Education Questions Research Articles

Reconsidering educational ethnography and the field notebook: a contribution from inclusive ethics

This article examines the processes of educational ethnography and questions the traditional use of the field notebook and research relationships. It forms part of an ongoing collaborative study analyzing university students’ learning trajectories. Guided by inclusive ethics, the study proposes that researcher–participant collaboration is fundamental in defying traditional research methodologies. Post-qualitative inquiry enables an inclusive ethics perspective by providing a critical view of the usual ways of conducting research. The paper presents three cases of collaborators taking a field notebook and self-observing their learning. Participant agency facilitates our immersion in different worlds and produces new, non-standardized perceptions that enable the transformation of educational ethnography.

Twelve tips to leverage AI for efficient and effective medical question generation: A guide for educators using Chat GPT

Background Crafting quality assessment questions in medical education is a crucial yet time-consuming, expertise-driven undertaking that calls for innovative solutions. Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer), present a promising yet underexplored avenue for such innovations. Aims This study explores the utility of ChatGPT to generate diverse, high-quality medical questions, focusing on multiple-choice questions (MCQs) as an illustrative example, to increase educator’s productivity and enable self-directed learning for students. Description Leveraging 12 strategies, we demonstrate how ChatGPT can be effectively used to generate assessment questions aligned with Bloom’s taxonomy and core knowledge domains while promoting best practices in assessment design. Conclusion Integrating LLM tools like ChatGPT into generating medical assessment questions like MCQs augments but does not replace human expertise. With continual instruction refinement, AI can produce high-standard questions. Yet, the onus of ensuring ultimate quality and accuracy remains with subject matter experts, affirming the irreplaceable value of human involvement in the artificial intelligence-driven education paradigm.

The Influence of Entrepreneurship Education And Adversity Question on Entrepreneur Intention Through Entrepreneurial Attitude on Students in Jombang District

Entrepreneurial intention is a person's encouragement in deciding what they will do and the realization is in the form of an attitude that is done. This study examines the direct and indirect effects of Entrepreneurship Education, Adversity Questions, and Entrepreneur Intention through Entrepreneurial Attitude. The sample of this research is students of private universities in Jombang Regency who have taken entrepreneurship courses such as STIE PGRI, Darul Ulum University, Hasyim'Asyari University, KH.A.Wahab Hasbullah University, PGRI University which amounted to 235 respondents. Data analysis used descriptive analysis, Structural equation model-partial least square (SEM-PLS). The results of this study found that there is a positive and significant effect of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Attitude, Adversity question on Entrepreneurial Attitude, and there is a positive and insignificant effect of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneur Intention, there a positive and significant effect of Adversity Question on Entrepreneur Intention and there is no indirect effect of Entrepreneurship Education, on Entrepreneur Intention through Entrepreneurial Attitude. There is an indirect effect of the Adversity Question on Entrepreneur Intention through Entrepreneurial Attitude.

Postmodernism and the Challenges of a Christian Education Worldview in Higher Education in Indonesia

Postmodernism gravely calls into question the feasibility of a modern educational enterprise since postmodern relativism appears to undercut the possibility of justification, both inside and outside of education. As a result, some educators believe that postmodernism is the declared end of education. This article presents a biblical worldview as the unifying theme for the combination of knowledge and religion in higher education. The biblical story has significance for the Christian faith and Christian ethics and serves as a strong basis for a complete worldview to face the challenge of the postmodern world. According to this viewpoint, the biblical story offers solutions to the most important problems in life, such as: Who are we? We are where? What is the issue? What is the remedy? The biblical story offers a strong basis for an all-encompassing worldview that responds to these concerns and aids in resolving any potential separation in our lives were postmodern gives questions in higher education.

Continuing Medical Education Questions: March 2024.

Article Title: American College of Gastroenterology Guidelines: Management of Acute Pancreatitis.

Continuing Medical Education Questions: March 2024.

Article Title: The Role of Imaging for GI Bleeding: Consensus Recommendations From the American College of Gastroenterology and Society of Abdominal Radiology.

Associations between Physical Activity, Mental Health, and Suicidal Behavior in Korean Adolescents: Based on Data from 18th Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey (2022).

This study aims to identify the current status and relationship between physical activity (PA), mental health, and suicidal behavior among Korean adolescents and recommend appropriate PA types and levels to lower the risk of mental health problems and suicidal behavior among adolescents. This study used the frequency of participation, three mental health factors, and four suicidal behavior factors, according to the seven types of PA, Vigorous PA (VPA), Strength training, Walks, PA on the move, and Physical education questions that 51,636 Korean adolescents responded to in the data of the 18th Korean Youth Health Behavior Survey in 2022. The results showed that physical activity levels and the mental health of female adolescents were the lowest, and the experience rate of suicidal behavior was the highest. Physical activity level and mental health were negative in the upper grades, and the experience rate of suicidal behavior was higher in the lower grades. Thus, the study proposes the following: To lower the overall risk of mental health and suicidal behavior experienced by adolescents, it is effective to encourage them to participate in physical activities which have higher exercise intensities than the Low-level Physical Activity (LPA) type of Walks and PA on the move.

Continuing Medical Education Questions: July 2024

Article Title: Central Neuromodulators in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Why, How, and When

Continuing Medical Education Questions: July 2024

Article Title: ACG Clinical Guideline: Focal Liver Lesions

Higher education autonomy debates, questions and answers from the perspective of public administration (science)

Obwohl die Hochschulautonomie seit jeher im Mittelpunkt der internationalen und ungarischen akademischen Forschung steht, wurde die Frage der Hochschulautonomie in Ungarn vor allem in der juristischen Literatur im Zusammenhang mit Gesetzesänderungen untersucht.2020 haben mehrere ungarische Universitäten begonnen, ihre Modelle zu ändern, was auch eine Änderung der Wartung bedeutete. Diese Änderungen lösten heftige soziale, politische und rechtliche Debatten aus, bei denen die Autonomie eine der zentralen Fragen war. Die Autonomie in der Hochschulbildung ist nicht nur in Ungarn ein beherrschendes Thema, denn die Debatten gewannen neuen Schwung, als das Thema Ende 2022 in einen internationalen Kontext gestellt wurde. Die Begründung für die einzigartige Auszeichnung des ungarischen Systems hat auch in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur viele Fragen aufgeworfen, insbesondere im Hinblick auf das internationale Konzept der Autonomie und im Vergleich mit anderen europäischen Beispielen, wie z. B. den Niederlanden. Der Beitrag stellt die Berechtigung dieser Unterscheidung in Frage, indem er das internationale Konzept der Autonomie analysiert und die ungarischen Rechtsprozesse unter dem Gesichtspunkt der institutionelle Governance untersucht und sie insbesondere mit dem niederländischen Beispiel vergleicht.

Revisiting the effects of maternal education on adolescents' academic performance: Doubly robust estimation in a network-based observational study.

In many contexts, particularly when study subjects are adolescents, peer effects can invalidate typical statistical requirements in the data. For instance, it is plausible that a student's academic performance is influenced both by their own mother's educational level as well as that of their peers. Since the underlying social network is measured, the Add Health study provides a unique opportunity to examine the impact of maternal college education on adolescent school performance, both direct and indirect. However, causal inference on populations embedded in social networks poses technical challenges, since the typical no interference assumption no longer holds. While inverse probability-of-treatment weighted (IPW) estimators have been developed for this setting, they are often highly unstable. Motivated by the question of maternal education, we propose doubly robust (DR) estimators combining models for treatment and outcome that are consistent and asymptotically normal if either model is correctly specified. We present empirical results that illustrate the DR property and the efficiency gain of DR over IPW estimators even when the treatment model is misspecified. Contrary to previous studies, our robust analysis does not provide evidence of an indirect effect of maternal education on academic performance within adolescents' social circles in Add Health.

Pre-training Question Embeddings for Improving Knowledge Tracing with Self-supervised Bi-graph Co-contrastive Learning

Learning high-quality vector representations (aka. embeddings) of educational questions lies at the core of knowledge tracing (KT), which defines a task of estimating students’ knowledge states by predicting the probability that they correctly answer questions. Although existing KT efforts have leveraged question information to achieve remarkable improvements, most of them learn question embeddings by following the supervised learning paradigm. In this article, we propose a novel question embedding pre-training method for improving knowledge tracing with self-supervised Bi -graph Co -contrastive learning ( BiCo ). Technically, on the basis of self-supervised learning paradigm, we first select two similar but distinct views (i.e., representing objective and subjective semantic perspectives) as the semantic source of question embeddings. Then, we design a primary task (structure recovery) together with two auxiliary tasks (question difficulty recovery and contrastive learning) to further enhance the representativeness of questions. Finally, extensive experiments conducted on two real-world datasets show BiCo has a higher expressive power that enables KT methods to effectively predict students’ performances.

The impact of artificial intelligence on scientific practices: an emergent area of research for science education

ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) is now a major driver of societal acceleration making a significant impact on science and science education. AI is used by scientists to generate hypotheses, design experiments, collect and interpret data in ways that were not previously possible with traditional methods alone. Science education research is increasingly paying attention to the role of AI in teaching and learning. However, a significant gap in the emerging science education literature on AI concerns the impact of AI on scientific practices themselves, and implications such impact for science education. The article uses the NRC (2012. A framework for K-12 science education: practices, crosscutting concepts, and core ideas. National Academies Press.) framework of ‘scientific practices’ to trace example uses of AI in scientific practices and raises questions for science education. The questions relate to the relevance of AI-informed scientific practices for science curriculum, teaching and teacher education at the secondary level. The ultimate purpose of the article is to highlight that the sooner the role of AI on scientific practices are researched and applied in science education policy and practice, the less likely that education will become outdated in helping students thrive in the fast changing landscape of scientific research.

Continuing Medical Education Questions: February 2024.

Article Title: Thirty-Day Readmissions Are Largely Not Preventable in Patients With Cirrhosis.

Continuing Medical Education Questions: February 2024.

Article Title: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Propranolol Use During Ligation Program for Secondary Prophylaxis of Esophageal Variceal Bleeding.

Assessment of Correctness, Content Omission, and Risk of Harm in Large Language Model Responses to Dermatology Continuing Medical Education Questions

Assessment of Correctness, Content Omission, and Risk of Harm in Large Language Model Responses to Dermatology Continuing Medical Education Questions

Antifascism as an educational question and openness as a meta-value

Within the framework of the reemergence of the theme of antifascism in contemporary educational theory, this paper raises the question of whether antifascism may be considered as a genuinely educational concept. Moreover, it investigates whether and to what extent the idea of antifascist education should remain anchored to an explicit reference to (anti)fascism as a historical phenomenon. Focusing, in particular, on the Italian scene, a distinction is established between antifascist education and education for antifascism. While understanding the concern of the scholars who appeal to a more strictly historical use of the category “(anti)fascist,” the article vindicates the significance of the idea of antifascist education broadly understood, by drawing upon Umberto Eco’s notion of Ur-fascism. In this endeavor, some key tenets of two Italian thinkers—Aldo Capitini and Guido Calogero—are marshaled and three main ideas are pinned down as representing the tripod of antifascist education: “openness,” “the ulteriority of Thou” and a “non-imperial understanding of truth.” The engagement with Capitini’s religious—but non-confessional—approach indicates a view of antifascist education in religious and existential terms, this perspective possibly being more topical than ever in contemporary scenarios.

Qualitative Online Interview in Education: A Voice of Preservice Elementary School Teachers' Concerns and Questions

Interviewing is the leading approach used for gathering information in qualitative research. The online interview study explores the concerns and questions expressed by preservice teachers in elementary schools, providing insight into their distinct viewpoints, uncertainties, and questions in education. In the middle of changing teaching methods and educational difficulties, it is crucial to understand the complex problems of new teachers to create efficient teacher training programs and educational plans. This study highlights the need to establish conducive settings for preservice teachers to express their concerns and inquire, promoting introspective behaviors and professional development. The findings provide valuable insights into the continuing discussion on teacher education, suggesting ways to enhance programs, mentorship activities, and policies.

THE STRUCTURE OF LEARNING QUESTIONS FOR THE PURPOSES OF GROWING STUDENTS' COGNITIVE META-COMPETENCEMENTS

In the article, based on the meta -competence and institutional-culturological approaches developed in the school of general methodology of conceptual constructs of system-thought-activity modeling, the goal is to develop technological solutions for the formation of students ' cognitive meta -competences. In educational activities, a hierarchy of educational processes is defined: the main one is the creation of educational texts by students, the auxiliary one is work with literature, the service one is classroom activity. Based on the structure of educational processes, three roles of a teacher are defined: an assistant in mastering a professional language, a source of professional opinion, and a model of professional ethics. The role of classroom taking notes and asking the teacher of educational questions in the formation of cognitive meta-competences is shown. The differences between educational and non-educational questions and the structure of educational questions are given: for understanding, task, problematic, systemic and causal. The proposed technology of educational activity allows it to be applied in the formation of students' cognitive metacompetences, in the design and evaluation of educational literature, the creation of intelligent systems for the design of educational activities and the assessment of students' cognitive metacompetences.

Computing Education in the Era of Generative AI

Challenges and opportunities faced by computing educators and students adapting to LLMs capable of generating accurate source code from natural-language problem descriptions.