Home Works Research Articles

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTS’ LEVEL OF EDUCATION AND PUPILS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN IPALLISA DSTRICT, UGANDA.

Background: This study sought to investigate the relationship between parents’ level of education and pupils’ academic performance in primary schools. Methodology: A mixed-method research approach was used in this study to generate data. Using questionnaire and interview guide tools, data was collected from the study respondents including pupils, teachers, head teachers, parents as well and the Area Education Officer. Results: Findings revealed that parents’ level of education influences pupils’ academic performance. Tool items such as parents checking books and home works (M=1.70, SD=1.042), parents assisting in doing homework (M=2.43, SD=1.355), parents reading and replying to letters from schools (M=2.01, SD=1.131) and pupils having enough time at home to study (M=1.97, SD=1.050), were found to be among major factors that determine pupils’ performance. Conclusion: Parental level of education was statistically significant towards pupils’ academic performance in Palisa District. The educational attainment of their children in both rural and national samples was easily influenced by their conducive home study environment. Recommendation: Parents are advised to pay full attention to their children’s education at home. They should make a timetable for their children regarding homework and studies. In this way, their academic performance will be improved.

Electronic Strategic Intervention Material (e-SIM) in Grade 7 (Biology): Effects on Students’ Performance

As everyone is conforming to living with the pandemic, all offers and possible means in the education sector must be applied to help every learner manage their assignments. To help educators in assisting learners in doing their home works, DepEd Memo No. 177 s. 2005 -Training Workshop on Strategic Interventions for successful learning was created. This intervention aimed to enhance teachers’ skills in test analysis and interpretation and capacitate them in developing varied intervention materials for remediation and enrichment of knowledge. This training prompted the teachers to develop and use Strategic Intervention Material in teaching their subject areas. This study attempted to determine the effectiveness of electronic strategic intervention material in conducting remedial lessons in Grade 7 Biology in a public national high school, Division of Antipolo City for the school year 2022-2023. This study utilized Quasi-experimental research with Non-print Rating Sheets and pretest and posttest as data gathering instruments. Pretest and posttest were administered to thirty-five (35) Grade 7 students to measure their academic performance before and after the use of the Electronic Strategic Intervention Material. The findings showed that Science experts and teachers evaluated the e-SIM with grand mean ratings of 3.88 and 3.87, respectively, verbally interpreted as Very Satisfactory in terms of content quality, instructional quality, technical quality, and accuracy and up-to-datedness. Results also showed that there is a significant difference between the academic performance of the student respondents on the pretest and posttest after the utilization of e-SIM as revealed by the computed mean scores of 13.37 for the pretest and 34.77 for the posttest.

Needs Analysis for the Information System to Support Middle School Students’ Speaking Skills in English Classes

The study aimed to determine the needs and expectations regarding an online information system which will support speaking skills of secondary school students in English lesson. The participants of the study comprised 4 secondary school students and 4 secondary school English teachers in a district of Burdur province in Turkey. In the selection of the participants, convenience sampling model was adopted on the volunteering basis. In the study, the phenomenology research model was utilized. The data were obtained from the semi- structured interviews conducted face-to-face with the participants. In the analysis of the data, the Content Analysis technique was used. The results of the study revealed that participants were willing to access to the system via technologicsl devices like smart phones, computers, tablet pc and smart board. Since communication is important, participants stated that there should be video chat, instant messaging, announcements, forum, social networks, storage and game components in the system. In addition to these, participants noted that the properties such as activities, uploading home works, grading students, student information, attendance shedule, feedback, and duties and responsibilities should be available in the system. Morever, the participants stated that the applicability of the system depends on the introducing the system, motivation, internet-free usage, technological infrastructure, updatability and competitive features. Hereby, it is hoped that the results of these study will be useful in the development of an online information system to support speaking skills of secondary school students in English lesson.

DEVELOPMENT OF ASSOCIATIVE CONNECTIONS IN THE FORMATION OF LISTENING COMPETENCE (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF THE GERMAN ADVERTISING DISCOURSE)

The article examines development of associative connections during the formation of students' competence in listening based on German-language advertising discourse. The analysis of home and foreign scientists' works done in the field of the formation of students' competence in listening was carried out. When checking the associative potential of advertising material, a complex methodological approach to processing information has been applied, which includes a number of methods, i.e. analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization, analogy, descriptive, and statistical (chi-square criterion, coefficient of mutual conjugation). Based on the outlined auditory goals in the process of the development of competence in listening, an analysis of the key components of the advertising material was carried out, and the effectiveness of the advertising campaign, based on the correctly formed sound image of the trademark, was proven. As a result of the phonosemantic and phonetic analysis of the advertising material, a permanent associative potential was revealed in the product name and advertising slogan. To solve the set tasks, 374 names of advertising goods and 618 advertising slogans were classified and examined in terms of the relationship between sound and content (symbolic meaning of sounds), and advertising material was differentiated by the category of the goods. When analyzing trademarks, the patterns of repeated vowel and consonant sounds have been observed, which affect the clarity and brevity of the sound. The effectiveness of phonetic-associative communication as an additional tool in developing students' competence in listening has been statistically proven. During the study of the advertising slogans with regard to the phonosemantic methods of activating the associative potential of the slogan, assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, synesthesia, repetition, and tautology were singled out, which directly form the phonetic competence of the listener. The work proves that the dominance of alliteration over assonance among advertising slogans gives them loudness, rhythm, and expressiveness. In order to confirm the initial hypothesis put forward by us, examples of exercises based on advertising material to establish an associative connection are offered.

Introduction: Histories: Literary, Natural, Planetary

Abstract: In a series of recent publications, the historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has argued that the planetary crisis triggered by climate change marks the disappearance of the boundary between natural history and human history, rendering our existing narratives of capitalist globalization and the political inadequate. Yet, by framing the problem in such broad, apocalyptic terms, scholarship on literary environmentalism has tended to make the Anthropocene a keyword for historiography while evacuating the term of any historical specificity, although a generation of environmental historians has offered compelling analyses of ecological transformations on regional, national, and global scales. Whether we locate the beginnings of the Anthropocene in plantation agriculture and resource extraction in the colonial world or in rational modes of land management, pasturage, and reliance on fossil fuels at home, literary and extra-literary works in the eighteenth century exhibit an awareness of human impacts on, and epochal changes in, the environmental system. The introduction provides an overview of essays in the special issue, outlining the ways in which the contributors avoid large, mythic generalizations about planetary or human history in favor of a series of place-based, historically attuned inquiries into human engagement with the environment across the long eighteenth century.

PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN CHILDREN’S SCHOOLING: A CASE FOR ROLE OF SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK

Parental involvement is linked with the higher academic achievement of the students. School Social Work is a significant field of social work discipline, which provides a liaison between school, children, their families and community, but is unfortunately lacking in our country. Students face many educational and social challenges which may lead them to leave school and increase dropout ratio which is currently a huge problem in Pakistan. The objective of this study is to explore the need for school social work by examining the parental involvement of public school students who demonstrate poor grades. Ecological theory is applied to explain the role of parents in the education of their children. Methodology of this study is based on convergent parallel design, a mixed method approach. Students of grades 6 & 10 of public schools of district Lahore, and their parents and teachers were the respondents of this study. Findings revealed that the students who demonstrated poor grades; their parental involvement in their studies was also poor. Need for school social work services was highly demanded by the teachers and parents to help improve these children’s grades. Keywords: Parental involvement, Parent-teacher meetings, School home works, School social work, Ecological perspective, Convergent parallel mixed method

ASSESSMENT OF GENERAL ENGINEERING COURSES IN THE UAE UNIVERSITY AND RECOMMENDATION ACTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT

The current study examined the Architectural Engineering (AE) students at the College of Engineering (COE) at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) learning outcomes through assessing three main engineering requirement courses. The assessment is based on the direct method which consists of the achievement of the students and their capability to demonstrate mastery through actual work or work products such as presenting the facts. The CLOs have been assessed through Course Work (Quizzes, Home works, and Term Projects) and Examinations (Midterm and Final Exams). The course learning outcomes (CLOs) for each course for the AE program have been analyzed in terms of the level of achievement and compared with the overall achievements of all students enrolled in the same courses at the COE. This assessment has been carried out for three continuous semesters fall 2019, spring 2020, and fall 2020. Indeed, some deficiencies in terms of CLOs achievement which has been set below 70% are recorded and remedial actions have been provided for improvement. The second part of this study consists of the comparison of the attainment level of the CLOs of GENG215 course between two consecutive semesters fall 2019 and spring 2020. Indeed, this period was characterized by the drastic change in the teaching method moving from the traditional way of face-to-face interaction with students to online teaching.

Spotlight on Nursing Home Care

Nursing homes often receive unfavorable press, [1,2] and this trend has intensified because of their involvement in multiple horrific COVID outbreaks [3,4]. On the one hand, high morbidity and mortality in nursing homes during the pandemic, apart from being a serious problem in itself, exposed ongoing inadequacies in the provision of quality care, which external supervision addressed only partially [5]. Running an effective nursing home is an expensive enterprise, which, unfortunately, is frequently underfunded [6,7]. Even with adequate funding, it is a complex endeavor at which it is not easy to excel [8]. On the other hand, as nursing homes are repositories for people with high morbidities whose health will invariably worsen over time, we may conclude that unmet expectations and unfortunate outcomes are not always preventable or the result of poor care. Nursing home care is not a government priority in the U.S., [9] and probably not in other Western countries either. This is unfortunate for many reasons, not least because of the likelihood that some of us will eventually end up in one. I believe that, while some criticism is justified, as nursing home care is sometimes suboptimal, in other cases there is inappropriate malignment. This paper will analyze how a nursing home works and attempt to distinguish between preventable and unpreventable poor outcomes.

The impact of working from home during COVID-19 on work and life domains: an exploratory study on Hong Kong

The pandemic sweeping the world, COVID-19, has rendered a large proportion of the workforce unable to commute to work, as to mitigate the spread of the virus. This has resulted in both employers and employees seeking alternative work arrangements, especially in a fast-paced metropolitan like Hong Kong. Due to the pandemic, most if not all workers experienced work from home (WFH). Hence WFH has become a policy priority for most governments. In doing so, the policies must be made keeping in mind the practicality for both employers and employees. However, this current situation provides unique insight into how well working from home works, and may play a vital role in future policies that reshape the current structure of working hours, possibly allowing for more flexibility. Using an exploratory framework and a SWOT analysis, this study investigates the continuing experience of the employer and employees face in Hong Kong. A critical insight and related recommendations have been developed for future policy decisions. It will also critically investigate if this work arrangement will remain as a transitory element responding to the exceptional circumstances, or whether it could be a permanent arrangement.

Effect of Child Labour on the Academic Performance on School Children in the Kete-Krachi District, Ghana

In Ghana, about 20% of school children are involved in some form of child labour. In the Oti Region of Ghana, the Kete-Krachi district has the highest prevalence rate of about 39 percent compared to 33.2 percent for the whole region (Volta Region, 2007). This paper investigates the impact of child labour among School children in the Kete-Krachi district of the Oti Region. The study explored the major impact of Child labour among school Children. The study interviewed 145 respondents through questionnaire and interviews. The research design for the study was both quantitative and qualitative. The respondents comprised 60 JHS social studies teachers, 60 Victims of child labour, 15 parents or guardians of the victims of child labour and 10 stakeholders of education. Data analysis showed that 67 percent of the victims were from large families of five or more. It was concluded from the findings that, child labour impacts negatively on children's academic work. It results in lateness to school, absenteeism, non-performance of home works, inactive in classroom activities, poor performance in examination and high school dropout rates in Kete-Krachi area.

INTENSITY OF TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN TANZANIA: THE CASE OF MERU DISTRICT

This study measured the ability of the proposed out-of-school time (OST) learning model to intensify technology integration among primary school learners in Tanzania. The intensity of technology integration was determined by the extent the target users adopted educational technology. A quasi-experiment was deployed, involving experimental and control groups. The main participants of the study were 310 pupils in Meru District, Arusha Region. Additionally, parents and teachers of the experiment group participated as per the requirements of the proposed model. The category of teachers included five (5) mathematics teachers and three (3) head teachers in six primary day schools. The experiment ran for three months and data was recorded using digital Video Disks (DVDs), DVD Players, mobile phones, home works and list of perceived best practices. Pupils in the experimental group were treated under the proposed model while those in the control group were under traditional practices. The extent to which pupils used the technology was determined by the number of questions they attempted by using the technology, and the results compared between them. The t-test indicated a statistically significant improvement in the intensity of use of educational technology by the experiment group as compared to the control group (t = 5.62, N1=167, N2=143, SD1=9.28, SD2=12.8, p (0) <α (0.05)). These findings suggest the acceptance of the alternative hypothesis at 95% of confidence level and a conclusion that the proposed model improved the intensity of use of educational technology by OST learners in primary schools. This is suggestive of the need for the government to support projects related to integration of educational technology in order to trigger technology integration in Tanzania in general and in particular with regard to OST learning in primary schools. There is also need to investigate the ability of the proposed model to improve the intensity of use of educational technologies in other educational settings.

Современные проблемы преподавания курса «Прикладная геометрия и инженерная графика» для эксплуатационных направлений авиационного вуза

In an aviation high educational institution, when getting students education in exploitative specialties it must be taken into account that it must be conducted in accordance with necessary requirements to the formedness level of professional competences in a specialized area. The planned results of “Applied Geometry and Engineering Graphics” learning include knowledge of methods for applied engineering and geometric problems solving, the ability to use the main elements of applied geometry and engineering graphics in professional activities, and solving of specific applied problems related to geometric modeling.
 The results of “Applied Geometry and Engineering Graphics” study are to gain experience and skills for solution of cognitive, organizational and other problems by themselves related to students’ future professional activities.
 In this paper are considered the main problems and tasks to be solved to achieve the necessary level for compliance of a student studying in one of the exploitative specialties at the Ulyanovsk Institute of Civil Aviation named after Chief Marshal of Aviation B.P. Bugaev, with professional competencies and modern educational standards. Issues related to the organization of “Applied Geometry and Engineering Graphics” discipline study, such as computerization of the educational process, use of distance learning technologies in the educational process, formation of students’ cognitive interest and spatial imagination.
 Has been presented the proposed structure of “Applied Geometry and Engineering Graphics” course for the exploitative specialties of Ulyanovsk Institute of Civil Aviation; the need to develop a task book for classroom and home works, taking into account their applied value for formation of professional competencies, has been justified.

Secondary Education During Lockdown Situation Due to Covid-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh: Teachers’ Response on Online Classes

Online classes started in many secondary schools one month after the compulsory closure of all education institutions in Bangladesh. This study explores the current scenario as well as challenges of adaptation of online classes in secondary education in terms of teachers’ experience. The study followed sequential exploratory mixed-method approach. Five secondary teachers were interviewed and 54 secondary teachers from 17 districts in Bangladesh were surveyed over telephone, Google forms and by email. The quantitative data was analyzed with Microsoft Excel and the thematic analysis approach had been followed for the qualitative one. The findings revealed that a good number of teachers have started teaching online by using social media platforms despite of not having any training or experience. Very few respondent teachers were found to take online examination; instead they are trying to assess the students from the feedback of given home works and home assignments. Teachers are facing numerous challenges like deficit of digital equipment, lack of expertise, unfamiliarity with the LMS, proficiency in assessment technique etc. The paper concludes with few recommendations such as providing proper devices to the teachers and students to participate in online class; facilitate rigorous training to enhance technology-based skills and capacities of the teachers so as to get the expected outcome. Keywords: Secondary education, Education in pandemic, Online class, Teachers’ response. DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-20-11 Publication date: July 31 st 2020

MATLAB-ПРОЄКТ «АНАЛОГОВИЙ ГОДИННИК»

Learning programming in secondary school or on first university years may facilitate making mathematical or physical problem “alive”. With this in view, we are looking for such tasks for programming that are attractive to them, sufficiently easy but employed important and feasible mathematics and physics. A project has been suggested (several lessons and home works) how to create a MATLABprogram of analogue watch on the computer screen that pursues several educational aims. Initially, students are to split the whole task to several simpler ones that they are able to program. To solve them, students employ plotting graphs, trigonometry and analytical geometry, physical consideration and mental experiment, look for empirical equation to fit data, complete everything with rather easy programming and enjoy finally with pleasant widget on computer screen. Programs are given with comments. They serve, at the time, as an introduction to MATLAB. It may be seen that its environment do not hidden the sense of the work but rather facilitates it. That is why it is suggested for wide use in Ukrainian education.

Spreadsheets for Numerical Analysis: A conceptual tool

Using spreadsheets for mathematics education is not a new idea. However, analysing student logical mistakes for preserving error types and conceptual decision making would be first to study. A class of students were given two home works in order for grading. They were told to carry on calculations via spreadsheets and give the homework exam with spreadsheet file. In H1, questions were on root finding and solution of simultaneous equations. In H2, questions were on line and curve approximations, interpolation, numerical integration and numerical differentiation. These files are analysed by content analysis of qualitative method. By this way, it is hypothesized that they would do similar errors regarding error types and their decision making would inform us about their conceptual learning.

Introducing “Cap Concept” in a Class Room Learning for the Students to Achieve Success

Unchanged Indian education system has blocked student’s interest in active learning in the classroom. All the time and all the ways students are demotivated, distracted and pressurized. Today class room teaching made the teachers get limited for completion of the portion and also the modern educational institutions are wordless in beyond classroom teaching. Corporal punishments, exams and home works are only become the deferent parameters to measure the children. It made all the way children feel helpless, hopeless and worthless. In the classroom students are only expected by the teachers to be silent and pay attention towards continues sessions. The other hand teachers have no way to pay little time to make children get motivated and active. However unless we create a positive and motivational teaching in the classroom no use whatever we inculcate, only we can complete the portion not inculcating values of concept we teach. The main objective of this study is to implement the cap concept, which creates student’s attention towards positive change in their attitude and behaviour, concentration in the class, improved confidence level, encouraged towards social involvement and many more. Cap concept is nothing but awarding an attractive cap to a student in the classroom for the recognition of a little positive work that he or she has done. The student awarded cap will wear it and sit in the particular session. It influences the student to feel proud by the identity and claps given by the classmates. The particular student will also will start liking and accepting the particular teacher and their guidance. The study made it very clear that the cap concept will surely help the teacher to encourage the students with several behavioural problems and bring positive change in their day todays leaving. As per the data 64% of respondents have expressed positive improvement in their behaviour. The activity is conducted for 50 high school students; 25 girls and 25 boys. Interview schedule, primary and secondary methods are used and the study is descriptive in nature.

Impairment of School performance, Psychological and Social Wellbeing and the Role of Counselors at Kalar Schools: A Qualitative Study

School performance, psychological and social well-beings are the most challengeable tasks intaking care of adolescents. Well-being means positive relationships with others, personalmastery, autonomy, a feeling of purpose and meaning in life, and personal growth anddevelopment. School Counselors are usually working on improving the students' well-beingpsychologically and socially. The most common problems of teenagers are intimaterelationships with opposite sex, disobeyed behaviors, neglecting home works. Despite theseevidences, the role of school counselors still not well defined by the Government, thecounselors are not well prepared during college studying years and after graduation, thenumber of counselors does not meet the students' needs, and sometimes they face obstaclesdoing their work by school administration. According to 20 counselors from different schoolsin Kalar, counselors are in need of continuous training courses, defining their roles by theGovernment and Ministry of Education, and providing them with their needs and rights suchas having a room to meet students, giving them the chance to practice counseling

Driving improvement: individuals making a difference

The way a care home works is largely based on its staff. A staff member making an exceptional contribution can make a real change to residents' lives. Helena Frankova talks about staff singled out by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) for their work.

Effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy on quality of life of patients with chronic low back pain

Current evidence-based guidelines for treatments of chronic low back pain (CLBP) suggested including psychological aspects of back pain as well as physical treatments. Therefore, the current study targeted to examine the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy on quality of life of Iranian female patients with non-specific chronic low back pain (NSCLBP). During this pre-post experimental study fifty seven patients suffering from NSCLBP were randomly assigned either in CBT (N=28) or usual medical care groups (N=29), respectively. The subjects drown from physiotherapy centers of Ardebil and assessed in three time frames; pre, post and one month after the intervention through standard questionnaire (SF12). Data obtained from the final samples (N=48) analyzed by analysis of covariance, clinical significance and effect size.The results of ANCOVA revealed that subjects in the CBT group indicated significant improvements in physical and mental components of quality of life in comparison with the usual care group. Effect sizes were .73 and .69 for mental and physical components of quality of life respectively. Clinical significance also showed that out of 24 patients in CBT group 14 patients recovered in time 1 and 15 patients in time 2 of evaluation respectively.CBT as an alternative therapy, including cognitive restructuring, relaxation and daily home works was beneficial in enhancement of physical and mental components of quality of life of female Iranian patients with NSCLBP.

Heat-Exchange in One-Phase Liquid-Metal Flows: Databank (Temperature Distribution in Circular Pipes)

In order to develop accurate methods of calculating heat-exchange in forced channel flows, it is necessary to have knowledge about the temperature distribution over the cross section in differ layers of the flow. For ordinary liquids (gas, water, where the Prandtl number Pr ~ 1), such measurements are difficult to perform because of the small thickness of the boundary layer. The problem simplifies for liquid metals, where Pr << 1. This article contains the format of the data as well as an analysis of the primary data from 37 home and foreign works (mercury, sodium-potassium alloy, sodium, lithium, lead-bismuth alloy). The data are presented in electronic form.