Professional Internships Research Articles

Action Research for Enhancing the English Learning Needs of College Students

This study explored English learning challenges faced by freshman students in a Hainan vocational university. Participants, who had completed vocational diplomas and professional internships, struggled with English, affecting their undergraduate coursework. Analysis of the data revealed several key issues, including lack of interest and motivation, disconnect from practical needs, overemphasis on vocabulary and grammar, dissatisfaction with learning outcomes, inappropriate assessment standards and content, lack of relevance to major, and exam-oriented learning. In response, a remediation plan is proposed, aiming to stimulate learning interest, strengthen foundational skills, enhance classroom engagement, leverage technology and resources, promote cultural awareness and communication skills, and implement regular feedback and assessment. A new round of action research will be conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of this plan and make further improvements. The aim is to provide valuable insights and pave the way for tailored educational interventions to support the academic journey of these students.

La competencia de comunicación terapéutica en estudiantes de práctica profesional de Terapia Ocupacional: percepciones y opiniones desde los docentes

IntroductionCommunication is key in Occupational Therapy and its effectiveness affects up to 20% of therapeutic results. It must be developed throughout the occupational therapists training and professional career, with internships being a critical period for the acquisition of these skills. This study explores opinions and perceptions about the importance and performance of communication competencies in Occupational Therapy students during their professional internships. MethodologyMixed sequential explanatory cross-sectional design, with a descriptive scope, in which 32 teachers participated through an online survey and individual interviews. ResultsThe most relevant elements in relation to communication competence are: agreement on plans and problems, information, patient perspective and empathy. In addition, teachers found that the performance of communication competence in students improves at the end of professional internship. DiscussionsCommunication competence is important, but there are differences in its assessment. Personal, curricular factors and teaching skills can influence performance. It is suggested to incorporate it into the curriculum from the beginning of training. ConclusionsCommunication competence is essential for occupational therapists, especially during their professional internships. Its continuous development should be encouraged so that students acquire clear and effective communication skills that promote therapeutic success.

ĐÁNH GIÁ CHUẨN ĐẦU RA THỰC TẬP NGHỀ NGHIỆP CỦA SINH VIÊN NGÀNH QUẢN TRỊ DỊCH VỤ DU LỊCH VÀ LỮ HÀNH, TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC KIẾN TRÚC ĐÀ NẴNG

Professional internship is a compulsory course at universities, particularly for application-oriented training programs. Instead of relying on the evaluation results of lecturers and businesses, this study evaluates the effectiveness of professional internships from the perspective of students. The study has developed a scale including criteria of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, and conducted a survey of students who have completed 02 Professional Internship courses 1 & 2 in the field of Travel and Tourism Service Management, Da Nang University of Architecture. The results show that most of the criteria are met at a good level, however the most important goal of training students to master the processes and operations in the departments has the lowest evaluation score. This shows that there is still a gap between theory and practice, between the program framework and actual implementation. Based on that, the article also suggests some solutions to shorten this gap. Keywords: Professional internship; knowledge; skills; attitude; tourism.

Modelo Predictivo del Indicador de Reprobación de la Población Estudiantil de una Institución de Educación Superior (IES)

OBJECTIVE: To determine the multiple linear regression model of the HEI according to its grid of educational programs (EP), as well as analyzing the factors that affect the indicator of the subjects’ competencies achievement of the different study plans offered by TecNM in Tapachula Campus. MATERIAL AND METHOD: It is qualitative and quantitative in nature, based on a multiple linear regression model in which the failure indicator, educational programs and categories of knowledge are considered as variables, according to the Education Accreditation Council of Engineering (CACEI, by its acronym in Spanish). RESULTS: The seven categories of knowledge of the CACEI are considered fundamental for the training of competent engineers in accordance with the challenges of the 21st century. It is worth mentioning that the categories are not mutually exclusive but are interrelated and integrated throughout the engineering study program. CONCLUSIONS: The linking actions that are mostly implemented with the productive and service sector were detected, they are: Social Service and Professional Residency or professional internships, followed by the Promotion of Vacancies in the Job Boards of the HEI.

Internship Practices in Journalism and Mass Communication Programs: A Review of ACEJMC-Accredited Programs

The use of professional internships has long been a defining feature of journalism and mass communication programs, but the practice is also increasingly controversial for the financial burdens it places on marginalized students. This study examined accreditation reports for 120 institutions to gain a better understanding of current practices. Findings showed that almost all universities offer internships for credit, and about two fifths of the programs require them. Most programs use internship data to assess student learning outcomes.

Estressores acadêmicos como preditores da síndrome de burnout em estudantes

ABSTRACT Burnout Syndrome in students is a feeling of exhaustion due to the demands of the study proceeding in an attitude of disbelief and a sense of ineffectiveness of professional training. The objective of the study was to identify the predictive power of academic stressors on Burnout Syndrome in a sample of 1,169 university students. As instruments, the Burnout Syndrome Assessment Scale in University Students, a sociodemographic and academic questionnaire, and a questionnaire on academic stressors were used. The stressors that predicted Burnout Syndrome were relationships with teachers, reconciling study and leisure, many subjects to take, relationships with colleagues, performing extracurricular work, performing tests and class work, performing tests and class work, and reconciling studies / professional internships. The results suggest the need for intervention in academic stressors present in the university context.

Evaluation of health literacy and its predictive formative factors among Spanish military personnel

ABSTRACT Health literacy (HL) is an aspect that has been widely studied. However, in the military population there are hardly any studies on the influence of educational variables. Knowing the level of health literacy of military professionals is important as it has an impact on adequate health decision making, avoids the abuse of health services and makes it possible to ask for help when needed, especially in aspects related to mental health. The aim of this study was to measure the level of literacy, as well as its association with other training variables in a sample of military personnel. The study was carried out in 695 military personnel of the Spanish Army. A cross-sectional observational design was used, using a survey with the HLS-EU-Q47 scale. Among the results, it stands out that the level of health literacy of the military is high compared to the rest of the population. The results showed that the level of HL does not seem to be influenced by the level of languages, nor by the degree they hold, nor by experiences abroad. On the other hand, it was observed that the performance of professional internships and work in multidisciplinary teams, extracurricular training, does influence the level of HL, especially in the dimension related to health promotion. This fact seems to mean that the military have learned during these experiences to keep abreast of health-related issues, to understand, to value and to form a considered opinion on health-related information.

Online Educational Experiences in Some Majors of Eszterházy Károly University

Abstract Introduction: In Hungary, as in many parts of the world, a crisis situation has arisen with the start of the quarantine period associated with the coronavirus, which presented the education system with a serious challenge. Social inequality (also in terms of network access and device availability) was expected due to, that differences will only increase the gap in education. Digital connectivity and the digital environment became the main arena for students and faculty over the course of a weekend. That's a real question, of course, can we talk about real digital education during this period? Was online education effective or was it rather a blind spot? Methods: In our research, we examined it from the perspective of geography teachers, kindergarten teachers, and university students attending teaching courses learning and teaching „switching online” betweem March, 2020 and April, 2021 at the Eszterházy Károly Catholic University (then even EKE). Our sample consisted of 108 people. We used an online questionnaire study to assess students' experiences with the effectiveness of distance learning and the development of their digital competence, about the possibilities of implementing professional internships. We were looking for student answers to, how each segment of distance learning can be integrated into the normal education system. We compared our results with similar Hungarian and international research results. Results: Most students felt that online education was effective. The digital competence of students has evolved. Due to changed circumstances of traineeships, students could not gain enough experience, which could later affect their work. Discussion: The changes that have occurred can be highlighted as secondary benefits, this educational environment could be more sustainable in the future, than the traditional educational environment, however, the consequences of isolation cannot be ignored. Limitations: The research shows data valid only for Hungary. Conclusions: Consideration of the experience of students for the effectiveness of their education in the coming years.

Supporting KP Journalists through Professional Internships (DOS)

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Language Support for Refugee Academics in Professional Internships

Language Support for Refugee Academics in Professional Internships

Environmental Emissions Dispersion Modelling, Principles and Algorithms; Cross-Border CZ-PL Course for Master’s Students

Abstract Regular mathematical modelling of the dispersion of emissions from large sources is required by law in all EU countries. It is also used in risk analysis to predict releases of toxic substances from various technologies, from volcanic activity and possibly also terrorist acts. However, there is a shortage of experts in this very specific and demanding profession in the labour market in most EU countries. In a collaboration between academicians from neighbouring University of Hradec Králové and University of Opole and experts from important ecological companies of both regions we designed and verified as a part of a four-year pedagogical project supported by the EU a comprehensive education system in mathematical modelling of emission dispersion with exchange field trips and internships of students during cross-border Polish-Czech university education. The paper consists of two separate parts. The first part is focused on implementation of innovative lesson “Principles, algorithms, and differences of environmental dispersion emissions models”, used on both sides of Polish-Czech border region. An example of the use of the educational package of the Gaussian plume model with PC Templates, who was modified in cooperation between teachers from both cross-border universities and experts from professional companies is presented here too. Our four-year experience with student motivational field trips to professional companies in both border regions and exchange one-month professional internships for interested students to two Czech professional companies, where students learn to work with to the Gaussian plume model and one Polish professional company, where students are introduced to the Gaussian puff model is also discussed. The following separate second part will be focused on the innovative lesson of multivariate statistical methods of environmental data analysis, which are required for processing materials for modern mathematical modelling of the dispersion of emissions in practice. The target users of this two-part innovative courses are students of the MSc degree in Physical Measurement and Modelling at the University of Hradec Králové and students of the MSc degree in environmental studies at the University of Opole. However, it is also open to other Czech and foreign students and professionals.

University students’ social skills performing their professional internships

The objective of this quantitative study was to identify the most used social skills by engineering students during their stay in the company to meet the training needs. The sample chosen through a non-random sampling consisted of 82 participants, 18 students (30%) of Engineering Technologies for Automation (ITA) and 41 (70%) of the Bachelor of Business Innovation and Marketing (LIN) of the Universidad Tecnológica del Sur de Sonora (UTS), and 9 students (40%) from ITA and 14 students (60%) from LIN, from the Universidad Tecnológica de Nezahualcóyotl (UTNEZA) aged between 21 and 33 years. Goldstein's Social Skills instrument (1989) was applied. The data was analyzed with the statistical program SPSS 23. The results showed that the social skills most used by the students of both institutions are those of planning, followed by the advanced ones, and the least used are those related to feelings and stress management. The rest report frequent use. It concludes with the proposal to design a program that allows promoting and developing social skills, among administrative and teaching staff through manuals and making a wide dissemination of these.

Эмоциональный интеллект в период стажировки на кораблях как предиктор профессиональной деятельности будущих морских офицеров

There is a need to determine a wider range of factors to anticipate officer behavior in situations of complex interpersonal interaction together with guidelines for self-knowledge and self-development of professional competencies. This study examines the emotional intelligence of future naval officers during probation on ships as a predictor of their success in military service. The article shows that it is possible to predict the results of internships of cadets of a military university on ships through the partial elements and the overall characteristic of their emotional intelligence. One hundred cadets were examined using the N. Hall methodology “Diagnosis of emotional intelligence (Fetiskin, Kozlova and Manuylova variant), the “Progressive Matrices” test by J. Raven, and expert evaluations of the results of professional internships. The study evaluated the reliability of the distribution of indicators of the components of emotional intelligence “Emotional awareness”, “Managing your emotions”, “Self-motivation”, “Empathy” and “Recognizing the emotions of other people” and correlation analysis of the relationship of the integral level of emotional and non-verbal intelligence with the success of the training of future officers on ships. It concludes that psychological predictors of emotional intelligence and its partial elements predicts the results of professional activity due to self-regulation, self-control, and management of the emotional states of naval officers with fairly high reliability. The predictors identified contribute to the development of targeted corrective and preventive programs for the development of emotional intelligence among naval university cadets.

ЭКОСИСТЕМНЫЙ ПОДХОД ПРИ ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ ПОДГОТОВКИ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНЫХ КАДРОВ ДЛЯ РАЗВИТИЯ РЕГИОНА

The article reveals a number of contradictions in the synchronization of professional training and qualification expectations in Moscow region labor market. The data obtained show that the problem of creating a balanced regional system of professional education that meets the needs of young people, employers, society and the state is complex and, accordingly, requires the same balanced integrated approach. According to the author, the ecosystem approach is the approach in need. Speaking of the «educational ecosystem» the author means a new management paradigm of organizing the process of education and training. It must be flexible, and built on the principles of adaptability and personalization. It is necessary to form modern competencies at teachers and administrators of educational organizations, universities and colleges in the sphere of creating and operating personnel partnership ecosystems surrounding educational organizations; identify and study the qualification requirements of manufacturing enterprises; continuously engage consultants and experts in the development of indicators of regional staffing needs; provide sites of manufacturing enterprises to organize professional internships for teachers of educational organizations in order to fill qualification gaps; conduct a marketing orientation of the management system of educational organizations, universities and colleges in order to increase the efficiency of interaction between educational organizations and the labor market.

Assessing Transversal Competences in Professional Internships: The Role of Assessment Agents

Assessing Transversal Competences in Professional Internships: The Role of Assessment Agents

INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO THE FORMATION OF “SOFT SKILLS” IN THE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY OF SERVICE PROFESSIONALS

The article analyzes the role of and approaches to the formation of “soft skills” in the studying and professional activities of service professionals.
 The relevance of the proposed study lies in the lack of coverage in the scientific literature of the role of “soft skills”in the professional activities of service professionals. It should be noted that the role of “soft skills” in the process of performing professional tasks of specialists in various fields of knowledge is increasingly attracting the attention of scientists, primarily due to globalization, focus on European quality standards in services, and employers' requirements for employee’s not only professional but also social skills.
 To achieve this goal it is necessary to perform the following tasks: to determine the pedagogical conditions for the formation of “soft” competencies in higher education in Tourism and Hospitality, which are extremely important for the daily professional activities of hospitality professionals, to analyze the prospects for “soft skills” actually in the process of professional activity, during professional internships, etc., as well as to analyze the current requirements of employers to the level of mastery of social skills.
 Achieving this goal led to the use of the following research methods: systematization of modern scientific literature, theoretical analysis of scientific sources to determine the status and theoretical justification of the role of “soft skills” in the professional activities of service professionals. Methods of empirical research: observation, comparison, generalization.
 It was proved that social skills play an important role in the professional activities of hospitality professionals, as the implementation of daily tasks is related to communication, including communication in foreign languages, teamwork, cooperation, stress, responsibility, etc. It should be noted that the analysis of labor market requirements revealed that employers are increasingly paying attention to the possession of future employees’ not only professional knowledge, skills and abilities, but “soft”competencies.

Conducting STEM Industry Internships while Sheltering in Place: The Biotech Partners Experience

Before the shelter-in-place orders began, Biotech Partners (BP) was already engaged in contingency planning with its school and industry partners in an effort to mitigate potential disruptions caused by the looming health crisis. For 25 years prior, BP had successfully mentored and prepared underrepresented high school students to complete professional internships at diverse STEM institutions. Often working in a laboratory or pharmaceutical manufacturing setting, the internships allowed students to apply bioscience, biotechnology, and professional career skills developed in school within the context of a professional workplace. The promise of paid internships in a cutting-edge industry creates an incentive to motivate and maximize student learning in rigorous academic training and workforce preparation. As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, most industry sites cancelled their 2020 participation, putting the summer internships in jeopardy. BP rapidly shifted. Collaborating with new and longstanding industry partners, the internship program was modified from in-person to remote work and learning environments. This case study examines the pedagogical challenges and opportunities of conducting remote STEM internships amid a global pandemic. This paper illuminates the role of industry partnerships, student outreach, personalized mentoring, and wrap-around support services to broaden students' awareness of, interest in, and preparation for careers in the STEM workforce.

Professional undergraduate internships as a work insertion device: work modality and hiring.

The article discusses the need to reflect on the educational level related to changes and transformations in the world of work, especially regarding higher education's professional internships. Issues related to preparedness and the legitimation of social institutions are recognized, as well as the recognition of production and work systems. Those are referred to as devices for labor incorporation, as they become scenes to apply disciplinary theories and knowledge, in order to assume problems at real contexts, institutions, and organizations, with conditions associated with “decent or full jobs”. In this case, internships refer to a traditional status job, a concrete project-oriented to ensure a better future, (uncertain) working conditions, and to match with some kind of professional who works fiscally or virtually, collets data, is involved with technological structures, duplicates in networks, is flexible, handles with uncertainty, and works – as an identifiable trend- on precarious paradoxical condition of being a student-worker, characterized as well as a means for the actual re-institutionalization of the world of work as a form to be included and hired. This reflection is based on research experiences and conceptual approximation from academic and applied spaces at professional levels, related to concepts such as Employability in its multi-dimensional sense and includes labor insertion and recognizes the undergraduate professional internships phenomena as a working modality which is being consolidated at re re-institutionalization of the work itself, and ends up legitimating other social spheres of occupational activity that must be discussed beyond curricular and academic aspects exclusively. Finally, undergraduate professional internships are reconfigured as a social space of projection an insertion in and for work.

Multilingual legal practice and law student internships in Malaysia

AbstractMediated through hierarchical domestic institutions and a global system of jurisprudence that tends to view older jurisdictions as more authentic or authoritative legal sources, the language of common law is seldom explored through a world Englishes lens, but Malaysian law has opened up possibilities for indigenised and pluricentric common law by its use of Malay alongside English. While some studies have examined bilingualism in Malaysian public courtrooms, few have looked into the less accessible spaces of law office practice. This study investigates bilingual legal practice through the experiences of law students undertaking professional internships at various institutions nationwide. Although some sectors lean toward one language more than the other, most students reported intense and dynamic patterns of bilingualism. The findings offer scope for research specifically into Malaysian legal English from a language contact perspective.

Evaluating interventions with victims of intimate partner violence: a community psychology approach

PurposeIntimate Partner Violence (IPV) is one of the most common forms of domestic violence, with profound implication for women's physical and psychological health. In this text we adopted the Empowerment Process Model (EPM) by Cattaneo and Goodman (Psychol Violence 5(1):84–94) to analyse interventions provided to victims of IPV by a Support Centre for Women (SCW) in Italy, and understand its contribution to women’s empowerment.MethodWe conducted semi-structured interviews with ten women who had been enrolled in a program for IPV survivors at a SCW in the past three years. The interviews focused on the programs’ aims, actions undertaken to reach them, and the impact on the women’s lives, and were analysed using an interpretative phenomenological approach.ResultsResults showed that the interventions provided by the SWC were adapted according to women's needs. In the early phases, women’s primary aim was ending violence, and the intervention by the SCW was deemed as helpful to the extent it provided psychological support, protection and safe housing. Women’s aims subsequently moved to self-actualisation and economic and personal independence which required professional training, internships, and social support. Although satisfying the majority of the women’s expectations, other important needs (e.g., economic support or legal services) were poorly addressed, and cooperation with other services (e.g., police or social services) was sometimes deemed as critical.ConclusionsBy evaluating a program offered by a SCW to IPV survivors through the lens of the EPM model, we found that women deemed the program as effective when both individual resources and empowerment processes were promoted. Strengths, limitations and implications are discussed.