Millennial Students Research Articles

Чтение – дело весьма увлекательное, или о продолжении исследований Ю. А. Сорокина

The article is devoted to the memory of Professor Yu. A. Sorokin, his research on the problems of reading in the context of the development of Russian psycholinguistics at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries. The article deals with the problem of the mechanism of continuity of scientific ideas in modern Russian society and the need to update the works devoted to the study of the book as a semantic object, bibliopsychology, and the actual psycholinguistic aspects of the study of the text. The article discusses strategically important directions in the study of reading as a type of speech activity in relation to the generation of millennial students: identifying the real state of affairs with the understanding of the text by generation Z students, studying the psychology of interaction between the student-addressee of the educational scientific text and the author of the textbook; embedding the techniques of understanding the text in university textbooks. The conclusions of the author’s experimental research are presented: comprehension of the educational scientific text by first-year medical students. Prospective research tasks are formulated: the possibility of assessment of the impact of speech difficulties associated with understanding the text on the success (failure) of teaching students of the 1st year; the advisability of monitoring of the effectiveness of teaching of a particular subject, focused mainly on extracting information from the text; the possibility of performing a predictive function of learning success (learning ability) in general on the basis of information about reading strategies.

Maximizing Millennial Students Role in Combating COVID-19 Hoaxes and Myths

Introduction: Since the outbreak of Corona Disease-19 (COVID-19) spreads all over the world, various ways of health attempts have been conducted. However, overflowed information intertwines with mis/disinformation could raise public anxiety and stigma-related diseases. We aimed to assess the help of the young generation of millennials and Gen-Z whom are active college students in debunking hoaxes and myths of COVID-19 into their community.Method: The selected students were given a short course on COVID-19 basic information, prevention, and circulated myths. Later, they become ambassadors and actively educated via offline and online platforms. The impact of outspread information on audiences was investigated through a qualitative survey.Result: The knowledge of students were measured by pre- and post-test within the short course. Prior knowledge showed the least understanding part was prevention and myth of COVID-19. There was a significant improvement of knowledge in post-test after receiving seminar (p=0.0002). There were 97 respondents who filled the online survey that predominantly in young adulthood age. Respondent's insight was enhanced and they likely intend to spread the actual information to their surroundings.Conclusion: Appointing student as the spokesperson for health education can raise their social responsibility. Clarifying misinformation and health behaviour could be more influential within the same sharing community. In addition, the use of various online platforms could efficiently reach massive target, especially young ages.

A Comparison of Muslim Millennial Students' Religiousity at Islamic and Non-Faith Based Universities

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to assess the influence of learning in a higher education institution and the type of institution, on the religiosity of Muslim Millennial students in Indonesia. In this study, religiosity is defined using an Islamic theoretical framework and divided into two sub-variables: hablumminallah and hablumminannas behavior, which serve as dependent variables hablumminallah behavior also serve as an intervening variable. Thus, this work used the Structural Equation Modeling technique using 292 samples to analyze direct and indirect influences. The findings indicated that higher educational institutions directly affect the habluminallah behavior, but not on the habluminannas behavior. While this has an indirect effect on hablumminannas behavior, it is mediated by hablumminallah behavior. It suggests that the level of students' hablumminallah behavior, which is high, makes the higher educational institutions potentially affect the students' hablumminannas too. Moreover, this study used the One-way Anova test to determine whether there are differences in the socio-religious milieu and student religiosity of Islamic and non-faith-based universities. The findings indicate that religious facilities are superior in non-faith-based universities to those in Islamic universities, whereas Islamic subject professors' roles and management support are identical. , there is no difference in the behavior of hablumminallah and hablumminannas students. This shows that if a university provides adequate religious facilities, both Islamic and non-faith-based universities will encourage students' religiosity similarly. AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan menganalisis pengaruh perguruan tinggi terhadap religiusitas mahasiswa muslim milenial di Indonesia. Penelitian ini menggunakan kerangka teori dengan pendekatan Islami dimana religiusitas terbentuk dari dua sub variabel yaitu perilaku habluminallah dan hablumminannas sebagai variabel terikat, dimana perilaku hablumminallah juga sebagai variabel antara. Karenanya, untuk dapat menganalisis pengaruh langsung dan tidak langsung, penelitian ini menggunakan teknik Structural Equation Modelling dengan 292 sampel. data. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa secara langsung, perguruan tinggi hanya mempengaruhi perilaku habumminallah mahasiswa, namun tidak perilaku hablumminannasnya. Sedangkan secara tidak langsung, perguruan tinggi mampu mempengaruhi perilaku hablumminannas mahasiswanya yang dimediasi oleh perilaku hablumminallahnya. Hal ini mengindikasikan bahwa perilaku hablumminallah mahasiswa yang tinggi, menjadikan perguruan tinggi berpotensi mempengaruhi perilaku hablumminanas mahasiswanya pula. Penelitian ini juga melakukan uji One-way Anova untuk menganalisis apakah terdapat perbedaan kondisi sosial keagamaan di lingkungan kampus dan perilaku religius mahasiswa di universitas Islam dengan di universitas Umum. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa fasilitas keagamaan di universitas Umum lebih tinggi dibandingkan universitas Islam. Yang mengejutkan, tidak terdapat perbedaan perilaku habluminallah maupun hablumminannas antara mahasiswa universitas Islam dengan Umum. Hal ini mengimplikasin bahwa, jika fasilitas keagamaan di lingkungan universitas memadai, maka baik universitas Islam maupun Umum akan efektif mempengaruhi religiusitas mahasiswanya.How to Cite: Suzanawaty, L., Aisyah, M., Umiyati. (2021). A Comparison of Muslim Millennial Students' Religiousity at Islamic and Non-Faith Based Universities. TARBIYA: Journal of Education in Muslim Society, 8(1), 44-56. doi:10.15408/tjems.v8i1.19210.

A Vocational English Teacher’s Professional Identity in Industry 4.0

The growth of technology in Industry 4.0 also gives an impact on education. Language teachers are not only consumers of commercial educational materials, but also must improve creativity in managing classrooms. They should find innovative instructional approaches, methods, and strategies. Therefore, the language teacher identity (LTI) becomes very important. The teachers should discover the contexts in which their designed practices are rooted and expelled to criticize their own personal and professional lives. The current article is a narrative inquiry that an English teacher of vocational high school in Indonesia began to experience over a period of two years during which she could see herself trying to find the best English learning for students that are ready to work in industry 4.0. Shimmering on self experiences and documenting the activities narratively made the teacher face with a number of teaching tradition that she wants to bridge education to world current development. With the development of technology, She began to see herself transforming from traditional learning into new learning that well matched for millennial students. These experiences become very challenging for teachers who are interested in self-inquiry research.

Disparity between central and peripheral refraction inheritance in twins

The last decades have witnessed a sudden increase in myopia incidence among youngsters that have been related to modern lifestyle along with the use of emerging technologies affecting visual exposure. Increasing exposures to known risk factors for myopia, such as time spent indoors, close-distance work, or low-light conditions are thought to be responsible for this public health issue. In most cases, development of myopia is secondary to a vitreous chamber enlargement, although the related mechanisms and the potential interaction between central and peripheral retinal area remain unclear. For a better understanding, we performed a classical twin study where objective refractive error along 70° of horizontal retinal arc was measured in 100 twin pairs of university students, 78% of which showed manifest myopia. We found the variance of shared environmental origin (range 0.34 to 0.67) explained most of the objective refractive error variance within central 42° of the retina (22° temporal to 19° nasal), whereas additive genetic variance (range 0.34 to 0.76) was predominant in the peripheral retinal areas measured. In this sample of millennial university students, with a large prevalence of myopia, environmental exposures were mostly responsible for inter-individual variation in the retinal horizontal area surrounding the macula, while their relative weight on phenotypic variance was gradually descending, and replaced by the variance of genetic origin, towards the retinal periphery.

Teleoncology: Assessing online communication skills of millennial medical students.

e13616 Background: COVID-19 posed new challenges in patient care and led to an increase in teleoncology. This paper analyzes telemedicine communication skills of millennial medical students of the postgraduate program of Clinical Oncology at Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires. Methods: Student assessment was based on a video call interaction with simulated patients in two stations (30 minutes each) of the Virtual Observational Standard Clinical Examination (V-OSCE), implemented in November 2020. Students received virtual communication guidelines and participated in training sessions to use the video call platform. All interactions were recorded. Assessment items (Table). Results: A total of 25 students were evaluated: 1 (4%) was ineligible due to network connection issues; 24 (96%) participated in both interactions. We analyzed 48 interactions in total. Opening: 6/48 interactions completed all five required items. Most recurring problems: not checking for patient’s previous experience with teleoncology (37/48) and not providing an alternative communication channel in case of technical difficulties (40/48). Middle: the results were similar to in-person interaction observed in previous exams, 35/48 interactions completed all required items. End: 16/48 interactions completed both items. In 32/48 the student did not check for patient understanding of the information provided. Only 3/48 interactions completed all 12 items. Conclusions: A) The V-OSCE is a useful tool to practice and evaluate teleoncology communication skills. B) The Middle Moment of the interactions was similar to an in-person interaction. However, the Opening and End of the interview were more challenging. The most critical struggles being: checking for patient’s previous experience in teleoncology, providing an alternative communication channel in case of technical difficulties and checking for patient understanding. C) COVID-19 established new forms of communication that are likely to remain even after the pandemic has ended. It is important to address this demand for online communication skills in medical education curricula.[Table: see text]

Smartphone-Based Virtual Reality as an Immersive Tool for Teaching Marketing Concepts

With the advent of Virtual Reality (VR) technology and the ubiquity of mobile devices, smartphone-based VR has become more affordable and accessible to business educators and millennial students. While millennials expect learning to be fun and prefer working with current technology, educators are constantly challenged to integrate new technology into the curriculum and evaluate the learning outcomes. This study examines the gain in learning effectiveness and students' intrinsic motivations that would result from the use of VR as compared to the use of traditional learning activity, namely think-pair and share. The results show that students who took part in the VR simulation demonstrated a better understanding of concepts and reported a better learning experience as compared to those who participated in the think-pair-share activity. In particular, the findings show evidence of higher intrinsic motivation and better learning outcomes.

LOVE IS ONE OF THE REASONS STUDENTS COMMUNICATE: STUDY ABOUT MOTIVE COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONAL SATISFACTION STUDENTS

Millennials are the generation that has the largest number of Indonesia's total population. There are inconsistencies with millennial studies in their interpersonal communication skills and communication satisfaction. Therefore, this study tested whether there was an influence on millennial students' communication motives and communication satisfaction. The respondents in this study were 969 consisting of 523 women and 446 men who are the millennial category in the 14-18 years range and sit in class 10 of Senior High School. This study uses a quantitative approach with data collection using a scale of communication motivations and interpersonal relationship satisfaction.The results showed a relationship between communication motives and communication satisfaction, besides producing a high pleasure motive. Research also shows that millennials' need for love is relatively high. This research indicates that the desire to get recognition, love, and affection from the environment is still very high

The use of social media in the creation of personal learning environment during the #studyfromhome period

Due to the Covid-19 outbreak in Indonesia the Government urged students and lecturers to conduct the learning process from home through an online system called #studyfromhome. The architecture undergraduate students in this study were millennial students who used digital technology on a daily basis. This study was conducted to determine the role of social media, as well as millennial students’ preferences and feedback on the use of social media as learning tools to create a personal learning environment (PLE). Questionnaires were distributed online to students of Class of 2017 and 2018, out of whom 115 respondents provided their feedback. The results of the study showed that the students of the Architecture Study Program at Udayana University in Bali were fond of using social media especially audio-visual applications for learning activities. In addition, very positive feedback was also provided in terms of knowledge sharing and creativity, acquisition of information, and submission of assignments. Social media were considered more student-friendly. This condition was relevant to the characteristics of the millennial students who were independent learners, and facilitated the creation of PLE. Dealing with the new approach, the students hoped that social media could be used in a better manner as architecture learning platforms.

Mentoring Approaches for Various Learning Behaviors of The Future Engineers in Professional Education: Competency and Commitment Development

Mentoring in higher education facilitates students to enhance the confidence level, improves the probability of academic accomplishment, and reduces chances of failure. Students depend on the expertise and involvement of mentors to support them graduate in a well-timed manner and guide on them to their best possible career. The mentoring significance is not always distinctly understood in education. Researchers are becoming gradually more sensible of its complexity. Choosing a mentor is critical in any career field, and engineering is no different. Mentors can offer future engineers� an instrumental guidance and assistance early in their careers.This research study explores the different learning patterns of the engineering students and recommends the new approaches required for the successful mentoring of these millennial students. Project-based course �Product Design Studio� is considered, and total strength of 50 students classified into 4 groups based on their competency and commitment levels. At least one student from each of these 4 groups combined and 11 project teams formulated for the execution of the project. Competency levels identified through a test based on the skillset required for the project execution. Four different training models are proposed in this paper for each of the groups formulated and these approaches successfully implemented by the mentors. The learning reflections of the mentors and mentees are presented in this paper. The final product demonstration by the students reflected the success of the novel approaches implemented by the mentors. Competency and Commitment are the key factors to be considered for analyzing the performance of the students. in addition to the mentoring students for improving their competency levels, the role assigned during the project execution promoted the 21st century skillset among the students. There is a huge scope to research and develop the appropriate mentoring strategies for the human resource management and development in the project-based courses.

Smartphone-based Virtual Reality as an Immersive Tool for Teaching Marketing Concepts

With the advent of Virtual Reality (VR) technology and the ubiquity of mobile devices, smartphone-based VR has become more affordable and accessible to business educators and millennial students. While millennials expect learning to be fun and prefer working with current technology, educators are constantly challenged to integrate new technology into the curriculum and evaluate the learning outcomes. This study examines the gain in learning effectiveness and students' intrinsic motivations that would result from the use of VR as compared to the use of traditional learning activity, namely think-pair and share. The results show that students who took part in the VR simulation demonstrated a better understanding of concepts and reported a better learning experience as compared to those who participated in the think-pair-share activity. In particular, the findings show evidence of higher intrinsic motivation and better learning outcomes.

Assessing virtual and on-site technical trainings during the first year of covid-19 pandemic

In 2020, Covid-19 pandemic firstly hit many countries including Indonesia. Since then, the methods on disseminating the agricultural technology have evolved accordingly. This paper assessed nine series of virtual and on-site technical trainings (or the so-called Bimtek in this paper) carried out from February to November 2020 in nine sub-districts from five provinces. Zoom application was used to deliver the materials during virtual Bimtek. Whilst, on-site training applied such methods: meeting in the classroom and field visit to practice the technology. The participants were diverse, among others: farmers and millennial farmers, extension officers, lecturers, college students and community (551 in total). The nature of participants depended on the type of Bimtek. Results showed that both Bimtek had the range of value between 70-85% in term of materials to meet the needs, materials to be applied, motivation and technical assistance from resource person. However, the percentage of knowledge change in virtual was higher than that in on-site Bimtek. Initial assessment showed that participants had good knowledge in remembering the technology, even some had also applied the technology in their farming practice. Thus, both Bimtek could improve farmers’ knowledge, from which the intention to change the farming practice could be persuaded.

Improving Students’ Writing Participation and Achievement in an Edpuzzle-Assisted Flipped Classroom

Writing is often considered as a dull but challenging skill to be learned. Hence, a learning innovation aside the conventional methods is needed to improve students’ participation and achievement. Flipped Classroom, a reverse teaching strategy was selected to overcome this problem because it involves the use of technology as a learning media that fits the characteristics of millennial students. This strategy was combined with Edpuzzle, a learning media which provides content from renowned education channels that can be customized and used freely by teachers. The combination of Flipped Classroom strategy and Edpuzzle has proven to be successful in improving students’ participation in learning activities (30.5%) as well as their achievement in writing (17%). Therefore, teachers are suggested to implement and adapt this practice in their class while considering the competence to be mastered, as well as students’ needs and characteristics.

Is Technology Based Note-Taking More Preferable For Millenial Students? Exploration Of English Students' Note-Taking Habit

Note-taking is one of important skills students need to practice in order to understand the content of both printed and unprinted texts effectively. To do note-taking, readers can do either manually or digitally. However, with the advancement of technology nowadays especially in this pandemic era, readers can practice note-taking more easily with the use of technological tools, such as laptop and mobile. This descriptive qualitative research aims to discover how university students practice note-taking particularly to explore their note-taking strategy and preference for refining literature review in English academic writing. This included identifying the strategy they apply in note-taking practices to understand the content of the articles they read and identifying their note-taking. To explore the issue, the researcher collected data through questionnaires and interview with 62 English students taking academic writing who have intense note-taking practices as part of the course activities. The results of this study showed the majority of millennial students prefer using digital note-taking with 66.12% responses. They decided to use it as it is faster and easier in doing note-taking. The digital technology that the students used commonly was mobile phone with 54.84% responses. They chose this tool to practice note-taking as it is handy.

A Study on The Determinants of Singapore Polytechnic Students’ Choices in A Hospitality and Tourism Program

The hospitality and tourism industry in Singapore is rapidly growing and all polytechnics in Singapore are offering hospitality courses so that they can help sustain the economy with the necessary manpower. However, the new generation of Singapore millennial students choosing hospitality programs assess choice factors differently and give different priorities of importance to these factors. Factors have been grouped according to ‘Personal’, ‘Institution – Academic’, ‘Institution – Others’, and ‘Curriculum’, and students rated these on their own perceptions and against those perceptions from the faculty when designing hospitality programs to attract potential students. It has been noted that the ability to get a job after graduation is of the highest importance to both parties and that parents' and peers' influence do not matter in their choice of hospitality programs or polytechnics. With this understanding, educational institutions would need to relook at their strategies on enticing students to join their programs. This study will also grant a precursory insight into how students from developing Asian countries will select hospitality programs, using Singapore as a model in the future.

Inspiring the Study of Gerontology Among Millennial Students: A Rural Perspective

The study of gerontology across different generational cohorts is not static but rather dynamic. As we consider teaching gerontology to different age cohorts, what similarities and differences do exist? How do the educational needs within higher education differ across the different cohorts of the workforce? This presentation aims to identify and present specific learning needs and styles of the millennial cohort, as compared to other generational cohorts with the effort of building educational strategies for this workforce cohort. The presentation will also address the unique needs that a rural workforce faces and how to address these within the millennial cohort. Strategies such as online learning, flip classroom, experiential strategies and research projects/practicum will be addressed with a specific focus on the engagement of the millennial student. These strategies are all described within the context of teaching gerontology through a specific Certificate in Gerontology program located on a rural campus setting, but meeting the educational needs of people across the country.

The Effect of Scaffolding on Assignment Quality and Procedural Learning Achievement

Some problems experienced by millennial students when they learn by online include learning control, learning disorientation, and cognitive load. This study aims to examine the effect of scaffolding use on assignment quality and procedural cognitive learning achievement in the implementation of inverted or flipped (IF) classroom strategies. This study involved students of the pre-service study program of Indonesian Catholic University of Ruteng. The total research subjects were 78 students. They were divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group is assisted by scaffolding, while the control group without scaffolding. The study design used a pretest-posttest experimental control group design and data collection using questionnaires and tests. Data analysis using multivariate analysis (MANOVA). The results showed that the use of scaffolding increased the effectiveness of implementing IF classroom strategies on student assignment quality and procedural learning achievement. The implications of the research for future study and learning practices can be explained.

Analyzing attitudes of students toward the use of technology for learning: simplicity is the key to successful implementation in higher education

PurposeResearch has shown that the much-anticipated technology revolution in higher education has failed to come to fruition. The arrival of ‘digital natives’ millennial students to higher education was presume to present even greater challenge concerning technology use. In light of these gaps, this research aims to capture higher education students' choice, use and preferences of technology in learning and teaching.Design/methodology/approachA paper-based questionnaire was distributed to third and fourth year students of industrial engineering and management at an engineering college in Israel. The students were asked to indicate their use of devices and technologies for learning, their frequency of use and their purpose of using.FindingsStudents extensively use a variety of technologies for learning. They prefer to use the same technologies for learning that they use in their personal lives – mainstream, commercially available technologies – rather than those offered by the institute. They perceive technology as a learning tool more than as a logistic/administrative tool, they would like technology to be more easily accessible and that it not be used as a facilitator of pedagogical change.Practical implicationsThe results indicate that technologies intended for use in teaching should be designed similar to commercially available alternatives that are simpler to use and more appealing.Originality/valueThis study provides an up-to-date view of students' perceptions of technology for learning that can be used to more effectively implement teaching technologies in higher education.

Editorial Introduction

Editorial Introduction Edward Timke It is difficult to write an editorial introduction at the end of one of the most challenging years in recent history. There is hope for an end to the pandemic with the distribution of various COVID-19 vaccines around the world, but tremendous uncertainty remains. Some people are questioning the safety or effectiveness of these medicines, and the rollout of vaccines is slower than expected. Even though many Americans' financial situation is still quite dire, US politicians delayed the release of much-needed aid. A caustic political climate has kept the US divided, especially about diversity and inclusion in society. Erratic weather patterns continue to remind everyone that climate and environmental issues are as urgent as ever. Even during this unsettled year, Advertising & Society Quarterlyis optimistic for better days to come through our community's shared concern about how advertising might bring positive changes to our society and culture. As one recent Microsoft holiday ad reminds us through the story of a family dog named Rufus, we can all find joy and hope during hard times by staying connected. Video 1. In one of Microsoft's 2020 holiday ads, a dog named Rufus reminds viewers that despite the social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to keep hope alive by dreaming big. We can also stay connected during these difficult times through technology and digital tools. 1 Click to view video This final issue of 2020 focuses largely on race, ethnicity, and diversity in advertising and American society. Although the journal hoped to host its fourth annual colloquium in person this October, staying true to the Quarterly's focus on digital publishing, we held a virtual meeting on December 3–4. This year's theme was Race/Ethnicity/Diversity in Advertising. To fully contextualize and analyze this topic, the colloquium was broken into three sessions. The first session had Smithsonian museum curators discuss their collecting strategies to preserve and tell the stories of race, ethnicity, and diversity in American advertising. 2In the second session, advertising practitioners discussed their public service advertising (PSA) campaigns about COVID-19 safety and concerns among Black, Brown, Asian, and Latino communities. 3The last session featured notable scholars critically unpacking the place of race, ethnicity, and diversity in the advertising industry's business and creative work. 4All three sessions were recorded and published in this issue. 5 Several other pieces in this issue relate to the colloquium's theme about diversity, equity, and inclusion. Marketing professor Yvette Bonaparte (North Carolina Central) and sociology professor Martha Reeves (Duke) examine if and how brand messages can represent concerns from the #MeToo Movement. In addition to providing background details about the #MeToo Movement, Bonaparte and Reeves analyze what Gen Z and Millennial students think about marketers' inclusion of issues such as pay disparity and sexual violence toward women in their messaging. Communication and advertising scholars Jackson Carter (South Carolina and Ouachita Baptist University) and Taylor Jing Wen (South Carolina) provide a detailed qualitative content analysis of a topic rarely assessed in advertising: adoption public service announcements. Adoption PSAs do not adequately represent the foster care system's realities. Carter and Wen worry that such inaccuracies could deter would-be parents from adopting. A reprinted chapter from Inger L. Stole's book Advertising at War: Business, Consumers, and Government in the 1940s(University of Illinois Press, 2012), provides some useful context about how the advertising industry navigates and adapts to various crises in American history. The chapter covers how the advertising industry's efforts to convince the public about advertising's benefits before and during World War II. The chapter also explains the origins of the Ad Council. This history, which we were able to illustrate in color, helps us understand why the organization still plays a vital role in addressing significant social issues while helping the advertising industry defend how it benefits society and culture...

College Student Views of Community Vitality Through the Image and the Word

For family and consumer sciences (FCS) professionals, understanding the individual differences in how communities are defined is integral to serving others. This exploratory study, designed to explore college students' perceptions of community vitality, compared and contrasted their perceptions through the image and the word. The sample consisted of 112 Gen Z and Millennial students enrolled in FCS courses at a West coast university. Via an online survey platform, subjects were asked to upload an image of anything or anyone that they felt illustrated their personal sense of community vitality. Subjects were asked how many communities they belong to and they were asked to name and list the top three communities with which they identified. Through content analysis, images were analyzed for their representations of community vitality and compared with the subjects' reported community identity. Three major categories emerged in the images, which showed parity for two categories (groups of people, and campus groups/connections). For this sample, the sense of community membership is quite high with all students associating with three or more groups. Although the sample size was narrow, responses support the importance of group association and community vitality to participants' well-being.