Higher Technical Education Research Articles

Differences in High School CTE Coursetaking by Gender and Race/Ethnicity

The purpose of this study was to examine patterns in high school career and technical education (CTE) coursetaking by gender and race/ethnicity across two cohorts of students over time. Using high school transcript data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002) and the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), we examined participation in CTE both overall and disaggregated by field of study. While there were some differences by gender and race/ethnicity in overall CTE participation, disaggregating by field of study revealed wide variation in participation rates in each field. We found large and sustained differences in participation across CTE fields of study by gender as well as pronounced patterns by race/ethnicity, with some changes over time. Overall, these gender and racial/ethnic differences were notable because they persisted even after controlling for other potential explanatory factors.

The use of gamification in higher technical education: perception of university students on innovative teaching materials

Education for sustainable development is considered a key element of quality. However, nearly-graduated students of architecture perceive that during their training there is a lack in the use of innovative teaching materials such as building simulation performance tools (BPSTs). This document examines the material included in the architectural project subjects within the degree in architecture focused on sustainable development. The conclusions were obtained after developing two workshops accomplished by a set of nearly-graduated students of architecture. As per the results obtained, learning through such innovative material is mainly influenced by the difficulties found by the students due to the non-use of BPSTs during their previous training, the high motivation of the students related to the easy acquisition of theoretical concepts through the use of numerical analysis, and the high concern of the students about their poor background on environmental issues. This study concludes that the syllabuses of the architectural project subjects within the degree in architecture must urgently incorporate the use of BPSTs. Universities are urged to make decisions on this issue. Furthermore, the design of graphic analysis must be adapted to the language of architects in order to help them understand the theoretical concepts pertaining to the technical aspects of architecture. Finally, the design of innovative teaching material significantly influences the motivation of students and therefore their learning process. This article also suggests a set of action lines in order to find a solution for this problem.

LINGUISTIC AND HUMANITARIAN COMPETENCE OF FUTURE ENGINEERS: THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASPECT

SHARHUN Tetiana – PhD hab. (Education), Associate Professor, Head of “The Humanities and Social-Economic Training” Department, Lviv Branch of Dnipro National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan, 12а I. Blazhkevych Str., Lviv, 79052, UkraineE-mail address: t.shargun@gmail.comORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6014-4941ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/2146746/tetyana-shargun/POTSELUIKO Andriy – PhD (Philosophy), Associate Professor of “The Humanities and Social-Economic Training” Department, Lviv Branch of Dnipro National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan, 12а I. Blazhkevych Str., Lviv, 79052, UkraineE-mail address: senjababuin@gmail.comORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1078-7615ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/2168352/andriy-potseluiko/To cite this article: Sharhun, T., & Potseluiko, A. (2020). Linguistic and humanitarian competence of future engineers: the philosophical and anthropological aspect. Human Studies. Series of Pedagogy, 10/42, 122‒134. doi: https://doi.org/10.24919/2413-2039.10/42.199852 Article historyReceived: February 10, 2020Received in revised form: March 7, 2020 Accepted: March 11, 2020Available online: April 28, 2020Journal homepage:http://lssp.dspu.edu.ua/p-ISSN 2313-2094e-ISSN 2413-2039© 2020 The Authors. Human studies. Series of Pedagogy published by Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University & Open Journal Systems. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). In the article the theoretical foundations of forming the linguistic and humanitarian competence of technical university students as an important factor of personal development are discussed, based on the analysis of scientific sources and empirical material. The linguistic humanitarian competence of a specialist with higher technical education is defined as an integrative dynamic structural quality of a personal that combines a set of linguistic, humanitarian, communicative and socio-cultural competences, communicative and cognitive skills. It has been demonstrated that the process of personal development consists primarily in qualitative changes in mental activity, in the formation of new personality traits. The role of competence approach in the organization of the educational process in universities has been studied. The ability to solve problems that arise during the cognitive, technological and mental activities, in the spheres of ethical, social, legal, professional, personal relationships is given the priority. It has been established that the linguistic humanitarian practices are extremely important in the philosophical and anthropological context as one of the key factors of the personal development. Generalized characteristic features of different forms of intelligence are provided. It is stated that the linguistic humanitarian practices develop not only the verbal linguistic intelligence, but also the creativity, that is, the ability to use the results of different types of intelligence. The influence of the linguistic humanities on the social communicativeness of future specialists is highlighted, which is important for the implementation of moral norms as a condition for the social adaptation of an individual. It requires improvement of the content and procedure of the educational process, the development of cognitive independence and commitment of students, the formation of self-education and self-criticism skills, as well as communication skills.Funding. The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Government Engineering Colleges in Assam: Current Status and Steps for Improvement

The State Government has well understood the demand of technical education in the state and attention is focused on rapid development in this field, with global professional standards and international accreditation being recognised as the benchmarks for quality assurance. In this regard, it is important to understand an accord called “The Washington Accord”. This is an international agreement to ensure consistent quality of undergraduate engineering program across the World. Programs recognised by accrediting authorities in countries that are signatories are considered to be equivalent in terms of quality and the graduate attributes. In 2014, the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) India joined as a signatory for programs accredited by NBA offered by education providers accepted by NBA as Tier 1 institutions. In February 2015, the Government of Assam appointed an expert team from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University Australia to conduct an audit of technical education in the public sector. The purpose of the audit was to find the gaps that may exist in governance, curriculum, policies, guidelines and community engagement in relation to those to be required and found in a Washington Accord approved programme. This paper summarises some of the gaps. This is followed by recommendations to improve the technical education sector in Assam. The findings in the gap analysis are the first in a series of steps toward the long-awaited restructuring of the technical higher education sector in the state of Assam. It is now up to the Government of Assam to take the necessary steps in addressing the issues to re-energise the technical higher education sector and bring the public technical colleges to the forefront of quality Indian institutions offering international standard engineering education and infrastructure.

Possibilities of Formation, Diagnostics and Monitoring of Axiological Competences of Technical University Students

The article highlights the need to supplement the basic parameters of engineering education with an axiological component. The authors emphasize that the main problem of the current higher technical education is not the quality of professional competencies, but low humanization, which results in an underestimated social significance of engineering professions, as well as a focus on extracting benefits without taking into account the consequences of man-made impacts. The process of humanization of engineering education is possible with its value modification through the development of axiological competencies. The authors substantiate the structure of axiological competences, give the results of expert analysis of their content features in relation to higher technical education, define safety as a key concept in the interpretation of the essence of axiological competences of the engineering professional field. The analysis of domestic and foreign studies of the concept of «safety» as a value, system competence and purpose of engineering education is given, the term «save-attitude» is highlighted. The process of formation of axiological competences in higher education is a longitudinal educational work, an example of which is the educational program «Life-orientation workshop» approved by the authors. The article suggests possible means of diagnostics of axiological competences components and ways of estimation of their development, describes a pedagogical experiment, the results of which allow them to draw a conclusion about the effectiveness of both the educational program and monitoring forms of diagnostics of axiological competencies.

Using the Python Possibilities in Studying of the Mathematical Subjects in Technical Higher Education

Opportunities are investigated and examples are provided of using Python libraries at the solution of the typical mathematical tasks. Features of interpretation of the received results are analyzed.

Structural and clinical characteristics of neurotic disorders in medical and technical students

The aim is structural-clinical analysis of neurotic disorders in students of medical and technical higher education in comparative aspect. Material and methods. 995 medical and 804 technical university students were surveyed using the original questionnaire developed by the author based on the international classification of mental disorders № 10. Clinical-epidemiological, clinical-psychopathological methods were used; Retrospective analysis method, statistical. Results. New data have been obtained on the prevalence, structure and clinical manifestations of neurotic disorders in students, depending on the training profile. In medical university, neurotic disorders are more common, characterized by a greater variety of clinical forms, greater expression of anxiety and depressive components, compared to similar disorders in technical university students. Conclusion. The reason for the detected differences is due to the specificity of education in medical universities, which requires daily communication with the sick, study of subjects related to severe pathology, is characterized by heavy loads on the memory of students, which leads to psychoemotional overvoltage and is itself a stress.

Sustainability, Environmental Performance and Energy Efficiency in Higher Education: Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb

Sustainability, environmental performance and energy efficiency have become main subjects not only for the profession of architecture, but for every profession, as well. Within the scope of this conference, and more specifically the overall energy performance of buildings, the section dealing with the higher technical education has special relevance. The need for incorporating sustainability and energy parameters in higher education has been recognised for some considerable time now. As academic staff members teaching in technical courses at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb, we are always under time pressure in keeping up with the newest performances in structure and technology facing the question: How to realise and improve the graduate framework and the learning and teaching plan of environmental issues in the courses that we teach?The paper examines available study programme ‘Architecture and Urban Studies’ within the master degree programme at the Department of Architectural Technology and Building Science. The new compulsory course Architecture and Technology 1 (AT1_2018/2019) addresses the topics of building energy consumption and emissions, rational use of energy, environmental impact, high performance efficiency and sustainable building. By comparing a selection of students’ works in different groups conducted experimentally for the first time, the paper will discuss the project approach, give a critical evaluation of the selected case studies and some lessons learned from attempts to incorporate environmental issues into the unit syllabus. Through this paper we attempt to share information and deepen the discussion within the academic community. Finally, as a contribution, it is expected to increase the ways by which parameters of energy and environmental sustainability can become an integral guiding principle in the design and delivery of all academic courses offered at the Faculty.

Коллективный портрет лидеров региональных отделений парламентских политических партий (на примере субъектов УрФО)

Introduction. In the political science literature, there are several main approaches that explain the weakness of the political parties’ institution in Russia. These concepts point to reasons that are outside political parties. This study attempts to link the low status of political parties in Russia with the quality of party top management, in particular, with the parties’ regional leaders (United Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Liberal Democratic Party and A Just Russia). The purpose of the study is to create a collective portrait of the heads of regional branches of parliamentary political parties. Methods. The identification of elites in this work is carried out within the framework of the positional approach. The main method for collecting and analyzing data is the biographical approach. Scientific novelty. An additional explanatory model of the weakness of political parties’ institution in Russia is proposed - the quality of party leadership. The factors influencing the internal party processes are considered. Results. A comparative analysis of the social and professional characteristics of the leaders of the parties’ regional branches, as well as their career trajectories is carried out. The average statistical portrait of the regional leaders of parliamentary parties is revealed. Conclusions. The head of the party’s regional branch is a middle-aged man with a higher technical education who has not served in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and is a native of the deputy corps or the business community.

Professional Education of People with Disabilities in a Digital Environment

The article informs the conceptual approaches to the professional education of people with disabilities in the digital environment and the experience of their practical implementation in high school technical education on the example of people with hearing impairments. The characteristic of individual technologies using which a digital environment is created, focused on such students is given. The technological and organizational basis for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the educational process in the designated environment is presented, taking into account the specifics of the educational and rehabilitation needs of different categories of people with hearing impairments.

Сучасні технології викладання іноземних мов у технічних ЗВО

Сучасні технології викладання іноземних мов у технічних ЗВО

The Impact of Youth Apprenticeship and Employability Skills Programs on Career & Technical Education Concentrator-Completer Post Graduation Outcomes

Work-based learning is a key component of career and technical education programs. A variety of certificated and non-certificated work-based learning programs exist for high schools to implement. Wisconsin's Youth Apprenticeship program is a widely used model of work-based learning in high school Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs across the state, yet there is limited research on the impact of these programs related to student outcomes.<br/> This paper describes the findings from a study in which educational and employment outcomes of secondary CTE concentrator-completers participating in a Youth Apprenticeship and/or Employability Skills program were analyzed. Findings indicate that participating in a Youth Apprenticeship program while concentrating in a secondary CTE program of study may lead to a higher rate of continuing into one's area of concentration after high school than students earning Wisconsin's Employability Skills Certificate.

Фактори успішного вивчення англійської мови студентами немовних спеціальностей у закладах вищої технічної освіти

Фактори успішного вивчення англійської мови студентами немовних спеціальностей у закладах вищої технічної освіти

Skill Model Estimation of Ability for Reading Drawings

In Japan, students study various ways of understanding 3D drawings in junior high school-level technical education, high school-level industrial education, and university-level engineering education. However, without an understanding of trigonometry, reading the drawings is difficult. Moreover, drawing the assembly parts is equally difficult. To address these concerns, many research studies have been conducted. These examinations have used before—after analysis, but none has used time-series data analysis. Therefore, this study aims to develop a new quantitative evaluation method of 3D recognition ability through the use of time-series analysis.

Features of the Development of the Digital Educational Environment in Russia

Goal of the investigation: This article aims to distinguish the characteristics of the development of the digital educational environment in Russia in the context of the global digitalization process, and to identify threats to information security. Methodology: The leading method for studying this problem is a comparative analysis of the level of evolution of the digital administration in various nations of the world, which passes to comprehensively estimate the obstacle of receiving the learning and informative space as a portion in the sustainable expansion of the Russian economy. Results: The authors revealed the peculiarities of the Russian “digitalization” management system, which is still distinguished by spontaneity and the lack of a coordinated action program on the part of the state. It was revealed that Russia has the necessary potential for the further development of the digital economy: the scientific and intellectual base, a good level of secondary and higher technical education. The article substantiates the results of the development of the Russian digital educational environment: a data source (portal) has been created that is convenient to all levels of residents and stores each user with entrance to online classes for all levels of training and online support for mastering general education subjects; an infrastructure has been created to train teachers and administrative staff, to spread the experience of introducing successful methods and practices of online learning, to track the dynamics of creating a digital educational environment; and a system of advanced training for teachers in the development, use and examination of online courses has been created. Applications of this study: The materials of the article can be useful to relevant state and economic institutions for the formation of a mechanism for informatization of the country's development management system and education in particular, which is part of certain development strategies and programs; researchers of socio-economic processes associated with the development of the information society and the economy, and the increasing distribution of digital data processing technologies. The analysis of the digitalization process in the country and the world allowed us to identify problems that require close attention and finding solutions for the implementation of project activities for the formation of a modern digital educational environment in the Russian Federation. Novelty/Originality of this study: The novelty and originality of the study lies in the fact that for the first time it offers a comprehensive approach to assessing the specifics and factors of the digitalization process in the educational space of the country, developing mechanisms to reduce threats to information security by developing a system for identifying users, technical controls, and improving the legislative framework.

The Impact of Mathematically Enhanced Curriculum on Career and Technical Education Student Math Scores

The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that students who participated in mathematically-enhanced, high school career and technical education (CTE) curriculum would reflect a better understanding of basic math concepts. This hypothesis was based on the posit that learning may be more difficult to achieve outside of a contextual setting (Piaget, 1970) and that teachers may, at times, struggle to convey abstract concepts to their students (Dewey, 1943). This study included teachers and students enrolled in at least one CTE course in the fall of 2017. Students continued their studies through the spring of 2018. The Kentucky Online Testing (KYOTE) mathematical placement exam was used to determine students' levels of mathematical comprehension. Students were tested before implementation of the mathematically enhanced curriculum and at the end of the course of study. A t-test was used to compare student scores. The pre- and post-test score analysis indicated that the results of the KYOTE exam were statistically significant suggesting that the curriculum had a positive influence on math comprehension. Due to variance in testing environment and teaching implementations, a replication of this study is recommended.

ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ФОРМУВАННЯ ЕКОНОМІЧНОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ У МАЙБУТНІХ ФАХІВЦІВ ХІМІЧНОЇ ПРОМИСЛОВОСТІ УКРАЇНИ В РИНКОВИХ УМОВАХ

Проведено аналіз сучасного стану і тенденцій розвитку хімічної галузі промисловості в Україні та інших країнах. Охарактеризовано загальну структуру сучасної вітчизняної хімічної галузі, яка представлена як старими великими підприємствами, що скорочують виробничі потужності, так і новими малими та мікропідприємствами, переважна більшість яких реалізує окремі стадії виробництва хімічної продукції, використовуючи напівфабрикати закордонних виробників. Зроблено висновок про необхідність орієнтації вітчизняної хімічної галузі на розвиток малого підприємництва і про важливу роль системи вищої технічної освіти в забезпеченні цього напряму відродження хімічної галузі кваліфікованими інженерними кадрами.

Experience of Interaction Between the Business and Scientific Community in the Formation of Scientific and Technical Potential of Russia in the Second Half of the XIX Century

The article investigates the main directions of interaction between Russian Industrialists and the scientific community in the process of formation of the scientific and technical complex of the country during the forced industrialization of the second half of the XIX century. It is defined as a very significant contribution of a number of entrepreneurs and scientists in the creation of scientific societies, higher technical education, the development of conceptual foundations of the state socio-economic and scientific-technical policy of the Russian Empire

Learning Management System CATS

The use of information technologies and, in particular, information training systems increases capacity of both a teacher and a student to achieve their goals in an educational process, taking into account individual characteristics of each and providing opportunities for continuing education. The paper proposes and considers a new automated learning management system, called CATS (Care About the Students). The proposed system covers all components of the educational process, allows to conduct an electronic journal of visiting and defending laboratory works, distribute topics and monitor progress of course and diploma projects (creating automatically task sheets with subsequent export to MS Word editor). The CATS LMS makes it possible to test students’ knowledge in control and self-education modes, to form electronic educational and methodical complexes, to inform students about topics of lecture and practical classes with the possibility of downloading relevant materials, to provide educational content in SCORM format, developed by teachers around the world. Working in the CATS system, it is possible to exchange messages with students and teachers, to monitor progress and process of studying in respect of the proposed material by students, to check accomplished assignments of students for plagiarism. The system under consideration also takes into account specificity of training at a technical higher education institution, providing for work with an integrated project management system and ability to submit bugs. The CATS LMS has been implemented as a web application using modern technologies and it is available in the local network within the whole university at [172.16.11.72:2020].

Comprometimento organizacional: Estudo comparativo entre duas organizações de ensino e pesquisa

Organizational commitment can be considered a strategic and decisive factor in organizations. This paper aims to describe and compare the configuration of organizational commitment in a Higher Technical Education Institution and a Teaching and Research Foundation, both from Minas Gerais. A questionnaire was used based on Allen & Meyer's (1990) commitment scale and at the end of the instrument four open questions to understand organizations' perceptions of commitment. The results showed that the affective basis has higher perception in the Teaching Institution in comparison to the Foundation that has the highest average in the calculative base. The low adherence of the affective commitment in the case of the Foundation can indicate problems that deserve attention of the management of people of this organization with a view to losses of personnel and discontinuity of services. It should be emphasized that the open questions contributed to the undressing of the diagnosis proposed by the questionnaire, indicating the reasons for the affective and calculative impairment perceived in the organizations. Implications, limitations and suggestions are discussed in the article.