Higher Vocational Institutions Research Articles

Prevalence of risk factors for non-communicable diseases among adolescent students of higher and secondary vocational educational institutions

Проведено одномоментное исследование распространенности факторов риска неинфекционных заболеваний (НИЗ) в кластерной выборке из 397 студентов учреждений высшего (медицинская академия) и среднего (колледж) профессионального образования Твери для создания программ здорового образа жизни и профилактики НИЗ. Проведено анкетирование по стандартизированному опроснику, антропометрические измерения, регистрация АД, оценка физической активности, выявление особенностей питания (потребления овощей и фруктов), прием алкоголя, курения, наличия психической дезадаптации. Более значимая распространенность среди учащихся колледжа по сравнению со студентами медицинской академии курения, употребления алкоголя, недостаточное потребление овощей и фруктов, по-видимому, связано с различным социальным положением семей подростков, однако данная проблема требует дальнейшего углубленного изучения. Ключевые слова: подростки, факторы риска неинфекционных заболеваний, распространенность. A cross-sectional study of the prevalence of risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCD) was conducted in a cluster sample of 397 students from higher (a medical academy) and secondary (a college) vocational educational institutions to work out healthy lifestyle and NCD prevention programs. The investigators collected information by the standardized questionnaire, made anthropometric measurements, recorded blood pressure, assessed physical activity, and revealed eating patterns (intake of vegetables and fruits), alcohol usage, smoking, and mental maladaptation. The more relevant prevalence of smoking, alcohol use, and inadequate vegetable and fruit consumption is likely to be associated with different social status of adolescents’ families; however, this problem requires further in-depth investigation.

Research on Application of Network Education Technology in Mathematics Teaching of Higher Vocational Institutions

The integration of network education technology and mathematics curriculum has become the hot issue of mathematics teaching reform in higher vocational education institutions. The paper has emphatically introduced the construction situation and implementation process of network education in advanced mathematics. Through investigation and statistical analysis on network education teaching effect, it verified that network education has the superiority that the conventional education cannot match. However, each teaching model has its own advantages and disadvantages. Finally, based on the teaching practice, the paper made some suggestions and countermeasures on further development of network education, and provided the valuable teaching experimental basis for the mathematics educators.

Pedagogical conditions for students’ personal and professional development at higher education institutions

The development of higher vocational education in Russia today is oriented towards the process of harmonization of personal and professional development of students. The issue is focused on three different perspectives: pedagogical activity of lecturers in higher vocational institutions, psychological/pedagogical research, and the student?s professional and personal development. The goal to train highly-qualified specialists with versatile personalities at the institutions of higher education depends not only on the applied theoretic/methodological basis, but also on the knowledge of the student?s personality. The first step in the process of planning and realization of the above mentioned educational goal is to provide adequate pedagogical conditions, aimed towards establishing methodological and theoretical bases closer to practice, i.e. the study and implementation of pedagogical personality-oriented technology. This can contribute to the creation of innovative projects and programs for training highly-qualified specialists. Theoretical/methodological and practice-oriented pedagogical conditions are selected and described on the basis of a systematic analysis of the educational process. The essential aspects of these conditions lie in defining appropriate methods for the realization of the educational process for each particular situation. Such methods contribute to the actualization of the students? potentials and enable their self-realization. The presented principles for the development of a personality-oriented educational process are essential for enabling professional development of future specialists.