Professional Project Research Articles

Stats lab: Piloting live digital statistics learning modules for nurses at a multicenter health institution in the Western United States

Nurses often struggle to understand and perform statistical analyses on professional projects. A pre-post interventional design was utilized for a virtual statistics-based curriculum, where nurses received short lessons with remaining time spent on attendee questions. Surveys measured perceived confidence with statistical concepts and yielded significant improvements in attendees' confidence for performing statistical analyses. Nurses scored the programs as highly useful. The need for statistically focused professional development for nurses can be addressed by similar programs.

Critical Education in Community Health Literacy for Brazilian Nurses: A Course Evaluation

This article presents an immediate evaluation of a professional development course in community health literacy for Brazilian nurses. An evaluation based on an applied thematic analysis of the accounts of 63 attendees in three Brazilian cities (January 2020) was guided by the following themes: (a) expansion of understanding about community health literacy as a pillar for planning and providing health care; (b) encouragement of innovation in research and/or practice; and (c) plans to incorporate the information shared in the course into professional projects. The evaluation disclosed the complexity of social contexts for health literacy, which is intertwined with ethnocultural diversity and deep socioeconomic disparities, such as restricted access to essential public health services for socially deprived and vulnerable individuals. Expanded understanding about community health literacy is a pillar for care planning and delivery, as well as innovation in research and practice projects. Participants’ evaluations revealed ideas to improve nurses’ practice in promoting community health literacy and empowerment, as well as quality of life and social well-being. Future knowledge dissemination may impact nurses’ clinical practice and management actions, bringing changes in various areas of practice to redesign more socially inclusive actions for clientele. Keywords: Community health literacy; extracurricular education; immediate evaluation; nursing; professional development course.

Association between uric acid and risk of venous thromboembolism in East Asian populations: a cohort and Mendelian randomization study

Serum uric acid (SUA) levels have been associated with an increased risk and recurrence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in European populations, but the potential causal relationship remains unclear. Large-scale studies on the association between SUA and VTE in East Asian populations are lacking, despite the high prevalence of hyperuricemia in this region. To address this, we conducted a cohort analysis and a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study in East Asian populations. We collected data on VTE patients from the China Pulmonary Thromboembolism Registry Study (CURES) and compared them to controls obtained from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS). Propensity score matching (PSM) and cubic-spline models were applied to assess the effect of SUA on VTE risk while adjusting for multiple covariates. We also performed two-sample MR analyses to infer potential causality based on summary statistics from Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS) of SUA and VTE in the East Asian population. We found that the SUA levels were higher in VTE patients (317.95mmol/L) compared to the general population (295.75mmol/L), and SUA ≥ 325mmol/L was associated with an increased risk of VTE recurrence (P-value=0.0001). The univariable MR suggested a causal relationship between elevated SUA and higher VTE risk (Pinverse variance weighted < 0.05), and multivariable MR showed that elevated SUA levels continued to promote the development of VTE after adjusting for multiple covariates (Pmultivariable residual < 0.05). Sensitivity analyses produced similar results for these estimations. Our study provides evidence supporting a robust positive association between SUA and VTE in the East Asian population, and MR analyses suggest that this association is likely to be causal. Our findings underscore the importance of monitoring SUA levels in VTE prevention and call for urgent action to address the growing burden of hyperuricemia in the Asia-Pacific region. This research was funded by Beijing Nova Program (No. Z211100002121057), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 82100065 and No. 62350004), CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (No. 2021-I2M-1-061 and No. 2021-1-I2M-001), Elite Medical Professionals project of China-Japan Friendship Hospital (No. ZRJY2021-QM12), National Key Research and Development Project (No. 2021YFF1201200 and No. 2022YFC3341004).

Professionalism and professionalization in human resources (HR): HR practitioners as professionals and the organizational professional project

Abstract This article investigates how human resources (HR) practitioners operate, and understand themselves, as professionals, and considers the implications for understanding HR professionalization. Using rich, in-depth qualitative data collected from 20 in-depth interviews with experienced UK-based HR practitioners, and based on a largely phenomenological method, the research explores the nature of: the HR professional role, HR professional knowledge, HR professional ethics, and HR professional identity. It shows how HR professionalism is grounded in, and a product of, the organizational activities and experiences of practitioners themselves. There is a particular value attached to the operational and relational aspects of HR practitioners’ role, based on the importance of ensuring that their activities and interventions contribute to the functioning of their employing organizations, from which they seek to derive greater professional standing. Informed by a neo-Weberian approach, which emphasizes the dynamics of distinctive professional projects, the research draws attention to the ‘organizational’ dimension of HR professionalization. It offers an alternative way of understanding the professional project in HR, one that avoids viewing it either as a function of a strategic, business partnering agenda or contingent upon HR becoming less managerialist and more receptive of a wider range of stakeholders. The organizational focus of HR professionalism, and its operational character, should not simply be considered as obstacles to professionalization. Rather, they can be viewed as important features of the—‘organizational’—professional project evident in HR; a project which derives legitimacy from its connection to, and alignment with, the operations of practitioners’ employing organizations.

Education Professionals’ Cooperative Learning for the Development of Professional Capital

This article presents the research results on developing professional capital in Lithuanian schools during the national project “Time for leaders”. The longitudinal national initiative aimed to develop professional capital as the synergy of human, social and decisional components of schools through educational professionals’ various cooperation-based learning experiences. Using the descriptive case study approach, the article investigates the question of how the cooperative learning approach, applied in a long-term professional development project for education professionals, develop individuals’ professional capital. The paper provides an overview of project interventions (i.e., activities that stimulated cooperative learning of educational professionals) in the light of cooperative learning principles. The assessment of change over two project years in education professionals’ perceptions of professional capital, which is presented using Cohen’s d effect size measure. The measurement sample consisted of teachers (n(I) = 5105; n(II) = 4683) and school leaders (n(I) = 439; n(II) = 405) from 189 schools in 30 Lithuanian municipalities. The findings show a statistically significant medium positive change in professional capital. The most considerable change was estimated in the social and decisional capital dimensions and the relative smallest in the field of human capital.

Human-centered poem-ing

In this reflective article, we draw upon Richardson’s (2002) advice for configuring words to view the world through poetry, through an analysis of our own social and digital selves into and through the early days of COVID-19. Verselove is a month-long digital poetry challenge, a space to welcome teacher-writers from around the world to create, learn, and share. Through the common passion for poetry, Verselove is a space of new creative professional growth and inquiry through a poetic lens. Since we did not come to Verselove as a research project or with this framework in place, we share what Verselove is and then offer our theorizing about how we are coming to understand this poetic professional development project

Organization of technical students’ project activity in department scientific circles

The scientific circle of the technical university department is the simplest, human conformable and highly efficient form of additional professional education. Great relevance and demand of social pragmatization of technical students project activity in department scientific circles is due to the fact that cumulatively it creates favorable conditions that enable students to acquire knowledge and skills when performing RD, activates and stimulates creative thinking, and enhances the students creative abilities. Organizing students project activity, we must put special emphasis on the choice of the subject to be investigated and the content of the creative project. The general methodological approach requires that the subject of the project be in line with the department scientific school. Individual approach means that the form of the project is chosen by the student independently and approved by his/her scientific supervisor. Freedom to choose both the subject and the content of the project enables the individual to acquire some additional super subject competence that he/she considers vital for future professional career. The prime task of organizing students project activity in the framework of scientific coterie is to let them independently, under supervision of academic staff, study and acquire heuristic and algorithmic methods and techniques required to search for ideas of progressive and science-intense design and technological solutions of the technical objects under development. The students are to study independently existing evaluation criteria and diagnostic tools to monitor and measure test validity of the research for further use of the obtained results in their professional project activity.

The APTAS student CubeSat Mission: A case study for reflective practitioner in education and student teams

Despite the growing number of educational CubeSat projects, there is a lack of available literature related to analysis of good practices and lessons learned associated with learning environment of such university student projects, their internal organisational, and management issues. Difficulties arise when international standards, procedures and practices from professional satellite development projects must be adopted by student teams to their local projects. This paper discusses educational, organisational, and human factors that contribute to the success of the master student space projects at Luleå University of Technology, Kiruna Space Campus. The authors focus on project structure, management, working, and learning environment of the ongoing student CubeSat project APTAS and analyse problems and difficulties encountered in relation to the other actual student space projects at LTU. The result of quantitative and qualitative analysis of questionnaires, interviews, reflections and observations of the national and international master students is presented, and provides practical advice for university student teams and their supervisors.

Integration of Library, Museum and Archive Resources: Together or Independently?

The article deals with modern problems of integration of digital resources of libraries, archives and museums. The author identifies and describes changes in the goal-setting system of activities within the framework of joint projects, caused by the digitalization of the internal activities of cultural institutions. The vector of change in the goals is directed from general goals to more practical ones, which include: the formation of an integrated research environment of a humanitarian profile; the development of digital collections as a new information product of libraries; the usage of integrated resources as a means of training and educating various groups of patrons; the creation of a joint virtual platform of historical memory institutions for professional communication and project implementation. Creating a new information product — digital collections — will require significant efforts, primarily a scientific and methodological study of the issues of their organization, taking into account the specifics of information products and their future place in the information consumption market. The creation of such products can be carried out not only by the efforts of the keepers of cultural and historical heritage, but also with the involvement of organizations engaged in artificial intelligence and semantic networks. Among the trends, there is a consistent leveling of the degree of digitalisation of libraries, archives and museums, their self-sufficiency and the desire to develop along their own information trajectories. The article provides examples of the most successful projects in the field of creating digital resources of historical memory institutions. There are identified the basic problems: departmental disunity, the lack of a publicly accessible reliable software and technology environment for interaction, as well as the lack of a system of scientific and methodical procedures and information support for resource integration activities. It is necessary to organize interdisciplinary vocational training centers for personnel to work in an integrated environment.

IMPLEMENTATION OF SELF-AWARENESS IN PROJECT MANAGER EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

PT Digital Desa Indonesia has a vision to maximize the potential of Indonesian villages through digital products, so it's critical for the businesses to manufacture high-quality goods and support the development of villages. Therefore, the fundamental indicator of a project's success in product development is a professional project manager. Through the incorporation of self-awareness into the project work processes, this service seeks to increase the emotional intelligence of project managers. Application of this program refers to the three phases of the project workflow, namely planning, implementation, and monitoring, and the job description for the position of Project Manager. Project managers have high emotional intelligence as a competency in human resource firm development as a result of applying self-awareness at program. Data were gathered through unstructured interviews and observations. Emotional intelligence is a requirement for project manager jobs to perform their duties and obligations. Self-awareness in particular needs to be grasped as a fundamental component.

School principal re-positioning in a system of professional relations: the case of newly appointed principals in Sweden

ABSTRACT International research has focused on changing the criteria for being considered a successful school leader. Principals’ recent professionalisation project, accelerated through education within the framing of New Public Management, might engender a role in conflict with teacher roles and needs further focus. This empirical study approaches newly appointed principals in how they experience their role and relate to other school professionals in an attempt to explicate historical traces of principals’ positioning. The findings revealed principals’ social contract to be resilient across time as their position within a system of relations changed. In practice, this meant becoming marginalised in attempts to fulfil their social contract. Embracing the position as a social agent of the teachers made new alliances possible. Principals’ professional project is understood as linked to a system of relations and principals’ role-taking over time, providing an analytical generalisation of how a ‘war of position’ might function concerning school professionals.

Research and Practice on the Engineering Skills Training Pattern in College-Enterprise Cooperative Studios

The development of vocational education is of great significance to the problem of difficult employment in enterprises. The cornerstone of sustainable development for skill studios are solving technical challenges and imparting technology. This will be beneficial for promoting and inheriting the IoT and artificial intelligence hardware technologies that enterprises need. The "Three-Mentor-Mechanism" proposed by the College-Enterprise Cooperative Studios help students personalized and rapid growth. General basic projects, professional skills projects, ability expansion projects, and on-the-job internship projects will be set up and run through the "four stages" of professional talent cultivation. College enterprise collaboration, college park co-education, project penetration finally construct a professional talent training model.

Incorporating teacher noticing video case reflection into scaffolded Lesson Study to encourage authentic pedagogy in social studies

ABSTRACT Authentic pedagogy is a complex enterprise for students and teachers. Planning and developing the instructional procedures and scaffolds for student success is daunting. In addition, the teacher implementing the lesson makes dozens of quick decisions as they attend to student thinking and decide how to respond. These spontaneous decisions can have large impacts in the level of student thinking demanded in an authentic pedagogy lesson. This two-year project integrated video teacher noticing reflection with scaffolded Lesson Study in a professional development project with two U.S. Government teachers. I investigated what teachers would notice while reflecting on six video cases of authentic pedagogy lessons, four of which they developed as a team. I also analyzed what teachers noticed during the lesson implementations, including the two research lessons and two independently developed lessons at the start and end of the project. Data revealed shifts in teacher attentiveness to student thinking in video reflection. However, the increased attention to student thinking did not play a significant role in decision-making while implementing independently developed lessons after two years. This article explores these findings and raises questions for future studies.

Support for Beginning Teachers: Effective and Analyzing a Professional Teaching Induction Project in the State of Rio De Janeiro

Support for Beginning Teachers: Effective and Analyzing a Professional Teaching Induction Project in the State of Rio De Janeiro

Envisioning career trajectory post-PhD in nursing: Lessons learned from a professional development project.

Nursing Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) students can pursue diverse career opportunities within and outside of academia upon graduation. However, mentor-mentee models, competing demands, and limited resources can challenge students as they search for guidance in navigating career decisions. This article describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a project to support PhD nursing career development. A student-designed project was implemented over 4weeks which aligned with four career trajectories that students identified. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze quantitative survey questions. Responses to open-ended questions and field notes were also examined. Post-implementation survey data suggested that all participants found the sessions helpful and recommended providing the workshop annually. Students' questions focused on three areas: job searches, job selection, and experiences once in a career trajectory. Workshop speakers' discussions focused on important tasks and strategies and wisdom and personal reflections offered to PhD students. Nursing PhD students are interested in diverse career trajectories beyond academia and valued an opportunity to explore these options outside of the traditional mentor-mentee relationship. Leveraging resources from schools of nursing and the broader collegiate environment is important in helping students to explore potential career trajectories.

Developing elementary mathematics specialists as teacher leaders during a preparation program

This 5-year mathematics professional development project involves 27 elementary teachers prepared and supported as Elementary Mathematics Specialists (EMSs) in high-need, urban schools. Our inquiry centers on their experiences in the EMS preparation program and the development of important outcomes, specifically productive beliefs and teacher leadership. Data were gathered at the end of Year 1 via surveys of mathematical beliefs, coaching beliefs, and coaching practices, as well as individual and focus group interviews. The findings provide insights into participants’ growth and work as a more knowledgeable other, illuminating specific emphases of their efforts and influences of the project. When it comes to mathematical beliefs, as participants shifted toward embracing cognitively-oriented pedagogical beliefs, they became more efficacious in this learner-centered pedagogy. The findings also show variability in specific mathematics coaching practices, including those most participants were and were not using, and areas for improvement. Several themes are evident in the interview data: growing confidence for the uncomfortable, creating and finding spaces for stepping up, advocating for learned mathematics pedagogy, and building teacher capacity through interactions.

ENGLISH IN THE COMMUNICATION FIELD OF UKRAINIANS AS A NEED FOR THE TRAINING OF THE NEW GENERATION OF TEACHERS

The article substantiates the necessity of training new generation teachers for the effective introduction of the English language into the communicative field of Ukrainians. The significance and importance of the English language as a language of international communication and its influence in the context of the language policy of the world are proved. A number of studies were singled out, which proved that as early as September 2013, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the British Council launched the "New Generation School Teacher" initiative in response to an urgent need in Ukrainian education: reforming both the content and the methodology of the traditional approach to student training, who study abroad. teachers of language schools of Ukrainian higher educational institutions. Focused attention on the need to present the English language with the status of mandatory for government employees, updating teaching in comprehensive secondary education institutions and institutions of higher education. The forecast of scientific intelligence regarding the future teaching of the English language is highlighted. In addition, the level of English proficiency of Ukrainians as of January 2023 is illustrated. The main ways of training new generation teachers for self-development and, at the same time, implementation of achievements in the educational process are described. Using sociological data, a clear relationship between the European and Ukrainian education systems was traced. It has been proven that knowledge of foreign languages is the key to success in today's world, where intercultural communication and processing of huge amounts of information is gaining more and more importance Emphasis is placed on the need to implement the development of planned professional development and educational projects aimed at taking into account European trends in the field of modern philological science. It is noted on the perspective and needs of reforming modern Ukrainian education. The communicative strategies of the English language in the context of professional training of the future specialist are determined. The authors of the article prove the urgency of the process of increasing the level of English language competence of Ukrainians. It is emphasized that teachers of the 21st century provide the role of a teacher who constantly helps people to work together more effectively, focus on the quality of knowledge of the acquirers, develop thinking skills of creative, effective communication and cooperation in a team. It is noted that modern students, as a new generation of teachers, need to take the work of using the portfolio as a system (it can be supplemented throughout life). The method of training English language teachers includes the main principles of the training program, modules and their characteristics, evaluation criteria and sample tasks, sample materials and a glossary. Professional development takes place during the understanding of the peculiarities of practical training, understanding of education by trainee students. It is emphasized that the most important aspect for foreign language teachers is the communicative method of teaching and learning the language.

Mentoring in the Development of Science Teaching Self-Efficacy Among Primary School Teachers in Thailand: A Mixed Methods Study

ABSTRACT This study employed a sequential mixed methods explanatory research design to explore the influence of mentoring in the self-efficacy-forming experiences of primary school teachers who participated in a variety of professional development projects on science teaching. In the quantitative phase, survey data drawn from primary school teachers (n = 834) showed that collaborative mentee-mentor activities and metaphorical descriptions of interpersonal relationship were the best predictors of personal science teaching self-efficacy, outcome expectancy, and instructional change. In the qualitative phase, interviews with individual teachers identified their perceptions of how mentoring experiences influenced their development of science teaching self-efficacy and changes they made in their science classrooms. The findings are interpreted through the theoretical lens of the roles of culture and emotions in teacher learning.

Understanding how healthcare providers build consumer trust in the Australian food system: A qualitative study.

This study aimed to identify how dietitians and other healthcare providers work to build trust in food systems in the course of providing dietary education. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 purposefully sampled dietitians (n = 5), general practitioners (n = 5), and complementary and alternative medicine practitioners (n = 5) within metropolitan South Australia. Interview data were then interpreted using an inductive thematic analysis approach, involving the construction of themes representing trust-enhancing roles around which beliefs about professional roles, the 'patient', and food and health were clustered. Healthcare providers communicate beliefs regarding (dis)trust in food systems through: (i) responding to patient queries and concerns following a food incident or scare; (ii) helping patients to identify (un)trustworthy elements of food supply systems; and (iii) encouraging consumption of locally produced and minimally processed food. Importantly, the expression of these roles differed according to participant beliefs about food and health (medico-scientific versus alternative medicine) and their adoption of professional projects that sought to promote medico-scientific ways of thinking about health and diet or manage the failures of Western medicine. The development and consolidation of trust-enhancing roles amongst healthcare providers likely requires disciplinary reflection on professional values and the processes by which practitioners apply these values to understanding food systems.

Development factors of project management in Kazakhstani universities

The trend of growing interest in project management as a tool to improve the competitiveness of organisations refers in full extent to Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), which due to their educational function should ensure the advanced implementation of project management in the management processes of their own activities. The state policy in the field of project management promotion defines new challenges for effective management and for the education sector. The large-scale modernization of public administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan based on project management, in turn, poses the task of modernizing the management systems of HEIs. In addition, the changed conditions of the geopolitical situation dictate the necessity of applying modern management technologies. The purpose of the research is to study the peculiarities of project management development in HEIs in Kazakhstan. General scientific methods – analysis, synthesis, generalization are used as research methods. The results of the study contribute to the study of aspects of project management implementation and the development of technology of project management implementation in HEIs. For a comprehensive study of the subject of research, it is important to systematize the elements affecting the functioning of HEIs in Kazakhstan, in two planes: internal and external. In order to solve this issue, the external and internal factors of project management development in HEIs of Kazakhstan are formulated, the generalization of experience on interaction with HEIs of Union of Project Managers of the Republic of Kazakhstan is presented, the experience of Kazakh National Agrarian Research University is highlighted. The tasks for HEIs, the main directions of interaction between the universities and the professional project community are determined. The identification of external and internal factors affecting the activities of HEIs in Kazakhstan will allow adjusting the objectives of the university development.