Student Ideas Research Articles

A cross sectional study to assess awareness and attitude on eye donation among college going students of Jhalawar, Rajasthan

Background: Eye sight is very important for human life. The WHO estimates that for every 5 seconds someone goes blind. According to the Eye Bank Association of India, approximately 1.1 million people are corneal blind in India. College students can play important role for creating awareness about eye donation and breaking myths in society, there is no such research in Jhalawar region on this subject. Aim and objectives were to assess awareness related to eye donation among collegiate students, to know attitude regarding eye donation and to provide information with motivation for eye donation. Methods: A cross sectional analytical study was conducted on UG students studying in professional colleges of Jhalarapatan block, Jhalawar, Rajasthan. A pretested and semi-structured questionnaire with informed consent was administrated among all participants. The questionnaire consisted of 21 questions related to eye donation ranging from the source of information about eye donation, corneal transplantation, eye donors, criteria for eye donors, knowledge of eye banks, attitude regarding eye donation etc. Results: All participants (246) have idea of eye donation but medical students have good awareness (84%) compared to nursing (46%), engineering (31.1%) and academic students (26.9%) respectively. Mass media created good awareness (43.6%) while friend/close relative created least (4.7%). Conclusions: Students who were part of medical/nursing education because of their close association with this activity have better opportunity for creating awareness in community compare to academic students. Mass media had an important role in creating eye donation awareness among society.

The Effect of Entrepreneurial Ideas and Skills on the Intentions of Algerian University Students to Launch New Start-Ups

In the fast-paced and ever-evolving world of entrepreneurship, start-ups have become synonymous with innovation and limitless potential. One of the significant channels used to encourage them is investing in the capabilities and ideas of visionary youths and university students who are considered society’s elite. However, despite the Algerian economy’s shift towards supporting entrepreneurship, especially among students, there is limited entrepreneurial activity overall, particularly in innovative start-ups, which has remained notably low. This indicates less inclination toward launching new start-ups among the students. Thus, the primary objective of this research is to examine the role of entrepreneurial ideas (EID) and entrepreneurial skills (ESK) in influencing the intention to launch new start-ups (ILNS) in Algeria. A cross-sectional research design was employed, involving the distribution of a pre-designed questionnaire among students registered in Algerian universities. Data collection was conducted across all the regions of Algeria, yielding a total of 297 valid responses. Data was analyzed using Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) via Smart-PLS 4 software. The findings highlight significant correlations between EID, EKS, and ILNS. These outcomes furnish fresh insights into the significance of cultivating personal entrepreneurial competencies. Moreover, they shed light on the mechanisms for nurturing entrepreneurship and offer practical recommendations to bolster students’ capacities to launch new start-ups, thereby contributing to the local economy.

Growth of Student Creativity through Extracurricular Activities at Elementary School Laboratory of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia Cibiru Campus

Extracurricular activities have an important role in the process of character education, especially character building in elementary school students. From several extracurriculars in SD Laboratory such as scouts, paskibra, crafts, and dance, this is an alternative extracurricular program that can grow and awaken students' creative spirit. Scout, paskibra, craft, and dance extracurricular training activities can help students to be able to develop their abilities. Students can express themselves through marching exercises, creating pioneering works, dancing, and many other interesting activities. In terms of education, character education is needed to instill a creative and critical attitude in students. However, the space for creative ideas for students is still not optimal. For this reason, the existence of extracurricular activities provides space for students to know how to implement, plan, implement, and evaluate activities in growing student creativity through routine exercises in extracurricular activities. Through a qualitative approach, this study seeks to find ways to find out what efforts can be made to foster students' creativity through extracurricular activities at Laboratory Elementary Schools. Data obtained through observation techniques, interviews, and documentation. Then the data was obtained which was then analyzed using a type of qualitative analysis.

Psychometric properties of classroom creativity climate scale (CCCS): Evidence from confirmatory factor analysis in the Pakistani context

AbstractCreativity has long been emphasized as an essential skill identified and developed in classrooms by eminent psychologists. A high level of creativity is required to adapt to the changing world of innovation. University‐level students are privileged as they get multiple opportunities to learn creative skills. They are facilitated with autonomy and a creative environment. This study aimed to investigate the Psychometric Properties of the classroom creativity climate scale (CCCS) through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in the Pakistani context. The study involved 711 (males = 359, females = 352) Pakistani university students pursuing BS, MS/MPhil, and PhD degrees. Based on CFA, the proposed structure of the scale was confirmed, consisting of 22 items with a Likert‐type response set loaded on four variables: Teacher Support for the Expression of Student Ideas, Student Self‐perception about Creativity, Student Interest in Learning, and Student Autonomy. Alpha reliability coefficients range from .61 to .82 for the full scale. A comparison of demographics among different age groups and degree levels has been conducted. This scale is useful when investigating Pakistanis University students' perception of creativity, diagnosing the creative climate in the classroom, or asking the teachers for a creative environment inside the classrooms.

Students drawing conclusions about assessment to inform school change

ABSTRACT Student agency in assessment is evident when students make assessment choices, and their voices inform decisions. This paper presents an in-depth case study of a high performing school that sought student voice to reform its assessment culture to enhance student agency. Secondary students in an Australian school were invited to draw a visual metaphor: if assessment were a food, what would it be? Responses were analysed to identify: What can be learnt about assessment culture from students’ drawings and comments? And how did student voice inform changes in school assessment practices and assessment culture? Six years later, the student ideas were revisited by a school leader to identify how cultural and structural conditions for student agency within the assessment culture had changed. Using visual methodologies with students provided insightful commentary on how assessment practices may be modified to support learning and the challenges of engaging in assessment culture reform.

A study of postcolonial representation of sexual violence against female international students in Australian newspapers

ABSTRACT Sexual violence against female international students has received insufficient attention in academic research. This paper fills this void by analyzing how Australian newspaper articles, published from 2000 to 2019, portray sexual violence against these students through a critical framework informed by postcolonial feminist literature. The analysis reveals that the media tends to reinforce the idea of female international students as vulnerable and passive, reinforcing stereotypes through longstanding postcolonial tropes. Australian newspapers frequently portray them as ignorant, unhygienic, lacking credibility, or as exotic/sexual objects when covering sexual assault cases. Additionally, the media often invokes rape myths and engages in victim-blaming. Such representations in the newspaper may fail to offer a nuanced understanding of sexual violence experienced by female international students and downplay the importance of structural and environmental factors that contribute to this problem. The paper advocates for a change in media focus, urging great attention to structural and environmental factors while acknowledging the agency of international students. A more nuanced and contextualized understanding of sexual violence against female international students is crucial for developing effective prevention strategies that address the root causes of this issue.

Writing university theses in scientific disciplines and the challenge of Arabization

During the period of its history, Arabic was unable to absorb the new terminology of science, art and knowledge. Its rich heritage of specialized works in medicine, pharmacy, mathematics and others is proof of this.
 Today, the sons of Arabia are fascinated in other languages that they believe are more suited to scientific progress and cultural development, and believe that their language is a poetic language only. In fact, the problem lies not in the Arabic language but in its exclusion from the fields of science, especially in the fields of scientific research. Theses in our Algerian universities (and Arabic in general) are mostly accomplished in languages other than Arabic. this is. We will endeavor to highlight models that reflect the orientation towards writing academic transcripts in scientific disciplines in Arabic. We will start from the problem: Can the Arabic language be a language of specialization and reflect the ideas of university students in scientific disciplines ?

PENINGKATAN KEMAMPUAN MENULIS TEKS BERITA SISWA KELAS VIII SMP NEGERI 1 BANGUN PURBA DENGAN MODEL PROBLEM BASED LEARNING MELALUI MEDIA GAMBAR

The Problem Based Learning using image can be used to improve the ability to write news text, because these models and media provide ideas for students to find and stort activities to write news teks. New text writing activities in the good practice process carried out by the author have shown an increase in news text writing skillnews text.

Debatability as a principle of teacher education: methodological aspects and practical implementation

Introduction. Debatability is considered as a manifestation of dialogism and as one of the conditions for the formation of democratic thinking. The main characteristics of debatability as a principle of teacher education are revealed: realization of the right to formulate one's own professional position and its public discussion; harmonious combination with the main methodological approaches in education; creative and probabilistic character; joint identification of the meanings of pedagogical activity. The preparation of future teachers for the implementation of debatability in the educational process is defined as the modern mission of a professional pedagogical institution. The relationship between the philosophical substantiation of the principle of discussion and its specific implementation in the activities of a teacher of pedagogical disciplines is shown.Materials and Methods. With the use of the theoretical analysis, the properties of the discussion that determine its use in the professional training of future teachers are highlighted. The ideas of students of the pedagogical college about the influence of the role and place of discussion in their professional training were studied and analyzed on the basis of the results of the survey and the products of activity. Also, a conversation was held with fellow teachers about the possibilities of using the discussion. The ranking method made it possible to identify the most effective methods for implementing the principle of discussion in the practice of teaching the academic discipline «Pedagogy».Results. The ideas of future teachers about discussion forms and methods of teaching have been studied. The main methodological methods for implementing the principle of discussion in teacher education are considered. The risks and limits of the application of the discussion are substantiated. The development of debatable forms and methods of teaching is considered as a condition for stimulating professional self-development. Potential directions for improving the professional training of future teachers for mastering the discussion are identified, including the expansion of the use of discussion by students in the course of teaching practice.Discussion and Conclusions. The implementation of the principle of discussion predetermines the rejection of traditional subject-object models of pedagogical education and the transition to a dialogic model. The equality of the main methodological approaches (culturological, dialogic, axiological, activity, anthropological, personal, technological) requires the implementation of their balance in the methodological activity of the teacher. The choice of discussion as a teaching method depends on the value priorities of the teacher. Modern students are ideologically ready to participate in dialogic forms of education. Democratic thinking as a tool for the humanistic worldview of future teachers is one of the main results of the discussion.

Raising Learner Motivation Through a Cultural Pen-pal Scheme

Collaboration amongst colleagues at partnering schools was established in order to decide a shared goal and implement culture into lessons across schools. The aim of this study is to raise motivation for language learning by providing KS4 students the opportunity to interact with the second language community through a pen-pal scheme. Dornyei’s language-related integrative values were applied to develop activities that can raise cross-cultural awareness. Byram’s savoirs informed the assessing of cultural understanding, reflecting on one’s own culture, analysing cultural phenomena and carrying out comparisons. Evidence of these criteria were identified in two sets of email exchanges that KS4 students sent to their pen-pal. To measure the impact of the intervention, pupil work was compared from the first and second email exchange to detect development in cultural understanding. Pre and post intervention questionnaires were employed before and after the two email exchanges, to gauge levels of motivation at School A, surrounding students’ interest to learn about foreign cultures and their attitudes towards direct contact with the target language community. The study found that the initial idea of the pen-pal sparked students’ motivation however, further email exchanges were needed for impact to be made. The study also confirmed that culture and language are inter-related.

Analisa Konsep Ide Bisnis Makanan Kucing Dari Bahan Organik “Mimeow”

MiMeow is a business that emerged from a student idea. Mimeow is a business that produces cat food, which is in the form of wet food. The products that researchers produce focus on raising funds to help hungry feral cats. In this study, we will discuss project integration, project scope management, project time management, project cost management, project quality management, project human resource management, project communication management, project risk management, project procurement management and project stakeholder management from "Mimeow".

Cooperative Learning Model Type STAD for Improving Students' Skills in Determining Main Ideas of Paragraphs

Improving students' skills in determining the main ideas of paragraphs through the Cooperative Learning Model Type STAD which is based on extracting students' prior experiences and knowledge. The purpose of this study was to identify and improve the skills of determining the main ideas of paragraphs through the Cooperative Learning Model Type STAD. This research is an action research (action research), because the research was conducted to solve learning problems in the classroom. The research subjects were 28 Class VI students at Prambon Datangan Elementary School for the 2021/2022 Academic Year, in the material of Non-fiction Texts. Data collection techniques used in research are a). Observation of attitudes, with direct observation sheets to find out the activities of teachers and students in the ongoing learning process according to the existing cycle b). The Skills Test discovers the main ideas of students in the form of short answers. This study uses a qualitative descriptive analysis technique. Cooperative Learning Model Type STAD has a positive impact on improving student achievement as indicated by an increase in student mastery in each cycle, namely cycle I (60.71%), cycle II (75%), cycle III (89.29%). Based on the results of data analysis using percentages and skills in completing Indonesian language questions, it was concluded that the skills in determining the main ideas of paragraphs through the Cooperative Learning Model Type STAD increased, thus students were able to achieve the specified Minimum Mastery Criteria (KKM). The findings in this study are Cooperative Learning Model Type STAD has a positive impact on cooperation between students, this is shown by the existence of responsibility in groups where students who are more able to teach their less capable friends.

Distress, Social Support, and Self-Compassion: Relationships With Mental Health Among College Students.

This study investigated how distress, conceptualized as an interaction between hassles and stress perceptions, related to mental health, whether the type of distress (social or nonsocial) was consequential, and whether perceived support and self-compassion attenuated these relationships. Students (N = 185) from a mid-sized university in the southeast completed a survey. Survey questions pertained to hassles and stress perceptions, mental health (i.e., anxiety, depression, happiness, and love of life), perceived social support, and self-compassion. As predicted, students reporting more hassles and stress (both social and nonsocial) as well as those reporting less support and self-compassion, were worse off regarding mental illness and mental wellness. This was observed for both social and nonsocial distress. Although we did not support our hypotheses regarding buffering effects, we found perceived support and self-compassion are beneficial, regardless of hassles and stress levels. We discuss implications for students' mental health and ideas for future research.

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECT-BASED LEARNING MINI-RESEARCH TASKS ON STUDENTS' LEARNING OUTCOMES DURING THE PANDEMIC

<p>Statistics for Research Education is an important course for students in the Faculty of Education. Serious problems are experienced by students learning statistics, one of them is because the learning outcomes are not optimal. To overcome this problem, a lecturer can provide mini-research tasks. Mini-research is one form of assignment from project-based learning. This research was descriptive qualitative research. The subjects in this study were students from Cohort 2019 who took Educational Research Statistics courses. Learning activities and mini-research assignments are handled fully online. By giving students a mini-research assignment, students can be encouraged to learn statistical theories and concepts. Through mini-research tasks, students can increasingly see the big picture and interrelationships between topics in this course. The positive responses can be seen from students’ reflections and results of the review given to the paper. The use of project-based learning with a mini-research task is an interesting idea and suitable for students. In addition to better student learning outcomes, students also become more conscious of the problems around them. Prospective teachers can learn to make research an upcoming provision when they enter the field of teaching.</p>

How Informal Science Education Influences Elementary Students’ Perceptions of Science and Themselves

Underrepresentation in STEM fields starts early, with elementary students already showing differences based on gender and race in their interest in science, belief in their ability to do science, and belief that their personal identity aligns with being a scientist. Here we discuss an out-of-school time astronomy program that focuses on enriching science education in under-served school systems to promote students’ excitement about science and help them see scientists as people just like them. Before, after, and throughout the program, we survey students on their perceptions of science, themselves, and their activities. We find that over the course of our program, students become more confident in their science abilities. Student ideas about science remain unchanged, but largely align with Nature of Science ideals. We also find that on days that students report they were creative and asked questions, they were more likely to say they felt like a scientist and were interested in the day’s topic. Our results suggest that incorporating creativity and opportunities to ask questions can be just as important as doing experiments for generating interest in and a sense of participating in science.

Ting, tang, tong: Emergent bilingual students investigating and constructing evidence‐based explanations about sound production

AbstractThere is a significant amount of research literature on the importance of identifying and building on students' experiences and ideas for making sense of the natural world, especially when engaging in science practices. Simultaneously, approaches to creating justice‐oriented science education promote the need to focus on the diverse sense‐making repertoires that students, especially those from historically marginalized communities, bring to science classrooms. However, when it comes to emergent bi/multilingual students, science education has favored narrow definitions of what ways of communicating are seen as productive for figuring out natural phenomena, privileging English‐based academic vocabulary. In this article, we investigate the myriad conceptual and semiotic resources that third‐grade emergent bilingual students developed and used when explaining sound production. Additionally, we explore how students investigated the sounds produced by a string instrument and unpacked the how and whys that give rise to the pitch of the sounds they heard. Our analyses indicate that: (1) students created mechanistic explanations that identified how changes to the salient physical features of strings affected the pitch of the sounds; (2) students created and laminated multiple semiotic resources when sharing their observations and explanations, particularly sound symbolisms; and (3) students navigated both semiotic convergence and divergence as they worked toward conceptual convergence. Based on our findings, we argue that justice‐oriented science learning environments must become spaces where emergent bilingual students can build on all their conceptual, semiotic, and cultural resources, without being policed, as they engage science practices.

Digitalization in entrepreneurship education and its effect on entrepreneurial capacity building

Entrepreneurship education, the process of knowledge, skill, competency, and attitude development, aims to maximize the effectiveness of the entrepreneurial capacity building. The pandemic boosted the digital transformation of higher education and brought the online incubation platform NETMIB to life. This paper introduces this unique platform solution and utilizes online opportunities for skill and attitude assessment. An online survey-based research method was applied, and an online Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) Index was developed as a valid scale for measuring entrepreneurial attitudes in online incubation programs. Based on the findings, student idea owners in the online incubation process have a significantly higher propensity to engage in business activities and a stronger desire for independence and achievement. The findings of this paper can contribute to the targeting and development of educational interventions in the incubation programs, and the online EO Index can be a useful tool among the performance measures of various incubation programs.Summary: Entrepreneurship education, the process of knowledge, skill, competency, and attitude development, aims to maximize the effectiveness of the entrepreneurial capacity building. The pandemic boosted the digital transformation of higher education and brought the online incubation platform NETMIB (Network of multidisciplinary ideation and business model generation) to life. This paper introduces this unique platform solution of online incubation and utilizes online opportunities for skill and attitude assessment. Since education aims to influence entrepreneurial capacity, measured by attitudes, the paper develops a self-assessment tool for online entrepreneurship education. Hypothesizes that there are significant differences in the attitudes of the members according to their role in the online incubation process. An online survey-based research method was used, and an entrepreneurial attitude construct was created concerning the member’s desire for innovation, personal control, achievement, and self-esteem. Based on the findings, student idea owners in the online incubation process have a significantly higher propensity to engage in business activities and a stronger desire for independence and achievement. The findings of this paper contribute to the targeting and development of educational interventions in incubation programs, and the online Entrepreneurial Orientation Index can be a useful tool among the performance measures of various incubation programs.

Can Automated Feedback Improve Teachers’ Uptake of Student Ideas? Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial in a Large-Scale Online Course

Providing consistent, individualized feedback to teachers is essential for improving instruction but can be prohibitively resource-intensive in most educational contexts. We develop M-Powering Teachers, an automated tool based on natural language processing to give teachers feedback on their uptake of student contributions, a high-leverage dialogic teaching practice that makes students feel heard. We conduct a randomized controlled trial in an online computer science course (N = 1,136 instructors), to evaluate the effectiveness of our tool. We find that M-Powering Teachers improves instructors’ uptake of student contributions by 13% and present suggestive evidence that it also improves students’ satisfaction with the course and assignment completion. These results demonstrate the promise of M-Powering Teachers to complement existing efforts in teachers’ professional development.

A Discourse Analysis Of Students-Teacher Pattern Interaction In Elt Classroom

This study aims to find patterns of interaction between students and teachers in ELT classes. Participants involved in this study were 32 students and one English teacher. This research is a qualitative research with a descriptive design. This relates to the use of language in a social context, namely interaction or dialogue between students and teachers. The author uses 2 types of instruments, namely observation using the blue print protocol and also recording all English learning activities in the ninth grade of SMP N Toboali. Then after making observations and obtaining all the required data, the authors conducted an analysis using FIAS (Flanders Interaction System Analysis) which consisted of 3 parts, namely the teacher's indirect influence, the teacher's direct influence and students' speech responses. The teacher's indirect influence consists of 3 kinds of interactions such as receiving feelings, praising encouragement, accepting or using student ideas, and asking questions. Then, the teacher's direct influence consists of lecturing or explaining, giving directions, and criticizing or justifying authority. The last is the student's response which consists of the student's speech response, student initiation, and silence. According to the research results, there are four types of classroom interaction research: content traffic, teacher control, teacher support, and student participation. Based on the results of the data found, it shows that the dominant pattern used in this study is student participation, with a total of 54 or 45% of utterances. Hence, it can be concluded that the students of ninth grade students at SMPN 3 Toboali were active during the teaching and learning process in class.

How much does using the Mind Mapping learning approach "improve" the grasp of mathematical ideas in junior high school students?

The learning model is a teacher's tool in the form of structured images that are presented to students. The learning model applied aims to improve students' understanding of mathematical concepts. The author determines the purpose of this study. Namely to assess the impact of experiments on the subject's knowledge of mathematical concepts in geometry material. This type of research uses experimental research using a mind mapping learning model with a pre-experimental design, one-group pretest-posttest. Tests were carried out randomly or through cluster sampling on building materials class VII Realschule. The data collection tool that the researchers used for this research was a test designed to test students' understanding of concepts. The researcher interviewed teachers, students, and documents in this data collection method. A hypothesis test was carried out on the data obtained after conducting a sig5% level t-test, normality test, and homogeneity test on statistical data. It was found that students could not understand mathematical concepts (mind mapping). This dramatically influences the results of understanding mathematical concepts. After using this method, students receive higher performance scores than before. Based on the t-test results, we can conclude the difference in the value of learning outcomes before and after applying the author's teaching method.