a challenge. Within many specialties, including emergency medicine (EM), it is unclear what constitutes appropriate resident scholarly activity. We hypothesized that the quantity and quality of scholarly activity would improve with a clearer guideline, including a point system for eligible scholarly activities. Methods: A resident Scholarly Activity Guideline was implemented for EM residents in a university setting. The guideline consists of a point system in which point values, ranging from 1-10, are assigned to various types of scholarly activities. Residents must earn at least 10 points and present their work to meet their scholarly graduation requirement. We tracked scholarly activities for graduates from the classes of 2014-2020, with the guideline being implemented for the class of 2016. In a blind analysis, we compared median total points per resident, mean counts of the Boyer model of scholarship components per resident, and mean counts of significant scholarly output per resident before vs after the guideline was implemented. Significant scholarly output was defined as an implemented protocol, a research project with data collection and analysis, a research abstract presentation, or an oral abstract presentation. Results: Among 64 residents analyzed, 48 residents used the guideline. We found that median points per resident increased after the guideline was implemented (median, interquartile range: before 7 [7], after 11 [10, 13], P = 0.002). Post-guideline scholarly activities were found to represent more of Boyer's components of scholarship [mean before 0.81 [SD 0.40], mean after 1.52 [SD 0.71], mean difference 0.71, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.332 ± 1.09, P < 0.001. There was no difference in the mean significant scholarly output per resident (mean before 1.38 [SD 1.02], mean after 1.02 [SD 1.00], mean difference 0.35, 95% CI 0.93 ± 0.23, P = 0.23). Conclusion: Implementation of a Scholarly Activity Guideline point system significantly increased the quantity and, by one of two measures, increased the quality of scholarly output in our program. Our point-based guideline successfully incorporated traditional and modern forms of scholarship that can be tailored to resident interests.

Exploring the Role of ChatGPT as a Peer Coach for Developing Research Proposals: Feedback Quality, Prompts, and Student Reflection

This paper describes the results of an archival desk-study that analyzed worksheets produced by four students using ChatGPT as a coach. ChatGPT is a Generative Pre-Trained Large Language model that can write comprehensively in various languages and styles. It was discovered that it could pass university level physics exams and perform at the level of a third-year medical student. Fourth-year students in Information Technology are required to produce a 3000-to-5000-word research report as part of the requirements for graduation, and their first meeting of the year consists of a workshop following the GROW (Goal, Reality, Opportunities, Will) coaching process. Logistical considerations in this predominantly e-learning based course prevented such teamwork. The two-month-old ChatGPT, however, presented an opportunity to determine the extent to which a chatbot could be used as a peer coach. This paper reports on the outcome of an exercise that was given to students as an introduction to their research methodology course. It was found that well-designed prompts were essential and that students should be encouraged to reflect on their interaction with artificial intelligence. Three clear issues emerged from the study: the quality of feedback given by the chatbot, the value of the prompt, and the importance of student reflection. The chatbot, ChatGPT, displays the traditional computer characteristic of garbage in, garbage out and gives the feedback it is programmed to give. The dialogue shows how a student can build up mutual rapport with the chatbot when they adapt their responses to the feedback provided. The critical reflection in shows that it is still the user who should oversee the process and evaluate the feedback. It is recommended that novice research students be given some training in reacting to feedback, developing useful prompts, and engaging in meaningful reflection. Future research would include developing a reflective coach.

Penggunaan Algoritma Naïve Bayes pada Klasifikasi Judul Proyek Akhir Berdasarkan Kelompok Bidang Kompetensi (KBK)

The Final Project is one of the graduation requirements that must be met by Caltex Riau Polytechnic students. The title of the final project is submitted by students through the SIAK system. Currently, students who submit titles will choose their own type of KBK from the inputted title. So that a problem arises where the title of the final project does not match the KBK it should or the KBK is wrong. This is due to the ignorance of students in analyzing the title data of the final project that will be submitted. For this reason, a system is needed to classify Final Project titles based on CBC automatically. The system created is a system that can classify KBK automatically based on the description of the title of the Final Project by using text mining methods and nave Bayes algorithms. The system can also detect the percentage of similarity of the entered title with the existing title in the system database. The algorithm used to generate the percentage of title similarity is cosine similarity with text mining method.

Physical Education Graduation Requirements In U.S. Tertiary Institutions: A National Update

Physical Education Graduation Requirements In U.S. Tertiary Institutions: A National Update

The Comparative Investigation into Undergraduate Graduation Requirements of Engineering Program for International Accreditation

The Comparative Investigation into Undergraduate Graduation Requirements of Engineering Program for International Accreditation

RANCANG BANGUN SISTEM INFORMASI TUGAS AKHIR MENGGUNAKAN METODE WATERFALL DI FAKULTAS TEKNIK UNIVERSITAS ISLAM NUSANTARA

One of the graduation requirements to get a bachelor's degree is to complete the final project. The implementation of the final assignment consists of several stages, starting with the submission of the proposal, proposal presentations, final project guidance, final project presentations, and final project defense. The Faculty of Engineering (FTEK) is one of the faculties at the Nusantara Islamic University (UNINUS). The implementation of the final assignment at FTEK UNINUS has not been well integrated because it still uses several different tools at each stage, making proposal seminar schedules, final project presentation schedules, and final project defense schedules is also still done manually by education staff (tendik). One of the ways to integrate the implementation of the final project is through information system development. Therefore, a website-based final project information system application was developed using the waterfall software development method with UML, the JavaScript programming language using the NextJS framework, and the PostgreSQL database. The result of this study is the final project information system website application, which is expected to help related parties at FTEK UNINUS implement their final project step by step

Design of an Exploratory Experiment in Teaching for Engineering Education Accreditation: Fluoride Geochemical Simulation during Water–Rock Interactions under the Effect of Seawater Intrusion

Engineering education is critical for the creation of a more sustainable world, and engineering education accreditation has become the current trend for reform in higher education worldwide. Traditional replication experiment-based teaching cannot meet the standards of engineering education accreditation, and integrating the ideas of engineering education accreditation into experimental teaching is an important aspect of practical teaching. Taking fluoride evolution simulation during water–rock interactions under the effect of seawater intrusion as an example, an exploratory experiment was designed with the idea of engineering education accreditation. The experiment concluded that leached fluoride increases with increasing ratios of seawater and brine water, NaCl levels, and NaHCO3 levels, but with decreasing CaCl2 levels, which confirms that seawater intrusion deeply affects fluoride evolution. The saturation index and Fourier Transform Infrared analyses indicate that Ca2+ restriction and exchange of F with O–H and Si–O–Si are responsible for fluoride leaching. The experiment was characterized by deeper theory, logicality, and openness, and was also multi-schematic and exploratory. Therefore, it is an ideal subject matter to develop an exploratory experiment. A reasonable teaching link was designed to integrate the ideas of engineering education accreditation. Students were required to creatively and personally devise an experimental design and an expansion to the experiment based on the given databases and other relevant literature and to cooperate and discuss in groups. The experiment not only integrates basic knowledge of water–rock interactions, but also cultivates the awareness of and ability to analyze and solve problems, innovative thinking, scientific literacy, and teamwork. Meanwhile, the experiment effectively supports the graduate requirements of various subjects, including Design/Development Solutions, Research, Applying Modern Tools, Individual and Teams, and Communication.